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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It’s nowhere near the middle of summer, those pavement and brain-melting days of early August, but ancient tradition demands we lay off the word “solstice” today, so as not to confuse us backward peasants into thinking we displeased some god or goddess of fertility or another, and Winter comes back too soon, so we use
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If there’s a holiday that cries out “be careful what you wish for,” it is NATIONAL GENEALOGY DAY! Sure, we all tell ourselves we’re going to look up the old family tree, see what illustrious ancestors we have, but never seem to get around to it. These days, however, we’re all hooked into the World Wide
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