(Holiday) Christmas Songs: 2011 Trending Report
Listening to Christmas or miscellaneous holiday music is something all of us do, even if it’s inadvertent. For some of …
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(On This Day) Calendar Switching, Jesus, and Hobbits
On this day in 1752, the British Empire switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. Eleven days vanished in …
(On This Day) The Ides of March and the Holy Lance
Beware the Ides of March. So sayeth the soothsayer. We briefly foreshadowed this event last month in my piece on …
(Holiday) AC/DC and Forty Martyrs’ Day
Warning: stick-cam and fret-cam alert. From the Offbeat Holidays Department: this is an interesting little tidbit about the “Forty Martyrs,” …
(Almanac) St. Matthias’ Day Predicts Your Weather
February 24th is St. Matthias’ Day, the “thirteenth apostle.” Matthias was brought on as a pinch-hitter to replace Judas after …
