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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, ...

Canada and 50 other nations founded the United Nations today, in 1945. A dove can fly 870 kilometres in a day.  Today in 1987, the Parti Québecois announced its opposition to Free Trade with the United States. On six continents, there are 53 urban centres named Paris.  Talk is cheap until you hire a lawyer.  At 402 metres, Mount Obama is the highest point in Antigua.  Earthlings can travel on more than 40 million kilometres of highways and byways.  A dozen eggs cost 35¢ at Loblaw’s in 1935; the average income was $313 a year.  70% of Australia’s kangaroo meat is exported to France and Germany.  The RMS Titanic carried 20 lifeboats but we do not know how many were non-smoking. Around 400 AD, bowling was introduced to Germans as a religious cleansing ritual.  The Reuters News Agency was established in 1851. Spinach, Swiss chard and beets are all members of the good foot family. In 2006, Winnie the Pooh w...