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<span style="color: #d9ead3;">Typically, we associate the holiday with drinking, drinking, and drinking. Oh, and being Irish.
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When you learn all the facts, this holiday actually kind of... sucks.
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>Sorry to burst your bubble...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>But here are <b>Honest Facts</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>About St. Patrick's Day.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </i></span><br />
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Historians believe he was born in what is now England, Scotland or Wales.
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;">St. Patrick's color is...</span><span> <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Blue</span></span>!</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">You might want to hold off on the green face paint this year.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>St. Patrick's Day as we know it was invented.... in America!</span> </span></b> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Really?! Catholic University's Irish American expert, <a href="http://history.cua.edu/faculty/Meagher/" target="_blank">Timothy Meagher</a>,
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span>March 17th is the day St. Patrick died. </span></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9;">So you're celebrating his death....
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>St. Patrick didn't drive all the snakes from Ireland๐</b></span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">๐ </span>The shamrock isn't the symbol of Ireland<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> โ</span></span></span></b></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sure, you can find shamrocks all over the Emerald Isle, but the real symbol is the <b>harp</b>.
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</span><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Today's booze-bags look to the holiday as a great
excuse to start drinking Guinness at 9 AM. Until 1970, however, all pubs in Ireland were closed in
observance of the religious feast day.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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It's just about as Irish as spaghetti and meatballs. You're better off sticking to Guinness.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span><b><span>๐บ๐ธ There are more Irish people living in the U.S. than Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช </span></b></span>
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The population of <a href="https://www.catholic.org/saints/story.php?id=45045" target="_blank">Ireland is about 4.2. million</a>.
In contrast, there are around 34 MILLION people of Irish descent living in America.
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Saint Patrick's Day</b> or the <b>Feast of Saint Patrick</b> (Irish: <b>Lรก Fhรฉile Pรกdraig</b>, "the Day of the Festival of Patrick") is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated on <b>17 March</b>. <br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is named after Saint Patrick (c. AD 385โ461), the most commonly <span style="font-size: large;">recognized</span> of the patron saints of Ireland.<br />Saint Patrick's Day was made an official Christian feast day in the early seventeenth century and is observed by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion (especially the Church of Ireland), the Eastern Orthodox Church and Lutheran Church. <br />The day commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland, as well as Irish heritage and culture in general. The day generally involves public parades and festivals, cรฉilithe, and wearing of green attire or shamrocks. <br />Christians also attend church services and the Lenten restrictions on eating and drinking alcohol are lifted for the day.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Saint Patrick's Day is a public holiday in the <span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b>Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador and Montserrat. </b></span><br />It is also widely celebrated by the Irish diaspora around the world; especially in <span style="color: #d9ead3;"><b>Britain, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand</b></span>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: x-large;"><span><b>Canada</b></span></span><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><br />One of the longest-running Saint Patrick's Day parades in North America occurs each year in Montreal, whose city flag includes a shamrock in its lower-right quadrant. The parades have been held continually since 1824. <br />In Manitoba, the Irish Association of Manitoba runs an annual three-day festival of music and culture based around St. Patrick's Day. <br />In Quebec City, there was a parade from 1837 to 1926. <br />The Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team was known as the Toronto St. Patricks from 1919 to 1927, and wore green jerseys.</span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Locations </span><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">around the world</span></b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> that go โgreenโ for St. Paddyโs Day:</span></span></div><div class="post-title" style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">St. Patrickโs Day is celebrated annually on March 17, the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1,000 years. On St. Patrickโs Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feastโon the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">St. Patrickโs occurs on <b>March 17</b>th, in observance of the death of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. What began as a religious feast day in the 17th century has evolved into a variety of festivals across the globe celebrating Irish culture with parades, special foods, music, dancing, and a whole lot of green.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Saint Patrick, who lived during the fifth century, is the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain, he was kidnapped and brought to Ireland as a slave at the age of 16. He later escaped, but returned to Ireland and was credited with bringing Christianity to its people. In the centuries following Patrickโs death (believed to have been on March 17, 461), the mythology surrounding his life became ever more ingrained in the Irish culture: Perhaps the most well known legend is that he explained the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) using the three leaves of a native Irish clover, the shamrock.</span></span></span></div><span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;"><span>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Since around the ninth or 10th century, people in Ireland have been observing the Roman Catholic feast day of St. Patrick on March 17. Interestingly, however, the first parade held to honor St. Patrickโs Day took place not in Ireland but in the United States. On March 17, 1762, Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through New York City. Along with their music, the parade helped the soldiers reconnect with their Irish roots, as well as with fellow Irishmen serving in the English army.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1848, several New York Irish Aid societies decided to unite their parades to form one official New York City St. Patrickโs Day Parade. Today, that parade is the world โs oldest civilian parade and the largest in the United States, with over 150,000 participants. Each year, nearly 3 million people line the 1.5-mile parade route to watch the procession, which takes more than five hours. Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Savannah also celebrate the day with parades involving between 10,000 and 20,000 participants each.</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"><span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The American Irish soon began to realize, however, that their large and growing numbers endowed them with a political power that had yet to be exploited. They started to organize, and their voting block, known as the โgreen machine,โ became an important swing vote for political hopefuls. Suddenly, annual St. Patrickโs Day parades became a show of strength for Irish Americans, as well as a must-attend event for a slew of political candidates. In 1948, President Harry S. Truman attended New York City โs St. Patrickโs Day parade, a proud moment for the many Irish Americans whose ancestors had to fight stereotypes and racial prejudice to find acceptance in the New World.</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As Irish immigrants spread out over the United States, other cities developed their own traditions. One of these is Chicagoโs annual dyeing of the Chicago River green. The practice started in 1962, when city pollution-control workers used dyes to trace illegal sewage discharges and realized that the green dye might provide a unique way to celebrate the holiday. That year, they released 100 pounds of green vegetable dye into the riverโenough to keep it green for a week! Today, in order to minimize environmental damage, only 40 pounds of dye are used, and the river turns green for only several hours.</span></span></span></div><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: large;"><span>
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<span style="color: #d9ead3; font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In modern-day Ireland, St. Patrickโs Day was traditionally been a religious occasion. In fact, up until the 1970s, Irish laws mandated that pubs be closed on March 17. Beginning in 1995, however, the Irish government began a national campaign to use interest in St. Patrickโs Day to drive tourism and showcase Ireland and Irish culture to the rest of the world. Today, approximately 1 million people annually take part in Ireland โs St. Patrickโs Festival in Dublin, a multi-day celebration featuring parades, concerts, outdoor theater productions and fireworks shows.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><a href="https://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day/history-of-st-patricks-day">https://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day/history-of-st-patricks-day</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> </span><br /><span>๐ฎ๐ช๐๐ ๐บ ๐</span></span><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span>๐ป</span></span> โ๏ธ</span><span><span>๐</span>๐งโโ๏ธ </span></span><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;"><span><span><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span>โ </span></span>๐๐ฉ </span>๐งโโ๏ธ๐บ</span><span><span>๐ </span>๐ป๐</span><span><span>๐ฆ</span>๐ข</span><br /></span></div><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: large;">
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">March is Womenโs History Month</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Women's History Month</b> is an annual declared month that highlights
the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary
society. It is celebrated during March in the United States, the United
Kingdom, and Australia, corresponding with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day" title="International Women's Day">International Women's Day</a> on <b>March 8</b>, and <b>during October</b> in Canada, corresponding with the celebration of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persons_Day" title="Persons Day">Persons Day</a> on <b>October 18</b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="mw-headline" id="Women's_History_Week">Women's History Week</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the United States, Women's History Month traces its beginnings back to the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day" title="International Women's Day">International Women's Day</a> in 1911. In 1978, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_district" title="School district">school district</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoma,_California" title="Sonoma, California">Sonoma, California</a> participated in <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_History_Week&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Women's History Week (page does not exist)">Women's History Week</a>,
an event designed around the week of March 8 (International Women's
Day). In 1979 a fifteen-day conference about women's history was held at
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Lawrence_College" title="Sarah Lawrence College">Sarah Lawrence College</a> from July 13 until July 29, chaired by historian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Lerner" title="Gerda Lerner">Gerda Lerner</a>. It was co-sponsored by Sarah Lawrence College, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Action_Alliance" title="Women's Action Alliance">Women's Action Alliance</a>, and the Smithsonian Institution.
When its participants learned about the success of the Sonoma County's
Women's History Week celebration, they decided to initiate similar
celebrations within their own organizations, communities, and school
districts. They also agreed to support an effort to secure a National Women's History Week.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">In February 1980, President <b>Jimmy Carter</b> issued a presidential
proclamation declaring the week of March 8, 1980, as National Women's
History Week. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">The proclamation stated, "From the first settlers who came to our
shores, from the first American Indian families who befriended them, men
and women have worked together to build this nation. Too often the
women were unsung and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed. But
the achievements, leadership, courage, strength and love of the women
who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so
well. As Dr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Lerner" title="Gerda Lerner">Gerda Lerner</a>
has noted, 'Womenโs History is Womenโs Right.' It is an essential and
indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage,
and long-range vision. I ask my fellow Americans to recognize this
heritage with appropriate activities during National Womenโs History
Week, March 2โ8, 1980. I urge libraries, schools, and community
organizations to focus their observances on the leaders who struggled
for equality โ<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony" title="Susan B. Anthony">Susan B. Anthony</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth" title="Sojourner Truth">Sojourner Truth</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Stone" title="Lucy Stone">Lucy Stone</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Mott" title="Lucretia Mott">Lucretia Mott</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton" title="Elizabeth Cady Stanton">Elizabeth Cady Stanton</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman" title="Harriet Tubman">Harriet Tubman</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Paul" title="Alice Paul">Alice Paul</a>.
Understanding the true history of our country will help us to
comprehend the need for full equality under the law for all our people.
This goal can be achieved by ratifying the 27th Amendment to the United
States Constitution, which states that 'Equality of Rights under the Law
shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on
account of sex.'" </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carter was referring to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment" title="Equal Rights Amendment">Equal Rights Amendment</a>,
which was never ratified, not to the amendment which did become the
27th Amendment to the United States Constitution after his presidency.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">In 1981, responding to the growing popularity of Women's History Week, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Mikulski" title="Barbara Mikulski">Barbara Mikulski</a> (D-Maryland) co-sponsored the first Joint Congressional Resolution proclaiming a Women's History Week. Congress passed their resolution as <a class="external text" href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-95/pdf/STATUTE-95-Pg148.pdf" rel="nofollow">Pub. L. 97-28</a>, which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as โWomenโs History Week."
Throughout the next several years, Congress continued to pass joint
resolutions designating a week in March as Womenโs History Week.
Schools across the country also began to have their own local
celebrations of Women's History Week and even Women's History Month. By
1986, fourteen states had declared March as Women's History Month.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1987, after being petitioned by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Women%27s_History_Project" title="National Women's History Project">National Women's History Project</a>, Congress passed <a class="external text" href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-101/pdf/STATUTE-101-Pg99.pdf" rel="nofollow">Pub. L. 100-9</a> which designated the month of March 1987 as Womenโs History Month.
Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions
requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year
as Womenโs History Month. Since 1988, U.S. presidents have issued annual proclamations designating the month of March as Womenโs History Month.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">State departments of education also began to encourage celebrations
of Women's History Month as a way to promote equality among the sexes in
the classroom. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a>,
and other states developed and distributed curriculum materials in all
of their public schools, which prompted educational events such as essay
contests. Within a few years, thousands of schools and communities
began to celebrate of Women's History Month. They planned engaging and
stimulating programs about women's roles in history and society, with
support and encouragement from governors, city councils, school boards,
and the U.S. Congress.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">In March 2011, the Obama administration released a report, <i>Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being</i>, showing women's status in the U.S. in 2011 and how it had changed over time. This report was the first comprehensive federal report on women since the report produced by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_the_Status_of_Women" title="Commission on the Status of Women">Commission on the Status of Women</a> in 1963.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">Some organizations have issued statements marking Women's History Month, for example the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee">Republican National Committee</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee" title="Democratic National Committee">Democratic National Committee</a>.</span></span><br />
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America recently sponsored hearings in many parts of the country. The
Women's Progress Commission will soon conduct hearings to promote
interest in preserving areas that are relevant in American women's
history. Some of the groups promoting this interest are state historical
societies, women's organizations, and groups such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Scouts_of_the_USA" title="Girl Scouts of the USA">Girl Scouts of the USA</a>.</span></span><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Why Women's History?</b><br />Women's contributions and accomplishments for the most part have been overlooked and consequently omitted from mainstream culture. <b>The National Women's History Museum</b> helps fill that void. Rather than rewriting current exhibitions at other history museums or having to decide what to omit elsewhere to "fit in" women's history, the Museum serves to place women's history along side current historical exhibitions. <br /><br />Women's history isn't meant to rewrite history. The objective is to promote scholarship and expand our knowledge of American history. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.womenshistory.org/"><span style="color: #ea9999;">https://www.womenshistory.org</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>March is Women's History Month</b><br />The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">There really can't be any adult in this great big world that has
never tried coffee. It's consumed everywhere, and judging by the amount of Starbucks locations in the United States alone, (in 2012, <a href="http://www.statisticbrain.com/starbucks-company-statistics/" target="_hplink">there were 10,924!</a>) we <i>love</i> our caffeine.</span></span>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">And that's fine. In fact, there are many advantages to being one of the <a href="http://www.statisticbrain.com/coffee-drinking-statistics/" target="_hplink">54 percent of Americans over 18 who drink coffee everyday</a>.
Coffee can be pretty amazing for your brain, your skin and your body.
Read on to discover 11 reasons you should wake up and smell the coffee...</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-large;">Americans get more antioxidants from coffee than anything else.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to a study done in 2005, <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/acs-cin081905.php" target="_hplink">"nothing else comes close" to providing as many antioxidants as coffee</a>. While fruits and vegetables also have tons of antioxidants, the human body <a href="http://phys.org/news6067.html" target="_hplink">seems to absorb the most from coffee</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-large;"><b>Just smelling coffee could make you less stressed</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">Researchers at the Seoul National University examined the brains of rats who were stressed with sleep deprivation and <a href="http://www.livescience.com/2614-whiff-coffee-wake.html" target="_hplink">discovered that those who were exposed to coffee aromas experienced changes in brain proteins tied to that stress</a>.
Note, this aroma study doesn't relate to stress by itself, only to the stress felt as a result of sleep deprivation. Now, we're not entirely sure if this means you should keep a bag of roasted coffee beans on your nightstand every night, but feel free to try!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">ScienceDaily reported in 2012 that <a href="http://www.aan.com/pressroom/home/pressrelease/1096" target="_hplink">drinking coffee may help people with Parkinson's disease control their movement</a>.
