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The National Football Conference (NFC) is one of two divisions in the National Football League (NFL). The NFC Championship game is the last game of the season. The winner of this game goes on to the Sup...
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The NFL Pro Bowl is basically two dream teams of the best players from the two NFL conferences, the NFC and AFC, playing against each other to determine a winner. The first Pro Bowl was held January 15,...
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The NHL Winter Classic is an annual ice hockey competition held by the National Hockey League (NHL). The first Winter Classic was held in 2008 at the venue then known as Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard...
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Today is National Nothing Day. Proposed in 1972 by San Francisco Examiner columnist Harold Pullman Coffin, it is the day to provide Americans with one National day when they can just sit without celebra...
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Oatmeal was originally considered food for horses, and the plant itself, a weed. It was the Scottish whom first cooked it and ate it as porridge. The slightly sweet taste of oatmeal quickly catapult it i...
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The Mineralogical Society of America hosts Old Rock (Petrologist) Day on January 7 each year. And yes, you guessed it - it's not exactly celebrating music, although some mineralogists like celebrating it...
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Opposites Day is celebrated on January 25 in the United States. It’s a day about not saying what you mean or meaning what you say. In other words, if it is hot outside, you would say the opposite: it is...
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First played in January 1935, the Orange Bowl continues as a football tradition. It's the annual college football bowl game played at New Miami Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. It's a part of the Coll...
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Organize Your Home Day is about putting things away after the holidays and getting your home ready for spring. On this day people are encouraged to finally put their home in order - put those clothes w...
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HPV Awareness Week in 2019 and have set aside one day to focus on Oropharyngeal Cancer, or cancer of the oropharynx. Typical causes include smoking or contracting the human papilloma virus. Its most notab...
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One of several college football bowls, the Outback Bowl pits the winners of the SEC and Big Ten conferences against each other.
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Nestled in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Antione’s Restaurant continues on as a family enterprise. When Antione Alciatore opened his doors in 1840, he had no idea five generations later, it would sti...
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PAX is a series of gaming conventions held in Seattle, Boston, Melbourne, Philadelphia, and San Antonio. Founded by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, authors of the popular web comic Penny Arcade, each PAX...
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Vanilla ice cream, peaches, raspberry sauce, this Victorian dessert was created by French chef Auguste Escoffier during the 1890s. The dessert was the chef's tribute to the internationally famous opera si...
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Peanut Brittle Day celebrates the buttery hard candy of peanuts, caramelized sugar and butter served in sheets known as peanut brittle. It is believed to have been created in the Southern United States a...
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National Peanut Butter Day in January is a social event. Peanut butter lovers to get together and congratulate one another for their shared love of this American staple, first created in 1890 and patented...
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On Peculiar People Day we are encouraged to appreciate and honor differences, and seek out the peculiar souls whom surround us, even those we ignore, mock, or dismiss. It is a day to celebrate what makes...
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National Pediatrician Day honors the men and women, the medical doctors, who specialize in taking care of children. Annually on January 28.
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Peking Duck (Roast Duck), a dish originating in Beijing (formerly called Peking) China, could be considered a diplomatic dish. It was served to then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on July 10, 1971. He...
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National Penguin Day in the United States raises awareness of their plight, especially several species of penguins that are threatened by climate change. There are 17 different species of penguins, all na...