Blogging from A to Z April Challenge

Welcome to my page dedicated to the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.  2019 is my sixth year participating in the A to Z.  If it is April, you’ll find links below to each of my entries as well as my entries for the 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014 challenge.   You can access today’s post by clicking HERE

Can you post every day except Sundays during the month of April?  Better yet, can you blog thematically from A to Z?  Read all about this challenge here

2019 My Literary BFF – Characters from stories with whom I just know I’d be best friends forever.

The Great and Powerful Theme Reveal 2019

The Challenge:

A – Anne Shirley

B – Elizabeth Bennet

C – Charlotte

D – Maisie Dobbs

E – Eve Dallas

F – Atticus and Scout Finch

G – Hermoine Granger

H – Maggie Hope

I – Isaac Bell

J – Jack Dawkins a.k.a. The Artful Dodger

K – William Lowell Kane

L – Tyrion Lannister

M – Mary Poppins

N – Nancy Drew

O – Scarlett O’Hara

P – Harry Potter

Q – Q

R – Robin Hood

S – Stark and Snow

T – Daenerys Targaryen

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V – Jean Valjean

W –

X – Xenophilius Lovegood

Y – Ygritte

Z – Zorro

 

 

 

 

 

The 2018 Great and Powerful Reveal Blogfest

The Challenge:

A – All the Light We Cannot See

B – A Bridge Across the Ocean

C – Code Girls

D – Diary of Young Girl

E – The English Patient

F – From Here to Eternity

G – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

H – Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

I – The Invisible Bridge

J – Jackdaws

K – Key to Rebecca

L – The Longest Day

M – Maggie Hope Mystery Series

N – The Nightingale

O – The Orphan’s Tale

P  – The Postmistress

Q – Quartered Safe Out Here

R – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

S – Sarah’s Key

T – The Thin Red Line

U – Unbroken

V – Vanished: The Sixty-Year Search for the Missing Men of World War II

W – Winds of War /War and Remembrance

X – X Company

Y – The Young Lions

Z – The Zookeeper’s Wife

2017 We Didn’t Start the Fire from A to Z

The 2017 Great and Powerful Reveal Blogfest

The Challenge:

A – Alabama, Ayatollah’s In Iran, AIDS

B – Bardot, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Begin, Belgians in the Congo, Ben Hur, Berlin, Bernie Goetz, Birth Control, Brando, Bridge on the River Kwai, British Beatlemania, British Politician Sex, Brooklyn’s Got A Winning Team, Budapest, Buddy Holly

C – The Catcher in the Rye, Campanella, Communist Bloc, Chou En-Lai, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball, Children of Thalidomide, Castro, Chubby Checker, Crack, China’s Under Martial Law

D – From Doris Day to Dylan and All the D’s In Between

E – From Eisenhower to Eichmann and All the “E’s” in Between

F – Foreign Debts

G – Godspeed, John Glenn

H – From the H-Bomb to Hypodermics On the Shore

I – We Called Him IKE

J – From Joe DiMaggio to JFK Blown Away.  What Else Do I Have To Say?

K – The King and I, Krushchev, Kerouac and Kennedy

L – From Liberace to Lawrence of Arabia and Other L’s

M – From Marilyn Monroe to Moonshot

N – From North Korea, South Korea to Nasser

O – Ole Miss

P – From Panmunjom to Palestine and All the P’s In Between

Q – Quadrotriticale

R – From Red China to Rock and Roller Cola Wars

S – Events in  Race for Space and Other for the Letter S

T – From Harry Truman to Terror on the Airline, the Letter T

U – U-2

V – Vaccine

W – Walter Winchell, Woodstock, Watergate and Wheel of Fortune

X – Malcom X

Y – Years

Z – Zero

2016 A 1970s Time Capsule from A to Z

The 2016 Great and Powerful Reveal Blogfest

A to Z Extras:

Six on the Sixth – Six Very Short Stories from a 1970s Time Capsule

Sunday Photo Fiction -Would He Ever Go Home Again

Sunday Photo Fiction -And Though the News was Rather Sad

The Challenge:

News and Noteworthy  and Pop Culture

A – Antiwar Movement

A – All In the Family

B – Bloody Sunday

B – Bell-bottoms

C – Camp David Accords

C – Cher

D – Détente

D – Disco

E – Energy Crisis

E – Elton John

F – Floppy Disks

F – Fleetwood Mac

G – Gates, Allen and Microsoft

G – The Godfather

H – Hearst

H – Happy Days

I – Iran Hostage Crisis

I – Immaculate Reception

J – Jonestown Massacre

J – JAWS

K – Kent State

K – King vs. Riggs, The Battle of the Sexes

L – Legionnaires’ Disease

L – Love, American Style

M – Munich Olympics and Terrorism

M – M*A*S*H

N – The Napalm Girl

N – Nerf Ball

O – Only Nixon Could Go To China

O – The Osmonds

P – POWs are Coming Home

P – Platform Shoes, Pong and Pop Rocks

Q – Queen

R – Reach Up and Scrape the Sky

R – Rocky Horror Picture Show

R – Roots

S – Son of Sam

S – Star Wars

T – Three Mile Island

T – Title IX

T – Triple Crown for Secretariat

T – Test Tube Baby

U -US Bicentennial

V – Variety Shows

W – Watergate

X – X Marks the Spots – Where is Jimmy Hoffa Buried?

Y – Young Frankenstein

Z – Zoinks! and Other 1970s Slang from A to Z

Z – ZOOM

2015 World War II from A to Z

The 2015 Great and Powerful Reveal Blogfest!

My Reflections on the A to Z Challenge 2015

 A to Z Extras:

Famous Women of World War Two

The Women of Bletchley Park

American Women Were Code Breakers Too

The Women of the Manhattan Project

Doolittle’s Raid

Six on the Sixth – An Extra “E”

A Soldier’s Horse

The Challenge:

A – Armed Forces Radio Service

B – Bombe

C – Civil Defense

D – Dunkirk Evacuation

E – Eagle’s Nest, Hitler’s Retreat

F – Fast Carrier Task Force

G – Gestapo

H – Home Front

I – Ironbottom Sound – Naval Graveyard

J – Japanese American Internment

K – Kamikaze

L – Leningrad Under Siege

M – Messages Personnels

N – Night of Fog Decree

O – Omaha Beach

P – Philippines

Q – Quisling the Puppet

R – Resistance Movements

S – Schwarze Kapelle

T – Tripartite Pact

U – U-Boat

V – V-Mail

W – Women in the Armed Services

X – XX System

Y – Y-Stations

Z – Zero

2014 History from A to Z

A -Abdication

B -B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle

C -Carpetbaggers

D -D-Day

E -Enigma Machine

F -Fahrenheit 451

G -Great Depression

H -Hadrian’s Wall

H – Houston We’ve Had A Problem

I – Industrial Revolution

J – Jigsaw Puzzle

K – Kites

L – Liberty Bell Facts and Trivia

M – Match Girl Strike of 1888

N – Naval and Maritime Disasters

O – Oregon Trail

P – Plague (Black Death)

Q – Questions

R – Renaissance Faire

R – Rivers of the United States

S – Suez Canal

T – Tutankhamen’s Tomb Discovered

U – USS Hornet (CV-12)

V – Volleyball

W – We Didn’t Start the Fire

X – XYZ Affair

Y – Yellowstone National Park

Z – Zoo