Month: November 2009

11.20.09 Squashed

November 20, 2009 Mike Keeler
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It’s the great pumpkin shortage, Charlie Brown! The town of Morton, Illinois is without question the pumpkin capital of the world.  Morton grows more pumpkins than any other place in the world.  Each September, the local Chamber of Commerce proudly rolls out the Morton pumpkin festival, which draws approximately 60,000…
2009

11.13.09 Friday the 13th

November 13, 2009 Mike Keeler
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Attention paraskevidekatriaphobiacs: it’s worse than you think… The Gregorian calendar was first rolled out in 1582, and was fully adopted by Europe in 1752.  In order to make the calendar align almost perfectly with the orbit of the earth around the sun, the Gregorian calendar uses 400-year cycles, each cycle…
2009