March 16, 2016

Wednesday, March 16, 2015

The 76 day of the year

290 days left to go 

THIS WEEK IS

• Campfire USA Birthday Week
• Consider Christianity Week
• Termite Awareness Week
• National Agriculture Week
• International Brain Awareness Week

TODAY IS

• Freedom of Information Day 
• 
  
• Brain Injury Awareness Day
• Black Press Day
• Curlew Day
• Goddard Day   
• Kick Butts Day
• No Selfies Day
• St. Urho's Day  and 
• National Everything You Do is Right Day
• National Artichoke Hearts Day
• Lips Appreciation Day (Larry the Cucumber)

ON THIS DATE...

1802:  the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was established by an act of Congress.  The school was originally intended for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Read more)  

1850:  Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, "The Scarlet Letter," was published for the first time. 
1882:  the United States Senate approved a treaty allowing the U.S. to join the Red Cross. 
1915:  the Federal Trade Commission began operating.  

1918:  Tallulah Bankhead made her New York acting debut in "The Squab Farm."

1945:  the Japanese Island of Iwo Jima was secured by the Allies. 
1955:  "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" hit the number one spot on the pop music charts (Song). 

1963:  Peter, Paul and Mary released the controversial song "Puff The Magic Dragon." Some people believed the song was a reference to smoking marijuana. (Video)

1966:  Julie Newmar appeared as Catwoman on the "Batman" series for the first time. 

1978: One of the world’s worst supertanker disasters takes places when the Amoco Cadiz wrecks off the coast of Portsall, France.

1985:  journalist Terry Anderson was kidnapped by gunmen in Beirut, Lebanon.  He was released 1991 after being held captive for more than 24-hundred days.

1995:  astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to visit the Russian space station Mir (Read more). 
1996: "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men logged its 16th week at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, setting a new record for the most weeks spent at number one by a single.   



HISTORY SPOTLIGHT

The Scarlet Letter (Source) 

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story of adultery and betrayal in colonial America, The Scarlet Letter, is published.

Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1804. Although the infamous Salem witch trials had taken place more than 100 years earlier, the events still hung over the town and made a lasting impression on the young Hawthorne. Witchcraft figured in several of his works, including “Young Goodman Brown” (1835) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851), in which a house is cursed by a wizard condemned by the witch trials.



QUICK TRIVIA 

National Artichoke Day

5 Facts about the artichoke (Source) 

• The artichoke is the unopened “flower” bloom of a thistle plant.
• A medium sized globe artichoke is fat free and has only 25 calories.
• 3% of the world’s herbal tea consumption is dried artichoke tea.
• 40% of the world’s artichokes are canned or jarred.
• California is known as the artichoke capital of the world.  They supply nearly 100% of North American fresh artichokes.

WORD OF THE DAY 

intenerate [in-ten-uh-reyt] 

verb (used with object), intenerated, intenerating.

to make soft or tender; soften.

"When asked why she could't watch any sad movies, Jazman said it was because of her intenerate heart" 






WORD FROM THE WORD 

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?--Matthew 6:26 


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