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[IceWizard]

Tuesday 3 Jan 2017

Festival Of Sleep Day



We all love sleep, right?

Climbing into bed, snuggling up under the covers and slowly slipping into the land of dreams, dreaming of our favorite things or even dreaming about a loved one?

Perhaps even a childhood memory that we are fond to reminisce upon.

But surprise! We have a holiday for this particular bodily function, and it is called the Festival of Sleep Day!

History of Festival Of Sleep Day

Nobody is quite sure when this holiday was founded, but it was founded by someone who had a profound and deep love of sleep. Sleep is a basic human function, and helps our bodies to regain energy for the next day, keeping our mind alert and ready for action.

Having a lack of sleep can be fatal to the human body and mind, effects caused by little to no sleep over an extended period of time are as follows.

Effect One: Lack of sleep in the modern world can cause people to get into vehicular accidents, which happen daily in large numbers.

Effect Two: Lack of sleep can in fact, dumb you down. As we all know, sleep plays a critical role in our thinking and learning processes. We also know that a lack of sleep hurts these cognitive processes in many ways. First, it impairs attention, alertness, concentration, reasoning, and problem solving. This makes it more difficult to learn efficiently. Secondly, sleep helps to retain memories of the day’s experience. Meaning that with a lack of sleep, we would not remember much of the previous day’s experiences. This makes sleep incredibly important for students, from those in college to those simply trying to learn a new language on their own.

Effect Three: Probably the most dangerous effect from having a long term lack of sleep is it can cause many and deadly health problems.

Here are some examples of these problems.
• Heart Disease
• Heart Attack
• Heart Failure
• Irregular Heartbeat
• High Blood Pressure
• Stroke • Diabetes



And



Chocolate-Covered Cherry Day



Just in case you haven’t indulged enough over the festive and new year periods, Chocolate Covered Cherry Day is an excuse to break open another box of cherry liqueurs and dig right in!

The idea behind chocolate-covered cherries is incredible simple: chocolate is delicious. So are cherries. So one day someone said, “Why not combine the two and make something even better?” and the chocolate-covered cherry was born!

The History of Chocolate-Covered Cherry Day

Chocolate covered cherries were introduced to the world by Cella’s Confections in New York in 1929 and were an immediate hit, quickly becoming famous the world over. Years later, in 1985, Cella’s Confections was bought from the Masarik Family by Tootsie Roll, though the family is still part owners of the product.

Today, almost 90 years after they were made for the first time, Cella’s chocolate covered cherries are famous the world over for their liquid center and extra gooey taste.

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January 3 Birthdays


Stephen Stills - 71



Mel Gibson - 61



JRR Tolkien - (1892-1973)



John Paul Jones - 71



Jim Ross - 65



George Martin - (1926-2016)



Victoria Principal - 67






January 3rd

2003: Joe Strummer, singer and guitarist for The Clash was cremated and his funeral procession took place, where it went past the Elgin pub in London, where The Clash played some of their earliest concerts.

1987: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame held their second induction ceremony in New York City. The inductees included B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Carl Perkins, Eddie Cochran, Roy Orbison and Muddy Waters.

1981: David Bowie made his final appearance as the Elephant Man at the Booth Theatre in New York City

1974: Bob Dylan and The Band kicked off their North American tour at Chicago Stadium in Chicago. This was Dylan’s first tour since 1966.

1970: George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr recorded 16 takes of Harrison’s “I Me Mine” at Abbey Road Studios in London.

1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Unfinished Music Volume 1: Two Virgins arrived at Newark Airport in New Jersey where 30,000 copies of the album were confiscated by police who called the album cover “pornographic”.

1967: Beach Boys guitarist Carl Wilson was indicted for refusing to be sworn into the U.S. Army after he received his draft notice.

1964: The Beatles were shown on prime time American television for the first time on The Jack Parr Show.

1964: At the Glenlyn Ballroom in South London, The Rolling Stones headlined a concert with support from The Detours, who would go on to become The Who.



Birthdays:

George Martin - Producer for The Beatles born in 1926

Stephen Stills - Guitarist for Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills and Nash born in 1945

John Paul Jones - Bassist for Led Zeppelin born in 1946