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Veterans Day 2018
Veterans Day
Sunday, November 11
Observed date:
Monday, November 12
Unique November Celebrations
Month-Long Observances
- National Novel Writing Month
- Family Stories Month
- Military Family Appreciation Month
- National Scholarship Month
- National Native American Month
- Aviation History Month
- Music Month
- International Drum (Percussion) Month
Week-Long Observances
- Geography Awareness Week – Always falls during the month of November
- National Young Reader’s Week – Second full week of November
- American Education Week – Week before Thanksgiving
- National Family Week – Week containing Thanksgiving
- Game and Puzzle Week – Third full week of November
Special Days and Holidays
This Week
- November 8 National Parents as Teachers Day
- November 8 National Young Readers Day (second Tuesday)
- November 8 National STEM/STEAM Day
- November 10 Marine Corps Birthday
- November 10 Sesame Street Day
- November 11 National Origami Day
- November 11 Remembrance Day
- November 11 Veterans Day
- November 14 Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
- November 14 National American Teddy Bear Day
Voters approve Prop 126, banning taxes on services
The voter-approved measure will change Arizona’s constitution to prohibit sales taxes on any service, such as haircuts, pet grooming, banking and doctor visits that were not already in effect by Dec. 31, 2017.
Pork Chops with Pear and Apple Chutney
Ingredients
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Directions
Did You Know?
What is the origin of the donkey and elephant as the symbols of the Democratic and Republican parties in America?
Cartoonist Thomas Nast is credited with making the donkey the recognized symbol of the Democratic Party. It first appeared in a cartoon in Harper’s Weekly in 1870, and was supposed to represent an anti-Civil War faction. But the public was immediately taken by it and by 1880 it had already become the unofficial symbol of the party.
Political cartoonist Thomas Nast was also responsible for the Republican Party elephant. In a cartoon that appeared in Harper’s Weekly in 1874, Nast drew a donkey clothed in lion’s skin, scaring away all the animals at the zoo. One of those animals, the elephant, was labeled “The Republican Vote.” That’s all it took for the elephant to become associated with the Republican Party.