Tag: International events
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International Nacho day.
21st October is the world Nachos day. So I kind of got think of what nachos might be. What I learnt was it was probably borrowed firm the Spanish Nacho, which actually is a hypocoristic form of the first name Ignacio. After Ignacio Anaya Garcia (1895-1975) culinary origin myths credit May 23 1954 as its…
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International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Given the current situation, suddenly there is seems to an increase in public lynching, police versus the commoner situation. So maybe today is the right day to see where we are on this one. In 1997 UN launched the international day in support of torture victims this is a result of the UN convention against…
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World College Radio Day
We were on one of our family road trips, my daughter and MrD were arguing over the two FM stations, the thought struck that television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information surround us in our daily give us an illusion that our mind is active, for somewhere along the line we are…
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Bye-Bye Binary
“Clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl” ― Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet November is the month of transgender awareness and education and well as celebrating the gender identity it is different from the assigned sex, this is independent of sexual…
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The Brew
The first Thursday of November is the international Stout day and stout is a dark beer made of roasted malt or barley. Like Frank Zappa puts it, you can’t really be a country unless you have a beer and an airline, it helps if you have kind of football team or nuclear weapon, but at…
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No Girl Left Behind
Today is the international girl child day, I am looking back, when we grew up gender was never an issue, so to me lot of this stuff that media throws up is strange, yet last year a fellow blogger had put in a question, about girls changing name, I found it idiotic, I still do.…
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