Ant Farmer's Almanac

The Name Game: Historic Edition

On April 28, 1942, World War II was officially named World War II as the result of a Gallup Poll on what to call the widespread conflict America had recently entered.

Other contenders included:

Another World War: Now Including Asia!

The War to End All Wars That The War to End All Wars Before it Didn't

Good v Evil: The Smackdown

The World Wide War*

*Except for Switzerland, Sweden, Portugal, Central and South America, Greenland, Iceland, Antarctica, the North Pole and much of Africa.

Again with the Fighting!

The Global Conflict That Will End the Depression, Usher in American Prosperity and Provide The History Channel with a Limitless Supply of B&W Combat Footage.

Bob

This Week in History

Highlights from this Month's Ant Farmer's Almanac Calendar

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1904: Ty Cobb's professional baseball debut; he goes 2 for 3 and shoots a guy in the dugout.

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1616: William Shakespeare dies in Stratford-on-Avon. Many scholars now believe that someone else did the dying for him, and a few question whether he or Stratford-on-Avon ever even existed.

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1897: William Price, of the Washington Star, is the first reporter assigned to cover White House. After weeks of his pestering, President McKinley has a junior staffer stand close by at all times and make helicopter noises over which he "can't hear" Price's shouted questions.

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1886: Nestled between a cigar store and a donut shop, Sigmund Freud opens his first psychiatric practice in Vienna, Austria.

Celebrity Death Haiku

New from the makers of the Ant Farmer's Almanac!

Hey, kids! If you like your celebrities deceased and your haiku snarky, our new website, Celebrity Death Haiku, is the place for you.

We'll be posting new haiku whenever a celebrity goes to that great after-party in the sky, and adding haiku about famous dead celebrities from history on a regular basis.

And you can haiku, too! Stop by the site to see how.

100 Years Ago in Ant Farmer's Almanac History

April 6, 1909: Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson reach the North Pole. Upon their return they steadfastly refuse to either confirm or deny that they found Santa Claus, but historians note that they each got a shiny new bicycle every Christmas for the rest of their lives.