If these letters look like indecipherable squiggly lines to you, maybe today just isn’t your holiday and you need to wait for National Ooh Look at The Pretty Pictures Day, but the rest of us will be celebrating INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY! Why? Because we can read! Because when we were small children, a lot of people […]
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When most people are 76, they’re done. When Anna Mary Robertson Moses turned 76, she started a career as an oil painter of such power and originality that today we celebrate NATIONAL GRANDMA MOSES DAY! Go Granny go. Born in 1860 in Greenwich, New York, Grandma Moses wasn’t always an old lady. Anna Robertson was
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Ken Dahl hasn’t been so lucky since the divorce, but his Ex and her new husband G.I. Joe remain household names in America, so today we celebrate NATIONAL BARBIE DOLL DAY! SInce 1959, Barbie has been our National Sweetheart, a true single-name American icon and a symbol of mindless consumerism. Barbie is a plastic woman
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Why is today different from other days? Everyone knows it’s NATIONAL PIZZA DAY! We know it, we love it, we inhale it as a nation to the tune of 350 slices per second. Considered a lowly peasant food by Italians in the 1800s, pizza (“pie” in Italian) is now among the most popular foods on earth.
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Who remembers the big canvas sack strapped to the handlebars of your bicycle with your local newspaper’s name stenciled across the front? If you do, you once had a Paper Route, and we salute you on NATIONAL NEWSPAPER CARRIERS DAY! Once upon a time for a lot of kids, being a Paper Boy or Paper Girl
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They took their time ending wars in the 18th century, when all they had was dial-up, and cell phone service was worse than AT&T’s. British Major General Cornwallis had surrendered to George Washington almost 2 years before, ending the American Revolution, but it took that long to give us a reason to celebrate NATIONAL TREATY
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We all know the single name for the pink rubber balls once sold in every candy store in America for a dime, reason enough to celebrate NATIONAL SPALDING DAY! Pronounced “spaldeen” by young boys, the Spalding High-Bounce Ball is the perfect ball for every urban sport from stickball to stoop ball, handball, catch-a-fly, or just
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For those of you who don’t believe in miracles, skip this, because you’ll only get in the way while the rest of us celebrate NATIONAL BABY DAY! There is no more remarkable creature in existence than a human baby, all at once simple but complex, intimate yet unknowable. From their first frightened, needful cries sampling their first
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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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