Cape Verde Edition
World Lost Sock Day leads today's complete edition for Cape Verde.
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A day for the universal mystery of laundry, missing pairs, household systems, and the small comic defeats of domestic life.
National holiday. The birthday of Amilcar Cabral, the father of Cape Verdean independence. Born September 12, 1924, in Bafata, Guinea-Bissau, but Cape Verde claims him as its own. Schools close, speeches are given, and every Cape Verdean remembers that freedom was not free. Cabral was assassinated before he saw independence but his words built the nation.
A day for trust, conversation, mirrors, clippers, scissors, and leaving a little sharper than you arrived.
A day for turning yesterday into something good enough to look forward to.
You observe spotted hyenas, spotted-necked otters, and various antelope species in Gambia's savannas and wetlands along the river. You see that Gambian families typically keep goats, sheep, chickens, and occasionally dogs and cats as domestic animals. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
