All - Leep Calendar

January is National Mail Order Gardening Month. Why January? Because few things excite gardening enthusiasts during the height of the winter more than the reminder that spring is on its way.

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Get Organized Month (Go Month), Ntl.: January

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January is National Get Organized Month. The National Association of Professional Organizers created the month in 2005 to increase awareness of the value of being organized and even hire a professional organizer when your personal or work life starts to demand it. Celebrating the National Get Organized Month is essentially about getting your life in order and making it more time-efficient.

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Ginuary: January

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Ginuary is a celebration of all things gin worldwide, each day set aside for a new way to enjoy gin. The month celebration seems to have come out of nowhere with no specific origin. Aussie Mem Rynne has taken up the mantle and created the official Ginuary website with many resources, recipes, and drinks to sample. Enjoy!

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Glaucoma Awareness Month, Ntl.: January

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January is Glaucoma Awareness Month in the United States. According to the World Health Organization, glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world. Eye diseases gradually steal sight without warning by damaging the optic nerve. Although the most common forms primarily affect the middle-aged and the elderly, glaucoma can affect people of all ages. Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness among African-Americans, Hispanics, and the elderly. Siblings of persons diagnosed with glaucoma have a significantly increased risk. There is no cure for glaucoma yet. However, medication or surgery can slow or prevent further vision loss. In its most common form, there are virtually no symptoms. Vision loss begins with a peripheral or side vision, so if you have glaucoma, you may not notice anything until significant vision is lost. The best way to protect your sight from glaucoma is to get a comprehensive eye examination. Then, if you have glaucoma, treatment can begin immediately. Spend this month educating yourself and your family about glaucoma, and if it’s been a while since your last visit to the eye doctor, schedule a visit this month.

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Global Family Day: January 1

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Global Family Day is recognized by the US Congress, UN General Assembly, and a variety of governments and organizations the world over. Global Family Day originated with Linda Grover, who passed away in 2010. She believed that the world needed a secular holiday that everyone could celebrate, not just holidays for different religions or nationalities.

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Gobind Singh (S)(1666): January 7

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Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti, or Govind Singh, is a Sikh holiday commemorating the birth of Guru Gobind Singh's tenth Guru of the Sikhs. Even though he was born on December 22, 1666, his birthday is most often celebrated on January 7, depending on the calendar. Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti is a religious celebration during which the faithful pray for prosperity.

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Golden Globe Awards: January 8

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The Golden Globe Awards honor excellence in film and television. The Golden Globe Awards are decided by the 93 Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) members and cover domestic and foreign film, television, and digital media. The annual ceremony and dinner of the Golden Globe are an anticipated event of the film industry's awards season, together with the Academy Awards.

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Granola Bar Day, Ntl.: January 21

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Granula, as it was initially called, originated in an 1863 mental health institution, the Jackson Sanitarium, and was popularized by Dr. James Caleb Jackson of Dansville, New York, to improve digestion. The name was later changed to granola by the Kellogg company to avoid a legal dispute when Kellogg began creating a similar baked cereal. Granola is baked, and muesli, which is similar, is the raw form of granola. By the early 20th century, granola slipped from favor. But oats and muesli were already being used to create cereal bars called "flapjacks" in the United Kingdom and muesli bars in Oceania. These were considered desserts and very similar to today's mass-produced bars. The flower children of the 1960s would revive it, pimping it with dried fruits and nuts. The ancient food, now marketed as a health food and a popular alternative to fast food on the go, was set to explode onto the market. The addition of the granola bar (basically a cookie in bar form and marketed as healthy) soon entered the snack and breakfast market during the mid-1970s to early 1980s. Today they are one of the most popular adult "sweets" and are often used as meal replacements.

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Green Juice Day, Intl.: January 26

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Created in 2016 as a promotional tool, International Green Juice Day was created to feature Evolution Fresh's line of green juice vegetable smoothies and encourage people to renew their commitment to healthy New Year's resolutions.

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Handwriting Analysis Week, Intl. (1737): January 22 - 28

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You can tell a lot about a person from their handwriting. It lays bare insecurities, strengths, personalities, biases, and where they are. Graphology is the study of handwriting; graphologists or graphoanalyst are the people who study it. Writing is individual to the person, and it changes over time. Consider diary entries you made in your teens and checks you wrote in your early twenties. Go back and look at those and see how your writing has changed. Increasingly with texting and computers, handwriting, especially cursive, is becoming a lost art. Some schools don't even teach cursive writing, which is a shame. It disadvantages students, especially in higher education or a business atmosphere. One writes two to three times faster in cursive than in printing. International Handwriting Analysis Week is your opportunity to learn what your writing says about you, play with your signature and appreciate the written word. Annually the week of John Hancock's birthday, January 23, 1737.

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Handwriting Day, Ntl. (1737): January 23

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National Handwriting Day celebrates the art of handwriting, be your script cute, elegant, beautiful, or doctor-like illegible. WIMA sponsors National Handwriting Day every year on the anniversary of John Hancock’s birthday, January 23, 1737. Hancock was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence and is famous for his large, bold signature.

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Happy Mew Year (Cat): January 2

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One might say that counting time is a purely human and abstract invention, as we decide when a month or a year starts or ends. However, why shouldn't the animal world celebrate as well? Happy Mew Year is the day after the fireworks when felines can celebrate the beginning of a new year full of food, naps, cuddles, purrs, and a healthy dose of catnip.

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Harlem Globetrotter's Day (1927): January 7

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The Harlem Globetrotters originated in 1926 as the Savoy Big Five, an exhibition basketball team focused on athleticism and comedic theater. From 1926 until now, the Harlem Globetrotters have played over 26,000 exhibition games in 122 countries and territories. The Globetrotters won the World Professional Basketball Tournament in 1940 and enjoyed a revived success in the 1990s. The Globetrotters were eclipsed with the rise of the NBA (National Basketball Association) back in the 1950s. Since then, a lot of Globetrotters have become some of the NBA's legends, including Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain, Connie "The Hawk" Hawkins, and others. Today marks the anniversary of their first game on January 7, 1927.

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Haru-No-Yabuiri (JP): January 16

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Haru-No-Yabuiri is similar to the English tradition of Boxing Day, where the gentry gave servants a day off to visit their families during the Christmas holiday. In Japan, all the workers who had to work through the holidays are given a day off in January, and that day is Haru-No-Yabuiri.

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Hat Day, Ntl.: January 15

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National Hat Day is celebrated every year and is an opportunity to wear whatever you like on your head, the more outrageous, the better. National Hat Day is an unofficial event with no sponsor.

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