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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
► 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 its peak
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?:
► 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.

In Case You Didn't Know...

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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