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Originally Posted by Patricia
Maybe we could add a rose to our collection of smileys?
Then I could present Harry with a dozen virtual red roses for his Conan Doyle uploads.
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i think we should be presenting YOU with flowers !! hm... maybe we could use that as an idea for the future badges...
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Originally Posted by Jellby
Did it start here? Good  23 April has always been the Book Day for me, and there are discounts in many bookshops (not much, 5-10% maybe). The exchange of book and flowers is only a "tradition" in Catalonia (North-Eastern Spain, around Barcelona), as far as I know, and I find stupid that women are supposed to give books to men and men are supposed to give flowers to women, I wouldn't like to be a woman there. Around here we just buy some nice books this day. |
discounts on books sounds good to me too...
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Cervantes and Shakespeare both died the 23 April 1616. However Cervantes died ten days before Shakespeare  Yes, read again, yes, it's true:
Shakespeare and Cervantes apparently died on exactly the same date (23 April 1616), but in fact Cervantes predeceased Shakespeare by ten days in real time (for dating these events, Spain used the Gregorian calendar, but Britain used the Julian calendar). This coincidence however has allowed UNESCO to make 23 April the World Book and Copyright Day. (From Wikipedia.)
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those crazy brits ! always have to be different !
maybe that's why they decided to celebrate "World Book Day" on 5th of march instead...