Tomorrow's food holiday is 'Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day'. Waffles with whole
grain oats and nuts.
From Wikipedia'.
'A waffle is a leavened batter or dough cooked between two plates,
patterned to give a characteristic size, shape and surface impression.
There are many variations based on the type of waffle iron and recipe used.
Waffles are eaten throughout the world, particularly in Belgium, France,
Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Scandinavia, Hong Kong, and the
United States, with over a dozen regional varieties in Belgium alone.'
'Waffles are preceded, in the early Middle Ages, around the period of the 9th–10th centuries, with the simultaneous emergence of fer ŕ hosties / hostieijzers (communion wafer irons) and moule ŕ oublies (wafer irons). While the communion wafer irons typically depicted imagery of Jesus and his crucifixion, the moule ŕ oublies featured more trivial Biblical scenes or simple, emblematic designs. The format of the iron itself was almost always round and considerably larger than those used for communion.
The oublie was, in its basic form, composed only of grain flour and water – just as was the communion wafer. It took until the 11th century, as a product of The Crusades bringing new culinary ingredients to Western Europe, for flavorings such as orange blossom water to be added to the oublies; however, locally sourced honey and other flavorings may have already been in use before that time'.
[The Hankster says] Hey, healthy can taste good also and this is not an excuse for loading up on extra syrup. You remember that word, healthy don't you.
Other celebrations/observances tomorrow:
- 'National Worship of Tools Day'. A guy, maybe gal, day to clean, organize and appraise your hand tools.
[The Hankster says] There is an old saying that a workman is only as good as his tools. That may be a little much, but the lack of the right tool or a malfunctioning tool, may make a good worker look bad.
- 'National Promposal Day'. By Men’s Wearhouse. A day for high school students to think about the prom.
- 'National Johnny Appleseed Day'.
From Wikipedia'.
'John Chapman (September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845), often called Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples. He was also a missionary for The New Church (Swedenborgian)
and theinspiration for many museums and historical sites such as the Johnny Appleseed Museum in Urbana, Ohio and the Johnny Appleseed Heritage Center in between Lucas, Ohio and Mifflin, Ohio.'
'March 11 or September 26 are sometimes celebrated as Johnny Appleseed Day. The September date is Appleseed's acknowledged birthdate, but the March date is sometimes preferred, because it is during planting season'.
[The Hankster says] I'm looking for the guy that plants pizza trees.
- 'Middle Name Pride Day (the Friday of Celebrate Your Name Week) '. Discover the origin of your middle name.
- 'World Plumbing Day'. By the World Plumbing Council.
[The Hankster says] It's not toilet day, so trying to find something funny to say would just be a waste.
Awareness / Observance Days on: March 11
o Health
- 'World Sleep Day'. Friday of the second full week in March. Since 2008 by World Sleep Day Committee of the World Association of Sleep Medicine. Promotes the health benefits of a good nights sleep.
- 'Daffodil Day'. In Ireland by the Irish Cancer Society. A cancer fund raiser via the selling of daffodil pins and flowers.
- 'Funky Hair Day'. - In Australia. A leukaemia fund raiser. A school based event for which school officials become targets of hair shaving or coloring based on money collected.
Historical events in the past on: March 11
- In 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' is published.
From Wikipedia: 'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley that tells the story of a young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London in 1818, when she was 20. Shelley's name first appeared on the second edition, published in France
in 1823'.
- In 1824, The Bureau of Indian Affairs created.
From Wikipedia: 'The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the U.S. Department of the Interior. It is responsible for the administration and management of 55,700,000 acres (225,000 km2) of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American Tribes and Alaska Natives.'
'Agencies to relate to Native Americans had existed in the U.S. government since 1775, when the Second Continental Congress created a trio of Indian-related agencies. Benjamin Franklin and Patrick Henry were appointed among the early commissioners to negotiate treaties with Native Americans to obtain their neutrality during the American Revolutionary War.'
