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09/11 Thru The Ages
Arminius was a chieftan of the Germanic Cherusci tribe under whose leadership some allied German tribes utterly destroyed three entire Roman Legions under Publius Quinctilius Varus and locked Rome out...
View Article9/18 is World Water Monitoring Day
What the heck is World Water Monitoring Day? It seems to have been or perhaps sort of still is some sort of cross betweeen a citizen science project and an awareness day. What's missing, imho, is the...
View Article9/25 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge
The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place on September 25, 1066, in England. England's King Edward the Confessor died early in 1066 leaving a lot of claimants for England's throne. The English...
View Article10/02 is the International Day of Non-Violence
HEY! It's the International Day of Non-Violence, ain't that a giggle? Anybody try to hold a large scale non-violent demonstration lately? Did it stay that way for over an hour? Internationally?...
View Article10/09 is World Post Day
On October 9, 1874, the General Postal Union was created. Prior to that, international mail was based on bilateral treaties between countries. The treaty of Bern, which created the General Postal Union...
View Article10/16 is World Food Day
World Food Day was created to commemorate the 1945 creation of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization. If you go to this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Day and scroll down a bit,...
View Article10/23 - Mole Day starts at 6:02 am
At 6:02 it will be 6:02 10-23, and thus it is mole day because 6.02x10**23 particles constitute a mole.-YouTube Video- More?-YouTube Video- OK, moving on-“A boy has never wept… nor dashed a thousand...
View Article10/30 is International Orthopaedic Nurses Day
So it is International Orthopaedic Nurses Day. They provide a valuable service and are as deserving of recognition as anybody else, but I can't think of a heck of a lot to say about them.- On this day...
View Article11/06 is National Saxophone Day
It is the birthday of Adolphe Sax, who invented a variety of instruments, but, principally, the Saxophone. That is a saxophone pictured above. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but can...
View ArticleNovember 13 is National Kindness Day
OK, y'all stop giggling. There is or was a National Kindness Day, now seemingly subsumed within World Kindness Day. Its Objective (Ahem) is, in part:World Kindness Day is to highlight good deeds in the...
View Article11/20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance
Transgender Day of Remembrance it a day to remember all of the transgender people killed as a result of prejudice and hatred. It is also a day to raise awareness of the fact that transgender people not...
View Article11/27 is the anniversary of the Washita Massacre
Mr. Kanouse's description of the above photograph continues as follows:Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led an early morning surprise attack on a band of peaceful Cheyenne living with Chief Black...
View Article12/4 is National Cookie Day
Remember when cookies were supposed to be edible? Then they were insidiously injected into ones computer, to be susses out and destroyed, or allowed if it seemed like they would be beneficial. They...
View Article12/11 is International Mountain Day
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Famously went to the mountain. Sir Edmund Hilary famously summited the mountain. Tenzing Norgay famously led Hilary and others up the mountain. These were not all the same...
View Article12/18 is International Migrants Day
It is International Migrants Day. A surprisingly non-verbose UN holiday. On 18 December 1990, the General Assembly adopted a resolution on the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights...
View Article12/25 is Miraculous. or so it seems
For reasons unknown to ordinary humans, there were many miraculous births of gods and demigods on this date in history. I do see that the above could be redundant, because any birth of any god would be...
View Article01/01 is Giordano Bruno's Birthday
Giordano Bruno was born in January or February 1548. (I can't recall where I originally got the January first date, but it's as good as any alternative, so I'll stick with it.) At some point early on...
View Article01/08 is World Typing Day
World Typing Day was conceived of in Malaysia, first celebrated there in 2011, and, as far as I know only celebrated there. By some quirk of fate the date chosen, January 1, was also the day that...
View Article01/15 is Hat Day
YouTube VideoThe last time I did a January 15th column, I led with this:As many (most?) of us know (or should know) by now, the US' and states' Gedankenpolizei have long targeted "deviant" thought and...
View ArticleJanuary 22 is Roe v Wade Day
On January 22, 1973, the US Supreme Court Issued its decision in the case of Roe v Wade. In that case, the court took some limited cognizance of the idea that women should have a right to own and...
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