Tuesday, April 20, 2010

National Hairball Awareness Day, 27 April


They will actually have hairballs on view at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (on campus at Walter Reed Army Medical Center)
6900 Georgia Ave., NW (enter WRAMC at Elder St. gate, NMHM is Bldg 54)
Washington, DC
"Learn how hairballs (or trichobezoars) form in the stomach, see a
selection of human and animal hairballs on display and get a chance to
hold an animal hairball.
Bezoars form in the stomach of humans and some
animals, and are made of indigestible matter such as hair, food and some
medicines."
This is for those who want the experience of a holding a hairball? Right.

International Juggler's Day, 18 April



For all those with multi-tasking skills.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Bizarre Holiday, Snowman Burning Day, 20 March



Snowman Burning Day is a festival to mark the end of winter and welcome spring. This holiday is celebrated, in March, by the Swiss as well as the Americans. In some cultures, they use the burning patterns to determine the type of summer they will have.

Bizarre Holiday, Worship of Tools Day, 11 March

Bizarre Holiday, Uppity Women Day, 8 March



She says it all.

Bizarre Holiday, National Pig Day, 1 March



National Pig Day is "to accord the pig its rightful, though generally unrecognized, place as one of man's most intellectual and domesticated animals."
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