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November (in what year?)
Mon, 11/25/2013 - 12:15
Does anyone have any knowledge as for what year November was actually declared as the epilepsy awareness month in the United States? I've been spending time searching the Internet for answers to my question, but have not come across anything yet.
Re: November (in what year?)
Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Mon, 2013-11-25 - 14:02
Hi Spike, The quick search results I get ends in "snippet view", but the intermediate result of the google Ngram Viewer for "Epilepsy Awareness" (case sensitive) gives: "Working with a team of public health students who are developing an 'Epilepsy Awareness Plan' for the general public, to be implemented in November l977. RESEARCH-ABSTRACTS Information about existing technology is being..." (Plan for nationwide action on epilepsy - Volume 2 - Page 1085 (United States. Commission for the Control of Epilepsy and its Consequences - 1978)). https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Epilepsy+Awareness&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CEpilepsy%20Awareness%3B%2Cc0 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22epilepsy%20awareness%22&tbs=bks:1,cdr:1,cd_min:1800,cd_max:1993&lr=lang_en Trying to narrow down, mainly more later snippets (except for chance combinations): https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Epilepsy+Awareness&year_start=1975&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CEpilepsy%20Awareness%3B%2Cc0 Tadzio