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Post by BillG on Mar 23, 2022 7:48:20 GMT -5
Who knew??? March 23rd is "National Puppy Day".
 
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Post by soutxed on Mar 23, 2022 8:33:17 GMT -5
March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
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Post by sandipaws on Mar 23, 2022 10:31:08 GMT -5
Who Knew??? Sweet or savory, National Tamale Day on March 23rd celebrates a traditional Mexican dish made from a cornmeal dough and filled with a variety of meats, vegetables, or fruit.
Traditional tamales are made with a dough called masa. When making tamales, you spread the dough on a corn husk or banana leaf before adding the fillings. Then you wrap the leaves around the entire package and steam it into a fragrant, mouthwatering meal. While they are popular street food in South America and the southern United States today, the tamale likely has its origins in Mesoamerica as early as 8000 to 5000 B.C.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 24, 2022 2:46:20 GMT -5
Your Keyboard Was Designed to Slow You Down. Have you ever taken a close look at your computer's keyboard and wondered why the letters seemed to be randomly strewn across the keys? In reality, it's not random at all. This QWERTY design (named for the top left row of letters) was invented in 1872 for the typewriters of the time. Typists were getting faster than the machines they used, which would cause the typewriters to jam, so slowing them down actually saved time in the long run. There's no need for the same result now, but everybody's so used to QWERTY keyboards that they've even made the leap to smartphones.
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Post by johnmori on Mar 24, 2022 6:14:48 GMT -5
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March 24, 1989
In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.
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Post by BillG on Mar 24, 2022 7:47:00 GMT -5
Who knew??? March 24th is "National Cheesesteak Day".
 
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Post by soutxed on Mar 24, 2022 8:18:36 GMT -5
MArch 24, 1999, NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country.
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Post by sandipaws on Mar 24, 2022 9:07:26 GMT -5
Who Knew??? When it comes to a National Day, a chocolate-covered raisin or a box of them is worth celebrating.
On March 24th, National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day celebrates raisins coated in a shell of either milk chocolate or dark chocolate.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 25, 2022 0:32:27 GMT -5
Croissants Aren't French. Though many think of them as the quintessentially French baked good, the croissant originated in Vienna, Austria, as early as the 13th century. Back then, it was a denser pastry known as a kipferl, but it was made in a distinctive crescent shape. There are many apocryphal tales of how the croissant made its way to France, but the first documented appearance of the modern croissant—now made with flaky, buttery puff pastry—didn't occur until the early 1800s, when a Viennese baker began selling his crescent-shaped creations in Paris.
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Post by johnmori on Mar 25, 2022 5:36:14 GMT -5
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March 25, 1979
The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
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Post by BillG on Mar 25, 2022 7:26:16 GMT -5
Who knew??? March 25th is "National Medal of Honor Day".
 
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Post by soutxed on Mar 25, 2022 8:50:19 GMT -5
March 25, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 people to the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery after a five-day march from Selma to protest the denial of voting rights to Blacks. Later that day, civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo, a white Detroit homemaker, was shot and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen.
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Post by sandipaws on Mar 25, 2022 9:21:01 GMT -5
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Celebrated around the world on March 25th, Tolkien Reading Day is a favorite among fans of the renowned author.
J.R.R. Tolkien (Jan. 3, 1892 – Sept. 2, 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor.
He was best known as the author of the classic works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarrillion as well as Roverandom and Farmer Giles of Ham.
However, he has published more than 30 books, several posthumously.
The author has sold more than 150 million copies of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and that number continues to grow.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 26, 2022 2:03:03 GMT -5
There are Thousands of Ways to Tie a Necktie. A Swedish mathematician recently calculated the number of different ways to tie a tie at over 175,000. This is especially shocking considering that a previous study set the number firmly at 85—quite a difference. The newer study took into consideration many variants which the previous one did not, including exposed knots, wrappings, and windings. They even created a knot generator to show you a variation (and how to tie it) at random. Still, despite this sartorial discovery, if you take it from us, there's really only one proper way to tie a tie.
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Post by johnmori on Mar 26, 2022 6:17:14 GMT -5
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March 26, 1812
A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
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