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October
Trivia
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► Hawaii has a special October event called "the
Aloha Festival," sometimes described as the "Mardi
Gras of the Pacific."
► Columbus Day is celebrated the second Monday every October.
► Germany's Oktoberfest originally began on October 17,
1810, the wedding day of King Ludwig I. ► The annual festival
starts much earlier, often in September. In America, special
holidays start earlier well. Christmas celebrations and sales
start in September, and even July in some department stores.
► Dayight Savings Time ends every year at 2:00 A.M. local
time on the last Sunday of October
► October's flower is the calendula.
► October is the tenth month in the Gregorian calendar,
received its name from the Latin numeral octo meaning "eight",
because in the original Roman calendar it was the eighth month.
► October begins (astrologically) with the sun in the
sign of Libra and ends in the sign of Scorpio. |
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"When
I Was Younger..."
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► Kids today think the world revolves around them. In
my day, the sun revolved around the world, and the world was
perched on the back of a giant tortoise.
(Jonathan Paul)
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