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April 13 – Songkran in Thailand

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nTodaynstarts a 3-day water fight in Thailand!

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nIt’snall about celebrating the Thai New Year, and like New Year’s celebrations in Laos and Cambodia,ntradition calls for a giant country-wide, multi-day water sprinkle,nsquirt, slosh, and gush. 

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nWhether it is water shooting out from water pistols or elephant trunks, from hoses or buckets – it’s water, waterneverywhere.

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Here’s something that has never
happened to me, not even once,
when I was walking around cities
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nSee,nI’ve never walked down the street, here in Southern California, andngotten sprayed by a stranger with a water gun. No matter how hot itngets, no stranger has ever turned a hose on me or sloshed an entirenbucket of water on my car. (For one thing, we’re in a drought, and wenhave no water to waste!)

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nButnduring Songkran in Thailand, you can expect strangers to do exactlynthat:

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n…shoot you with a water gun…

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n…spray you with a hose…

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n…or slosh younwith a bucket.

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nAllnthis water play grew out of the tradition of water pouring, symbolically washing away sins. Many people still do the more respectful pouring-of-water onto the bottom of a statue of Buddha or over their teachers’ hands.

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nAnd then they go out and do this:

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nAlsonon this date:

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Anniversarynof the coining of the word “microscope” 

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nAmerican Indian Awareness Week Begins (April 13 – 19, 2015) 

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nNationalnScrabble Day 

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nThomasnJefferson’s birthday

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nApollon13 Day

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nAnniversary of the arrival of the first elephant in the U.S. 

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nShamnel-Nessim in Egypt

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nInternationalnDark Sky Week begins (Apriln13 – 18)

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nPlannahead:

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nChecknout my Pinterest boards for:

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nAndnhere are my Pinterest boards for:

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  • nMayn holidays 

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