Operation Plunder

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Originally celebrating George Washington’s February 22nd birthday, Presidents’ Day became a celebration of all 46 former and current US Presidents in the 1960s.

Pagans, Catholics and Christians celebrated romance and some have tales of St. Valentine that add to modern day narrative of the history of Valentine’s Day.

Human life and civilization thrived for more than 6,000 years in the fertile crescent known as Mesopotamia, Greek for between two rivers. Agriculture, irrigation, livestock, the wheel, and alcohol are all believed to originate from Mesopotamia.

A psychology experiment originally conducted at Stanford University, the “marshmallow test” offers the subject more long-term value in exchange for self-control and delayed gratification.

Friction between the US and France led to fears of foreign spies and sedition in the Adams administration resulting in the Alien and Sedition Acts, a collection of four laws.

During President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term in office he enacted drastic legislation to stimulate the economy during the Great Depression.

In 1969, an industrial-era Cuyahoga River fire in Cleveland ignited environmental activism and ultimately the birth of the EPA and environmental policy act.