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Welcome to April 9th on the National Day Calendar. The unicorn appears in many natural history texts from ancient times and is generally described as a single horned goat or horse. While the descriptions vary widely, all seem to grant the beast a magical quality, depicting purity, great strength and rarity. All except Marco Polo. He describes a brutish beast, who prefers to wallow in the mud, with hair like a buffalo and feet like an elephant. With a large black horn in the center of its boarlike head, this creature was hardly the stuff of legend to be tamed by a maiden of purity. We have since determined that Marco Polo was describing a rhinoceros. Thankfully his account did not detract from the mythical creature who today inspires frappuccinos, slippers and bathrobes. On National Unicorn Day, celebrate your own kind of magic that still reflects the beauty in the eye of the beholder. I’m Marlo Anderson with the National Day Calendar. See you again tomorrow as we Celebrate Every Day! https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-unicorn-day-april-9/
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