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JANUARY HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
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Holiday posters index | December | January | February | search site |
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January Observances |
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Birth Defects Prevention Month |
pregnancy posters |
March of Dimes |
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National Volunteer Blood Donor Month |
circulatory system posters |
American Assoc of Blood Banks |
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National Cervical Cancer Awareness Month |
disease- cancer posters |
National Cervical Cancer Coalition |
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Glaucoma Awareness Month
Eye Health Care Month |
eye disorders posters |
Prevent Blindness Org |
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Hot Tea Month |
beverages posters |
Tea & Health |
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Oatmeal Month |
grains posters |
Sunshine Granola Recipe |
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Poverty Awareness Month
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Migrant Mother poster |
Catholic Campaign to End Poverty |
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Stamp Collecting Month |
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American Philatelic Society |
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National School Board Month |
famous educators posters |
National School Boards Association |
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Thyroid Disease Awareness Month |
lymphatic system posters |
America Assoc of Clinical Endocrinologists |
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First Week of January |
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Diet Resolution Week |
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Second Week of January |
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Third Week of January |
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Special Education Week |
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National Education Assoc |
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Fourth Week of January |
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Catholic Schools Week |
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National Catholic Education Assoc |
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January Holidays |
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1-1, New Year's Day |
New Year's posters |
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1-1, Last Day of Kwanzaa |
Kwanzaa posters |
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12-7-2010 - Muharram Islamic New Year |
Islamic posters |
• Islam- Resource & Information
• Muslin New Year
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1-13, Lohri - Bonfire Festival |
India posters |
Lohrifestival.org |
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3rd Sunday in January, World Religion Day |
theology posters |
Bahå'î |
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3rd Monday January, MLKing Day |
Martin Luther King, Jr. posters |
CP Links for Learning - King |
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January Notable Dates |
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b. 1-1-1631 - Katherine “Orinda” Philips, author |
Katherine Philips Resource File |
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b. 1-1-1735 - John Lamb, patriot |
John Lamb Resource File |
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b. 1-1-1735 - Paul Revere, patriot |
Paul Revere Resource File |
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b. 1-1-1745 - Anthony Wayne, Revolutionary War |
Anthony Wayne Resource File |
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b. 1-1-1752 - Betsy Ross, seamtress |
Betsy Ross House |
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b. 1-1-1767 - Maria Edgeworth, author |
Maria Edgeworth Resource File |
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b. 1-10-1842 - Charlotte Mason, educator |
Charlotte Mason Resource File |
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b. 1-10-1859 - Francisco Ferrer, educator |
Francisco Ferrer Resource File |
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b. 1-1-1863 - Emancipation Proclamation - “... on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...” Abraham Lincoln posters |
Emancipation Proclamation |
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b. 1-1-1863 - Pierre de Coubertin, educator, founder modern Olympics |
Pierre de Coubertin Resource File |
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b. 1-1-1879 - E. M. Forster, author |
E. M. Forster Resource File |
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b. 1-1-1879 - Ernest Jones, psychoanalyst |
Ernest Jones Resource File |
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b. 1-1-1919 - J. D. Salinger, author |
J. D. Salinger Resource File |
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• 1-2-1788 - Georgia Ratification, 4th State |
Georgia Facts |
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b. 1-2-1886 - Florence Lawrence, America's First Movie Star |
Florence Lawrence Resource File |
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b. 1-2-1902 - Tallulah Bankhead, actress |
Tallulah Bankhead Resource File |
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b. 1-2-1917 - Vera Zorina, ballerina |
Vera Zorina Resource File |
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b. 1-2-1920 - Isaac Asimov, author |
Isaac Asimov Resource File |
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b. 1-2-1927 - Yuri Grigorovich, ballet dancer |
Yuri Grigorovich Resource File |
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b. 1-3-106 BC - Cicero, philosopher |
