Happy New Year!

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The clock is ticking down to 2016! What are you looking forward to next year? Here are a couple of fun facts about 2016 - click on the Lucky Dip to find item in our catalog about the topic.

Upcoming Events

Do you have any New Year's resolutions?
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In the Chinese horoscope, it's the Year of the Monkey (beginning at Chinese New Year on February 8).
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It's a Leap Year.
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The 2016 European Football Championship (Euro 2016) will be hosted by France between June 10-July 10.
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The Summer Olympics will we held in Rio de Janeiro from August 5-21.  The Paralympics are September 7-18.
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The 58th U.S. presidential election will be held on Tuesday, November 8.
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Notable Historical Anniversaries

The Brontë siblings bicentenary events begin in April with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte.
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2016 also will also mark the birth anniversaries of: at 150 years, Beatrix Potter, Wassily Kandinsky, and Anne Sullivan; at 125 years, Zora Neale Hurston, Cole Porter, and Henry Miller; at 100 years, James Herriot, Roald Dahl, Beverly Cleary, and Shirley Jackson.

The 400th death anniversaries of Shakespeare and Cervantes are April 22 (Cervantes) and 23 (Shakespeare).
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In 1816, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, Shelley's lover Mary Godwin, and their friends gathered at Lake Geneva for a meeting of minds. Between June 15-8, they dared each other to write a ghost story. Mary Godwin (later Shelley's wife) drew from a nightmare to create Frankenstein.
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August 25 will mark the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.
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On November 26, 1966,Truman Capote, flush with the success of In Cold Blood, threw a party for 500 of his friends at the Plaza Hotel. It was called the social event of the year by many, and by some the social event of the century.
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December 7 will mark the 75th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor.
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25th Anniversary of the Collapse of the USSR: By mid-December 1991, the 15 states that had comprised the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had all declared independence, starting with Lithuania in 1990 and ending with Kazakhstan.
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December 26 is the first day of Kwanzaa. 2016 is the 50th anniversary of the founding of Kwanzaa.
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Happy New Year!