Whether it’s a profile of Joe’s pancreas, Peoria’s best Girl Scout, tales of triumph over severe ordeals by ordinary people or dozens of bland jokes, we’ve all read our share of them, and so today we celebrate NATIONAL READER’S DIGEST DAY! Launched by married publishers DeWitt and Lila Wallace on February 5th, 1922, Reader’s Digest …
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It’s National Library Week, so at least one day this week has to be NATIONAL DICTIONARY DAY! What’s your favorite, Funk & Wagnalls? Webster’s? American Standard? Oxford? These days, more often than not, a dictionary and a Thesaurus are built right into your computer, every word, definition and synonym only an instant away. None of us …
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 …
