Rick’s Avogadro-Lavoisier scholarship is fictional and was named for Amedeo Avogadro, an Italian mathematical physicist, and Antoine Lavoisier, a French chemist.
DeKalb and all its institutions are fictional, as are Greenedale and Wooster, PA, and Howe and Wooster Universities. However, there really is a New York City, and every November, bagpipe bands march in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade down Fifth Avenue. *cough*
Other than Let’s Go to the Beach Day (July 16) and Thank You for Everything Day (December 17), all the holidays mentioned are actual Bizarre, Unique, and Special holidays.