Ronald Postuma, MD, the study author, said, "Studies have shown that people who use caffeine are less likely to develop Parkinson's disease, but this is one of the first studies in humans to show that caffeine can help with movement symptoms for people who already have the disease." </span></span>
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-large;">Coffee is great for your liver (especially if you drink alcohol).</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">A study published in 2006 that included 125,000 people over 22 years showed that <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/jaaj-cda060806.php" target="_hplink">those who drink at least one cup of coffee a day were 20 percent less to develop liver cirrhosis</a>
-- an autoimmune disease caused by excessive alcohol consumption that could lead to liver failure and cancer. Arthur L Klatsky, the lead author of the study, told The Guardian, "Consuming coffee seems to have
some protective benefits against alcoholic cirrhosis, and the more coffee a person consumes the less risk they seem to have of being hospitalised or dying of alcoholic cirrhosis." </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">Studies have also shown that coffee can help prevent people from developing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). An international team of researchers led by Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School revealed
that <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130816153019.htm" target="_hplink">drinking four or more cups of coffee or tea a day may be beneficial in preventing the progression of NAFLD</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">A <a href="http://www.aan.com/PressRoom/home/GetDigitalAsset/10430" target="_hplink">study done by the National Institute of Health</a>
found that those who drink four or more cups of coffee were about 10 percent less likely to be depressed than those who had never touched the java. And apparently it's not because of the "caffeine high" -- Coke
can also give you a caffeine high, but <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/09/nih-study-links-soda-with-depression" target="_hplink">it's linked to depression</a>. Study author, Honglei Chen, MD, PhD, <a href="http://www.prevention.com/mind-body/emotional-health/how-coffee-fights-depression" target="_hplink">told Prevention.com</a> that the proposed reason coffee makes you feel good is because of those trusty antioxidants.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-large;"><b>Coffee consumption has been linked to lower levels of suicide.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">A <a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/07/drinking-coffee-may-reduce-risk-of-suicide-by-50/" target="_hplink">study done by the Harvard School of Public Health</a>
determined that drinking between two and four cups of coffee can reduce
the risk of suicide in men and women by about 50 percent. The proposed
reason is because coffee <a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/07/drinking-coffee-may-reduce-risk-of-suicide-by-50/" target="_hplink">acts as a mild antidepressant by aiding in the production of neurotransmitters</a> like serotonin, dopamine and noradrenaline.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-large;"><b>Coffee could reduce your chances of getting skin cancer (if you're a woman).</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School <a href="http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/72/13/3282" target="_hplink">followed 112,897 men and women over a 20-year period</a>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">The New York Times <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/how-coffee-can-galvanize-your-workout/" target="_hplink">reports</a>,
"Scientists and many athletes have known for years, of course, that a cup of coffee before a workout jolts athletic performance, especially in endurance sports like distance running and cycling." Caffeine <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/how-coffee-can-galvanize-your-workout/" target="_hplink">increases the number of fatty acids in the bloodstream</a>, which allows athletes' muscles to absorb and burn those fats for fuel, therefore saving the body's small reserves of carbohydrates for later on in the exercise. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">Coffee also lowers risk of <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120111133958.htm" target="_hplink">Type 2 diabetes</a>, according to a study from The American Chemical Society. The study's researchers found that <a href="http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2012/acs-presspac-march-14-2012/why-coffee-drinking-reduces-the-risk-of-type-2-diabetes.html" target="_hplink"> people who drink four or more cups of coffee a day reduce their chances of developing Type 2 diabetes by 50 percent</a>. Subsequently, with every additional cup, the risk gets lowered by <a href="http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2012/acs-presspac-march-14-2012/why-coffee-drinking-reduces-the-risk-of-type-2-diabetes.html" target="_hplink">7 percent</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-large;"><b>Drinking coffee could help keep your brain healthier for longer.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">Researchers from the University of South Florida and the University of Miami found that people older than 65 who had higher blood levels of caffeine <a href="http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=120795&CultureCode=en" target="_hplink">developed Alzheimer's disease two to four years later than others with lower caffeine</a>. <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120604142615.htm" target="_hplink">Dr. Chuanhai Cao, a neuroscientist at the USF, and co-author of the study, said</a>,
"We are not saying that moderate coffee consumption will completely protect people from Alzheimer's disease. However, we firmly believe that moderate coffee consumption can appreciably reduce your risk of
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;">You usually drink coffee when you are sleep-deprived, right? Well, that much-needed jolt not only keeps you awake, it makes you sharper.
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-large;">COFFEE IS THE BEST THING EVER.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>What: </b></span> International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On International Womenโs Day, we have a number of
groundbreaking accomplishments to celebrate. This year alone, women in
the U.S. won the right to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/women-in-combat_n_2535954.html" target="_hplink">serve on the front lines in combat </a>and President Obama inched closer to pushing for <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/12/state-of-the-union-paycheck-fairness-act_n_2674187.html" target="_hplink">equal pay for men and women</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Global health for women has also seen some major boons, too. The number of <a href="http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/pdf/2013_AL_English.pdf" target="_hplink">mothers who die during childbirth has been reduced by almost 50 percent</a> and HIV drug prices have fallen by more than 99 percent since 2000. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Women across the globe still face horrifying abuse and health risks,
including sexual exploitation and genital mutilation, devastating
injustices that are in our power to eliminate in this lifetime. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Read through the seven disturbingly sad truths women face and find
out<b> <span style="color: #b6d7a8;">how you can get involved in improving the lives of women across the
world</span></b>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Female Genital Mutilation</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>FACT:</b> In Africa alone, 101 million girls have undergone <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs241/en/" target="_hplink">female genital mutilation</a>,
a cultural practice thatโs meant to keep girls chaste, but subjects
them to intense torture in the process. With no anesthetic, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/opinion/12kristof.html?adxnnl=1&ref=femalegenitalmutilation&adxnnlx=1362762118-Su2a6oJRMmYT2ujQ6hdtFg" target="_hplink">a girlโs genitals are carved out</a>
(including her clitoris and labia) and what remains is stitched
together, allowing a small enough aperture for urination and
menstruation, which can lead to serious health consequences, New York
Times' Nicholas Kristof reports. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>What you can do:</b> While the practice has been
recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights, activists
say that through education and raising awareness, we can work to
ultimately change the culture to end the practice. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Find out more <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-grant/how-to-end-fgm-clue-its-n_b_2631731.html" target="_blank">here:</a> <span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-grant/how-to-end-fgm-clue-its-n_b_2631731.html"><span style="color: cyan;"><span><u><i>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-grant/how-to-end-fgm-clue-its-n_b_2631731.html</i></u></span></span></a></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><b>FACT:</b></span> Every year, life-threatening complications from pregnancy and childbirth <a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Maternal-Neonatal-and-Child-Health" target="_hplink">claim the lives of nearly 300,000 women</a>, according to the Gates Foundation. While the number of mothers who died in childbirth has been <a href="http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/pdf/2013_AL_English.pdf" target="_hplink">reduced by nearly 50 percent</a>, it is within our reach to reduce that figure to zero.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>What you can do:</b> Low-cost medical interventions with
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lives of expectant mothers. Learn more about how the Bill & Melinda
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for mothers and how you can get involved <a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Maternal-Neonatal-and-Child-Health" target="_hplink">here. </a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Maternal-Neonatal-and-Child-Health"><span style="color: cyan;"><u><span><i>http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Maternal-Neonatal-and-Child-Health</i></span></u></span></a></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Fistula</b></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>FACT: </b>Fistula โ- a hole that develops between a womanโs
vagina and bladder or rectum โ- is one of the most devastating birth
injuries and it affects between <a href="http://www.fistulafoundation.org/whatyoucando/" target="_hplink">30,000 to 50,000 women a year</a>
simply because they canโt afford proper medical care. The condition
leads to such severe incontinence that the womanโs body leaks urine and
feces, and oftentimes, the smell becomes so unbearable that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/08/fistula-eradication-an-in_n_832512.html" target="_hplink">her husband will force her out of the home to fend for herself. </a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>What you can do: </b>Support the Fistula Foundation,
which raises awareness for the condition and funding for repair,
prevention, and educational programs worldwide to help eliminate
fistula. Get involved <a href="http://www.fistulafoundation.org/whatyoucando/" target="_blank">here. </a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>FACT:</b> <a href="http://www.onebillionrising.org/pages/about-one-billion-rising" target="_hplink">One in three women on the planet will be raped, beaten or assaulted</a> in her lifetime, thatโs a total of 1 billion women subjected to devastating violence. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>What you can do: </b>Join 1 Billion Rising, a global
movement that came together on Valentineโs Day to demand an end to
violence against women, and continues to fight for womenโs right to live
in a world where their safety is never at stake. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Get involved <b><a href="http://onebillionrising.org/pages/take-action" target="_hplink">here</a></b><span style="color: cyan;"><a href="http://onebillionrising.org/pages/take-action" target="_hplink"><span><i><span style="color: #b03200;"><span>:</span></span> http://onebillionrising.org/pages/take-action</i></span></a></span><b><a href="http://onebillionrising.org/pages/take-action" target="_hplink"><span style="color: #002000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></span></a></b></span></span></span></div>
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according to the UN. Of those victims, 43 percent are used for sexual
exploitation, of whom 98 percent are women and girls. Globally, there
are more slaves than ever before in history. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>What you can do: </b>A number of organizations are
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(many to men twice their age or older), according to CARE. This forced
institution subjects girls to health risks and deprives them of the
opportunity to pursue an education and personal development.</span></span></span></div>
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access to clean drinking water, nutritious food and necessary
immunizations, we will be able to bring the infant mortality rate down
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b><i>CORRECTION</i></b><i>: This post originally
reported one in three women would be raped in her lifetime. It has been
corrected to say "raped, beaten or assaulted."</i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><u> </u></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/world-womens-day-health-facts_n_2832307.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular"><i><span><u>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/world-womens-day-health-facts</u></span></i></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> <br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>๐ซ You Never Hear About In School ๐ซ<br /></b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">By <a class="link-author" href="http://www.policymic.com/profiles/124549/maureen-shaw" title="Maureen Shaw's Profile">Maureen Shaw</a> <time datetime="2014-05-13T15:44-04:00" pubdate="">May 13, 2014</time></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><time datetime="2014-05-13T15:44-04:00" pubdate=""><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9f-ZOzW_hvw3HVzXQupY86ERr6r7yf5kasUh8tCXRPM6w5A3ljIHHMKgcFD3JUl_EgTVPxUH19AFrkNeSheC9w9h2k7XkzVsTwFzYwLIF1b8npvH2WauxVLK3YTfyfICXAGYEsgDMt2FOwwm_h8gtYpUHMfTRuteSlOiK5bdxgHOnMxs86LPGmrhuJw=s220" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="140" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9f-ZOzW_hvw3HVzXQupY86ERr6r7yf5kasUh8tCXRPM6w5A3ljIHHMKgcFD3JUl_EgTVPxUH19AFrkNeSheC9w9h2k7XkzVsTwFzYwLIF1b8npvH2WauxVLK3YTfyfICXAGYEsgDMt2FOwwm_h8gtYpUHMfTRuteSlOiK5bdxgHOnMxs86LPGmrhuJw=w116-h182" width="116" /></a></div></time></span></span></div></div>
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When <i>Divergent</i> actress Shailene Woodley <a href="http://time.com/87967/shailene-woodley-feminism-fault-in-our-stars/">told an interviewer</a>
recently that she didn't call herself a feminist because she "love[s]
men," many people were outraged. But there's another side to this story:
Shailene Woodley doesn't understand what feminism is, and it's not
necessarily her fault.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The fact is, our educational system is still hopelessly biased
towards men. But we need women's history in the classroom if we want
feminism to flourish. "<i>Feminists don't spontaneously happen,</i>" Soraya Chemaly poignantly <a href="http://msmagazine.com/blog/2014/05/08/shailene-woodley-is-why-feminists-need-to-take-over-school-boards/" style="line-height: 1.5em;">responded</a> in <i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ms. Magazine</i>. It
takes education โ about women's achievements throughout history, the
patriarchy and the myriad socioeconomic and political hurdles women
still face โ to help engender a concept of feminism. Without it, we are left to rely on the media's portrayal of women and gender parity. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Make no mistake: Women were โ and are โ strong, if overlooked, forces
in American history, having influenced politics, medicine, science,
literature and much, much more. For decades, researchers <a href="http://www.socstrpr.org/files/Vol%201/Issue%203%20-%20Winter,%202006/Research/1.3.1.pdf">have noted</a> such a gender bias in study after study. But while this representation has improved, our educational system <a href="http://jezebel.com/new-educational-standards-teach-kids-that-history-conta-1550345470">still often fails</a>
to properly educate our youth about women. Here are a few women
probably not discussed at length (if at all) in classrooms across the
country, but definitely should be. (Please note, this list is <i>nowhere</i> near exhaustive.)</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You wouldn't necessarily think of 19th century poet Lord Byron's
daughter as the world's first "programmer," but as it turns out, that's
exactly what she is. <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/ada-lovelace-the-first-tech-visionary.html">Ada Lovelace</a>,
born in 1815, was an English mathematician primarily known for her work
on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the <a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/engines/">Analytical Engine</a>. Who says women can't code in style?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A slave in Alabama, the faceless woman known now only as <a href="http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/biographies/anarcha.htm">Anarcha,</a> became the medical guinea pig for <a href="http://jme.bmj.com/content/19/1/28.full.pdf">Dr. Marion Sims</a>, the so-called Father of Gynecology in the mid-19th century. According to Sims' own records, Anarcha regularly <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/28/health/scholars-argue-over-legacy-of-surgeon-who-was-lionized-then-vilified.html">underwent surgical and gynecological experiments</a>,
sans anesthesia โ as many as 34 times. Because of Anarcha, and other
enslaved women like her, doctors were able to make medical advancements
in repairing <a href="http://healthcare.utah.edu/menshealth/conditions/vvf.php">fistula</a>, a condition that <a href="http://www.fistulafoundation.org/what-is-fistula/fast-facts-faq/">affects</a> approximately 1 million women worldwide today. This revolutionized gynecology. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Harriet Tubman was one of the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html">Underground Railroad's</a>
most well-known "conductors." She helped more than 300 slaves escape to
the North during the Civil War. But "Moses," as she became known, was
also a Union spy, soldier and nurse. Talk about your Jane of all Trades!
While Tubman's <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/harriet-tubman">incredibly courageous life</a>
โ she endured brutal beatings as a field hand before eventually
escaping her masters in Maryland โ seems straight out of a Hollywood
movie, you won't see her as the star of the silver screen anytime soon.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">4.</span> <b>Madam C. J. Walker</b>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Born Sarah Breedlove in 1867 on a Louisiana plantation, <a href="http://www.madamcjwalker.com/#&panel1-1">Madam C.J. Walker</a>
is one of the 20th century's greatest success stories you've never
heard of. An uneducated daughter of former slaves, in 1905 Walker
founded her own company and began selling a scalp conditioning and healing formula, aptly named Madam
Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower. Three years later, she opened Leila
College to train "hair culturists," and later built a factory to
manufacture her products. Walker proved that women could be moguls even
when they didn't have the right to vote.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">5.</span> <b>Jeannette Rankin</b><br /></span></span>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Long before there was Nancy Pelosi, there was <a href="http://history.house.gov/People/Listing/R/RANKIN,-Jeannette-%28R000055%29/">Jeannette Rankin</a>,
the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress. Notably, Rankin was
also one of the few suffragists elected to Congress and the only
congressperson to vote against U.S. participation <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/jeannette-rankin-9451806#synopsis&awesm=%7EoE9zZ06rqBc3r4">in both world wars</a>.
