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Thursday, August 26th, 2010Festivus,The Holiday For The Rest Of Us!
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009In addition to Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, there are other celebrations that are honored during the holiday season.The Winter Solstice occurs on December 21 each year in the Northern Hemisphere. First observed in many cultures as a pagan ritual in many cultures, this date has its auspicious roots in commemorating the longest night of the year, and the return of the sun caused by the revolution of the earth’s tilted axis.
But there is no holiday celebration that quite rivals Festivus, which originated and forgotten in Roman times until revived by a Seinfeld TV episode in 1997.
Passed down throughout the ages, from raising hell on the streets of Rome 1000s of years ago, to the cantankerous Costanza household in New York City, this quirky holiday has been popularized once again.
Guiding Light Soap Opera closes it’s curtains after 72 years
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Fans of the world’s longest running soap opera, Guiding Light, had a sad farewell to the show on Friday, after 72 years following the lives of four families in America. Its role in US culture cannot be underplayed.
Starting out as a radio play in 1937 before graduating to CBS daytime TV in 1952, it was funded by Procter & Gamble, which employed Irna Phillips, the “mother of the genre”, to write it.
Kevin Bacon, Calista Flockhart and Mickey Rourke all started out on the show. From 1952 – 15,762 episodes, final episode Friday September 18, 2009.
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