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1. Father's Day
   Sonora thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Having been raised by her father, Henry Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her.
2. Father's Day -- Father's Day Gifts
   Motorized Grill Brush: One of Brookstone's newest Father's Day Gifts, the Motorized Grill Brush lets Dad clean the worst grill grime at the touch of a button. The brush features dual brass bristles and a powerful motor to take the elbow grease out of maintaining a pristine grill.
3. Father's Day -- Cards
   About 4,000 years ago a young boy named Elmusu wished his Babylonian father good health and a long life by carving a Father's Day message on a card made out of clay. No one knows what happened to Elmesu or his father, but the tradition of having a special day honoring fathers has continued through the years in countries across the world.
4. Father's Day -- Washington State
   Spokane in Washington State became the first place to observe Father's Day when Senora Dodd wanted show appreciation to her father, William Smart, who was a Civil War veteran. That was almost 100 years ago in 1910. In 1924 the President of the United States at the time, Calvin Coolidge, recommended national observance of the day.
5. Father's Day -- Dads
   TiVo hasn't forgotten Dads' this Father's Day - - The World's Best Dad deserves The World's Best Gift, so anyone who purchases a TiVo Series3(TM) HD box before Father's Day can save $200. With certified THX audio, razor-sharp HD video, broadband connectivity and dual-tuner recording, the TiVo Series3 HD box is the ultimate way for Dad, or the entire family, to watch their favorite shows in HD. TiVo Series2 and Series3 boxes are available at Best Buy, Circuit City, Radio Shack or online at www.tivo.com.
6. Father's Day -- Gifts
   AGOURA HILLS, Calif., PRNewswire -- Does shopping for Father's Day drive you crazy? Well, you can steer yourself in the right direction with a new CD-ROM from J.D. Power and Associates -- possibly the perfect gift for the car lover in the family. The JDPOWERguide to Automobiles provides users with never- before released information from J.D. Power and Associates annually produced studies on initial quality, customer satis- faction, sales satisfaction and vehicle dependability. A unique and exclusive feature on the CD-ROM is the PowerProfiler(SM). The PowerProfiler(SM) allows users to answer a series of questions to define their individual auto- motive preferences. Once the individual has completed the PowerProfiler(SM) entry, the disc matches the responses to the comprehensive databank of product information, technical data, and J.D. Power and Associates customer satisfaction information.
7. In the Name of the Father (1993) -- Daniel Day-Lewis
   Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) directed this drama about a Belfast boxer, filmed with Dublin locations substituting for Belfast. Released after his 14-year prison sentence for IRA activities, 32-year-old Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis) returns to his old neighborhood and sees former-flame Maggie (Emily Watson), who has an unhappy marriage and now raises her son alone while her husband is in prison. To get back in the boxing ring, Danny gets the community-center gym back in operation and starts training, encountering opposition from militant IRA members, including Harry (Gerald McSorley). Danny and Maggie grow closer, but after a bomb sets off events leading to the destruction of the gym, Danny leaves for a disastrous boxing match in London. More grim situations arise when he returns to Belfast.
8. Days Inn -- Days Inns
   NEW YORK, Sept. 27 PRNewswire — Days Inn is rolling out a new identity to 1800 properties worldwide. The first change in 37 years, the new logo is just the most visible part of revitalizing the entire guest experience.
9. Will Rogers -- Father
   Rogers was born in New York City. He grew up in Beverly Hills, California due to his father's involvement in the motion picture industry and attended school there. He received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1935. Upon completion of his studies, he served as publisher of the Beverly Hills Citizen newspaper, a role in which he continued until 1953. He ... was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. However, upon U.S. entry into World War II, he decided to enlist as a private in June 1942, but was commissioned in the field artillery the next month and assigned to the 893rd Tank Destroyer Battalion.
10. Virgil -- Father
    Virgil devoted his last ten years to the composition of the Aeneid, a mythological epic in 12 books describing the seven-year wanderings of the hero Aeneas from the fall of Troy to his military victory in Italy. Aeneas escaped from Troy carrying his aged father on his shoulders and leading his young son Ascanius by the hand. He assembled a fleet and sailed the eastern Mediterranean Sea with the surviving Trojans to Thrace, Crete (Kríti), Epirus, and Sicily before being shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Here Dido, queen of Carthage, fell in love with Aeneas and was driven to suicide on his subsequent departure.

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