Hi all, 

A quickie post for today.  Would you like to know exactly how many days, months and years pass between two dates?  Yep - me too.   You could calculate it yourself manually by figuring out how many days are in each month and do a lot of addition. 

Or you could visit TimeandDate.com and let the computer do the hard work for you. 
Click here for a link to Time and Date.  

For example, if you want to know how many days have passed between July 8, 1949 and February 13, 1998, click on this link

And yes...this is a goofy link, but kind of fun to know about - especially at cocktail parties. 

Enjoy the calculations. 

Regards, 
Stu

When Is...?

Hi All,

Let's keep it simple today!  When-Is is a website that gives the user the dates of religious and civil holidays around the world

There are links for American, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hindu and Buddhist holidays on the site.  This first link gives the user the date for when Thanksgiving falls in 2015 (Thursday, November 26th by the way).

Other American holidays of 2015 include:
Martin Luther King day
President's Day
Armed Forces Day
Memorial Day
Flag Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Election Day
Veteran's Day
Thanksgiving
Valentine's Day and more.

Simple and easy to use, When-Is should be on your 'short-list' for holiday websites!

Enjoy,
Stu

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D is For...

Hi All,

Do you realize how few fruits and vegetables begin with the letter 'D'? Ugh...it took me a good few minutes to get the name of this fruit...'dates'. Yeah, that's the fruit!

Seriously, has anyone heard of durian, dragon fruit, drupe, dewberry or dyeberry? Yep - me neither. Thankfully one of the other librarians pointed me in the right direction with respect to fruit names that begin with the letter 'd'. So, I'm going to talk all about dates today.

You might remember that dates are talked about a lot in the bible - click here for a link to a brief discussion of dates and the bible.

This link comes from Purdue University and talks about the history, background, soil, food uses and more of dates - interesting, but definitely for folks who already know a bit about dates.

If this blog entry is making you hungry for dates - click here to buy them online. I'm not endorsing this site - I'm just saying that this is one of many sites where you can buy dates.

I bet you didn't think that there are many recipes with dates...you'd be wrong. Click on this link from AllRecipes.com for some date filled recipes. Some of the better sounding recipes on the site include date cookies, date rolls, sticky date pudding and date nut bread....yum!

Click here for a link where you can buy some more Medjool dates - again, it is one of many sites on the web where you can buy them!!!

Click here for a link to pictures of dates - lookin' good!

Enjoy the dates - who would have thunk it - a whole blog entry on dates? Go figure.
Enjoy,
Stu