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Day 17 - December 17

Celebrate the 25 Days of Christmas

By Esther Lombardi, About.com

It's the seventeenth day of December. It's Wright Brothers Day, when we celebrate flight. On December 17, John Greenleaf Whittier was born in 1807. Ford Madox Ford was born in 1873. Thomas Tickell was born in 1685. Take a look at the reading selection for today.

What do writers say?

"I'd like a stocking made for a giant,
And a meeting house full of toys,
Then I'd go out in a happy hunt
For the poor little girls and boys;
Up the street and down the street,
And across and over the town,
I'd search and find them everyone,
Before the sun went down."
- Eugene Field

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