Post by Bill Petro (@billpetro) on Mon, 24 Dec 18 17:46:40 +0000 View Full Post IS DIE HARD REALLY A CHRISTMAS MOVIE? Scholars and historians have debated the question “Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie?...
Post by Bill Petro (@billpetro) on Fri, 23 Nov 18 17:00:01 +0000 View Full Post HISTORY OF BLACK FRIDAY While it is difficult to connect this term to the start of the Christmas shopping sales season ...
Post by Bill Petro (@billpetro) on Sun, 11 Nov 18 19:49:42 +0000 View Full Post HISTORY OF VETERANS DAY On this year, the 100th anniversary of the ending of World War I in Europe we remember A profe...
Post by Bill Petro (@billpetro) on Wed, 31 Oct 18 01:21:28 +0000 View Full Post HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN Halloween (Allhallows Even) is the evening of October 31. In its strictly religious aspect, this o...
Post by Bill Petro (@billpetro) on Fri, 26 Oct 18 14:46:40 +0000 View Full Post HISTORY OF THE KIRKING OF THE TARTANS This Sunday all over the world many churches will observe the Kirkin’ o’ th’ Tart...
Post by Bill Petro (@billpetro) on Mon, 01 Oct 18 02:46:47 +0000 View Full Post HISTORY OF THE ASPENS Every year about this time, Fall is ushered in by a flush of Aspen trees as their leaves turn to ...
Post by Bill Petro (@billpetro) on Wed, 19 Sep 18 19:01:55 +0000 View Full Post HISTORY OF TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY The International Talk Like A Pirate Day began not back in the Golden Age of Pirates ...
Post by Bill Petro (@billpetro) on Sat, 08 Sep 18 19:59:26 +0000 View Full Post [see the original article with all the pictures at billpetro.com/history-of-star-trek] HISTORY OF STAR TREK Star Trek ...
Post by Bill Petro (@billpetro) on Fri, 31 Aug 18 15:40:18 +0000 View Full Post HISTORY OF LABOR DAY Labor Day is the day we celebrate the process our mothers went through in order to deliver us at b...
Post by Bill Petro (@billpetro) on Sun, 19 Aug 18 21:58:51 +0000 View Full Post HISTORY OF THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH On August 19, 1848, the New York Herald reported the news along the American East C...
