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Cole with a recreation of her sign at the 1969 inaugural parade

"Bring Us Together" was a political slogan popularized after the election of Republican candidate Richard Nixon as President of the United States in the 1968 election. The text was derived from a sign that 13-year-old Vicki Lynne Cole stated that she had carried at Nixon's rally in her home town of Deshler, Ohio, during the campaign. After being told of the sign, Nixon's speechwriters, including William Safire, began inserting the phrase into his speeches. Nixon mentioned the rally sign in his victory speech, adopting the phrase as representing his administration's initial goal—to reunify the bitterly divided country. Nixon invited Cole and her family to the presidential inauguration, and she appeared on a float in the inaugural parade (pictured). The phrase "Bring Us Together" was used ironically by Democrats when Nixon proposed policies with which they disagreed. In newspaper columns written in the final years before his 2009 death, Safire expressed doubt that Cole's sign had ever existed. (Full article...)

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... that soprano Estelle Liebling, the voice teacher of Beverly Sills and Meryl Streep, performed in more than 1600 concerts with John Philip Sousa and his band?
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X-Press Pearl

French writer David Diop and translator Anna Moschovakis win the International Booker Prize for At Night All Blood Is Black.
The container ship X-Press Pearl (pictured) sinks near Colombo, Sri Lanka, leaking nitric acid and oil and causing a major environmental disaster.
The Iranian Navy's modified Ol-class tanker IRIS Kharg catches fire and sinks in the Gulf of Oman near Jask, Iran.
In association football, the UEFA Champions League concludes with Chelsea defeating Manchester City in the final.

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June 4: Trianon Treaty Day in Romania (1920)

Emily Davison

1792 – Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy claimed the land around Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest for Great Britain.
1913 – Emily Davison (pictured), an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured after being trampled by King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby.
1961 – U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev held an unsuccessful summit in Vienna to discuss issues in the countries' relationship during the Cold War.
1998 – Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler, an American-British novelist and screenwriter, published 25 short stories, five novels, and a number of poems and scripts. These include the 22 short stories he wrote between 1933 and 1941. In the mid-1940s, some of the first 22 began appearing in inexpensive paperback and hardcover collections published by Avon Books and World Publishing Company. Previously he had worked as a journalist and writer—mostly for The Westminster Gazette and The Academy. In 1950, Houghton Mifflin published the hardcover collection The Simple Art of Murder, containing a dozen stories selected by Chandler and an essay on mystery stories. Eight stories that he had "cannibalized" (his term) while writing his novels were omitted at his request. After Chandler's death, these eight were published in Killer in the Rain (1964). In 1939, at the behest of the publisher Alfred A. Knopf Sr., Chandler wrote his first novel, The Big Sleep, for which he used parts of his short stories "Killer in the Rain" (1935) and "The Curtain" (1936). In 1944 Chandler was asked by Paramount Pictures to write the script for the film Double Indemnity with Billy Wilder; the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. It was the first of seven scripts Chandler wrote, although two of them were unused. (Full list...)

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The Book of Tobit is a Jewish work from the 3rd or early 2nd century BCE describing how God tests the faithful, responds to prayers, and protects the covenant community (the Israelites). It is regarded as part of the biblical canon of the Catholic and Orthodox churches as a deuterocanonical book, but as part of the biblical apocrypha in some Protestant churches. This 15th-century oil-on-panel painting by Filippino Lippi, entitled Tobias and the Angel, depicts a scene in which Tobias, Tobit's son, goes on a journey accompanied by an angel, without realising that he is an angel, and is instructed what to do with the giant fish that he catches.

Painting credit: Filippino Lippi

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