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Sherman A1

(38,958 posts) Thu Jan 8, 2015, 04:57 AM Jan 2015

Daily Holidays -January 8

English Toffee Day

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/english-toffee

Argyle Day

Bubble Bath Day

New research reveals Britons prefer the shower - but we don't use that or the bath on 111 days each year More than a third of Brits take four or less baths a year - and don't wash at all for three months.

Thirty-five per cent of the UK admit to taking up to just four annual baths, with 47% saying two of those are while staying in a hotel, according to new research by hotel booking site LateRooms.com to mark Bubble Bath Day.

Brits are more likely to be found in the shower, taking on average 227 a year. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/stinky-brits-take-just-four-4934422

Earth’s Rotation Day

War on Poverty Day The War on Poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent. The speech led the United States Congress to pass the Economic Opportunity Act, which established the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to administer the local application of federal funds targeted against poverty.

As a part of the Great Society, Johnson believed in expanding the government's role in education and health care as poverty reduction strategies.[1] These policies can also be seen as a continuation of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, which ran from 1933 to 1935, and the Four Freedoms of 1941. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty