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The first hoop skirt was for Queen Joana of Portugal; she needed to hide a pregnancy.  Today is Discovery Day in NL, marking John Cabot’s 1497 arrival in Bonavista Bay. Mercedes, BMW, Jaguar, BMW and Toyota are built in Graz, Austria. Close relatives of mites and ticks, North America is home to 3,400 species of spiders. Julia Child drove a Chefrolet. Toronto’s Mary Pickford was the first Hollywood actress to sign a $1million contract, in 1916. Swiss chard is a biennial.  17,772 kilometres or railroad track crisscross México.  This is Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Québec. Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors. ~Walter Winchell Introduced in 1958, the Time-Out Chair is classified as a Type 2 punishment. Growing wild in all ten provinces, sarsaparilla is a member of the ginseng family. A newcomer to vocabulary; the word ‘scam’ first slipped off our tongues in the 1960s. On this date in 1880, in Québec City, ...

Today in 1849 Denmark became a constitutional monarchy. 68% of all Canadians live within five minutes of public transport. Cranberries bounce like rubber balls when ripe.  The surname Elliott is the English variation of Elijah. The crazy man who highjacked the VIA Rail train last week had a loco-motive. Crayons were invented in 1795. The US, Japan, Germany, Poland, the UK, Israel and Italy are home to the most vegans. The word ‘shrink’ to mean a psychiatrist entered the lexicon in 1950. Today in 1876 The Supreme Court of Canada sat for the first time. My neighbour was ordered to see a psychiatrist. He complained they wouldn’t shrink the bill. Attila the Hun’s empire collapsed in 468 AD. A 60-watt light bulb is equal to one with 900 lumens. Kingsford charcoal came from Ford auto production wood scraps, and sold at Ford dealers. Québec led the way, today in 2014 the National Assembly passed right-to-die legislation.  Plant a l...