Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day

Remember when you got your computer, and the tidy, empty desktop looked clean, productive and well-organised? Take a look now – we’re willing to bet that it’s strewn with icons that you barely ever use, that there are documents and files sprawling around folders that are in desperate need of organisation. Clean Your Virtual Desktop Day demands that you put things away, delete things you don’t need, and to put some structure in place to stop things getting quite so messy before the same time next year…

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A Room Of One’s Own Day

As I write these words, surrounded by yelling children and a bad-tempered spouse with a headache, I can heartily attest to Virginia Woolf’s assertion that in order to write successfully, one needs a room of one’s own. Woolf’s 1928 essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’ was surely the inspiration behind A Room Of One’s Own […]

Mounts Chimborazo and Carguairazo, snowcapped

Chimborazo Day

June 3rd marks Chimborazo Day, commemorating the impressive Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador. Although not the highest mountain by elevation, Chimborazo's location near the equator makes its summit the farthest point from Earth's center, due to the planet's bulging shape.

Dewey Decimal System Day

Dewey Decimal System Day is observed annually on December 10. December 10, 1851 is the birthday of Melvil Dewey (1851-1931) inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876. It […]

Make a Difference Day

When: The fourth Saturday in October Initiated in 1990, this is a national day is for devoted to helping others by doing volunteer work in the community. The activity can be almost anything. On this day, millions of Americans participate in community improvement projects. It takes the form of cleanup, fixup, painting, and repair in […]