'The abolition of the factory system left a vacuum within the U.S. government regarding Native American relations. The Bureau of Indian Affairs was formed on March 11, 1824, by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, who created the agency as a division within his department, without authorization from the United States Congress. He appointed McKenney as the first head of the office, which went by several names. McKenney preferred to call it the "Indian Office", whereas the current name was preferred by
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- In 1832 Congress established the position of Commissioner of Indian Affairs. In 1849 Indian Affairs was transferred to the U.S. Department of the Interior. In 1869, Ely Samuel Parker was the first Native American to be appointed as commissioner of Indian affairs.
One of the most controversial policies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs was the late 19th to early 20th century decision to educate native children in separate boarding schools, with an emphasis on assimilation that prohibited them from using their indigenous languages, practices, and cultures. It emphasized being educated to European-American culture. Some were beaten for praying to their own creator god'.
- In 1916, The 'USS Nevada' (BB-36) is commissioned as the first U.S. Navy 'super-dreadnought'.
From Wikipedia: 'USS Nevada (BB-36), the second United States Navy ship to be named after the 36th state, was the lead ship of the two Nevada-class battleships; her sister ship was Oklahoma. Launched in 1914, the Nevada was a leap forward in dreadnought technology; four of her new features would be included on almost every subsequent US battleship: triple gun turrets, oil in place of coal for fuel, geared steam turbines for greater range, and the "all or nothing" armor principle. These features made
Nevadathe first US Navy "super-dreadnought".
Nevada served in both World Wars: during the last few months of World War I, Nevada was based in Bantry Bay, Ireland, to protect the supply convoys that were sailing to and from Great Britain. In World War II, she was one of the battleships trapped when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. She was the only battleship to get underway during the attack, making the ship "the only bright spot in an otherwise dismal and depressing morning" for the United States. Still, she was hit by one torpedo and at
least sixbombs while steaming away from Battleship Row, forcing her to be beached. Subsequently salvaged and modernized at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Nevada served as a convoy esc in the Atlantic and as a fire-support ship in four amphibious assaults: the Normandy Landings and the invasions of Southern France, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
At the end of World War II, the Navy decided that Nevada was too old to be retained, so they assigned her to be a target ship in the atomic experiments that were going to be conducted at Bikini Atoll in July 1946 (Operation Crossroads). After being hit by the blast from the first atomic bomb, Able, she was still afloat but heavily damaged and radioactive. She was decommissioned on 29 August 1946 and sunk during naval gunfire practice on 31 July 1948'.
- In 1918, The first case of the 'Spanish flu' occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
From Wikipedia: 'The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million (three to five percent of the world's population), making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.
Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill juvenile, elderly, or already weakened patients; in contrast, the 1918 pandemic predominantly killed previously healthy young adults. Modern research, using virus taken from the bodies of frozen victims, has concluded that the virus kills through a cytokine storm (overreaction of the body's immune system). The strong immune reactions of young adults ravaged the body, whereas the weaker immune systems of children and middle-aged adults resulted in
fewer deaths among those groups.
Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the pandemic's geographic origin. It was implicated in the outbreak of encephalitis lethargica in the 1920s.
To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, Britain, France, and the United States; but papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain (such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII), creating a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit]—thus the pandemic's nickname Spanish flu. In Spain, a different nickname was adopted, the Naples Soldier (Soldado de Nápoles), which came from a musical operetta (zarzuela) titled La
canción del olvido (The Song of Forgetting), which premiered in Madrid during the first epidemic wave. Federico Romero, one of the librettists, quipped that the play's most popular musical number, Naples Soldier, was as catchy as the flu'.
- In 1947, The DuMont network aired 'Movies For Small Fry'. It was network television's first successful children's program.
From Wikipedia: 'Clair Robert "Bob" Emery (1897–1982), known professionally as Big Brother Bob Emery, was a radio and television pioneer and children's show host. He is best known for his pioneer late-1940s network television show, Small Fry Club, and for his long career as a local broadcaster in Boston before and after that.'
In the early 1930s, Emery took a radio job in New York City, first working for NBC and then working at several local stations in New York.
He then hosted Small Fry Club (also known as Movies for Small Fry), one of the earliest TV series made for children, on the DuMont Television Network. Emery continued to use "Big Brother Bob Emery" as his stage name in the show.
Small Fry Club aired from March 11, 1947 to June 15, 1951. It originally aired weekly, but soon expanded to five days a week, airing Monday through Friday at 7pm ET. According to television historians Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, the show was possibly the first television series to air five days per week'.
