Today’s MarcoWord (Italian): Oggi (Today)
Monday, November 10, 2025
Today’s MarcoWord (Italian): Oggi. (OHjee) Today “Oggi is the first day of the rest of your life, so pay me back the money you owe me.”
History Schmistory: November 10. Street Smarts.
Monday, November 10, 2025
1969: National Educational Television, soon to be PBS, introduces the world to Sesame Street. If you go all the way to the end and hang a left, you’ll be in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
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Today’s MarcoWord (Italian): Ieri (Yesterday)
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Today’s MarcoWord (Italian): Ieri. (eeYERee) Yesterday “Ieri, all my troubles seemed so far away.”
History Schmistory: November 9. Missing Magnifico.
Sunday, November 9, 2025
1494: Only two years after our man Lorenzo Magnifico dies, his eldest son Piero (the Unfortunate) manages to get the entire Family de’ Medici kicked out of Florence. This led to the sarcastic expression; “way to go, Piero!” Actually it’s not an expression at all, but you should start using it anyway. It’ll make you feel intellectually superior to others 🙂 Hit it, Marco!
History Schmistory: November 8. Rays of Hope.
Saturday, November 8, 2025
1895: Wilhelm Roentgen discovers the X-Ray almost completely by accident. And that’s when the fun began!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Historical_X-ray_nci-vol-1893-300.jpg
GO THERE!
Friday, November 7, 2025
Craving some opulence? St. Petersburg, Russia has enough lavish palaces and cathedrals to keep you busy for a while.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/St.Petersburg_Russia_Summer_Palace-7.jpg
History Schmistory: November 7. A Dynamic Duo.
Friday, November 7, 2025
1908: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in Bolivia. They remain dead until magically resurfacing in a 1960s caper.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy’s_Wild_Bunch#/media/File:Wildbunchlarge.jpg
History Schmistory: November 6. …hanging on a telephone wire!
Thursday, November 6, 2025
1941: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time in his 30 year reign to boldly claim that, even though they had lost more than 350,000 troops, the Germans had in fact lost over 4 million, so this war should be wrapped up in no time.
History Schmistory: November 5. Back in time.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
1955: Doctor Emmett Brown conceives the design for the time-travel enabling flux capacitor after taking a nasty fall and bumping his head on a bathroom sink. Someone should tell Marco that movies are not real, because he has been searching for Doc Brown for a while now…
History Schmistory: November 4. So long ago…
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
2008: Barack Obama becomes the first African-American President of the United States. Despite his near superhero status, his hair quickly goes gray like all the others.
![By Official White House Photo by Pete Souza (P120612PS-0463 (direct link)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/480px-President_Barack_Obama.jpg)
By Official White House Photo by Pete Souza (P120612PS-0463 (direct link)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Being President is tough on the hair.
