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MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2021 On This Date 1872 – Yellowstone National Park Quote of the Day was established as the world’s first national park. “A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought 1896 – French physicist Antoine to have a personality.” Henri Becquerel accidentally discovered radioactivity while working ~ Glenn Miller with photographic plates. 1953 – After a night of heavy drinking, Joseph Stalin suffered a Happy Birthday! stroke in his sleep. Guards were Glenn Miller (1904–1944) was an under orders not to disturb him and American swing era bandleader, left him alone until the following trombonist, and composer who grew night. He died several days later. up in Clarinda, Iowa. Some of his 2010 – The Vancouver Olympics most popular songs include “In the ended with Canada winning 14 gold Mood,” “A String of medals, the most for any country in Pearls,” “(I’ve Got a any Winter Olympics. Gal in) Kalamazoo,” and “Little Brown Jug.” From 1939 Did You Know? to 1942, he was the best-selling recording artist. In The tongue is the strongest muscle roughly four years, he racked up in the body, and controlling it 69 top 10 hits—more than both the requires the use of many brain Beatles (33) and Elvis Presley (38). cells. People often bite or stick In 1942, Miller volunteered to serve out their tongue when focusing in World War II with the U.S. Army. to try and free up those brain Sadly, his aircraft was lost over the cells for thinking. English Channel in 1944.

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ONDAY ARCH M , M 1, 2021

Today is Casimir Pulaski Day, celebrating the Polish-born American Revolutionary War hero. As the first leader of the U.S. cavalry, he fought for

American independence for just two years before he was shot during battle.

Root of the Matter Wild Kingdom

Have egg on your face The crested or maned rat of

If someone tells you that you have egg East Africa is a bushy-tailed rodent on your face, then you have made a that resembles a small striped serious mistake that has embarrassed porcupine or a skunky puffball. But you or made you look foolish. The this animal has a far more dangerous expression originated in the mid-1900s defense strategy than spiny quills or and most likely referenced malodorous spray. It is the world’s unsatisfied audiences that only poisonous rodent, harboring a threw eggs at actors who toxin in its fur so lethal that it could performed poorly. Director kill an elephant. The rodent does not Alfred Hitchcock provided an early use produce the poison itself but instead of the expression when he told Ingrid chews the bark of the poison arrow Bergman that she had egg on her face tree, mixes the poison with its saliva, during shooting. He used the term and then applies it to thick hairs to describe a vaguely embarrassed that absorb the poison. The rats expression she wore after standing too themselves seem immune to the long before the camera without a line. lethal toxins.

Riddle Me This Word Scramble

Until I am measured, I am not I R T L U C A known. Yet how you miss me

when I have flown. What am I? To cut short, reduce, or diminish CURTAIL ANSWER:

Time ANSWER:

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TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021 On This Date 1729 – Playing cards signed by the Quote of the Day governor of Quebec were used for “American people have the money due to a shortage of printed ability to laugh at themselves. bills to pay troops in New France. It is one of the things that 1933 – The movie King Kong makes this country the premiered at Radio City Music Hall in great country that it is.” New York City. The film was notable for Willis O’brien’s groundbreaking ~ Desi Arnaz stop-motion animation, Max Steiner’s musical score, and actress Fay Wray’s role as the ape’s love. Happy Birthday! 1944 – For the first time, the Oscar Desi Arnaz (1917–1986) was a ceremony was held at a large public Cuban American actor, comedian, venue, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. and musician. Born Jack Benny served as master of in Cuba, his affluent, ceremonies for the event. politically prominent family fled to Miami 1962 – Basketball following the Cuban great Wilt Chamberlain Revolution of 1933. scored 100 points in a After learning English in high single game. The record school, Arnaz became an entertainer. still stands. He’s best known for playing Ricky News of the Word Ricardo on the iconic 1950s sitcom I Love Lucy with his wife at the time, In 2018, the Merriam-Webster comedienne Lucille Ball. He and Ball Dictionary added several creatively pioneered the lucrative business of abbreviated words to its pages, syndicated reruns, making big profits including faves, adorbs, in the process. He was the bandleader and guac. of the popular Desi Arnaz Orchestra.

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UESDAY ARCH T , M 2, 2021

Today is Dr. Seuss Day, celebrating the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel. Before becoming a famous author of children’s books, Geisel worked in

advertising for companies like Ford, General Electric, and Standard Oil.

