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(Encyclopedia) holiday [altered from holy day], day set aside for the commemoration of an important event. Holidays are often accompanied by public ceremonies, such as parades and carnivals, and by…Oddball Holidays
Five state holidays you may not know by Elissa Haney Related Links Confederate Heroes' Day: TexasBunker Hill Day: MassachusettsEmancipation Day: Puerto RicoWest Virginia DayBennington Battle Day…Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg was a pop singer and an underwear model before becoming an enduring Hollywood star in movies from Boogie Nights to Patriots Day. Mark Wahlberg grew up in the rough Dorchester…Terrorist Attacks Against the U.S.
Read about Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the response to the tragedy, and more Memorial Poetry Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with…Poems by Emily Dickinson (Third Series): Forgotten
by EmilyDickinsonIXXIForgotten Forgotten There is a word Which bears a sword Can pierce an armed man. It hurls its barbed syllables,— At once is mute again. But where it fell The…Poems by Emily Dickinson: Forgotten
IX XI Forgotten There is a word Which bears a sword Can pierce an armed man. It hurls its barbed syllables,— At once is mute again. But where it fell The saved will tell On…The Boston Marathon: Virtual Tour
A no-sweat guide to the world's most famous race by Mike Morrison Related Links Marathon GuideFor most of the country, the third Monday in April is nothing more than the start of…State Holidays
Below is a list of the official holidays of every U.S. state—plus Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—on which state employees have the day off…The Boston Marathon Fact Sheet
A guide to the world's most celebrated road race by Erin Teare Martin, Mike Morrison, and Catherine McNiff Shoes from the 2013 Boston Marathon Memorial Exhibit The Boston Marathon Virtual Tour…Trending
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