Cicero Resource File |
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d. 1-3-1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, astronomer |
Jeremiah Horrocks Resource File |
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b. 1-3-1733 - Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor |
Sir Richard Arkwright Resource File |
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b. 1-3-1793 - Lucretia Mott, feminist & suffragette |
Lucretia Mott Resource File |
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b. 1-3-1806 - Henriette Sontag, opera singer |
Henriette Sontag Resource File |
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b. 1-3-1887 - August Macke, Expressionist artist |
August Macke Resource File |
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b. 1-3-1892 - J. R. R. Tolkein, author |
J. R. R. Tolkien Resource File |
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b. 1-3-1897 - Marion Davies, actress |
Marion Davies Resource File |
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b. 1-3-1905 - Anna May Wong, actress |
Anna May Wong Resource File |
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b. 1-3-1909 - Victor Borge, pianist & comedian |
Victor Borge Resource File |
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• 1-3-1959 - Alaska Admission, 49th State |
Alaska Facts & Information |
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b. 1-4-1643 - Isaac Newton, scientist |
CP Isaac Newton Links for Learning |
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b. 1-4-1809 - Louis Braille, teacher |
Louis Braille bio |
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b. 1-4-1883 - Max Eastman, author & social activist |
Max Eastman Resource File |
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b. 1-4-1943 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian |
Doris Kearns Goodwin Resource File |
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b. 1-5-1779 - Zebulon Pike, explorer |
Zebulon Pike Resource File |
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b. 1-5-1846 - Rudolf Christof Eucken, philosopher & author |
Rudolf Christof Eucken Resource File |
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b. 1-5-1931 - Alvin Ailey, dancer & choreographer |
Alvin Ailey Resource File |
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b. 1-6-1628 - Charles Perrault, author |
Charles Perrault Resource File |
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b. 1-6-1798 - Marie Dorval, actress |
Marie Dorval Resource File |
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b. 1-6-1832 - Gustave Dore, artist |
Gustave Dore Resource File |
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• 1-6-1838 - Telegraph First Demonstrated |
Samuel F. B. Morse |
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b. 1-6-1838 - Max Bruch, composer |
Max Bruch Resource File |
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b. 1-6-1878 - Carl Sandburg, poet |
Carl Sandburg Resource File |
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b. 1-6-1883 - Khalil Gibran, author |
Khalil Gibran Resource File |
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b. 1-6-1925 - Kim Dae-jung, Nobel Peace Prize |
Kim Dae-jung Resource File |
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b. 1-6-1957 - Nancy Lopez, athlete |
Nancy Lopez Resource File |
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b. 1-6-1960 - Nigella Lawson, food author & chef |
Nigella Lawson Resource File |
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b. 1-7-1718 - Israel Putnam, Revolutionary War |
Israel Putnam Resource File |
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b. 1-7-1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th US President |
White House Bio - Fillmore |
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b. 1-7-1839 - Marie Louise de la Ramee, “Ouida”, author |
Marie Louise de la Ramee Resource File |
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b. 1-7-1891 - Zora Neale Hurston, author |
CP Links for Learning - Hurston |
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b. 1-7-1910 - Galina Ulanova, ballerina |
Galina Ulanova Resource File |
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b. 1-8-1037 - Su Shi, poet |
Su Shi Resource File |
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b. 1-8-1868 - Frank Watson Dyson, astronomer |
Frank Watson Dyson Resource File |
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b. 1-8-1881 - John G. Neihardt, poet, author, historian, professor |
John G. Neihardt Resource File |
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b. 1-8-1891 - Bronislava Nijinska, ballerina |
Bronislava Nijinska Resource File |
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b. 1-8-1902 - Carl Rogers, psychologist |
Carl Rogers Resource File |
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b. 1-8-1935 - Elvis Presley, musician |
Elvis Presley Resource File |
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b. 1-8-1941 - Graham Chapman, comedian & physician |
Graham Chapman Resource File |
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• 1-9-1788 - Connecticut Ratification, 5th State |
About Connecticut |
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• 1-9-1793 - 1st US Balloon Ascention, Philadelphia |
U. S. Centennial of Flight Commission |
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• 1-9-1799 - 1st “Income Tax” |
U. S. Treasury Department |
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b. 1-9-1859 - Carrie Chapman Catt, activist |
Carrie Chapman Catt Resource File |
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d. 1-9-1901 - Edward Mitchell Bannister, artist |
Edward Mitchell Bannister Resource File |
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b. 1-9-1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist |
Simone de Beauvoir Resource File |
