HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF JANUARY 8 - 21:
SUN JAN 8:Battle of New Orleans Day
   St. Gudule's Day
   Jackson Day
   Volunteer Firemen's Day
MON JAN 9:Birthday of the Queen Mother Mariya (Yugoslavia)
WED JAN 11:Sir John A. McDonald Day
           De Hostos Day
    National Unity Day (Nepal)
    Burning of the Clavie (UK)
THR JAN 12:Zanzibar Revolution Day (Tanzania)
FRI JAN 13:Stephen Foster Memorial Day
    Tyvendedagen (Norway)
    St. Knut's Day (Sweden)
    Redemption Day (Ghana)
SAT JAN 14:St. Sava (Yugoslavia)
SUN JAN 15:Martin Luther King Jr. Day (observed)
    Teachers Day (Venezuela)
    Adult's Day (Japan)
MON JAN 16:National Nothing Day *
    National Good Teen Day
    Lee-Jackson Day
    Martyr's Day (Benin)
TUE JAN 17:Benjamin Franklin Day
    Reading Poems at the Imperial Palace (Japan)
    St. Anthony the Abbot
WED JAN 18:St. Athanasius (Greece)
THR JAN 19:Confederate Heroes Day
    Robert E. Lee Day
    Nameday of Archbishop Makarios (Cyprus)
    Timket (Ethiopia)
    Youman Nabi (Guyana)
FRI JAN 20:Inauguration Day
    Philately Day
    National Heroes Day (Cape Verde)
    Army Day (Mali)
SAT JAN 20:National Clean-Off-Your-Desk Day
    St.Agnes (UK)
    Anniversary of Lenin's Death (Russia)
    Altagracia Day (Dominican Republic)
*NOTE: National Nothing Day was originated by Harold Coffin, a newspaperman, as
a humerous observance of a day when Americans don't have to celebrate anything
at all.
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
 What unusual museum is located in Pontedassio, Italy?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
 What do you feed your grownup adult pet moth?
 ANS: nothing.  Adult moths don't eat
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January 18, 1990: Landing Officer, a 23-1 long shot, wins a $2,220 claiming
race in thick fog at Delta Downs in Vinton, Louisiana.  Later jockey
Sylvester Carmouche is suspended, stripped of his winnings, and arrested by
police for attempted felony by fraud.  He is accused of pulling up soon after
the race began, losing himself and his mount in the fog, and rejoining the one-
mile race when the other horses came all the way around the track and headed
toward the finish line.

January 21, 1990: John McEnroe leads Mikael Pernfors, 6-1, 4-6, 7-5, 2-4, in
the Australian Open when he's disqualified for using abusive language during
a disagreement about officiating.  He is the first player in 27 years to be
thrown out of a Grand Slam tennis tournament.

This Week's obscure word:FARRAGINOUS
Forming a disordered whole

This semester I plan to send an additional piece of mail with the list.  Many
of them may take a good while to read.  This week's is a list of humorous
answering machine messages.  Enjoy!

     'Til next week
     Brent

Comments? Questions? Suggestions?