Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day is a day to celebrate with some puddle jumping. Remember those days when you were young and you and your friends loved playing in the rain splashing in the puddles. Children will love this holiday and so will all the adults that are young-at-heart. So...
A kite is a tethered aircraft. The necessary lift that makes the kite wing fly is generated when air flows over and under the kite's wing, producing low pressure above the wing and high pressure below it. This deflection also generates horizontal drag along the direction of the wind. The resultant...
Today we celebrate one of the greatest ways to enjoy the summer season—an outdoor picnic with friends, family, games and activities, and delicious food. During the Victorian era, picnics were very important social occasions. They offered the rare opportunity for young men and women to...
Garfield the Cat Day celebrating the first publication of the Garfield comic strip on June 19, 1978. The newspaper might become less and less of a staple on our lawns or breakfast tables but even the youngest among us can recognize one of its most iconic and colorful stars (and we don’t...
Yellow Pigs Day or Yellow Pig Day (July 17) is a holiday celebrated by some mathematicians, in recognition of the Yellow Pig and the number 17. The Yellow Pig is believed to have originated with mathematicians Michael Spivak and David C. Kelly, while they were students at Princeton...
So frustrated you could scream? Screaming can make you feel better when you are frustrated. International Moment of Frustration Scream Day, celebrated on October 12th is a day for just that! At 1200 Greenwich time people around the world will join together for 30 seconds to feel the angst and...