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March Madness! Which Team Will Win It All? Image
March Madness! Which Team Will Win It All?
NCAA March Madness is a single-elimination basketball tournament played each spring in the United States. It is one of the most watched sporting events and the cause of many parties on game days. Here are some great ways to feed the crowd gathered at your house! Chowhound March...
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February Is A Great Month to Celebrate National Chili Day! Image
February Is A Great Month to Celebrate...
Always celebrated the 4th Thursday in February. It’s hard to beat a steaming hot bowl of chili in the winter! U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was a big chili lover! Johnson is quoted as saying “Chili concocted outside of Texas is usually a weak, apologetic...
Earth Day
In September 1970, at a conference in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin announced that in the spring of 1970 there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on the environment. Senator Nelson first proposed the nationwide environmental protest to thrust the environment onto the national agenda. "It was a gamble," he recalls, "but it worked." Each year, the April 22 Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Earth Day is the only event celebrated simultaneously around the globe by people of all backgrounds,...