The Funday Sunnies

Interesting days

Today - Miners' Day and  Pawnbrokers Day

Tomorrow - A Date Which Will Live in Infamy, Cotton Candy Day and Letter Writing Day

Next Sunday - Violin Day, World Choral Day and Worldwide Candle Lighting Day

January 6 - Bean Day, Apple Tree Day, Cuddle Up Day, Shortbread Day and Three Kings Day Three Kings Day marks the day that the 3 kings arrived in Bethlehem and marks the end of the 12 days of Christmas. The 12th night was a night of celebration and according to Wikipedia, the Shakespeare play

"Twelfth Night" is a reference to the twelfth night after Christmas Day, called the Eve of the Feast of Epiphany. It was originally a Catholic holiday but, prior to Shakespeare's play, had become a day of revelry. Servants often dressed up as their masters, men as women and so forth. This history of festive ritual and Carnivalesque reversal, based on the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia at the same time of year (characterized by drunken revelry and inversion of the social order; masters became slaves for a day, and vice versa), is the cultural origin of the play's gender confusion-driven plot. The source story, "Of Apolonius and Silla", appeared in Barnabe Riche's collection, Riche his Farewell to Militarie Profession conteining verie pleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme (1581), which in turn is derived from a story by Matteo Bandello.^[20]