We also have her to thank for this quote: "I may be the first woman
member of Congress, but I wonโt be the last." Amen, sister.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">6.</span> <b>Mary Pickford</b></span></span> </span></span></header><div class="body">
<span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We can thank Hollywood powerhouse <a href="http://marypickford.org/home/about-mary/">Mary Pickford</a>
for all the great films that have come out of United Artists film
studio. She co-founded the institution in 1919 with Charlie
Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith. Eight years later, she
helped establish the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As critics and moviegoers continue to debate <a href="http://time.com/89413/women-in-hollywood-study-gender-gap/">female representation</a>
in contemporary cinema, it's important to note that the film industry
might not be where it is today without Pickford's vision and dedication.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">7.</span> <b>Hedy Lamarr</b><br /></span></span>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.hedylamarr.com/about/biography.html">Hedy Lamarr</a>,
frequently called "The Most Beautiful Woman in Film," was a talented
actress who starred opposite some of Hollywood's greatest leading men of
her day, including Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart. But this silver
screen titan wasn't just easy on the eyes; she was also very smart. In
fact, Lamarr <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hedy-lamarr-not-just-a-pr/">patented an idea</a> that later became an essential aspect of both secure military communications and mobile phone technology. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">8.</span> <b>Zora Neale Hurston</b></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></span></span></header><header class="position"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Originally from Alabama, Barnard-educated <a href="http://zoranealehurston.com/about/">Zora Neale Hurston</a> left an indelible mark on the <a href="http://www.biography.com/tv/classroom/harlem-renaissance">Harlem Renaissance</a>.
Over the span of three decades, she published four novels, two books of
folklore, an autobiography, numerous short stories and several essays,
articles and plays. Her masterpiece <i>Their Eyes Were Watching God</i> is one of the 20th century's most important pieces of literature, as it is a <a href="http://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/their-eyes-were-watching-god-1937-by-zora-neale-hurston/">sumptuously-written story</a> "of black female survival in a world beset by bad weather and bad men."</span></span></span></span></header>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">9.</span> <b>Eleanor Roosevelt</b><br /></span></span>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/eleanor-roosevelt-9463366">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>
is perhaps best known for being the wife of former President Franklin
D. Roosevelt. But she was much more than the president's wife. The other
Roosevelt transformed women's political participation, proving women
could wield influence in matters of both domestic and international
importance. Eleanor spent years kicking ass and taking names as an
international human rights advocate, serving as chair of the United
Nations Human Rights Commission and helping write the <a href="http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a>. Her example forged a path for the assertive first ladies who would succeed her, from Betty Ford to Michelle Obama.</span></span><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">10.</span> <b>Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu</b><br /></span></span>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Known as the "First Lady of Physics," Dr. Wu's <a href="http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/chien-shiung-wu/">work on nuclear fission</a>
proved invaluable during World War II. After moving to the U.S. from
China to go to graduate school at U.C. Berkeley, the U.S. government
asked Wu to join the Manhattan Project at Columbia University, the U.S.
Army's secret project to develop the atomic bomb, where she helped
develop a process that produced large quantities of uranium as fuel for
the bomb. After the war, Wu became the <a href="http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/chien-shiung-wu/">first woman</a>
elected to the American Physical Society, the first woman to receive
the Cyrus B. Comstock Award of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and
the first woman to be awarded an honorary doctorate from Princeton
University. </span></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #f4cccc;">
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">11.</span> <b>Rachel Carson</b>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you're in any way involved in today's environmental movement, you have <a href="http://www.rachelcarson.org/">Rachel Carson</a> to thank. A scientist and writer, she began to warn the public about the long-term effects of misusing pesticides after World War II. Her book <i>Silent Spring</i> (1962)
catapulted her to center stage โ and made her an enemy of the chemical
industry in the process โ as it challenged the practices of agricultural
scientists and the government.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number"> </span></span></span></span></header><header class="position"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">12.</span> <b>Margaret Sanger</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></span></header><header class="position"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you're one of the millions of women who currently, or ever has, used birth control, you owe <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/p_sanger.html">Margaret Sanger</a>.
She campaigned tirelessly for the legalization (yes, it was once
illegal) and wide availability of birth control for women (which was <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/e_comstock.html">also illegal,</a> not so long ago). Her collaboration with <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/p_pincus.html">Gregory Pincus</a> resulted
in the first FDA-approved oral contraceptive. Controversial due to some
of her ideas regarding eugenics, many of the criticisms leveled at
Sanger by conservative politicians <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/e_comstock.html">have been dubunked.</a></span></span></span></header>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">13.</span> <b>Ella Baker</b><br /></span></span>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall/details/2/14-Baker">Ella Baker</a>
helped shape the American Civil Rights Movement. She co-founded the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which was headed by Martin
Luther King, Jr., and helped create the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee. One of the many unsung heroes of a movement better known for
leaders such as <a href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/02/civil_rights_leaders_you_should_know.html">King, Julian Bond and Roy Wilkins</a>, Baker's efforts, as well as those of her female compatriots, were <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9862643/ns/us_news-life/t/women-had-key-roles-civil-rights-movement/#.U3I5lJG0ZuY">instrumental</a> in the struggle for equal rights. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">14.</span> <b>Shirley Chisholm</b><br /></span></span>
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<span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Like Jeanette Rankin, <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/shirley-chisholm-9247015">Shirley Chisholm</a>
made congressional history when she became the first African-American
congresswoman. She represented New York State in the House of
Representatives for seven terms, and went on to run for the Democratic
nomination for presidency in 1972. Championing minority education and
employment opportunities, Chisholm also campaigned against the
draft. During her presidential nomination campaign, <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/africanamericanstudies/news/archive/index.xml?id=9666">she survived</a> three assassination attempts and went on to leave behind a long legacy of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/03/obituaries/03chisholm.html?_r=0">outspoken advocacy</a>. "I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black," Chisolm told the <i>Associated Press</i>
in 1982. "When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for president, I met
more discrimination as a woman than for being black. Men are men."</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">15.</span> <b>Betty Friedan</b></span></span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></span></span></header><header class="position"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/betty-friedan/">Betty</a> is one badass mother โ of feminism. Her book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Feminine-Mystique-Betty-Friedan/dp/0141192054/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid="><i>The Feminine Mystique</i></a> ignited the feminist movement in the '60s and '70s, forever changing the feminist cultural landscape. She also co-founded the <a href="http://now.org/">National Organization for Women</a>, which is still alive and kicking today and advocates for such high-profile causes as abortion access and closing the pay gap.</span></span></span></span></header>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">16.</span> <b>Sally Ride</b>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Who says girls don't dig STEM? <a href="https://sallyridescience.com/about-us/dr-sally-ride#.Uzw85Vy-hFI">Dr. Sally Ride</a> defied
this stereotype in a big way. She was an astronaut and physicist,
perhaps most famous for being the first woman in space and the youngest
American to ever orbit Earth, at age 32. After her astronaut career, <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/sally-ride-9458284#synopsis&awesm=%7EoE9OVMNEbXkUqh">Ride founded</a> the Sally Ride Science to inspire young women interested in science and math. Touting
an impressive list of awards, Ride was posthumously awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013, which gained special significance
when it <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/why-sally-ride-waited-until-her-death-tell-world-she-f908942">was revealed</a> that she was a lesbian. Not too shabby, eh?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">17.</span> <b>Maya Angelou</b><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://mayaangelou.com/">Maya Angelou</a> is one of the greatest voices of contemporary American literature. Her autobiography <i>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</i> quickly became a best-seller and was nominated for the National Book Award. But she's <a href="http://mayaangelou.com/bio/">much more</a>
than a writer. A master of French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and the
West African language Fanti, Maya is a well-traveled poet, memoirist,
novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker,
professor and civil rights activist. And here's another <a href="http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall/details/2/11-Angelou">fun fact</a>: She was he first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">18.</span> <b>Lilly Ledbetter</b><br /></span></span>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall/details/2/248-Ledbetter">Lilly Ledbetter</a> is the face of the fight for equal pay. After discovering that she had been paid less than her male colleagues at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Lilly filed
a formal complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
and a lawsuit, which made its way to the Supreme Court. Although she
ultimately lost that case, Ledbetter's example continues to inspire
those working to close the pay gap. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">19.</span> <b>Sandra Day O'Connor</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></span></header><header class="position"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/sandra-day-oconnor-9426834">Sandra Day O'Connor</a>
shattered the legal profession's glass ceiling in 1981 when she became
the first female Supreme Court Justice. Her seat on our nation's highest
court has opened the door for other female justices, including Ruth
Bader Ginsberg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elana Kagan. Among her many
accomplishments, the moderate conservative O'Connor was known for
carefully considering the facts and staying above the partisan fray. She
tended to vote in line with her politically conservative nature, but
she still considered her cases very carefully. For example, as
Republicans called on the court to reverse the<i> Roe v. Wade</i> decision on abortion rights, <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/sandra-day-oconnor">O'Connor's vote</a> in favor of upholding the landmark case was the deciding factor.</span></span></span></header><div class="body">
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">20.</span> <b>Angela Davis</b></span></span></span></header><header class="position"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/angela-davis-9267589">Angela Davis</a>
is a scholar, civil rights activist, women's rights activist, author
and rabblerouser. A member of the U.S. Communist party, she was once
jailed for charges related to a prison outbreak, though was ultimately
cleared of the charges. One of Davis' most well-known books is <i>Women, Race & Class</i>, but Davis has spent the second half of her life <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/angela-davis-9267589#synopsis&awesm=%7EoE9R8WAjRZWKg0">working for gender equity</a> and prison reform. Davis currently teaches at University of California, Santa Cruz. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A preeminent leader in the feminist movement for decades, <a href="http://www.southendpress.org/authors/46">bell hooks</a> is the author of numerous books on the politics of race, gender, class and culture including familiar with her work <i>Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism</i>, which <i>Publishers Weekly</i> named one of the "20 most influential womenโs books of the last 20 years" <a href="http://www.southendpress.org/authors/46">in 1992.</a> Outspoken and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/12/beyonce-bell-hooks-slave-terrrorist">at times controversial</a>, hooks' advocacy is a testament to the impressively long-lasting influence of the feminism movement's academic luminaries.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">22.</span> <b>Dolores Huerta</b></span></span></span></header><div class="body">
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://doloreshuerta.org/dolores-huerta/">Dolores Huerta</a> is a labor leader and civil rights activist, who alongside Cรฉsar Chรกvez, founded the National
Farm Workers Association. At 83-years-old, she's still fighting
and advocating for the working poor, women and children. In 2012,
President Obama <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/dolores-huerta-presidential-medal-of-freedom_n_1553163.html">presented her</a>
with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Speaking about the influence of
Huerta on women, especially Hispanic women in America, Secretary of
Labor Hilda Solis <a href="http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/opa/OPA20121090.htm">noted in a statement</a>
that Huerta's "passion for justice has expanded to include women's
equality, reproductive rights and LGBT issues. Her dancing eyes and
sweet voice continue to inspire people across the country and around the
world, just like they did for a young girl from La Puente who grew up
to be the first Latina in a president's cabinet."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">23.</span> <b>Grace Lee Boggs</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></span></header><header class="position"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://graceleeboggs.com/about">Grace Lee Boggs</a> is an
author, feminist and lifelong social justice activist. A daughter of
Chinese immigrants, she developed a decades-long political relationship
with the Marxist, <a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/">C.L.R. James</a>,
and was very active in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.
Grace's life is the subject of the award-winning documentary <i><a href="http://americanrevolutionaryfilm.com/">American Revolution</a>.</i> </span></span></span></header>
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<span style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">24.</span> <b>Ann Dunwoody</b></span></span></span></header><header class="position"></header><div class="body">
<span style="color: #76a5af;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.army.mil/article/85606/">Ann Dunwoody</a> is the
U.S. Army's first four-star general. She joined the Army in 1974, and
was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Women's Army Corps in
1975. Since then, she served at every level of command, until she
retired in 2012. Dunwoody's success serves as a reminder that women are
every bit as integral to the armed forces as men are. Women can also
rise to the top of the military hierarchy โ which is exactly what <a href="http://www.livescience.com/18437-women-military-sexist.html">opponents</a> seek to prevent. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="number">25.</span> <b>Gloria Steinem </b></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Although more of a household name than many other women on this list, <a href="http://www.gloriasteinem.com/">Gloria Steinem</a> is
a reminder that young people still don't understand the important
legacy of feminist advocates. As an organizer, journalist and activist,
Steinem has played an integral role in the women's movement for decades.
