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James Montgomery Flagg used the familiar figure of "Uncle Sam" and thus created the most famous recruiting poster by the U.S. Army. From April 1917 to autumn of 1918 more than four million pieces of it were printed. Still utilized in more recent times, this print was probably made in 1975. Today is Veterans Day in the United States.

James Montgomery Flagg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Today is the United States Marine Corps birthday on which it turns 250 years old.

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Ursula K. Le Guin ( 1929 – 2018) was an American author born in Berkley, California. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction.  Her work was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. She is frequently described as an author of science fiction and has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le  Guin said that she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist". More 

Two chestnut-tailed starlings (Sturnia malabarica) kissing while perched on a branch in Satchari National Park, Bangladesh.

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Two tender mushrooms (Mycena galericulata) on dead wood lying under the trees. Focus stack of 20 photos.

Dominicus Johannes Bergsma, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. View source.

"Yasha Levine, a freelance journalist who has reported on the California Central Valley in depth, teamed up with filmmaker Rowan Wernham to direct the documentary Pistachio Wars. The film argues that billionaires Lynda and Stewart Resnick are harming California’s environment as they artwash their damage". More at Hyperallergic ➜