(PCM) In ancient Rome, the period between December 17th and December 23rd was known as the Saturnalia, a festival to honor the god Saturn. Saturn ruled over such things as abundance, destruction, and time. He gave his name to our largest planet as well as everyone’s favorite day of the week (Saturday). His celebration […]
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Sadie Hawkins is not a real person she was a character created for the comic strip Little Ab’ner by Al Capp. Sadie was the ugliest girl in the mountain town of Dogpatch and so her father created a day when the women of the town could chase the men, if a man was caught he
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Level 1 – The Emoticon Emoticon is actually short for EMOTION ICON, and was started by using punctuation marks with letters and numbers to express feelings, happy, sad, angry; they started with the simple statements. A man named Scott Fahlman is credited with the modern emoticons, on a Carnegie Mellon University message board on September
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Friday the 13th is traditionally a day to safely stay in bed with the covers over your head in order to protect yourself from the horrid bad luck that is sure to come at you on that dreaded day. Friday the 13th is however a day that can also be celebrated too as the first
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(PCM) January 21, 2016 marked the 30th anniversary of “National Hugging Day”, a festival of physical affection invented by one Kevin Zaborney (a guy who knew someone who knew someone who made calendars back in 1986). The creators of National Hugging Day embraced January 21st because it is the mid-point between Christmas and Valentine’s Day.
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Curmudgeon’s Day. According to The American Heritage Dictionary a curmudgeon is a “cantankerous person’. And, according to The American Heritage Dictionary cantankerous means” ill tempered, quarrelsome, disagreeable, contrary.,” in other words cantankerous can be a mood or someone’s whole personality. Curmudgeons Day is a day to celebrate the cranky people in our lives or a
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June 12 is Superman Day Superman Day was founded by DC Entertainment. The company started the day in order to honor their most iconic character. It is said that there are three characters every child on earth knows, Sherlock Holmes, Mickey Mouse and Superman. Superman Day was established as a yearly event by DC on
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International World Thinking Day is celebrated every year by both The Girl Scouts and The Girl Guides. It is also celebrated by some boy organizations. The point of International World Thinking Day is for Girl Scouts/Guides to think about their sister and brothers around the world. In recent years the holiday has been themed. There
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50 United States Quick Facts US State #1. Delaware – Capitol: Dover, joined on Dec. 7, 1787, nickname: The First State US State #2. Pennsylvania – Capitol: Harrisburg, joined on Dec. 12, 1787, nickname: Keystone State US State #3. New Jersey – Capitol: Trenton, joined on Dec. 18, 1787, nickname: Garden State US State #4.
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