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November Trivia, History
and Jokes
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November happens to be
► Tobacco Awarness Month
► NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month
► National Beard Month
► Diabetes Awarness Month
► National Native American and Native Alaskan Month
On the first Tuesday in November, Australians can look
forward to the Melbourne Cup horse race.
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November Trivia
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► November is the eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of
30 days.
► The Latin translation of "novem" is nine,
for it was originally the ninth month on the Roman calander.
► November begins on the same day of the week as March
every year and also February except in leap years
► In Finnish, November is called marraskuu, meaning "month
of the dead"
► In Xhosa, November is called ngeyeNkanga, meaning "month
of the small yellow daisies"
► November in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal
equivalent to May in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa
► Around November 17, the Leonids meteor shower reaches
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Why
Did The Chicken Cross The Road?:
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► Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly
exaggerated.
► Molly Yard: It was a hen!
► Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other
side.
► Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages.
► Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.
► The Godfather: I didn't want its mother to see it
like that.
► Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.
► Othello: Jealousy.
► Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One's social engagements
whilst in town ought never expose one to such barbarous inconvenience
- although, perhaps, if one must cross a road, one may do
far worse than to cross it as the chicken in question.
► Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of
a low-grade insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a
hen.
► Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to
go o'er.
► Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen. (Much laughter)
► Hamlet: That is not the question.
► Donne: It crosseth for thee.
► Constable: To get a better view.
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In
Case You Didn't Know...
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Unlike today's feast consisting of turkey, stuffing, cranberry
and so on..., the original Thanksgiving menu probably consisited
of the following items:
► Seethed [boiled] Lobster
► Roasted Goose
► Boiled Turkey
► Fricase of Coney
► Pudding of Indian Corn Meal with dried Whortleberries
► Seethed Cod
► Roasted Duck
► Stewed Pumpkin
► Roasted Venison with Mustard Sauce
► Savory Pudding of Hominy
►Fruit and Holland Cheese
Thanksgiving Trivia
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