We all know the single name for the pink rubber balls once sold in every candy store in America for a dime, reason enough to celebrate NATIONAL SPALDING DAY! Pronounced “spaldeen” by young boys, the Spalding High-Bounce Ball is the perfect ball for every urban sport from stickball to stoop ball, handball, catch-a-fly, or just […]
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Also called Missing Eleven Days Day, today is INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR ADJUSTMENT DAY! One result of Great Britain’s decision to replace the Julian Calendar with the Gregorian Calendar in 1752 was an 11 day “Calendar Adjustment” that meant everyone in Britain and her American colonies went to sleep on September 2nd, and woke up the next
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This is a song that changed history. Written by a pair of 19 year-old city boys named Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, it had been Big Mama Thornton’s biggest hit, spending 14 weeks on the R&B charts in 1953, but the world-changing part came in 1956, when a young singer from Tennessee named Elvis Presley
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This is not just for chefs and foodies, today is for anyone who cooks, which means all of us on NATIONAL CULINARY DAY! In America, we’re all about the food. Big country, big appetite. Until the 20th Century, most of us made food, before we discovered big cities and jazz. The Industrial Revolution had already
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Who says they don’t get any holidays? Hell, they even have their own logo, just like the crosses, stars and crescents symbolizing other religions. Today our most fervent preachers and avid seekers of converts get their only holiday all year, one that most of them will spend furiously not celebrating, NATIONAL ATHEIST DAY! Steadfast believers in
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When most people are 76, they’re done. When Anna Mary Robertson Moses turned 76, she started a career as an oil painter of such power and originality that today we celebrate NATIONAL GRANDMA MOSES DAY! Go Granny go. Born in 1860 in Greenwich, New York, Grandma Moses wasn’t always an old lady. Anna Robertson was
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You’re not the only one who wishes you could tap dance. The United States Congress does too, and set this day aside in 1989 as NATIONAL TAP DANCING DAY! Who’s your favorite? Fred Astaire, the Nicholas Brothers, Ginger Rogers, Gregory Hines, Gene Kelly, the Rockettes or Mr. Bojangles himself, Bill Robinson? Not only do you
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Can’t say I know many guys named Herbert with high blood pressure, but a holiday’s a holiday, so let’s get festive for NATIONAL MORE HERBS, LESS SALT DAY! You can call me Herb, you can call me Herbie, but whatever you do, don’t call me your Salty Dog! The origins of National More Herbs, Less
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Can’t say I know many guys named Herbert with high blood pressure, but a holiday’s a holiday, so let’s get festive for NATIONAL MORE HERBS, LESS SALT DAY! You can call me Herb, you can call me Herbie, but whatever you do, don’t call me your Salty Dog! The origins of National More Herbs, Less
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Today, if you think something is funny, you’re going to have to say “I laughed out loud” or, if something strikes you as especially hilarious, “I rolled on the floor laughing my ass off” instead the digital shorthand plaguing our language and setting our communication skills back to Neanderthal levels on NATIONAL SPEAK IN COMPLETE
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