Happy New Year! Thank you for making our 100th anniversary year in 2025 so memorable. Here's to a new year filled with connection, confidence, and confetti showers! 🐝

Awards season is ramping up! Actor award nominations just announced and Golden Globes Awards will be given this Sunday. @golden-globes.bsky.social @sagaftra.org
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#NationalBobbleHeadDay

Today is the birth anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most important African-American writers of the 20th century. Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) among other works.

Brigitte Bardot's funeral was being held with a private service and a public homage in Saint-Tropez, the French Riviera resort where she lived after retiring from movie stardom.

It's #NationalBobbleheadDay ! What's your favorite bobblehead figure?

On this day in 1838, Samuel Morse demonstrated his telegraph system in public for the first time. Six years later, he'd dispatch the first telegraphic message—"What hath God wrought"—over an experimental line from D.C. to Baltimore. The Library is home to Morse's papers. www.loc.gov/collections/...

Chase's Calendar of Events 2026 is out now! Available in a print edition or ebook--both include an exclusive companion website that allows searches by keyword, category, attendance and more. Start planning your year!
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Jan 7 "Old" Christmas/Orthodox Christmas (for those churches using the Julian calendar), Intl Programmers' Day, Natl Bobblehead Day
Jan 8 Argyle Day, Natl Joygerm Day, Show-and-Tell Day at Work, VRBO Fiesta Bowl
Jan 9 Scalloway Fire Festival (Shetland, Scotland), Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl

A mid-12th century relief of the ‘Adoration of the Kings’. Originally from the Lower Rhine, the relief is now part of the collections at the V&A in London. 📸 My own. #Epiphany

Shrine of the Three Kings, Cologne Cathedral
Der Dreikönigsschrein 1180-1225, rare Mosan Romanesque gold-plated silver reliquary, holding relics of The Magi: Caspar, Melchior & Balthasar; set with gems & ornamented with 74 high-relief figures.
#ThreeKingsDay #Epiphany

When is the last day you can file taxes in 2026? Here are the deadlines.

Today is #Epiphany, the 13th day after Christmas (and confusingly, sometimes referred to as "Twelfth Day"). Also termed #ThreeKingsDay, for the adoration of the Christ child by the Magi.

“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
(#Shakespeare, Twelfth Night).

Happy #TwelfthNight. 🎂🎂🍺🍺

Twelfth Night, usually 5 January (though some regard it as the 6th), was a traditional time to wassail the apple trees in England’s cider counties, singing and blessing them for luck and a good crop. In parts of the West Country, Old Twelfth Night is still kept on 17 January.

Today's the 12th Day of Christmas, and tonight is Twelfth Night, a time for wassailing and carousing. An angel drummer makes a noise on the 15th Century font at Upton, Norfolk. He's playing knackers, originally naqqāra, a drum type brought back to Europe during the crusades. 1/3

EVERY DAY I READ was chosen as one of People magazine's "Best Books of December 2025," calling it "the perfect gift for bookworms." people.com/people-best-...