The Underdog. And just who would that be, you ask? Why, it is us, every last one of us. So come celebrate your holiday on NATIONAL UNDERDOG DAY! The rank and file of humanity is who we are, those who build and run this world. Unlike the silver spoon and smooth sailing types, our hands get dirty and […]
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On December 19, 1777, George Washington’s Continental Army settled into their winter quarters. Only trouble was, there were no quarters, just a freezing cold valley. To keep his men warm, General Washington set them to work chopping down trees, dragging them for miles back to camp, and building log huts. And that’s just one thing
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It was 2,521 years ago today when the first celebration was held in Rome, once Co-Consuls Aulus Semperonius Atraninus and Marcus Minicius Augurinius put their heads together to figure out how they could make Rome even more decadent, and they came up with a doozy, SATURNALIA! Named after the Roman God Saturn and kicking off
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80 years ago today, December 16, 1944, Allied troops were settling in for the winter, having successfully invaded and liberated Nazi-occupied France and Belgium, forcing the mighty Wehrmacht into retreat and disarray. The war in Europe was widely considered all but won. By the Allies, anyway, but Germany had one more major offensive up its
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“Are you kidding me?” said America in 1919 when Prohibition took effect, banning the sale and manufacture of all alcoholic beverages. Turns out they weren’t kidding, and it wasn’t until 1933 that we were able to celebrate this holiday with a drink, NATIONAL END OF PROHIBITION DAY! 13 years of bad luck is what the
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We know and love them, named a popular wrench after them, and fill imaginary barrels with them. Let’s hear it for NATIONAL MONKEY DAY! There’s 260 kinds of monkeys in this world, divided into Old World Monkeys and New World Monkeys (Old World monkeys are way cooler is how you tell them apart, they smoke
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Don’t be a sob sister, brother! Take a gander at your favorite Black & White flicks today and wise up, it’s NATIONAL 1930’S LINGO DAY! If you think the 1960s invented slang, guess again, Abercrombie, and quit bumping gums on my dime! It don’t take no sharp-eyed gumshoe to figure out the 1930s were America’s Golden
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Where else would a Gingerbread Man live with his Gingerbread Wife and their Gingerbread Kids, a birdhouse? Hell, no! As for the rest of us, you know you’re desperate for a holiday when you celebrate NATIONAL GINGERBREAD HOUSE DAY! Almost no one you know has ever made a Gingerbread House, never mind gingerbread, that dusty, dry,
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They cover 27% of the Earth’s surface, make neat dividing lines, and are beautiful to boot. Reasons enough to celebrate INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN DAY! You know them, you love them, you have your favorites, and now you have a National Day to celebrate mountains. No one is quite certain what that involves, since Mountain Day is
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