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Tue. 03/16 - Daylight Saving Time? Not in this house!


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How St. Patrick’s Day, as we know it now, is kind of more of an Irish-American holiday than a purely Irish one. More of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been uncovered in Israel for the first time in sixty years. And the family who decided to really lean into the “time is just a social construct” idea.

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    All the pubs in Ireland used to be closed on St. Patrick’s Day (Irish Central)
  • Washington’s Army Celebrated St. Patrick’s Day to Cure Winter Blues (Smithsonian Magazine)
  • A day off from Lent: St Patrick's Day traditions from the past 2019 (RTÉ)
  • Israeli experts announce discovery of more Dead Sea scrolls (AP)
  • Israel Reveals Newly Discovered Fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls (NY Times)
  • Dead Sea Scrolls discoveries are first ancient Bible texts to be found in 60 years (NBC News)
  • Can We Get Rid of Daylight Saving Time? (The Atlantic)
  • Daylight Saving Time By Country (Wikipedia)
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