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Believe It Or Not--March 16, 2014:
One day to St. Patrick's Day. Kudos to an improbable upset by Cal
Poly San Luis Obispo in the WAC finals this Saturday. Brackets are picked to
today to officially kick off March Madness. Slow day for holidays as the whole
planet is washing and pressing their green attire and getting ready to put the
corned beef and cabbage in the Crock Pot.
1. Book
Smugglers' Day--celebrated in Lithuania to
honor the Lithuanian resistance that smuggled in books written in Lithuanian
and Latin to fight the Russification of the country (same process that is going
on as we speak today in the Crimea).
2. St.
Urho's Day--honoring the fight of
the Finnish Saint of Grasshoppers by dressing in purple and green and hopping
around while yelling "Heinasirkka, heinasirkka, menetaalta
hiiten" (grasshopper, grasshopper, scoot).
I kid you not!
3. Goddard Day--commemorating the first liquid
fueled rocket flight attaining a height of 184 feet by American rocket pioneer
Robert Goddard on this day in 1926 at
Auburn, Mass.
4. National Chocolate Week (3/16-3/22--here is
another holiday celebration one can really get their teeth into and thoroughly enjoy!
On this day in:
a. 1958 Ford produced its 50
millionth car, a Thunderbird, followed
ten years later on same date by General Motors producing its 100 millionth car,
a Toronado.
b. in
1995, in a classic "better late than never," Mississippi bacame the
last state to ratify the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery which was ratified
and became part of the Constitution in 1865.
c. in
1972 in response to their opposition to the Vietnam War especially the song
"Give Peace a Chance" sung
at anti-war rallies, Nixon ordered the INS to serve John Lennon and Yoko Ono
with deportation papers which failed effort caused a furor in the artistic
community and among the youth of the
day.
Why college
basketball is so exciting to watch and inspire: "If the NBA was on channel
five and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel four, I’d watch the
frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.” Bobby Knight legendary former
basketball coach of Indiana. How right he is. Good luck
to the Cal Poly Mustangs in the Dance.
Please
enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below
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entertaining poems on my blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
for an original poem to honor Cindy Abbott, a half blind 54 year old mother
suffering from a rare disease who competed in last year's Iditarod until forced
out with a broken pelvis after 600 miles; an original poem on Bode Miller and
the human spirit; an original poem for Cupid on Valentine's Day; an original
poem to honor Cory Remsburg to join a great collection of my poems to
inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy
Times for poems on Pac 12 basketball tournament;Jolly's upset win over Sink in the House's 13th District
of Florida this Tuesday; USS Coronado doing a little whale watching of Dana
Point; China's red line on war in Korea; De Blasio's payback to his union
contributors by attacking charter schools; Rutgers' faculty despicable attempt
to ban Condi Rice from being a commencement speaker; the holiday creep of St. Patrick's Day; the
crash of a Malaysian Air flight; Obama's need for vacation time as Ukraine
crisis unfolds; Newport Beach's assault on recovery homes, including the Ohio
House; food fight between Issa and Cummings as Lerner takes the 5th again;
Sally Jewell, Department of Interior, telling the residents of King Cove,
Alaska to take a hike in placing wildlife over their lives; on students
protesting Keystone XL as the world's largest oil producer militarily occupies
the Crimea: the banning the wearing of the American flag on Cinco de Mayo
to join numerous other comments on
news events always in rhyme of course.
©March 16, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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