In 1963, she made waves when she went undercover as a <i>Playboy</i> bunny and exposed the exploitative working conditions and sexual demands often made of the "bunnies." The founder of <i><a href="http://www.msmagazine.com/">Ms. Magazine</a> </i>and the <a href="http://www.womensmediacenter.com/">Women's Media Center</a>, where she works to achieve equality <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/88277/23-ways-feminism-has-made-the-world-a-better-place-for-men">for all people</a>, not just women. And a better understanding of the women from this list can only help further this goal.</span></span></span></span></header><span style="color: #ea9999;">
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happy International Women's Day!!!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today is observed across the world, with different countries celebrating in many different ways. In some countries, though, itโs a public holiday and people get the day off work, and in others there are specific traditions upheld.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The countries that have a public holiday on IWD are:</span></span></b></span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China (for women only), Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar (for women only), Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In some parts of Africa, South America, and Eastern Europe, it isnโt a holiday but gifts and cards are given to the women in peopleโs lives that have shaped and inspired them</span></span></span></div>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Italy, itโs tradition for men to give women yellow mimosa flowers, and women are given free entry to various museums and exhibitions. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In France, the symbols of IWD are violets and lilies of the valley.</span></span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In China, while women have the day off and men have to go to work, shops have sales and discounts</span></span></span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="https://78.media.tumblr.com/450e28832fa2f5a724f1ff16aeef8982/tumblr_p5afhv9MXq1tk24mvo4_1280.gif" class="transparent" height="256" src="https://78.media.tumblr.com/450e28832fa2f5a724f1ff16aeef8982/tumblr_p5afhv9MXq1tk24mvo4_1280.gif" width="348" /></div></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Have
a woman friend in different country. Wondering how to greet her in a
foreign language on women's day? </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Worry not... </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i style="color: #ead1dc;"><b><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here's a
look at How to Say Happy Women's Day in Different Languages</span></span> on March 8th</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Alles Gute zum Tag der Frauen โ German</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bonne Journรฉe de la Femme โ French</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Felice Giorno delle Donne โ Italian</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feliz Dia Da Mulher โ Portuguese</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feliz Dรญa de la Mujer โ Spanish</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Glad kvinnors dag โ Swedish</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kadฤฑnlar gรผnรผn kutlu olsun! โ Turkish</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Khuลa mahilฤ divasa โ Gujarati</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kokusai josei day โ Japanese</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">mahila divas kee shubhakaamanae โ Hindi</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">szczฤลliwy Dzieล Kobiet โ Polish</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">yeoseong-ui nal-eul chugha haeyo โ Korean</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ะะพะทะดัะฐะฒะปัั ัะตะฑั ั ะฒะพััะผัะผ ะผะฐััะฐ โ Ukranian</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ะก ะะตะถะดัะฝะฐัะพะดะฝัะผ ะถะตะฝัะบะธะผ ะดะฝะตะผ [S Mezhdunarodnym zhenskim dnem] โ Russian</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ูู ุงูู ุฑุฃุฉ ุงูุนุงูู ู โ Arabic</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ๅฆๅฅณ่ๅฟซไน [fรน nว jiรฉ kuร i lรจ] โ Chinese</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><a href="http://metro.co.uk/2018/03/08/international-womens-day-around-world-16-different-languages-7371085" target="_blank">http://metro.co.uk/2018/03/08/international-womens-day-around-world-16-different-languages-7371085</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">International Women's Day is also referred to as the <i><b>UN Day for Women's Rights and International Peace</b></i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The primary intent behind marking the day is to celebrate achievements of women till date.<br /><br /><i><b>Why is women's day celebrated on 8th march?</b></i><br />The history of first women's empowerment dates back to 1908 in NYC when women numbering 15000 marched demanding the right to vote and better pay and work hours. The first women' day was announced in 1909 by the Socialist Party of America. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Roy Orbison</span></b></span></div>
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<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td class="xl24" height="18" style="height: 13.95pt; text-align: center; width: 220pt;" width="294"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Roy Orbison</span></b></span></td><td align="left" class="xl24" style="border-left: medium; width: 220pt;" width="294"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Crying</span></b></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
was all right for awhile</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">Can start
me crying</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">I
could smile for awhile</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">I thought
that I was over you</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">But
I saw you last night</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">But it's
true, so true</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">You
held my hand so tight</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">I love you
even more</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">As
you stopped to say, "Hello"</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">Than I did
before</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">Oh,
you wished me well</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">But,
darling, what can I do?</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">You,
you couldn't tell</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">For you
don't love me</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">That
I'd been crying over you</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">And I'll
always be crying over you</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crying
over you</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crying
over you</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">When
you said, "So long"</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, now
you're gone</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">Left
me standing all alone</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">And from
this moment on</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alone
and crying, crying</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'll be
crying, crying</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crying,
crying</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crying,
crying</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's
hard to understand</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yeah,
crying, crying</span></span></td></tr>
<tr height="18" style="height: 13.95pt;"><td align="left" class="xl25" height="18" style="border-top: medium; height: 13.95pt;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">But
the touch of your hand</span></span></td><td align="left" class="xl25" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over you</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Monument Concert 1965)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Roy Orbison's official live video for 'Crying' (Monument Concert 1965).</span><br />
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Click to listen to Roy Orbison on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/RoyOSpotify?IQid=Cry</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">MTV Unplugged</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">MissDistarr: <<<i> A beautiful performance. She has such a powerful voice and complete control over it. Thank you Canada for sharing her with us</i>. >>Regards, USA๏ปฟ</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Roy Orbison Tribute 1990 </span></span><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="506" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_mOLtUWGyUc?si=MJVod0-0fWL2OzDn" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe>
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<i><b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Planning to purify the air in your premises?</span></span></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Instead of getting an electronic air purifier, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">check out the 6 types of plants that are commonly used as a natural air purifier!</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. Bamboo Palm tree</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Easy to care for, effective at removing indoor air and more resistant to insect infestation than areca palms. In addition to its high air-cleansing rating, this plant boasts a high transpiration rating (pumps moisture into the air).</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. Sword of S. Jorge or "snake plant"</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Good at clearing formaldehyde out of indoor air this is a special</span></span></span><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> plant that differs from most houseplants in that it </span></span></span><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">produces<b> oxygen</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and removes carbon dioxide at night. Keep this one in your </span></span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>bedroom.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Sansevieria trifasciata is commonly called "<b><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><i>mother-in-law's tongue</i></span></b>", "<span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><i><b>Saint George's sword</b></i></span>" or "<b><span style="color: #76a5af;"><i>snake plant</i></span></b>", because of the shape and sharp margins of its leaves. It is also known as the "<b><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>viper's bowstring hemp</i></span></b>", because it is one of the sources for plant fibers used to make bowstrings)</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. Areca Palm tree</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Consistently rated among the best houseplants for removing all indoor air toxins tested. A faster-growing palm that releases moisture into the air, removes chemical toxins, and has the unique ability to move salt accumulations to selected branches (when saturated, these branches die; remove them quickly).</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. Spider plant</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This plant is for removing carbon monoxide and other toxins and impurities. Spider plants are one of three plants that </span></span></span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>NASA</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b> </b>considers how best to remove toxins from the air.</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">5. Lily of Peace</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These lilies could be called 'clean everything.' The Peace lily excels in the removal of alcohols, acetone, trichloroethylene, benzene and formaldehyde. They are often placed in bathrooms or laundry rooms because they are excellent for removing </span></span></span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>mildew</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span></span></span><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u>Do not eat or touch it as it is <b>poisonous</b></u></span></span></span><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">6. The Gerbera Daisy</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was included in the early <b>NASA</b> studies (Biohome feasibility) and is extremely effective in removing chemical vapours such as benzene from the air. Benzene exposure has been linked with leukemia, and the chemical can enter your home from vehicle exhaust and fumes from glues, solvents, paints and art supplies.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Enjoying a musical like "West Side Story" or "Singin' in the Rain" requires believing that it's perfectly plausible for people to begin singing and dancing during moments of extreme emotion. Be it the highs and lows of teenage love in "Grease" or the determination of a plucky orphan in "Annie," musical numbers provide insight into a character's state of mind. Take "The Sound of Music," in which twirling and singing atop a mountain is enough to help a potential nun who doesn't fit in at the convent find her bliss. That character would go on to teach the miracle of singing to seven unhappy children, and not even the dastardly deeds of the Nazis could get that family down, as long as they had music.<br /></span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-small;">๐ผ</span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">If you find musicals like this cheesy, you're not alone. Famed linguist Steven Pinker has called music "auditory cheesecake," something that serves no purpose and happened by accident as language developed. But even the most cynical among us would have a hard time denying that hearing a favorite song can completely change our moods. That's why other scientists spend their time putting people into brain scanning machines and playing them tunes.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><img alt="#Archives from Ma MusiQ" class="J9AiF" height="521" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/1d7eb3568d2ecb8d406783c32794e39b/b9dabe7eab2dc684-5c/s500x750/a1dc3036408cdb4b0b66cd6ca3d5722b727fc278.gifv" width="293" /></span></div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">While music may seem like an impossible subject to study, if only because we all prefer different types, researchers are starting to determine just how ingrained into our biology the processing of music might be. Even babies enter the world with an ability to determine between different types of music. Understanding the link between a song we're hearing and how our body reacts to it could have enormous implications for treating disease and brain disorders such as depression.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: x-small;">๐ผ</span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><br />While all this might seem obvious to someone who has ever used some good funk to get out of a bad funk, let's take a look at exactly what happens inside the brain when it's sandwiched between our headphones.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><img alt="https://64.media.tumblr.com/e5776435ae2a85e3a3223ffbd19e1a4a/c18bf8ab7b7472fb-35/s540x810/866e894e6d4c49403871ac9c566b2b8295626994.jpg" height="289" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/e5776435ae2a85e3a3223ffbd19e1a4a/c18bf8ab7b7472fb-35/s540x810/866e894e6d4c49403871ac9c566b2b8295626994.jpg" width="320" /><img alt="Image from Ma MusiQ" class="J9AiF" height="287" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/5519a3f44687255408bf3214996d3ef6/tumblr_pwvokwjXne1urtgw2o1_400.gifv" width="287" /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>Music and Neuroscience</b><br />Music activates so many parts of our brain that it's impossible to say that we have a center for music the way we do for other tasks and subjects, such as language. When we hear a song, our frontal lobe and temporal lobe begin processing the sounds, with different brain cells working to decipher things like rhythm, pitch and melody. Many researchers believe that most of this action happens in the right hemisphere, though others say reducing music to a right brained or left brained activity isn't possible. Regardless of where the brain activity takes place, it does seem to differ based on a whole host of factors, including how much experience with music the person has, whether he or she is hearing live or recorded music and whether or not the music has lyrics.
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</div><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;">If the song has lyrics, then the parts of the brain that process language, Broca's and Wernicke's areas, kick into gear. Researchers have found that songs can activate our visual cortex, perhaps because our brain tries to construct a visual image of the changes in pitch and tone. Songs can trigger neurons in the motor cortex, leading you to tap your foot and boogie. Your cerebellum gets into the act, trying to figure out where a piece of music will go next, based on all the other songs it's heard before.<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><img alt="Image from Ma MusiQ" class="J9AiF" height="248" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/ffd5cb1b2a2c1ed3db19c2a934132b62/tumblr_pvhjicDxfo1urtgw2o1_500.gifv" width="450" /></span></div><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Hearing a piece of music is also tied to memories: If this is the song that was playing during a first kiss, then the medial prefrontal cortex, where memory is stored, lights up. Since this is one of the last brain areas to fall prey to the ravages of Alzheimer's disease, researchers have found that people with the condition can remember songs from long ago, even when they can't remember what they did yesterday.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><br />While many parts of the brain are involved in deciphering a piece of music, brain imaging scans appear to demonstrate that our emotional reaction to music also takes place in the brain. In a study of a woman who had damage to her temporal lobe, researchers found that while the woman was unable to distinguish between melodies, she was still able to have the emotional reaction that you might expect from hearing happy or sad melodies [source: Weinberger]. Further imaging studies have shown that music we'd expect to be happy activates the reward centers of the brain, releasing dopamine, so that music gives us the same hit of happiness that we would get from a piece of chocolate, sex or drugs.<br /><br />Does that mean your radio could take the place of an antidepressant? <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><img alt="Image from Ma MusiQ" class="J9AiF" height="259" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/9a16ad1402eefa1ea81272ef9855a846/2665b57d51725bd6-00/s2048x3072/c7e16ab3259799b80a2c4b2730884c5d8e630dcf.gifv" width="517" /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><b>Music and Happiness</b><br />The neurological studies of music on the brain seem to indicate that we're hardwired to interpret and react emotionally to a piece of music. Indeed, this process starts very early on. One study found that babies as young as five months old reacted to happy songs, while by nine months they recognized and were affected by sad songs [source: LiveScience]. Physiological states brought on by music only intensify as we grow. Happy music, usually featuring a fast tempo and written in a major key, can cause a person to breathe faster, a physical sign of happiness [source: Leutwyler]. Similarly, sad music, which tends to be in the minor keys and very slow, causes a slowing of the pulse and a rise in blood pressure. That seems to indicate that only happy music is beneficial, but those that know the value of a good cry or a cathartic release may find that sad or angry music can bring about happiness indirectly.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><img alt="#Music - ย Phono from Ma MusiQ" class="J9AiF" height="321" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/083dd03af5b42d15698b45374b38fae2/tumblr_pslm75CzIc1urtgw2o1_500.gifv" width="423" /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">Knowing that music has this impact on the body may eventually influence treatment and care for a wealth of patients. For example, music has been found to boost the immune systems of patients after surgeries, lower stress in pregnant women and decrease the blood pressure and heart rate in cardiac patients, thus reducing complications from cardiac surgery [sources: Lloyd, Wiley-Blackwell]. Researchers at Cal State University found that hospitalized children were happier during music therapy, in which they could experiment with maracas and bells while a leader played the guitar, than during play therapy, when their options were toys and puzzles [source: Hendon and Bohon]. Music therapy has also proven to be more effective than other types of therapies in patients suffering from depression, and it's been shown to lower levels of anxiety and loneliness in the elderly [sources: Parker-Pope, Berger].<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><img alt="#Archives from Ma MusiQ" class="J9AiF" height="280" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/bbb8e964a9bcf17fcd4fc8225738842c/b9dabe7eab2dc684-9b/s640x960/31389b2fa32cf29a9798129b5497b1476333ad67.gifv" width="495" /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;">You don't have to be sick, though, to benefit from the reduced stress and increased happiness that music can bring. Live music may be the most potent happiness trigger because it provides a way to forge social bonds. When you get in a room with people who like the same thing you do, you might create more friendships, a proven factor in the search for happiness.<br /><br />However, it's worth noting that too much music could be too much of a good thing. Since music triggers reward systems in our brains much like drugs do, music could also become an addiction that becomes impossible to feed. Having music around us constantly - from department stores to elevators to our headphones - could numb us to its effects. Unplugging that iPod every now and then might just help your favorite song sound sweeter later on.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><img alt="#Saxophone from The Braender" class="J9AiF" height="226" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/d610963ce12fe532d9380ef9d6917881/tumblr_prz076qgoV1t8wujro2_400.gifv" width="193" /><img alt="#Saxophone from The Braender" class="J9AiF" height="201" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/86ef2054136f4822a9d6e38b95e5d559/tumblr_prz076qgoV1t8wujro4_250.gifv" width="160" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: small;"><a href="http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/music-and-happiness.htm">http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/music-and-happiness.htm</a></span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: small;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="280" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0dBm7661ubAi4GhtCEpB7NzGgMN1U-KbNZ7YfpMDY4qcMxEzCZcS34bO7eURzad7pyupBR97_YA9XJX_DtcJZUkRWyE_HQUY3g7RvzM4JpzrxEUPsAuoAPYBuH1ykcf1MkHHnpa6YauLHFjSpptAxaBA2ek3e7a5d88woJ5dCYQPPJTwruAWFom0hHg/w98-h108/0a99eb5d7c7651b7f5b8347e3c7cda32.gif" width="98" /></span><img alt="#Phono from Ma MusiQ" class="J9AiF" height="370" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/e990e7b90c0561f0aed9c782078c826f/tumblr_pslm7j9zah1urtgw2o1_500.gifv" width="370" /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="280" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0dBm7661ubAi4GhtCEpB7NzGgMN1U-KbNZ7YfpMDY4qcMxEzCZcS34bO7eURzad7pyupBR97_YA9XJX_DtcJZUkRWyE_HQUY3g7RvzM4JpzrxEUPsAuoAPYBuH1ykcf1MkHHnpa6YauLHFjSpptAxaBA2ek3e7a5d88woJ5dCYQPPJTwruAWFom0hHg/w98-h108/0a99eb5d7c7651b7f5b8347e3c7cda32.gif" width="98" /></span></span></div></span></div></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Fans of Love </span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><img alt="Tumblr: Image" class="_2nKI6" height="322" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/425ebc8b97d30635d88b2cb72b9286e5/0f7d0b12c24dbb6f-7a/s400x600/4ee292605b0958d1cee81249d7ae112071c4f633.gifv" width="322" /> </span><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">๐ </span></span></b></span><span style="color: #e06666;">Love</span> <span style="color: #93c47d;">Has</span> <span style="color: #9fc5e8;">No</span> <span style="color: #d5a6bd;">Labels </span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">๐</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For
years, kiss cams have been a big part of American sports culture. This
year, Love Has No Labels puts a twist on the kiss cam by turning it into
a symbol for unbiased love.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the stadium, fans cheered for love in
all its forms - regardless of race, gender, disability, age or religion.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b><span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">๐</span></span></b></span><br /><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Love Has No Labels is a movement to open our eyes to
unconscious bias. While the vast majority of Americans consider
themselves unprejudiced, many of us unintentionally make snap judgments
about people based on what we see - whether itโs race, age, gender,
religion, sexuality, or disability. </span></span></span></div>
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we can work to end bias in ourselves, our families, our friends, and
our communities. </span></span></span></div><div id="eow-description" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr: Image" class="_2nKI6" height="291" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/24b135a2b5dc20ab8562e23d855b1923/0f7d0b12c24dbb6f-72/s400x600/53017a8e297953ef8f199e744ff2c988370d8104.gifv" width="291" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="506" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PnDgZuGIhHs" width="900"></iframe> </span></span>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This video really is fantastic.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In a new <i>Love Has No Labels</i> campaign, the <a href="http://www.adcouncil.org/News-Events/Press-Releases/Love-Has-No-Labels-Collaborates-with-the-NFL-to-Create-Fans-of-Love-on-Valentine-s-Day" target="_blank">Ad Council</a> and the NFL teamed up to create the perfect PSA for Valentineโs Day.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The footage was taken at the Pro Bowl in Orlando, and the PSA turned
the Kiss Cam into an opportunity to highlight loveโs different forms
over the traditional Kiss Cam.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the Ad Council, the video featured โreal families,
couples and friends across different races, religions, genders,
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was beautifully done.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rethink bias at <a href="http://www.lovehasnolabels.com/">www.lovehasnolabels.com</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Love Has No Labels</span></b></span></span></span></span></div><div id="eow-description" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">๐ ๐บ ๐ </span></b></span><br /></span></span></span></div><div id="eow-description"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Valentines
day is celebrated throughout the globe on February 14th of every year.
