Thorin & Co. Arrive in Rivendell (June 20)

On their quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain as their ancestral home, a party of dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield (and accompanied by hobbit Bilbo Baggins) stops for rest at Rivendell.

How to Commemorate: 

• Read in moonlight.
• Make a secret map.
• Have feast that totally ignores vegetables.

Works Cited

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

Population of paper town Agloe, NY drops from 1 to 0. (May 29)

Margo Roth Spiegelman embodies excitement and enthusiasm, and after a night pulling retributory pranks—she vanishes.  Quentin and his friends try to unravel the threads of what happened, where she went, and if she is even still alive.

How to Commemorate:

• Leave somewhere at noon.
• Find and visit a paper town.
• Try writing crosshatch.
• Take a road trip.
• Edit a Wikipedia (I mean, Omnictionary!) page.

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Works Cited

Paper Towns by John Green.

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Alien/s Day (April 26)

LV426 (hence, April 26) is the original name of Acheron, a moon 39 light years from Earth. Though having no indigenous inhabitants, Acheron eventually came to house a human colony and a species of vicious aliens …who would repeatedly get their asses handed to them by Ellen Ripley. 

How to Commemorate:

• Use a forklift.
• Shave your head.
• Watch the movies.
• Get a pair of Ripley’s alien-crushing shoes (special release by Reebok).

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Works Cited

Alien

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