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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: International UNICEF Day (11 December)
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:24:21 +1300
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This day in 1946, the United Nations International Children's Emergency 
Fund was founded. It became a permanent agency of the UN in 1953.
Possibly it was at this point that they dropped the words 
"International" and "Emergency", while keeping the nicely pronounceable 
acronym. I guess "International" is redundant in the context of the UN; 
and "Emergency" is incompatible with "permanent" -- or is it that we are 
in a permanent state of emergency? And why keep "International" in the 
name of the Day?