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Animals of Bahrain Day leads today's complete edition for United States.
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You explore Bahrain's coastal waters inhabited by Arabian humpback dolphins, dugongs, and Arabian oryx. You observe that Bahraini pet owners favor dogs, cats, and occasionally Arabian horses. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
You savor Uganda's renowned Arabica coffee beans, exported worldwide and representing the country's agricultural heritage, and Nile Special beer, Uganda's most popular local lager. You recognize coffee as a symbol of Uganda's natural wealth and farmer livelihoods, while Nile Special embodies the nation's brewing tradition along the iconic river.
In Chicago, they dye the river green. In Savannah, Georgia, they hold the second-largest St. Patrick's Day parade in the country (after New York). In Boston, the parade in South Boston was historically contested over whether LGBTQ groups could march. In every bar in America, people who are not remotely Irish claim to be Irish for 24 hours. The Guinness consumption on this single day would fill the Chicago River, which they already dyed green.
Savannah, Georgia, holds the second-largest St. Patrick's Day parade in the country. The city dyes the fountains green. The parade has been running since 1824. The AHA! moment: Savannah's parade is older than Chicago's green river tradition by 52 years. Savannah was doing green before it was cool.