Coupled with the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution remains the Gold Standard for political documents, 238 years after its official adoption on September 17, 1787, and so We The People, in order to form a more perfect union, on this day do celebrate NATIONAL CONSTITUTION DAY! In 1787, America stood alone in the […]
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On September 16, 1620, a ship set sail from Plymouth, England. On board were 102 men, women and children, pilgrims to an unknown New World, mostly English Separatists and Puritans, which makes today NATIONAL MAYFLOWER DAY! We can thank the Mayflower for America’s Puritan streak, best described by H.L. Menken as “the haunting fear that
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It was the last 15 minutes of a New Orleans recording session on September 14, 1955, and Little Richard had one more song up his sleeve. He had just spent an hour rewriting the lyrics with Dorothy La Bostrie, changing the original “dirty” lyrics from “good booty” to “aw Rudy” at the insistence of his producer,
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It was September 13, 1848 when 25 year-old railroad blasting foreman Phineas Gage was packing an explosive charge into a hole drilled in the granite in Cavendish, Vermont, where Gage was removing a small mountain of stone from the path of the nroad when “something went wrong,” the understatement of the century, making today NATIONAL
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It’s been 24 years now, and it shouldn’t still sting so much, but it does sting on NATIONAL 9/11 REMEMBRANCE DAY We all remember where we were, what we were doing, and who we lost when the unthinkable happened in New York City, Washington, DC, and a lonely field in Pennsylvania. Today we promise to
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They are no one’s favorite food, but we all have our preferences among the shiny packages of frozen, ready-to-eat meals (or something like meals), especially on NATIONAL TV DINNER DAY! Introduced 70 years ago by C.A. Swanson & Sons, TV dinners are one of our guilty pleasures, a zero-effort meal complete with dessert, all together
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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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