Ides of March, payphone, Clarabell the Clown
The Romans did not number days of a month from the first to the last day. Instead, they counted back from three fixed points of the month: the Nones (5th or 7th, depending on the length of the month) the Ides (13th or 15th), and the Kalends (1st of the following month). The Ides occurred near the midpoint, on the 13th for most months, but on the 15th for March, May, July, and October. The Ides were supposed to be determined by the full moon, reflecting the lunar origin of the Roman calendar. On the earliest calendar, The Ides of March would have been the first full moon of the new year.
The name of the first article in Reader’s Digest was “How to keep young mentally”.
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Albert Einstein said “The hardest thing to understand in the world is income tax?
The pinball machine was invented in Chicago.
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“In Old California” was the name of the first Hollywood movie released by D W Griffith in 1910.
Superhero Batman shares his name with a town in Turkey.
Denim has been in existence since 1695 and gets its name from the French town of Nimes where it was made as “serge de Nimes.”
On June 18, 1997, science finally came to grips with sandcastles as physicists at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, published their discovery of the "sandcastle effect." This solved the mystery of why sandcastles do not collapse when water in them has dried out.
Turtles mate at four in the afternoon and lay eggs at six.
Licorice has been around since ancient times and is believed to give vitality and longevity. Great quantities were found with the fabulous treasures of King Tut and other Egyptian rulers. The Chinese (dating back 5,000 years) maintained that eating the root would give them strength and endurance. In the early 16th century black licorice began to be cultivated in the monastery garden at Pontefract, England and later this became the center of the licorice confectionary industry.
March 3 is --- If Pets Had Thumbs Day
March 10 is --- International Find a Pay Phone Booth Day
March 14 is --- National Pi Day . Why today? Because today is 3.14, the value of Pi
March 26 is --- National Spinach Day
Chief Thundercloud was Chief of the “OORAGNAK” tribe. OORAGNAK
is kangaroo spelled backwards.
Clarabell the Clown (The Howdy Doody Show) never spoke on camera until the very last episode. After the closing credits, a drumroll was played, and Clarabell, holding back tears, softly said, …” Goodbye kids.
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