Mon, November 30, is Call In "Well" Day
The PA Wellness Permission League points out that taking a day off once
in a while is okay. Here's a "Be well" site: http://guidetohealth.com/
& Winston Churchill Day
Born in 1874, Winston Churchill
lived a full life. Here's a web site with lots of interesting info: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/action.htm
Upcoming Holidays: (come
back tomorrow for their web sites)
Tues. Dec 1 is World AIDS Day & Yukon Order of Pioneers
Wed. Dec 2 is World AIDS Day & Day
for the Yukon Order of Pioneers
Thurs., Dec 3 is Walter Plinge Day &
Sylvia Sims Day
Fri. Dec 4, is Plant a Cherry Twig Day
& National Grange Day
Sat. Dec 5 is Enjoy Mozart's Music, King
of Thailand, &Walt Disney Day
Sun. Dec 6, is Give a Gift Day,
Day of Quito, & Dave Brubeck Day
Sun., November 29, is Doo Dah Parade Day
Held today in Pasadena, CA,
"a cross between The Little Rascals and a Fellini movie" http://www.rhino.com/hotnews/doodahcaption.html
& C. S. Lewis Day
Born 1898 in Belfast, the writings
of Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis, who taught and wrote at Oxford, are relevant
today. Read about "The Inklings" here: http://thulcandra.other-worlds.com/lewis.html
Sat., November 28th is John Bunyan Day
Born in England in 1628, John
Bunyan, authored the classic, "Pilgrim's Progress" gopher://wiretap.spies.com/00/Library/Classic/pilgrim.txt
& A Colonial Thanksgiving
On this day in CT, the Hempstead
family demonstrates how their family
celebrated Thanksgiving. http://www.bway.net/~oldnews/hempsted.htm
Friday, November 27th is SINKIE Day
Here's a "Top 10" site about
the day after Thanksgiving people who nibble leftovers at the kitchen
sink: http://www.sinkie.com/
& James Agee Day
The author of some great prose/poetry,
including "A Death in the Family" was born in 1909. http://members.tripod.com/~SLopez/index.html
Thurs., Nov 26th, 1st U.S. Holiday by Presidential Proclamation
In 1789, after Congress requested
a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, President George Washington
proclaimed the first "Thanksgiving Day."
Here's a neat sermonette: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ccm/11-26-95.htm
& someThanksgiving Fun: http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/Fun.html-ssi
Wed., November 25th Shopping
Reminder Day
As of today, there's exactly
one month before Christmas that's 23 more shopping days. Here
are a couple of sites to visit for gift ideas:
http://www.bignetwork.com/hg/
& http://www.technotouch.com/order.html
& Carry Nation Day
Carry Amelia Moore, one of the
major organizers of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, was born
in 1846. Read about her use of the hatchet here: http://history.cc.ukans.edu/kansas/medicine/carry.html
Tuesday, November 24th is Play a Joplin Rag Day
Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime,
was born in 1868.
View this musical innovator: http://www.scottjoplin.org/bio.html
November 23, is TARDIS Day
TARDIS is an acronym for "Time and Relative Dimensions in Space"
Here's a Dr. Who (British sci-fi
TV program) page: http://lserv.simplenet.com/drwho.html
& Pretend To Be Scary Day
Boris Karloff, born on this date in 1887 in
London, England, became famous for his portrayal of Frankenstein's Monster.
http://192.41.3.165/Desktop_Enhancements/Desktop_Themes/Movies_TV_and_Comics/Review_9972_index.html
November 22nd , is Games and Puzzles Week
If you enjoy board games and
puzzles, go to this nifty site:
http://www.puzzledepot.com/index.shtml
& Billie Jean King Day
Born in 1943, this triple-crown
winner and humanitarian was the first female athlete to win over $100,000
prize money in a single season.
Here's a tennis trivia page: http://www.dannon.com/tennis3.html
& Lebanon's National Day!
As they celebrate Independence
Day, we're reminded that the sun shines an amazing 300 days of the year
in Lebanon. View pictures here:
http://www.focusmm.com/lebanon/lb_toumn.htm
and
Saturday, November 21st, is World Hello
Day
Begun 26 years ago, the idea
of this day is to greet ten people with hello to advance peace through
personal communication. Click here for the unique Hello Internet Café
in Bangkok, Thailand and then view Thailand's annual elephant roundup:
http://www.hellocafe.com/
Thursday, November 19th, is the Great American
Smokeout
The American Cancer Society
sponsors this "lighthearted event that encourages smokers to quit for
24 hours or forever."
http://www.cancer.org/smokeout/pledge.html
& Brazil Day
Brazil borders every country
in South America except Chile and Ecuador. View
this beautiful diverse country http://psg.com/~walter/brasil.html
& Belize's Garifuna Day
This public holiday celebrates
the shipwrecked slaves from St. Vincent and Rotan who were deported
to an island off Hondorus - the unique cultural group of Black Caribs.
http://www.garifuna-world.com/gariminf.htm
Tuesday, November 17th, is Make a Mobius
Strip Day
Named after August Möbius,
a 19th-century German astronomer and mathematician whose work centered
on geometry. Learn how to make a band with no ends here: http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Mobius.html
& Homemade Soup and Bread Day
As winter approaches, here are
a number of recipes fit for the season. http://www.bignetwork.com/dp/rd/
Archives, then recipes of Sept 1-14
Monday, November 16th, Singing the (Upbeat)
Blues Day
W. C. Handy, the "Father of
the Blues" was born in Alabama in 1873. He witnessed the birth of the
blues and popularized jazz. Check this out: http://www.memphisguide.com/music2/blues/bluesartists/handy2.html.
