Daily Discussions on Columbus Day
| Child Visitation/ joint custody/Columbus Day/Three day weekends | | I really need some help really quick...Right now, I have my daughter for the weekend and due to Columbus day, she has three days off. Anyways, my ex is demanding that I return her tomorrow, even tho it is a holiday that is not marked on our papers and it is my weekend. I really need advice (I called my lawyer, but to no avail). My daughter is freaking out (she is 9) because she doesnt want to go back to her dads. I think, due to it being my weekend, I get her and take her to school on Tuesday (its always been like that, but he likes to change the schedule whenever he feels like it. Any help here? PLEASE? Thank you sooo much... | |
| | Do we exist in a Living Hell? | | Maybe it's me...Maybe its because it's Monday morning and my favorite football team lost yesterday. My Starbuck's was a little on the cold side earlier. But this morning we are surrounded by news of more US troops dying in the Middle East. north Korea supposedly tested a nuke. And to top it all off I have to work on Columbus Day! This is one of those mornings where I feel like I should apologize to my young son for bringing him into this....Living Hell. Well, there's always tomorrow. | |
| | Why is November 11, a holiday? | | THE HISTORY OF VETERANS DAY
November 11, or what has come to be known as Veterans Day, was originally set as a U.S. legal holiday to honor Armistice Day - the end of World War I, which officially took place on November 11, 1918. In legislature that was passed in 1938, November 11 was "dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be hereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day.' As such, this new legal holiday honored World War I veterans.
In 1954, after having been through both World War II and the Korean War, the 83rd U.S. Congress, at the urging of the veterans service organizations, amended the Act of1938 by striking out the word "Armistice" and inserting the word "Veterans." With the approval of this legislation on June 1, 1954, November 11 became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.
In 1968, the Uniforms Holiday Bill ensured three-day weekends for Federal employees by celebrating four national holidays on Mondays: Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Columbus Day. Under this bill, Veterans Day was moved to the last Monday of October. Many states did not agree with this decision and continued to celebrate the holiday on its original date. The... | |
| | | Do you think Columbus Day should be abolished? | | As we all know, Columbus Day is a National Holiday. The orgin of this holiday is actually racist. I'm not stating whether I agree or disagree with this, but I'm just wandering what other's think. Think about this: Are there any holidays just for white people or etc... I mean we have a cinco de mayo for mexicans. | |
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| | Pi are not square, pi are round | | This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters. It is about a curious group of people with an almost religious zeal for a mind-numbing string of numbers. Actually one number, made up of a chain that is known — so far — to be more than one trillion digits long. They are the acolytes of the church of pi.
And once a year many of them gather to talk about pi, rhapsodize about it, eat pi-themed foods (actual pie, sure, but so much more), have pi recitation contests and, just maybe, feel a little less sheepish about their unusual passion.That day falls on Wednesday this year: March 14. Or 3.14. Obviously.The question is why, of course. And if you ask the fans of pi why, a startling number of them will come back with the same question: "Why climb Mount Everest?" Because it's there.But then they start talking about some very simple ideas. Like the beauty of a number that seems to go on forever and yet has no discernible pattern to it. Or about the valor of the memorization gymnastics, challenging oneself always to know... | |
| | | Find your wallet is missing on a ' holiday' | | Today is Columbus Day and a lot of places are closed in Observance of it.I remember having my wallet over the weekend and even saw it in my van earlier this week, I didn't have the key and it was locked, now today I needed my wallet teh van was UNLOCKED and my wallet gone, I have scoured the house, and the van and our other car to no avail.So needless to say I've been reporting everything in it lost/stolen and if there was any money in it it sure as heck was not much....LIfe goes on.Have you ever had something stolen?Mooch | |
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