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CELEBRATE, TODAY IS NATIONAL PI DAY

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Larry Shaw (1939 – 2017) the founder of Pi Day, at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.



Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant
π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (the 3rd month) since
3, 1, and 4 are the first three
significant figures of π, and it
was first celebrated in the United States. It was founded in
1988 by
Larry Shaw a physicist at the San Francisco science
museum
, the Exploratorium. Celebrations often involve eating
pie or holding pi recitation competitions. In 2009, the United
States House
of Representatives
supported the designation
of Pi Day.

Have Some Pi - Imgflip

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National Retro Day

Today is the day to go back in time. It’s National Retro Day!

It’s your day to look back – and think of easy times.

According to National Day Calendar, Hermelinda A. Aguilar
and Robert and Tina Duran founded National Retro Day to
take a look back at how life was before social media, the
internet, and smartphones became a necessity of our daily
lives.

HERMELINDA AGUILAR REYNAGA, DIRECTORA DE LA ETI 158 - YouTube
Hermelinda A. Aguilar

Celebrate Retro Day: Remember These 20 Items From Days Gone by?
        
       

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TODAY IS NATIONAL FREEDOM DAY

National Freedom Day 2023: Wishes, Messages Quotes | News Alta

National Freedom Day is an observance in the United States
that honors President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of a
resolution that proposed the 13th amendment of the
nation’s constitution on February 1, 1865
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The Lincoln Memorial | I'm not much of one for taking pictur… | Flickr

I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make - Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

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National Cheeseburger Day Special Offers For September 18, 2023

The Library of Congress credits Louis Lunch in New Haven
with inventing the hamburger in 1900.
Cheese was first
added 24 years later in California
. Cheeseburgers have
been an iconic American food culture classic since the

1920s.

Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut served the original hamburger.-Travel hungry: Where your ...
Original Louis’ Lunch proprietor Louis Lassen.

Louis Lunch - New Haven CT----> this place invented the hamburger! except they put it on toast ...

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Cheeseburger stock photo. Image of gourmet, brown, human - 27656200

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Pin on Food

Hot Dog Day! Hot Doug’s Shocker! Chicago’s Hot Dog Legend Calls It Quits! – johnrieber

The earliest known Hot Dog Day was held in Alfred, New
York
in 1972.

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