Here are the totals for Year 6, Week 33 (December 10-16, 2012 ( Read more... )

Today is, I kid you not, Barbie and Barney Backlash Day. If you write, edit, and/or beta today, you know what to do.

Today is Cat Herders Day. If you write, edit, and/or beta today, we want to know.

In 1911, explorer Roald Amundsen and his team of four men and 52 sled dogs reached the South Pole-the first humans to do so. If you write, edit, and/or beta today, tell us about it.

Today marks the beginning of the 75th anniversary of the Rape of Nanking (December 13, 1937-January 1938). If you write, edit, and/or beta today, you know what to do.

Today is Poinsettia Day. If you write, edit, and/or beta today, let us know.

Birth anniversary of German physician and biologist Robert Koch (1843-1910), who discovered the bacilli that cause tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax. Recipient of the 1905 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. If you write, edit, and/or beta today, let us know.

Today is the 225th birth anniversary of deaf education pioneer Thomas Gallaudet (1787-1851). If you write, edit, and/or beta today, post a comment here telling us.