HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF SEPTEMBER 17 - 23:
SUN SPT 17:Citezenship Day
    Constitution Day
    General Von Steuben Memorial Day
    Day of the National Hero (Angola)
MON SPT 18:National Coastal Cleanup Day
    Chile Independence Day
    Dr. Samuel Johnson Day (UK)
    Victory og UPRONA (Burundi)
TUE SPT 19:St. Genarro Day
    Armed Forces Day (Chile)
    St. Christopher and Nevis Independence Day
WED SPT 20:International Day of Peace
THR SPT 21:World Gratitude Day
    Belize Independence Day
    National Thanksgiving Day (Phillipines)
FRI SPT 22:Hobbit Day
    Mali Independence Day
    Egyptian New Year
SAT SPT 23:Saudi Arabia New Year
    Grito de Lares (Puerto Rico)
    Autumnal Equinox
THIS WEEK: Constitution Week
    National Farm Safety Week
    Snack a Pickle Time
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
 What European nation consumes more spicy Mexican food than any other?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
 What did Bugs Bunny drink to become invisible?
 ANS: Hare remover
 Best Wrong Answer: Radioactive Carrot Juice - Joel Boone
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 This is an expirimental idea and I don't know how well it will work,
but, If you would like to have your birthday listed among the Holidays of the
Week, please e-mail me and I will be sure your birthday will be included among
the other holidays.

Now, this weeks strange stories:

 When the young woman of the Emerillion tribe of French Guyana reach
marrying age, they must prove they are worthy of matrimony by spending five
days and nights in a hammock, without food, fending off armies of giant, biting
ants.  The ants are led to the hammock by a trail of honey poured by the
Emerillion medicine man.

 The 40-volume Chung-wen Ta Tz'u-tien Dictionary of the Chinese language
contains nearly 50,000 characters, the most difficult of which consists of 64
seperate brush strokes.

 in 1152, when King Louis VII returned home from the Crusades, his wife
Lady Eleanor, was stunned to see that the good king had shaved off his beard.
When Louis VII refused to grow it back, his Queen divorced him and married the
King of England, and tried to get her dowry, two French provinces, transferred
to her new husband.  The resulting "War of the Whiskers" lasted until 1453,
more than 300 years.

 In the early 1970's, those in charge of Boston's John Hancock
Building actually hired people to stand beneath the star-crossed building
with binoculars to watch for any change in glass color or other signs of
windows abotu to pop out.

 On May 3, 1973, Robert Matern, at the age of 21, set a record by
consuming 83 hamburgers in two and one-half hours at the University of Rhode
Island.

 When Raymond Thompson took the stand in his own defense in
Philadelphia's Common Pleas court to answer charges of robbery and Assault in
February of 1978, he startled the court by declaring that he couldn't be guilty b
because he was dead.

 Active in the ring during the late 50's and early 60's was the
legendary Happy Humphry (William Cobb of Macon, Georgia).  This Professional
wrestler dwarfed the 600-pound Haystacks Calhoun by weighing in at figures
consistantly over 800 pounds.  Both men used the same tactic of waiting until
their opponent came near enough to grab and then fall on them.

 In 1968, 2-year-old Brad Hains of Utah swallowed his pet turtle, Myrtle.
X-rays showed that Myrtle had not descended deep enough to be dissolved by
Brad's gastric juices and was still alive.  Doctor's apparently decided that as
long as Myrtle posed no immediate danger to Brad's health, there was no need to
remove her.

 In 1949, ABC aired "Penthouse Sonata," a show of classical music
hosted by June Brown and performed by the Fine Arts Quartet.  The show lasted
Only eight days.

 A comma that a congressional aide decided to insert between the words
"foreign fruit" and "plants" changed the letter of the customs law, indicating
that all foreign fruits and plants were free from duty instead of just fruit
plants.  That error cost the country $2 million in lost revenues before the
next session of congress could improve the aide's English.

 Henri Matisse's painting "Le Bateau" was hung upside down for a month
and a half during its 1961 exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
 
This Week's Obscure Word: TRANSMOGRIFY
To change or alter often with grotesque or humorous effect

      Slama Sidhi Barakas,
      Brent

P.S. Please, Please, nobody else send me the cookie recipe!