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Post by sandipaws on Mar 21, 2021 22:15:58 GMT -5
Who Knew??? Serving up a light and airy dish, March 22nd annually recognizes National Bavarian Crepes Day.
Bavarian crepes are a delicious, very thin pancake-like dessert. They are typically made from wheat flour or buckwheat flour, then filled, rolled, and then often topped with a glaze, fruit, chocolate or whipped cream. In Bavaria, crepes are called palatschinke. While similar to a French crepe, the Bavarian crepe batter doesn’t need to rest before using.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 21, 2021 23:18:18 GMT -5
If you die alone in the Netherlands, someone will write you a poem and recite it at your funeral. For those lonely folk who pass away with no next of kin and no one to claim them at death, there will be at least one person at their funeral: a poet. In response to these so-called “lonely funerals,” the country implemented the ritual of lonely funeral poems, in which poets research the deceased, write a poem in their honor, and recite it at the funeral. What started as a small project in Amsterdam has now grown into a country-wide competition.
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Post by johnmori on Mar 22, 2021 5:33:09 GMT -5
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March 22, 1975
A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
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Post by soutxed on Mar 22, 2021 8:26:26 GMT -5
March 22, 1987, a garbage barge, carrying 3,200 tons of refuse, left Islip, New York, on a six month journey in search of a place to unload. (The barge was turned away by several states and three other countries until space was found back in Islip.)
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Post by sandipaws on Mar 22, 2021 22:00:58 GMT -5
Who Knew??? Observed each year on March 23rd, National Puppy Day celebrates the unconditional love and affection puppies bring to our lives. Their cuddles and wiggles make us smile and without a doubt, there are squeals of delight when there are puppies around!
The day also brings awareness to the need for care of and homes for orphaned pups as well as to educate people about the horrors of puppy mills across the country. Puppies are a big responsibility. Be sure to consider everything involved and adopt from a shelter. The puppies there need love and a home just as much as any other and they grow into loyal pets, too!
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 23, 2021 0:18:43 GMT -5
In the 16th century, poets exchanged rap battle-like stylized insults in an act called "flyting. The word "flyting" comes from the Old English word for "quarrel." Something like today’s freestyle rap battles, the purpose of flyting was to craft poetic insults so devastating to your competitor that they’d be too insulted to muster a comeback. One recorded exchange is known as The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie, in which Kennedie tells Dunbar, “You look like the crows already ate your cheeks; Renounce, rebel, your rhymes and sorry shrieks.” What a burn.
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Post by BillG on Mar 23, 2021 6:25:49 GMT -5
Who knew??? On March 23rd, 2001 "Mir", Russia's and the worlds first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space ended 15 yrs in space when it was decommissioned, and ended with a planned fiery plunge into the South Pacific.
 
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Post by johnmori on Mar 23, 2021 6:54:34 GMT -5
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March 23, 1965
NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
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Post by soutxed on Mar 23, 2021 8:57:54 GMT -5
March 23, 1980 Archbishop Óscar Romero calls on members of the El Salvador armed forces to stop killing their fellow Salvadorians. A death squad assassinated the archbishop only one day after his famous sermon.
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Post by sandipaws on Mar 23, 2021 21:58:04 GMT -5
Who Knew???
 National Lobster Newburg day on March 25th ushers in a celebration worthy of a sea captain. An American seafood dish, Lobster Newburg includes lobster, butter, cream, cognac, sherry, eggs, and cayenne pepper.
Delmonico’s of New York debut Lobster Newburg in 1876. A sea captain by the name of Ben Wenburg developed the elegant and rich dish. After he demonstrated the recipe to restaurant manager Charles Delmonico, Chef Charles Ranhofer made refinements and they added the creation to the restaurant’s menu as Lobster a la Wenburg. It wasn’t long before the dish grew in popularity.
However, an argument between Wenburg and manager Charles Delmonico caused the dish to be removed from the menu. After many requests from patrons, Delmonico’s returned the dish with a new name. The entree came to be known as Lobster Newburg.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 24, 2021 1:58:08 GMT -5
Astronaut Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the moon's surface. On the Apollo 14 space mission, Feb 6, 1971, Alan Shepard became the first and only person to play golf somewhere other than Earth. He attached a six-iron head (which he'd smuggled onboard in a sock) to a piece of rock-collecting equipment and hit two golf balls while on the moon's surface, hitting his second shot further than 200 yards.
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Post by johnmori on Mar 24, 2021 6:28:54 GMT -5
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March 24, 1944
World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
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Post by BillG on Mar 24, 2021 8:10:44 GMT -5
Who knew??? On March 24th, 1989 the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground, spilling some 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska, creating the largest oil spill in U.S. history up to that time.
 
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Post by soutxed on Mar 24, 2021 8:24:06 GMT -5
March 24, 1882 Robert Koch discovers the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis. The German scientist, who is regarded as the father of modern bacteriology, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1905.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 24, 2021 9:59:33 GMT -5
Jesse Washington was lynched on May 15, 1916. He did not rob a bank, steal a horse, murder anyone, or commit rape. He was born black, thru no fault of his own. In Texas (any in many other states) the color of one's skin often determines one's destiny. Jesse Washington was a seventeen year old African-American farmhand who was lynched in the county seat of Waco, Texas in what became a well known example of racially motivated brutality. Washington was falsely convicted (from the planting of evidence) of the alleged rape and clubbed murder of Lucy Fryer, the wife of his white employer in rural Robinson, Texas. Washington was chained by his neck and dragged out of the county court by observers. He was then paraded through the street, all the while being stabbed and beaten, before being held down and castrated. Jesse was then lynched in front of the Waco City Hall. 15,000 spectators, including city officials and police, gathered to watch the attack. Members of the mob cut off his fingers, and hung him over a bonfire after saturating him with coal oil. He was repeatedly lowered and raised over the fire for two hours. After the fire was extinguished, his charred torso, the feet and lower legs completely burned off, was dragged through the town. A professional photographer took pictures as the event unfolded, providing rare imagery of a lynching in progress. The pictures were printed and sold as postcards.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of lynchings occurred in the Southern United States, primarily of African Americans in the states of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas. Between 1890 and 1920, about 3,000 African Americans were killed by lynch mobs in cases where the black victims were alleged perpetrators of crimes. Children watched the lynchings and deaths during their lunch hour. There was a celebratory atmosphere among whites at the spectacle of the murders. The deaths of African Americans was entertainment to the spectators. People acted excited at their torture and deaths.
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