You could have knocked me over with a feather when I found out today’s National Day walks like a duck and talks like duck on NATIONAL CLICHE DAY! It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good, and on Cliche Day we wish the wind to be ever at your back as you keep […]
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It was tentatively decided to appoint a committee to debate the possibility of forming a commission empowered to discuss empaneling a Special Board to study the calendar year for 6 months and issue nonbinding recommendations. That’s how today came, eventually, to be known as INTERNATIONAL UNITED NATIONS DAY! Founded by a wounded and shell-shocked world
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Today marks the 63rd anniversary of the highest stakes poker game ever played, one that terrified the entire world on INTERNATIONAL CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS DAY! It was 1962, the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and American spy planes had recently noticed newly constructed nuclear missile silos in
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Regrets? We’ve all had a few, and who doesn’t want a do-over every so often? Everyone has a thick “What I Should Have Said” and a “What I Should Have Done” file, perfect for NATIONAL MULLIGAN DAY! Remember that job interview where you called the little guy who answered the door “Shorty,” and he turned out
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Well, pluck my Funk & Wagnall’s, Webster! Here’s a holiday close to Password Man’s heart, NATIONAL DICTIONARY DAY! Hot on the heels of “National English Language Day,” today we celebrate that big fat book with painted page edges and little thumb indents for each letter of the alphabet. For those of us fascinated with vocabulary,
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Looks like someone’s got some ‘splainin‘ to do! Why? Because it’s NATIONAL I LOVE LUCY DAY! On October 15th, 1951, Colombia Broadcasting System first aired “I Love Lucy.” Created by Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz as a starring vehicle for his wife, comic actress Lucille Ball, “I Love Lucy” not only touched America’s funny bone, but
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Guess who was standing on the beach in 1492 getting “discovered” by Christopher Columbus? Guess who taught the Pilgrims how to survive New England Winters? Yes, those we celebrate on this NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICANS DAY! The people usually left out of Columbus Day celebrations called the Americas “The World,” not the New World, and didn’t exactly
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Our first president was a hemp farmer, and 7 more farmers and a rancher also became American Presidents, the most recent being peanut farmer Jimmy Carter. There’s something humble and hopeful about farmers, generally a good natured bunch. Even in today’s largely urban society, everyone celebrates NATIONAL FARMERS DAY! Well, we’d better celebrate, these are
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There are several reasons why we have parades in his honor, and bridges named after Kazimierz Michał Wacław Wiktor Pułaski (1745-1779), or, as Americans call him; Pulaski. We just don’t know them. Still, we like to celebrate GENERAL PULASKI MEMORIAL DAY! Certainly one reason has to be that debonaire matinee idol mustache, and another was
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It’s a much better name than the Philadelphia Naval Asylum, where America’s future Naval Officers were trained until October 10, 1845, when the new Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Maryland, making today NATIONAL NAVAL SCHOOL DAY! Since renamed the United States Naval Academy and called “Annapolis” by most people, our world famous naval academy has
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