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Along with October, May is one of the most densely packed months of the year. It's before the summer humidity and the last whole month of the school year. The weather is warming in t...
The solstice on the 20th marks the onset of summer (Northern Hemisphere) or winter (Southern Hemisphere). Many people, particularly in Europe, North America and Asia, will be embarking o...
Spring has sprung in the north, and the first hints of Autumn are on the horizon in the south. April is the month spring (or fall) gets underway, and it is filled with religious celebrations, including the Mu...
Greeting cards first appeared in China and Egypt over 2,000 years ago as a way to send greetings during celebrations like the Chinese New Year. By the 15th Century, Europeans began exchanging cards with each other, often on paper, but wood and other materials were used as well. The oldest known greeting card still in existence was a Valentine Card sent during the 1400s.
Fast forward to 1843, three years after the first postage stamp was introduced. Sir Henry Cole saw an opportunity in Victorian England and created the first commercially available Christmas Cards. The same year Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol.
Christmas Cards and greeting cards didn’t sell on a mass scale until the early 20th Century. They were still very expensive for the average person until in 1910 when Joyce C Hall started his first card business with a shoe box full of cards. By 1912 his bothers joined him. The business grew. By the 1920s most people could afford cards and in 1928 the company began marketing cards under the Hallmark Name. And the rest is history.
National Card Reading Day is an unofficial holiday with no sponsor.
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