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January 19, 2015

National Popcorn Day
The Origin of Popcorn

Outside the box ideas: It's a music style, an instrumental song, and in evangelical circles it is the Christianese term for prayer time in which anyone can pray, i.e. Popcorn Prayer.



Do the Popcorn Dance! (I'm not joking!)



Tin Can Day
History of the Can: An Interactive Timeline
The can opener wasn't invented until 48 years after the invention of the can

Martin Luther King Jr Birthday Observance
Is there really anyone who doesn't know about Martin Luther King Jr?  And not just in the United States but in the world?
The Making of The King Holiday
The Biography of Martin Luther King Jr
MLK, Jr. Remembered
Letter from a Birmingham Jail


Recently discovered in UCLA Archives and just released publicly 
here is MLK speaking at UCLA in April 1965



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