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The Saturday immediately preceding Thanksgiving day is designated as "Adoption Day." (ORC 5.2259 Adoption day. Effective Date: 2008 S... read more

By resolution 54/134 of 17 December 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Eliminatio... read more

The first documented thanksgiving services in territory currently belonging to the United States were conducted by Spaniards and the French in t... read more

Thanksgiving Day (Thanksgiving) is an important public holiday, celebrated by Americans on the fourth Thursday in November. One of the four most... read more

Buy Nothing Day (BND) is an international day of protest against consumerism. In North America, Buy Nothing Day is held on the Friday after U.S.... read more

Thinking about shopping women appear almost as often as men in thinking about sex. 74% of women admitted that they think about shopping every mi... read more

Where did the name come from? In an effort to rid Judea of its Jewishness, the Romans renamed the area Filistia (Palestine) in the mid-130s CE. ... read more

In 1990, former President George H.W. Bush approved a Joint Resolution of Congress designating November as National American Indian Heritage Mon... read more

Some states observe the day as part of Presidents’ Day, which is officially known as Washington’s Birthday. Although Lincoln’s birthday, Februa... read more

Computer Security Day is an annual event that is observed worldwide. It was started in 1988 to help raise awareness of computer related security... read more

There are a total of 241 clinics in the state of Ohio. The Ohio Association of Free Clinics (OAFC) exists to educate and equip free clinics in p... read more

Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4th, 1913. Her husband Raymond Parks was a member of the NAACP(the National Association for... read more

More than 35 million people live with HIV worldwide. Despite progress, AIDS continues to kill about 8,000 Americans each year. Over 1.1 million ... read more

Slavery has evolved and manifested itself in different ways throughout history. Today some traditional forms of slavery still persist in their e... read more

The annual observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons was proclaimed in 1992 (A/RES/47/3, 37th plenary meeting, 14 October 1992), b... read more

96% of volunteers say that it “makes people happier”. The experience of helping others provides meaning, a sense of self-worth, a social role an... read more

Soil is a living system, has 6 layers called horizons O, A, E, B, C and R. It acts as a filter for underground water, filtering out pollutants. ... read more

In fact, there is an entire food industry based on this one appliance. Today, over 90% of American households own a microwave oven. In 1942, a ... read more

These are some fun facts about Boeing Commercial jetliners: the 737 is the best-selling commercial jetliner of all time; the Boeing 747 (all ver... read more

On Sunday morning at 7:55 A.M., December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service (forces were led by Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo) attack... read more

The Northern Mariana Islands are composed of volcanic rock, the southern islands of madrepore limestone covering a volcanic base.There are activ... read more

And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was... read more