Who Am I? Only Human

I was born into a family of eleven When our third molars children and received just an (known as wisdom teeth) elementary school education. I moved come in, they often crowd to the city, where I worked as a the other teeth around them. That handyman, earning enough money doesn’t sound very wise. So why do to hire a private tutor. When I began we have wisdom teeth? Back when work at a sewing machine factory, our human ancestors ate a diet of my eyes opened to machinery and rough food like nuts, roots, and tough invention. I improved the sewing meats, we needed these extra molars machine and made enough money to to help grind down this food. As work on my own. I went on to invent a humans learned how to cook and hair straightener, a “breathing device” innovated utensils like knives, that would become a gas mask for wisdom teeth were rendered obsolete. soldiers during World War I, and Furthermore, as our brains grew

even the three-position traffic light.

bigger, the amount of space in our

Morgan Garrett Who am I? ANSWER: mouths shrunk, leaving no place for

the third molars to fit. Wisdom teeth remain vestigial organs—body parts Buy a Vowel that are now virtually functionless.

_ P _ N _ _ N

Punny Business

A personal view or judgment

OPINION ANSWER: ANSWER: Long fairy tales have a tendency to dragon.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2021 On This Date 1921 – University of Toronto doctors Inspirational Quote Frederick Banting and Charles Best officially announced their discovery “Age is no barrier. It’s of insulin. This medical breakthrough a limitation you put has saved millions of lives. on your mind.” 1965 – The New York Times gave ~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee glowing reviews to the newly released film The Sound of Music, starring Canadian actor Christopher Plummer as Captain von Trapp. Happy Birthday! 1991 – In Vancouver, Celine Dion Jackie Joyner-Kersee, born in 1962, won the Juno Awards for Best won three Olympic Album and Best Female Vocalist, gold medals. She also George Fox won Best Male Country won silver and bronze Vocalist, and Colin James won medals. The track star Single of the Year. is considered one of the Sports Trivia greatest heptathletes of all time. Before The modern women’s heptathlon the Olympics, Joyner- has seven different events: Kersee was a starting basketball • 100-meter hurdle player for UCLA. Since retiring • High jump from professional sports, she has devoted herself to philanthropy through • Shot put her eponymous foundation. She is a • 200-meter run dynamic speaker and advocate for • Running long jump education, racial equality, and women’s rights. Sports Illustrated named Jackie • Javelin throw Joyner-Kersee “the greatest female • 800-meter run athlete of the 20th century.”

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EDNESDAY ARCH W , M 3, 2021

Today is World Wildlife Day. This holiday is meant to promote awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants. This year’s theme promotes our connection

to wildlife with “Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet.”

Eye in the Sky The Games People Play

For over 50 years, Puerto Rico’s Alice Springs, in Australia’s Northern Arecibo telescope was the largest Territory, is a region known for its of its kind in the world. Scientific desert plains, rocky gorges, and instruments weighing about 900 tons rugged mountains—the hung from cables over a gargantuan gate-way to Australia’s dish resting like a shallow bowl in the Outback. Alice Springs jungle. Yet just before the new is also home to the year, the cables snapped, and the Camel Cup, an annual camel racing telescope was destroyed. Since 1963, competition that attracts 5,000 guests Arecibo has guided America’s greatest each year. The race has become so discoveries of space. For many popular that a dedicated camel racing scientists, the loss of the famed track was built at Blatherskite Park in telescope was incalculable. For Puerto 1979. The excitement builds as riders Rico, it was like losing a beloved and spectators wait for the notoriously national monument. unpredictable animals to start racing. While some camels gallop willingly, Word Wise it is not uncommon for others to snarl, Which word is not like the others? bite, or even race in reverse.

Hagia Sophia Taj Mahal Name Three

Can you name three flowers that St. Peter’s Notre Dame

the others are houses of worship. of houses are others the

begin with the letter D? daffodil, daylily, dandelion daylily, daffodil,

The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum; mausoleum; a is Mahal Taj The ANSWER:

dahlia, daisy, daisy, dahlia, : S ANSWER POSSIBLE

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THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2021 On This Date 1791 – The Constitutional Act was Reality Check introduced in the British House of “Writing for me is largely Commons. The bill divided Quebec about rewriting.” into Upper and Lower Canada. ~ Khaled Hosseini 1918 – The USS Cyclops vanished in the Bermuda Triangle. All 309 souls aboard were lost, and the wreck has never been found. Happy Birthday! It’s the single largest loss of life in Khaled Hosseini, born in 1965, U.S. Naval history not involving spent his youth in Afghanistan. direct combat. He moved to the United States in 1950 – Cinderella was released. It 1980. He was working as a doctor was Walt Disney’s first full-length in California when he read a news animated feature in eight years. article reporting that the Taliban The film received three Academy had banned kite flying. Hosseini, Award nominations. who remembered his childhood love of kites, was 1982 – Bertha Wilson was inspired to write his appointed as the first woman to sit first novel, The Kite on the Supreme Court of Canada, Runner. The book as Ontario Court of Appeal Justice. was wildly popular, She retired from the court in 1991. spending two years at the top of the New York Times Best Sellers list. The story was also Aquatic Trivia made into a movie and a stage play. Virtually all barramundi fish are Hosseini followed with three more born male. After a few years, some successful novels. He is dedicated turn into females. The fish is to providing humanitarian aid to the considered a culinary delicacy. people of Afghanistan.

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HURSDAY ARCH T , M 4, 2021

Today is International Scrapbooking Industry Day. During the Renaissance Era, scrapbooking was strictly a practice of the educated upper classes. Paper was so

scarce and precious that only the rich could afford to keep personal notebooks.

Centennial Memories Think-tionary

On this day 100 years ago, the U.S. imbrication

Congress approved the creation of the A. To make a fool out of someone Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in by correcting them in public Arlington National Cemetery. Officials or strove to find a soldier of unknown background, race, or religion—it was B. Uniformly overlapping like the

imperative that the Unknown Soldier scales of a fish

represent both no one in particular and shingles. roof of imbrication NSWER: B. My dad taught me the proper proper the me taught dad My B. NSWER: everyone. On November 11, 1920, A both England and France interred When Was It? unknown soldiers with full military honors. On November 11, 1921, It was during this year that DVDs were America’s unknown soldier would be first launched in the United interred at Arlington after lying in state States. The WNBA played in the Capitol rotunda. its first game in Los Angeles. After 117 years in business, the Whatchamacallit? Woolworth company closed its doors. What do you call a group Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car of rabbits? accident in Paris. The New York Times published its first color photograph on litter fluffle its front page, and the Toyota Prius, the

scurry gang first mass-produced electric car, went

FLUFFLE

ANSWER: on sale. When was it? 1997 ANSWER:

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FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2021 On This Date 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus’ book In 1898… On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, which claimed that Earth When Misao Okawa was born and other planets orbited the sun, (see below), the Spanish- was banned by the Catholic Church. American War was raging, Australia was just signing its 1770 – Five men were killed and six wounded in a clash between constitution, and the British British troops and colonists. The began their 99-year lease of incident is now known as the Hong Kong. Boston Massacre. 1960 – Elvis Presley was discharged from the army. Despite being Happy Birthday! offered the chance to enlist in Special Services to entertain the Misao Okawa (1898–2015), of troops, he decided to serve as a Japan, lived to be 117, making her regular soldier. a supercentenarian. She was proclaimed 1966 – Newspapers reported that the “World’s Oldest Studebaker would close its last car Person” by the factory in Canada. The factory had Guinness Book of been used to build Larks, Hawks, World Records in and a few trucks. 2013. Her only husband died in 1931 at the age of 36. Okawa walked until age 110, and then got around Pink Toilet Paper? in a self-propelled wheelchair. She Until the 1970s, American toilet had four grandchildren and six paper was often dyed. The goal great-grandchildren. Okawa credited was to match your toilet paper “great-grandchildren, sushi, and to your bathroom décor. sleep” for her longevity.

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RIDAY ARCH F , M 5, 2021

Today is the Day of Unplugging. For 24 hours, we are all encouraged to disconnect from electronic devices. Can we go one day without our smartphones,

tablets, computers, and televisions? Get connected to the people in your life.

You Are What You Eat Gadgets & Gizmos

While there is much debate as to their true origins, most everyone agrees that Scotch eggs are not Scottish at all. Scotch eggs are hardboiled eggs wrapped in sausage, coated in breadcrumbs, and baked or deep-fried. Some argue that Scotch eggs were invented in London’s The Flare audio company has Fortnum & Mason luxury store in developed an inconspicuous set of the 1700s, an aristocratic snack for ear inserts called Calmer that help the rich. Others say they originated dampen sounds of certain frequencies. in Whitby, along the Yorkshire By dampening these stress-inducing coast, at William J. Scott and Sons, frequencies and reducing distortion, where they were called “Scotties” Calmer both keeps us calm and and covered in fish paste rather than improves the audio quality of the sausage. Scotch eggs enjoy renewed sounds we want to hear. popularity after years of disrepute.

Who Said So? Word Scramble This French playwright, a L W A D E D contemporary of Molière, said, “There are no secrets that time

To move slowly and waste time

DAWDLE ANSWER: ANSWER: does not reveal."

Racine Jean ANSWER:

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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2021 On This Date 1834 – The town of York, with Quote of the Day a population of 9,000, became “How do I love thee? incorporated as the City of Toronto. Let me count the ways.” The name Toronto is likely derived from the Iroquois word tkaronto, ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning meaning “place where trees stand in the water.” 1899 – Bayer registered “aspirin” as Happy Birthday! a trademark. Aspirin is derived from Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806– the bark of a willow plant, which 1861) was an English Native Americans had used to treat poet of the Victorian fever, pain, and other ailments era. The eldest of for centuries. 12 siblings, Browning 1990 – An SR-71 “Blackbird” began writing as a aircraft set a transcontinental speed child. Many of her record flying from Los Angeles to early poems have Virginia in 64 minutes. The plane survived. She became ill as a teen, averaged 2,124 miles per hour. ultimately suffering from lifelong head and spinal pain. The prolific Romantic writer published her first poetry collection for adults in 1838. Through her work, she advocated for improved conditions for child laborers and the end of slavery. Her wildly successful 1844 book, Did You Know? Poems, caught the attention of fellow Crushed aspirin mixed with water writer Robert Browning. The couple makes an acne-reducing and married in secret, defying her father, exfoliating face mask. and moved to Italy.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2021

Today is Frozen Food Day. The ability to freeze fresh food has transformed the way we eat. Foods are quickly frozen over a few hours at temperatures as

low as –320 degrees F, preserving both vital nutrients and pleasing tastes.

Picture of the Day Garden Party

Forests don’t just exist on land. Massive kelp forests grow underwater along the coastlines of many of the world’s oceans. Like the mighty redwoods, some giant kelp strands grow as tall as 250 feet. Kelp is one of the fastest-growing plants in nature, growing up to two feet per day if conditions are right. Like rainforests on land, kelp forests harbor tremendous biodiversity, “His mom told him he needed to take with thousands of species calling the a time out and cool off.” long strands of algae home. Kelp is

Now it’s your turn to come up with a used by humans, too, for food, good caption. medicine, even to make toothpaste and shampoo. Word to the Wise Buy a Vowel The dictionary has added the word amirite as an informal variant _ X _ C _ R B _ T _ spelling of the phrase, “Am I right?” This is spoken to elicit agreement or To worsen something that

is already bad

EXACERBATE solidarity from someone you’re ANSWER: speaking to. Pretty silly, amirite?

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SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2021 On This Date 1908 – The mayor of Cincinnati, An Artist on Art Ohio, Mark Breith, told the city council, “Women are not physically “Art is not made for anybody fit to operate automobiles.” and is, at the same time, for everybody.” 1939 – Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians recorded their signature ~ Piet Mondrian tune, “Auld Lang Syne.” 1955 – Peter Pan, starring Mary Martin, was televised on NBC. She Happy Birthday! had originated the role on Broadway in 1954. The television show was Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was a singled out in the 1956 Emmys as Dutch painter and pioneer of abstract the best program of the year. art. The artist is known for his geometric grid paintings composed 1965 – Roman Catholic churches in of blocks of primary colors separated Canada celebrated Mass in English by black lines. His stark work could and French for the first time. Prior to be seen as cold or impersonal. Rather, this date, Latin was required. Mondrian sought to simplify the spiritual nature of the universe into an The Best Fashion Show accessible language Yves St. Laurent’s of pure shape and 1965 collection color. In 1965, Yves of shift dresses, St. Laurent copied inspired by Piet these emblematic Mondrian’s paintings onto shift dresses, and now, artwork, was an like plaid or paisley, the Mondrian immediate and pattern can be found on anything enduring success. from shoes to wrapping paper.

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SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 2021

On this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was awarded a patent for an invention he called the telephone. A few days later he made the first telephone

call to his partner Thomas Watson, saying, “Mr. Watson, come here. I need you.”

