Quote o' the Day (and maybe the century)





Historically, the claim of consensus has been
the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Michael Crichton

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Happy St. Urho's Day

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Happy Buzzard's Day!

When they return to

Hinckley Point, OH!

OOO-Rah!










On this (auspicious) day

in 44 b.c., Big Julie got a

dagger right in the Rotunda!

(OUCH!)

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Woo-HOO! (woot woot)

Today is

Int'l Pi Day

To be celebrated properly on 3/14
@ 1:59:26 pm
in whatever time zone you
happen to be in.

Make some noise!

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Countdown:

4 days to the

Buzzards returning

to Hinckley Pt., OH

Countdown:

5 days until

St Urho's Day

(chased the grasshoppers from Finland)














Countdown:

6 days until

St. Patrick's Day

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Born this date, 1903:


Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke










Quote o' the day:

"Don't knock the weather.
If it didn't change once in a while,
nine out of ten people couldn't
start a conversation."

Kin Hubbard

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Born this date, 1910

Samuel Barber

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R.I.P. this date, 1869:

Hector Berlioz

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R.I.P. this date, 322 BCE:


Aristotle

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Countdown: 15 days until the buzzards
return to Hinckley Point, OH!

OOO-Rah!

Born this date, 1475:

Michelangelo

















R.I.P. This date, 1932:

John Philip Sousa

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On this date, 1942:

U.S. Navy Seabees established.

OOO-Rah!












R.I.P. This date, 1953

Sergei Prokofiev

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Born this date, 1678:

Antonio Vivaldi

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On this date, 1924:

Khalif Abdul Mejid II deposed

ending the 1400 year rein of the

Ottoman Empire.






Countdown: 12 days until the Ides of March
Don't let 'em get you in the Rotunda!

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On this date, 986:

Louis V, "the indolent"

becomes King of the Franks

(or was that Lord of the Wieners?)










Quote o' the day:

"Nobody ever went broke
underestimating the taste
of the American public."

H. L. Mencken

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Kalends of March

Whuppity Scoorie Day

Born this date, 1810:

Frederic Chopin

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