Today is Thursday July 21, 2011

102 days until Halloween
127 days until Thanksgiving
157 days until Christmas
164 days until The New Year

National Junk Food Day

Have a sweet tooth? Crave salty snacks? Today is your day—it's National Junk Food Day!

Today’s the day to enjoy all of your favorite snacks. Candy bars, potato chips, soda—you name it! Take advantage of this delicious reason to celebrate and indulge your taste buds with some sugary and greasy treats.

Did you know that the average American eats about 25 pounds of candy per year? What’s more, each American will consume about 45 slices of pizza annually. Now that’s a lot of sweet and salty goodness!

Grab a bag of buttery popcorn at the movies, order some fries at the drive-through or make an ice cream sundae for dessert. Whatever you do, enjoy National Junk Food Day with at least one of your guilty pleasures! 

July is National Ice Cream Month & National Grilling Month

This week is National Zoo Keeper Week

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History for July 21   1861 - The first major battle of the U.S. Civil War began. It was the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas Junction, VA. The Confederates won the battle. 1930 - The Veterans’ Administration of the United States was established. 1949 - The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. 1957 - Althea Gibson became the first black woman to win a major U.S. tennis title when she won the Women’s National clay-court singles competition. 2000 - NBC announced that they had found nearly all of Milton Berle's kinescopes. The filmed recordings of Berle's early TV shows had been the subject of a $30 million lawsuit filed by Berle the previous May.

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 Quote of the Day:


"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

--William Shakespeare