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b. 1-9-1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th US President |
Richard Nixon Resource File |
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b. 1-9-1922 - Har Gobind Khorana, biologist |
Har Gobind Khorana Resource File |
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b. 1-10-1738 - Ethan Allen, patriot |
Ethan Allen Resource File |
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b. 1-10-1834 - Lord Acton, historian & educator |
Lord Acton Resource File |
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b. 1-10-1853 - Jessie Bond, actress & singer |
Jessie Bond Resource File |
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b. 1-10-1864 - George Washington Carver, botanist |
CP Links for Learning - Carver |
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b. 1-10-1936 - Stephen Ambrose, historian & educator |
Stephen Ambrose Resource File |
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b. 1-11-1755 - Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary War |
Alexander Hamilton Resource File |
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b. 1-11-1842 - William James, psychologist, philosopher, and author |
William James Resource File |
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b. 1-11-1842 - Albert Hofmann, chemist, experiemental psychologist |
Albert Hofmann Resource File |
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b. 1-11-1903 - Alan Paton, author & activist |
Alan Paton Resource File |
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• 1-11-1912 - Lawrence, MA- Bread and Roses textile strike begins |
Textile Strike Resource File |
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b. 1-12-1577 - Jan Baptista Van Helmont, chemist |
Jan Baptista Van Helmont Resource File |
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b. 1-12-1729 - Edmund Burke, philosopher |
Edmund Burke Resource File |
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b. 1-12-1812 - Edouard Seguin, educator & physician |
Edouard Seguin Resource File |
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b. 1-12-1856 - John Singer Sargent, artist |
John Singer Sargent Bio |
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b. 1-12-1876 - Jack London, author |
Jack London Resource File |
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b. 1-12-1904 - Ray Bolger, dancer & actor |
Ray Bolger Resource File |
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b. 1-12-1910 - Luise Rainer, actress |
Luise Rainer Resource File |
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b. 1-12-1923 - Alice Miller, psychologist |
Alice Miller Resource File |
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b. 1-12-1964 - Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com |
Jeff Bezos Resource File |
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b. 1-13-1598 - Francois Mansart, architect |
Francois Mansart Resource File |
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d. 1-13-1599 - Edmund Spenser, poet |
Edmund Spenser Resource File |
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b. 1-13-1808 - Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice |
Salmon Portland Chase Resource File |
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b. 1-13-1832 - Horatio Alger, author |
Horatio Alger Resource File |
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b. 1-13-1901 - A. B. Guthrie, author |
A. B. Guthrie Resource File |
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b. 1-13-1952 - Geoffrey Canada, educator & activist |
Geoffrey Canada Resource File |
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b. 1-14-1741 - Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War |
Benedict Arnold Resource File |
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b. 1-14-1841 - Berthe Morisot, artist |
Berthe Morisot Resource File |
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b. 1-14-1844 - William Forsell Kirby, entomologist |
William Forsell Kirby Resource File |
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b. 1-14-1875 - Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian |
Albert Schweitzer Resource File |
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b. 1-14-1886 - John Dos Passos, author |
John Dos Passos Resource File |
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b. 1-14-1901 - Bebe Daniels, actress |
Bebe Daniels Resource File |
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d. 1-15-1151 - Abbot Suger, historian |
Abbot Suger Resource File |
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b. 1-15-1622 - Moliere (Jean-Baptist Poquelin), playwright |
Moliere Resource File |
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b. 1-15-1798 - Auguste Comte, philosopher |
Auguste Comte Resource File |
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b. 1-15-1850 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, mathematician & professor |
Sofia Kovalevskaya Resource File |
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b. 1-15-1862 - Loie Fuller, dancer |
Loie Fuller Resource File |
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b. 1-15-1890 - Palmer Hayden, artist |
Palmer Hayden Resource File |
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b. 1-15-1895 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, biologist |
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Resource File |
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b. 1-15-1900 - Paulette Duval, dancer & actress |
Paulette Duval Resource File |
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b. 1-15-1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrated 3rd Monday in January. |
CP Links for Learning - King |
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b. 1-16-1741 - Hester Trale, diarist |
Hester Thrale Resource File |