Silver Memories Fashion of Yesteryear

On this day 25 years ago, scientists In the 14th century, women living in first saw images of the surface of the Ottoman Empire wore kabkabs. Pluto that were taken by the Hubble These were tall, wooden Space Telescope. For decades, Pluto shoes, almost like flip-flops appeared as nothing more than a with stilts. They were worn to distant fuzzy dot to astronomers. At raise the feet from the dirt on last, scientists had several pictures of the streets. Kabkabs were especially Pluto’s entire surface. The photos common in public bathhouses, where were taken in June and July of 1994, they were worn to protect feet from over the course of a week. During scalding water, hot stone floors, and that period, the Hubble telescope was dirty bathwater. The wooden shoes 2.7 billion miles away from Pluto. It were often embellished with carvings took nearly two years for those photos and inlaid with mother-of-pearl and to be analyzed and prepared for gold or silver. The name kabkab came viewing by scientists at NASA. from the clacking sound of the shoes on marble floors.

Word Wise High Five Which word is not like the others?

constable sheriff Can you name the five largest cities

in Mexico by population?

million 1.32 Juárez, Ciudad

mayor marshal 5. million;

Guadalajara, 1.49 million; 4. Puebla, 1.43 1.43 Puebla, 4. million; 1.49 Guadalajara,

officers. enforcement law are others the

3. million; 1.65 Morelos, de Ecatepec 2.

A mayor is a town administrator; administrator; town a is mayor A ANSWER:

million; 8.85 City, Mexico 1. ANSWER:

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MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2021

Happy Women’s Day Quote Women’s Day! “A woman is like a teabag—you never know Celebrated since 1911, International how strong she is until Women’s Day is a global celebration she gets in hot water.” of the economic, political, and social achievements of women past, present, ~ Eleanor Roosevelt and future. On This Date Happy Birthday! 1855 – The first locomotive Josephine Cochrane (1839–1914) successfully crossed John Roebling’s was fed up with bridge over the Niagara River. It was maids who chipped the world’s first suspension bridge her china when to carry trains. washing dishes. So, 1928 – Halifax Pier 21, known as the Illinois socialite “Canada’s Front Door,” opened set out to make a as an immigration center in Nova dishwashing machine in her shed. Scotia. The entry point for one in In time, she invented a machine five Canadians, Pier 21 closed in that could wash 240 dishes in just 1971 and today houses the Canadian two minutes. Cochrane debuted Museum of Immigration. her ingenious invention at the 1893 World’s Columbian Expo in Chicago. She won first prize and Pull Over Please soon began receiving orders for her dishwashing machine from fancy Policewomen in Russia are restaurants, hotels, colleges, and known to stop female drivers and hospitals. It would be another fifty give them a flower to celebrate years before dishwashers became International Women’s Day. common in everyday homes.

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ONDAY ARCH M , M 8, 2021

Today is International Women’s Day, a day celebrating the political, social, economic, and cultural achievements of women. Recognizing that the fight for

equality is far from over, this year’s theme is “Choose to Challenge.”

50 Years Ago Today Root of the Matter

On this day 50 years ago, Joe Frazier Not my cup of tea took on Muhammad Ali in a title fight If something is not my cup of tea, known as the “Fight of the Century” then it is disagreeable or unpleasant. at Madison Square Garden in The phrase originated in New York City. In 1967, Ali had England with a positive refused induction into the army as connotation. The British a conscientious objector and was adore their tea, and it was not long banned from boxing. Meanwhile, before British slang incorporated the Frazier had become the heavyweight term into many idioms, such as tea and champion. To gain publicity before sympathy and Not for all the tea in the match, Ali insulted Frazier. China. As early as 1908, people would Frazier was a former ally and friend of call a good friend with a lively or Ali, but the insults were too much to invigorating nature a cup of tea. In the bear. The fight lived up to the pre-bout 1930s, people began calling enjoyable hype and became one of the most pastimes a cup of tea. It wasn’t until legendary sporting events of all time. World War II that the negative Frazier won by decision, but Ali connotation, not my cup of tea, entered would win the next two rematches. common usage. Word Scramble Riddle Me This M S R W A If you drop me, I’m sure to crack.

Fly together in a large group Give me a smile and I’ll smile back.

SWARM ANSWER:

mirror A ANSWER:

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TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2021 On This Date 1862 – The CSS Virginia, a captured Quote of the Day and rebuilt Union steam frigate, “I could have gone on flying engaged the through space forever.” USS Monitor in the first battle ~ Yuri Gagarin between iron-fortified naval vessels. The battle ended in a draw but was considered a victory for the Union. Happy Birthday! 1959 – The Barbie doll made its (1934–1968) was the debut at the American International Yuri Gagarin first person to travel into outer space. Toy Fair in New York. On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Air 1970 – Pierre Elliott Trudeau Forces pilot and cosmonaut orbited opened the first ever Arctic Winter Earth in the space capsule Vostok Games in Yellowknife, NWT. The 1, a trip that took under two hours. 50th-anniversary event scheduled This accomplishment earned him for March 2020 had to be cancelled international acclaim and the title of due to the coronavirus pandemic. Hero of the Soviet Union. After his Did You Know? spaceflight, Gagarin served as deputy training director of the Cosmonaut The origins of the word jazz are Training Centre. Tragically, he unknown. Some linguists believe it died in a plane crash while aboard derived from the slang word jasm, a MiG-15 training jet. Following which meant energetic and spirited, his death, the city or that it had French roots. The of Gzhatsk near his first time jazz appeared in print hometown village was in a sports column, wherein of Klushino was a baseball player referred to renamed Gagarin in his new “jazz pitch.” his honor.

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UESDAY ARCH T , M 9, 2021

Today is Unique Names Day. When you think about it, every name is unique in its own special way. Today is a day to share the meaning of your name and

the story of how you got it. What is the story behind your name?

Wild Kingdom Where Am I?

Scientists have long suspected that Climbing these famous stairs is illegal an undiscovered species of monkey since the trek was deemed unsafe might live in the remote forests of several decades ago. That Myanmar, based on DNA analysis of doesn’t stop tourists from the droppings of wild monkeys. What furtively ascending this they found was a small band of breathtaking walkway that previously unknown langur monkeys traverses a Hawaiian mountain ridge at living on and around Mount Popa, a heights of over 2,000 feet. The stairway long-extinct volcano. Lucky for the was built as part of a secret Navy radio monkeys, Mount Popa is protected as station in 1942, decommissioned and a nature reserve, national park, and left for ruin in 1987, and finally sacred pilgrimage site. Atop the repaired in 2003. Local landowners are 5,000-foot mountain is a Buddhist bothered by sneaky trespassers hiking monastery and temple complex known the 3,922 steps that are known as the as Taung Kalat. Hopefully, the 200 Popa Stairway to Heaven thanks to their langurs will continue to live in peace. unparalleled view of the valley below.

Where am I?

Haiku Stairs, Oahu, Hawaii Oahu, Stairs, Haiku ANSWER:

Buy a Vowel

K _ M _ N _ Riddle Me This

A long robe with wide sleeves Why are ghosts bad at lying?

and a broad sash them. through

KIMONO ANSWER:

see right right see can you Because ANSWER:

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1876 – The first discernible speech transmitted over a telephone system “I’d be prouder still to say I occurred when was Canada’s 10th woman Alexander Graham prime minister.” Bell summoned his assistant in another ~ Kim Campbell room by saying, “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you.” Happy Birthday! 1880 – Commissioner George Kim Campbell, born in 1947, was Scott Railton and seven female the 19th prime minister of Canada. officers from the English Salvation She served in the position from Army brought the organization to June 25 to November 4, 1993. New York City. Campbell was appointed prime 1949 – Mildred Gillars, a.k.a. “Axis minister upon Brian Mulroney’s Sally,” was convicted of treason for early retirement from his term. She broadcasting Nazi propaganda on the had previously served as minister of Home Sweet Home radio program justice, pioneering during World War II. An American legislation in gun living in Berlin, Gillars said she was control and sexual frightened into compliance. She later assault laws. Her served 12 years in a U.S. prison. 1996 autobiography is titled Time and Chance. Campbell Daily Trivia currently leads Canada’s Supreme Court Advisory Board. She also The ATM machine at the Vatican speaks widely on issues related to offers the option of navigating leadership, gender, climate change, your transaction in Latin. and Canadian/American relations.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2021

Today is the International Day of Awesomeness. How do you celebrate such a day? By being awesome of course. Still confused about how to celebrate? Look to

Chuck Norris for an example. After all, he was the inspiration for the day’s creation.

