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    <title>Presidents&apos; Day and the Apostrophe</title>
    <summary>I am writing about Presidents&apos; Day today, and as I investigated the history of the holiday, I realized it started out as President&apos;s Day (because it honored a single President,...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[<p>I am writing about Presidents' Day today, and as I investigated the history of the holiday, I realized it started out as President's Day  (because it honored a single President, George Washington) but then evolved into Presidents' Day because it became a day commemorating many Presidents.</p>

<p>I also learned that Veterans Day has lost its apostrophe.  Isn't that interesting?  For more apostrophe fun, hop on over to <a target="_blank" href="http://uwf.edu/writelab/writeadvice/wa-onjobgram10.htm">The Apostrophe: Possessed and Dispossessed</a>.</p>]]>
      
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