|
|
||
|
|
March 27 Sarah Bernhardt “We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.” – Augusto Boal, World Theatre Day Address, 2009 “Hi-diddle-dee-dee, an actor’s life for me.” – Honest John, Pinocchio March 27 is World Theater Day, marking the birthday of famed director and actor Quentin Tarantino. Ok, no. While March 27 is Tarantino’s birthday, the International Theatre Institute chose the date back in 1961 to …Read more 
“I am ashamed to tell you to how many places of figures I carried these computations, having no other business at the time”. – Isaac Newton, original ‘computer’ nerd, getting high on ∏ Pi Pie at Delft University I have to admit I’m a Pi holiday snob. I don’t celebrate Pi Day on March 14; I prefer its more accurate European equivalent, Pi Approximation Day, celebrated on July 22 (22/7). It’s been said the only real Pi …Read more Women's Day poster, USSR, 1920 Over a hundred years ago today 15,000 women in New York City came together to march for better working conditions and universal women’s suffrage. The following year the Socialist Party of America declared February 28 to be National Women’s Day. In Copenhagen in 1910 an International Women’s Day was proposed and unanimously agreed upon by 100 women representing 17 countries. It would be observed simultaneously by women around the world on March 8, 1911. 
March 8
Over a hundred years ago, 15,000 women in New York City came together to march for better working conditions and universal women’s suffrage. The following year the Socialist Party of America declared February 28 to be National Women’s …Read more [published Feb. 29, 2008] I won’t be able to blog this holiday for another four years, so I better make this one count. Leap Day is the day that keeps our calendar in line with the sun and the seasons in whack (as opposed to out of whack). The addition of a regular Leap Day every for years as opposed to a lunar calendar or an “intercalary month” added at arbitrary intervals, is what made the Julian calendar …Read more There is often a difference of 11 to 13 days between the date an event occurred in history and the date it is celebrated on the calendar today. This is due to a discrepancy that occurred in the shift from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar. The Julian Calendar, named for Julius Caesar, called for an extra day (Leap Day) to be inserted once every four years, in order to keep consistent with the 365 & 1/4 day solar year. 
February 21 Language is the soul of a nation… Do you want to make a people disappear? Destroy its language. Jules-Paul Tardivel, L’anglicisme, voila l’ennemi, 1880 Today is International Mother Language Day. For some reason the excitement surrounding this occasion is not quite as intense as other more important holidays, such as Talk Like a Pirate Day. This may be because our national linguistic experience differs from most countries. As one joke goes: What do you …Read more 
February 21 I’d like to take this moment to assure you that all typos in this blog are my subversive attempts to alter the English language. That said, you can read all about the history of International Mother Language Day–a holiday that started in Bangladesh over 50 years ago–at last year’s post Name Three Words That End in ‘gry’. Rather than repeat myself, I decided to research my own native tongue, English, and found that, contradictory to popular …Read more |
|
|
Copyright © 2012 every day's a holiday! - All Rights Reserved 45 queries. 1.484 seconds. |
||
English