**Cinco de Mayo -- Believe it or not, Cinco de Mayo is a bigger holiday in the U-S than it is in Mexico.
Cinco de Mayo has nothing to do with Mexico's Independence Day --which is actually September 16. May fifth actually marks the victory of Mexican forces over the French at the Battle of the Puebla, back in 1862 while we were messing around in the Civil War.
But even though the Mexicans beat the French, the French were on the way to Mexico City and eventually conquered it, putting Emperor Maximillian on the throne in 1863. The Mexicans then turned around and although it took them several years, defeated the French and kicked them out of Mexico, executing Emperor Maximillian in 1867.

In the 1980s, Mexican beer distributors, looking for a way to publicize their brews, decided to make the holiday an event and were joined by Latino groups in the U-S who were also eager to have a holiday of "their own" like St Patrick's Day for the Irish. USA Today says that drive helped make Corona the #1 imported beer, with the holiday responsible for up to 200 million bottles of Corona alone! Nowadays the holiday has evolved into a celebration of Mexican food and culture in many cities.

**Be Kind to Animals Week
**Pet Week
**Nurse's Week (first week of the month)
**Reading is Fun Week
**Astronomy Week
**Teacher Appreciation Week
**National Hoagie Day
**Oyster Day
**Totally Chipotle Day
**Significant Other Day
**Slow Down Day
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According to the New York Times, a major publisher in Germany is putting a printed version of Wikipedia articles together for the first time. The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia will go on sale in September for 19.95 euros, or about $32 dollars. The online version is free.
Publisher Bertelsmann says it’ll be kind of like an encyclopedic yearbook, with only the most popular of the entries making the book version. The German-language site has more than 750-thousand articles. The book will have only about 25-thousand entries.
Bertelsmann has agreed to pay one euro per copy sold for use of the Wikipedia name. The money will be used to help support the site’s operation.
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The hot new ingredient in sunscreens may be --broccoli. Inflammation and redness are key measures of future skin cancer risk.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine are finding out that not only is broccoli a potent cancer-fighter when you eat it, applying a smear of an extract found in broccoli sprouts to skin reduced inflammation by nearly 40%. The antioxidants in the compound apparently activate skin's own cancer-fighting ability by boosting production of protective enzymes and it works for days, even after it’s washed off.
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Maybe it wasn't a happy celebration as far as most folks are concerned, but this past Saturday, junk email -- known as Spam-- turned 30 years old. So what was the very first spam email? Well, it was sent out using the U.S. Defense Department's Arpanet by a salesman named Gary Thuerk who invited the 393 recipients to come watch a demo of 20 mini computers being marketed by the Digital Equipment Corp. The Arpanet was the predecessor to today's Internet and most of those lucky enough to get the very first spam were top officials of the U.S. military and university researchers. By the way -- for sending out the email-- Thuerk was immediately fired. Even back then they knew this was a bad thing! The latest government data shows that 92.3 per cent of all emails transmitted in the first quarter of 2008 were spam.
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