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Subj:	HOLIDAYS OF OCT 29 - NOV 4
HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF OCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 4:
SUN OCT 29:Turkish National Day
	   National Youth Day (Liberia)
	   Komsomal Foundation Day (USSR)
MON OCT 30:King Charles I day (UK)
TUE OCT 31:Halloween
	   Protestant Reformation Day
	   Nevada Day
	   Youth Honor Day
	   U.N.I.C.E.F. Day
	   Nutcrack Night (UK)
	   Birthday of President Chiang Kai-Shek (Taiwan)
	   National Magic Day
WED NOV 1:Day of the Dead (Mexico)
	  All Saints Day (or All Hallows Day)
	  Day of the Awakeners (Bulgaria)
THR NOV 2:Daniel Boone Day
	  All Souls Day
	  Old Man's Day (UK)
	  Balfour Decoration Day (Israel)
FRI NOV 3:Panama Independence Day
	  St. Hubert of Liege's Day (Belgium)
	  Meijo Tenno Day (Japan)
SAT NOV 4:Will Rogers Day
	  Mischeif Night (UK)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO:
David Proctor, October 22
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
	The Summer of 1989 was dubbed the "Summer of Sequels."  Can you name
the eight film sequels that were responsible for this?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
	How many bathrooms are there in the White House?
	ANS:  34
	WINNER:  Jeremy Brewer  -  31
	BEST ANSWER:  Eric Choate  -  16 and 1/2 bath
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In 1918 in Liberia, Charles King, the incumbent, beat Thomas Faulkner, the
challanger, by 600,000 votes in the country's presidential election.  The only
problem was that at the time Liberia only had 15,000 registered voters.  King
was declared the winner anyway.
The General Motors Company recalled Pope Paul VI's Cadillac in 1978 to correct
a possible fault in the steering mechanism.  Vatican officials informed the
automotive giant that the Pope did not own a Cadillac.
In 1977, a pilot at Edinburgh (Scotland) Airport was arrested and charged under
the 1974 British Air Navigation Order.  The entire trial lasted the seven
seconds it took the judge to declare the pilot "not guilty."
This week's obscure word:  PERJORATIVE
Having a tendency to make or become worse.
Electricity affected nearly every area of 19th-century life, even grand opera. 
In 1888 two singers in a performance of Charles Gounod's "Faust" staged a
spectacular duel scene by forming an electrical circuit.  Their swords were
commected to the poles of a battery under the stage via wires hidden beneath
their costumes, copper nails in their shoes, and metal plates on the stage
floor.  Each time they touched, the swords sparkled and crackled like
lightning.
On November 17, 1968, the New York Jets were playing the Oakland Raiders in a
televised football game.  With 50 seconds left to play, the Jets had what
looked to be an insurmountable 3-point lead.  NBC decided to switch from the
game to their regularly scheduled movie, "Heidi", and did.  The only problem
was that the Raiders scored two touchdowns after the switch to win the game 43
to 32.  This blunder came to be known as the "Heidi Bowl."
Pierre Bayle, a French philosopher, used to fall into fitful convulsionsat the
sight of flowing fountains.
"Kelly" was a 1978 Broadway musical based on a true story of a man who jumped
off the Brooklyn Bridge and lived.  It flopped.
A youth committee if Helsinki, Finland decided that their children should be
shielded from the dubious morality espoused in Donald Duck comic books.  The
committee cited the suspicious 50-year engagement between Donald and Daisy
Duck, the "uncertain parentage" of Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie,
and Donald's consistently bared bottom as testimony to his "racy life-style"
In 1897, the Indiana General Assembly passed house bill #246 proclaiming that
pi was actually 4.00
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