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As World Turtle Day, 23 May will be all about reptiles. At least when it comes to the American Tortoise Rescue, the US-American animal welfare organisation that launched this international action day for the protection of animals from the Sauropsida order in the year 2000.
MySQL is one of the most widely used relational database management systems in the world. It is available as open source software as well as a commercial enterprise version for various operating systems and forms the basis for many dynamic web presences.
Sir Ian Murray McKellen CH CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. His career spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction.
All passionate wine drinkers should mark May 25th red in their calendars. The USA celebrates this date as its national wine day.
On May 25th since 2001 not only fans of the Hitchhiker through the Galaxy but also the so called Towel Day.
The People's Revolution of the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May is depicted in Night Watch. It ended the increasingly tough reign of Lord Winder. Tension had been rising, and while the nobility arranged a quiet succession by Lord Snapcase in the background, the people on the streets started a revolution and attacked Watch Houses all over the city.
Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor best known for his roles in the Hammer Productions horror films of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, as well as his performance as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977).
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor,[1] singer and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films, a typecasting situation he always lamented.
Pan's Labyrinth is a 2006 dark fantasy drama film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, and starring Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, and Ariadna Gil.
Peter Ware Higgs (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, emeritus professor in the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.
May 30th is all about a song about perforated containers. Our transatlantic neighbours in the USA celebrate this date as the so-called National My Bucket's Got a Hole Day.