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1. A special day for mothers was first proposed by American poet Julia Ward Howe in 1872 and proclaimed a day of national observance by president Wilson in 1915. Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."

2. According to Japanese legend, a sick person will recover if they fold 1,000 of what type of origami? cranes

==> According to a Japanese legend, the crane lives for a thousand years, and a sick person who folds 1,000 origami cranes will become well again. A young girl, Sadako Sasaki from Hiroshima, set out to do just that when she developed leukemia as a result of her exposure to the atomic bomb dropped on her city. She died at age 12, before her project was completed, but her classmates folded the remaining cranes for her after her death and placed them at the foot of a monument constructed in Sadako's memory in Hiroshima's National Peace Park. The statue depicts Sadako holding a golden crane in her arms. At the base of the statue a plaque reads, "This is our cry, this is our prayer, peace in the world." Each year, on August 6, thousands of origami cranes from all over the world are placed beneath Sadako's statue.

3. The opposite sides of Las Vegas-standard dice always add up to seven.; Dice (the plural of die, from Old French dé, from Latin datum "something given or played" [1]) are small polyhedral objects, usually cubical, used for generating random numbers or other symbols. This makes dice suitable as gambling devices, especially for craps or sic bo, or for use in non-gambling tabletop games.

4. In France and England, from medieval times to the early eighteenth century, the recommended treatment of one special ailment involved a visit not to a physician but to the reigning king or queen. What area of the body was involved in the condition that required the “royal touch”? The Neck

==> The disease was scrofula, popularly known as “the King’s evil”, a tubercular infection of the lymph nodes in the neck that produced characteristic swellings. The cure originally called for the monarch to wash the afflicted area, but later it was deemed enough simply to touch the patient during the course of a special church service. Some kings took their medical role very seriously: Charles II of England is said to have conferred the royal touch on more than 100,000 sufferers.

5. Nauru (pronounced /næˈuːruː/), officially the Republic of Nauru, is an island nation in the Micronesian South Pacific. The nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in the Republic of Kiribati, 300 km due east. Nauru is the world's smallest island nation, covering just 21 km² (8.1 sq. mi), the smallest independent republic, and the only republican state in the world without an official capital.[1]