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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, ...

The Vancouver Sun reports that 86,000 of us live with spinal cord injuries. Those who read crystal balls are called scryers.  Today in 1987, Rick Hansen ended his Man in Motion tour--40 000 km in 34 countries.  The length of airways in the two lungs is 2 400 kilometres. Fortune tellers look forward to dancing at the annual crystal ball.  The population of Spain is 46,659, 302. The surname Nash is topographic, derived from living near an ash tree. Ventriloquism was originally a religious practice.  The NHL awarded a franchise to the Vancouver Canucks today in 1970. King Carlos I was homely, proof that the reign in Spain falls mainly to the plain.   The Time Out Chair—as behavioural modification—was introduced in 1958. Wasabi root is 11% fat and 46% carbs. Indian mathematicians defined zero in AD 628. Today in 1820, Lord Dalhousie laid the cornerstone of Dalhousie University.  The number zero was invented to co...