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 road when “something went wrong,” the understatement of the century, making today NATIONAL […]
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Lyrics – See You In The Morning (9:11 Song)It’s been 25 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
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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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If you are off from work today, thank the Labor Movement. If you are getting paid to barbecue and have some laughs with friends and family, doing no labor, thank a union on LABOR DAY! The Labor Movement was not just a series of strikes, demonstrations and demands for better wages and working conditions, but
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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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Why is today different from other days? Everyone knows it’s NATIONAL PIZZA DAY! We know it, we love it, we inhale it as a nation to the tune of 350 slices per second. Considered a lowly peasant food by Italians in the 1800s, pizza (“pie” in Italian) is now among the most popular foods on earth.
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Who remembers the big canvas sack strapped to the handlebars of your bicycle with your local newspaper’s name stenciled across the front? If you do, you once had a Paper Route, and we salute you on NATIONAL NEWSPAPER CARRIERS DAY! Once upon a time for a lot of kids, being a Paper Boy or Paper Girl
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They took their time ending wars in the 18th century, when all they had was dial-up, and cell phone service was worse than AT&T’s. British Major General Cornwallis had surrendered to George Washington almost 2 years before, ending the American Revolution, but it took that long to give us a reason to celebrate NATIONAL TREATY
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