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Why is Washington's birthday a holiday? How Presidents Day came to be. | Opinion
The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington’s Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual. In the early 19th century, for instance, a formal ...
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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.; WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. HOW IT WAS CELEBRATED What will be Done To-Day and To-Night.
The Northwoods Walton Club will give a banquet at the Astor House to-night. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY IN JERSEY CITY. WASHINGTON's Birthday will be duly observed in Jersey City to-day by the closing ...
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Presidents Day is federally recognized as Washington's Birthday. Here's why the name differs depending on your state
The federal government doesn't even recognize Monday as Presidents Day. It's officially Washington's Birthday, honoring the first president and the original American yardstick for measuring greatness.
The New York Times27d
WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY; THE LAST LEGAL HOLIDAY OF THE WINTER.
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The New Yorker26d
Washington's Birthday Eve
Ogden Nash regularly contributed verse to The New Yorker for more than forty years. His last poem in the magazine was published the week after his death, in 1971. What Made the Irish Famine So ...
MassLive28d
‘Finding George’: Celebrating Washington at his very feet
On the eve of his 293rd birthday, George Washington got his Springfield party Friday afternoon, as members of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Mayor Domenic J. Sarno gathered at the ...