HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF SEPTEMBER 24 - 30:

SUN SPT 24:Territory Day (New Caldonia)
    Swenkenfelder Thanksgiving
    Kids Day
    Feast of our Lady Mary (Peru)
    Public Holiday (Bolivia)
    Third Republic Day (Ghana)
    Day of the Public Functionary (Venezuela)
MON SPT 25:National One-Hit Wonder Day
    Day of the Armed Forces (Mozambique)
    Famarampaka Day (Rwanda)
TUE SPT 26:Yemen Arab Republic Independence Day
WED SPT 27:Feast of the Finding of the True Cross (Ethiopia)
THR SPT 28:Frances Willard Day
    St. Vaclav (Czechoslovakia)
    Referendum Day (Guinea)
    Birthday of Confucius (Taiwan)
FRI SPT 29:Michaelmas (UK)
    Constitution Day (Brunei)
    Battle of Boqueron Day (Paraguay)
    American Indian Day
SAT SPT 30:St. Jeromes Day
    Botswana Day
    National Hunting and Fishing Day

This Week's Birthdays:
Saturday, September 30: Jennifer Bellar

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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
 What is a military contractor referring to when talking about a
"manually powered fastener-driving impact device"?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
 What European nation consumes more spicy Mexican food than any other?
 ANS:  Norway
 WINNER: Yancey Sullivan
 WORST ANSER:  Peru, Yancey Sullivan
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Thanks to Yancey Sullivan and Eric Choate, This new rule is in effect:
Limit one answer per e-mail message per day per person.  Anyone can guess more
than once, just not on the same day.
Also, just a reminder:  Anyone, like Jennifer, wishing to have their birthday
mentioned on the mailing list, please respond and I will do it.

There are 58 counties in California.  Since 1991, every single county has been
declared a disaster area at least once.
Source: USA Today  Submitted by: David Proctor

Ignatz von Roll, a turkey farmer from Morsboich, Germany, fitted all his birds
with tiny turkish turbans, believing that if his turkeys wore the headgear,
after a while they would produce a generation of little turkeys with little
turbans on their heads.

The clickings and clackings that comprise the language of South Africa's
Khoi-Khoin tribe gave the early Dutch settlers such fits that they nicknamed
the Khoi-Khoins the "Hottentots," meaning "those who stutter and stammer."

Englishman James Puckle patented a design for the first machine gun in 1718.
The gun was designed to fire two types of bullets: round ones for Christian
conflicts and square ones for encounter with the heathen Turks.  The gun was
never built.

The Church of Corcuetos was under construction for 90 years in Spain-finally
completed in 1625.  It collapsed the day it was finished.

During the 1978 celebration of Anthony Bowser's 24th birthday, police knocked
on his door and arrested the Philadelphian for avoiding payment on 251 traffic
tickets.  The fines totaled $9,825, far exceeding the value of his car.

According to the "Book of Lists", a wrestler named Stanley Pinto was engaged in
a wrestling match against Count George Zaryoff in Providence, Rhode Island.
During the course of the bout, Pinto became so badly entangled in the ropes
that he turned upside-down trying to free himself, and his shoulders touched
the mat for the necessary three seconds.  The referee's decision was that
Pinto had pinned Pinto, and awarded the match to the Count, he being the only
other wrestler in the ring at the time.

According to the 1978 High Times Book of Recreational Drugs, some of the worst
ways to try to raise or lower one's conciousness are:
 1) scraping out the fibrous seams of banana peels and then smoking
    the peels
 2) Smoking cigarettes through a rotten green pepper, referred to as
    "Jackson's illusion pepper"
Other worst ways to get high include inhaling gasoline, carbon tetraclhoride,
etc., and drinking Romilar CF.

Bad game shows:
1) NBC's "Meet Your Match" was a question and answer game show with audience
participation in 1952.  It lasted eight days.
2) ABC's "Bon Voyage" a/k/a "Treasure Quest" used photographic skills and
rhyming clues to help contestants identify geographical locations.  It lasted
from April 24 to May 8, 1949.

At the Wensleydale School in North Yorkshire, England, some students have to
travel 13 miles to get from one end of the campus to the other.  Wenslydale
does provide a bus.

Famous Doomsday predictions throughout the ages:
1: December 31, 999 - Prophesied by the Apocrypha
2: February 1, 1524 - Predicted by astrologers in London
3: February 20, 1524 - Predicted by German Astrologer Johannes Stoeffler of
   Tubingan University (by flood)
4: October 13, 1736 - by mathmatician William Whiston English (by flood)
5: April 5, 1761 - William Bell, soldier in the Life Guards (by flooding)
6: March 17, 1842 - by Dr. John Dee (flooding)
7: April 3, 1843 - by William Miller, who led the Millerites (by fire)
8: July 7, 1843 - by religious leader Miller again.
9: March 21, 1844 - Miller again.
10:October 22, 1844 - Miller yet again.
11:November 13, 1900 - by the Brothers & Sisters of Red Death in czarist Russia
12:February 13, 1925 - by Margaret Rowen, a young Californian.
13:October, 1980 - Lee T. Spangler, owner of a grocey store (by fire)
14:twelve more predictions between 1925 and 1974.
15:1998 - by prophets because Christ died in the 1,998th week of his life.
16:1999 - by the psychic Criswell (by a black rainbow will suck the oxygen off
   the earth, causing our planet to race into the sun.  Al least he's creative!)

This week's obscure word: OBSTREPEROUS
1: Uncontrollably noisy 2: Stubbornly defiant

      Slama Sidhi Barakas,
      Brent