March 21st - Today is the 80th day of the year, with only 285 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

Spring Equinox 3/20/06
Lore and Rituals by Selena Fox
Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara, occurs in the middle of March. It marks the beginning of Spring and the time when days and nights are of equal length. The Goddess manifests as Ostara or Eostre with her basket of eggs. She is accompanied by the Hare or Rabbit, a manifestation of the God. Green has been sacred to this Sabbat since ancient times, because it represents the greening of the land with vegetation. This is a festival of new growth.


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
FULL MOON - Mar 14   11:35 p.m.
LAST QUARTER - Mar 22   7:10 p.m.
NEW MOON - Mar 29   10:16 a.m.
FIRST QUARTER - Apr 5   12:01 p.m.


From the Home Office in Wahoo, Nebraska, it's the Top Ten List for April 8, 1997
TOP TEN SIGNS YOUR HOME NEEDS A SPRING CLEANING
10. Someone asks, "What died in here?" ...and you show them.
9. Dust on TV screen gives everybody comical Andy Rooney eyebrows.
8. When you win the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes, Ed McMahon refuses to get out of the van.
7. The so-called "Dust Bunnies" have sharp, snapping teeth.
6. Your house gets hit by a twister and it actually looks better.
5. Guests take one look at your bathroom and decide to use the backyard.
4. When someone from the health department rings your doorbell, you say, "Not again!"
3. Every time you turn on a faucet, you hear a muffled barking sound.
2. Even Robert Downey, Jr. refuses to sleep on your floor.
1. You've been receiving death threats from Mr. Clean.
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SPECIAL PEOPLE -
195X Leigh Little, wife/mother/grandmother/spa owner AND my best friend for 45+ years!! Happy Birthday!

ACTING -
1880 Broncho Billy Anderson (Max H. Aronson), Little Rock AK, actor/writer/director western films [D: 01/20/71]
1929 James Coco, NYC, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death) [D: 02/25/87]
1944 Timothy Dalton, Colwyn Bay Wales, actor (James Bond-Living Daylights, License to Kill)
1958 Gary Oldman, New Cross England, actor (Sirius Black-Harry Potter movies)
1962 Matthew Broderick, NY NY, actor (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, WarGames, Biloxi Blues)
1962 Rosie O'Donnell, Commack NY, comedienne/actress (League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie)

ARTISTIC -
1869 Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Chicago IL, the Ziegfeld Follies [D: 07/22/32]
1905 Phyllis McGinley, Ontario OR, poet (Pulitzer 1961, Love Letters) [D: 02/22/78]

HISTORIC -
1713 Francis Lewis, Wales, signed Declaration of Independence [D: 12/30/1803]
1904 Forrest Edward Mars Sr., MN, inventor of M&M's [D: 07/01/99]
1906 John D Rockefeller III, NYC, billionaire philanthropist (oil) [D: 07/10/78]

MUSIC -
1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach Germany, composer (Matthäus-Passion) [D: 07/28/1750]
1945 Rose(mary) Stone, Vallejo CA, vocalist/pianist (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
1950 Roger Hodgson, Portsmouth England, rock vocalist (Supertramp-It's Raining Again)

SCIENCE -
1929 Jules Bergman, space and science reporter/editor (ABC-TV) [D: 1987]
1932 Walter Gilbert, Boston MA, biochemist/molecular biology pioneer ('80 Nobel-sequence of nucleotides in a nucleic acid)

SPORTS -
1918 Howard Cosell (Cohen), Winston-Salem NC, sportscaster (Monday Night Football) [D: 04/23/95]
1960 Ayrton Senna da Silva, São Paulo Brazil, Formula One race champion [D: 05/01/94]


1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State.
1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California.
1871 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia; it started with an accusation of pig-stealing and lasted 20 years.
1928 Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
1935 Persia officially renamed Iran.
1947 President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States.
1963 Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
1965 Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1970 The first Earth Day proclamation was issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
1980 President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
1985 Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
MORE EVENTS


SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Anniversary of Installation of Sultan of Terengganu - Malaysia
Día de Nacimiento de Benito Juárez (Birthday of Benito Juárez) -
Mexico
Human Rights Day - South Africa
Independence Day - Namibia
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination -
International
Mother's Day - Syria
National Tree Planting Day - Lesotho
Navrus - Tajikistan
Nawroz (New Year's Day ) - Afghanistan
Nevruz Day - Albania
Nooruz (Persian New Year) - Iran, Kyrgyzstan
Nov Ruz Bairam - Turkmenistan
Shunbun no Hi / Vernal Equinox Day - Japan
Spring Day - Iraq
Spring Season Opens - Switzerland
Youth Day - Tunisia
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Alban Eiler (Equinox) (Northern Hemisphere) - Celticism
Alban Elued (Equinox) (Southern Hemisphere) - Celticism
Feast of Naw-Ruz (Bahai New Year) - Baha'i
Hola Mohalla - Sikhism
Mabon - Autumnal Equinox (Southern Hemisphere) - Paganism
Nawroz (New Year's Day) - Zoroastrian
Ostara - Spring Equinox (Northern Hemisphere) - Paganism
Shunbun no Hi / Vernal Equinox Day - Shinto


MISSING CAT
My aunt's neighbor in New York had a beautiful black cat, named Felix, who spent his days outside and came indoors at night.

One cool October evening, he disappeared. The neighbor searched for him in vain for several days. The following spring however, Felix reappeared, looking healthy and clean. She figured he's been out sowing his wild oats.

Everything was back to normal until that autumn, when Felix disappeared again. The next spring, he returned. Perplexed, my aunt's friend began asking neighbors for clues.

Finally, she rang the bell of an older couple who lived down the street. "A black cat?" the woman said. "Oh, yes! My husband and I hated to see him out in the cold, so we bought a cat carrier. We take him to Florida with us every winter."


Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" - Robin Williams


BOTTLED WATER: Spring loaded. (WordFoolery)

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