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Unless ye be residing under a barnacle covered rock, ye should know that today, Sept 19th, be global Talk Like a Pirate Day. Aaarrrrr!!!!!!! Almost every day represents several unofficial holidays. Where did all these days begin? The underlying idea would be well recognized in ancient Rome, and each celebration has a history all its own.
In 1933 a farmer named Ed Carlson walked into a laboratory at the University of Wisconsin and asked a simple question- what was killing his cattle? The answer to that question would earn the university millions of dollars, and revolutionize the fields of both medicine and vermin extermination. The strange story of warfarin deserves to be remembered.
In 1938, the Chinese would make a decision they had made before in times of invasion and desperation: the destruction of dykes to flood huge sections of the country.