On this day, many people would get into a new relationship. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But its not
same for everyone. Some may not be able to convince their love and few
others might break up from the relationship. For such people, Anti
valentine weeks are observed after the valentines week. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This week is
specially for people who are depressed and feeling miserable after a bad
break up. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr: Image" class="J9AiF" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/65c3a72154272934e527b67d0d514309/1eef9faa5bbef2bf-1a/s500x750/1bd6cf377314ccbaaa2b7c8014a4a055b945497e.gifv" /><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <br /></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Had a bad Valentineโs Day? </span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Could not convince your date to be with you forever? </span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Had a bad break-up right after your dinner date?</span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Or did your boyfriend / girlfriend/ any other kind of lover throw your gift back at you because they didnโt like it?</i> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr: Image" class="J9AiF" height="316" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/4ff967be1bf431e258ce9816efb84b42/bd42c44f701cf40a-0d/s500x750/da9f5180dd158da87ead120ee8f0462a2c509c09.gifv" width="415" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If your relationship has not worked out after you have spent all your love, time and money on that special person the entire Valentine Week, then hereโs your chance to go Anti-Valentine! </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes, there is something like that.</span></span></span></div><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After Valentineโs Day, comes the Anti-Valentine Week. Beginning with Slap Day on February 15, there comes Kick Day, Perfume Day, Flirting Day, Confession Day, Missing Day and eventually Break-up Day! </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anti Valentine Date Sheet (<i>After</i> Feb 14)</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Seven Days After Valentine Day</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="https://64.media.tumblr.com/b948fb3055afe2ac2584f30e78f58592/1eef9faa5bbef2bf-3c/s500x750/7af87108d0e2a2c56bf12aa74d7c1a6bbb70c6c6.pnj" class="transparent" height="295" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/b948fb3055afe2ac2584f30e78f58592/1eef9faa5bbef2bf-3c/s500x750/7af87108d0e2a2c56bf12aa74d7c1a6bbb70c6c6.pnj" width="367" /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"></span></div><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"></span><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 15 โ <b>Slap Day</b></span></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 16 โ <b>Kick Day</b></span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></b></span></li><li><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 17 โ <b>Perfume Day</b></span></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 18 โ <b>Flirting Day </b><br /></span></span></span></li><li>
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 19 โ <b>Confession Day</b><br /></span></span></span></li><li>
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">February 20 โ <b>Missing Day</b><br /></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">February 21 โ <b>Break-up Day</b></span><br /></span></span></li></ol>
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So go on and celebrate these days to make it obvious that you didnโt like your loverโs behavior! </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr: Image" class="J9AiF" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/9f10aac69ab1ebf17d16426bfed1e67b/1eef9faa5bbef2bf-6e/s500x750/6bf761920a7cdce711553f385e85ca3220b930fa.gifv" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="106" data-original-width="289" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFEH8JmfhIaNnaIaZXapyK0RE3rn1z_IJDakORHnYon_v8CwsshJOLR1npgdrW9PirzAywuVdszvb3O-k8sjQGZa-3itO0jhP4RG5Hfg29FDOOGu38L8nocvf2OXgOIcY5sjARarTZvRT0S6XyOhd3QNiHFA4TBx7VZql2S2edOUMF_BFQdfT66NBLaw" width="289" /></div></div>Paul NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07615636073881472953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597117759129002918.post-81295686012503714912024-02-14T05:00:00.004-05:002024-02-14T09:45:18.791-05:00Love Songs๐Chansons d'Amour ๐<div style="text-align: center;">
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<td class="xl66" style="border-left: medium; text-align: center; width: 353pt;" width="471"><b><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Love ๐ Songs</span></span></b></td>
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<td align="left" class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><b><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Chansons ๐d'Amour<span> </span></span></span></b></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">1</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CBIQxjQYACITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-cbOl96RFM&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&index=2&t=0s"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Etta
James - At Last - Lyrics</span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">17</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1pfGcS_f9s&t=0s&index=10&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Dinah Washington -
Unforgettable (1959)</span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td align="left" class="xl69" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">Nat King Cole - L-O-V-E (Lyrics) </span></span></span></td>
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<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmNFGtBQTYw&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&t=0s&index=14"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Patsy Cline - Crazy
(Lyrics)</span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CBgQxjQYBiITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUMoiU3h750&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&index=8&t=0s"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Nat King
Cole - Unforgettable (Lyrics <br /></span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a aria-hidden="true" data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CBQQxjQYAiITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imafHIq2210&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&t=0s&index=15"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Patsy Cline - Sweet
Dreams 1963 </span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">4</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CBkQxjQYByITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y39N72hN7iQ&index=9&t=0s&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Nat King
Cole - When I Fall In Love (Lyrics)</span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">20</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CCMQxjQYESITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVHAQX5sSaU&index=19&t=0s&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Bobby
Darin - Dream Lover </span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">5</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CC0QxjQYGyITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p2k55F-uag&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&index=29&t=0s"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">The
Platters - Only You (Lyrics)</span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">21</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGb5IweiYG8&t=0s&index=16&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Peggy Lee - Fever</span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">6</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CC4QxjQYHCITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXARHZmpgvw&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&index=30&t=0s"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Righteous
Brothers - Unchained Melody (Lyrics)</span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">22</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CCcQxjQYFSITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ZKW3xzK7I&index=23&t=0s&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Luz Casal
- Historia de un Amor </span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">7</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CBQQxjQYAiITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFSv-tq5GAY&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&index=4&t=17s"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Dean
Martin - That's Amore (HD) </span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">23</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpMkidNsf34&t=0s&index=26&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Nat King Cole -
L-O-V-E (Lyrics) </span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">8</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CDgQxjQYJiITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DG2LYyBCz4&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&index=40&t=0s"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Dinah
Washington - What Difference A Day Makes</span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">24</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rT46hVQHIA&t=0s&index=31&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Andy Williams - Love
Story (Lyrics) </span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">9</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CDUQxjQYIyITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgDnLPPCvIQ&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&index=37&t=0s"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Ella
Fitzgerald - My funny valentine (Lyrics) </span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">25</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CDIQxjQYICITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnFlx2Lnr9Q&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&index=34&t=0s"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Dean
Martin - That's Amore </span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">10</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a aria-hidden="true" data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CBkQxjQYByITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jEaIDqHl74&t=0s&index=32&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Andy Williams - Love
Story (Lyrics) </span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">26</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CDQQxjQYIiITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3k9o2qzGKk&index=36&t=0s&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Frank
Sinatra - My funny Valentine (Lyrics)</span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">11</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8DQaUoPmJg&t=0s&index=8&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Nat King Cole -Too
Young (Lyrics)</span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">27</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4VJxWhLM6Y&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&t=0s&index=16"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Patsy Cline - Crazy
(Lyrics)</span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">12</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CB8QxjQYDSITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqNggIve40E&index=15&t=0s&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Peggy Lee
- Fever (Lyrics) </span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">28</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CDYQxjQYJCITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmBxVfQTuvI&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&index=38&t=0s"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Dinah
Washington - What Difference A Day Makes </span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">13</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a aria-hidden="true" data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CC0QxjQYGyITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JaJtNLhlfk&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&t=0s&index=12"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Ella Fitzgerald -
All of me</span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">29</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CBYQxjQYBCITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXjdMV7SOfE&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&index=6&t=0s"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Nat King
Cole ~ Unforgettable (HQ) </span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">14</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CB0QxjQYCyITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STfifVeyNeQ&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&index=13&t=0s"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Histoire
d' un Amour - French Latino </span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">30</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Are-c0BLyIg&t=15s&index=5&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Frank Sinatra - My
Funny Valentine </span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">15</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CCkQxjQYFyITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tujMw1NeB-w&index=25&t=0s&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Dean
Martin - That's Amore (Lyrics) </span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">31</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 313pt;" width="417"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CDcQxjQYJSITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQxRiv0jqmM&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl&index=39&t=0s"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Dinah
Washington - What Difference A Day Makes</span></a></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl67" height="21" style="border-top: medium; height: 15.6pt; width: 17pt;" width="23"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">16</span></span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 353pt;" width="471"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-sessionlink="ei=NRFsXPbvIomIgwPzsIKoBg&feature=plpp_video&ved=CDkQxjQYJyITCLbe3sz_x-ACFQnEYAodc5gAZSj6LA" dir="ltr" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt4xh1a7PyQ&index=41&t=0s&list=PLiyWaRqW7RXyhA61XmPKK2AkC6bSYffxl"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; mso-font-charset: 0;">Frank
Sinatra - My funny Valentine </span></a></span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium; width: 19pt;" width="26"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">32</span></span></td>
<td align="left" class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">That's
Amore (with lyrics) Dean Martin</span></span></span></td>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">Frank Sinatra </span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">๐ My Funny Valentine </span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">๐</span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">๐ โช ๐ฝ๏ธ โช ๐</span></span></b></span><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="506" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Are-c0BLyIg" width="900"></iframe></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-size: medium;"><b><span>My funny Valentine, sweet comic Valentine </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>You make me smile with my heart </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>Your looks are laughable, un-photographable </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>Yet, you're my favorite work of art </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>Is your figure less than Greek? </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>Is your mouth a little weak? </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>When you open it to speak </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>Are you smart? </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>But don't change your hair for me </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>Not if you care for me </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>Stay little Valentine, stay </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>Each day is Valentines day I</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>s your figure less than Greek? </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>Is your mouth a little weak? </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>When you open it to speak Are you smart? </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>But don't change your hair for me </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>Not if you care for me </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>Stay little Valentine, stay </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span>Each day is Valentines day</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #93c47d;">Dean Martin</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span> ๐ That's Amore</span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span> ๐</span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #93c47d;">๐ โช ๐ฝ๏ธ โช ๐</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #93c47d;">
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Paul NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07615636073881472953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597117759129002918.post-12237917413614007772024-02-13T01:00:00.006-05:002024-02-13T16:21:38.653-05:00Carnaval ๐ญ Mardi Gras ๐ญ Carnival <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Carnival</b> <i>(often spelled <b>Carnaval</b>)</i> is a festive season which occurs immediately before <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a>; </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">typically involves street <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade" title="Parade">parades</a>. People often dress up or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_ball" title="Masquerade ball">masquerade</a> during Carnival celebrations and parties.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carnival typically involves a public <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration_%28party%29" title="Celebration (party)">celebration</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade" title="Parade">parade</a> combining some elements of a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_%28performing_art%29" title="Circus (performing art)">circus</a>, mask and public <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_party" title="Street party">street party</a>. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">People often dress up or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_ball" title="Masquerade ball">masquerade</a>
during the celebrations, which mark an overturning of daily life. In
Germany and the Netherlands, the Carnival season is traditionally opened
on 11/11 (often at 11:11 a.m.).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Carnival is traditionally held in areas with a large Catholic and to a lesser extent, Eastern Orthodox makeup. <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> areas usually do not have Carnival celebrations or have modified traditions, such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastelavn" title="Fastelavn">Danish Carnival</a> or other <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday" title="Shrove Tuesday">Shrove Tuesday</a> events. Conversely, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>,
though a predominantly Roman Catholic country, does not have Carnival
celebrations because it has been culturally influenced by neighboring
Asian nations, which do not have Carnival celebrations.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1">History</sup></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Lenten period of the Liturgical year Church calendar, being the
six weeks directly before Easter, was marked by fasting and other pious
or penitential practices. Traditionally during Lent, no parties or other
celebrations were held, and people refrained from eating rich foods,
such as meat, dairy, fats and sugar. The forty days of Lent, recalling
the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel">Gospel</a>
accounts of the forty days that Jesus spent in the wilderness, serve to
mark an annual time of turning. In the days before Lent, all rich food
and drink had to be disposed of. The consumption of this, in a giant
party that involved the whole community, is thought to be the origin of
Carnival.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While it forms an integral part of the Christian calendar, particularly in Catholic regions, many carnival traditions <a class="external text" href="http://www.cantao.net/index_arquivos/Carnaval.htm" rel="nofollow">date back to pre-Christian times</a>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Italian Carnival may be derived from the ancient Roman festivals of <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia" title="Saturnalia">Saturnalia</a></b> and <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchanalia" title="Bacchanalia">Bacchanalia</a></b>. The Saturnalia, in turn, may be based on the Greek <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysia" title="Dionysia">Dionysia</a></b> and Oriental festivals. While <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_pageant" title="Medieval pageant">medieval pageants</a> and festivals such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Christi_%28feast%29" title="Corpus Christi (feast)">Corpus Christi</a>
were church-sanctioned celebrations, carnival was also a manifestation
of medieval folk culture. Many local carnival customs are based on local
pre-Christian rituals, for example the elaborate rites involving masked
figures in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian%E2%80%93Alemannic_Fastnacht" title="SwabianโAlemannic Fastnacht">SwabianโAlemannic Fastnacht</a>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some of the best-known traditions, including carnival <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade" title="Parade">parades</a> and masquerade ball masquerading, were first recorded in medieval Italy. The <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Venice" title="Carnival of Venice">carnival of Venice</a></b>
was, for a long time, the most famous carnival. From Italy, carnival
traditions spread to the Catholic nations of Spain, Portugal, and
France. From France, they spread to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhineland" title="Rhineland">Rhineland</a> of Germany, and to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France" title="New France">New France</a>
in North America. From Spain and Portugal, they spread with Catholic
colonization to the Caribean and Latin America. In 1823 the first
worldwide carnival parade took place in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne" title="Cologne">Cologne</a>, Germany.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The origin of the name "Carnival" is disputed, between those that
argue a link with the Italian word "carne" (meat), and those that argue a
link with the word "carrus" (<i>car</i>). The link with carne would suggest an origin within Christianity, while the link with carro with earlier religions.</span></span></span></div>
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Italian dialects that would suggest that the name comes from the Italian
<i>carne levare</i> or similar, meaning "to remove meat", since meat is prohibited during Lent.</span></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Online_Etymology_Dictionary_2-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival#cite_note-Online_Etymology_Dictionary-2"></a></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_etymology" title="Folk etymology">Folk etymologies</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Online_Etymology_Dictionary_2-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival#cite_note-Online_Etymology_Dictionary-2"></a></sup> exist which state that the word comes from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Latin" title="Late Latin">Late Latin</a> expression <i>carne vale</i>,
which means "farewell to meat", signifying that those were the last
days when one could eat meat before the fasting of Lent. The word <i>carne</i> may also be translated as flesh, so suggesting <i>carne vale</i>
as "a farewell to the flesh", a phrase actually embraced by certain
Carnival celebrants who encourage letting go of your former (or
everyday) self and embracing the carefree nature of the festival.
