National Haiku Poetry Day

A Haiku is from Japan.
A Haiku is supposed to have 5 Syllables in the first line,
7 in the second line and 5 in the last.

New Jersey Day

New Jersey Capitol is Trenton.
New Jersey is in the northeast region.
New Jersey used to have volcanoes.
There's a Six Flags in New Jersey.

Wright Brothers Day

In 1892, the Wright brothers also became bicycle manufacturers to capitalize on the bicycle.
Know as the "craze" sweeping the nation.
They began building, racing and repairing bicycles.
Their company produced three models - the "Van Cleve" named after their pioneer ancestors, later the "St. Clair", and finally, some say they had a low-priced model known as the "Wright Special".

Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston.
Boston was a town in the British colony of Massachusetts.
They were also against the British government.
On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.

Eli Whitney the inventor of the Cotton Gin as born on Dec. 8 1765
and Died on Jan. 8 1825. Eli Whitney is best remembered
as the inventor of the cotton gin.
Whitney saw that a machine is to clean the seed from cotton
could make the South prosperous.

National Dice Day

Dice is the plural of die.
They are small cubes used in games.
They are usually made of ivory, bone, wood, plastic, or similar materials.
The six sides are numbered by dots from 1 to 6.

Rosa Parks Day

On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused
to obey bus driver to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.
Her action was not the first of its kind: Irene Morgan, in 1946, and Sarah
Louise Keys, in 1955, had won rulings before the U.S. Supreme Court and
the Interstate Commerce Commission respectively in the area of interstate
bus travel. Nine months before Parks refused to give up her seat, 15-year-old
Claudette Colvin refused to move from her seat on the same bus system.