Torches and pitchforks, midnight at the castle, pass it on! It’s NATIONAL FRANKENSTEIN DAY! Today is Mary Shelly’s 228th birthday, the author of one of the most popular stories in history. Originally published in 1818 as “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,“ Shelley not only wrote a completely original and compelling novel, but introduced an enduring […]
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It was originally erected on July 13, 1923 to advertise a housing development called “Hollywoodland” in the hills above the Hollywood district of Chinatown, and intended to last only 18 months, but it’s still there and remains one of the most iconic signs in America, making this day NATIONAL HOLLYWOOD SIGN DAY! It has fallen
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It’s not her birthday, or the anniversary of her death, but instead a day that tells us exactly why we celebrate this magnificent woman on NATIONAL MAE WEST DAY! On December 27, 1937, Mae West got herself banned from NBC Radio after she performed “The Adam And Eve Skit,” an innocuous enough bit of fluff
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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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They didn’t call it the “New World” or “America.” They called it home and had their own names for the land that sustained them, and today we remember their lost world on NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE DAY! Anthropologists tell us there were anywhere from 50 to 90 million people comprising the more than 500 tribes
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