March 26th - Today is the 85th day of the year, with only 280 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

Duncan Hines Birthday
In 1880, American food writer Duncan Hines was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Some of his most famous books were "Adventures in Good Eating" and "Duncan Hines Dessert Book." In 1956, Procter & Gamble bought the rights to use his name for a line of cake, cookie, and brownie mixes.


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
LAST QUARTER - Mar 22   7:10 p.m.
NEW MOON - Mar 29   10:16 a.m.
FIRST QUARTER - Apr 5   12:01 p.m.
FULL MOON - Apr 13   4:41 p.m.


TOP 12 REJECTED COOKBOOK TITLES
12 Getting Even: Hillary's High-Fat Cookbook
11 The Frug Gourmet (by the cast of "Laugh-In")
10 Cooking to the Speed Metal Oldies
9 Bob Vila's Sawdust Cuisine
8 Cooking With The Enemy: Savory Recipes From Papua-New Guinea
7 Mud, Sticks, and Leaves: Cooking with a Four Year Old
6 Cooking with Condiments - An Apartment Dweller's Guide to Making Something Out of Nothing
5 101 Ways to Wok Your Dog
4 Everything's Yogurt ... Eventually!
3 Fugu for Dummies
2 Lions and Tigers and Beets, Oh My!
1 Newman's Stone: Cooking for Older Gall Bladders

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ACTING -
1923 Bob Elliott, Boston MA, comedian (Bob & Ray, Get a Life, Cabin Boy)
1931 Leonard Nimoy, Boston MA, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible)
1934 Alan Arkin, NY NY, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark)
1940 James Caan, Bronx NY, actor (Brian's Song, Killer Elite, Godfather)
1946 Johnny Crawford, LA CA, actor (Mark-The Rifleman) singer (Cindy's Birthday)
1949 Vicki Lawrence (Vicki Axelrad), Inglewood CA, actress (Carol Burnett Show, Mama's Family)
1950 Martin Short, Hamilton Ontario, comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos)
1957 Leeza Gibbons, Hartsville, SC, talk show host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza)
1960 Jennifer Grey, NYC, actress (Dirty Dancing, Ferris Bueller's Day Off)

ARTISTIC -
1874 Robert Frost, SF CA, poet/author-4 Pulitzer Prizes [D: 01/29/63]
1908 Betty MacDonald (Bard), Boulder CO, writer (Egg & I, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series) [D: '58]
1911 Tennessee Williams, Columbus MS, writer/dramatist (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) [D: 02/25/83]
1916 Mort Abrahams, NY NY, producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes)
1942 Erica (Mann) Jong, NY NY, author (Fear of Flying)
1943 Robert Woodward, Geneva IL, investigative reporter/writer (Watergate, CIA crimes)

HISTORIC -
1914 Gen William Westmoreland, Saxon SC, (commanded military ops-Vietnam era) [D: 07/18/2005]
1929 Thomas S Foley, Spokane WA, Rep-D-WA, 1965-94)/majority whip/Speaker of House
1930 Sandra Day O'Connor, El Paso TX, first woman Supreme Court Justice (1981-2006)
1953 Elaine Chao, Taipei Taiwan, 24th U.S. Secretary of Labor/first Asian-American woman
1973 "Larry" Page, Lansing MI, co-founder Google.com

MUSIC -
1944 Diana Ross (Earle), Detroit MI, (Supremes, Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany)
1948 Steven Tyler, Yonkers NY, singer/songwriter (Aerosmith-Home Tonight)
1950 Teddy Pendergrass, Philadelphia PA, singer (Turn Off the Lights)
1968 "Kenny" Chesney, Luttrell TN, country singer/songwriter (No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem)

SCIENCE -
1905 Viktor Frankl, Vienna, neurologist/psychiatrist (developed Existential Analysis) [D: 09/02/97]
1911 Sir Bernard Katz, Leipzig Germany, biophysicist (nerve synapses-Nobel '70) [D: 04/20/2003]
1938 Sir Anthony Leggett, London England, physics (superfluidity-Nobel 2003)

SPORTS -
1934 Gino Cappelletti, Keewatin MN, AFL running back/radio announcer (AFL MVP 1964)
1937 Wayne Embry, Springfield OH, holder of 7 basketball records (Miami of Ohio)
1940 Braulio Baeza, Panama City, jockey (National Horse Racing Hall of Famer)


1845   Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of Band-Aid.
1863   Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves.
1885   Eastman Film Co manufactures first commercial motion picture film.
1943   First woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott).
1945   Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine.
1953   Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
1956   Medic Alert Foundation forms.
1970   500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945.
1970   Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark.
1979   Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, DC.
1982   Ground-breaking in Washington DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1999   A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Day of Democracy - Mali
Independence Day - Bangladesh
Mothering Sunday - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland
Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana'ole Day (Hawaii) - United States of
America
Youth Day Vietnam
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Khordad Sal (Fasli) - Zoroastrian
Laetare Sunday - Christianity


RETURN COMMENTS
An amateur photographer was invited to dinner with friends and took along a few pictures to show the hostess. She looked at the photos and commented, "These are very good! You must have a good camera."

He didn't make any comment, but, as he was leaving to go home he said, "That was a really delicious meal! You must have some very good pots."


Most vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children. A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussels sprouts never do. - P. J. ORourke (The Bachelor Home Companion)


SHORT ORDER COOK: Grilly man. (WordFoolery)

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