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International Darwin Day Foundation
Darwin Day is a global celebration of science and reason held on or around Feb. 12, the birthday anniversary of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.
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Looks like the site's blurb has not been updated since last year. :lol:
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Is Darwin's Birthday the day they hand out Darwin Awards?
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I don't think so.

Happy Bicentennial Anniversary of the birthday of the man who proposed one of the greatest scientific theories.
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Happy birthday, Abe Lincoln.
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Lord Foul wrote:Happy birthday, Abe Lincoln.
Oh yeah, him too!

Do you know that in the old days, we used to get a day off school for both Lincoln's birthday *and* Washington's birthday? That was before almost all the holidays were moved to Monday observances so we could work them into a long weekend. Yup, that's right, we used to get two days off in February *and* sometimes they even -- gasp! -- fell in the middle of the week!

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aliantha wrote:
Lord Foul wrote:Happy birthday, Abe Lincoln.
Oh yeah, him too!

Do you know that in the old days, we used to get a day off school for both Lincoln's birthday *and* Washington's birthday? That was before almost all the holidays were moved to Monday observances so we could work them into a long weekend. Yup, that's right, we used to get two days off in February *and* sometimes they even -- gasp! -- fell in the middle of the week!

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No offense to Dr King, but he really screwed us there.

Once we started celebrating his day in January is when the higher-ups said "enough," and combined Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays into the generic "Presidents' Day."

Me, I'd like to celebrate all three :) :) :)
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Uh...
I think President's Day and Monday holidays happened long before the advent of MLK, Jr. Day.
But I could be wrong...
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Nah, the three-day holiday weekend thing started *way* before MLK Day was approved. We had three-day holiday weekends when I was in high school, but MLK Day wasn't a holiday 'til well after that. At least it wasn't in Virginia. For years and years, the third Monday in January was Lee-Jackson Day, honoring those great Rebel patriots who were sons of the Commonwealth. :roll: You shoulda heard people howling when the General Assembly proposed rolling the observance into one and making it Lee-Jackson-King Day. :lol:

And no, Menolly, you're not crazy. Lincoln's Birthday on the 12th and Washington's Birthday on the 22nd. 8)
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