• Alascattalo Day

    Alascattalo Day

    Celebrating Alaska’s Most Improbable Creature Alascattalo Day, observed on November 8, pays tribute to one of Alaska’s great inside jokes: the mighty, mysterious, and entirely mythical Alascattalo. This fictional beast—a […]

  • Humane Society Anniversary Day

    Honoring a Legacy of Compassion Humane Society Anniversary Day, observed on November 22, celebrates the founding of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the global movement it helped inspire. Established in 1954, the HSUS began as a small group of advocates determined to protect animals from cruelty and neglect. Over the decades, […]

  • Hanukkah

    A Festival of Light Born from Courage and Restoration Hanukkah returns each year as a warm, flickering beacon against the deepening nights of winter. Its story reaches back to the second century BCE, when the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes outlawed Jewish practice and desecrated the Second Temple in Jerusalem. In response, a small group […]

  • Super Saturday

    The Final Sprint of the Holiday Shopping Season Super Saturday — sometimes called Panic Saturday — is the last Saturday before Christmas, a day when millions of shoppers flood stores and websites to complete their gift lists. Falling this year on December 20, it stands as one of the busiest retail days of the season, […]