Hola MaHigh-School - August 2017
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y things going on!<br />
emperor. <strong>August</strong> is also Women’s Month and that is<br />
ave found two unusual subjects for you. Read on<br />
International Clown Week. Wiki says: International Clown Week is<br />
celebrated each year during the week of <strong>August</strong> 1-7.<br />
Clown groups often celebrate the week with special activities such<br />
as performing volunteer shows or having their local mayor declare<br />
the week as a city celebration to coincide with the national and<br />
international clown week.<br />
Clown Week was celebrated<br />
on a limited scale in<br />
the 1950s. In 1967 Clown<br />
Club of America members<br />
were urged to write to their<br />
congressmen and senators<br />
requesting a presidential<br />
proclamation naming <strong>August</strong><br />
1–7 as National Clown<br />
Week. In 1969 a resolution<br />
was introduced.<br />
The chairman Bill ‘Boom-Boom” Baily lobbied the United States<br />
Congress and organized a visit by clowns to the senate building in<br />
Washington, D.C.<br />
The joint resolution was signed into law by President Nixon on<br />
<strong>August</strong> 2, 1971.<br />
Many clown organizations have an international constituency and<br />
over time the National Clown Week has expanded to be International<br />
Clown Week.<br />
PS: fear of clowns is called “Coulrophobia”.
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