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Tweet Strangely enough today just so happens to be International wear a plunger on your head day. I have tried to investigate origins of this rather peculiar holiday, but have not had a much luck finding out anything solid about it. One of the best guess I have found proposed, partly in parody is that [...]
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Tweet Happy 4th of July everyone! Today is a day which marks freedom not only in America, but all across the world. This is especially so in many countries which have been structured on American democracy. Honduras, for example had small personal fireworks in a number of areas on the 4th of July when I [...]
Tweet Click Here to Purchase Photo Happy Easter to everyone, and remember He is Risen. Later I will probably write a more extensive post about Easter and the traditions surrounding it. For now please enjoy this beautiful photograph of the sunrise on this Easter morning. Related Posts:Maundy Thursday Ponsettia Day Picture of the Day: Ryan [...]
Tweet Click Here to Purchase Photo I wanted to photogrpah the celebration this New Year’s Eve, unfortunately I was unable to, because I found myself working over. So the photograph above is actually from a 4th of July fireworks display (well 3rd of July actually, just after a PawSox game), but since it does not [...]
Tweet Click Here to Purchase Photo Today’s picture is of a Jack O’ Lantern, as today is October 31, All Hallows eve, more commonly known as Halloween. The Jack O’ Lantern pictured here is from the 2007 Jack O’ Lantern Spectacular, which was held at McCoy stadium (home of the Pawtucket Red Sox; PawSox for [...]
Tweet Apparently today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day; it was invented by a couple of guys playing racquetball on June, 6 1995 after one of them was injured and yell out “Arrr!”. The men that started the holiday were John Baur and Mark Summers who decided to use September 19th because it was [...]
Memorial day is a day for remembering and celebrating the contributions of our Armed Service members who died in service. The day was originally established originally to honor Union Soldiers who died during the American Civil War, and was originally called Decoration Day. After World War I (WWI) it became a day to honor all armed service member who have died in service. The day traditionally fell on May 30th and was moved to the last Monday of May after the Uniform holidays bill was passed in congress on June 28, 1968 which moved it and three other holidays to Mondays. Memorial is the unofficial start of summer and beginning of a time of vacations and other summer fun. There are races, such as the Indiana 500, many parades, and conferences such as the annual conference at North Stoning Bible Church (NSBC). Indeed Memorial Day is a great time of celebration, and it is ashamed that we can so often forget what we are memorializing.
Tweet Today is Poinsettia day which was name after the man who brought the poinsettia plant back from Mexico, and began what would become the modern poinsettia industry in this country. Above is a picture of Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779 – 1851); the man whom poinsettia day is named in honor of, and the first [...]
Tweet Yesterday workers at the Rhode Island state house were busy setting up for the upcoming Christmas holiday. They placed one large Christmas tree in the very center of the state house, which they were getting ready to put the lights on; and numerous other Christmas trees are on display, from around the world. Also [...]
Tweet Above is a poster provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans Day began as a commemoration of Armistice Day November, 11 1918. The armistice which occurred on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, ended what was then believed at the time to be the “the war to end [...]
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