HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF APRIL 9 - 15:
SUN APR 9:Appomattox Day
   National Day (Bolivia)
   Martyr's Day (Tunesia)
MON APR 10:Salvation Army Founder's Day
TUE APR 11:Barbershop Quartet Day
WED APR 12:Halifax Independence Day
    Death Anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt
    National Redemption Day (Liberia)
    Cosmonautics Day (USSR)
THR APR 13:Chad Independence Day
    Huguenot Day
    Thomas Jefferson Day
FRI APR 14:Fast and Prayer Day (Lesotho)
    Pan American Day
    Youth Day (Angola)
SAT APR 15:Songkra (Buddhist New Year's Festival)
    Bengali New Year
    Public Holiday (Bolivia)
    Kim Il-Sung's Birthday (North Korea)
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
 What phrase did impressionist artist Paul Cezanne teach his pet parrot
to say over and over again?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
 What message was on the T-shirt worn by New York Yankee pithcher
Gaylord Perry-who was nicknamed the Great Expectorator-on the day he won his
300th game.
 ANS:"300 wins is nothing to spit at"
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   from an article in Forbes magazine:
 
   Nike has a television commercial for hiking shoes that was shot in
   Kenya using Samburu tribesmen.
 
   The camera closes in on the one tribesman who speaks, in native Maa.
   As he speaks, the Nike slogan ``Just do it'' appears on the screen.
 
   Lee Cronk, an anthropologist at the University of Cincinnati, says the
   Kenyan is really saying, ``I don't want these. Give me big shoes.''
   Says Nike's Elizabeth Dolan, ``We thought nobody in America would know
   what he said.''
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   Brattleboro, Vt, December 31, 1993--AP:

   Frederick Koch lost count of the number of times he heard his name
   pronounced ``cotch,'' like the former mayor of New York. It was
   properly pronounced ``coke.''
 
   He went to court in November and changed his entire name to
   Coke-Is-It. Now the Coca-Cola Company has gone to court to get Mr.
   Coke-Is-It to stop using the company's advertising trademark as his
   name. Court records list him as It, Coke-Is (AKA Fred Koch).
 
   In December Coca-Cola filed an appeal of the judgement granting the
   name change in Windham County Superior Court. A lawyer in Burlington
   who is representing the company was seeking to prevent Mr. Coke-Is-It
   from using the name until the appeal is heard.
 
   That could take a year, a court spokesman said.

This weeks obscure word:  FESTSCHRIFT
a miscellaneous volume of writings from several people for a celebration.

      Until next week,
      Brent