Change Up the Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day

For all you couples out there, why not try something new on Valentine’s Day? Sometimes I find it has become a tradition to just take your loved one out to dinner and a movie, give the lucky lady a nice piece of jewelry and end the night saying “I love you” and a kiss. Well, [...]

Obama Thanks MLK On His Day

U.S. President Barack Obama has marked the holiday for slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with an unannounced visit to a relief organization providing support to earthquake victims in Haiti.
The president and his wife, Michelle Obama, stopped Monday at an American Red Cross center in Washington, where the president thanked workers for their [...]

2010 Brings a Blue Moon

Not only will a New Year and a New Decade come, but with 2010 will come a Blue Moon. This happens once a generation, it is a rare astronomical happening. It is the first Blue Moon since 1990, another Blue Moon won’t come around for another 19 years. This moon is expected to be [...]

Boxing Day

Today is Boxing Day!
Well, your probably asking what is boxing day?
Well, it is a bank and public holiday in many countries (United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Greenland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Jamaica, and other countries with a mainly Christian population). Boxing Day is a secular holiday and is always on 26 [...]

Country Stars Celebrate The Holidays

Country stars celebrate the holidays in a variety of ways.
For Taylor Swift, it’s pretty much mandatory for her to love all things Christmas. “People don’t usually believe me when I tell them that I grew up on a Christmas tree farm, because it just doesn’t sound like some place you grow up,” she says. “But [...]

My Favorite Food On Hanukkah

Sadly, the final day of Hanukkah was last night. However, the food sticks with you! There is a custom of eating foods fried or baked in oil (preferably olive oil), as the original miracle of the Hanukkah menorah involved the discovery of a small flask of pure olive oil used by the Jewish High Priest, [...]

The Profits Of Black Friday

Although malls around the country reported a rush of shoppers and filled parking lots throughout Black Friday, total sales for the day only saw a slight – and not a robust – improvement over last year.
Retailers registered about $10.66 billion in sales Friday, up 0.5% from a year ago, according to a report Saturday [...]

The Thanksgiving Act of 2009

With all of the brouhaha surrounding the health care debate, another bill was passed by Congress and signed by President Obama with little notice.
Called the Thanksgiving Act of 2009, it makes major changes in the way Americans of all colors and creeds celebrate Thanksgiving in accordance with hope and change. So as Americans get ready [...]

The History Behind Veterans Day

The first Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1919, marked the one-year anniversary of the end of World War I, what many proclaimed, with an optimism that turned out to be wildly misplaced, “the war to end all wars.”
It became a U.S. national holiday in 1938 and in 1954 was renamed Veterans Day to honor all [...]

Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary

It is Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary!
*This event is celebrated on many places on the internet, including Google*

On November 10th, Sesame Street will start its 40th anniversary season. It’s interesting to see that 40 years ago this show started as an experiment in education programming and is still considered one of the most viewed children shows. [...]

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