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Animals of Malaysia Day leads today's complete edition for United States.
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You encounter Malaysia's remarkable animals including orangutans, Malayan tigers, and rhinoceros hornbills in its rainforests and protected reserves. You find that Malaysian families most frequently keep cats, dogs, and tropical fish in their homes. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
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.