Ridley's Believe It Or Not--March 26, 2014: Trust everyone still has bracket choices playing in the Sweet Sixteen trying to get into the Elite 8 in the next five days and are well rested for the upcoming excitement. Go Cardinal against Dayton today and Go Stanford Women against Penn State on Sunday. I managed to find these unique holidays of note (without having to make up my own holiday today) to go with the factoids and quote.
1. Purple Day (Canada)--celebrating in Canada not the art of compromise of Reds and Blues but rather creating awareness of epilepsy.
2. National Spinach Day—even if not a famous sailor great holiday to sink your teeth into in a salad, BLT, or sautéed in olive oil with garlic and bits of bacon.
3. Make Up Your Own Holiday—what a great concept when all existing holidays are not worthy of noting
4. Manatee Appreciation Day--celebrating these gentle marine mammals which are protected species in this country.
On this day in:
a. 1872 Thomas J. Martin patented a fire extinguisher.
b. 1926 the first lip reading tournament was held in America.
c. 1996 the International Monetry Fund appproved a $10.2 billion loan to Russia, which give the moves by Russia in Ukraine will not be repeated anytime soon.
One out of three is not too bad: “I realized there were no heroes for our kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.” Magnus Sheving, contemporary writer, producer, entrepreneur and athlete from Iceland.
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