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b. 1-16-1908 - Ethel Merman, actress & singer |
Ethel Merman Resource File |
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b. 1-16-1932 - Dian Fossey, zoologist |
Dian Fossey Resource File |
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b. 1-16-1934 - Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano opera singer |
Marilyn Horne Resource File |
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b. 1-17-1501 - Leonhart Fuchs, botanist |
Leonhart Fuchs Resource File |
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b. 1-17-1600 - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, author |
Pedro Calderon de la Barca Resource File |
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b. 1-17-1706 - Benjamin Franklin, Boston, MA |
CP Links for Learning - Franklin |
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d. 1-17-1771 - Charles Brockden Brown, author |
Charles Brocken Brown Resource File |
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d. 1-17-1795 - Samuel Wallis, explorer |
Samuel Wallis Resource File |
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b. 1-17-1820 - Anne Bronte, author |
Bronte Links for Learning |
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b. 1-17-1875 - Cora Wilson Stewart, educator |
Cora Wilson Stewart Resource File |
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b. 1-17-1933 - Eartha Kitt, singer & actress |
Eartha Kitt Resource File |
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b. 1-17-1933 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer |
Shari Lewis Resource File |
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b. 1-17-1942 - Muhammad Ali, athlete |
CP Links for Learning - Ali |
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b. 1-18-1752 - John Nash, architect |
John Nash Resource File |
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b. 1-18-1782 - Daniel Webster, statesman |
Daniel Webster Bio |
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b. 1-18-1856 - Daniel Hale Williams, physician |
Daniel Hale Williams Resource File |
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b. 1-18-1882 - A. A. Milne, author |
Pooh's Library at Amazon |
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b. 1-18-1884 - Arthur Ransome, author |
Arthur Ransome Resource File |
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d. 1-19-1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, poet |
Henry Howard Resource File |
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b. 1-19-1736 - James Watts, scientist & inventor |
James Watts Resource File |
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b. 1-19-1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, author |
CP Edgar Allan Poe Links for Learning |
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b. 1-19-1839 - Paul Cezanne, artist |
Paul Cezanne Resource File |
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b. 1-19-1947 - Paula Deen, celebrity cook |
Paula Deen Resource File |
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b. 1-20-1732 - Richard Henry Lee, Revolutionary War |
Richard Henry Lee Resource File |
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b. 1-20-1775 - Andre-Marie Ampere, physicist
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Andre-Marie Ampere Resource File |
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b. 1-20-1855 - Amedee-Ernest Chausson, composer |
Ernest Chausson Resource File |
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b. 1-20-1865 - Yvette Guilbert, cabaret singer |
Yvette Guilbert Resource File |
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b. 1-20-1872 - Julia Morgan, architect |
Julia Morgan Resource File |
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b. 1-20-1873 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, author |
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Resource File |
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b. 1-20-1876 - Josef Hofmann, pianist |
Josef Hofmann Resource File |
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d. 1-21-1519 - Vasco Nunez de Balboa, explorer |
Vasco Nunez de Balboa Resource File |
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b. 1-21-1813 - John C. Fremont, explorer |
John C. Fremont Resource File |
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b. 1-21-1840 - Sophia Jex-Blake, physician, educator, feminist |
Sophia Jex-Blake Resource File |
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b. 1-21-1912 - Konrad E. Bloch, biologist |
Konrad E. Bloch Resource File |
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b. 1-22-1561 - Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher |
Francis Bacon Resource File |
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b. 1-22-1788 - Lord Byron, poet |
Selected Poetry of Lord Byron |
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b. 1-22-1849 - Johan August Strindberg, author |
Johan August Strindberg Resource File |
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b. 1-22-1878 - Constance Collier, actress |
Constance Collier Resource File |
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b. 1-22-1890 - Fred M. Vinson, jurist |
Fred M. Vinson Resource File |
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b. 1-22-1897 - Rosa Ponselle, opera singer |
Rosa Ponselle Resource File |
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b. 1-22-1904 - George Balanchine, choreographer |
George Balanchine Resource File |
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b. 1-22-1904 - William Warfield, bass-baritone opera singer |
William Warfield Resource File |
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b. 1-22-1934 - Graham Kerr, chef |
Graham Kerr Resource File |
