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This month we have competition news, expert advice on working in collaboration with other writers, Ten Top Tips for promoting your non-fiction book, successes stories and ideas to inspire you plus the usual useful websites.
END NOTE and a little inspiration
Inspiration
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1st June 1980 |
CNN – Cable News Network starts to broadcast for the first time. |
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2nd June 1835 |
The now world famous circus owned by PT Barnum starts it first tour of the USA. |
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3rd June 1991 |
43 people – journalists and researchers – are killed when Mt Unzen erupts in Japan. |
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4th June 1960 |
The Lake Bodom murders, in Finland, take place. Three teenagers are killed with a fourth seriously wounded – the crime remains unsolved. |
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5th June |
World Environment Day. |
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6th June 1799 |
Possibly Russia’s greatest Poet, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, is born in Moscow. |
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7th June 1099 |
The Siege of Jerusalem begins with The First Crusade. |
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8th June |
World Ocean Day. |
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9th June 1934 |
The Little Wise Hen sees the debut of Donald Duck. |
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10th June 1977 |
Apple begins selling its Apple II personal computers. |
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11th June |
Hawaii honours it’s one-time king and founder of the unified kingdom – Kamehameha the Great – on a day with the same name. |
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12th June 2004 |
The occupants of a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand were shocked when a 1.3kg chrondrite type meteorite impacted causing serious damage to the building but no casualties. |
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13th June 1970 |
The last Beatles number one song is The Long and Winding Road. |
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14th June 1789 |
Bourbon whiskey is first distilled in Bourbon County, Kentucky by the Rev Elijah Craig. |
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15th June 1215 |
King John of England seals the Magna Carta. |
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16th June |
Bloomsday – for fans of James Joyce’s Ulysses. |
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17th June 1939 |
The last public guillotine execution takes place outside Prison St Pierre. |
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18th June 1992 |
One of Israel’s greatest painters, Mordecai Ardon, dies in Jerusalem. |
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19th June 1910 |
Spokane, Washington sees the first celebration of father’s day. |
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20th June |
World Refugee Day. |
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21st June 2002 |
Europe is officially declared Polio free by the WHO. |
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22nd June 1976 |
Capital punishment is abolished by the Canadian House of Commons. |
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23rd June 1968 |
The patent for the typewriter is received by Christopher Latham Sholes. |
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24th June |
Feast of St. John the Baptist. |
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25th June |
National Catfish Day. |
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26th June |
Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the USA. |
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27th June |
National Veterans Day. |
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28th June 1996 |
The Estonian Constitution is signed into law. |
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29th June 1974 |
Isabel Peron is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina after her husband becomes ill. |
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30th June 2005 |
Same sex marriage is legalized in Spain. |
Do your bit to feed the world this month whilst also testing your brain by answering simple (well, I say simple, some of the basic maths questions stumped me and the vocabulary ones had me reaching for the dictionary!) questions on a range of topics to earn grains of rice on Free Rice. Whatever you win will be donated by the sponsors of the site to those in need.
And so I end as I begin with talk of cold and sunshine. Here you’ll find Alexander Pushkin’s Winter Morning with an extremely apt photo. I adore mornings like this, plumes of breath, crunchy footsteps and the obligatory misted spectacles – what could be better!
If you found something of use to you in this issue please pass the word on to all your writer friends – and even those who don’t! You never know, you might inspire them to take it up. They can sign up here www.writersbureau.com/resources/ezewriter.htm
Have a great break if you are due one, and see you next year!
Shelley x
