1732 – George Washington is born in Virginia. 1819 – The U.S. acquires Spanish Florida. 1876 – Zitkála-Šá is born. Granddaughter...
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Holly Richardson is a writer, speaker, humanitarian and world traveler. Her first academic degree was as a Registered Nurse, then after a 30-year break from school, she earned a Bachelor's degree in Communication focusing on Public Relations, followed by a Master's degree in Professional Communication and earned her PhD in Political Science, focusing on nonprofit administration and international relations. Her research interests include emotional labor, burnout, deep self-care, international humanitarian work and volunteers.
A former Republican member of the Utah House of Representatives, she has been actively involved in Utah politics for more than 20 years. She was a columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune for 4 years and is now a columnist for the Deseret News and the editor of Utah Policy.
1693 – The first issue of the Ladies’ Mercury was published in London, the first periodical published exclusively for women....
1820 – Congress passes the Missouri Compromise, granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was...
1839 – Mary Elizabth Bowser is born. A former slave, Bowser served as an undercover agent for Ulysses S. Grant...
1525 – Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec Emperor, is tortured and killed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés 1708 – A slave...
573 – Buddhists celebrate birth of Gautama Buddha. 1820 – The famous ancient Greek statue, Venus de Milo is discovered...
1743 – Thomas Jefferson is born. 1866 – Butch Cassidy is born in Beaver, Utah. 1870 – Metropolitan Museum of...
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand...
Today’s round-up includes a shout-out to the nation’s first female self-made millionaire, the people of the Department of Workforce Services,...
