4/24 - International Sculpture Day
It is International Sculpture Day, though, in the US, one must be careful what one sculpts or displays because we have a plethora of hardcore bluenoses in this country who are always on the lookout for...
View Article5/1 - Mayday
There are places where May Day brings out maypole dancers and the like. Some of these places, largely in Europe, have cultural linkages to Beltane, Floralia or both, while others, such as in the US...
View Article5/8 - VE Day
Today is VE Day (in Europe), or so I'm told. It commemorates the effective date, from central European time westward, of Germany's surrender in WWII. It seems that it is still celebrated in at lest...
View Article05/15 - International Conscientious Objectors Day
Heh, it's so funny to see that there's an International Conscientious Objectors Day. While looking for public domain photos to use I even discovered a couple of monuments to C.O.s and one in particular...
View Article05/22 - International Day for Biological Diversity
It is the International Day for Biological Diversity I know that a great many in the US have very negative views of "diversity" and hence dislike the word, but here we are talking about maintaining...
View Article5/29 - World Digestive Health Day
World Digestive Health Day marks the anniversary of the creation of the World Gastroenterology Organisation. Digestive health is Serious business and also serious Business. When I went looking for art...
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06/05 - World Environment Day
Hey, it's World Environment Day and I lead with a photo of a city, what's with that? Well, I noticed a lot of material all over the interwebs treat "environment", especially in this or similar contexts...
View Article06/12 - Loving Day
Loving Day commemorates Loving v Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), a 1967 Supreme Court case wherein the court struck down the state of Virginia's anti-miscegination statute and, in the process, rendered...
View Article6/19 is Juneteenth
Before I start, I'm going to make note of some other noteworthy events on this day: In 1862, Congress prohibited slavery in US territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford. In 1964, The Civil Rights...
View Article6/26 - International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
BUT, let us not be hasty. It is, per se wrong, but that needn't mean that we should stop doing it and stop supporting other governments that do it. We must do what we must do, keeping in mind the...
View Article7/3 - The downing of Iran Air 655 by the USS Vincennes
The USS Vincennes shot down a commercial airliner, Iran Air 655, on this day in 1988 Iran Air Flight 655 was an Iran Air regularly scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai. The Airbus A300...
View Article7/10 - Nikola Tesla Day
Nikola Tesla was a Serb who emigrated to the US where he bacame an inventor, electrical engineer and mechanical engineer. He was a proponent of aalternating current and developed an assortment of...
View Article07/17 is the World Day for International Justice
Today has somehow come to be named World Day for International Justice. Isn't that just too cute for words. I suppose we must start with Hammurabi's code and then plow through all of Plato, etc.We...
View Article07/24 is Simon Bolivar Day (Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia)
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco aka Simon Bolivar was a Venezuelan rebel who led New Granada, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, to independence...
View Article07/31 is Ka Hae Hawai'i Day
July 31 is Lā Hae Hawaiʻi, the Hawaiian Flag Day. (It is also Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea, Sovereignty Restoration Day.) The flag of Hawai'i prominently features a smaller Union Jack within it. Why does a US state...
View Article08/07 is Assyrian Martyrs Day
Assyrian Martyrs Day is not concerned with the 1915 Assyrian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. It instead relates to many massacres of Assyrians by Iraq in 1933. I have decided to just...
View Article08/14 is Social Security's Birthday
Social Security is an administration, The Social Security Administration, as well as the program which it administers. It was created by the Social Security Act of 1935 which FDR signed into law on...
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08/21/2017 was "The Great American Eclipse"
Well, you saw it, or you missed it. It's not like solar eclipses, or even total eclipses are that rare, but the path of totality is geographically narrow. Naturally, they hyped the hell out of this one...
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08/28 - Emmet Till's Murder
At the time it was written, The Declaration of Independence, with its nice rhetoric about Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, did not apply to various classes of people, Indians, certain...
View Article09/04 - Goyaale (aka Geronimo) Surrendered
Goyaale aka Geronimo officially surrendered to U.S. Army General Nelson A. Miles on September 4, 1886, at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona after nearly 30 years of fighting. It is a lie that Afghanistan was...
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