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Subj:	HOLIDAYS OF JAN 7 - 20
HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF JANUARY 7 - 20:
SUN JAN 7:ST. Distaff
	  Grandmother's Day (Bulgaria)
	  Liberia's Pioneer Day
MON JAN 8:Battle of New Orleans Day
	  St. Gudule
	  Jackson Day
TUE JAN 9:Birthday of the Queen Mother Mariya (Yugoslavia)
THR JAN 11:Sir John A. McDonald Day
	   De Hostos Day
	   National Unity Day (Nepal)
FRI JAN 12:Zanzibar Revolution Day (Tanzania)
SAT JAN 13:Stephen Foster Memorial Day
	   Tyuendedagen (Norway)
	   St. Knut (Sweden)
	   Redemption Day (Ghana)
SUN JAN 14:Volunteer Fireman's Day
	   St. Sava (Yugoslavia)
	   Julian Calendar New Year
MON JAN 15:Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Observed)
	   Teacher's Day (Venezuela)
	   Adult's Day (Japan)
TUE JAN 16:National Nothing Day
	   National Good Teen Day
	   Martyr's Day (Benin)
WED JAN 17:Benjamin Franklin Day
	   Reading Poem's at the Imperial Palace (Japan)
	   St. Anthony the Abbot
THR JAN 18:St.Athanisius (Greece)
FRI JAN 19:Confederate Heroes Day
	   Robert E. Lee Day
	   Nameday of Archbishop Makarios Day (Cyprus)
	   Timket (Ethiopia)
	   Youman Nabi (Guyana)
SAT JAN 20:Inauguration Day
	   Philately day
	   National Heroes day (Cape Verde)
           Army Day (Mali)
	   St. Agnes Eve
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
	The four-leaf clover is considered lucky because of it's symmetry. 
What about the even rarer five-leaf clover?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:How many lemons does the average lemon tree yield per year?
	ANS:1500
	WINNER:Cherie Sullivan
	WORST ANSWER:Yancey Sullivan - 60
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Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
               
Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
               
A 15-year old boy who was driving a stolen car eluded police in a chase that
reached speeds of 70 mph. Unfortunately he lost his cool when he spotted his
grandmother driving toward him. He ducked down so she wouldn't see him, hit
the gas and lost control. He struck one car, then crossed the center line and
struck another car - his grandmother's.
               
Disneyland instituted a "grooming policy" in 1970, the day after a dozen of
mostly long-haired youths were arrested for disturbing the peace at the park.
Plainclothes police were hired to cull from the ticket line any young man
whose hair was too long, whose attire was deemed "unorthodox," or who was
judged to have a "chip on his shoulder."
               
In the 1940s, bombers depended on a coupling device built by a company founded
by Herbert "Zeppo" Marx to release atomic bombs over Japan. Zeppo, of the Marx
brothers, later invented and patented an alarm system worn on the wrist to
measure the heartbeat.
               
Wrigley's Chewing Gum is the only gum that does not contain wax; it contains
pine sap.
               
Hiring a supermodel for runway work costs $2,000 an hour, while using
relatively unknown women can cost as little as $550 an hour.
               
In New York City, in 1990, Angel Sanata was shot with a .357-magnum pistol
during a struggle with one of three men holding up the store where he worked.
The robbers were so shocked when Santana failed to fall that all three of them
fled. Sanata was no Superman - the bullet had become lodged in his trousers,
thus failing to hurt him.
               
In November, 1960 an American rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida,
went off course and crashed in Cuba, killing a farmer's cow. The Cuban
government gave the cow an official funeral as the cow was a victim of
'imperialist aggression.'
               
Nearly four years after he sleepwalked out a window and broke both legs, Ole
Christian Therkelsen finally forced his insurance company to accept the
two-story fall as an accident and pay up. Therkelsen, now 24, was an army
recruit headed home for Christmas in 1991 when he stopped at the military hotel
in Oslo for the night, the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten reported. A few hours
after he went to bed, he woke up in pain and on the ground two floors below
his room, after apparently marching out the window in his sleep. His legs were
broken and he was judged 15 percent disabled by his doctors, which normally
would have brought insurance compensation. But his insurer, Samvirke, rejected
his claim, saying in a letter that ``injuries sustained while sleeping are not
seen as random and unexpected and are thus not accidental.'' Therkelsen went
to a national appeals board, which ruled Monday that the sleepwalking injuries
certainly were not intentional.
               
Crayola has created a new batch of scented crayons to replace the mouthwatering
food-flavors many parents feared their children were more likely to eat than
use for coloring. Gone are favorites such as coconut, licorice, chocolate,
cherry and blueberry. The new scents, which children will recognize but not
hunger for, include baby powder, leather jacket, dirt, cedar chest and new car
smell.
               
      Some recent examples of paid newspaper obituaries:
               
o ``Mother attended Brigham Young University just long enough to write the
  school song, only to discover that drinking coffee truly was prohibited.''
o ``No one liked a good joke better than he did and he told them often. He
  even liked the bad ones and told them often also.''
o ``No dust ever settled on her furniture, and she could  make such a snug bed
  you needed a shoehorn to tuck  yourself in.''
o ``He loved the Gospel and food storage.''
o ``A special thanks ... to the BYU football team for  making his last day on
  earth so enjoyable.''
o An ex-steelworker and outdoorsman ``carried pain and loneliness his entire
  life'' and ``was fostered, adopted, abused and abandoned by his family, but
  not his friends.''
o ``Hyacinths, daffodils, the Holy Land, Michelangelo and the American Flag
  were her favorites. Take away gum chewers and the east winds, and she felt her
  life was perfect.''
o One woman was ``a young 27 years of age when a car traveling northbound on
  Tooele Highway entered her lane and took the most loving, beautiful, unselfish
  woman that God put on this earth.''
o ``She graciously accepted the fact that her only grandchildren would have
  four legs, a tail and a bark.''
o A piano teacher admonished in his own obit: ``Everybody -- Keep Practicing!
o ``She was well known for her business ineptness.''
o ``He was an avid reader and voracious snowball collector.''
o In 1992, a 41-year-old man died ``from complications due to the Reagan-Bush
  administration hostile attitudes toward the AIDS pandemic.'' The deceased
  ``placed full blame on them and their wanton neglect.''
o ``He always said he could weld anything but a broken heart or a crack of
  dawn.''
o One man was survived by his sister, brother, five grandchildren, two birds,
  a granddog, two grandcats and one grandrat.
o ``He loved the outdoors, camping, hunting, fishing and going to Wendover,
  Nev., to partake of the evils.''
o ``His easy, offbeat humor, in person and in his writings, was loved and
  appreciated by his many friends and family ... but not often by publishers.''
o ``My long term address will be Plot X, Salt Lake City Cemetery.''
                
Did you know that yak's milk is actually pink?
               
							Slama Sidhi Barakas,
							Brent