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The leaves on a four-leaf clover represent hope, faith, love and luck. Authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and uninvolved are the four types of parenting. From St. John’s to Victoria, we can donate to 86,260 charitable organizations. It is peace for Ireland as the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Belfast, today in 1998. Folk who iron a four-leaf clover are really pressing their luck.  74% of the sun’s mass is hydrogen.  Garlic is a member of of the lily family.  The Library of Canada contains 54 million catalogued items.  Today in 1972, an earthquake killed 4,000 people in Iran. Be wary of on-line articles about health—you could die of a misprint.  The mathematical term ‘fraction’ comes from the Latin ‘fractio’, to break. A newborn baby porcupine is called a porcupette.  Western Union operates more than 500,000 agencies in 200 countries.  Today in 1842, Halifax was incorporated as a city. Three out of...

There are 104 days until Christmas. The aster is a member of the sunflower family.  Sandy McTire rolled up his sleeves, pulled on his tam-o’-shanter and got to work in 1958. Tylenol is an extremely common cause of liver failure. My neighbour was diagnosed with neurosis of the liver.  Straw is as a carbon-neutral energy source; Its briquettes are a biofuel substitute to coal. Today is Leap Day in the Coptic and Ethiopian calendars.  First Nations make use of cedar to treat patients in the healing of emotional issues.  Easy-Off Oven Cleaner was invented by Herbert McCool in Regina in 1932. The apartment was spotless. Then the cubs woke up. The end.  Suriname is the smallest sovereign nation in South America. Because of its hardiness, florists often nod to the aster as the ‘frost flower’.  Kia has 5,000 stores in 190 countries and manufactures on every continent-save Australia.  2,996 died as terrorists att...