March 13th - Today is the 72nd day of the year, with only 293 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

Deaf History Month
Deaf History Month runs from March 13 (commemorating the 1988 victory of the Deaf President Now movement at Gallaudet University) to April 15 (commemorating the 1817 founding of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut).


"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.


THANKS TO: Marsha and

Crip Humor ~ By and For the Severely Euphemized.
- I'm not hard-of-hearing, I'm just ignoring you.
- Sign in hearing aid department: Over 5,000 ears of experience
- Deaf people who work on the railway have engine ears.
- They want to hold the 2007 Hard of Hearing convention in Yellville, Arkansas!
- A confirmed bachelor is one when a girl asks him for a diamond ring, he turns stone-deaf.
- Is a deaf fisherman hard of herring?
- Day broke as the deaf cowboy rode with his dog and herd.
- Real Headline >> Deaf Man Gets New Hearing in Hit and Run Trial
- Old interpreters never die, they just sign-off.
- I can no longer hear anything, said Tom deftly. [from GROANERS]
- Money may talk, but it seems to be hard of hearing when you call it.
- Kindness is a language the deaf can hear, the blind can see, and the mute can speak. (Family Circus)
- If blind people wear dark glasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?


ACTING -
1929 Peter Breck, Haverhill MA, actor (Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji)
1935 Leslie Parrish, Melrose MA, actress (Daisy Mae-Li'l Abner, Jocie-The Manchurian Candidate (1962))
1950 William H Macy, Miami FL, actor (Sahara, Seabiscuit, Dr. David Morganstern-ER)
1951 Fred Berry, St Louis MO, actor (Rerun-What's Happening) [D: 10/21/2003]
1953 Deborah Raffin, LA CA, actress (Ransom, Julie-7th Heaven)
1954 Robin Duke, St. Catharines Ontario, comedienne (SNL, SCTV, Club Paradise)
1956 Dana Delany, NY NY, actress (Colleen McMurphy-China Beach, Exit to Eden)
1971 Annabeth Gish, Albuquerque NM, actress (Monica-X-Files, Elizabeth Westin-West Wing)
1976 Danny Masterson, Albertson NY, actor (Steven-That 70's Show, Jimmy-Roxanne)

ARTISTIC -
1911 L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, Dana Delany NE, sci-fi writer/Scientologist (Dianetics) [D: 01/24/86]
1921 Allan "Al" Jaffee, Savanah GA, comic strip cartoonist/illustrator (MAD Magazine)

HISTORIC -
1770 Daniel Lambert, England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (336 kg) at death) [D: 06/12/1809]
1913 William J Casey, Queens NY, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal (1981-87) [D: 05/06/87]
1914 CDR Edward "Butch" O'Hare, St Louis MO, US Navy's first WWII flying ace/O'Hare Airport, Chicago IL [D: 11/27/43]

MUSIC -
1939 Neil Sedaka, Brooklyn NY, singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
1945 Michael Martin Murphey, Dallas TX, singer/songwriter (Wildfire)
1950 Steve Hill, country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
1960 Charles Adam Clayton, Chinnor England, bass player (U2-With or Without You)

SCIENCE -
1733 Joseph Priestly, Birstall England, clergyman/scientist (co-discovered oxygen) [D: 02/08/1733]
1855 Percival "Percy" Lowell, Boston MA, astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto) [D: 11/12/16]

SPORTS -
1886 John "Home Run" Baker, Trappe MD, hit 2 homeruns in 1911 World Series/HoF '55 [D: 06/28/63]
1925 Bertha Tickey, Dinuba CA, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1973)


1639  Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard.
1781  Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus).
1852  Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly.
1868  Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial.
1900  In France, length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
1923  Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York NY).
1925  Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution.
1943  Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata).
1957  The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery.
1961  JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress.
1961  Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37).
1991  The United States Justice Department announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Mother's Day - Georgia
Revolutionary Attack on the Presidential Palace - Cuba
Adelaide Cup / Volunteer's Day (South Australia) - Australia


DEAF GERMANS:
A young deaf American was taking a vacation overseas. He got a Eurail pass and toured Holland, France, Belgium, and a bunch of other places before ending up in Germany. At his first village, he went into a pub and there, off in the corner, were three older German gentlemen who were signing. They appeared to be deaf. The young man watched and figured he could understand the signs enough to carry on a conversation.

He got a beer and asked if they would allow him to join them, and they did. They chatted about this and that, and soon conversation gave way to how each of them became deaf. The first older German said, "Well, I was a soldier in WWII, and my platoon was hit by a big American mortar, and it exploded near my head, and I lost all my hearing." The American boy was kind of saddened by this. The second German went on:" I was in a U-Boat and my job was to listen for enemy ships. An American destroyer dropped a depth bomb on my ship, and it went off very close to it, and I lost my hearing as a result." Oh no, thinks the young American. How awful. The third German held forth: "I was in a plane, and we were struck by a bomb, and it went off right next to me, and it blew out my ears, and that is how I lost my hearing."

Well, that was just awful, the young American thinks. My country is indirectly responsible for these poor chaps going deaf. He was sad about this until they asked him how he became deaf. Smiling, he signed, "Well, before I was born, my mom got German measles."


The human race is so puny compared to the universe that being disabled is not of much cosmic significance. - Professor Stephen Hawking


ROCK CONCERT: Near deaf experience. (WordFoolery)

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