10/28 Open Thread - National Animation Day
It is National Animation Day Da Wiki says:Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by...
View Article11/04 Open Thread - King Tut Day
King Tut was not an autocrat, though his dad certainly was. Of course, he inherited the throne as a little kid, so the early part of his reign pretty much involved doing what his advisors said. It...
View Article11/11 Open Thread: It's 11-11, do you know where your troops are?
Yes, YOU!Your troops, mine too, they are, you see, our troops. And, the short answer is No, you don't know where they are. Sure, some are in Afghanistan, and Syria, and Saudi Arabia, and D.C., and San...
View Article11/18 Open Thread - The Anniversary of Goodridge v. Department of Public Health
On this day in 2003 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health. This resulted an a great...
View Article11/25 Open Thread - the International Day for the Elimination of Violence...
W00T! We have an entire day dedicated to the idea of eliminating violence against women. It turns out that that the UN declared November 18 to be something of a day dedicated to the idea of preventing...
View Article12/02 Open Thread - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
According to Checkiday.comMore than 40 million people around the world are trapped in modern slavery, which is usually regarded as forced labor, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking....
View Article12/09 Open Thread - It's Anna's Day
Anna's Day is the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve. You have been notified, so get on it.-For what its worth, according to Wikipedia, on this day in...
View Article12/16 Open Thread: the first day of Las Posadas
-If you don't know and would like to -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Posadas-OK, it is also the date of the Boston Tea Party back in 1773, hence the above graphic On this day in 1968 , the Second...
View Article12/23 Open Thread - Human Light
HumanLight is a Humanist holiday created to provide a specifically Humanist celebration during the so-called western world's holiday season. The intended focus of the holiday is on the "positive,...
View Article12/30 Open Thread - Bo Diddley's Birthday
I had considered just diving into a few of Bo's better or more famous tunes, but decided to throw in a little bit of other date determined info and artists. Very few.-**********On this day in history:-...
View Article01/06 Open Thread - National Bean Day
Humans have been cultivating beans since sometime in the 7th millenium bce (6,000 bce to 7,000 bce) and no doubt eating wild ones since before that. There are currently somewhere around 40,000...
View Article01/13 Open Thread - Gluten Free Day
Heck, if you could live on fries and wine I could even see going vegan. FWIW, it is estimated that about 2 million people in the US and 1% of the global population have celiac disease.-On this day in...
View Article01/20 Open Thread - Martin Luther King Jr. Day
YouTube Video-**********On this day in history:- 1404 - Europe's first public bank, the Taula de canvi, opened in Barcelona 1567 – Portuguese forces drove the French out of Rio de Janeiro for good.1649...
View Article01/27 Open Thread - The Official End of the Viet Nam War
Her name is Kim Phuc Phan. She survived, and after over a year in the hospital lived in continual pain and with limited mobility. The photo won a Pulitzer. It, and other photos and reporting helped to...
View Article02/03 Open Thread - The Day the Music Died
On February 3, 1959, a Beechcraft "Bonanza" airplane, tail number N3794N, carrying the pilot (Roger Peterson), Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), crashed, killing...
View Article02/10 Open Thread - Plimsoll Day
The Plimsoll Line is a line painted on a ship's hull. It indicated the waterline corresponding to the maximum depth to which the ship should sink under maximum load, or the maximum safe draft of the...
View Article02/10 Open Thread - Plimsoll Day
The Plimsoll Line is a line painted on a ship's hull. It indicated the waterline corresponding to the maximum depth to which the ship should sink under maximum load, or the maximum safe draft of the...
View Article2/17 Open Thread - Giordano Bruno Day (Unofficial)
On this day in 1600 Giordana Bruno was burned at the stake for the unforgivable sin of thinking for himself. On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher...
View Article02/24 - The Gregorian Calendar
Today may or may not be Shrove Monday which has no fixed date because Easter has no fixed date, presumably because it didn't happen on a specific date, or happened on a roving magic date, or something...
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