However, explanations proceeding from <i>carne vale</i> seem to be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_etymology" title="Folk etymology">folk etymologies</a> and are not supported by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philology" title="Philology">philological</a> evidence</span></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Online_Etymology_Dictionary_2-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival#cite_note-Online_Etymology_Dictionary-2"></a></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Other scholars argue for the origin from the Roman name for the festival of the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigium_Isidis" title="Navigium Isidis">Navigium Isidis</a></i> (<i>ship of Isis</i>), where the image of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis">Isis</a> was carried to the sea-shore to bless the start of the sailing season.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival#cite_note-3"></a></sup> The festival consisted of a parade of masks following an adorned wooden boat, that would reflect the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float_%28parade%29" title="Float (parade)">floats</a> of modern Carnivals.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival#cite_note-4"></a></sup> Modern Carnival shares resemblances with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigium_Isidis" title="Navigium Isidis">Navigium Isidis</a>.</span></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Valantasis2000p378_5-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival#cite_note-Valantasis2000p378-5"></a></sup></span></span></div>
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first recorded in the 13th century but Venice has only been "the city of
Carnival" since the 18th century, when people from all over Europe came
to its fantastic parties. Recently there has been a great revival of
the Venetian carnival. In the city there are a lot of parties, dancing
and costumes parades.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Mardi Gras</b> (<span class="nowrap"><span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/ห/ primary stress follows">ห</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'m' in 'my'">m</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/ษr/ 'ar' in 'bard'">ษr</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/i/ 'y' in 'happy'">i</span></a></span> <span class="IPA nopopups"></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/ห/ primary stress follows">ห</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'g' in 'guy'">ษก</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/ษห/ 'a' in 'father'">ษห</span></a></span><span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a></span></span>; French meaning "Fat Tuesday") is an annual <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival" title="Carnival">Carnival</a> celebration in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>, Louisiana, United States.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The New Orleans Carnival season, a variation of the traditional manner of preparing for the start of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic" title="Catholic">Catholic</a> season of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent" title="Lent">Lent</a>, starts after Twelfth Night, on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_%28holiday%29" title="Epiphany (holiday)">Epiphany</a> (January 6). It is a season of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade" title="Parade">parades</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_%28dance%29" title="Ball (dance)">balls</a> (some of them <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade_ball" title="Masquerade ball">masquerade balls</a>), and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_cake" title="King cake">king cake</a>
parties. It has traditionally been part of the winter social season;
which at one time was when parties for Southern Society women, dรฉbutante
balls, were arranged.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Tuesday" title="Fat Tuesday">Fat Tuesday</a> (<i>Mardi Gras</i> in French), the day before <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday" title="Ash Wednesday">Ash Wednesday</a>.
Usually there is one major parade each day (weather permitting); many
days have several large parades. The largest and most elaborate parades
take place the last five days of the season. In the final week of
Carnival, many events large and small occur throughout New Orleans and
surrounding communities. Neighboring communities also hold Carnival
celebrations.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While many tourists center their Carnival season activities on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Street" title="Bourbon Street">Bourbon Street</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Quarter" title="French Quarter">French Quarter</a>,
none of the major Carnival parades have entered the French Quarter
since 1972 because of its narrow streets and overhead obstructions.
Instead, major parades originate in the Uptown and Mid-City districts
and follow a route along <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Charles_Avenue" title="St. Charles Avenue">St. Charles Avenue</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Street,_New_Orleans" title="Canal Street, New Orleans">Canal Street</a>,
on the upriver side of the French Quarter. Exposing body parts, or
"flashing", in an effort to catch more beads or throws, is frowned upon
by the police department and can be grounds for a ticket or an arrest.
Though it is a growing trend for uninhibited, mostly younger women to
show their breasts, this practice mostly only takes place on and around <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbon_Street" title="Bourbon Street">Bourbon Street</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Quarter" title="French Quarter">French Quarter</a>. The Uptown and Mid-City parade routes are family-friendly gatherings for citizens of all ages to enjoy the parades.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">๐ฉโ๐ฉ <span style="color: #ea9999;">"Galentine's Day"</span> ๐ฉโ๐ฉ</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #ea9999;">What does Galentine mean?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Observed on <span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><b>February 13</b>,</span> the day before Valentineโs Day, Galentineโs Day celebrates <b>platonic friendships</b>, usually among women.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><b>Where does Galentine come from?</b> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">On
February 11, 2010, the TV sitcom Parks and Recreation released an
episode called โGalentineโs Dayโ (Season 2, Episode 16). In this
episode, the effervescent and earnest lead character Leslie Knope
explained the made-up holiday, Galentineโs Day: โEvery February 13th, my
lady friends and I leave our husbands and our boyfriends at home, and
we just come and kick it, breakfast-style. Ladies celebrating ladies.
Itโs like Lilith Fair, minus the angst. Plus frittatas.โ The word
galentine itself blends gal and valentine.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Since
the episode, Galentineโs Day expanded into the broader popular culture.
Some actual Galentineโs Day celebrations involve getting together with
friends to exchange small gifts and eat brunch, especially waffles, a
favorite of Knopeโs character on Parks and Recreation.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">One
2017 New York Post op-ed called out the โrebrandingโ and
commercializing of Galentineโs Day. According to writer Hailey Eber,
making Galentineโs Day mainstream takes the fun and sincerity of
โeschewing Valentineโs Dayโ out of it. But as Megan Garber wrote for The
Atlantic, the โnormalizingโ of Galentineโs Day is a โsubversiveโ action
that should be celebrated.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/galentine">https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/galentine</a> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<b>Galentine's Day</b>" is the 16th episode of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation_(season_2)" title="Parks and Recreation (season 2)">second season</a> of the American comedy television series <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation" title="Parks and Recreation">Parks and Recreation</a></i>, and the 22nd overall episode of the series. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It originally aired on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> on February 11, 2010. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the episode, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Knope" title="Leslie Knope">Leslie</a> and her boyfriend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Parks_and_Recreation_characters#Justin_Anderson" title="List of Parks and Recreation characters">Justin</a> seek to reunite Leslie's mother, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Griggs-Knope" title="Marlene Griggs-Knope">Marlene</a>, with her teenage flame. Meanwhile, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Ludgate" title="April Ludgate">April</a>'s feelings for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Dwyer" title="Andy Dwyer">Andy</a> continue to bloom, while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Perkins" title="Ann Perkins">Ann</a> appears to be growing apart from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Brendanawicz" title="Mark Brendanawicz">Mark</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Is Galentine's only for ~LaDiEs~?</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nah. <b>Anyone and everyone can celebrate Galentine's Day</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">At
its gooey heart, Galentine's Day is a celebration of friendship and the
people who stick by your side as romantic relationships come and go.
Like the holiday it precedes, it's a day dedicated to showing the most
important people in your life how much you care about them. It's corny.
It's cheesy. And that's what makes it great.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Itโs February 13!</b></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Galentineโs Day!</b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> ๐ ๐ฝ๏ธ ๐
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The episode was written by series co-creator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Schur" title="Michael Schur">Michael Schur</a> and directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kwapis" title="Ken Kwapis">Ken Kwapis</a>. "Galentine's Day" featured a guest appearance by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Larroquette" title="John Larroquette">John Larroquette</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Parks_and_Recreation_characters#Frank_Beckerson" title="List of Parks and Recreation characters">Frank Beckerson</a>, the long-lost love of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Griggs-Knope" title="Marlene Griggs-Knope">Marlene Griggs-Knope</a>, who was played by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Reed" title="Pamela Reed">Pamela Reed</a>. It also featured the last in a string of guest performances by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Theroux" title="Justin Theroux">Justin Theroux</a> as Leslie's <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_interest" title="Romantic interest">love interest</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Parks_and_Recreation_characters#Justin_Anderson" title="List of Parks and Recreation characters">Justin Anderson</a>. </span></span></div>
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"Galentine's Day" was seen by 4.98 million household viewers, which
marked a continued improvement in ratings for the series. It tied a
record set with the previous episode, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetums_(Parks_and_Recreation)" title="Sweetums (Parks and Recreation)">Sweetums</a>", for the season's highest rating among viewers aged between 18 and 49. The episode received generally positive reviews.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span><b><span>Valentineโs Day Myths</span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr: Image" class="J9AiF" height="296" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/1d1651d4dc47619bf3d3dd693f97f5ab/72a11335fbfb071f-aa/s500x750/73eed2183f86cc23815a34fdb5e8485c6bb3ce20.gifv" width="296" /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></span></span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Most Widely Believed Myths & Legends <br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span>Mike Rothschild September 23, 2021</span></span><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><br />Like all popular holidays, Valentine's Day has a host of myths, urban legends, and misconceptions, to go with a murky history, unclear origin, and a confusing mythology. Valentine's Day origins aren't well known, and even which "St. Valentine" the romantic holiday is named after isn't quite clear. But it does have roots in literature of the Middle Ages, as well as English courtly traditions going back to the 1800s.<br /><br />But even English lovers in the Victorian era weren't spending the type of money that modern Americans spend on their true loves (or flings) on February 14. Valentine history is full of legends and widely believed theories that aren't actually based in fact. How did romance even get connected with St. Valentine? Again, it's not completely clear. And how much money do people really spend on Valentine's Day gifts anyway?<br />These Valentines myths and legends about the Day for Lovers might surprise you, and you might find that what you thought you knew about the pink and red holiday known for hearts, Cupid, and Teddy bears isn't quite true. Vote up the Valentine's Day "facts" you were most surprised to learn aren't totally true and then order in some food for you and your sweetie - the real V-Day pros know that eating out on February 14 isn't romantic, it's a nightmare.<br /><br /><b>St. Valentine's Day Started As A Roman Feast Called Lupercalia</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/351677/Lupercalia">Lupercalia</a></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><span> was an ancient Roman fertility rite observed from February 13โ15. A form of purification and spring cleaning, it was designed to spike birth rates by having drunk men run around naked, hitting women who wanted to conceive. While popular during the heyday of the Roman Empire, it declined in popularity as Christianity arose, and it was banned by Pope Gelasius in the late 490s, folded into the concurrent Feast of Purification. No written evidence connects the modern Valentineโs Day with this rite, given that Valentineโs Day didnโt become connected with love or lovers until much later.<br />Though Lupercalia and Valentineโs Day might indeed be linked, itโs not clear how, and the fact that they take place on the same day is probably coincidence. Itโs more likely that Lupercalia spawned some of the rituals of the modern Mardi Gras celebration.</span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Image from FOOD" class="J9AiF" height="242" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/d1c7c50947f8cf337673c9cea0e10219/2078193964e118d8-c0/s400x600/b140bbe11169cd93b54b269e9d2d0354a4d04c96.gifv" width="322" /><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><b>Chocolate Is The Ultimate Aphrodisiac</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><span>Chocolate has been a traditional Valentineโs Day staple since sometime after the 15th Century Aztecs made it an aphrodisiac. And indeed, some kinds of chocolate contain two chemicals found in people who are either aroused or in love. One is tryptophan, which is an element of serotonin. The other is phenylethylamine, a stimulant released in the brain when people fall in love.<br />But neither chemical appears in high enough quantities in the average box of chocolates to have much of an effect. Youโd probably have to eat enough to get a stomachache, which is decidedly unsexy.</span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Image from FOOD" class="J9AiF" height="282" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/f7b90a7d1d02d44ccf7163e66fb694f9/2078193964e118d8-d6/s500x750/b2e18f0f925f849c7f1752898a044ce24bf27fd4.gifv" width="423" /><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span>s<br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><b>The St. Valentine's Day Massacre Bricks Are Cursed</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><span>The Massacre was the machine-gunning of five members of Chicagoโs North Side Irish gang (along with two other unlucky associates) by Al Caponeโs South Side Italians. The victims were lined up against the brick wall of a warehouse in Lincoln Park and ventilated with Tommy Guns. The warehouse soon became a tourist attraction and was torn down in 1967, with the bricks purchased by Canadian businessman George Patey. They were then used in the menโs room of a '20s themed club, with a Plexiglass wall around them so men could pee on them.<br />The club closed and the bricks were sold off piecemeal, with many ending up at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. Patey claimed that many of the individual bricks he sold came back to him, returned by people who befell bad luck in business, love, and health due to them. But this presupposes the existence of curses โ and Pateyโs story actually being true.</span></span></span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><br /><br /><b>We Know A Lot About The Life Of St. Valentine</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><span>We know about as much as we do about most other figures of early Christianity โ which is to say, very little. Most of the stories commonly attributed to one or the other Valentines are squarely in the realm of myth, with nothing to confirm their veracity.<br />One legend of St. Valentine is that he was arrested and beheaded for marrying Christian couples or Roman soldiers to Christians. Another is that the earlier Valentine was imprisoned for refusing to convert to Paganism, and through his prison prayers, he healed the jailer's blind daughter. On the day of his execution he supposedly left her a note that was signed โYour Valentine" โ which was the first Valentineโs Day card. No evidence exists to support these or any of the other legends associated with St. Valentine, or even confirm when they might have occurred.</span></span></span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><br /></span><br /><b>Valentine's Day Started As A Holiday For Lovers</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><span>It was not until the 14th century that this Christian feast day became definitively associated with love. Itโs probably the medieval poet and Canterbury Tales author Geoffrey Chaucer who first linked St. Valentine's Day with romance, by way of a marriage poem. In 1381, Chaucer composed a poem to honor the engagement of England's Richard II and Anne of Bohemia.<br />As per tradition, Chaucer associated the occasion with a feast day โ in this case, Valentine. And even then, Chaucer didnโt use people to tell his story โ he used birds. He wrote in "The Parliament of Fowlsโ:<br />For this was on St. Valentine's Day,<br />When every fowl cometh there to choose his mate.</span></span></span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><br /><br /><b>Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><span>This highly clichรฉd bit of poetic doggerel stretches back to the English nursery rhyme collection Gammer Gurton's Garland from 1784. And it probably goes even further than that, with a reference to โred rosesโ found in Sir Edmund Spenserโs 1590 epic The Faerie Queen. It probably entered the popular lexicon when it was a line in one of the songs in Victor Hugoโs 1862 book Les Miserables.