A Riddle

Where do fish deposit checks?

Answer

A riddle by Jennifer Maitland, Florida

Trying on a dress

Customer: «I'd like to try on that dress in the window.»

Storekeeper: «Fine, but we'd rather have you try it on in the dressing room.»

A joke by Malky Drew, New York

Getting smarter

Kim: «Here are some smart pills. If you eat them you'll get smarter."

Jim: «Ugh! These aren't pills. They're beans!»

Kim: «See? You're getting smarter already.»

A joke by Heather Shearer from California

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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Jan 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born

 

On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate degree in theology and in 1955 helped organized the first major protest of the African-American civil rights movement: the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott. Influenced by Mohandas Gandhi, he advocated civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to segregation in the South. The peaceful protests he led throughout the American South were often met with violence, but King and his followers persisted, and the movement gained momentum.
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Martin Luther King Jr. leads the March on Washington in 1963 - The turning point for the Civil Rights

 

 

«Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) was a Baptist minister and social activist who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. Inspired by advocates of nonviolence such as Mahatma Gandhi, King sought equality for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and victims of injustice through peaceful protest. He was the driving force behind watershed events such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington, which helped bring about such landmark legislation as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and is remembered each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a U.S. federal holiday since 1986.»
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