From the sublime to the ridiculous. Close on the heels of Thomas Paine day comes National Gorilla Suit Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_suit#National_Gorilla_Suit_Day), a pseudo-holiday invented by famed Mad Magazine cartoonist Don Martin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Martin_(cartoonist)). The […]
Darwin Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Day) celebrates the life and work of Charles Darwin, a secular holiday widely celebrated within the global community with participation from all sectors of society. Even mainline churches […]
International Women's Day (http://www.internationalwomensday.com/) (IWD), an international celebration, honors the social, economical, and political achievements made by women everywhere. This secular holiday dates back to the early 1900's, a time […]
Pi, Greek letter (Π), is of course the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi = 3.1415926535... (This is pi to just ten decimal […]
Freedom of Information (FOI) Day (http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/press/information/topic.aspx?topic=FOI_Day) is an annual event on March 16, the birthday of James Madison, widely regarded as the Father of the Constitution and a foremost advocate […]
Sunshine Week (http://www.sunshineweek.org/) includes Freedom of Information Day (March 16), the birthday of James Madison, and runs through that calendar week. Madison was the principal author of the US Constitution and […]
The March Equinox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox) is one of two days in the calendar year when day and night hours are nearly equal; in the northern hemisphere, it is also the first […]
Atheist Day or Atheist Coming-Out Day (http://www.atheistrepublic.com/atheist-day) is a relatively new global secular holiday declared in 2019 by the Freedom From Religon Foundation (https://ffrf.org/) in partnership with the Atheist Republic […]
You gotta be kidding me ...For decades, April Fools Day has been a celebration of nonsense. Practical jokes and other foolish activities mark the morning hours of April 1st. But by one […]
Yuri's Night, also called Cosmonauts Day, is a day in honor of Yuri Gagarin, who became the first human in space on April 12, 1961. Twenty years later on the […]