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Today is Earth Hour, a global event (organized by World Wildlife Fund) held usually on the last Saturday of March. Earth Hour is celebrated annually by asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.Continue reading “Spend time with your loved ones (this is where alcohol comes in handy)”

Texting While Driving (or even Walking) is just wrong. Just don’t do this one. Don’t. 1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving. Texting while driving is 6x more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk. You’re risking yours and someone else’s life for aContinue reading “Things that should be common sense, but aren’t”

March 26, 1977 –Less Than Zero, the debut single from Elvis Costello, was released by the newly formed Stiff Records in London, England on this date. The song is a scathing attack on Oswald Mosley, a politician who was popular in England at the time. Mosley, who died in 1980, was the leader of theContinue reading “Less Than Zero was released”

March 26, 1199 –All seemed right with the Medieval world. Richard the Lionheart was taking an evening stroll around the castle perimeter without his chain mail, investigating the progress of soldiers trying to destroy the fortress in which he was seeking refuge. Arrows were occasionally fired from the castle walls, but these were given littleContinue reading “The Death of Richard the Lionheart”

March 26, 1931 –That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. greater than any of us can understand – Leonard Nimoy was born four day after William Shatner.

It’s the Feast of the Annunciation, which is not a holy day of obligation, (now a days known as The Solemnity of the Annunciation), I’m not even going to try to explain this one to you. While you’re in church this afternoon, ask one of the old lady in the back saying her decades ofContinue reading “Kids, you’re off the hook”

March 25, 1947 –Reginald Kenneth Dwight, singer-songwriter, composer and pianist was born on this date as well. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him as the most successful male solo artist on “The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists“

March 25, 1942 –The late great Aretha Louise Franklin (The Queen of Soul,) born in Memphis, Tennessee, on this date, was a singer, songwriter and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings, Franklin is adept at jazz, blues, R&B and gospel music. Franklin has won eighteen Grammy Awards in total during her nearly half-century longContinue reading “We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.”

March 25, 1821 –Today is the traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire on this day, which had been occupying and ruling it since the mid-1400s, (though the war actually began February 22, 1821.) The date was chosen in the early years of Greece’s sovereignty so thatContinue reading “The Greek War of Independence”

March 25, 1911 –It’s the 111th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, the largest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York, causing the death of 148 garment workers who either died from the fire or jumped to their deaths. It was the worst workplace disaster in New York City untilContinue reading “The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire”