"ABC..." thread #3

It took a lot of looking but here's a U for you..............
Uracoan rattlesnake

and some W's.....

Waterberg Quill-snouted Snake
Western cottonmouth
Western hog-nosed pit viper
Water Moccassin


I NEVER knew there were so MANY snakes.:eek:

I don't think there is an "X" ... as usual!

Yarara Parker's pit viper
Yellow-lined pit viper
Yucatan pit viper
Yellow sea snake

Zambezi Blind Snake
Zimbabwean Slug Eater

If there is someone who hasn't started a catagory yet....HERE'S your chance.

no takers???????? OK how about Holidays?

Arbor day
Ash Wednesday

Boxing Day - Dec 26th (Canada and UK)
Bain de Noel - Dec 25th (Haiti)
British Columbia Day - Aug 6 (Canada)
Battle of Boyaca - Aug 6 (Columbia)
Battle of Puebla (Cinco de Mayo) - May 5th - (Mexico)

Christmas
Columbus Day

Ok, it took some searching, but I found this Catholic "holiday"

Día de la Madre
15 August

Easter

Flag Day

Groundhog Day - USA (Feb 2)
Guam Discovery day - Guam (Mar 4)
Greek Independence day - Greece (Mar 25)

Hannuka (sp?)

Independence Day (any country)

Had a hard time finding a "J", but I learned about a new holiday!

Juneteenth:

Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery. Dating back to 1865, it was on
June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas
with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this was two and a
half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation - which had become official January 1,
1863. The Emancipation Proclamation had little impact on the Texans due to the minimal number of
Union troops to enforce the new Executive order. However, with the surrender of General Lee in April of
1865, and the arrival of General Granger’s regiment, the forces were finally strong enough to influence
and overcome the resistance.

Later attempts to explain this two and a half year delay in the receipt of this important news have
yielded several versions that have been handed down through the years. Often told is the story of a
messenger who was murdered on his way to Texas with the news of freedom. Another, is that the
news was deliberately withheld by the enslavers to maintain the labor force on the plantations. And
still another, is that federal troops actually waited for the slave owners to reap the benefits of one last
cotton harvest before going to Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation. All or none of them
could be true. For whatever the reason, conditions in Texas remained status quo well beyond what
was statutory.

Does this count for K, L & M??

Martin Luther King Day