- In 1958, An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb 15,000 feet on Mars Bluff, South Carolina; it created a crater 75 feet acrosss. There was no nuclear explosion.
From Wikipedia: 'On March 11, 1958 a U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet with a nuclear payload left for nuclear training exercises for war preparations in the United Kingdom and South Africa. The navigator mistakenly pulled the emergency release pin which resulted in the bomb falling out of the plane. Although the bomb was not armed with the trigger (a removable capsule of fissionable material which was securely stored in a containment area on board the plane), it nevertheless contained a high-explosive
detonator. The resulting explosion created a crater estimated to be 75 feet (23 m) wide and 25–35 feet (7.6–10.7 m) deep. It destroyed a local playhouse, near the residence of Walter Gregg, and leveled nearby trees. Nobody was killed by the blast but several people in Gregg's family were injured.
Fragments of the bomb are on display at Florence County Museum'.
- In 1964, Elvis Presley's 14th movie, Kissin' Cousins, was released.
From Wikipedia: 'Kissin' Cousins is a 1964 American musical Panavision Metrocolor comedy film directed by Gene Nelson and starring Elvis Presley. Written by Gerald Drayson Adams and Gene Nelson, the film is about an Army officer who returns to the Great Smoky Mountains assigned to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. His mission is complicated when he meets his look-alike cousin and two beautiful country cousins who compete to win his affections. Presley
played two roles in the film: the Army officer, with dark hair, and his look-alike cousin, with blond hair'.
- In 1968, Otis Redding posthumously received a gold record for his single, (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay'.
From Wikipedia: '"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper. It was recorded by Redding twice in 1967, including once just days before his death in a plane crash. The song was released on Stax Records' Volt label in 1968, becoming the first posthumous single to top the charts in the US. It reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart'.
- In 1970, At the 12th Grammy Awards:
-- Record of the Year is 'Bones Howe' (producer) and 'The 5th Dimension' for 'Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In'.
-- Album of the Year is James William Guercio (producer) and Blood, Sweat & Tears for 'Blood, Sweat amp;& Tears'.
-- Song of the Year is Joe South for 'Games People Play'.
-- Best New Artist is Crosby, Stills and Nash.
-- Best Country Vocal Performance, Female
-- Best Country Vocal Performance, Male
-- Best Country Song is Shel Silverstein (songwriter) for 'A Boy Named Sue' performed by Johnny Cash.
- In 1986, The National Football League announces it will use instant replay to help officiate NFL football games.
From Wikipedia: 'In American and Canadian football, instant replay is a method of reviewing a play using cameras at various angles to determine the accuracy of the initial call of the officials. An instant replay can take place in the event of a close or otherwise controversial call, either at the request of a team's head coach (with limitations) or the officials themselves.
'There are restrictions on what types of plays can be reviewed. In general, most penalty calls or lack thereof cannot be reviewed, nor can a play that is whistled dead by the officials before the play could come to its rightful end.
'The National Football League first adopted a limited Instant Replay system in 1986, though the current system began in 1999, bringing in the opportunity to "challenge" on-field calls of plays. The current system mirrors a system used by the now defunct USFL in 1985. Each coach is allowed two opportunities per game to make a coach's challenge. Before the 2004 NFL season, the instant replay rule was slightly changed to allow a third challenge if both of the original two challenges were successful'.
- In 1989, The TV show 'COPS' debuts on Fox.
From Wikipedia: 'Cops (stylized as COPS) is an American documentary/reality legal series that follows police officers, constables, sheriff's deputies, federal agents and state troopers during patrols and other police activities including vice and narcotics stings. It is one of the longest-running television programs in the United States and in May 2011 became the longest-running show on Fox with the announcement that America's Most Wanted was being canceled after 23 years. It follows the activities
of police officers by assigning television camera crews to accompany them as they perform their duties. The show's formula follows the cinéma vérité convention, with no narration or scripted dialog, depending entirely on the commentary of the officers and on the actions of the people with whom they come into contact.'
- In 1990, At the 16th People's Choice Awards,
-- Favorite Motion Picture is 'Batman'.
-- Favorite Motion Picture Actor is Tom Cruise.
