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Subj:	HOLIDAYS OF NOV 12 - 18
HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF NOVEMBER 12 - 18:
SUN NOV 12:Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day
	   Birthday of Sun Yat-Sen
	   George Foreman Day (Houston)
TUE NOV 14:Prince of Wales Birthday (Virgin Islands)
	   H.M. King Hussein's Birthday (Jordan)
WED NOV 15:St. Leopold's Day
	   Proclamation of the Republic (Brazil)
	   TRNC Day (Cyprus)
FRI NOV 16:Day of Penance (West Germany)
	   International Stusents' Day (USSR)
	   Army Day (Zaire)
SAT NOV 18:Mickey Mouse's Birthday
	   Morocco Independence Celebration Day
	   Oman Independence Day
	   Public Holiday (Bolivia)
	   Vertiens Day (Haiti)
	   Foundation Day (Latvia)
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
	What is the average age at which America's presidentds have taken
office?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
	In Japan, they called this movie thriller "We Don't Want a Doctor." 
What was its title in the United States?
	ANSWER:Doctor No (the first film in the James Bond series)
	WINNER:David Proctor
        WORST ANSWER:Godzilla Takes Manhattan, Curtis Beasley
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George Plimpton's 40-inch Roman candle, nicknamed "Fat Man," was supposed to
break all existing records as it exploded high over Long Island in February,
1975.  Instead, it fizzled out, sat there a moment, and then blew a hole in the
ground 10-feet deep.
The Superior Court of New Jersey set bail for Tony DeAngelis at $46,500,000 to
insure his court appearance in a civil suit filed against him by the Harbor
Tank and Storage Company.  Tony couldn't raise the money, and he subsequently
spent the next ten years in jail.
From 1946 to 1971, Gordie Howe skated an astonishing 25 years for the same
hochey team, the Detroit Red Wings.  Among the records he amassed durign the 
1687 NHL games he played, Howe received an incredible 500 stitches in his face.
Christian Busch, a chemistry student, spent sixty-six semesters at Germany's
University of Giessen without graduating, or roughly 33 years.
This Week's Obscure Word:	OBNUBILATE
To add clouds or make cloudy
On February 27, 1978, NBC was scheduled to show Part Two of a three part series
called "Loose Change."  Instead of part two appearing, however, seventeen
minutes of Part Three flashed across the screen.  NBC stopped the show and
started over with the correct episode.
Ice Cream Fraud #1:
	Why, did Reuben Mattus call his ice cream H„agen-Dazs when he made it
to the Bronx?  Because "I figured there were people who hated the Irish, there
were people who hated the Italians, there were people who hated the Poles, and
there were people who hated the Jews.  However, nobody hates the Danes."  The
umlaut, such as the one over the first a in H„agen, doesn't even exist in
Danish.
Ice Cream Fraud #2:
	Frustrated in his attempt to persuade the above-mentioned Mattus to let
him distribute H„agen-Dazs to supermarkets, Richie Smith invented Frusen
Gladje.  Where H„agen-Dazs had come in a container bearing a map of
Scandinavia, Frusen Gladje listed its address in both English and Swedish in
spite of the fact it was made in Utica, New York.
Ice Cream Fraud #3:
	Apparently beleiving that Finland and Norway lacked the the cachet of
Sweden and Denmark, Abe Kroll named his H„agen-Dazs knockoff Alpen Zauber.  Its
container bragged about its Swiss commitment to excellence although the ice
cream had come no closer to switzerland than 921 East New York Avenue, where
Abe manufactured it.
According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the worst English tounge
twister is "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick."  In the foreign
language category, the Xhosa (a South African dialect) for "The skunk rolled
down and ruptured its larynx" is no mean feat: "Iqaqa laxi-qikaqika kwaze
kwaqhawaka uqhoqhoqha"
						Slama sidhi barakas,
						Brent
Note: To those of you who entered the baseball contest before this season, the
results will be mailed to you soon.