Today, May 9, is the Feast of Tenzing Norgay, a Nepalese Indian mountaineer who was one of the first two individuals to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest. He, along with Edmund Hillary of New Zealand, was a… Continue Reading
Today, April 23, is the Feast of Gnostic Saint Sir Richard Payne Knight. Wikpedia describes Knight as “… a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.”… Continue Reading
Today, April 11, is Barbershop Quartet Day, International Louie Louie Day, National Bookmobile Day, National Pet Day, National Eight-Track Tape Day, Submarine Day, World Parkinson’s Disease Day, and National Cheese Fondue Day. Yesterday, April 10, was the Feast of Saint… Continue Reading
Today is April 3, which is American Circus Day, Armenian Appreciation Day, Pony Express Day, Find a Rainbow Day, Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) Day of Action, Tweed Day, Weed Out Hate: Sow the Seeds of Greatness Day, World Party… Continue Reading
Today, March 30, is Turkey Neck Soup Day. It’s Take A Walk In The Park Day and World Bipolar Day. In the United States it’s also National Doctors’ Day and National Virtual Vacation Day. On this day in 1981, John… Continue Reading
The Thread with OZY has a new podcast available, and no matter what you might think of Playboy and its founder Hugh Hefner, they are culturally relevant. Playboy helped usher in the sexual revolution, got people talking about sexuality in… Continue Reading
On this day in 1993, France declared ostrich meat fit for human consumption. According to The History Food Almanac: Over 1,300 Years of World Culinary History, Culture, and Social Influence, “The decrease in popularity of beef since the awareness of… Continue Reading
In the Roman calendar, the Ides of March would correspond to March 15. Several religious observances were made on the Ides, and it was also often the deadline for settling debts. Although March was the 3rd month of the Julian… Continue Reading
And at the end of the darkness, amid many names which I could not read, JACOBUS BURGUNDUS MOLENSIS. for his name was in letters of fire. Did not the Order of the Temple prepare the Renaissance by fusing the Mysteries… Continue Reading
The treat was created by accident in 1869 in the nearby market town of Kendal. Confectioner Joseph Wiper was in the process of making mints. During a bout of inattention, the sugary mixture started to solidify and turn cloudy. The… Continue Reading