Do you know about these October weekly holidays? There are some fun ones to celebrate, no matter what week you choose! Active Aging Week- Starts October 1st October 4th-10th, you can celebrate World Space Week. Have you ever been to a space museum? They are so cool and have interactive games and activities to help …
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Are these American sayings typical in your vocabulary? Fun ones to use would be “go bananas” or “pie in the sky.” Thick As Thieves Thieves are known for sharing secrets and in older times, thick also meant “close.” Go Bananas To go bananas means to show big emotions like super happy or over-the-top excitement and …
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Have you ever used these funky British sayings, phrases like “pop your clogs” or “bee’s knees?” Here are more things to say if you want to expand your verbiage. Cack-handed If you did something “cack-handed,” it means you did it in an uncomfortable, clumsy or awkward way. The word ‘cack’ is old-fashioned slang for feces …
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These sayings are funny and pretty common. Do you use sayings like “belly up” and “burst at the seams”? A Hot Potato The idea is that “no one wants to touch a hot potato,” and this saying means that there’s a topic that no one wants to touch, a “hot potato” topic, if you will. …
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Do you see “hummers” and also think of Pocahontas? There are so many things to learn about the hummingbird! Some hummingbird species like the Anna’s and Costa’s are singing birds. Like other animals, they commonly make aggressive sounds like chattering or squealing. Hummingbirds prefer nectar over feeders. Hummers have over 1,000 feathers. Their legs are …
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What do you know about mushrooms? Did you know that we are discovering new varities all the time? We’ve been eating them for thousands of years. Mushrooms will grow almost anywhere. Mushroom growing in the United States is credited to J.B. Swayne as the first to grow them here. He started the shrooms in Kennett …
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Getting hit in the head is generally not very good for your health. Yet, many sports from boxing to football put the athletes at serious risk of getting bonked on the noggin. That’s why the athletes and contestants wear protective gear. Football players take to the field while fairly heavily armored and even boxers use …
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Believe it or not, there are even more September monthly holidays! Here are the rest! Sourdough September Remember when everyone was making sourdough in 2020? Well, that trend never really died and in fact, it’s only growing. People are using their sourdough starters and making all kinds of things with it from cookies to donuts …
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The early fall is the perfect time for a little road trip. The weather is still warm but not too hot, summer crowds have dispersed and autumn tourists haven’t arrived yet, and nature is still gorgeous. That’s what the British friends Neil Cox and J. Antic also thought. So, they decided to hop on a …
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These weird history stories may not be well known but they are a little shocking. Do you know these strange stories from the past? We Wanted To Nuke The Moon Yes us, Americans, crazy as it may sound, considered sending a nuclear missile towards the moon. Since WWII we have been in a nuclear arms …
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