</span></span></span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><br /><br /><b>Valentine's Day Is A Hallmark Holiday Designed To Sell Cards</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><span>Lovers exchanging hand-made cards as tokens of affection on Valentine's Day had become common in England by the 18th century. Eventually, these cards, usually made of lace or ribbons, and featuring the familiar iconography of cupids and hearts, spread to the American colonies.<br />It wasnโt until the 1850s, when Esther A. Howland began mass-producing them that the greeting card industry truly took off in the US. But take off it did, with tens of millions of cards being bought and mailed every year.</span></span></span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><br /><br /><b>French Nobleman Charles, Duke of Orleans Wrote The First Valentine's Poem</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><span>Charles was just 21 when taken prisoner by the British at the disastrous Battle of Agincourt in 1415 โ legend has it he was found unharmed under a pile of corpses, unable to move due to the weight of his armor. He was held in the Tower of London for many years, where he composed up to 500 poems, many to his wife, Bonne of Armagnac. Allegedly, one of these was the first Valentineโs Day poem, written just a year into his captivity.<br />In reality, Charles might have written ONE of the first known Valentineโs poems, but whether or not it was literally THE first can never be known with certainty. The romantic poetry tradition was already alive and well, so this is probably more urban legend than historical fact. Charles was released in 1440, 10 years after Bonne died.</span><br /></span></span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><br /><b>St. Valentine's Day Is An Important Christian Holiday</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><span>Itโs not that important, and it's not even a holiday. Instead, itโs one of many, many liturgical feast days on the Christian calendar, meant to commemorate various saints. In the case of February 14, the honors are for the martyrs Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni. Valentine of Rome was a priest killed around 500 CE, while Valentine of Terni was killed around 200 CE. There might have even been a third Valentine, an African saint martyred much later than the other two.<br />In fact, the General Roman Catholic Calendar removed it as a feast day in 1969 because nothing could be confirmed about the existence of Valentine of Rome.</span></span></span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><br /><br /><b>That Valentine's Day Prix Fixe Dinner Is A Great Deal</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><span>Itโs probably not. In fact, restaurateurs agree that Valentineโs Day is a terrible night to go out for dinner, with places packed with couples that donโt often go out to eat and will either be going all out to impress each other or so preoccupied with PDA that theyโll be annoying other diners. The waitstaff is stressed out and the chef is trying to push out too many meals โ and since restaurants are so packed, the prix fixe menus usually tilt toward standard and unimaginative fare.<br />Food experts agree that itโs more romantic to either pick up a little something to enjoy at home, or just cook together.</span></span></span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><br /><br /><b>Taking A Hot Bath Together Is Super Sexy</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><span>It can be, if you have room for two in your bathtub. On the other hand, it might also be destroying your sperm count. A three-year study by a Brazilian urologic journal found that many of the subjectsโ fertility stats, including count and motility, soared after they stopped taking hot baths. This can lead to savings of thousands of dollars in fertility treatments, as well as the heartache of not being able to get pregnant.</span></span></span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><br /><br /><b>Your Partner Wants You To Propose On Valentine's Day</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;"><span><span>They almost certainly don't. According to a survey by the Daily Mail 70% of women don't want to get a proposal on Valentine's Day, feeling that itโs too gimmicky and too predictable. Of 1,107 women they polled, just 19% said they would like to be proposed to on Valentine's Day, while 74% said they wouldn't. And almost 50% of the women they surveyed stated they'd rather have their proposal come as a complete surprise.<br />Despite this, nearly four million Americans propose on Valentineโs Day anyway.</span></span></span><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><br /><b><br />Ladies Want You To Buy Them Something Sexy</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br />Thanks to the unrealistic ideals propagated by menโs magazines and the media in general, many women have body issues that could only be exacerbated by buying them lingerie theyโre not comfortable with. Men seem to have gotten the message, as according to flower company Teleflora, only 11% buy sexy night things for their partner. Your best bet is to ask your lady what she actually wants - whether it's something sexy or something else - rather than just getting what you think you are supposed to buy.</span><br /><b><br />People Spend A Lot Of Money</b><br /><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">REALITY:<br />It depends on what you define as a lot. According to the National Retail Federation, the average American couple spent $133.91 total on gifts for each other on Valentineโs Day. Men reported $108.38, while women reporting spending $49.41. This isnโt much more than the cost of a nice dinner out, so donโt think everyone is out buying their sweetheart a diamond bracelet.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/valentines-day-myths/mike-rothschild"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">https://www.ranker.com/list/valentines-day-myths/mike-rothschild</span></a><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr: Image" class="J9AiF" height="277" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/dbcae45edaa4bcefd063e91e07602b44/f9f0b34ee89bd9c4-8c/s400x600/50693783ca1532e3171f7224383d8b02f3eac633.gifv" width="278" /></div></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Biggest Valentineโs Day Myths of All Time</span></b></span></div><b>
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<span style="font-size: large;">๐<br /><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><b>Myth:</b> Valentineโs Day was named after St. Valentine, the Roman saint of courtly love.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Fact:</b> You donโt need love to have a good time. You donโt even need friends.</span><br />๐<br /><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><b>Myth:</b> A St. Valentineโs key is a small metal token given in some European countries as both a romantic symbol and a charm to ward off epilepsy.<br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Fact:</b> Epilepsy can be treated with medication, unlike being in love, which is often fatal.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><b>Myth:</b> Ancient Romans practiced Lupercalia, a fertility rite involving the whipping of women with the raw hides of sacrificed animals.<br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Fact:</b> Lupercalia is still practiced today, figuratively, through the voluntary act of online dating.</span><br />๐<br /><b>Myth:</b> Cupid is often portrayed as the infant son of the love goddess Venus and Mars, the god of war.<br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Fact:</b> It is well known that immunity against Cupidโs arrows of desire can be attained by wearing a Bluetooth earpiece and Crocs in public.</span><br />๐<br /><b>Myth:</b> In some traditions, Valentineโs Day is associated with the beginning of spring.<br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Fact:</b> Spring is probably not going to come this year.</span><br />๐</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><b>Myth:</b> A little under half of all American couples choose not to celebrate Valentineโs Day.<br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Fact:</b> A little under half of American men choose not to celebrate Valentineโs Day, because your anniversary was just a couple of months ago, and arenโt they basically the same thing?</span><br />๐<br /><b>Myth:</b> There were multiple St. Valentines recognized by early Christian churches.<br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Fact:</b> All St. Valentines represent one disappointing person from your childhood whom you repeatedly fall in and out of love with, because like love, the cycle of dysfunction lives on forever.</span><br />๐<br /><b>Myth:</b> The heart symbol, long used to represent love and emotion, has only a vague resemblance to an actual human heart.<br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Fact: </b>The first person to use the heart as a symbol may have had some questionable hobbies and possibly astigmatism.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"></span>๐<br /><b>Myth:</b> It is acceptable not to acknowledge your mother on Valentineโs Day.<br /><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Fact:</b> No, really. Itโs fine. Your father probably wonโt acknowledge her either, so sheโll just see you next time your washing machine is broken. Itโs not like she gave birth to you or anything.</span></span></span></div>
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Paul NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07615636073881472953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597117759129002918.post-68630936613493795492024-02-11T01:00:00.000-05:002024-02-11T01:00:00.132-05:00Plaisir d'Amour ๐Pleasure of Love ๐ผ<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: large;"><span><span><span>The song was greatly successful in Martini's version. For example, a young woman, Madame Julie Charles, sang it to the poet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_de_Lamartine" title="Alphonse de Lamartine">Alphonse de Lamartine</a> during his cure at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aix-les-Bains" title="Aix-les-Bains">Aix-les-Bains</a> in 1816, and the poet was to recall it 30 years later.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<td class="xl64" height="24" style="height: 18pt; width: 278pt;" width="370"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> French </span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #ea9999;">๐ซ๐ท</span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> Lyrics</span></b><span> </span></span></span></td>
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<b>English
๐ฌ๐ง<span> </span>Lyrics ๐บ๐ธ</b><br /></span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Plaisir
d'amour ne dure qu'un moment.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The pleasure of love
lasts only a moment</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chagrin
d'amour dure toute la vie.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The grief of love
lasts a lifetime.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">J'ai tout
quittรฉ pour l'ingrate Sylvie.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I gave up everything
for ungrateful Sylvia,</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">(or Tu m'as
quittรฉ pour la belle Sylvie.)</span></span></span></i></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">(or You gave me up
for the beautiful Sylvia,)</span></span></span></i></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Elle me quitte
et prend un autre amant.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She is leaving me for
another lover.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">(or Elle te
quitte pour un autre amant.)</span></span></span></i></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">(or She is leaving
you for another lover.)</span></span></span></i></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Plaisir
d'amour ne dure qu'un moment.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The pleasure of love
lasts only a moment,</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chagrin
d'amour dure toute la vie.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The grief of love
lasts a lifetime.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Tant que cette
eau coulera doucement</span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As long as this water
will run gently</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">vers ce
ruisseau qui borde la prairie,</span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">towards this brook which borders the meadow,</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Je t'aimerai", me rรฉpรฉtait Sylvie.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I will love
you", Sylvia told me repeatedly.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">L'eau coule
encore. Elle a changรฉ pourtant.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The water still runs,
but she has changed.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Plaisir
d'amour ne dure qu'un moment.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The pleasure of love
lasts only a moment,</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="24" style="border-top: medium; height: 18pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chagrin
d'amour dure toute la vie.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium; border-top: medium;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The grief of love
lasts a lifetime.</span></span></span></td>
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</tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="350" height="156" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lGXiBDVClyw/Tzu9bD9YDfI/AAAAAAAAmaw/cOMMtxdaRGUMF5kbnOM9IWuBmewgp1JuwCPcBGAYYCw/w209-h156/fair-cupid-hovering-holding-heart-t-g.gif" width="209" /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></i><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Amira Willighagen</span></span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span>"Plaisir d'amour"</span></span></span><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i><span style="color: #674ea7;"><br /></span></i><span style="color: #674ea7;">๐ โค๏ธ ๐</span><i><span style="color: #674ea7;"><br />
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="506" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9RMh83H9_FY" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe> </span></i></span></b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: small;">https://youtu.be/9RMh83H9_FY</span></span></i></span><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i><span style="color: #674ea7;"> <br /></span></i></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Berlioz" title="Hector Berlioz">Hector Berlioz</a></b> arranged it for orchestra (H134) in 1859. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_van_Waefelghem" title="Louis van Waefelghem">Louis van Waefelghem</a> arranged the tune for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_d%27amore" title="Viola d'amore">viola d'amore</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola" title="Viola">viola</a> and piano in the 1880s. It has been arranged and performed in various pop music settings.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Notable <b>classical singers</b> who have recorded Martini's original song include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Ponselle" title="Rosa Ponselle">Rosa Ponselle</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_de_los_%C3%81ngeles" title="Victoria de los รngeles">Victoria de los รngeles</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Schipa" title="Tito Schipa">Tito Schipa</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Wunderlich" title="Fritz Wunderlich">Fritz Wunderlich</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Schwarzkopf" title="Elisabeth Schwarzkopf">Elisabeth Schwarzkopf</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Baker" title="Janet Baker">Janet Baker</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inese_Galante" title="Inese Galante">Inese Galante</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Kenny" title="Yvonne Kenny">Yvonne Kenny</a>, and many others. In 2014, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C3%A1cido_Domingo" title="Plรกcido Domingo">Plรกcido Domingo</a> recorded the song for his album, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encanto_del_Mar" title="Encanto del Mar">Encanto del Mar</a></i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i><span style="color: #674ea7;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="350" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzXAYBarORXTTeEc2Un_bzc598eS0qOA98fyt1sS57PySmyl0uWUp2HkNGDGPY_8P5xtBdPG-bj9cuhJFe_SqHaJXLJTylJYqH3wDf8viK_c3qPfXdSQCR5-ISmxKzQMsl_E_FaoCQOYzBJ8RIdWFUn5G0qNSQrwuOGdxNZIIjM0fnOSjrsraVpZeHAQ/w273-h205/2-dark-cupids-sitting-waving-t-g.gif" width="273" /></div></span></i></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><span><span><b><span><span>Andrรฉ Rieu</span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span><span><b><span><span>Plaisir d'Amour</span></span></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span>Andrรฉ Rieu, <span style="color: #ea9999;"><b>Mirusia and Carmen Monarcha</b></span> performing Plaisir d'amour live in Dresden. Taken from the DVD Andrรฉ Rieu - Dancing Through The Skies (Wedding at the Opera).</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">
๐ โค๏ธ ๐</span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="506" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/25FVGrjbtL8" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe>
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</span></span></b><a href="https://youtu.be/25FVGrjbtL8"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://youtu.be/25FVGrjbtL8</span></span></span></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="https://68.media.tumblr.com/eff5d468d6038fa6deb687e028da2d11/tumblr_oqj37gooxZ1urtgw2o2_r1_1280.gif" class="transparent" height="103" src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/eff5d468d6038fa6deb687e028da2d11/tumblr_oqj37gooxZ1urtgw2o2_r1_1280.gif" width="614" /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b><span><span><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">Music</span> by <span style="color: #d9d2e9;">Jean-Paul-รgide Martini</span> (1741โ1816)</span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b><span><span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Lyrics</span> by <span style="color: #fce5cd;">Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian</span> (1755โ1794)</span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #d9d2e9;">J.-P.-E. Martini </span> <span style="color: #b6d7a8;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-size: large;">& </span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> J.-P. Claris de Florian</span></b></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="https://64.media.tumblr.com/beb5f190d00cf4e3c06c0838b0e86a6d/ff26372653df6fd8-91/s400x600/9581e7e535f3360c6850a7c0998179e88229897b.jpg" height="416" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/beb5f190d00cf4e3c06c0838b0e86a6d/ff26372653df6fd8-91/s400x600/9581e7e535f3360c6850a7c0998179e88229897b.jpg" width="323" /><img alt="https://64.media.tumblr.com/1d2283b65d18c7549a872ee076bd0ded/ff26372653df6fd8-99/s400x600/9e5c7b23d6768ebde63a9ab0995e4ec4436c0052.jpg" height="413" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/1d2283b65d18c7549a872ee076bd0ded/ff26372653df6fd8-99/s400x600/9e5c7b23d6768ebde63a9ab0995e4ec4436c0052.jpg" width="327" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Seekers</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Plaisir D'Amour (1964)</span></span></span><b><span><span><br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b><span><span>
๐ โค๏ธ ๐</span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>
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๐ โค๏ธ ๐</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>https://youtu.be/dLFTBQSZ3h4 </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">๐ผโชโซ๐ฃโชโซโซ๐นโชโซโช๐ทโช๐ปโชโซ๐บโชโซ๐ฅโชโซ๐ธโซ</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Nana Mouskouri</span></span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span>Plaisir D'amour</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span> (์ฌ๋์ ๊ธฐ์จ) (1971)</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b><span><span>
