Today is the celebration for Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. A lot of people focus primarily on the traditional turkey/meat-like dinner (or, I just found out, the turkey/meat-like lunch), followed by a marathon shopping extended weekend. And let’s not forget that it also launches the winder holiday shopping season in a lot of countries. Of [...]
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Today is Veterans Day in the US, when the nation honors its veterans. While it originally was enacted to commemorate the end of World War I at the signing of the armistice, it has since been expanded to encompass all wars. In other parts of the world, today is celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day [...]
Happy Fourth of July! … Er, oh, yeah… so, not all of you Avid Readers are “American“, so this federal/secular holiday may be somewhat stupifying. Go figure. In addition to fireworks displays and parades, there’s the tradition of massive, hopefully delicious (and edible) barbecues held by families and friends across the nation. However, for some [...]
Yes, it may be difficult to believe, but even I am guilty of having a mother! When I woke this morning, the news article on the radio was, shockingly, about the origin of Mother’s Day in the U.S.: a solemn gathering day enacted by Anna Jarvis of West Virginia in remembrance of her own mother, [...]
