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When I was a kid my siblings and I were really athletic. We were in a little old fashioned school two grades per room. We were very poor. One of the other mothers asked my mom what she fed us that made us so fast, because of track. My mother said oatmeal every morning. So the other mothers started feeding their kids oatmeal
. Our school mated were unimpressed.
. Our school mated were unimpressed.
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March 8th
Today is...
Daylight Savings Time Begins
Check Your Batteries Day
Day for Women's Rights & International Peace
Genealogy Day
Girl Scout Sunday
Girls Write Now Day
International Working Women's Day
National Peanut Cluster Day
National Proofreading Day
International Women's Day
Today is...
Daylight Savings Time Begins
Check Your Batteries Day
Day for Women's Rights & International Peace
Genealogy Day
Girl Scout Sunday
Girls Write Now Day
International Working Women's Day
National Peanut Cluster Day
National Proofreading Day
International Women's Day
In History:
1658 - Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark
1702 - England: Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III
1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1934 - Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
1945 - International Women's Day is 1st observed
1965 - 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
1983 - President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil
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March 9th
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National Workplace Napping Day
Barbie Day
False Teeth Day
Fill Our Staplers Day
Get Over It Day
Joe Franklin Day
Napping Day
National Crabmeat Day
Panic Day
Today is...
National Workplace Napping Day
Barbie Day
False Teeth Day
Fill Our Staplers Day
Get Over It Day
Joe Franklin Day
Napping Day
National Crabmeat Day
Panic Day
Well at least I know why I was up before 3:00 on a day off where I could have slept in. National Panic Day indeed. Sounds like I should have gone to work and took a nap.
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in History:
141 BC - Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China. Rules for 54 years
1230 - Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa.
1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus' 1st recorded astronomical observation
1562 - Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) so TPW starts a blog
1776 - Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. Bullya
1822 - Charles Graham of NY granted first US patent for artificial teeth. But too late to help George Washington.
1862 - USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads Pirate considers retirement
1959 - 1st known radar contact is made with Venus. No mention of who was contacted
1959 - Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold. Ken joins PEG
1974 - Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
1987 - Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion and decides not to reintroduce the Nash Rambler
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March 10th
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Salvation Army Day
International Day of Awesomeness :yourock:
Land Line Telephone Day :telephone:
Mario Day
National Blueberry Popover Day :hungry:
Organize Your Home Office Day
Pack Your Lunch Day
US Paper Money Day
Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Sir Ollie's Birthday
International Bagpipe Day
Today is...
Salvation Army Day
International Day of Awesomeness :yourock:
Land Line Telephone Day :telephone:
Mario Day
National Blueberry Popover Day :hungry:
Organize Your Home Office Day
Pack Your Lunch Day
US Paper Money Day
Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Sir Ollie's Birthday
International Bagpipe Day
in History:
241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
1535 - Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers Galapagos Islands and realizes that turteling is not always bad.
1791 - John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver a forerunner of Preparation H
1876 - 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson). Can you hear me now.
1903 - Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine. Lookout Xerex.
1975 - "The Rocky Horror Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances.
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Hump a plumber day
In History:
537 - Goths lay siege to Rome
843 - Icon veneration officially re-instated in Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople. Don't we consider JP an icon
1513 - Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X
1669 - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1958 - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21" and WFI gets an idea for a question for am answer game.
1968 - Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay"
1974 - Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1997 - Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1997 - Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II
2011 - An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
In History:
537 - Goths lay siege to Rome
843 - Icon veneration officially re-instated in Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople. Don't we consider JP an icon
1513 - Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X
1669 - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1958 - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21" and WFI gets an idea for a question for am answer game.
1968 - Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay"
1974 - Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1997 - Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1997 - Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II
2011 - An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
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In History:
538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.
1455 - First record of Johann Gutenberg's Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year before
1664 - New Jersey becomes a British colony and a few years later home to N2B
1848 - 2nd republic established in France
1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi
1912 - Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
1938 - Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1945 - USSR returns Transylvania to Romania and Dr Frankncock feels free to start PE.
1956 - Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1987 - "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ perfs
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