FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS History There have been several precursors to suspenders throughout the past 300 years, but modern suspenders were first popularised as “braces” in 1822 by a London haberdasher Albert Thurston. They were once almost universally worn, due to the high cut of mid-nineteenth and early twentieth […]
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Daily Almanac for Saturday, December 18, 2021; Day 352 of the Year
COURTESY WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18. It […]
Daily Almanac for Monday, December 13, 2021; Day 347 of the Year
COURTESY WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Susan B. Anthony dollar is a United States dollar coin minted from 1979 to 1981 when production was suspended due to poor public acceptance, and then again in 1999. Intended as a replacement for the larger Eisenhower dollar, the new smaller one-dollar coin went through testing of […]
Daily Almanac for Sunday, December 12, 2021; Day 346 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Joseph Hayne Rainey (June 21, 1832 – August 1, 1887) was an American politician. He was the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives and the second black person (after Hiram Revels) to serve in the United States Congress. His service included time as […]
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Daily Almanac for Saturday, December 11, 2021; Day 345 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed “Joltin’ Joe“, “The Yankee Clipper” and “Joe D.” was an American baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Born to Sicilian Italian immigrants in California, he is widely considered one […]
Daily Almanac for Friday, December 10, 2021; Day 344 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Ralph Johnson Bunche (/bʌntʃ/; August 7, 1903 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th-century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. Among black Nobel laureates he is the first African […]
Daily Almanac for Thursday, December 9, 2021; Day 343 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS John Jacob “Jay” Berwanger (March 19, 1914 – June 26, 2002) was an American college football player and referee. He was the first winner of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy in 1935 (the following year the award was renamed the Heisman Trophy); the trophy is awarded annually to the nation’s most […]
Daily Almanac for Wednesday, December 8, 2021; Day 342 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a socialist state that spanned Eurasia during its existence from 1922 to 1991. It was nominally a federal union of multiple national republics; in practice its government and economy were highly centralized until its final years. The country was a one-party state (prior to 1990) governed by the Communist Party of […]
Daily Almanac for Monday, December 6, 2021; Day 340 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Everglades National Park is an American national park that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River. An average of one million people […]
Daily Almanac for Sunday, November 5, 2021; Day 339 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested […]
Daily Almanac for Saturday, December 4, 2021; Day 338 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Marcel Marceau (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl maʁso]; born Marcel Mangel; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French actor and mime artist most famous for his stage persona, “Bip the Clown”. He referred to mime as the “art of silence” and he performed professionally worldwide for […]
Daily Almanac for Friday, December 3, 2021; Day 337 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Illinois (/ˌɪləˈnɔɪ/ (listen) IL-ə-NOY) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it has the fifth largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth largest population, and the 25th largest land area. Chicago is the state’s largest city and the fifth largest city in North America, with the capital in Springfield, […]
Daily Almanac for Tuesday, November 30, 2021; Day 334 of the Year
Question of the Day Please tell me about ashes from a wood-burning fireplace. How much can I use in the garden? Are they good for blueberry bushes and asparagus?Wood ashes are good for the garden because they contain potash and lime. Apply them to the […]
Daily Almanac for Sunday, November 28, 2021; Day 332 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly American country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio “barn dance” on WSM. Currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment (a division of Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc.), it is the longest-running radio […]
Daily Almanac for Saturday, November 27, 2021; Day 331 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Wilton Norman Chamberlain (/ˈtʃeɪmbərlɪn/; August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999) was an American professional basketball player who played as a center, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport’s history. He played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los […]
Daily Almanac for Friday, November 26, 2021; Day 330 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Kappa Alpha Society (ΚΑ), founded in 1825, was the progenitor of the modern fraternity system in North America. It is considered to be the oldest national, secret, Greek-letter social fraternity and was the first of the fraternities which would eventually become known as the Union Triad. While […]
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Daily Almanac for Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 25, 2021; Day 329 of the Year
Thanksgiving Day In a 1789 proclamation, President George Washington called on the people of the United States to acknowledge God for affording them “an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness” by observing a day of thanksgiving. Devoting a […]