Happy Birthday, Miles! The legendary jazz musician would have been 83 today. A trumpeter, composer and band musician extraordinaire, Miles had a major influence on the development of jazz fusion with his 1968 album entitled “Miles in the Sky”. Almost ten years before that, he blew the world away with his album “Kind Of Blue,” which celebrated its 50th anniversary last September. Click here to read more about his life, and here to hear highlights from his career.
Another musical legend, Bob Dylan, turned 68 on Sunday. Happy belated to Bob, and keep on keepin’ on.
Memorial Day has the great distinction of falling on Cookie Monster’s birthday! Frank Oz, the famous puppeteer who was the voice of Cookie Monster, was born on May 25th. This year he turns 65!
It’s such a momentous day! Felice Haus even wrote a book called “Happy Birthday, Cookie Monster!” featuring Jim Henson’s Sesame Street Muppets!
Happy Birthday to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! The creator of detective Sherlock Holmes would turn 150 this week. Why not celebrate by reading up on his life? Then impress your friends with your detective birthday trivia at Memorial celebrations this weekend…
Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of master detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was headed for a medical career, studying at the University of Edinburgh, when he took an abrupt turn. Here’s how it is described by the official Web site of his literary estate:
“The young medical student met a number of future authors who were also attending the university, such as for instance James Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson. But the man who most impressed and influenced him, was without a doubt, one of his teachers, Dr. Joseph Bell. The good doctor was a master at observation, logic, deduction, and diagnosis. All these qualities were later to be found in the persona of the celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes. A couple of years into his studies, Arthur decided to try his pen at writing a short story. …”
The estate’s biolgraphy notes that Doyle’s writings are indebted to Edgar Allan Poe. The one-time Baltimore resident is often credited with creating the modern detective story with his character C. Auguste Dupin, an amateur sleuth who lives in Paris and is featured in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Purloined Letter” and “The Mystery of Marie Roget.”
What better way to mark Doyle’s birthday than a re-reading of a story such as “The Hound of the Baskervilles”? Pass the haggis!
Happy Birthday to the American Cancer Society! Today the nation’s largest community-based organization dedicated to the fight against cancer turns 96. That’s a birthday worth celebrating!
When the American Cancer Society first began on May 22, 1913, it was just a group of 15 doctors and business leaders sitting down to dinner in New York City. The group was small, but its purpose was huge – to change the world’s beliefs and behaviors regarding cancer, one of the most lethal and least understood of all diseases.
Now, 96 years later, thanks to the passion and dedication of our grassroots network –- people like you — the American Cancer Society has saved millions of birthdays by contributing to nearly every modern cancer breakthrough, including confirming the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, establishing the link between obesity and multiple cancers, developing drugs to treat leukemia and advanced breast cancer, and showing that mammography is the most effective way to detect breast cancer.
For nearly a century, the American Cancer Society has fought for every birthday threatened by cancer in every community. By taking what they have learned through research and turning it into what they do, they’ve contributed to a 15 percent decrease in the overall cancer death rate between the early 1990s and 2005. That means that the American Cancer Society has helped avoid about 650,000 cancer deaths. That’s a lot of birthdays!
Awareness grows with every life touched and together millions of Americans can make a difference in a society that takes on cancer and celebrates every time someone stays well or survives their disease. Wish the American Cancer Society a Happy Birthday by declaring them the official sponsor of your birthday today. It doesn’t have to be your birthday and you don’t have to be a survivor to declare.
Click here to join the movement.
Happy 96th to the official sponsor of birthdays! And here’s to many more!
The American Cancer Society’s More Birthdays movement has picked up another supporter over at Peppers and Pollywogs. Party planning expert Lisa Kothari suggests that when you plan your child’s next party, if you’re requesting “no gifts” why not direct would-be givers to the More Birthdays movement? It doesn’t have to be your birthday and you don’t need to be a cancer survivor to get involved helping to create a world with less cancer and more birthdays! Here’s what Lisa has to say about us:
Creating a world with More Birthdays is the theme of American Cancer Society’s More Birthdays campaign. From their Official Birthday Blog, ACS has announced that over 30,000 people in two weeks have declared the American Cancer Society the official sponsor of their birthdays…Wow!
Birthdays are a time when we remember the value of life, and the celebration of it that we should have every day. A birthday marks another year to enjoy and celebrate our existence; that’s why the American Cancer Society launched its “More Birthdays” campaign. A world with less cancer, is a world with more birthdays, and that’s what the American Cancer Society works for every single day.
The campaign allows for a multitude ways to participate including:
*Join the movement for more birthdays by declaring ACS the official sponsor of your birthday at MoreBirthdays.com
* Sending an e-card
* Creating a Birthday Page that enables you to collect donations for ACS
* Downloading the Birthday Kit
* Making a birthday donation
…When you think about planning your child’s next party, and if you are thinking of requesting No Gifts in your party invitation, it may be a great idea to designate the ACS More Birthdays Campaign as a wonderful opportunity for you and your guests to donate to!
Yeah for More Birthdays! Love this campaign!
Thanks for the support Lisa! More Birthdays loves you too!
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This weekend, my 12-year old daughter and her friends are hosting a surprise birthday sleepover for one of their friends whose mother lost her very short battle with lung cancer this past July. Each year, her Mom would have a huge sleepover birthday party for her which all the girls looked forward to. This will be the first birthday she will have without her Mom and it will probably be difficult for her and her Dad and brothers.
