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2021 A to Z: Letter G…Weird Holidays

2021 A to Z: Letter G is for Embrace Your Geekness Day (July 13) Etymology The term ‘geek’ was used

2021 A to Z: Letter F is for Frozen Dead Guy Days (Nederland, CO) The legend of the Frozen Dead

2021 A to Z: Letter E is for Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day (first Saturday of February) Created in

2021 A to Z: Letter D is for Appreciate a Dragon Day (January 16) Appreciate A Dragon Day has been

2021 A to Z: Letter C is for Chimborazo Day (June 3) Mount Chimborazo is an inactive stratovolcano completely covered

2021 A to Z: Letter B is for Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day (Last Monday in January) In 1957, Engineers Marc

2021 A to Z: Letter A is for Feast of the Ass Day (January 14) The Feast of the Ass

Welcome to Word Wednesday. I know I usually give you a “word of the day”, but today, I give you

In prep for the A to Z blog challenge of April, #atoz [check out my theme reveal “Weird Holidays”], I

This is a map of the Mississippi River, created in 1944 by a cartographer named Harold Fisk. It’s called a

“We take in sensory information and combine it with what we expect, and we extract meaning . . . When

Errata lists in the early days of printed books, then, were themselves a sort of early comment section—the place where

Dear Tom Hanks, Thank you for making typewriters cool again. I think, typewriters force you to think. They offer a

From the 1920s- 1970s. Which Typewriter is Right for you? This image is courtesy of mycupofretro

Since I’m trying to be more consistent with the blog for 2021… I decided to jump into the A to