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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWLF5pmPF24
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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Clown_Week
International Clown Week
"…he lobbied the United States Congress and organized a visit by clowns to the senate building…"
>That right there is funny af…
International Clown Day is celebrated each year on first week of August as a tribute to the first recognised group of organised clowns. Clown groups often celebrate the week with special activities such as performing volunteer shows[1] or having their local mayor declare the week as a city celebration to coincide with the national and international clown week.[2]
History
Clown Week was celebrated on a limited scale in the 1950s. In 1988 the first International Clown Week chairman was appointed by Ray Bickford, president of Clown Club of America. In 1992 Clown Club of America members were urged to write to their congressmen and senators requesting a presidential proclamation naming July 21–27 as National Clown Week. In 1969 a resolution was introduced. After clowns met with Senator John McClellan of Arkansas, who was chairman of the United States Senate subcommittee on Observances and Holidays, success was finally achieved.
Concurrently, Bill "Boom-Boom" Baily was an original member of Clowns of America when it was founded in 1967. Baily was named the U.S. Chairman of National Clown Week for that organization.
Because each year a chairman had to be chosen in each state to ask their governor to issue a proclamation honoring National Clown Week, Baily pushed for National Clown Week publicity. He convinced Congressman Garmatz of Maryland and Congressman Myers of Indiana to introduce a joint resolution in Congress establishing National Clown Week as an annual event. He lobbied the United States Congress and organized a visit by clowns to the senate building in Washington, D.C.
On October 8, 1970, Public Law 91-443 under the 91st Congress, JJR 26 was passed by both the House and Senate and was sent to President Richard Nixon for his signature.[3]
The joint resolution was signed into law by President Nixon on August 2, 1971.[4]
Many clown organizations have an international constituency[5] and over time the National Clown Week has expanded to be International Clown Week.
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res ipsa loquitur
[ˌrēz ˌipsə ˈläkwitər]
NOUN
law
res ipsa loquitur (noun) · res ipsa loq. (noun)
the principle that the occurrence of an accident implies negligence.
ORIGIN
Latin, literally ‘the matter speaks for itself’.
co-opt
[kōˈäpt]
VERB
coopting (present participle)
appoint to membership of a committee or other body by invitation of the existing members:
"the committee may co-opt additional members for special purposes"
synonyms:
appoint · nominate · depute · delegate · select · choose · pick · decide on · settle on · elect · name · identify · assign · allot · ordain · induct
divert to or use in a role different from the usual or original one:
"social scientists were co-opted to work with the development agencies"
synonyms:
incorporate · assimilate · integrate · appropriate · take in · subsume · include · swallow up
adopt (an idea or policy) for one's own use:
"the green parties have had most of their ideas co-opted by bigger parties"
synonyms:
subsume · incorporate · integrate · absorb · engulf · swallow up · take over · naturalize · adopt · embrace · accept · admit · acculturate
ORIGIN
mid 17th century: from Latin cooptare, from co- ‘together’ + optare ‘choose’.