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• 1-22-1973, Roe v Wade U. S. Supreme Court decision which established that laws against abortion violate a constitutional right to privacy, overturning more than 100 years of judicial precedent and all 50 of the state laws outlawing or restricting abortion. |
Background on Roe v Wade |
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b. 1-23-1737 - John Hancock, Revolutionary War |
John Hancock Resource File |
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b. 1-23-1752 - Muzio Clementi, pianist & composer |
Muzio Clementi Resource File |
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b. 1-23-1783 - Stendhal, author |
Stendhal Resource File |
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b. 1-23-1832 - Edouard Manet, artist |
Edouard Manet Resource File |
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b. 1-23-1918 - Gertrude Elion, biologist |
Gertrude Elion Resource File |
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b. 1-23-1930 - Derek Walcott, author |
Derek Walcott Resource File |
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b. 1-23-1933 - Chita Rivera, dancer |
Chita Rivera Resource File |
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b. 1-24-1670- William Congreve, playwright & poet |
William Congreve Resource File |
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b. 1-24-1712 - Friedrich II (The Great) |
Friedrich II Resource File |
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b. 1-24-1732 - Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, author |
Pierre Beaumarchais Resource File |
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b. 1-24-1754 - Andrew Ellicott, surveyor |
Andrew Ellicott Resource File |
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b. 1-24-1776 - E. T. A. Hoffman, author |
E. T. A. Hoffman Resource File |
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b. 1-24-1795 - Farinelli - opera singer |
Farinelli Resource File |
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• 1-24-1848 - Gold Discovered at Sutter's Mill, CA |
The Discovery of Gold in California by Gen. John A. Sutter |
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b. 1-24-1862 - Edith Wharton, author |
Edith Wharton Resource File |
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b. 1-24-1864 - Marguerite Durand, author |
Marguerite Durand Resource File |
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b. 1-24-1915 - Robert Motherwell, artist |
Robert Motherwell Resource File |
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b. 1-24-1925 - Maria Tallchief, ballet dancer |
Maria Tallchief Resource File
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b. 1-24-1954 - Oprah Winfrey, TV host, actress |
Oprah Winfrey (Biography) at Amazon.com |
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b. 1-25-1627 - Robert Boyle, scientist |
Robert Boyle Resource File |
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b. 1-25-1746 - Madame de Genlis, author & educator |
Madame de Genlis Resource File |
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b. 1-25-1759 - Robert Burns, poet |
Robert Burns Resource File |
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b. 1-25-1860 - Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President (under Herbert Hoover) |
Charles Curtis Resource File |
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b. 1-25-1882 - Virginia Woolf, author |
International Virginia Woolf Society |
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b. 1-25-1874 - W. Somerset Maugham, author |
W. Somerset Maugham Resource File |
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b. 1-25-1929 - Vivian Paley, educator |
Vivian Paley Resource File |
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b. 1-26-1850 - Samuel Gompers, labor leader |
Samuel Gompers Resource File |
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b. 1-26-1880 - General Douglas MacArthur, military |
MacArthur Memorial, Norfolk, VA |
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b. 1-26-1884 - Roy Chapman Andrews, explorer |
Roy Chapman Andrews Resource File |
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b. 1-27-1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer |
The Mozart Project Biography |
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b. 1-27-1832 - Lewis Carroll, author |
CP Links for Learning - Lewis Carroll |
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b. 1-27-1832 - Edouard Lalo, composer |
Edouard Lalo Resource File |
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b. 1-27-1878 - Dorothy Scarborough, author |
Dorothy Scarborough Resource File |
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b. 1-27-1910 - Felix Candela, architect |
Felix Candela Resource File |
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b. 1-27-1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer |
Mikhail Baryshnikov Resource File |
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b. 1-27-1955 - John Roberts, jurist |
John Roberts Resource File |
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• 1-27-1973 - Vietnam War Peace Accords |
Vietnam War - Wikipedia |
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d. 1-28-1596 - Sir Francis Drake, explorer |
Sir Francis Drake Resource File |
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b. 1-28-1611 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer |
Johannes Hevelius Resource File |
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b. 1-28-1841 - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer |
Henry Morton Stanley Resource File |
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b. 1-28-1853 - Jose Marti, author |
Jose Marti Resource File |
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• 1-28-1861 - Kansas Admitted, 34th state |
Kansas Facts & History |
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b. 1-28-1873 - Colette, author |
Colette Resource File |
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b. 1-28-1878 - Ruth St. Denis, dancer |
