Friday, November 5, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
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.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
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, 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."
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
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