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The Feast Day of St. Patrick is celebrated on March 17. St. Patrick is considered the father of Celtic Christianity. He founded more than three hundred churches, drove the snakes out of Ireland, invented green beer, and coined the popular slogan, Kiss me, I’m Irish (although, he himself was not.) This year, the Citizenry ofContinue reading “Speaking Fluent Blarney”

March 16 1792 –At a masquerade ball, a disgruntled Captain Jacob Johan Ankarstroem shot Swedish King Gustav III near the heart with a bullet composed of lead and carpet tacks, on this date. It took the King almost two weeks to die. Shakespeare never wrote about Gustavus, probably because Gustavus was born well after Shakespeare’sContinue reading “Ouch!!!”

March 15, 44 BC –Julius Caesar, already warned to be wary on this the Ides of March by the astrologer Spurinna, was assassinated with pointy knives by a group of Senators, including Brutus and Cassius, at the Pompey theater. They were angry at him because he had crossed the Rubicon. Later Marc Antony borrowed everyone’sContinue reading “The middle of the month doesn’t look so good”

March 14, 1883 – Karl Marx died of pleurisy in London on this date. While his original grave had only a nondescript stone, the Communist Party of Great Britain erected a large tombstone, including a bust of Marx, in 1954. His premature death prevented him from seeing the global impact of his progeny: Groucho, Harpo,Continue reading “The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

Pi Day was founded by Physicist Larry Shaw in 1988. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts ( read – lonely shut-ins) around the world on March 14th. π was first used as a mathematical symbol in 1706 by William Jones. Albert Einstein’s parents conveniently arranged for him to be born on Pi Day inContinue reading “Today is Pi Day!”

Did you forgot to set the clock ahead – I’ll wait (while I madly dash around the house myself.) Here’s a short film explaining Daylight Saving Time – Do you need some more time (did you get the clock on the microwave? None of you still have a VCR?) Here’s another short film – Alright,Continue reading “You’ll have one less hour for drinking today –”

Daylight Saving Time (leave the last S off for saving) starts at 2 AM tomorrow morning, so don’t forget to turn all those clocks, microwaves, DVD players, etc. ahead. Please do this work yourself: the time you save may be your own. Demand Euphoria!

March 12, 1922 –At the end of the Second World War, America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. Each bomb killed so many people so quickly and made the world so safe for peace-loving democracies that America began feeling pretty good about things and forgot all about being Depressed, etc. This caused the hula-hoop, theContinue reading “They all spoke through you.”

March 12, 1888 –The day before started off seemingly fine – the temperature was mild as a light rain began to fall on March 11th, 1888. And then the weather changed. The rain became heavier and by the next day, the rains changed to heavy snow and buried the unprepared city in drifts of upContinue reading “Here are the snows of our yesteryears”

March 11, 222 –Most of you with teenagers think that yours are the worst, but no, Ancient Rome had the worst by far, the Emperor Elagabalus. His real name was Varius Avitus Bassianus but as he developed an intense interest in worshiping the Syrian god Elagabal, became High Priest of the cult and so hadContinue reading “These kids today have nothing on him”