Ruth St. Denis Resource File |
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b. 1-28-1896 - Malvin Gray Johnson, artist |
Malvin Gray Johnson Resource File |
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b. 1-28-1912 - Jackson Pollock, artist |
Jackson Pollock Resource File |
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• 1-28-1986 - Challenger Space Shuttle Tragedy |
NASA History Division |
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b. 1-29-1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg, theologian |
Emanuel Swedenborg Resource File |
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b. 1-29-1737 - Thomas Paine, patriot |
Thomas Paine Resource File |
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b. 1-29-1782 - Daniel François Esprit Auber, composer |
Daniel Auber Resoure File |
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b. 1-29-1843 - William McKinley, 25th president |
White House Bio - McKinley |
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b. 1-29-1850 - Ebenezer Howard, founder Garden City movement |
Ebenezer Howard Resource File |
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b. 1-29-1860 - Anton Chekov, author |
Anton Chekov Resource File |
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b. 1-29-1866 - Romain Rolland, author |
Romain Rolland Resource File |
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b. 1-29-1867 - Vincente Blasco Ibanez, author |
Vincente Blasco Ibanez Resource File |
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b. 1-29-1905 - Barnett Newman, artist |
Barnett Newman Resource File |
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b. 1-29-1923 - Paddy Chayefsky, dramatist |
Paddy Chayefsky Resource File |
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b. 1-30-1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd US President |
White House Bio - FDR |
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b. 1-30-1909 - Saul Alinsky, author & community organizer |
Saul Alinsky Resource File |
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b. 1-30-1912 - Barbara Tuchman, historian |
Barbara Tuchman Resource File |
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b. 1-31-1713 - Anthony Benezet, teacher and abolitionist |
Anthony Benezet Resource File |
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b. 1-31-1734 - Robert Morris, patriot |
Robert Morris Resource File |
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b. 1-31-1797 - Franz Schubert, composer |
Franz Schubert Resource File |
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b. 1-31-1872 - Zane Grey, author |
Zane Grey Resource File |
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b. 1-31-1881 - Anna Palova, ballerina |
Anna Palova Resource File |
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b. 1-31-1895 - Justine Johnstone, actress and physician |
Justine Johnstone Resource File |
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b. 1-31-1915 - Thomas Merton, theologian & author |
Thomas Merton Resource File |
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b. 1-31-1919 - Jackie Robinson, baseball player |
CP Links for Learning - Robinson |
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b. 1-31-1921 - Mario Lanza, opera singer |
Mario Lanza Resource File |
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b. 1-31-1923 - Norman Mailer, author |
Norman Mailer Resource File |
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b. 1-31-1937 - Philip Glass, composer |
Philip Glass Resource File |
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January Facts & Tidbits |
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January, first month of the year, is named for Janus, the Roman god of doors, gates, beginnings, and and endings, hence his two faces for looking forward and backwards. Janus is the root of the word describing the caretaker of doors and halls (passage ways), a janitor.
The original Roman calendar consisted of 10 months (304 days) as they considered winter a monthless period. Circa 700 BCE the months of January and February were separated so the calendar would match a standard lunar year, plus one day, to equal 355 days, and thus avoiding the Roman superstition of even numbers.
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January Astrological Signs |
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Astrology Resource File |
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• Capricorn: Dec 22 - Jan 19 |
• Capricorn poster
• Capricorn, the Archer Ecard |
cardinal, earth, universal; “I build,” ambitiou, cautious, authoritative, cunning, competent, stable, saturnine, knees/skeleton; prudent, cautious, suspicious. |
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• Aquarius: Jan 20 - Feb 18 |
• Aquarius poster
• Aquarius, the Water Carrier Ecard |
fixed, air, universal; “I know,” friendships, cause-oriented, the group, society, progressive, eccentric, aloof, calves/ankles; democratical, unconventional, detached. |
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January Birthstones |
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• Garnets signify light heart, loyalty, affection. The name “garnet” comes from Latin granatus (“grain”), possibly a reference to Punica granatum (“pomegranate”), a fruit with red seeds similar in shape, size, and color to some garnet crystals.
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• Birthstone (U of Washington)
• Garnets Resource File |
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January Flowers |
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• Carnation - love, fascination, and distinction
• Snowdrop - first bulbs to bloom in spring.
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• flower posters |
• Carnation Resource File
• Snowdrop Resource File
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