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Subject: Re: Geograpy Awareness Week]
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:24:14 -0500
From: Edward James Redmond <[log in to unmask]>
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On behalf of goats everywwhere I wish to lodge a protest.

Ed Redmond
National Dairy Goat Defense Council

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Subject: Geograpy Awareness Week
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:05:42 -0800
From: Kathy Stroud <[log in to unmask]>
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Interesting question... It was a joint resolution designating November
15 -
21, 1987 "Geography Awareness Week." It seems that it was a one year
thing.
(http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d100:SJ00088:@@@L&summ2=m&|TOM:/bss
/d100query.html|) It also appears that the 100th Congress was really
into
declaring awareness weeks/months/etc., including the "third week in
June
1987 as 'National Dairy Goat Awareness Week.' "


Kathy Stroud, Map/GIS Librarian
Government Information and Maps
Peter J. Shields Library
100 NW Quad
Davis, California 95616-5292
(530) 752-5248

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From: "Johnnie D. Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]>

> Does anyone know what prompted President Reagan and the Congress of
that
> era to designate the 3rd week of November as geography week, and the
> Wednesday of that week as GIS Day? Was it Mercator's birthday or
some
> such?
>
> Joe McCollum
> Information Technology Specialist
> Forest Inventory and Analysis
> Knoxville, TN
>