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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/31/23 – UNCOMMON MUSICAL INSTRUMENT APPRECIATION DAY!

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That Indie band with the Christopher Walken lookalike singer, Arcade Fire, uses about half of them, and the recording studio adventures of The Beatles, The Beach Boys and other rock & roll experimenters introduced more than a few, so today we wonder just what the hell is that haunting sound on NATIONAL UNCOMMON MUSICAL INSTRUMENT …

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/30/23 – PAPERBACK BOOK DAY!

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Dear sir or madam won’t you take a look? Dime Novels, they called them. Cheap, mass-produced instant fiction for Everyman, introduced to America in 1860 by publishers Erastus and Irwin Beadle as “Beadle’s Dime Novels,” paperback books became an instant sensation with the public, and before you could say Pluck and Luck Stories of Adventure, …

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/29/23 – PROFESSOR IRWIN COREY DAY!

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Today we celebrate “The World’s Foremost Authority” on NATIONAL PROFESSOR IRWIN COREY DAY! Born in Brooklyn on July 29, 1914, Irwin Corey lived an eventful century plus. Raised in a orphanage because his parents were poverty stricken, he took off at age 13, riding the rails to California, where he enrolled in high school. During …

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/28/23 – POTATO DAY!

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Thomas Harriot was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, translator and a man who made drawings of the moon as seen through a telescope before Galileo. For none of these things is he remembered, however, and his National Day doesn’t even mention his name on NATIONAL POTATO DAY! It seems that Harriot sailed with the renowned …

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/27/23 – BAGPIPES APPRECIATION DAY!

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You don’t have to wear a kilt to play them, but it helps. Might as well make a spectacle of yourself while you’re creating a godawful racket on NATIONAL BAGPIPES APPRECIATION DAY! We blame the Scots for bagpipes and kilts, and the Irish for their Uileann Pipes, but the bagpipe has been traced as far …

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/26/23 – MICK JAGGER DAY!

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Sure he’s a Brit, but being a foreigner never stopped America from celebrating someone who has left an impression on our nation, and few musicians have cut a broader swath than the man we wish a happy 80th birthday on NATIONAL MICK JAGGER DAY! When you look up Rock & Roll Star, Mick Jagger is …

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/25/23 – CULINARY DAY!

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This is not just for chefs and foodies, today is for anyone who cooks, which means all of us on NATIONAL CULINARY DAY! In America, we’re all about the food. Big country, big appetite. Until the 20th Century, most of us made food, before we discovered big cities and jazz. The Industrial Revolution had already …

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/24/23 – TEQUILA DAY!

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Here’s a holiday where it doesn’t matter how you celebrate, since you won’t remember it anyway. Let’s have an involuntary shudder for NATIONAL TEQUILA DAY! Tequila is a nasty tasting white whiskey made from the blue agave plant native to the state of Jalisco in Mexico, where it is grown on vast Tequila Farms. It …

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/23/23 – NUDE MISS AMERICA DAY!

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Vanessa Williams is known as the Miss America who was different from all other Miss Americas in 4 ways. #1, she is Black, #2, she actually has talent, # 3, she went on to have a successful career as a singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, film producer and fashion model, and #4, she was the …

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TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 7/22/23 – HAMMOCK DAY!

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The Dog Days of Summer are upon us, and slow and easy is the way to go. The sun is blazing and wide, the humidity makes it feel like you are wearing a warm wet blanket and frankly, you need a nap. Which is where this holiday comes in, NATIONAL HAMMOCK DAY! We spend the …

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