HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF APRIL 16 - 22:
SUN APR 16:Easter
Queen Margrethe's Birthday (Denmark)
de Diego's Birthday (Puerto Rico)
MON APR 17:Syria Independence Day
Flag Day (American Samoa)
New Years Day (Burma)
Patriot's Day
Children's Protection Day (Japan)
TUE APR 18:Zimbabwe Independence Day
WED APR 19:Sierra Leone Independence Day
King's Birthday (Swaziland)
Landing of the 33 Orientales (Uruguay)
Venezuela Independence Day
FRI APR 21:San Jacinto Day (Texas)
Birthday of Rome
Tiradentes Day (Brazil)
Kartini Day (Indonesia)
SAT APR 22:Earth Day
Oklahoma Day
Israel Independence Day
Arbor Day
Queen Isabella Day (Spain)
V.I.Lenein Memorial Day (USSR)
THIS WEEK IS:Keep America Beautiful Week
National Bike Safety Week
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
What do the following crayon colors have in common-maize, raw
umber,
lemmon yellow, blue gray, violet blue, green blue, orange red and orange
yellow?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
What phrase did French impressionist artist Paul Cezanne teach
his pet
parrot to say over and over again?
ANS: "Cezanne is a great painter!"
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Hedgehog mania has accounted for at least one business success
story:
Hedgehog Foods Ltd., one of Europe's biggest makers of organic potato
chips, or crisps at the British call them. In 1981, Philip Lewis,
a pub
owners in Wales and devotee of hedgehog jokes, decided as a lark to
produce "hedgehog flavored" crisps. Sales boomed, but it didn't
take
long for angry hedgehog lovers to blow the whistle, fearing that the
crisps were actually made from hedgehogs. In fact, they were
flavored
with pork fat.
But then, in 1982, Britain's Office of Fair Trading hauled Mr.
Lewis
into court for false advertising. A settlement ultimately was
reached
under Mr. Lewis interviewing gypsies, who actually do eat baked hedgehog,
ascertained what hedgehogs taste like and commissioned a flavorings
firm
to more or less duplicate the flavor. He changed the labels from
"hedgehog flavored" to "hedgehog flavor," and all interest were
satisfied.
Last year Hedgehog Foods had sales of $3.6 million and is now
a major
contributor to St. Tiggywinkles Hospital, plugging the hospital on
every
package. "Looking back, it was a bit gruesome, that flavor,"
Mr. Lewis
concedes.
Sorry so short,
Brent