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Subj:	HOLIDAYS OF APRIL 14 - 20
HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF APRIL 14 - 20:
SUN APR 14:Pan American Day
	   Youth Day (Angola)
MON APR 15:Buddhist New Years Festival
	   Bengali New Year
	   Public Holiday (Bolivia)
	   Kim Il-Sung's Birthday (North Korea)
	   Festival of the Sardine (Spain)
TUE APR 16:Queen Margrethe's Birthday (Denmark)
	   de Diego's Birthday (Puerto Rico)
WED APR 17:Syria Independence Day
	   Flag Day (American Samoa)
	   New Year's Day (Burma)
	   Children's Protection Day (Japan)
	   Alp Aufzug (Switzerland)
THR APR 18:Zimbabwe Independence Day
FRI APR 19:Sierra Leone Independence Day
	   King's Birthday (Swaziland)
	   Landing of the 33 Orientales (Uruguay)
	   Venezuela Independence Day
	   Sechselauten (Switzerland)
SAT APR 20:Paro Tsechu (Bhutan)
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
	What is the unfriendly meaning of the acronym NIMBY?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
	What was the second country in the world to adopt communism?
	ANSWER:  Mongolia, in 1921
	WINNER:  Eric Choate
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One Joke:
A little boy finds a frog. The frog suddenly speaks! "If you kiss me, I will
turn into a beautiful princess and give you anything you want!" The little boy
smiles and puts the frog in his pocket. A bit later, the frog pops out again
and says: "Really, if you kiss me, I will turn into a beautiful princess and
give you anything you want!" Boy smiles. Puts frog back. Again, the frog pops
out and says: "I mean it. If you kiss me, I will turn into a beautiful
princess and give you anything you want!" The boy says: "No. I don't like
girls. But a talking frog is cool!"
"Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that's not
true. I have the heart of a young boy -- in a jar on my desk."
     -- Steven King, 3/8/90
I am returning this otherwise good typing paperto you because someone has
printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
     -- English Professor, Ohio University
"Well, you got your Whopper's worth," a murder suspect told Miami police. He
had just confessed to the killing between bites of the police-bought hamburger.
But he left out the ending -- "I'm really hungry. Buy me a cheese steak," he
urged. When detectives complied, he finished his confession -- adding an
admission that he also committed a couple of robberies. Suspects so much
prefer fast food to jailhouse fare that "we should open an account at Burger
King," said Miami homicide detective Kent Hart. (AP)
Much of Britain's cattle population may be infected with the dreaded "mad cow"
disease, and all of them may have to be destroyed. But Cambodia has a better
idea of what to do with them. "The English have 11 million mad cows and
Cambodia has roughly the same number of equally mad land mines," a newspaper
in Phnom Penh said. The cattle should be sent out to roam the countryside and
trip the mines before people step on them, the paper said. "The plan is simple,
practical, and will make mincemeat of the problem overnight." (Reuter)
This Week's Obscure Word: 	RECALCITRANT
Obstinately defiant of authority or restraint
Brett Donohoe found a stray dog at an Uhrichsville, Ohio, shopping center, and
decided to take it home. He put it in his pickup truck, then stepped away to
do an errand. But when he got back, the truck was gone. Meanwhile, patrolman
James Myers spotted the pickup as it pulled out of the shopping center parking
lot, noticing it weaving around as it went down the road. Thinking the driver
was drunk, Myers chased after it. The truck drove through a yard and two
fields before crashing. No people were inside; the stray dog Donohoe had found
was behind the wheel. Donohoe was charged with leaving his vehicle unattended
with the engine running. The dog was apparently not charged. (AP)
Kellogg is recalling boxes of Frosted Flakes cereal from stores in six states
because they're contaminated. With what? Kellogg's Cocoa Krispies cereal. (UPI)
"She's wonderful," said one Capitol Hill staffer. "She's just a burst of
sunshine, a friendly, wonderful, lovely woman," agreed a Senate aide. But
Christopher Held, an aide to a Kentucky senator, complained that Bernice
Harris, 58, a Capitol coffee shop employee, had sexually harassed him by
calling him "baby". For the past 30 years, Harris has called most everyone
she meets "baby", "babycakes", "sugar", or something similar. Harris was
transferred after the complaint, but an outcry by other staffers got her
reinstated to her former job. (AP)
The janitor was suspicious: it seemed that every time Dennis Ferriter, 57, ate
his lunch in the school's supply room, a roll of toilet paper ended up
missing. He even noticed that when Ferriter, the principal Tri-County High
School in Plainfield, Wis., was absent for a day, a roll did not disappear.
Police searched Ferriter's car after lunch one day, and found a roll of toilet
paper. It was easy to trace it to the school supply: police had marked the
rolls with invisible ink. Ferriter has been suspended; the district attorney
is deciding whether it should bother to file charges. (AP)
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.  It should be thrown with
great force.  -- Dorothy Parker
							Slama sidhi barakas,
							Brent