Redhead Appreciation Day
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They’re called gingers, carrot tops, big reds, rusties, and coppertops, among other things. Redheads … the 2% of people on the planet born with red hair. And my little sister, Lin, is one of them!
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Celebrating Juneteenth
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Juneteenth, short for June Nineteenth, commemorates June 19, 1865, the day federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved African Americans from bondage. Many African Americans were unaware that they had been freed. It took two years for them to get the news. In 2021, Juneteenth became America’s newest federal holiday.
Read MoreNew Year’s Eve 2024 – A Times Square Tradition
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Roughly a million people will crowd into Times Square for the drop of the iconic Times Square Ball tonight. The tradition was started in 1907 by the New York Times’ owner, Adolph Ochs, when the city banned fireworks. The ball has dropped every year at midnight (00:00) on January 1st since then with the exception of 1942-1943, the years of WWII when ‘lights out’ was enforced.
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