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- LESSON 11 TIMELY CAPS
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- Use capitals to identify time periods:
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- 1. Months of the year and days of the week -> April, Monday, Apr. Mon.
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- 2. Historical and prominent social events ->
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- the Gold Rush, the Boston Tea Party, Abolition, the Rose Bowl
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- 3. Holidays and holy days -> Labor Day, Ramadan, Passover
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- 4. Periods of time ->
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- Dark Ages, Cold War, the Bronze Age, the Enlightenment
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- 5. Time zones initials but not when spelled out (unless contains a
- proper noun - see PST, AST, YST below) ->
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- EST, eastern standard time CST, central standard time
- MST, mountain standard time PST, Pacific standard time
- AST, Atlantic standard time YST, Yukon standard time
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- A holy month in the calendar of Islam, when Moslems fast
- from sunrise to sunset, is called Ramadan.
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- Which sporting event do you like best: World Series, Super
- Bowl, Rose Bowl, or the Kentucky Derby?
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- Do you know the chronological order of the Reformation,
- the Industrial Revolution, and the Renaissance?
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- The earliest of the above periods is the Renaissance followed by
- the Reformation and then the Industrial Revolution.
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- The Orange Bowl football game began at 8 p.m. eastern standard
- time (EST), which is 5 p.m., Pacific standard time (PST), on
- New Years Day.
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- Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November.
- All the rest have 31,
- Save February, to which,
- One day more we add in 4.
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