Diversity almost always enriches and enhances any groupings. In Canada we've always celebrated the fact that we aren't the "melting pot" that is our southern friends, rather the 'tossed salad'.
We celebrate people's backgrounds and we even have a day dedicated to it: Canadian Multiculturalism Day, which is today!
Draw me a map of our solar system... I don't care if you get the order of the planets right (I think it goes Venus, Mars then Earth... after that I'm lost).
But most importantly, you put the sun in the middle, right?
Well, the early Christians believed to think that was heresy. Obviously, we're the most important thing, so we're in the centre. But many scientists/astronomers tried to prove differently... like, look... math!
Galileo was one of these that believed in the heliocentric theory, and it was on this day in 1633 that with heavy threats by the Catholic church at the time he was forced to recant his beliefs in that theory... a scientist had to lie to save his own life. Sad.
I'd love to say we've come a far way from that 4 centuries later, right? Like, everybody listens to the scientists, openly... right?
Also on this day in 1951 there was a Convention on the Status of Refugees. 50 years later the UN would officially declare that June 20th is World Refugee Day.
It was also on this day that the 1974 book by Peter Benchley made its way onto the film and spawned a huge franchise ...
June 6 ... 1944 was a big day for the allied troops as they launched en masse to the beaches of France to push back the Nazis.
100 years before that a group was founded in London for the Young Mens Christians Association, a place for establishing healthy bodies, minds and spirits.
Not 1778 like the Stan Rogers tune goes... but on this date in 1774 the British Parliament passed the expansion of the Quartering Act; whereby British soldiers in North America could take unoccupied homes or barns for their barracks.
But, back to ol' Stan. I say old as he always sounded so old, with that deep baritone voice. Yet, even as he tragically died in a plane he was only 33 on this day in 1983.
So like a million years ago, someone decided that the milk our mothers gave us was probably just as good as the milk that other animals give their kids and we determined that cows have the best milk.
Which, I don't disagree with. It's tasty. And it's what we celebrate on World Milk Day.
Another required beverage, especially for one with Alba heritage is uisce bheatha... or aqua vita... water of life.
We should be celebrating this man, not that he invented, but the first that we know of that was getting paid for it. Similar to how there's songs for Charlie Mopps, why nothing for John Cor?
Well, those are elixirs worthy of a god. And one god I appreciated seeing on the big screen was when Alanis Morissette played God in Dogma. It was a quirky take on the whole catholic scene (the whole movie was).
