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Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for the visible care people give to entrances, porches, shopfronts, courtyards, sidewalks, and shared spaces.
You see red foxes, badgers, and European rabbits in Luxembourg's woodland habitats. You commonly keep dogs, cats, and guinea pigs as household pets in Luxembourg. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
In the South, fried chicken is not a food. It is a love language. The chicken is soaked in buttermilk, dredged in seasoned flour, and fried in cast iron until the skin shatters and the meat is juicy. Nashville hot chicken is fried chicken coated in cayenne paste that makes your lips swell. The story goes that a woman scorned tried to punish her man with impossibly spicy chicken, and he loved it. This is the most Nashville thing that has ever happened.
A day for honesty. Proposed in the 1990s by a truth advocate named M.C. Lizzie, this day challenges Americans to go 24 hours without lying. The holiday has not caught on, which tells you everything about American culture.