Happy Wednesday, January 6th and happy Take Down the Christmas Tree Day! The holiday season has officially come to an end, and if you're Hispanic, you still get to celebrate Dia De Reyes this evening! Enjoy your traditional Rosca De Reyes! Today, we celebrate the opening of the first Montessori school in 1907. We also celebrate the would-be 101st birthday of evolutionary biologist, John Maynard Smith and briefly touch on the death of Theodore Roosevelt.

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| Research assistance by Kristin Bradley and music by AJ Curtin