Monday 1/17/22
Celebrate National Ben Franklin, Blue Monday, Ditch New Years Resolutions, Elementary School Teacher, Cable Car, Customer Service, Judgement, Hot-Buttered Rum, Kid Inventors', Bootlegger's, National Day of Service, and Hot Heads Chili Day.
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Today is also Martin Luther Luther King, Jr. Day honors the legacy and celebrates the birthday of the iconic civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. A campaign to create the day started shortly after King's death in 1968. Representative John Conyers (D-MI) and Senator Edward Brooke (R-MA) introduced a bill to make King's birthday a national holiday, and it first came up for a vote in 1979 but fell short. The two main arguments against its creation were that having another paid federal holiday would be too expensive and that honoring a private citizen would go against tradition. Up until that time the only two other figures were honored with a national holiday, George Washington and Christopher Columbus.
Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for equality and human rights for African Americans and all victims of injustice. He used nonviolent direct action and peaceful protest to achieve his goals and was influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ. He was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta Georgia. At the age of 15, he went to Morehouse College and studied medicine and law. He then attended Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania and earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree. He completed a doctorate program in systematic theology at Boston University and met and married Coretta Scott while in Boston.
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Did you know that the ingredients of french dressing were strictly regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the last 72 years? Neither did we, until we heard that the agency had finally lifted the rules after more than 20 years of prodding from the food industry.
The old standard required that any dressing considered "French" have specific ingredients. Lifting the rule will allow for "greater innovation," said the FDA, so let it rip dressing-makers.
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Today is the Full Wolf Moon at 6:51pm. It’s thought that January’s full Moon came to be known as the Wolf Moon because wolves were more likely to be heard howling at this time.
It was traditionally believed that wolves howled due to hunger during winter, but we know today that wolves howl for different reasons. Howling and other wolf vocalizations are generally used to define territory, locate pack members, reinforce social bonds, and coordinate hunting.
Other traditional names for the January Moon emphasize the harsh coldness of the season: Cold Moon (Cree), Frost Exploding Moon (Cree), Freeze Up Moon (Algonquin), and Severe Moon (Dakota). Hard Moon (Dakota) highlights the phenomenon of the fallen snow developing a hard crust. Center Moon used by the Assiniboine people of the Northern Great Plains, it refers to the idea that this Moon roughly marks the middle of the cold season.
Some others, Canada Goose Moon (Tlingit), Great Moon (Cree), Greetings Moon (Western Abenaki), and Spirit Moon (Ojibwe.)
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Almonds are members of the peach family.
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