Today is Thursday October 114, 2010
17 Days till Halloween
42 Days till Thanksgiving
72 Days till Christmas

National Chocolate-Covered Insects Day

Chocolate is one of the most popular flavors in the world and people will try it on anything -- strawberries, pretzels, peanuts, even bugs! This holiday honors anyone brave enough to try one.

The insects are roasted to perfection, then coated in chocolate. Most people think they even taste like chocolate covered popcorn.

In some countries, like China and Thailand, chocolate-covered insects are a delicacy. In Africa, caterpillars are an important factor in many people's diets and they eat them plain -- without the chocolate!  

Test your bravery on National Chocolate-Covered Insects Day by inviting friends over for your own fear factor party to try some chocolate covered insects (you'd be surprised about the selection of chocolate-covered insects available online)!

October is National Pasta Month & National Dessert Month & National Chili Month & National Roller Skating Month & Adopt-a-Dog Month & National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

This week is World Rainforest Week

"Images and text courtesy of MyPunchbowl.com" -- http://www.mypunchbowl.com/

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On this day in History:

1926 - The book "Winnie-the-Pooh," by A.A. Milne, made its debut. 1933 - Nazi Germany announced that it was withdrawing from the League of Nations. 1947 - Over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California, pilot Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first person to break the sound barrier. 1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award. 1975 - "Rock & Roll All Night" was released by Kiss. 1987 - Jessica McClure, 18 months old, fell down an abandoned well in Midland, TX. The rescue took 58 hours. 1997 - The soundtrack to the film "Casablanca" was released for the first time.

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Quote of the Day:
"We need worship, work and play to keep us whole. Left to ourselves, we get it all mixed up and end up worshipping our work, working at our play, and playing at our worship."

--Gordon Dahl