Once upon a midnight dreary in Boston Massachusetts, actress Elizabeth Poe went into labor, and on January 19, 1809, America’s favorite Dark Traveler was born, and so we celebrate NATIONAL EDGAR ALLAN POE DAY! When Edgar Poe was a year old, his actor father David Poe, Jr. abandoned his wife and 3 children, and their […]
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107 years ago today, on November 27, 1917, Robert Emil Schmidt was born, who would grow up to create television’s first children’s idol, making today NATIONAL HOWDY DOODY DAY! Television’s first generation of kiddie viewers knew and loved Schmidt as Buffalo Bob Smith. For 2,543 shows from 1947 to 1960, the creator, producer and host
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What can it hurt, one day a year? The whole world went completely nuts a while ago, and most of us just went with the flow and learned to embrace the lunacy. Today we try something totally different on NATIONAL COMMON SENSE DAY! We used to have a lot of common sense in this country, accomplished lots
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It is the most widely spoken language on the planet, with China having the most people who speak it, followed by India, the United States and… oh right, England, the original reason we celebrate NATIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAY! Officially called a “West Germanic” language, English originated as an Anglo-Saxon tongue in England in early Medieval times,
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We can all recite his most famous quote by heart, all the more impressive since it was said just prior to being hung as spy by the British on September 22nd, 1776, making today NATIONAL NATHAN HALE DAY! The American Experiment was in its infancy, just 2-1/2 months after the Declaration of Independence made America
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Okay, so February 29 only comes once every 4 years, but until you drop dead with enough good deeds to your credit to earn yourself a regular holiday, today is your National Day, so make the most of NATIONAL YOUR NAME HERE DAY! I call it National Bob Day, and get to make all sorts
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Retailers call it Black Friday, most of us call it the day after Thanksgiving, but more and more of us are calling it NATIONAL BUY NOTHING DAY! The Friday after Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day in the United States, kicking off our annual materialistic feeding frenzy that we call Christmas shopping, where we buy
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No, you don’t eat it. The last thing you want to do is eat that stuff. Nothing so dense and heavy can possibly be classified as food. If you notice, it’s 2 days after Christmas and no one’s even unwrapped it yet, not even on NATIONAL FRUIT CAKE DAY! Today is the day you decide
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Seven billion, that’s a 7 with 9 zeroes behind it; 7,000,000,000. On October 31, 2011, world population reached that number, so the United Nations decreed that we celebrate INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SEVEN BILLION! The 7 billionth customer didn’t win any valuable prizes, but that’s the UN for you, all fact-finding committees and non-binding resolutions, but no
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Can’t say I know many guys named Herbert with high blood pressure, but a holiday’s a holiday, so let’s get festive for NATIONAL MORE HERBS, LESS SALT DAY! You can call me Herb, you can call me Herbie, but whatever you do, don’t call me your Salty Dog! The origins of National More Herbs, Less
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