The travelling Renaissance Festival has arrived once more to its fairground sin Franklin, Tenn. As it does every year each weekend in May, including Memorial Day.  The festivals I popular enough that Tenn. Has made traffic signs specifically for the event; the Tennessean estimates 70,000 people attend a...

Graduation ceremonies (also known as commencement, convocation, invocation) have been passed to the U.S. from a plethora of traditions dating back to various centuries and origination from multiple cultures.  Modern graduation ceremonies as we now know them are an amalgam from European, Scandinavian,...

Every year on April 22, people worldwide celebrate the environment and cherish the resources the Earth provides for us. Schools and businesses organize public clean ups and encourage others to take care of the communities around them. Earth Day began in 1970 when U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson came up...

Out of all the sporting events of the year, March Madness is one of the most well-known. It is the NCAA's Division 1 basketball tournament. It is the largest single elimination style tournament in college sports. It contains 64 teams, and is done in six rounds, including the "First Four." The first tournament...

Irish folklore is full of complicated and contradicting tales and texts. There is never any one tale of a legendary creature and some of them do not match up. However, there are some facts that seem to remain the same in many of the mystical beings throughout the stories passed down through generations....