March 22 in Pop Culture History March 22nd is… As Young As You Feel Day Bavarian Crepes Day Corndog Day Goof Off Day Gryffindor Pride Day Day of the Seal Sing Out Day World Water Day Year Unknown – Diana of Themyscira, Wonder Woman, Born (made of clay) 1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlawed …
March 15 in Pop Culture History March 15th is… Consumer Rights Day Dumbstruck Day Egg Cream Day Everything You Think Is Wrong Day The Ides of March Peanut Lovers Day Pears Helene Day Shoe the World Day True Confessions Day 44 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house …
March 11 in Pop Culture History March 11th is… Debunking Day Dream Day National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day Johnny Appleseed Day (also September 26) Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day Plumbing Day Promposal Day National 3-1-1 Day Worship of Tools Day 105 – Ts’ai Lun invented paper, in China. 1818 – Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus by …
5 Staves of A Christmas Carol. Day Five Stave Five or The End of It. JRR Tolkien wrote in The Hobbit, “ Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to hear are soon told about, and not much to listen too; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may …
Christmas Trivia and The Reason For The Season The word Christmas originated as a compound word, meaning “Christ’s Mass”. It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038. “Cristes” is from Greek Christos, and “mæsse” is from Latin missa (the holy mass). While it marks …
5 Staves 5 Days of A Christmas Carol. Day Four The Last of the Spirits. The last stroke of midnight had ceased to vibrate, and there appeared before Scrooge a figure “shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, face, and form, and left nothing visible save one outstretched hand. If the hand …
5 Staves of A Christmas Carol Day Three The Second of The Three Spirits or Stave Three, begins with Scrooge waking up and without even hearing the sound of the clock, he knows it is the hour of one. The bell strikes one… and nothing happens. If you ever have done something wrong at school …
5 Staves Of A Christmas Day Two Stave Two of A Christmas Carol is titled “The First of the Three Spirits. When the Stave opens, we find Scrooge in bed. He wakens to the sound of the clock striking 12. He is bewildered by this as he knows it was after two when he went …
5 Staves of A Christmas Carol. Day One “Marley was dead, to begin with.” These six words may be, at least, one of the most famous lines in all of literature. In 1843 Charles Dickens was short on funds. In order to help himself make the money he needed, he came up with the idea …