& Films and Books for Kids Day
This week is devoted to celebrating
reading to and with children. Here are some resources: http://www.cbcbooks.org/navigation/parindex.htm/
Saturday, November 14th, Claude Monet Day
Born in 1840 in Paris, this
impressionistic painter of poplars and waterlilies was a master at translating
light onto canvas. Here's a site to enjoy: http://giverny.org/monet/oeuvre/nymphea1.htm
& Aaron Copland Day
An American composer born in
1900 in NYC, and a friend/mentor of Leonard Bernstine, Copland actively
composed until he was seventy, then lectured and conducted. Here's a
book about him made for children: http://barnesandnoble.bfast.com/booklink/click?sourceid=28922&ISBN=0516045385
Sunday, November 15th, Be Seen in Jeans
Day
At the Canadian Finals Rodeo,
in Alberta, Canada, this is the week to wear jeans. Here is a retailer
site: http://www.jeanswesterner.com/
& Georgia O'Keeffe Day
This great artist of the southwestern
prairie was born in 1887, and lived to the age of 98. Photos of some
of her vivid paintings, displayed online:
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~smith82/okeef.html
Friday, November 13th, Bucking Bulls Day
In Nashville, TN, today begins the
Longhorn World Championship Rodeo finals. Here's a fan's page:
http://www.cowgirls.com/dream/jan/rodeo.htm
& Robert Louis Stevenson Day
This great poet and storyteller
was born in 1850, at Edinburgh, Scotland. http://www.rit.edu/~exb1874/mine/stevenson/stevenson_ind.html
Thursday, November 12th, Remembering Princess
Grace Day
Born in 1929, Princess Grace, a
rich Philadelphia girl who chose acting, married Prince Rainier in 1956,
and died in an auto accident in 1982.
A fan's page: http://members.tripod.com/~onepersons/gpkpage.html
& Sun Yat-Sen Day
Born in 1866, Sun Yat-Sen grew
up to lead China's 1911 revolution, and become "the founding father
of modern China." View the Ming Dynasty Garden here. http://www.discovervancouver.com/sun/walk.htm
Wednesday, November 11th, Hour of the 11th
Day of the 11th Month
November 11, 1918, was Armistice
Day, when the signing of the Armistice signalled the end of WWI. In
Canada, this day is called Remembrance Day. To honor all veterans who
had served their country, Armistice Day became known as Veterans Day.
http://vfw.com/amesm/origins.shtml
And here's a site that's part of the Vietnam Veterans' home page:
http://grunt.space.swri.edu/thepast.htm
Tuesday, November 10th, U.S. Marine Corps
Day
The U.S. Marine Corps was established
in 1775. View their history at
http://pw1.netcom.com/~pain422/usmc/history.htm
& "Ahem! _________, I Presume" Day
In 1871 in Africa, journalist/explorer
Henry Stanley found missing explorer/missionary David Livingstone. Read
about it at http://www.bignetwork.com/dp/ss
Click on"Archive"; then "July 27"
Monday, November 9: Wear a Lovely Fragrance
Day
National Fragrance Week begins today. http://www.fragrance.org/
& Cambodia Day
Today is National Day in Cambodia.
http://www.cambodia-web.net/
Sunday, November 8: Split Pea Soup Week
-
As colder weather sets in, you'll want this recipe
http://starburst.cbl.cees.edu/~tara/splitpea.html
& Aid and Abet Punsters Day
View some laughable groans. http://www.agt.net/public/meek/puns.htm
Saturday, November 7: Canadian Farmfair
Day
Province of Alberta's trade and gift show http://www.northlands.com/
& Billy Graham Day
An evangelist turns 80 http://www.billygraham.org/
Friday, November 6: Marching
to Music Day
Birthday of John Philip Sousa,
author of "Stars & Stripes Forever"
http://plato.digiweb.com/~dlovrien/sousa/index.htm
& Sherlock Holmes Day
View works of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle http://www.sherlock-holmes.com/
Thursday, November 5:
Roy Rogers Day
Roy would have been 86 today; this site has some neat memories:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/1606/
& Norsefest Day
Minnesota's lutefisk website
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/3227/
Wednesday, November 4: Celebrating
Films in the Banff Mountains
View the invitation:
http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/CMC/fest1.html
& Will Rogers Day
View this site for great quotations
from Will Rogers:
http://www.cp-tel.net/miller/BilLee/quotes/Rogers.html
Tuesday, November 3: Bring a Sandwich
Day
This site shows the area named
for the first lord of the admiralty
http://www.sandwichisledivers.com/
& Japan Culture Day
Here's a cyber visit to beautiful
Nippon: http://www.jwindow.net/
Monday, November 2nd:
Daniel Boone Day
Here's a site telling Daniel's story in his words:
http://earlyamerica.com/lives/boone/index.html
& Plan Your Own Epitaph Day
Here's a site that includes
examples of people's epitaphs.
http://www.hardiehouse.org/epitaph/
Sunday, November 1st:
Enjoy Peanut Butter Day
View some peanut butter poems:
http://www.bignetwork.com/dp/dh/
& Drum on Things Day
Here's a site with ideas on
how to make drums:
http://www.catalog.com/drummers/makedrms.html
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