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The Canada Safety Council's School Safety Week raises awareness about the importance of school safety and promotes common sense practices in schools across Canada. The campaign presents educational resources and materials to help educators promote community safety, covering topics like pedestrian safety, school bus safety, and cycling. The week encourages schools to create safety initiatives and share successes with the community. The Canada Safety Council's School Safety Week is an important initiative that helps create a safety culture in Canadian schools. It aims to prevent accidents and injuries and promote the well-being of students and educators. The campaign highlights the importance of schools in promoting safety within the broader community.

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Storytelling Festival, Scottish Intl. (UK): October 17-29

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The Scottish International Storytelling Festival is a multi-week event in Edinburgh each year. Hosted by the storytellers of Scotland, artists from across the globe gather together for this event. Performance, workshops, talks, and children’s events radiate from Scotland’s capital as the best of Scotland’s storytelling talent merge with guests, offering many opportunities to celebrate and discover oral traditions and cultural diversity.

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Trauma Day, World: October 17

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World Trauma Day began in New Delhi in 2011 in conjunction with The Trauma Society of South Africa. It highlights the impact, prevention, and treatment of traumatic injuries and deaths. The World Health Organization notes that 50% of road deaths in developing countries are preventable.

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Tula Sankranti (H): October 17

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Tula Sankranti is one of the twelve Sankranti of the Hindu religion and includes social, cultural, and religious aspects. It is considered auspicious in Odisha (Orissa) and Karnataka states. PLEASE NOTE: We use the Indian civil calendar, the official holiday calendar in India. The Hindu faith has many calendars, each specific to different regions and tribes, with dates and celebrations marked by differing positions of the sun, moon, and stars. Names of months and holidays and the corresponding dates in the Gregorian Calendar may vary widely from one calendar to the next. Determine the proper calendar before attending local events.

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Wear Something Gaudy Day: October 17

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Like Festivus from "Seinfeld," Wear Something Gaudy Day originated with a comment by a character on a popular television show, in this case, the affable Larry Dallas on the sitcom "Three's Company." The wildly popular show followed three twenty-something roommates, two women, and a man, living in Santa Monica, California. At the time, it was considered scandalous for a heterosexual male to be roommates with two women. Today cohabitation is pretty standard, especially in high-rent areas like Los Angeles suburb Santa Monica and New York City, where rents run in the several thousands of dollars per month, even for a low-end apartment.

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Beard Day (No): October 18

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No Beard Day was likely started by a razor blade company some years back. Today it is used to convince those who have let their facial hair get a little out of control to clean up their act.

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Birth of the Bab (1819): October 18

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The founder of the Baha'i faith (a breakaway from Islam), Sayyid Ali Muhammad, was born on this day, October 18, 1819, in Shiraz, Persia (Iran). Followers of the Baha'i faith do not work on this day.

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Body, International Love Your Body Day: October 18

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NOW, the National Organization of Women hosts International Love Your Body Day on the third Wednesday in October. Created in 1997, Love Your Body Day is a day when women of all sizes, colors, ages, and abilities come together to celebrate self-acceptance and promote positive body image. Although no woman should need a particular day or occasion to celebrate her body, consider taking this day to take the celebration to a whole new level!

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Chocolate Cupcake Day: October 18

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Cupcakes were initially cooked in pottery cups called ramekins, teacups, or other small ceramic dishes to facilitate serving cake to multiple people at once. Eliza Leslie's 1828 recipe for cupcakes, published in her self-named cookbook that year, is the first known reference to cupcakes in print.

Today, cupcakes are a gourmet, multi-million dollar business. The largest cupcake ever created? Weighing in at 2,594 lb (1176.62 kg), this mammoth cupcake claimed the World's Record on November 2, 2011, and was made by Georgetown Cupcake in Sterling, Virginia. The most expensive cupcake ever sold? The $42,000 diamond-sprinkled confection was bought on April 15, 2009, and created by Green Movsessian of Gaithersburg, Maryland. National Chocolate Cupcake Day is an unofficial event with no sponsor.

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Hagfish Day, Ntl.: October 18

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Hagfish aren't exactly pretty, and they're downright ugly and look like something out of an Alien movie. But what they do is critical to the ocean ecosystem. Like snails, they ooze slime everywhere as they clean up the ocean floor and keep it tidy. Today is about learning about this often unknown creature and its importance in keeping our oceans clean. Hagfish Day began in 2009.

Header image: Peter Southwood, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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Independence Day Holiday, (AZ)(1991): October 18

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Independence Day in Azerbaijan marks the anniversary of October 18, 1991, when the nation separated from the Soviet Union. Independence Day is a national holiday.

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Medical Assistants Recognition Day: October 18

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The Wednesday of Medical Assistants Recognition Week is Medical Assistants Recognition Day in the United States. It's a day to honor and appreciate medical assistants in all areas of health care and their immeasurable contribution to saving people's lives.

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Menopause Day, World: October 18

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The International Menopause Society promotes World Menopause Day.

The organization seeks to raise awareness about the need for a health audit to avoid chronic diseases in later life upon entering this phase of a woman’s life.

A woman is in menopause when it has been 365 since her last menstrual cycle. Most women enter menopause in the late forties to early fifties, though it can happen in a woman’s thirties or sixties. Menopause is usually preceded by several years of fluctuating hormones and various physical symptoms, including dry skin, hair loss, weight gain, fatigue, night sweats, insomnia, and difficulty with libido.

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Opossum Day, Ntl. (CA): October 18

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The opossum is the only marsupial native to North America. Like kangaroos, they carry their children in a pouch, and possums have existed since the age of dinosaurs. Possums benefit the ecosystem immeasurably and should be welcomed in your yard. They eat cockroaches, other insects, snails, mice, rats, fruit, plants, eggs, frogs, birds, snakes, roadkill, and people's food. Unlike rodents, possums have high immunity to disease and tend to be a low health risk for humans, even less than cats and dogs.

Opossums tend to be active at night, roaming woods and alleys. Because they have long hairless tails, possums are often mistaken for rats. As stated previously, they eat rats and mice, and the horror of city-living cockroaches. Should you find one camping out in your yard, thank your stars; it will keep the pests away.

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Person's Day (CA)(1929): October 18

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On October 18, 1929, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in England ruled in the women's favor on whether women are "persons" according to the law. As persons, women would have the right to vote and the same legal standing as men. The court ruled that women are indeed people. The fight is far from over for humans with XX chromosomes.

For example, the Equal Rights Amendment guaranteeing women equal rights with men has never been passed in the United States, despite over 50 years of trying.

Throughout the world, women face varying incursions to their rights and personhood, some imposed by religion, some by states and laws, and some through good old-fashioned misogyny. Currently, due to emerging social movements, even defining what a woman is has become contentious.

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