President’s Day

President’s Day, While most Americans don’t line up for Presidents’ Day sales, much less camp outside as some do for Black Friday, shoppers may find deeper discounts on Monday than they do during the holiday season.
Charlie Graham, founder and CEO of personalized apparel and accessories shopping site Shop It To Me, said past Presidents’ Day online sales have higher average discounts than both Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

“In the case of Presidents’ Day, you have a smaller percentage of items on sale, but those items on sale have a much higher discount,” Graham said.

The reason is that most retailers are hoping to sell their winter inventory to make room for the spring items, Graham said.

That’s good for “opportunistic” shoppers, he said.

“It’s a good opportunity to grab some good deals for the end of season and next year,” he said.

For the serious bargain hunters who are willing to wait for the perfect price with the risk of missing out on sales on Monday, Shop It To Me offers a free service that updates shoppers on the price of an item of their choice. Called Threads, Shop It To Me also curates lists of suggested items, such as dresses for the spring.

For those eager to take advantage of Presidents’ Day Sales today, here’s a list of some of the best deals:

Ann Taylor

Ann Taylor is offering a 30 percent discount on select full-price items online with the code SHOPCHIC.

Banana Republic

Banana Republic offers free shipping for online orders over $50 and free returns by mail or in-store.

Best Buy

Best Buy’s Presidents’ Day sales began on Friday and will continue through Monday, offering 10 to 25 percent off major appliances. Examples include a Toshiba Satellite 15.6″ laptop with 4GB memory and 500GB hard drive for $349.99 with free shipping.

The company is also advertising an Insignia 55″ Class LCD 1080p 120Hz HDTV for $579.99, for a savings of $220 plus free delivery.

Bloomingdale’s

High-end department store Bloomingdales is hosting a “Big Brown Bag Sale” through Monday for 20 to 40 percent off. The company also regularly offers free returns for online orders.

Gap

Gap is offering up to 40 percent off select styles in-store and 30 percent off your purchase online.

Macy’s

Since Tuesday, Feb. 12 through Monday, Macy’s has promoted a number of sales, including 30 to 50 percent off sterling silver, 14k gold, cultured pearls, diamonds and precious stones; buy two bras and get one free from Calvin Klein, Warners, Bali and more; 60 percent off designer outerwear for him from Perry Ellis, Kenneth Cole, Calvin Klein and more; and 50 to 75 percent off clearance shoes and boots, among other items.

Old Navy

Through Monday, Old Navy is offering in-stores and online 15 percent off your purchase or 20 percent off with your Old Navy, Gap or Banana credit card. The company is also hosting a “Kidtacular” kid, baby and maternity sale through Wednesday with up to 40 percent discounts.

Sears

With promo codes like EXTRAPOINTS (for members) and ABELINCOLN, customers can get 10 to 25 percent off online orders. Through Wednesday, the company is also offering $35 off orders of $300 and more with the code SNOW35; and $20 off orders of $200 and more with the code FEBRUARY20.

Toys “R” Us

Since Friday and through Monday, Toys “R” Us is offering 40 deals on toys, such as buy-one-get-one-40-percent-off on all video games priced up to $19.99; and buy-one-get-one-50-percent-off on all Play-Doh.

Walmart

Walmart has offered Presidents’ Day online specials since Friday and through Monday, including a Vizio 60″ Class LED 1080 p 120Hz Smart HDTV for $998, normally $1,299.99.

President’s Day

President’s Day, Once you enter the political arena, your image is no longer in your control. There will be political cartoons and caricatures, certainly — but also, if you become president, a formal and dignified official portrait to mark your tenure in America’s highest office.

We remember presidents for the policies they pushed, the speeches they gave, their moments of courage and weakness — and the way they were portrayed by artists and photographers, who can influence our perception of a president through their aesthetic choices.

List Of Presidents of U.S.

List Of Presidents, The President of the United States is the head of state and the head of government of the United States. As chief of the executive branch and head of the federal government as a whole, the presidency is the highest political office in the United States by influence and recognition. The president is also the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces. The president is indirectly elected to a four-year term by an Electoral College (or by the House of Representatives should the Electoral College fail to award an absolute majority of votes to any person). Since the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1951, no person may be elected to the office of the president more than twice. Also, no person who served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected may be elected more than once. Upon death, resignation, or removal from office of an incumbent president, the Vice President assumes the office.

George Washington
April 30, 1789 March 4, 1797

John Adams
March 4, 1797 March 4, 1801

James Madison
March 4, 1809 March 4, 1817

James Monroe
March 4, 1817 March 4, 1825

John Quincy Adams
March 4, 1825 March 4, 1829

Andrew Jackson
March 4, 1829 March 4, 1837

Martin Van Buren
March 4, 1837 March 4, 1841

William Henry Harrison
March 4, 1841 April 4, 1841

John Tyler
April 4, 1841 March 4, 1845

James K. Polk
March 4, 1845 March 4, 1849

Zachary Taylor
March 4, 1849 July 9, 1850

Millard Fillmore
July 9, 1850 March 4, 1853

Franklin Pierce
March 4, 1853 March 4, 1857

James Buchanan
March 4, 1857 March 4, 1861

Abraham Lincoln
March 4, 1861 April 15, 1865

Andrew Johnson
April 15, 1865 March 4, 1869

Ulysses S. Grant
March 4, 1869 March 4, 1877

Rutherford B. Hayes
March 4, 1877 March 4, 1881

James A. Garfield
March 4, 1881 September 19, 1881

Chester A. Arthur
September 19, 1881 March 4, 1885

Grover Cleveland
March 4, 1885 March 4, 1889

Benjamin Harrison
March 4, 1889 March 4, 1893

Grover Cleveland
(Second term)
March 4, 1893 March 4, 1897

William McKinley
March 4, 1897 September 14, 1901

Theodore Roosevelt
September 14, 1901 March 4, 1909

William Howard Taft
March 4, 1909 March 4, 1913

Woodrow Wilson
March 4, 1913 March 4, 1921

Warren G. Harding
March 4, 1921 August 2, 1923

Calvin Coolidge
August 2, 1923 March 4, 1929

Herbert Hoover
March 4, 1929 March 4, 1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt
March 4, 1933 (1933-03-04) April 12, 1945 (1945-04-12)

Harry S. Truman
April 12, 1945 January 20,

Dwight D. Eisenhower
January 20, 1953 January 20, 1961

John F. Kennedy
January 20, 1961 November 22, 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson
November 22, 1963 January 20, 1969

Richard Nixon
January 20, 1969 August 9, 1974

Gerald Ford
August 9, 1974 January 20, 1977

Jimmy Carter
January 20, 1977 January 20, 1981

Ronald Reagan
January 20, 1981 January 20, 1989

George H. W. Bush
January 20, 1989 January 20, 1993

Bill Clinton
January 20, 1993 January 20, 2001

George W. Bush
January 20, 2001 January 20, 2009

Barack Obama
January 20, 2009

[Source: via wikipedia and various online sources]

February 21: Presidents Day

February 21, February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 313 days remaining until the end of the year (314 in leap years). Presidents Day originated as the birthday of Washington, Abraham Lincoln crashed before the game. And of course you will see many calendars you two presidents birthdays listed separate holidays, the anniversary of Lincoln has never been a national holiday. Several states, however, celebrated the anniversary of Lincoln next to Washington for many reasons, not least, is that Lincoln Feb. 12 anniversary is ideally located close to Washington (February 22) on the calendar.
Washington’s birthday became a national holiday in 1880 and was the first festival to celebrate an American citizen. The holiday, however, did not officially become Presidents Day until 1951, when the home was abandoned by the celebration of Washington in celebration of President’s office.

Tomorrow – 22 February – is the anniversary of George Washington REAL. (I am frustrated that our U.S. Congress has created another weekend of 3 days for federal government workers with “President’s Day” that led to our children and young people do not know the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln REAL (12.02) and George Washington (2 / 22!) When I grew up, we celebrated the REAL BIRTHDAY! Ask a young child today / tomorrow on the significance in the history of the United States!)
Not so long ago, many states celebrated the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln, February 12 and George Washington, Feb. 22.

Today the nation celebrates “Presidents Day”, a weekend of three days, tailored for sales of ski and car. Many people still consider Presidents Day as a day to honor the father of our country. And, legally, the federal holiday is still called “Washington’s birthday.” But in 1968, when Congress moved the celebration from February 22 to the third Monday of February, the day has become ambiguous. Did Congress intend to create a single national holiday to honor Lincoln and Washington, who were both born in February? No. But many people assume that this is the case. Before long, the announcers were calling the holiday “Presidents Day.” And the name stuck. So today we honor not only to Washington? Washington and Lincoln? Or is Presidents Day turned into a feast generic all presidents, including Millard Fillmore T., Richard Nixon, Chester Arthur and Bill Clinton? For most people, this last suggestion is absurd. Including all the presidents of our national celebration devalues the honor.

George Washington

George Washington, George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the Revolutionary War as commander in chief of the Continental Army in 1775-1783, and chaired the drafting of the Constitution in 1787. As the unanimous choice to be the first president of the United States (1789-1797), he developed the forms and rituals of government that have been used, such as the use of a cabinet system and delivering a speech Inaugural. As president, he built a strong and well funded national who avoided war, rebellion suppressed and gained acceptance among Americans of all types, and Washington is now known as the “father of the fatherland”.

