Here’s a guy you have to hate, the ultimate Renaissance man. Not happy being a great painter and sculptor, the guy was also an architect, engineer, cartographer, poet and a big fan of small penises. He was also the first to go with just the one name, compelling us to celebrate INTERNATIONAL MICHELANGELO DAY! Michelangelo di […]
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In fiction, villains with monocles sip it. In real life, hard-living painters, poets and novelists were once notorious for drinking it into the wee hours and making a nuisance of themselves. Today is NATIONAL ABSINTHE DAY! A wicked green drink, Absinthe is an Anisette-flavored whiskey, overproof and nasty to smell, never mind swallow. All kinds
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There, they’re, their, bitches. Grammar. It’s its special day today, so mind your apostrophes and punctuation on NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY! We English speakers abuse Grammar all the time, especially when we write it. We all went to school, learned the rules of English, many of which were pure spiteful torture, but basically we learned how
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Rock & Roll was born on March 3, 1951 when Ike Turner’s band recorded what is widely considered the first Rock & Roll song, with legendary producer Sam Phillips (yes, that Sam Phillips) at the board at Sun Studio (yes, that Sun Studio) in Memphis, Tennessee, making this NATIONAL “ROCKET 88” DAY! Written by Jackie
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I dig Dr. Seuss’s scene Of Hatted Cats and Grinches Green Of elephants named Horton too And fishes red and green and blue! Hellzyeah, it’s NATIONAL DOCTOR SEUSS DAY! Who didn’t grow up a huge fan of that PhD in English Literature, Theodor Seuss Geisel, best known to children everywhere as Dr. Seuss? Following his
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Executive Order #10924 was one of President John F. Kennedy’s better ideas, and on March 1, 1961, he mobilized America’s first peaceful army, making today NATIONAL PEACE CORPS DAY! Kennedy first proposed the Peace Corps as a Congressman in 1951, calling for an “army of missionaries for Democracy.” The idea was batted around Washington for 10
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You won’t find this brand new holiday in any Official Directory of Observances, but it’s sure to catch on. You see, at long last, today is NATIONAL GOOD RIDDANCE FEBRUARY DAY! Winter’s been raging for over 2 months, and you’re thinking homicidal thoughts about your local TV Weatherperson, the smug jerk. We don’t need smirking
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You’re a 9 foot-tall, fifteen hundred pound mountain of muscle and menace in white fur, living in the frozen north and swimming in the Arctic Ocean like some crazy Scandinavian, and you just happen to be the largest species of terrestrial predator. Must be INTERNATIONAL POLAR BEAR DAY! Not to be confused with the Polar Bear
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Once upon a time people told Fairy Tales. Sometimes they read them from books with wild drawings of improbable people and creatures doing absurd things, which is why we love NATIONAL TELL A FAIRY TALE DAY! Does the name Rumpelstiltskin mean anything to you? How about Rip Van Winkle, Mother Goose, Aesop or the Brothers
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On February 23, 1945, four US Marines raised an American flag amid the burnt rubble and twisted steel wreckage atop Mount Suribachi on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima, caught in the act by photographer Joe Rosenthal, and one of the most iconic photographs ever taken was created, making today NATIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM DAY! Photojournalists go where it isn’t
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