On November 16, 1873, The Blues was born in Florence, Alabama when William Christopher Handy made his debut, wailing like the Bluesman we celebrate on NATIONAL BIRTH OF THE BLUES DAY! W.C. Handy, called The Father of The Blues, learned to play music in secret from his preacher father, who considered musical instruments to be tools […]
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Okay, uptight people, you know who you are. You worry about appearances, you worry about propriety, you worry about money, you worry about other people, you worry about worrying. Well, you can pull the stick out on NATIONAL LOOSEN UP, LIGHTEN UP DAY! Attitude? Mellow. Outlook? Sunny. Pants? Optional! Today we celebrate laughter, beauty, joy,
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To be or not to be? You call that a question? Well, actors can be or not be whoever they like, which is why we celebrate NATIONAL ACTORS DAY! Ah, the Thespian Arts, making dreams ring true! Even though we know they are only playing a part, our best actors make us believe, and we forget they are
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I will not read big words or news, I will not read your don’ts and dos. I will read things that make me laugh, I will read all about giraffes. Why oh why oh why, you say? It’s NATIONAL YOUNG READERS DAY! Books, books, and more books! We all have our childhood favorites, from the Brothers
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Now, if we could only remember who or what it is we’re supposed to be forgetting, or not forgetting on NATIONAL FORGET-ME-NOT DAY! Do we write Forget-Me-Not notes to people, or do we forget about them? Reminisce or repress? In any respectably misspent life, there’s no shortage of people and situations we’d rather forget, and with
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What is human society but an attempt to impose order on chaos? What are these attempts but futile? What are unanswerable questions but annoying? Figure it out on NATIONAL CHAOS DAY! We make our plans, we learn our ABCs, dutifully set our alarm clocks and keep our appointed rounds. “I got this,” we keep telling
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They say stupid is the new brilliant, they in this case being blithering idiots. This being America, however, even idiots get a Day, and the rest of us just have to shut up and endure NATIONAL DUNCE DAY! In a nation that once celebrated brilliance and achievement, and boasted of our many scientific breakthroughs, we have been
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Marie Skłodowska was a great woman born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. Who, you ask? Like many women, both great and otherwise, she became known by her husband’s name, and achieved her greatest success in a different country, so today we celebrate NATIONAL MARIE CURIE DAY! Not only was Marie Curie the first woman awarded
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Today we celebrate a Belgian who is neither a fictional private detective nor a waffle maker, but a man who has touched all our lives without exception. We salute Adolphe Sax (November 6, 1814 – February 7, 1894) on INTERNATIONAL SAXOPHONE DAY! Who’s your favorite sax man? Gerry Mulligan, John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims,
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Do you love Lucy? How about Conan O’Brien, Maureen O’Hara, Helen of Troy, Mohammed, Ann Margaret, Brigham Young, Hedy Lammar, Vincent Van Gogh or Brenda Starr? Today, we rejoice. It’s NATIONAL LOVE YOUR RED HAIR DAY! While some natural redheads feel self conscious about their flaming locks, an equal amount of people are jealous of
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