From Thistle Burrs to... Velcro®
April 2nd is... First Velcro® Sold (1978), Ponce de Leon discovers Florida (1513), World Autism Awareness Day/Light It Up Blue/World Autism Day/World Autism Acceptance Day, International Children's Book Day (1967), National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day/ National
April Fools' Day
April 1st is... April Fools Day/All Fools' Day, Fossil Fools Day, White Rabbit Day, Assyrian New Year/Ha b' Nisin and Kha b' Nisan, Boomer Bonus Day, International Tatting Day, International Fun at Work Day, International Edible Book Festival/Edible Book Day, National Atheist'
The Eiffel Tower
March 31st is... Eiffel Tower's Anniversary/Eiffel Tower Day (1889), César Chávez Day, Dance Marathon Day, National Clams on the Half Shell Day, National She's Funny That Way Day, National Bunsen Burner Day (1811), Coloring Crayola Day/National Crayon Day, National Tater Day,
The Jeopardy! Book
March 30th is... Jeopardy Day, Grass Is Always Browner On The Other Side Of The Fence Day, National Oatmeal Cookie Day, National I Am In Control Day (1981), National Doctors Day, National Turkey Neck Soup Day, National Take a Walk in the Park Day, National Virtual Vacation D
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March 12th is... Dennis the Menace Day (1951), Girl Scout Day (1912), National Alfred Hitchcock Day, National Baked Scallops Day, 312 Day, World Day Against Cyber Censorship, National Plant a Flower Day, National Milky Way Day, International Fanny Pack Day (2007), Aztec New Year, Youth Day (Zambia), Independence Day (Mauritius), Arbor Day (China), St. Fina's Day
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Dennis the Menace Day (1951)
-- A long-running newspaper comic, created by Hank Ketcham, which first appeared in March 1951. Featuring the adventures of mischievous five-an'-a-half-year-old blond boy Dennis Mitchell, often at the expense of his parents, Henry and Alice, or his neighbor, Mr. Wilson, it quickly became a newspaper favorite. Over the next forty-two years, Dennis has been used as the basis for a weekly television series, an animated program, and now, a major motion picture.
Read: Dennis the Menace: His First 40 Years
-- Dennis the Menace is the third most-widely subscribed cartoon feature today, appearing in more than 1000 newspapers all over the world. It is read by an estimated 100 million fans, for whom Hank Ketcham has compiled this career to date collection encompassing some 700 separate cartoons and nearly 50 Sunday pages in color. In drawings made just for this book, Dennis himself serves as a guide through the hundreds of carefully selected panels, which he annotates with a combination of wisecracks and historical commentary.
Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace
-- This box set of Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace features over 1,250 cartoons in two books, featuring Dennis and his long-suffering parents, the Wilsons, his dog Ruff, his best pal Joey, his nemesis Margaret, and a seemingly endless parade of babysitters, as well as hapless shopowners, policemen, teachers, and family friends, all of whom come to realize it is Dennis' world... they just live in it! This book rests as easily on a grandfather's shelf as a granddaughter's, but they especially recapture the rambunctious youth of the baby-boomer generation.
Dennis the Menace - The Complete Series
-- All 78 Episodes! Your favorite neighborhood pest and all his comic misadventures are back! Based on Hank Ketcham's popular comic-strip, this animated series became a staple in countless households throughout the mid-80s. Filled with misguided mischief, hilarious havoc and youthful curiosity discover how Dennis became the most lovable troublemaker around.
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👪 Chocolate Chip Cookies - Who can forget Dennis the Menace standing on a stool and grabbing one from the cookie jar!
👪 Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies - The Skippy peanut butter brand arranged for 1950s comic strip claim-to-fame Dennis the Menace to be a licensed character to sell their product.
👪 The Original Rice Krispies Treats™ Recipe - there was a competition that ran where Dennis the Menace viewers had to come up with recipes using Kellogg’s Rice Krispies.
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