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Comments The weirdest and most wonderful facts about Ireland's national holiday, St. Patrick's Day, we could find. St. Patrick's Day is all about the Irish and our beautiful country Ireland but did you know that there are many aspects of the big day that we can not claim as our own invention? Such as the St. Patrick's Day parade phenomenon, for instance? To get you up to date with all the weirdest and most wonderful St. Patrick's day facts, here are IrishCentral's top strangest titbits about our patron saint to have you all caught up on your St. Patrick's trivia by March 17. 

Never will I forget that winter night in January of 2008. I was relaxing in Forsyth County, Georgia, where I was living at the time, watching a youngish Black senator from Illinois deliver a blazing victory speech after winning Iowa’s Democratic presidential caucus. Barack Obama was on his way to becoming the first Black president, on a campaign message of hope and change. I was in Forsyth to observe a different set of American hopes—to do anthropological ethnography, or what some people call immersive journalism, or what others call just “deep hanging out,” for a book that I was writ...

No change to early voting hours, locations after heated meeting A large number of attendees showed up at the most recent meeting of the Forsyth County Board of Voter Registrations and Elections, where members heard from the public and ultimately made no changes toward the hours or number of locations for advance voting for the Jan. 5 runoff election. - photo by Kelly Whitmire A Forsyth County Board of Voter Registrations and Elections meeting this week grew tense at times as members of the board discussed whether to extend ho...

>> good morning, welcome to mornings on 2. it is sunday, april 21. >> another warm day shaping up here in the bay area. so let's go straight to rose rosemary. >> it will be warming, maybe 15 degrees above the seasonal norm as we get into the afternoon. this morning we are mostly clear. ha few patches of fog along the coast. that's about it. cool conditions out there. widespread 40s to mid 50s outside right now. but, i do expect anywhere from 3 to 6 degrees of warming for yesterday's highs and in the extended forecast come the hottest days. i'll show you that forecast. i'll show you t...