That should be "'OK' Day", of course. An "OK Day" would be a so-so, not-bad day. This one is about the word.
23 March 1839, Boston Morning Post -- first known appearance of the word (in the form "o.k."), standing for "all correct".
23 March 1839, Boston Morning Post -- first known appearance of the word (in
the form "o.k."), standing for "all correct".
As impressive as soccer in its worldwide reach; I wonder was that the earlies US cultural export with as wide a reach?
[...] I'd like to nominate the mythic Wild West as the earliest American cultural export that went global, although its spread beyond North America and Europe may postdate WWII again, I don't know.
Ar an ceathrú lá is fiche de mí Márta, scríobh Christian Weisgerber:
[...] I'd like to nominate the mythic Wild West as the earliest American cultural export that went global, although its spread beyond North America and Europe may postdate WWII again, I don't know.
Jack London was massively popular in Russia in his lifetime,
though I can’t see
any comment about contemporary popularity in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking New World in the corresponding Wikipedias. As I understand
it, Karl May wasn’t hugely read outside of Europe, though he was huge within
Europe.
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