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The second-Sunday-of-May Mother’s Day is not an ancient festival but a holiday created by Anna Jarvis in the early-1900s United States. From the founder who… Read More »Where Did Parents’ Day and Mother’s Day Come From? Origins and Korea’s Eobeoinal
On Black Sunday in 1935 a black wall of dust swallowed the American Great Plains. The Dust Bowl was neither pure natural disaster nor pure… Read More »The Dust Bowl: When Drought and the Plow Buried the Great Plains in Dust
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Known as fashion’s biggest night, the Met Gala actually began as a fifty-dollar midnight supper held outside the museum in the winter of 1948. This… Read More »The Met Gala: How a $50 Midnight Supper Became Fashion’s Biggest Night
