They line our streets, and we pass them every day in our travels. They sell us our food and dry goods, repair our homes and cars, and ship our goods across the land, so we celebrate NATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS DAY! Small, family-owned stores rock. They know you and you know them, their service is friendly […]
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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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On this day in 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first men to enter a sealed tomb for 3,000 years, which any Steve Martin fan will tell you makes this INTERNATIONAL KING TUT DAY! The Pharaoh Tutankhamun died at about age 18 or 19 from some wacky disease that’s not around anymore, or
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Well, ho-friggin’-hum, it’s another holiday. No big whoop, this one. Nothing fails to get your blood racing like NATIONAL BLASÉ DAY. Being blasé means being unburdened from giving a tinker’s damn, a sweet release from the pressing concerns of everyday life and the greater world, at least for this one day. We wish we could
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On November 24, 1859 a book was published that would change the world and the way we look at it, making today NATIONAL EVOLUTION DAY! Charles Darwin had spent years painstakingly researching “The Origin Of The Species,” the book that founded evolutionary biology. Originally released with the mouthy title “On the Origin of Species by
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Attention Little Boy Blue, Miss Muffet and the Tweedles, Dee and Dum! Hickory Dickory Dock, look at the clock, it’s NATIONAL MOTHER GOOSE DAY! Little Jack Horner, Old King Cole, Wee Willie Winkie and Little Bo-peep are just a few of the friends of Mother Goose, the Paulette Bunyan of nursery rhymes. She lives on
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We criticize it, complain about it, yell at it and take it for granted, but we can’t ignore the squeakiest wheel in the house, and the reason we celebrate NATIONAL TELEVISION DAY! Whether you prefer Kimmel to Colbert, GMA to Rachel Ray, or “Hard Core Pawn” over The Science Channel, our not-so-silent partner, Mister Television,
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This is your day, friends. You know who you are – your mind spins on a slightly different axis than other people’s brains, who never seem to quite get you. Know this; you are not alone, not on NATIONAL ABSURDITY DAY! You know damned well the whole world has gone mad, and most people just sort of go along
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162 years ago today, one of the greatest speeches in the history of speeches was given on November 19, 1863, to honor the fallen in the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, making today NATIONAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS DAY! The Battle of Gettysburg had taken place the previous July 1 to July 3, 1863, leaving
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