The origins of Presidents Day lie in salutes to George Washington's Feb. 22 birthday, some highly ceremonial and others strikingly unusual.

This Thursday (March 13) will see the opening of an exhibition and live performances to mark the culmination of a year of ...

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HAMILTON, C.W., Thursday, Feb. 23. The citizens of the United States, resident here, held their second annual celebration of WASHINGTON's birth-day last night, by a dinner and festival ...

Ogden Nash regularly contributed verse to The New Yorker for more than forty years. His last poem in the magazine was published the week after his death, in 1971. Donald Trump’s disdain for NATO ...

Either way, Washington paid little attention to his birthday, according to Mountvernon.org, the website of the organization that manages his estate. Surviving records make no mention of ...