[...] > Probably for the same reasons Halifax Day (April 12) is only > a holiday in North Carolina. > > If you want quirky holidays, try Easter Monday another > holiday celebrated ONLY in North Carolina. >
It's a holiday everywhere else in the world too. Expect maybe Mecca and Medina. [...] > > Another interesting, but ultimately useless factoid - it used > to be illegal in North Carolina to use elephants to pull a > plow in a cotton field. > > Haven't yet found out why. I wonder why they repealed it. The danger had passed? The elephant had died? Perhaps they released that it's unenforceable by definition. After all, if you're ploughing it it's not a cotton field - it's a non-specific field with no crops. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
