Robert Fulton started thinking about powering ships with steam engines when he was a 12 year-old farmboy in Pennsylvania, so August 17, 1807 was a sweet day for him, NATIONAL FULTON’S FOLLY DAY! This was the day his North River Steamboat took its maiden voyage on the Hudson River, two weeks before beginning regular 36 […]
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Here’s a holiday where it doesn’t matter how you celebrate, since you won’t remember it anyway. Let’s have an involuntary shudder for NATIONAL TEQUILA DAY! Tequila is a nasty tasting white whiskey made from the blue agave plant native to the state of Jalisco in Mexico, where it is grown on vast Tequila Farms. It
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Not many people get to be called The Great, unless you have conquered some people and laid waste to their lands. Well, our Great State of Hawaii has just such a person that we honor on NATIONAL KING KAMEHAMEHA DAY! King Who The What, you ask? Kamehameha the Great, that’s who, unifier of the Hawaiian Islands into
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You sleep when everyone else is up and at ’em, and come alive after dark, when the shadows rule, on NATIONAL NIGHT SHIFT DAY! The Graveyard Shift, they call it, the Midnight to Eight, with ‘lunchtime’ at about 4AM. Today we salute those of the night shift, our nocturnal brothers and sisters who keep the
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Here’s a holiday almost no one is celebrating, NATIONAL DAY OF UNPLUGGING! The idea is to shut off the cell phones, iPods, tablets, Kindles, PCs and what-have-yous that hooks you into the World Wide Web in seconds. The calendar says 2026, not 1969, and unplugging is not an option at this point. In an age
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His initials are all you need to hear to know exactly who he is and what he stood for, the man who left the largest presidential stamp on America on NATIONAL FDR DAY! Born in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the child of great wealth and privilege who
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Men might might call this “The Perfect Girlfriend Day,” but the calendar informs us that it’s NATIONAL SINGLE WORKING WOMEN’S DAY! Hurray for our single working women, the schoolmarms, secretaries, librarians, shop clerks, maids and flower girls. And also the doctors, lawyers, cabbies, electricians, cops, truckers and executives of the single female persuasion. A lot
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