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Animals of Austria Day leads today's complete edition for United States.
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You wander Austrian forests home to red deer, Alpine ibex, golden eagles, and European badgers. You find that Austrian households typically keep dogs, cats, and rabbits as beloved pets. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
You reach for Cadbury chocolate, Guinness beer, Burberry fashion, Rolls-Royce automobiles, and Wedgwood pottery, each embodying British craftsmanship and heritage spanning centuries. You know these brands represent British values of quality, tradition, and design excellence that have influenced the world since the Industrial Revolution.
In Princeton, New Jersey, they celebrate both Pi Day and Einstein's birthday simultaneously. Princeton was Einstein's home from 1933 until his death in 1955. He would walk from his house on Mercer Street to the Institute for Advanced Study. You can still walk that route. It takes 20 minutes. Einstein presumably thought about the universe the whole way.
March 14th (3/14) is celebrated with pie. In Princeton, New Jersey, they combine it with Einstein's birthday (Einstein lived in Princeton). The town runs pie-eating contests, pie-throwing events, and an Einstein look-alike contest. MIT releases its admissions decisions at 6:28 PM (tau time, which is 2pi). This is the nerdiest holiday in America and nobody is ashamed.