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Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays. Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.
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We had Coda here this past week. She's so fast, it's hard to take a picture of her, she loves to run and move. Still, i managed to snap a few.
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Sparks, the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, is on hiatus, so here's an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor.
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Poetry Monday was started by Diane at On The Alberta/Montana Border. Jenny at Procrastinating Donkey is on a blog break and is sorely missed. Charlotte/Mother Owl always participates, and now Karen at Baking in a Tornado is jumping in on occasion, too. Spike's Best Mate often leaves a wonderful poem in the comments on one of our blogs.
This week the theme is Pi Day.
We sat there bored in math class,
And all of us wondered why
The teacher kept going on and on
About something called pi.
We were all so confused
Until the teacher did say,
"Let me use a visual aid"
And pulled out pies on a tray!
"The distance around the circle
Or the outside of anything round
Is called a circumference,
A word with a funny sound."
"Now the distance across the circle,"
She said as she sliced one in half
"That is the diameter."
We began to grin and laugh.
"When you divide the circumference
Of any circle of any size
By the diameter across it
The result won't be a surprise."
"That result will always be Pi,"
She said as she continued to slice.
"Pi never repeats and never ends,
But here is something nice."
"Even though Pi never ends,"
She said as she passed pie to eat
"You only need know 3.1415,
And now let's have a treat!"
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Today is:
1848 Revolution Day -- Hungary
Act Happy Week begins -- acting happy releases the body chemicals that aid health, mental and physical
Ag Day, Celebrating Our Bountiful Food Supply -- according to a foodie website
Birthday of Wenchang Wang, the God of Literature -- China
Brain Awareness Week begins-- the global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research
Brutus Day -- for obvious reasons; watch for backstabbers today, because they are as numerous now as they were in ancient Rome
Constitution Day -- Belarus
Dia de Benito Juarez -- Mexico (una Fiestas Patrias)
Dumbstruck Day -- Fairy Calendar
Everything You Think is Wrong Day -- begun by someone who wants you to keep an open mind, apparently
Fallas de Valencia -- Valencia, Spain (a five day carnival/fiesta of partying that ends with turning off all the city lights and setting fire to hundreds of massive papier-mache statues stuffed with fireworks to celebrate St. Joseph's Day; sometimes called Fallas de San Jose)
Great Lent begins-- a/k/a Clean Monday, Ash Monday, Pure Monday, Monday of Lent, Shrove Monday, Collop Monday, Rose Monday, Merry Monday or Hall Monday, and (in Cypress) Green Monday -- Orthodox Christian
Honen Matsuri -- Tagata-jinja Shrine, Inuyama, Japan (festival for a good harvest and fertility)
Ides of March -- Ancient Roman Calendar; other observances
Day Sacred to Anna Parenna and River Nymphs -- goddess of the returning year
Day You Don't Want to Go Out if Your Name is Julius Caesar
Festival of Attis and Cybele
Guild Festival -- for guilds practicing the arts of Minerva, with weapons purified at her temple on this day
International Day Against Police Brutality
Joseph Jenkins Roberts' Birthday -- Liberia
Kashiram Jayanti -- UP, India (birth anniversary of politician Kashi Ram)
National Pears Helene with Chocolate Sauce and Brandy Day
Offerings to Ra, Osiris, Horus, Ptah, Sokar, and Atum -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
St. Clement Mary Hofbauer's Day (Patron of Vienna, Austria)
St. Louise de Marillac's Day (Patron of disappointing children, loss of parents, people rejected by religious orders, sick people, social workers, widows; Vincentian Service Corps)
Tagata Honen-Sai/Honen Matsuri -- Inuyama, Japan (fertility festival)
True Confessions Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, because confession is good for the soul; if you are afraid to confess to the world, there's always your mirror
Turkey Buzzards Day -- Hinckley, OH, US (Two theories about why the turkey buzzards return on this date each year have to do with either witchcraft of a hunting story; festival in honor of them will be held this coming Sunday)
Wellderly Day -- and the start of Wellderly Week, focusing on the health of the elderly
Workplace Napping Day -- on this, the Monday after DST begins, show your boss the studies that highlight the benefit of power naps
some sites call it National Napping Day; either way, lie down and be counted!
World Consumer Rights Day -- International
Youth Day -- Palau
Anniversaries Today:
Richard Burton marries Elizabeth Taylor, 1964
The University of Toronto is chartered, 1827
Maine becomes the 23rd US state, 1820
Birthdays Today:
Kellan Lutz, 1985
Sean Biggerstaff, 1983
Eva Longoria, 1975
Kim Raver, 1969
Mark McGrath, 1968
Bret Michaels, 1963
Fabio, 1961
Mary Carillo, 1957
Park Overall, 1957
Dee Snyder, 1955
Craig Wilson, 1954
Sly Stone, 1944
Mike Love, 1941
Phil Lesh, 1940
Judd Hirsch, 1935
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933
Alan Bean, 1932
Norm Van Brocklin, 1926
Harry James, 1916
Joe E. Ross, 1914
Macdonald Carey, 1913
Samuel "Lightnin" Hopkins, 1912
Andrew Jackson, 1767
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Wonder Years"(TV), 1988
"Eight is Enough"(TV), 1977
"Three's Company"(TV), 1977
"The Godfather"(Film), 1972
"Purlie"(Musical), 1970
"Lady Madonna"(Music single), 1968
"My Fair Lady"(Musical), 1956
"Rapsodie Espagnole"(Ravel's Orchestral rapsody), 1908
"Caesar and Cleopatra,"(Play), 1899
"She Stoops to Conquer"(Comedy), 1773
Today in History:
Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March, BC44
Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty, 221
A Jew hating Monk in Seville, Spain stirs up people in that city to attack Jews, 1391
Christopher Columbus arrives back in Spain after his first trip to the New World, 1493
The first meeting of the Council of Trent, 1545
South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government, 1776
In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy; the plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place, 1783
A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party, 1848
Jesse W. Reno patents an "inclined elevator" (escalator), 1892*
Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated, 1906
Czar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar, 1917
Symbolics.com registers the very first Internet domain name, 1985
Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union, 1990
French President Jacques Chirac signs the law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools, commonly known as the "headscarf ban", 2004
Lazarus Project scientists reveal that they successfully recovered frozen tissue from the 1970's and rejuvenated the cells of Rheobatrachus silus, a species of frog that has been extinct since 1983, 2013
French fashion house Givenchy appoints it first female designer, Englishwoman Clare Waight Keller, 2017
Toys ‘R Us announces it will close all of its stores, 2018
More European countries impose restrictions on travel and borders to try to combat Covid19, while the US Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to near zero in an attempt to support the economy, 2020
*The first actual working model, at Coney Island, was built four years later.