Only Human Think-tionary

parsimonious When we suffer from a cold or congestion, we notice that one A. Unwilling to spend money; nostril gets stuffy at a time. What we frugal and stingy often fail to notice is that when we or are healthy, our nostrils take turns

B. Grudgingly unanimous; in total

throughout the day. This is known agreement but with reservations

as our nasal cycle. Nostrils split the parsimonious. famously are and poverty NSWER: A. My grandparents grew up in in up grew grandparents My A. NSWER:

workload of inhaling and exhaling A air, as well as alternating congestion Toys of Yesteryear and decongestion. Every few hours, our autonomous nervous system Any child of the 1980s is familiar with switches from one nostril to the Rainbow Brite, the colorful girl who other. Breaks are important for dominated television and the nostrils. It helps them not dry up toy aisle. Rainbow Brite was from the constant and important job born not at a toy company, of humidifying and filtering the air. but at Hallmark, which was hoping to break into the licensing Word Scramble business with a popular children’s character. Hallmark developed the R G E D E D characters, backstory, and TV storylines,

choosing Mattel to make the toys and

Scoop out the bed of a river

DREDGE ANSWER: French studio DIC Entertainment to animate the hit show.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1835 – George Kingsmill was named the High Constable of Toronto. He “Bernie is my brother. We’ve proceeded to set up the first formal shared so many happy, fun police force in Canada. times together doing what 1918 – The Spanish flu was first we both love most.” reported in the U.S. The disease ~ Alex Lifeson, guitarist of the would claim the lives of more than band Rush 20 million people worldwide. 1935 – The Bank of Canada first opened its doors in Ottawa. Happy Birthday! 1947 – Ottawa-born Barbara Ann Bernie LaBarge, born in 1953, is an Scott received a award-winning Canadian musician ticker-tape parade who grew up in Ottawa and Ontario. in Toronto after As a kid, he found inspiration in the winning the World Beatles, especially in how George Figure Skating Harrison played the Championship. A guitar. LaBarge soon year later, she won learned to play the an Olympic gold medal. guitar himself from listening to records. Over a successful You Don’t Say! 50-plus year career, High heels were originally worn he has served as a frontman for many by Persian men during the tenth bands, including Sweet Blindness, century. The heel helped secure Stingaree, and The Dexters, and their feet in stirrups, allowing them released his own music. The 1981 to shoot a bow and arrow while hit song “Dream Away” is one of his riding a horse. most popular tunes.

©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles (U.S.) THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2021 Today is Johnny Appleseed Day. While some celebrate on September 26, Appleseed’s birthday, today is often preferred because it is the start of the seed planting season. Follow Appleseed’s example and sow seeds to grow an orchard!

Gadgets & Gizmos Eye in the Sky Last year, astronomers identified an object entering Earth’s orbit that would circle the planet like a “mini-moon.” Researchers named the object Asteroid 2020 SO, but many had a hunch that it was not a rocky asteroid at all, but a leftover For those folks nostalgic for the days rocket booster. In 1966, the Centaur of cassette players, when you had to rocket that was used to power the insert a tape to hear something play, Surveyor 2 lunar lander blasted off there is the Yoto Player. Kids simply past the moon and went into orbit near insert a cartridge into the top slot to the sun, never to be seen again… until hear books, stories, or music that has recently. If it were an asteroid, it been carefully curated just for them. would be considered a mini-moon, Best of all, the audio is clear with no but since it was confirmed to be steel, ads, no camera, and no microphone. it is just another piece of space junk. Buy a Vowel Who Said So? B _ _ Z _ This founder of modern nursing said, “I attribute my Green wool used to cover card success to this: I never gave

and billiard tables

: BAIZE : ANSWER or took an excuse.”

Nightingale Florence : S ANSWER

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FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2021 On This Date 1672 – François Dollier de Casson Quote of the Day laid out Montreal’s main street, which he named Rue Notre-Dame. “I started being a songwriter Today, the street provides the city’s pretending I could do it, best antique shopping. and it turned out I could.” 1923 – Dr. Lee de Forest, a ~ James Taylor renowned father of the electronic age, proved that sound could be put on Happy Birthday! a motion picture James Taylor, born in 1948, is an film. Phonofilm, his acclaimed American singer-songwriter. revolutionary invention, is known The musician, who was born in today as a soundtrack. Boston, now calls Chapel Hill, North Carolina, home. Taylor started his 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi began career in 1966 and is now one of the his famous Salt March to protest best-selling musicians of all time. oppressive salt taxes in India. The folk-rock legend has won five Gandhi and his followers attempted Grammy Awards and sold more to thwart British policy by making than 100 million albums. He has their own salt out of seawater. recorded numerous iconic anthems Daily Trivia and covers, including “Fire and Rain,” “You’ve Got a Friend,” and Random House’s Modern Library “How Sweet It Is (to compiled a list of the 100 best Be Loved by You).” novels written in English. Ulysses In 2000, Taylor was by James Joyce holds the number inducted into the one post. Number two is The Great Rock and Roll Hall Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. of Fame.