๐ โค๏ธ ๐<br /></span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">๐ผโชโซ๐ฃโชโซโซ๐นโชโซโช๐ทโช๐ปโชโซ๐บโชโซ๐ฅโชโซ๐ธโซ</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #ead1dc;"><b>Andrea Bocelli</b></span><br />London Symphony Orchestra ยท <b>Lorin Maazel</b></span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notable interpretations</b> of <span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><b>modern arrangements</b></span> of the song include those of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karrin_Allyson" title="Karrin Allyson">Karrin Allyson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Baez" title="Joan Baez">Joan Baez</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot" title="Brigitte Bardot">Brigitte Bardot</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Brown" title="Vicki Brown">Vicki Brown</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Church" title="Charlotte Church">Charlotte Church</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Faithfull" title="Marianne Faithfull">Marianne Faithfull</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Mouskouri" title="Nana Mouskouri">Nana Mouskouri</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seekers" title="The Seekers">The Seekers</a>. One of the more unusual recordings is by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson" title="Paul Robeson">Paul Robeson</a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Notable appearances <span style="color: #b4a7d6;">in films</span></b> include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Dunne" title="Irene Dunne">Irene Dunne</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Affair_%281939_film%29" title="Love Affair (1939 film)">Love Affair</a></i>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Clift" title="Montgomery Clift">Montgomery Clift</a> played the music on the piano and sang the song as well in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heiress" title="The Heiress">The Heiress</a></i>; the song's music is featured in the opening of the 1955 movie <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27re_No_Angels_%281955_film%29" title="We're No Angels (1955 film)">We're No Angels</a></i>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joely_Richardson" title="Joely Richardson">Joely Richardson</a>, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette" title="Marie Antoinette">Marie Antoinette</a>, sings it in the 2001 film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Affair_of_the_Necklace" title="The Affair of the Necklace">The Affair of the Necklace</a></i>; "Plaisir d'amour" is sung by an all-female choir in "The Breaking Point", an episode of HBO's 2001 World War II television miniseries <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_of_Brothers_%28miniseries%29" title="Band of Brothers (miniseries)">Band of Brothers</a></i>; the 1987 movie <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_famiglia_%281987_film%29" title="La famiglia (1987 film)">La Famiglia</a></i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Scola" title="Ettore Scola">Ettore Scola</a>; the tune is heard repeatedly in the 1977 film <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_or_Die_%28film%29" title="March or Die (film)">March or Die</a></i>. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: large;">The melody was used for several songs with new lyrics, including <i><b>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Help_Falling_in_Love" title="Can't Help Falling in Love">Can't Help Falling in Love</a>"</b></i>, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse" title="Hermann Hesse">Hermann Hesse</a></b>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story" title="Short story">short story</a> "Chagrin d'Amour" (1908) narrates a fictional origin for this song at a medieval tournament. Hesse has it composed by an obscure <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubadour" title="Troubadour">troubadour</a> named Marcel, who sings this song to a queen named Herzeloyde to express his hopeless and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrequited_love" title="Unrequited love">unrequited love</a> for her. Hesse took the names of the characters from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_von_Eschenbach" title="Wolfram von Eschenbach">Wolfram von Eschenbach</a>'s <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parzival" title="Parzival">Parzival</a></i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the start of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anderson_%28playwright%29" title="Robert Anderson (playwright)">Robert Anderson</a>'s play <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_and_Sympathy_%28play%29" title="Tea and Sympathy (play)">Tea and Sympathy</a></i>, the main character, Tom Lee, is singing this "plaintive" song referred to as "The Joys of Love".</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaisir_d%27amour"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaisir_d%27amour</span></span></a> <br /></span></span></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><b><span><i><span>Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment, </span></i></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><b><span><i><span>Chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie.</span></i></span></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="https://68.media.tumblr.com/c06084f8659c536b0ffbc2175cd63a8e/tumblr_inline_oqj1eewPAB1sqnfhp_540.gif" class="transparent" src="https://68.media.tumblr.com/c06084f8659c536b0ffbc2175cd63a8e/tumblr_inline_oqj1eewPAB1sqnfhp_540.gif" /></div></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><span>โค๏ธ</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><span>๐</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><span>๐ </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><span>๐</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><span>๐๐๐๐</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><span>โค๏ธโโฃ๏ธ</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><span>โฅ๏ธ</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><span>๐</span></span></span></div>
<p style="text-align: left;"></p>Paul NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07615636073881472953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597117759129002918.post-55123944084307996462024-02-10T01:00:00.087-05:002024-02-13T12:55:11.758-05:00Lunar ๐งง New Year ๐ 4722<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-size: x-large;"><b><span>Lunar </span><span>๐</span><span>Chinese </span><span>๐งง</span><span> New Year</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr: Image" class="J9AiF" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/cac7d63439e9993d849daec38966374c/45a5715f1d240c9d-e8/s500x750/31c7cb85147db004633092fd66bf1bc490f07443.gifv" /></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span><span><span><span> Chinese Year <span style="color: #b4a7d6;">4722 </span>๐ฒ </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #e06666;"><span>Feb. 10, 2024</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr: Image" class="J9AiF" height="330" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/3138df73567a0c910141a6bb86f6e87b/45a5715f1d240c9d-6d/s500x750/5b02650b18b0eba6f4639a603f68650e1a657cda.gifv" width="330" /><img alt="Tumblr: Image" class="J9AiF" height="330" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/e71755dfa9ca4492a9eae82ea83ca56b/45a5715f1d240c9d-18/s500x750/cf703016467bbd4ea4b05ef60ea9b79cf66fb20a.gifv" width="330" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/67/ef/07/67ef07136d31b99ec92e82090550c1b4.gif" class="shrinkToFit transparent" height="239" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/67/ef/07/67ef07136d31b99ec92e82090550c1b4.gif" width="336" /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chinese New Years is celebrated by billions of people around the world. The date of Chinese New Years changes every year. It is a 15 day celebration, beginning on the first day of the new moon, and ends on the full moon. The celebration on the15th day is called the Chinese Lantern Festival. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><img alt="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/61/70/06/617006f1406eee08d0710127b4447d54.gif" class="transparent" height="229" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/61/70/06/617006f1406eee08d0710127b4447d54.gif" width="289" /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Chinese culture is amongst the oldest in the world. While the rest of the world is in the early years of but the third millennium, Chinese culture is in their fifth millennium. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">In Chinese astrology, every year is represented by an animal. The cycle is twelve years, with a different animal each year. To find out about your sign,and what it says about you, see<a href="http://chinaunique.com/fun/astrology.htm" target="_blank">Chinese Astrology</a>. </span></span><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><br />
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Chinese New years or Spring Festival, is the biggest holiday in Chinese culture. It is celebrated with festivities, fireworks, brightly colored lights, special meals with family and gift giving. Like Christmas in the western world, most Chinese travel home to be with family for the new year celebration. </span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Chinese New Year</b> is the Chinese festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar" title="Chinese calendar">Chinese calendar</a>. The festival is usually referred to as the <b>Spring Festival</b> in mainland <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, and is one of several <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_New_Year" title="Lunar New Year">Lunar New Years</a> in Asia. Observances traditionally take place from the evening preceding the first day of the year to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_Festival" title="Lantern Festival">Lantern Festival</a>,
held on the 15th day of the year. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February. </span></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chinese New Year is celebrated as the national holiday in some countries around the East Asia such as South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia. It is a major holiday in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_China" title="Greater China">Greater China</a> and has strongly influenced the lunar new year celebrations of China's neighbouring cultures, including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_New_Year" title="Korean New Year">Korean New Year</a> (seol), the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%E1%BA%BFt" title="Tแบฟt">Tแบฟt</a> of Vietnam, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losar" title="Losar">Losar</a> of Tibet. It is also celebrated worldwide in regions and countries with significant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Chinese" title="Overseas Chinese">Overseas Chinese</a> populations, these including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius" title="Mauritius">Mauritius</a>, as well as many Chinatowns and Koreatowns in North America and Europe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chinese New Year is associated with several myths and customs. The festival was traditionally a time to honor <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deities" title="Deities">deities</a> as well as ancestors.<sup> </sup>Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the New Year vary widely, and the evening preceding Chinese New Year's Day is frequently regarded as an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reunion_dinner" title="Reunion dinner">reunion dinner</a>.
It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly clean their house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for incoming good luck. Another custom is the decoration of windows and doors with red <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_paper_cutting" title="Chinese paper cutting">paper-cuts</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couplet_(Chinese_poetry)" title="Couplet (Chinese poetry)">couplets</a>. Popular themes among these paper-cuts and couplets include that of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_character" title="Fu character">good fortune or happiness</a>, wealth, and longevity. Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_envelopes" title="Red envelopes">red paper envelopes</a>. For the northern regions of China, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpling" title="Dumpling">dumplings</a> are featured prominently in meals celebrating the festival.</span> </span></div><span style="color: #fce5cd;">
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span>๐งง ๐ ๐</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: medium;"><b><span> ๐</span></b></span><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: medium;"><b><span>๐ ๐๐ ๐ฒ โฏ๏ธ</span></b></span><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span>Chinese Year 4723 - Jan. 29, 2025, <span style="color: #45818e;">Sign: Snake, a Yin year</span></span></span><br /></span></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span>๐งง ๐ ๐</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span>Chinese Year 4724 - Feb. 17, 2026, <span style="color: #e69138;">Sign: Horse, a Yang year</span></span></span></span><br /></span></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span>๐งง ๐ ๐</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span>Chinese Year 4725 - Feb. 6, 2027, <span style="color: #fce5cd;">Sign: Sheep a Yin year</span></span></span><br /></span></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span>๐งง ๐ ๐</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span>Chinese Year 4726 - Jan. 26, 2028, <span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Sign: Monkey, a Yang year</span></span></span></span><br /></span></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span>๐งง ๐ ๐</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span> <br /></span></span></span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span>Chinese Year 4727 - Feb. 13, 2029, <span style="color: #e06666;">Sign: Rooster, a Yin year</span></span></span><br /></span></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span>๐งง ๐ ๐</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span>Chinese Year 4728 - Feb 3, 2030. <span style="color: #e69138;">Sign: Dog, a Yang year. </span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span>๐งง ๐ ๐</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span>Chinese Year 472</span></span>9 </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span> - </span></span> Feb 13 2031 </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span> <span style="color: #e69138;">Sign: </span></span></span></span>Rooster</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span><span style="color: #e69138;"><span><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span>๐งง ๐ ๐</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Chinese Year </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span> 4730</span></span> Jan 23 </span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>203</span></span></span></span>1 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span>Sign: Pig, a Yin year</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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</div>Paul NYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07615636073881472953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597117759129002918.post-55591122862331440552024-02-09T01:00:00.003-05:002024-02-09T01:00:00.135-05:00Pizza Day ๐ Feb 9 ๐<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">
<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">๐ National Pizza Day! ๐ <br /></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>February 9</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Tumblr: Image" class="J9AiF" src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/53712b0c56111408d60f57a98374e5bf/654d0c8000c23ff4-7c/s500x750/40b55de528d897b80f6d555fde9b207f094485fd.gifv" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b>On February 9 as we celebrate National Pizza Day!</b> Itโs hard to imagine that before World War II, pizza was little known outside of Italy or Italian immigrant communities. This cheesy disc went from a niche cultural meal to the star of the show anywhere it turns up! Letโs hear it for pizza!</span><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">๐</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>History of National Pizza Day</b><br />Though flat-breads with toppings were consumed by ancient Egyptians, Romans, and Greeks, the modern birthplace of the pizza is southwestern <b>Italyโs Campania</b> region, home to <b>Naples.</b> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Founded around 600 BC as a Greek settlement, Naples in the 1700s and early 1800s was a thriving waterfront city. Technically an independent kingdom, it was notorious for its throngs of working poor, or lazzaroni. These Neapolitans required inexpensive food that could be consumed quickly. Pizza โ flatbreads with toppings that can be eaten for every meal โ fulfilled this need. These early pizzas featured tasty toppings such as tomatoes, cheese, oil, anchovies, and garlic. More well off Italian authors judged Naplesโ innovation, often calling their eating habits disgusting.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1861, Italy finally unified, and King Umberto I and Queen Margherita visited Naples in 1889. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Legend says that the traveling pair became bored with their steady diet of French cuisine and asked for an assortment of pizzas from the cityโs Pizzeria Brandi, founded in 1760. The variety the queen enjoyed the most was called pizza mozzarella, a pie topped with the soft white cheese, red tomatoes, and green basil โ much <b>resembling the Italian flag.</b> Since then, this particular choice of toppings has been dubbed the </span></span><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Margherita pizza</i></b></span></span><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">However, even with the Queenโs love for the dish, pizza would remain little known in Italy beyond Naplesโ borders until the 1940s. Across the sea, immigrants to the United States from Naples were replicating their flat-breads in New York and other American cities. They were coming for factory jobs, but accidentally made a culinary statement. Relatively quickly, the flavors and aromas of pizza began to intrigue non-Neapolitans and non-Italians alike.</span><br /><b></b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">๐ </span></span></span></span></b></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>National Pizza Day Timeline<br /></b></span></span><ul><li><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">1861 - <b>Queen Margherita</b> Lends Her Name - King Umberto and Queen Margherita of the newly unified Italy visit Naples and the Margherita pizza gets its name.</span></span></li><li><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Late 1940s - Post-War Pie - Immigrants to New York in the 1940s brought along the Neopolitan delight that is pizza.<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">1943 - <b>Deep Dish</b> Comes on the Scene - Pizzeria Uno in Chicago invents the deep dish pizza, sparking the still unsettled debate of whether a casserole can really be a pizza.<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">1958 - Pizza the Hut - The leading chain pizza restaurant was founded in Wichita, Kansas</span></span></li></ul></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-size: x-large;">๐</span></span></span></span>National Pizza Day! 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