Origami Day
Every November 11th
When you fold a piece of paper, you’re essentially changing the memory of that piece.Eric Demaine in Between the Folds There’s a birthday coming, and it’s an important one for all you paper folding fanatics. It’s...
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Singles Day
Every November 11th
China is one of the world’s biggest economic powerhouses in innovation and technology, as much of the United States’s companies have been outsourcing to foreign countries to increase profits. While China has its own economic...
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Pocky Day
Every November 11th
You’ll find it at every place that fans of Japanese culture and anime gather. It graces the shelves of every con, and even appears in places as common as Wal-Mart in a variety of flavors...
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Sundae Day
Every November 11th
Take every good thing you can imagine. Rich creamy chocolate, candied pecans, colored sprinkles, fruit, what have you. Now put it all on, in, and around your favorite ice-cream. That’s a sundae, and it’s heaven.Anonymous We...
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World Vegan Month
Every November
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a rising movement in the world today, a movement that decries all...
Native American Heritage Month
Every November
In countries all over the world, new people have travelled from their points of origin the inhabit land that previously belonged to others. While we call the Americas the “New World”, the culture and history...
Manatee Awareness Month
Every November
As much as animals like elephants are currently under threat in Central Africa, whales, manatees and turtles, to name a few, are probably in far more dire peril -- and almost nobody knows.Peter Walsh The manatee...
Pomegranate Month
Every November
I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.Jeanette Winterson They dangle...
Peanut Butter Lovers’ Month
Every November
Peanut Butter, that strange thick rich concoction of a humble legume. It appears in candy’s, in sandwiches, and even in rich savory dishes in the form of a sauce. There’s crunchy peanut butter and creamy...
Novel Writing Month
Every November
We’re all full of stories, each of us with our own tales to tell, but we never quite seem to find the time to make it happen, do we? There’s always too much to do...
Adoption Month
Every November
“I don't have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than makeup for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I think...
Movember
Every November
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your formal self (and growing a magnificent beard.)”~ Ernest Hemingway There is something truly magnificent about a wonderful mustache (and...
