Norway Edition
World Common Cup Day leads today's complete edition for Norway.
Daily Edition
Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for tea, coffee, water, juice, and the conversations that begin when someone offers another person a drink.
The tradition on St. Martin's Day in Norway is to eat goose, and the custom dates back to the legend of St. Martin hiding in a goose pen to avoid being made a bishop. The geese cackled and gave him away, and the tradition of eating goose on this day is the geese's revenge. In modern Norway, the day is an excuse for a festive dinner, and restaurants offer special goose menus.
You see African bush elephants, black rhinoceros, and giant sable antelope across Angola's savannas. You find that people in Angola typically keep dogs, cats, and goats as domestic animals. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.