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		<title>May 23: Moog (as in “Vogue”)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 01:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, one of the first electronic instruments widely embraced in the musical world, was born in New York City on this date in 1934. His synthesizer was made possible by the invention of the transistor, which replaced bulky vacuum-tube electronic systems in the 1950s. The Moog synthesizer was demonstrated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 22: The “Great Loner” of American Dance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Nagrin, a choreographer and dancer best known for his powerful, gestural solo dances, was born in New York City on this date in 1917. Nagrin debuted with Anna Sokolow, then partnered with Helen Tamiris, fifteen years his elder, a very political modern dancer who had been the main choreographer of the Dance Project, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 21: Five Million Words about Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eugene Ehrlich, a self-taught lexicographer who wrote an estimated three to five million words about words spread across forty books, according to the New York Times, was born in New York on this date in 1922. Ehrlich taught himself Yiddish in order to understand his parents&#8217; secrets, and also studied Latin and French at Townsend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 20: Hedda Sterne and the Irascibles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 01:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abstract Expressionism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Painter Hedda Sterne was the lone woman among 18 abstract expressionist painters who wrote a letter to Roland L. Redmond, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on this date in 1950, protesting the museum&#8217;s conservative selection of jurors for its exhibition, &#8220;American Painting Today — 1950.&#8221; &#8220;The undersigned painters,&#8221; said the letter, &#8220;reject the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 19: Florence Greenberg and “Louie Louie”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 01:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Bureau of Investigation paid a visit to Wand Records at 1650 Broadway in New York on this date in 1965 to ascertain whether the basically unintelligible lyrics to &#8220;Louie Louie,&#8221; a hit by the Kingsmen, were as obscene as rumored. The company was owned by Florence Greenberg, a housewife who had discovered the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 18: The Inquisition’s Oldest Victim</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 01:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The oldest victim of the Spanish Inquisition, Maria Barbara Carillo, was burned at the stake for heresy in Madrid on this date in 1721. She was 95 years old. Carillo belonged to a large family of descendants of forcibly baptized Jews and was sentenced to death for heresy, for allegedly practicing Judaism in secret. Burned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 17: Esther Brown v. Board of Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 01:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring the &#8220;separate but equal&#8221; segregationist policy in American schools to be unconstitutional and ordering their desegregation, was handed down on this date in 1954. It resulted from a suit brought by Esther Brown, a 30-year-old Jewish housewife in Merriam, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 16: The First Asian American Cantor and Rabbi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 01:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angela Warnick Buchdahl, born in South Korea in 1972, became the first Asian-American in the world to be ordained as a cantor on this date in 1999. Two years later, she became the first Asian-American in the North America to be ordained as a rabbi. Her mother was a Korean Buddhist, her father an American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 15: Jewish Slaves of Malta</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 01:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A community of up to 1,000 Jewish slaves on the archipelago of Malta, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, established over the course of two centuries by the Knights of St. John, a Catholic order of pirates left over from the Crusades, was officially abolished on this date in 1800. The Knights would raid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 14: Stanley Kunitz</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 01:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lawrence Bush</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two-time U.S. poet laureate Stanley Kunitz died at 100 on this date in 2006. He received his bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees from Harvard in the late 1920s, served in the armed forces as a non-combatant conscientious objector during World War II, and began a teaching career afterwards that included a 22-year stint at Columbia University. [...]]]></description>
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