March 11th - Today is the 70th day of the year, with only 295 days remaining in 2006.
Mars' Month - March was the original beginning of the year, and the time for the resumption of war.
March Flowers: Daffodil or Jonquil [Yellow] -  Affection, Cheerfulness, Desire, Grants Wishes, New Beginnings, Respect, and Sympathy
March Birthstone: Aquamarine, Bloodstone - Courage

Eat an Apple Day
Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), who planted apple trees all over the old Northwest Territories, died on March 11, 1847. He was born on September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts. Also known as Johnny Appleseed Day. Remember: An apple a day keeps the doctor away.


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
FIRST QUARTER - Mar 6   8:15 p.m.
FULL MOON - Mar 14   11:35 p.m.
LAST QUARTER - Mar 22   7:10 p.m.
NEW MOON - Mar 29   10:16 a.m.


YOU REALLY KNOW YOU'RE A FARMER WHEN:
- Your dog rides in your truck more than your wife.
- You convince your wife that an overnight, out-of-state trip for equipment parts is a vacation.
- You wear specific hats to farm sales, livestock auctions, customer appreciation suppers, and vacations.
- You have ever had to wash off in the backyard with a garden hose before your wife would let you in the house.
- You've never thrown away a 5-gallon bucket.
- You have used baling wire to attach a license plate.
- You have used a chain saw to remodel your house.
- You can remember the fertilizer rate, seed population, herbicide rate and yields on a farm you rented 10 years ago, but cannot recall your wife's birthday.
- You have fibbed to a mechanic about how often you greased a piece of equipment.
- You have used a velvetleaf plant as toilet paper.
- You have driven off the road while examining your neighbors crops.
- You have borrowed gravel from the county road to fill potholes in your driveway.
- You have buried a dog and cried like a baby.
- You have used a tractor front-end loader as scaffolding for roof repairs.
- You've used the same knife to make bull calves steers and peel apples.


ACTING -
1898 Dorothy Gish (de Guiche), Dayton OH, stage and silent film actress (Orphans of the Storm)
1934 Sam Donaldson, El Paso TX, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time)
1958 Mary Anissa Jones, W Lafayette IN, child actress (Buffy-Family Affair) [D: 08/28/76]
1961 Elias Koteas, Montréal Canada, actor, (Casey Jones-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
1963 Alexandra Kingston, London England, actress (Elizabeth Corday-ER, Moll Flanders)
1981 David Anders, Grants Pass OR, actor (Julian Sark-Alias)
1989 Anton Yelchin, Saint Petersburg Russia, actor (Milo-Delivering Milo, Tommy-House of D)

ARTISTIC -
1914 Ralph Ellison, OKC, writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Act) [D: 04/16/94]
1950 Jerry Zucker, Milwaukee WI, director (Airplane!, Ruthless People)
1952 Douglas Adams, Cambridge England, author (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) [D: 05/11/2001]

HISTORIC -
1731 Robert Treat Paine, Boston MA, judge, signer Declaration of Independence [D: 05/11/1814]
1931 Rupert Murdoch,

Australia, publisher (New York Post), CEO FOX-TV Network
1936 Antonin Scalia, Trenton NJ, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986- )

MUSIC -
1908 Lawrence Welk, Strasburg ND, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show) [D: 05/17/92]
1950 Bobby McFerrin, NYC, cappella singer (Don't Worry, Be Happy)
1981 LeToya (Luckett), Houston TX, R&B singer/Grammy Award winner (Destiny's Child-"Bills Bills Bills)

SCIENCE -
1811 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, Saint-Lô France, co-discovered Neptune [D: 09/23/1877]
1879 Niels Bjerrum, Copenhagen Denmark, chemist (ph tests) [D: 09/30/58]
1890 Vannevar Bush, Everett MA, pioneering concept of World Wide Web, developed first analogue computer [D: 06/30/74]
1956 Curtis L Brown Jr, Elizabethtown NC, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, 95)

SPORTS -
1885 Malcolm Campbell, Chislehurst England, first to drive an automobile over 300mph (304.331 - 1935)
1973 Tony Veland, Omaha NE, NFL defensive back (Broncos-Superbowl XXXII)/coach-Omaha Beef
1974 Bobby Abreu, Maracay Venezuela, right-fielder (Astros, Phillies) All-Star 2004-2005/Golden Glove 2005


1702 The first regular English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published in London.
1824 The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1861 The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1888 The Great Blizzard of '88 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia.
1927 First armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh.
1953 First woman Army doctor commissioned (FM Adams).
1958 Starting this season, American League batters are required to wear batting helmets.
1985 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader.
1993 Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space.
2003 The International Criminal Court is founded in The Hague.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Birthday of the Sultan of Selangor - Malaysia
Commonwealth Day - Tuvalu
Restoration of Lithuania's Statehood - Lithuania


GOD IS WATCHING
Children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic school for lunch.  At the head of the table was a large pile of apples.  The nun made a note, "Take only one. God is watching."

Moving through the line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.  A boy wrote a note, "Take all you want. God is watching the apples."


The trap is man's armored character structure and there's only one way out of it. It's not drugs and it's not religion and it's not politics. It's going back to the old apple tree and trying to do better than Adam and Eve did. - Orson Bean


MICROSOFT VS APPLE: War of nerds. (WordFoolery)

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