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We all know about All Saints’ Day, Guy Fawkes Day
or Thanksgiving Day, don’t we? We’ve been teaching
those things for years, but there are things that we
don’t know. For example……
 Misnumbered Month

The name ‘November’ derived from the Latin word

“novem” means nine. It should have been the ninth
month of the year. However, thanks to January and
February which were added to the calendar some
2700 years ago, November is now the 11th guy in the
12 member team.
 After 37 plays and 154
No mention sonnets, the greatest
of November writer in English
literature did not once
in any of mention the month of
‘November’ in any of his
Shakespeare’s works.
Works That’s something to be
worried about!
 November is the month
No Shave dedicated to moustaches
November and beards. It is that time
of the year for men to let
a.k.a their hair grow wild and
free.
‘Movember’ This is done to raise
awareness of men’s
health issues like prostate
cancer and testicular
cancer.
 More Serial Killers Born in
November than Any Other
Month!
Not only is November the least preferred month for
women around the world to have babies, it is also
the month that breeds the most serial killers.

Eeeeks….
Shopping Around the
November is considered
world,

Festivals auspicious for shopping.

Alibaba going live with the
Galore Singles’ Day sale on 11.11
of every year followed by
Black Friday and Cyber
Monday sales wrap up a
wonderful shopping month
for the shopping crazy! Find
out some crazy offers from
the AliExpress Sale here!
 According to a recent
Best Time of research, November is
the Year to considered to be the
best time of the year
Express Love to express love.
It is during this month
that a majority of
Spaniards are more
likely to tweet “Te
amo” which means “I
love you”.
 November, according to
It’s the statistics from social media
Meme sites sees the largest amount
of memes posted and shared
Month on the internet than any
other month.
of the Year! Hilariously, Donald Trump
who was one of the most
popular memes of the year
went on to win the U.S.
Presidential elections held in
the month of November
2016.
 Graeme Donald, author of
On This Day in History, reveals
some of the strangest things
that have happened
in November…
 6 November 1810:
A union of drinking and
medicine
Only in Australia would one find a Rum Hospital.
On 6 November 1810 Lachlan Macquarie,
Governor of New South Wales, gave the valuable
rum monopoly to a consortium of local
businessmen on condition that part of their profits
were used to build the Sydney Rum Hospital, parts
of which still stand today.
 7 November 1872:
The beginning of a mystery
The Mary Celeste – not Marie Celeste – sailed out of
New York and into maritime lore. She was later
found abandoned, but tales of the table being set for
a meal and still-warm cups of tea are the stuff of
fantasy. The ship’s sextant and chronometer are
missing, as is the only lifeboat, so apparently
something caused the crew to abandon ship.
 10 November 1871:
‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?’

Welsh-born journalist Henry Morton Stanley found

his quarry, the Scottish missionary and explorer
David Livingstone, in present-day Tanzania, but did
not say “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” The statement
was invented the following year by the editor of the
newspaper who had sent Stanley to Africa.
 12 November 1035:
Death of a joking king

King Canute of England, Denmark and Norway died.

He did indeed take his throne to the edge of the sea
to show sycophantic courtiers that all power has its
limitations, and not even he could command the
waves to be still.
 13 November 1914:
A big day for ladies’ underwear

The fast-living Caresse Crosby, co-founder of the

Black Sun Press, which numbered Laurence Sterne
and Ernest Hemingway among its writers, was
granted a patent for the first backless bra. Distracted
by hedonistic adventures, she sold the patent for
$1,500 to a company that went on to make a
fortune.
 14 November 1889:
Around the world in less
than 80 days
New York World reporter Nellie Bly set sail from New
York to put Jules Verne’s 1873 novel Around the
World in Eighty Days to the test. Making use of
transport ranging from camels to Chinese junks, she
completed the trip in a record 72 days, six hours, 11
minutes and 14 seconds.
 16 November 1900:
Insane circus performer almost
kills Kaiser Bill
As Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany toured Breslau in an
open coach, Selma Schnapke, a circus performer-
turned-shopkeeper, threw an axe at him, with
considerable accuracy and efficiency. It narrowly
missed the Kaiser’s head, and embedded itself in the
interior of the carriage. Schnapke was later ruled to
be insane.
 24 November 1434:
The River Thames turns to ice

This day saw the first recorded instance of the river

Thames in London freezing. Throughout the so-
called Little Ice Age of c1350–1850 the river
commonly froze, and Frost Fairs were held on the
ice.
 28 November 1859:
Death of a myth-maker

The American writer Washington Irving died. He was

probably responsible for the myth that many
Spaniards opposed Christopher Columbus’s 1492
voyage to the East Indies (during which he landed in
the Americas) because they feared he would sail off
the edge of a flat earth.