-- Favorite Motion Picture Actress is Meryl Streep.
-- Favorite Comedy Motion Picture is ' Look Who's Talking'.
-- Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture is 'Steel Magnolias', 'Batman'.
-- World Favorite Motion Picture Actor is Dustin Hoffman.
-- World Favorite Motion Picture Actress is Meryl Streep.
-- Favorite Female Musical Performer is Paula Abdul.
-- Favorite Male TV Performer is 'Bill Cosby'.
-- Favorite Female TV Performer is Roseanne Barr.
-- Favorite Young TV Performer is Fred Savage.
-- Favorite TV Comedy is 'The Cosby Show'.
-- Favorite TV Drama is 'L.A. Law'.
-- Favorite New TV Comedy is 'Doogie Howser, M.D.'
-- Favorite New TV Dramatic Series is 'Rescue 911'.
-- Favorite Male Performer In A New TV Series is Neil Patrick Harris.
-- Favorite Female Performer In A New TV Series is Jamie Lee Curtis.
-- Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer is Bill Cosby.
-- Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer Roseanne Barr.
- In 1991, At the 17th People's Choice Awards,
-- Favorite Comedy Motion Picture is 'Pretty Woman'.
-- Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture 'Ghost'.
-- Favorite Motion Picture Actor is Mel Gibson.
-- Favorite Motion Picture Actress is Julia Roberts.
-- Favorite Male Musical Performer is MC Hammer.
-- Favorite Female Musical Performer is Paula Abdul.
-- Favorite TV Comedy is 'Cheers'.
-- Favorite TV Drama 'L.A. Law'.
-- Favorite Male TV Performer is Bill Cosby.
-- Favorite Female TV Performer is Kirstie Alley.
-- Favorite Young TV Performer is Fred Savage.
-- Favorite Male Performer In A New TV Series is Burt Reynolds.
-- Favorite Female Performer In A New TV Series is Carol Burnett.
-- Favorite New TV Comedy is 'In Living Color', 'The Simpsons'.
-- Favorite New TV Dramatic Series is 'Equal Justice'.
-- Favorite TV Mini-Series is 'The Civil War'.
-- Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer is 'Bill Cosby'.
-- Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer is Julia Roberts.
-- Favorite New Song is 'Ice Ice Baby'.
- In 2011, An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The other event was the 'Chernobyl disaster', April 26 1986.
From Wikipedia: The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku was a magnitude 9.0 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tohoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 30 km (19 mi). The earthquake is also often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan earthquake (?????? Higashi nihon daishinsai?) and
also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have hit Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900. The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tohoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, travelled up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8
ft) east,shiftedthe Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in), and generated sound waves detected by the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.
'On 10 March 2015, a Japanese National Police Agency report confirmed 15,894 deaths, 6,152 injured, and 2,562 people missing across twenty prefectures, as well as 228,863 people living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in March
Food
National Frozen Food Month
National Noodle Month
National Nutrition Month
National Peanut Month
Health
Alport Syndrome Awareness Month
American Red Cross Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month
Endometriosis Month
Malignant Hypertension Awareness and Training Month
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
National Essential Tremor Awareness Month
National Eye Donor Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month
National Kidney Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Save Your Vision Month
Vascular Abnormalities Awareness Month
Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Animal / Pet
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month
Other
Credit Education Month
Employee Spirit Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science and Engineering Month
Honor Society Awareness Month
Humorists Are Artists Month
International Expect Success Month
International Ideas Month
International Mirth Month
Irish-American Heritage Month
Mad for Plaid Month
Music In Our Schools Month
National Cheerleading Safety Month
National Craft Month
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Kite Month (3/28-5/3)
National March Into Literacy Month
National Social Work Month
National Umbrella Month
National Women's History Month
Optimism Month
Play The Recorder Month
Women's History Month
Youth Art Month
March is:
March origin (from Wikipedia):
'The name of March comes from Latin Martius, the first month of the earliest
Roman calendar. It was named for Mars, the Roman god of war who was also
regarded as a guardian of agriculture and an ancestor of the Roman people
through his sons Romulus and Remus.
'
March
'is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere,
the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March.
The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of
spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the
Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the
Northern Hemisphere's March.
'
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