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Friday 18 Nov 2016



Mickey Mouse Day



If there’s one image that everyone in the world can recognize, it’s the iconic ears of our favorite mouse, Disney’s Mickey Mouse. His face grace everything from ceramic mugs to balloons, touching on every industry and areas of our lives. It can be found in the shape of ice cream on a hot summer afternoon, or on the back of a hoodie on a frigid autumn morning, and when the day’s work is done, we can join him in Kingdom Hearts as they King. It all started with a short film called “Steamboat Willie”, and ever since, he’s been the very icon of family fun, hope over adversity, and following your dreams.

History of Mickey Mouse Day

Mickey Mouse was originally dreamed up by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney in 1928, and from that first short film has risen to be a worldwide recognized Icon.

Year after year, Mickey has won nominations for the Academy Award for the Best Animated Short film, and finally won one in 1928.

As a tribute to just how popular and ground-breaking this fantastic mouse is, he was the first animated character to ever receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Since then we saw the rise and fall of “The Mickey Mouse club”, and a growing family of characters that have all become part of the Disney IP. If it weren’t for a bit of duplicitous backstabbing and Hollywood Drama, Mickey might never have come into existence.

Mickey first came to pass as a replacement for Walt’s first popular creation, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. After the relationship with Universal Studios soured, Mickey Mouse was created and came to be the avatar of the happiest place on earth.



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GIS Day



GIS.. Geographic Information System… A simple three letter phrase that describes a system that has come to affect every aspect of our lives. From our GPS systems to Google Maps, GIS systems are integrated in everything and serve to make our lives easier every single day.

Thanks to this amazing science, we are able to have our deliveries made on time, and get straight to the house of a new friend without getting lost, even though we’ve never been there before.

GIS is a truly amazing thing!

History of GIS Day

A Geographic Information System is specifically designed to manage all of the information involved with interpreting and present geographical data. While this involves a broad number of technologies, they all come down to one thing. Storing and processing data about the world around us and making it available to be used in a format able to be interpreted and used by other systems.

GIS Day was established in 1999 by Esri President and Co-Founder Jack Dangermond after he had been inspired by Ralph Nader to do so.

Recognizing the importance and implication of this system, and that it was important that the people of the modern age be familiar with the effect it had on their lives, this holiday was established with the distinct purpose of raising awareness.

While currently primarily used terrestrially, you can bet that when we start putting permanent satellites into orbit around other planets, this technology is going to be vital in driving the study and colonization of the solar system, mining of resources within it, and observing the unique traits of distant planets.