Unlike most female journalists of the time, she didn’t write about fashion or gardening, though. She took it, and she borrowed the name “Nellie Bly” from a Stephen Foster song to use as her pen name. When she was 16, her family moved to Pittsburgh, where she read an editorial in The Pittsburgh Dispatch titled “What Girls are Good For.” (The paper’s answer was “not much,” at least, not outside the home.) She wrote a furious reply and signed it “Little Orphan Girl.” The editor was so impressed that he invited her in and offered her a job. Today is the birthday of journalist Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (1864). He influenced writers like Henrik Ibsen, Franz Kafka, and Albert Camus. Kierkegaard was unknown outside of Denmark until the early 20th century, when his work was discovered by European writers and philosophers. He published several books at his own expense, including Either/Or (1843), Works of Love (1847), and The Sickness Unto Death (1849). One must doubt the existence of God to have faith in the existence of God. He also came up with two concepts that are commonplace to us today: One is “subjectivity,” the idea that we all perceive the world - and “truth” - differently and the other is the “leap of faith,” that faith is not possible without doubt.

His work touched not only philosophy, but also theology, psychology, literary criticism, and fiction. Kierkegaard is widely considered the father of existential philosophy. Kierkegaard rarely left Copenhagen, but he enjoyed going to the theater, taking carriage rides out into the country, and chatting with people he met, including servants and laborers, whom wealthy people would ordinarily ignore. It’s the birthday of philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, born in Copenhagen (1813), the son of a wealthy wool merchant who left his son enough money to be financially independent for the rest of his life. It wasn’t until beer advertisers decided to promote the holiday heavily in the 1980s that American celebration of Cinco de Mayo became widespread.

It’s been celebrated in California since 1863, and grew in prominence in the rest of the country along with the Chicano movement of the 1940s. Cinco de Mayo isn’t widely celebrated in Mexico outside the state of Puebla, but it has been adopted by many Americans regardless of their heritage, much like St. It wasn’t a crucial battle in the course of the war, but became a symbol of Mexican pride and a celebration of Mexican culture in the United States.

Today is Cinco de Mayo, the Fifth of May, commemorating the Mexican victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862 when 8,000 well-armed French troops were routed by 4,000 ill-equipped Mexican soldiers.

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