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Liam Neeson

Oscar Wilde

1854–1900

James Joyce

1882–1941

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Michael Collins

1890–1922

Pierce Brosnan

Colin Farrell

William Butler Yeats

1865–1939

Graham Norton

Enya

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Mary Robinson

Maureen O’Hara

1920–2015

Saoirse Ronan

Ernest Shackleton

1874–1922

Brendan Gleeson

Cillian Murphy

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Daniel O’Connell

1775–1847

Kenneth Branagh

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Richard Harris

1930–2002

Michael Gambon

Gabriel Byrne

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Éamon de Valera

1882–1975

Aidan Gillen

Bram Stoker

1847–1912

Seamus Heaney

1939–2013

Phil Lynott

1949–1986

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

1769–1852

Sheamus

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1868–1927

James Nesbitt

Bob Geldof

Ronan Keating

Colm Meaney

Robert De Niro

Anna Kendrick

Colin Morgan

George Best

1946–2005

Nicole Kidman

Oliver Goldsmith

1728–1774

Stuart Townsend

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Arthur Guinness

1725–1803

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Theobald Wolfe Tone

1763–1798

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This Day In History~ “U.S. Surgeon General announces definitive link between smoking and cancer”

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United States Surgeon General Luther Terry knew his report was a bombshell. He intentionally chose to release it on January 11, 1964, a Saturday, so as to limit its immediate effects on the stock market. It was on this date that, on behalf of the U.S. Government, Terry announced a definitive link between smoking and cancer.
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New Years Day, What Is It?

Civilizations around the world have been celebrating the start of each new year for at least four millennia. Today, most New Year’s festivities begin on December 31 (New Year’s Eve), the last day of the Gregorian calendar, and continue into the early hours of January 1 (New Year’s Day). Common traditions include attending parties, eating special New Year’s foods, making resolutions for the new year and watching fireworks displays.
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The early Roman calendar consisted of 10 months and 304 days, with each new year beginning at the vernal equinox; according to tradition, it was created by Romulus, the founder of Rome, in the eighth century B.C. A later king, Numa Pompilius, is credited with adding the months of Januarius and Februarius. Over the centuries, the calendar fell out of sync with the sun, and in 46 B.C. the emperor Julius Caesar decided to solve the problem by consulting with the most prominent astronomers and mathematicians of his time. He introduced the Julian calendar, which closely resembles the more modern Gregorian calendar that most countries around the world use today.
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Did You Know? They Say…

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The short-faced bear is an extinct ancient bear that lived in North America 11,000 years ago. They were extremely large bears, weighing more than 1 ton (1000 kg) and standing up to 12 feet (3.7 m) tall. Despite their enormous stature, the Bear could run up to 40 miles per hour

Who Was Harriet Tubman?

Dorchester county, Maryland, U.S.—died March 10, 1913, Auburn, New York), American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harriet-Tubman

HISTORY Facts

Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives: the Great Pyramid of Giza.

In 1958, the US sent two mice called Laska and Benjy into space.

The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 1,200 doors
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History~ On This Day

On November 8, 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible.
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Did You Know? Rosh Hashanah

Rosh is the Hebrew word for “head”, ha is the definite article (“the”), and shana means year. Thus Rosh HaShanah means “start of the year”, referring to the Jewish day of new year.^[3][4]

The term Rosh Hashanah in its current meaning does not appear in the Torah. Leviticus 23:24^[5] refers to the festival of the first day of the seventh month as zikhron teru’ah (“a memorial of blowing [of horns]”); it is also referred to in the same part of Leviticus as ‘שַׁבַּת שַׁבָּתוֹן’ (shabbat shabbaton) or ultimate Sabbath or meditative rest day, and a “holy day to God”. These same words are commonly used in the Psalms to refer to the anointed days. Numbers 29:1^[6] calls the festival yom teru’ah (“day of blowing [the horn]”).

The term rosh hashanah appears once in the Bible (Ezekiel 40:1),^[7] where it has a different meaning: either generally the time of the “beginning of the year”, or possibly a reference to Yom Kippur,^[8] or to the month of Nisan.^[a][12]

In the Jewish prayer-books (the Siddur and Machzor), Rosh Hashanah is also called Yom Hazikaron (the day of remembrance),^[4] not to be confused with the modern Israeli remembrance day of the same name.

Rosh Hashanah marks the start of a new year in the Hebrew calendar (one of four “new year” observances that define various legal “years” for different purposes as explained in the Mishnah and Talmud).^[4] It is the new year for people, animals, and legal contracts. The Mishnah also sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years, shmita years, and yovel years. Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of Man.^[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah

Rosh HaShanah
A shofar, pomegranates, wine, apple and honey – symbols of the Rosh HaShanah holiday
Official name	ראש השנה
Also called	Jewish New Year
Observed by	Jews
Type	Jewish
Observances	Praying in synagogue, personal reflection, and hearing or blowing the shofar.
Begins	Start of first day of Tishrei
Ends	End of second day of Tishrei
Date	1 Tishrei, 2 Tishrei
2021 date	Sunset, 6 September – nightfall, 8 September^[1]
2022 date	Sunset, 25 September – nightfall, 27 September^[1]
2023 date	Sunset, 15 September – nightfall, 17 September^[1]
2024 date	Sunset, 2 October – nightfall, 4 October^[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ribotroshhashana.jpg

https://reformjudaism.org/jewish-holidays/rosh-hashanah/rosh-hashanah-history

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4644/jewish/Rosh-Hashanah.htm

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