TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Greetings Infomaniacs,

It's time to celebrate Mother's Day this weekend. My mom has had several health issues over the past year, and I'm very grateful that she is doing better now.

We are going to do some shopping and then go to my aunt's house for dinner. Not only is my aunt my godmother, but her grandson is my godchild! He just recently turned 10, so we will be celebrating that too!

Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms out there and the special women who play the role of mom in somebody's life!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

HINT: (1809-1894), was an American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author based in Boston.


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In 1872, Julia Ward Howe, a pacifist, suffragette, and writer of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," first suggested Mother's Day in the United States as a day mothers could rally for peace.

In 1908, Anna Jarvis began a campaign for a nationwide observance of Mother's Day in honor of her late mother, a community health advocate. She was deeply dismayed over the commercialization of Mother's Day. Before she died in 1948, she admitted that she regretted ever starting the holiday.

On May 9, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother's Day as a national holiday.

One hundred and twenty million Mother's Day cards are exchanged annually in the United States.

Anna Jarvis started the tradition of wearing a carnation on Mother's Day. A colored carnation means that a person's mother is living. A white carnation indicates that a person's mother is deceased.

In 2015, the National Retail Federation (NRF) estimated that U.S. consumers would spend nearly $21.2 billion celebrating Mother's Day.

(www.cnn.com)


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QUOTE: "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

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