Mockingbirds are master imitators, and can mimic the calls of many other birds. They’re also fearless protectors of their nest, and will attack any bird (no matter how large) to protect their young. Mockingbird’s lesson for you today is twofold: to listen to how you might be mimicking others—instead of listening to your own true voice; and to examine the value of what you defend. Hmmm?
Mockingbirds are master imitators, and can mimic the calls of many other birds. They’re also fearless protectors of their nest, and will attack any bird (no matter how large) to protect their young. Mockingbird’s lesson for you today is twofold: to listen to how you might be mimicking others—instead of listening to your own true voice; and to examine the value of what you defend. Hmmm?
Mockingbirds are master imitators, and can mimic the calls of many other birds. They’re also fearless protectors of their nest, and will attack any bird (no matter how large) to protect their young. Mockingbird’s lesson for you today is twofold: to listen to how you might be mimicking others—instead of listening to your own true voice; and to examine the value of what you defend. Hmmm?
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April 28
| 357 | Constantius II visits Rome for the first time. | |
| 1282 | Villagers in Palermo lead a revolt against French rule in Sicily. | |
| 1635 | Virginia Governor John Harvey is accused of treason and removed from office. | |
| 1760 | French forces besieging Quebec defeat the British in the second battle on the Plains of Abraham. | |
| 1788 | Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution. | |
| 1789 | The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies against Captain William Bligh. | |
| 1818 | President James Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. | |
| 1856 | Yokut Indians repel an attack on their land by 100 would-be Indian fighters in California. | |
| 1902 | Revolution breaks out in the Dominican Republic. | |
| 1910 | The first night air flight is performed by Claude Grahame-White in England. | |
| 1916 | British declare martial law throughout Ireland. | |
| 1919 | Les Irvin makes the first jump with an Army Air Corps parachute. | |
| 1920 | Azerbaijan joins the Soviet Union. | |
| 1930 | The first organized night baseball game is played in Independence, Kansas. | |
| 1932 | A yellow fever vaccine for humans is announced. | |
| 1945 | Benito Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans. | |
| 1946 | The Allies indict Tojo on 55 counts of war crimes | |
| 1947 | Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia. | |
| 1953 | French troops evacuate northern Laos. | |
| 1965 | The U.S. Army and Marines invade the Dominican Republic. | |
| 1967 | Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army and is stripped of boxing title. | |
| 1969 | Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France. | |
| Born on April 28 | ||
| 1442 | Edward IV, king of England (1461-1470, 1471-1483), first king of the House of York. | |
| 1758 | James Monroe, fifth President of the United States (1817-1825). | |
| 1878 | Lionel Barrymore, American stage, screen and radio actor. | |
| 1892 | John Jacob Niles, American folk singer and folklorist. | |
| 1898 | William Soutar, Scottish poet. | |
| 1902 | Johan Borgen, Norwegian novelist. | |
| 1912 | Odette Hallowes, British secret agent. | |
| 1926 | Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (To Kill a Mockingbird). | |
| 1930 | James Baker III, Cabinet secretary for Presidents Reagan and Bush. | |
| 1936 | Kenneth White, poet and essayist. | |
| 1937 | Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq. | |
| 1937 | Jean Redpath, Scottish folk singer.
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