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In North and South Carolina, May 10 marks the anniversaries of the death of Thomas Jonathan ’Stonewall’ Jackson (a general in the Confederate ar..→

Mother’s Day is observed in the United States on the second Sunday in May annually. The first celebration of Mother’s Day was held at St Andrew’..→

In 2006, the United Nations established World Migratory Bird Day to be held on the second weekend of May every year. The event was founded as an..→

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) is a very real disorder. It is known that Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is an auto..→

The largest number of nurses is in Finland: 2162 nurses to 100 000 people. For example in Haiti the ratio is 5:100 000. International Nurses Da..→

“Day of the Teacher” arose out of legislation co-sponsored by CTA and the Association of Mexican American Educators. Sen. Joseph Montoya wrote t..→

The Ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate Latin Acts 1:9-11 section title: Ascensio Iesu) is the Christian teaching found in the New T..→

Very often in modern families husbands and wives are so busy at work, with children, TV, Internet and etc that they spent only 4 minutes a day t..→

Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) is an Israeli national holiday commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli co..→

Malcolm X Day is an American holiday in honor of the civil rights leader Malcolm X which is celebrated either on May 19 (Malcolm’s birthday), or..→

Every third Sunday in May, people around the world gather to honour and celebrate the lives of those who have been affected in some way, by the ..→

Blood pressure changes during the day. It is lowest as you sleep and rises when you get up. World Hypertension Day is a day designated and init..→

Interesting Facts: During President Lyndon Johnson’s term, many people misdialed the White House number and instead reached the home of a New Yo..→

Top facts about museums: the Spam Museum at Austin, Minnesota, has ‘Spambassadors’ giving out Spam cubes on sticks; the Museum of Death in Holly..→

Many vegetarians follow a meat-free diet in an attempt to lower the pressure meat production places on the environment. According to wikipedia.o..→

Emancipation was proclaimed in Tallahassee on May 20, 1865, 11 days after the end of the Civil War and two years after the proclamation was firs..→

The International Prototype Kilogram was commissioned by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) under the authority of the Metre ..→

It was the American Thomas Sullivan who accidentally invented the teabag when he sent out samples in small silk pouches to customers in 1904. Th..→

The Torah was given by God to the Jewish people on Mount Sinai more than 3300 years ago. Every year on the holiday of Shavuot jews renew their a..→

In 2001, UNESCO adopted the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity and in December 2002, the UN General Assembly, in its resolution 57/249,..→

Interesting facts about frogs. Frogs are amphibians which inhabit almost all the planet. They live in water, on the ground, on the trees, even a..→

Crohn’s disease, also known as Crohn syndrome and regional enteritis, is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that may affect any part of the ga..→