Cinco de Mayo -- the unofficial U.S. holiday long believed to
have been imported, with celebratory beer, from Mexico -- isn't
a Mexican holiday at all but rather an American one created by
Latinos in the American West during the Civil War, according to
new research by a California professor. Conventional thinking
has long held that the holiday -- now a commercial juggernaut --
emerged from the mass migrations of the bloody Mexican
Revolution of the 1910s or even during Chicano activism in the
1960s in California, University of California at Los Angeles
Professor David Hayes-Bautista told CNN. But on the 150th
anniversary of the holiday, Hayes-Bautista is announcing that he
accidentally found the origins of Cinco de Mayo -- the 5th of
May -- after poring through Spanish-language newspapers in
California from the mid-1800s while working on another research
project. Two years ago, Tom and Misha were the main attraction
at a run-down tourist park in coastal Turkey. The two bottlenose
dolphins were in poor health.