Lee Senior Center March 1–20 Are Pisces
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Page 4 March Horoscopes and Birthdays . In astrology, those born between Glenn Miller – March 1, 1904 Lee Senior Center March 1–20 are Pisces. Fish are Theodore Geisel – March 2, 1904 March 2017 compassionate, gentle, intuitive, Knute Rockne – March 4, 1888 and artistic. Known for their wisdom, Piet Mondrian – March 7, 1872 5722 Lee Highway, Arlington, Va. 22207 Pisces are not judgmental and are Sam Donaldson – March 11, 1934 Hours of Operation M Thru F 10-3 very forgiving. Those born between Liza Minelli – March 12, 1946 Tel. (703 228 0555) March 21–31 are Rams of Aries. As Billy Crystal – March 14, 1948 Office of Senior Adult Program/Department the first sign of the zodiac, Aries are Vanessa Williams – March 18, 1963 Of Parks and Recreation energetic and assertive initiators. Spike Lee – March 20, 1957 With bravery, zeal, and speed, they Joan Crawford – March 23, 1905 jump head first into life, confident Aretha Franklin – March 25, 1942 Celebrating that they can navigate any obstacles Eric Idle – March 29, 1943 History’s Winning Women or challenges. Octavio Paz – March 31, 1914 March The month of March is now The theme of Women’s History International celebrated throughout the world as Month this year is “Honoring Winning Women continued from pg. 1 Ideas Month Women’s History Month, but it all Trailblazing Women in Labor and Notable began as a school celebration in Business.” It has been widely Take Kate Mullany, a labor at Hornblower and Weeks, Inc., Women’s Sonoma, California, in 1978 reported how women experience organizer who founded one of the demanded the right to accompany Quotable History Month honoring International Women’s inequalities in working conditions, first women’s unions, the Collar male trainees on the floor, and went Day on March 8. Students spent opportunity, and pay in the Laundry Union, in 1864. on to enjoy a successful Wall Street “If you want Mad for Plaid the week learning about women’s workplace, and 2017 highlights something said, Laundresses worked long days career. In 1979, Lilly Ledbetter was contributions to culture and society many women who have striven to for low pay in sweltering conditions, hired as a supervisor for a Goodyear Month ask a man; if and were asked to write an essay on make gains in these areas. you want giving rise to the term sweatshop. Tire and Rubber plant. When she Write a Letter what it meant to be a “Real Woman.” continued on pg. 4 Mullany led a six-day strike that discovered that she was being paid something of The week culminated with a parade done, ask a helped improve pay and working thousands of dollars less than her through downtown Santa Rosa. Two conditions. A century later, in 1962, male counterparts, she fought the Appreciation woman.” years later, President Jimmy Carter the New York Stock Exchange did company to receive equal pay for Week proclaimed the week of March 8 - Margaret not allow women on the trading equal work. These women are but March 1–7 National Women’s History Week. By Thatcher, floor. Norma Yaeger completed a few examples of activists who 1986, fourteen states had declared politician the stockbroker training program have made life better for all women. International March Women’s History Month, and Bagpipe Day Seeing Daylight one year later, Congress made it March 10 a national designation. In 2005, President George W. Bush otherwise have been used for Button Week extended daylight saving time (DST) lighting the dark. DST in the United March 19–25 so that it would begin on March 12. States was unpopular and abolished All Thumbs Bush’s reasons for extending DST by Congress as soon as the war World mirrored the original intents of the ended. It took World War II for Humans’ opposable thumbs and climb and to eat. Chimps use their time change: to conserve energy. President Franklin Roosevelt to Storytelling Day two-pincer grip led the way for some thumbs to the greatest advantage: reinstitute DST, which he dubbed March 20 of our most important evolutionary using tools, foraging for food, and On March 31, 1918, DST was first “War Time,” as a year-long practice. advances. But what about our pets? building shelters. If cats had thumbs, enacted by the United States, Once again, at the close of the war, As Young as Consider the possibilites on March would they learn to use a can setting fixed time zones across DST was abandoned, with only a You Feel Day 3, If Pets Had Thumbs Day. opener? Would dogs throw a ball the country and allowing for more few states choosing to maintain the March 22 for themselves? Would hamsters sunlight hours in the evening. The practice. It wasn’t until 1966 that the Many animals have opposable build their own tube tunnels? Of U.S. was following Germany’s transportation industry pushed to Mothering thumbs, such as apes, opossums, course, the burning question is example. During World War I, formalize time zones and DST for Sunday pandas, koalas, and tree frogs. whether any of our pets would use Germany had enacted DST in order the sake of consistency. DST has March 26 What do these animals do with their their thumbs to help us around the thumbs? They use them mostly to house. Probably not. to conserve costly fuel that would been in place ever since. Page 2 Page 3 For the Record The Pilots of Tuskegee On March 15, Everything You records show that Vikings took On March 19, 1941, the U.S. War Congress in 1939 to train pilots. Think Is Wrong Day, we must take great pains to comb and wash their Department established the 99th President Franklin D. Roosevelt time to clear up some common hair, beards, and mustaches. Pursuit Squadron, which became authorized the enlistment of these misconceptions. It’s a day for us famously known as the Tuskegee black aviators, which led to an all- to wake up and smell the coffee. Napoleon was not short! He was Airmen. America’s first African black fighter pilot unit, trained at Let’s start there, by correcting the five feet two inches tall in French American pilots made up the the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. record on coffee. Many believe feet, which equals five feet seven squadron. African Americans had The pilots confronted racism at that espresso is pronounced inches in English measurements, hitherto been banned from high- home and put their lives on the line “expresso,” perhaps because it making him taller than the average ranking military positions, but abroad, but their success record Frenchman. His nickname of “The gives us a fast jolt of caffeine. In Three Tuskegee several historically black colleges was exemplary during World War Little Corporal” was not a jab at his truth, a shot of espresso contains airmen went on to joined the Civilian Pilot Training II, leading to President Truman’s small size, but a term of affection less caffeine than the average- become generals. Program, a program created by desegregation of the military. sized cup of coffee. However, a held for him by his soldiers. single shot of espresso does have Off the Menu a higher concentration of caffeine Albert Einstein did not fail math. When he saw a news story Many commonly than a similar-sized shot of regular This March 17, your St. Patrick’s Despite the wealth of Ireland’s suggesting this falsehood, Einstein believed facts are, in coffee, but not many people drink Day celebration may not feel corned beef trade, common Irish corrected the record by writing, fact, myths and such a tiny cup of coffee. complete without shamrocks, beer, could still not afford the dish and “I never failed in mathematics…. falsehoods. green dye, and a meal of corned relied on bacon as their staple Before I was fifteen I had mastered Vikings did not wear horns on their beef and cabbage. However, many meat. It wasn’t until they emigrated helmets. This depiction became differential and integral calculus.” Irish would be appalled to learn to America and found good-paying popular thanks to the operas of He did, however, fail his first that March 17 is Corned Beef jobs that they were able to afford German composer Richard entrance exam into the Swiss and Cabbage Day, in honor of this corned beef. Even then, the Wagner, where his villains wore Federal Polytechnic School, which traditional St. Paddy’s Day dish, corned beef eaten by the Irish in such silly headpieces. Vikings, he took two years early, despite for no self-respecting Irishman America was not Irish corned beef in fact, were well manicured. excelling on the math and science would eat such a dish. but Jewish corned beef, boiled with Archaeologists have uncovered sections. Like Einstein, take this cabbage and potatoes, sold by combs, tweezers, and nail cleaners day to correct some common In Ireland, beef was a food kosher butchers. So it was Irish from ancient Viking sites, and wrongs that many think are right. historically reserved for kings. Americans who transformed St. Cattle were far too valuable as Patrick’s Day from a religious feast draft animals or producers of dairy. A Spot of Tea Corned beef is a very day to a celebration of Irish culture Pork, not beef, was the country’s and in so doing adopted Jewish Keep your afternoon open on the four o’clock, long before dinner, unpopular dish in common meat. It wasn’t until the corned beef and cabbage as their third Tuesday in March for Tea for complete with finger sandwiches Ireland.