Let’s Holla for a Dollar, folks, today is NATIONAL DOLLAR DAY! Yes, it’s all about the Benjamins today. No, we’re not celebrating wealth, the worship of the Almighty Dollar, or the price of eggs. Today marks the 240th Anniversary of the creation of America’s own monetary system on August 8, 1786 by the Continental Congress. […]
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It was August 7th, 1789 that Congress approved an “Act For The Establishment And Support Of Lighthouses, Beacons, Buoys And Public Piers,” leaving us no choice but to celebrate NATIONAL LIGHTHOUSE DAY! A welcome sight for sailors seeking shelter from the storm, oil painters looking for a change of pace from windmills, and movie directors
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Like Thanksgiving and July 4th, here’s a holiday for everyone to celebrate, but without all the baggage. There is no more joyous experience than celebrating NATIONAL ROOT BEER FLOAT DAY! There’s no traditional cooking to be unfavorably compared to previous years, no complicated rituals to perform with open flames, and no special outfits to wear.
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Bivalve Mollusks Rockefeller just doesn’t have a ring to it, nor does Briny Plankton Feeders sound like a big hit at the Raw Bar, but that’s what we’re celebrating on NATIONAL OYSTERS DAY! Ah, oysters! Either you love them and can’t get enough, or just the sight of them gets you ill. Oysters are those
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This is a song that changed history. Written by a pair of 19 year-old city boys named Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, it had been Big Mama Thornton’s biggest hit, spending 14 weeks on the R&B charts in 1953, but the world-changing part came in 1956, when a young singer from Tennessee named Elvis Presley
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Boxers or briefs? Panties or bloomers? T-Shirts or tank tops? Slips or camisoles? These are the choices we make every day without a thought, but today we choose them with a thought, since it’s NATIONAL UNDERWEAR DAY! Show us what’s underneath, it’s Underwear Day! Once humans invented clothes back in the Stone Age, we decided
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4,636, 838. That’s how many people were in the 13 states of the brand new country called the United States of America on this date in 1790, NATIONAL U.S. CENSUS DAY! Almost 700,000 Americans were slaves at the time, and counted as only 3/5ths of a person, a situation since rectified at considerable cost to
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Okay, so technically it’s International World Wide Web Day, way too generic a holiday for a means of communication with untold millions of sources, so we settle for one destination today, the Second Best Website Ever on INTERNATIONAL BOBCRESPO.COM DAY! As everyone knows, the internet was invented in the basement of the Vice Presidential Mansion by Al Gore
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That Indie band with the Christopher Walken lookalike singer, Arcade Fire, uses about half of them, and the recording studio adventures of The Beatles, The Beach Boys and other rock & roll experimenters introduced more than a few, so today we wonder just what the hell is that haunting sound on NATIONAL UNCOMMON MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
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Dear sir or madam won’t you take a look? Dime Novels, they called them. Cheap, mass-produced instant fiction for Everyman, introduced to America in 1860 by publishers Erastus and Irwin Beadle as “Beadle’s Dime Novels,” paperback books became an instant sensation with the public, and before you could say Pluck and Luck Stories of Adventure,
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