To:	@the
Subj:	HOLIDAYS OF MARCH 24 - 30
HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF MARCH 24 - 30:
SUN MAR 24:Iditarod
MON MAR 25:Maryland Day
	   Lady Day (UK)
	   Greek Independence Day
	   Lapp Lady Day (Finland)
	   Day of Youth/Marshall Tito's Birthday (Yugoslavia)
	   Universal Vote Day (San Marino)
TUE MAR 26:Fiesta Del Arbol
	   Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day (Hawaii)
	   Bangladesh Independence Day
WED MAR 27:International Theater Day (USSR)
THR MAR 28:Steward's Day
	   Komensky Day (Czechoslavakia)
	   Teacher's Day (Czechoslavakia)
FRI MAR 29:Vietnam Veteran's Day
	   Canton Martyr's Day (China)
	   Swedish Colonial Day
	   Boganda Day (Central African Republic)
SAT MAR 30:Seward's Day
	   Doctor's Day
Note: Doctor's Day commemorates the day that ether was first used as an
anisthetic.
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
	What sport had been playedon the court at Stagg Field in Chicago that
was converted into the Manhattan Project Laboratory where scientists achievedf
the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in history?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
	What was the powder used by America's Founding Fathers to keep their
wigs white?
	ANSWER:	Ground Rice
	BEST ANSWER: Gunpowder - Curtis Beasley
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Homemade sign on a highway in Atlanta, where preparations are being
made for the 1996 Summer Olympics:
"It's been over 100 years since anyone came through here with a torch!"
In October, authorities in Tbilisi in the former Soviet republic of Georgia
closed down an illegal bakery whose specialty was khachapuri, the traditional
Georgian cheese pies.  It was illegal because the pies were being baked at an
unauthorized location:  a room at the Tbilisi morgue. [AP wirecopy, 10-25-95]
Hominy, Okla., inmate Bernard Crawford escaped in December by diving into the
back of the truck of a farmer who had come to the prison to collect food
scraps for pig slop.  He covered himself in the wet garbage and rode
undetected for abou a half-hour, when the combination of the smell and the
cold temperature got to him, forcing him to jump out, where he was spotted by
a motorist, who notified police. [The Sedalia Democrat-AP, 12-5-95]
The Wall Street Journal reported in October that among the trendy foods in
restaurants in Scotland was the "Mars bar supper"--a Mars bar dipped in fish
batter, fried in vegetable oil and served with a side order of chips. [Wall
Street Journal, 10- 16-95]
Bonnie Booth, 38, of Muncie, Ind., tried to remove a callus on her toe using a
razor blade. "It didn't work," a police spokesman said. "She was afraid it was
getting infected because it hurt real bad." Time for a doctor? Not for Booth:
she switched from the razor to her .410-gauge shotgun. Anesthetic? "She told
investigators she drank a gallon of vodka and two or three beers," police said.
Booth was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation. No word on the
efficacy of her self-surgery. (AP)
Obscure Word of the Week:	FLIBBERTIGIBBET
A silly restless person
"The Army told her that we couldn't guarantee her training for a job in
intelligence like we had said. One of our people went over and told the Army
recruiter that `yes, we could'," said Navy recruiter James Hutchins. The Navy
recruitment office in Leesburg, Fla., is next door to the Army recruitment
office. The Army recruiters didn't like the friendly competition: three Army
recruiters came over to explain their case to the Navy. They came armed with a
crowbar, and two marines were injured in the ruckus. Th woman signed up with
the Navy. "She said she wasn't too impressed with the Army," Hutchins said.
Two of the Army recruiters were charged with battery, the other with
aggravated battery. (AP)
Two teen-aged robbers in Miami got a little carried away when they attempted
to hold up a grocery store. The 18-year-old accidentally fired his gun,
hitting his 16-year-old accomplice in the leg. The surprise and pain caused
him to tightly grip his gun and it too went off -- hitting the first robber
in the leg. "I've had robbers shoot themselves before, but I never had two
robbers shoot each other," a police detective said after the two were arrested.
"I knew there was a mistake," said Aijaz Rizva, a clerk in the store. "They
were the only ones bleeding." (Reuter)
First-year Yale medical student Christopher Wahl heard the stories in the dorm
just like all the first-year students had for years. A spooky legend about
hundreds of brains stored in bottles in the dorm's basement. But unlike the
thousands that came before him, Wahl decided to check -- and found the stories
were true. "I could just see telling my parents I got thrown out of medical
school for this," Wahl remembers. But "no one really asked, `What were you
doing skulking around the bottom of the dorm?'" The archives contained not
only brains, but photographs and 50,000 pages of records of Dr. Harvey Cushing,
a pioneer in neurosurgery at Harvard who finished his career at Yale. Wahl
took a year off to catalog the extensive find; Cushing died in 1939. "It's fun
for me just because there are generations of physicians who never knew the
brains were down there," Wahl said. (AP)
						Slama sidhi barakas,
						Brent