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The Patient Ox (aka Hénock Gugsa)

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Monday, December 2, 2013

December Awareness - by The Stillwater Scouter


December Awareness*
by
The Stillwater Scouter
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December is Universal Human Rights Month and Awareness Month of Awareness Months Month.
Weekly observances in December involve Cookie Cutters, Hand Washing Awareness, Halcyon Days, and Bird Counts.

- December 1 is Day With(out) Art Day.

- December 2 is Mutt Day.

- December 3 is Persons With Disabilities Day.

- December 4 is Wildlife Conservation Day.

- December 5 is Ninja Day and Bathtub Party Day.

- December 6 is Miners' Day.

- December 7 is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

- December 8 is Worldwide Candle Lighting Day (The Scouter's best to BB's own Peachy ... and The Compassionate Friends).

- December 9 is Anti-corruption Day. [TPO says, "Good Luck with that!"]
 

- December 10 is Nobel Prize Day.

- December 11 is Mountain Day.

- December 12 is Poinsettia Day.

- December 13 starts the Leonid meteor shower.

- December 14 is Monkey Day.

- December 15 is Bill of Rights Day.

- December 16 is Chocolate-covered Anything Day.

- December 17 is Wright Brothers Day. The full moon is called 'Cold Moon' by Native Americans of the Great Lakes, as long nights/short days mean cold weather.

- December 18 is Migrants Day.

- December 19 is the first anniversary of Park Geun-hye being elected the first woman President of South Korea.

- December 20 is Underdog Day.

- December 21 is Yule, Winter Solstice, International Dalek Remembrance Day, and Humbug Day.

- December 22 is Haiku Poetry Day.

- December 23 is the date that 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo were released after 11 months.

- Christmas Eve and day are December 24 and 25.

- December 26 is Whiner's Day and Thank-you Note Day.

- December 27 is somebody's birthday.

- December 28 is Pledge of Allegiance Day.

- December 29 is Tick Tock Day.

- December 30 is Falling Needles Family Fest Day.

- December 31 is New Year's Eve.
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*Source: The Bulletin Board, Pioneer Press (11/30/2013)


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