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Subj:	HOLIDAYS OF MAR 31 - APR 6
HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF MARCH 31 - APRIL 6:
SUN MAR 31:Birthday of Andrew Lang (Scotland)
MON APR 1:April Fools Day
	  Hebrew University Day
	  Abdoulage Issa Day (Benin)
	  Islamic Republic Day (Iran)
	  Captain Regents Day (San Marino)
TUE APR 2:Pascua Florida Day
	  International Children's Book Day
	  Taily Day (UK)
	  Revolution Day (Iran)
WED APR 3:Washington Irving Day
	  Anniversary of the Death of Emporor Jimmu (Japan)
THR APR 4:Senegal Independence Day
	  Shiohi-Gari (Shellfish Gathering, Japan)
	  Pilgrimage to Nafels (Switzerland)
FRI APR 5:Johnstow (UK)
	  Ching Ming (Taiwan)
	  Arbor Day (S. Korea)
SAT APR 6:Van Riebeeck Day (S. Africa)
	  Patriots' Victory Day (Ethiopia)
	  Chakri Memorial Day (Thailand)
	  Founding of the Church of Latterday Saints
THIS MONTH IS:Boost Your Hometown Month
	      Correct Posture Month
	      Freedom Shrine Month
	      Glaucoma Alert Month
	      Philatelic Societies Month
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
	What is the second-most visited American home in the United States-
Outdrawn only by the White House?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
	What sport had been played on the court at Stagg Field in Chicago that
was converted into the Manhattan Project laboratory where scientists achieved
the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in history?
	ANSWER:	 Squash
	WINNERS:  Eric Choate and Matthew McInteer
	BEST ANSWER:  David Morris - The Stagg Field Fission Tournament - won
		      by Nuke Rockne
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One joke:
These 2 music lovers are held hostage and both are going to be shot. One is a
country music lover and the other is a classical music lover. Before they are
shot they are asked for one last request. So the Country lover says "I would
like to listen to Achy Breaky heart 50 times over" and the classical lover
says "shoot me first".
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Scotland Yard is investigating reports of thefts from London's Trafalgar
Square. It's not the monuments that are at risk, but the pigeons -- locals say
two men have taken at least 1,000 pigeons away in boxes in recent months.
Police think the birds are ending up on restaurant tables. Locals are worried
the diminishing bird population will cut down on the tourist trade. According
to Bernard Rayner, who sells bird seed to the tourists to feed the birds,
"Trafalgar Square is the only place in the country you can get a wild animal
to sit on your head." (AP)
The city ordinance in Harthahorne, Oklahoma, Section 363, states that it shall
be unlawful to put any hypnotized person in a display window
Police in St. Petersburg, Fla., were surprised when a handcuffed shoplifting
suspect they had brought to the station jumped into a patrol car and drove off.
Officers decided not to chase after him -- "We just didn't feel there was a
need to endanger the public over something like this," a spokesman said.  The
car was found 100 blocks away a few hours later. But Anastasios Balodimas, 29,
was free less than 24 hours. He was arrested the next day, as the suspect in
another shoplifting case. He was charged with  grand theft and resisting
arrest.
In Russell, Kansas, it is against the law to have a musical car horn.
Two American men vacationing in the Czech Republic fought with an armed
intruder in the apartment where they were staying. Frank Pond, 46, of Chicago
and Don Royse, 63, of St. Louis tackled the man and tried to knock him
unconscious with the butt of his gun. When that was unsuccessful, the two sat
on him until police arrived to take care of the matter. It turns out the man
was Ladislav Winkelbauer, the country's most wanted man after his escape from
prison. "It's a vacation we'll never forget," Royse said. "I've never seen a
gun that closely before." (Reuter)
Obscure Word of the Week:	STRAPPADO
A former punishment or torture consisting of hoisting the subject by a rope and
letting him fall to the length of the rope.  Also, a machine used in the
infliction of this torture.
Four Chicago men by the name of Eric Thompson are upset with a local adoption
agency over a letter each received. "You have been named as the father of an
unborn baby," each letter said, and "the law requires that the agency make
diligent efforts to locate and notify the child's father" of the baby's
pending adoption. At least one of the men opened the letter in front of his
wife. "All I could say was, `I don't know what this is. Honest.' Well, what
do you think a wife thinks when she hears that?" The Children's Home and Aid
Society is "rethinking its strategy" in such cases, and admits such letters
have been sent to as many as 60 men with a common name. In the recent case,
none of the four Eric Thompsons was the 19-year-old father being sought. (AP)
Clinton County, Ohio, calls for a fine for anyone caught leaning against a
public building.
						Slama sidhi barakas,
						Brent