Excerpted From 60 Minutes, November 20, 2022 The 2022 World Cup kicked off on Nov. 20 in Qatar, and while you’ll hear all manner of “Oles” and “Allezs” over the next four weeks, this might be the event’s ultimate soundtrack: got, got, need. It’s not the scalpers hawking tickets, it’s the refrain of fans sifting through packs of World Cup […]
December 6 Washington Monument completed (1848-1884) December 7 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day December 15 National Bill of Rights Day (1791) December 16 Boston Tea Party (1773) December 18 First National Day of Thanksgiving (1777) December 22 Continental Congress creates a Continental Navy (1775) December 23 George Washington resigns as Commander in Chief (1783) December 24 UK signs Treaty of Ghent, […]
By Evan Andrews Why Is Election Day a Tuesday in November? The answer lies with America’s 19th-century farmers. Americans first began the custom of weekday voting in 1845, when Congress passed a federal law designating the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November as Election Day. But why a Tuesday in November? The answer stems from the agrarian makeup […]
Our sacred right to vote was given to all Americans by the founding fathers of this democracy. It was laid out clearly in our Constitution and yet it is the only constitutional right that we have to register for. We don’t have to register for our right of free speech and we don’t have to register to exercise the right […]
By Bobbie Sweeney People all over the world set aside at least one day of the year to celebrate the harvest of the land. In America, one of the first celebrations of this kind was initiated by the Pilgrims. ln 1621, they held a three-day festival by order of the Governor of the Colony, William Bradford. The Indians who had […]
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