05/23 - World Crohn's and Colitis Day
The wordsCrohn's and Colitis when conjoined in that fashion usually refer to a couple of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) caused by an auto-immune reaction. "Colitis", as so used is actually any of...
View Article05/30 - Memorial Day
I'm just going to quote da wiki here regarding Memorial DayMemorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day[1]) is a federal holiday in the United States for mourning the U.S. military personnel who...
View Article06/06 - Two Military Anniversaries
Today is the anniversary of two very significant WW II events, The Battle of Midway and D-Day aka Operation Overlord.The first of these chronologically occurred on June 6 1942 in the Pacific ocean,...
View Article06-13 Miranda v Arizona
Ernesto A Miranda was arrested ion March 13, 1963 and charged with kidnapping and rape. Â He was interrogated without benefit of counsel or witnesses for 2 hours after which he confessed to the charges...
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Yes! Molly. Yes! It's Bloomsday.
Yes, and Yes and Yes, Molly.YouTube VideoHeh. So here's a bloom for ya And here's another -"I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I...
View Article06/20 - Take Your Cat to Work Day
This is Take Your Cat to Work Day. Something of a wild and crazy idea, especially if it results in multiples of cats in an open office layout. I imagine a room full of data entry people "assisted" by a...
View Article06/27 - Helen Keller Day
Helen Keller was born June 27, 1880 and was rendered both blind and deaf by an illness at the age of 19 months. At the age of 7 she was introduced to her first teacher, Anne Sullivan, who taught her...
View Article07/04 - Independence Day
Beset with various grievances against the King of England's government of Britain's North American colonies some of the more or less upper class colonists aired those grievances and declared the...
View Article07/11 - World Population Day
It's World Population Day. According to the UN, World Population Day seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues, but the narrative begins to drift at that point. They...
View Article07/18 - World Listening Day
World Listening Day is somewhat recently invented with the intent that folks will take time to go listen to the world. According to Checkiday.com (...
View Article07/25 - Robert Burns Night
 Born July 25, 1759, Robert Burns, poet and songwriter. Widely considered to be Scotland's national poet and his "Scots Wha Hae" was for a long time deemed to be the equivalent of a Scots' national...
View Article08/01 is the Real, though unofficial, Jerry Day.
Alrghty now class, It's Jerry Day, for Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995), one of those who truly was a legend in his own time. A talented multi-instrumentalist, singer and...
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08/08 - Happiness Happens Day
So, it's Happiness Happens Day and that up there is a picture of Emiliano Zapata. So what's that all about, you might ask. So, if happiness happens, it must be random or pseudo-random, fortuitous and...
View Article08/15 - Happy Chanson de Roland
The Chanson de Roland is a tale long in the telling and vastly longer in the explication and discussion. Allegedly the first and hence oldest chanson de geste, it is about the battle of Roncesvalle...
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08/22 - Saint Nessie's Birthday
Today we celebrate Saint Nessie's Day, a holiday only partly of my invention. The earliest report of a monster in the vicinity of Loch Ness comes from Saint Columba and is reported in writing by the...
View Article08/29 - Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist
Don't know what that's about and don't want to.It's also the International Day against Nuclear Tests. WOW, that's an oldie. How about trying to stop the nuclear war that all of the war harks are trying...
View Article09/05 International Day of Charity
It's International Day of Charity. You will seldom see me include in my lists of somehow notable persons who were born or died on a given day any "philanthropists". That's because the money came from...
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9/12 The Battle of Marathon
Just to get things straight, the Battle of Marathon took place on the shore of a bay near a Greek town known as Marathon. Boston was .NOT. involved. Darius, of Persia, had sent a force to invade Greece...
View Article09/19 - Talk Like a (Disney) Pirate Day, Jenny
It is Talk Like a (Disney) Pirate Day, Jenny. The whole phenomenon of ARRRR as being "pirate talk" is clarly a Disney thing. I have read some of the extant writings of several actual pirates and they...
View Article9/26 - What's Latin for Unmitigated Evil? Dudum siquidem!
On September 26, 1493, Mayan date 11.13.13.4.2, Pope Alexander set loose the hounds of hell upon the Americas, the Pacific and its Islands, and some of Asia. On this date, he issued the Papal Bull...
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