In colonial Virginia, Washington was born in the provincial nobility in a rich and well connected family that owned tobacco plantations using slave labor. He was educated at home by his father and older brother, but both died young, and he clung to the powerful clan Fairfax, who has advanced his career as a surveyor and soldier. Strong, brave, eager to fight and a natural leader, the young Washington quickly became a senior officer of the colonial forces, 1754-58, during the early stages of the French and Indian War. Indeed, his actions precipitated a rash war. Washington experience, his military bearing, his leadership of the Patriot cause in Virginia, and his political base in the largest settlement made him the obvious choice of the Second Continental Congress in 1775 as commander in chief of the Continental Army fight the British in the American Revolution. He forced the British from Boston in 1776, but was defeated and captured by later this year when he lost in New York. After crossing the Delaware River in the heart of winter, he defeated the enemy in two battles, taken in New Jersey, and restored momentum to the cause patriot. Because of his strategy, Revolutionary forces captured two major British armies at Saratoga in 1777 and Yorktown in 1781. Negotiating with Congress, governors, and his French allies, he served as an army of small and fragile nation amid the threats of disintegration and invasion. Historians give the commander in chief high marks for its selection and supervision of his generals, his encouragement of the morale, coordination with state governors and militia units of the state, its relations with Congress, and attention to procurement, logistics and training. In battle, however, British generals have repeatedly operated Washington with larger armies. Washington is given credit for policies that forced the British evacuation of Boston in 1776 and the surrender of Yorktown in 1781. After the victory was completed in 1783, Washington resigned rather than takes power, and returned to his Mount Vernon plantation, showing his opposition to dictatorship and his commitment to republican government.

Washington presided over the Constitutional Convention that drafted the Constitution of the United States in 1787 because of his dissatisfaction with the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation had repeatedly impeded the war effort. Washington became the first president of the United States in 1789. He tried to bring warring factions together to unify the nation. He supported Alexander Hamilton programs to pay all state and national debt, implementing an effective tax system, and create a national bank, despite the opposition of Thomas Jefferson. Washington proclaimed neutrality of United States in the wars raging in Europe after 1793. He avoided war with Britain and guarantee a decade of peace and profitable business by providing the Jay Treaty in 1795, despite intense opposition from the Jeffersonians. Although never officially joining the Federalist Party, he supported its programs. Washington, “Farewell Address” was a primer in influence on republican virtue and a stern warning against sectarianism, bigotry, and participation in foreign wars.

Washington had a vision of a great and powerful nation that would be built on the Republican line with the federal government. He sought to use the national government to improve infrastructure, opening western lands to create a national university, to promote trade, has found a capital (later named Washington, DC), reduce regional tensions and promote a spirit of nationalism. “The name of America,” he said, must prevail over any local attachment. At his death, Washington was hailed as “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen. “Federalists made him the symbol of their party, but for many years the Jeffersonians continued to be wary of its influence and has delayed construction of the Washington Monument. As a leader of the first successful revolution against a colonial empire in world history, Washington has become an international icon for freedom and nationalism. The symbolism echoes particularly in France and Latin America. Historical researchers still classify it as one of the two or three greatest presidents.

In 1752, Washington was launched in Freemasonry.At its inauguration in 1789; the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New York administered the oath of office. On September 18, 1793, he laid the foundation stone of the Capitol of the United States on all Masonic Grand Master Award. (This ceremony was recreated in 1993 the bicentennial of the Capitol.) Washington had a great esteem for the Masonic Order and often praised, but rarely attended meetings of the lodge. He was attracted by the movement’s dedication to the principles of rationality of the Enlightenment, reason and fraternal lodges Americans do not share the view that anti-clerical made the dressing so controversial European

On the eve of the anniversary of George Washington, Jesse Washington, Associated Press writer examines why the name of the founding father now belongs primarily to African-Americans. The 2000 U.S. Census counted 163,036 people whose name is in Washington, 90 percent were black – a percentage much higher than any other name. Washington wrote:

The story of how Washington became the “black name” begins with slavery and takes a turn after the Civil War, when all blacks were allowed the dignity of a surname.

In choosing the name, he said, Blacks reconstruction of the time could show pride in the history of the nation, as George Washington, who died in 1799, was still very popular at the time. Alternatively, the name could have been a way of maintaining links with the plantation owners who continued to be powerful regional figures after the Civil War. Again, “is a myth,” wrote Washington, “that black slaves were the most the surname of their owner.”

For example, “only a handful of” slaves of George Washington had his name. According to Mary Thompson, a historian at Washington Mount Vernon plantation, the president had the most to be only a first name – and despite the abolitionist writings he left behind, he owned hundreds of slaves. Washington led the schizoid life, “says biographer Ron Chernow.” In theory and on paper, he was opposed to slavery, but it was still zealously monitor and trying to recover his slaves who escaped. ” (Daughter Martha Washington, Oney Judge, escaped while the family lived in Philadelphia. Washington abused his presidential powers by asking the Treasury Department to kidnap the judge of his new life in New Hampshire, Chernow says, but the plot failed.)
[Source: via wikipedia and and various online sources]

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