July 10th 2022 - Holidays and Observances

 

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• Armed Forces Day (Mauritania)
• Christian feast day:
  • Amalberga of Maubeuge
  • Canute IV of Denmark
  • Rufina and Secunda
  • Seven Brothers
  • Victoria, Anatolia, and Audax
  • July 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Independence Day (Bahamas), celebrates the independence of the Bahamas from the United Kingdom in 1973.
• Nikola Tesla Day
• Statehood Day (Wyoming)

 

Observances

Eid al-Adha

Barn Day

Feast of St. Rosalia

National Pizza Day in Brazil

Political Flag Day

Karma Fizz

 

Fun Observances ( 2 )

 Teddy Bears' Picnic Day

If you have kids in your life, take them out with their teddy bears for a picnic on July 10, Teddy Bears’ Picnic Day.

Celebrated mainly in the United States, Canada, Australia, and in some parts of Europe, the origins of this unofficial holiday are unknown. It is also unclear what the holiday aims to achieve. It could be that the anonymous creators of the holiday wanted parents to encourage creativity among their children by taking them out for a whimsical picnic in the outdoors with their teddy bears and other stuffed toys.

The holiday owes its name to a song of the same name by American composer John Walter Bratton and Irish lyricist Jimmy Kennedy.

How to Celebrate?

• Take out the kids in your life and their stuffed bears for a picnic.
• If you have to have the picnic at home, what about setting a pillow tent in the middle of your living room and treat your kids’ teddy bears to a picnic?

Did You Know…

…that this popular stuffed toy was named after American President Theodore Roosevelt, Jr?

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Clerihew Day

On July 10 celebrate the Clerihew, a form of poetry that was invented by English author Edmund Clerihew Bentley.

Commemorating Bentley’s birthday the unofficial holiday encourages people to read and write their own specific form of clerihews.

A clerihew is a 4-line biographical poem usually featuring and making fun of a well-known person. The first line always includes the name of the subject. The poem does not have a fixed meter or line length and has an AABB rhyme scheme.

Anatomy of a Poem

In poetry, a meter (or metre if you follow British spellings) refers to a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line that is set in length (a verse). A rhyme scheme refers to the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line in a poem. To identify a rhyme scheme, each line in a poem is designated with a letter. Lines that share a letter rhyme have words at the end that rhyme with each other.

It is believed that Bentley first came up with the clerihew at the age of 16 during a science class. The poem was about Sir Humphry Davy, a chemist. It was published in 1905.

How to Celebrate?

• Read some of Bentley’s clerihews.
• Spend some time coming up with your own clerihews. What about featuring some of your friends, family members, and co-workers in some of your poems?
• Learn more about the history, art, and science of poetry.

Did You Know...

...that the study of meter and rhyme in poetry and prose is called prosody?

 

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From the news:

“Bob” was considered a star at the computer company where he worked. He made a six-figure salary and routinely received excellent performance reviews.

And now we know why:

Without his boss’s knowledge, “Bob” had outsourced his entire job to a company in China—for a fifth of his salary. He then spent his days at his desk playing games, shopping on eBay, and watching cat videos.

 

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A man walks into a restaurant and says, "How do you prepare your chickens?"

The cook replies, "Nothing special. We just tell 'em they're gonna die."

 

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So a dog walks into a bar and asks the bartender, "Do you have any jobs?"

and the bartender says, "Why don't you try the circus?"

The dog replies, "Why would the circus need a bartender?"

 

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Two women came to my photo studio to have their portrait taken. My very young and very naïve assistant asked, “Are you two sisters?”

“No,” said one of the women. “We’re partners.”

“Ohhhh …,” said my assistant. “So how long have you ladies been cops?”

 

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