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RIDAY ARCH F , M 12, 2021

Today is Middle Name Pride Day. Middle names originated during the Middle Ages. Families gave children a first name after a family member or saint. A middle

name was an additional personal name bestowed upon the child during baptism.

50 Years Ago Today The Games People Play

On this day 50 years ago, two Morocco’s Marathon des Sables is paintings were stolen during the often called the “toughest footrace on burglary of the Palazzo Vecchio Earth.” It is a six-day in Florence, Italy. Among the ultramarathon that covers stolen paintings was Masaccio’s 156 miles, roughly the masterpiece, Virgin and Child. The distance of six regular robbery was the first in a series of art marathons. What is more, it is not run heists throughout Italy during the on pavement or a track, but over the week. A group of environmental sand dunes of the Sahara Desert. activists would later write a letter to Temperatures have been known to the Rome newspaper Paese Sera reach 122 degrees Fahrenheit, and explaining that the paintings were runners must take all the supplies they stolen in protest of the air and water need to survive on their backs. For pollution plaguing Tuscany. The many, the Marathon des Sables, or group said they would return the MdS for short, is a life-changing event. paintings only if 10 polluting factories were closed. Word Wise

Which word is not like the others? What’s in a Name? fenugreek juniper This famous Chicago magician

cardamom fennel

spices are seeds. are spices and follower of bizarre magic

Juniper is a berry; the other other the berry; a is Juniper

was born Tom Palmer. ANSWER:

Tony Andruzzi Tony : ANSWER

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SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2021 On This Date 1639 – The New College was renamed Quote of the Day Harvard College for clergyman “The true musician is to bring John Harvard. Today, it is the oldest light into people’s hearts.” institution of higher learning in the U.S. and one of the most prestigious ~ Bobby McFerrin in the world. 1781 – German-born English astronomer William Happy Birthday! Herschel discovered Bobby McFerrin, born in 1950 the planet Uranus. in New York City, is an American The giant planet is jazz vocalist. The son of acclaimed the seventh from singers Robert McFerrin and Sara the sun and, unlike Copper, he is known for his superb other major planets, vocal control and for mixing musical is tipped sideways on its axis styles and genres, including jazz, of rotation. rock, soul, and a cappella. McFerrin 1877 – Teenager Chester Greenwood often improvises, scatting and of Farmington, Maine, received a creating songs as he patent for earmuffs. performs them. He also uses his vocal 1927 – Canada’s old-age pension cords to imitate the bill received Royal Assent. The sounds of many maximum pension was $20 per musical instruments. month for Canadians over age 70. In 1988, McFerrin’s Daily Trivia song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” was a surprise hit. He and his wife, The mark you make on top of the Debbie, have three grown children, lowercase letters i and j is each of whom is involved in acting called a tittle. and/or music.

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ATURDAY ARCH S , M 13, 2021

Today is Genealogy Day. Researching your personal genealogy is the second-most popular hobby after gardening. Tracing your family tree is easy

and rewarding these days thanks to the Internet and modern DNA kits.

You Are What You Eat Mystery to Me

Idaho may be famous Ten years ago, art dealer Forrest Fenn for its potatoes, but wrote a personal memoir. In it, he most Idahoans proudly explained how his battle with cancer proclaim that the state’s inspired him to hide a real-life treasure most famous dish is chest in the wilds of the Rocky Idaho finger steak. Beef is cut into Mountains holding $2 million worth finger-length strips, battered, and of gold, jewelry, and gemstones. Hints then deep fried until golden and were dropped throughout the pages crispy. Locals attribute the dish to of his book. Treasure hunters quickly Mylo Bybee, a U.S. Forest Service picked up the chase. Over the years, chef who developed the dish many have failed to find the treasure, while working in Idaho’s central and some have even died in its mountains. He popularized the dish pursuit. Last December, 32-year-old when he opened his own restaurant, Jack Stuef finally found the loot but Mylo’s Torch Lounge, in Boise in the has vowed to keep the location a secret 1950s. They are traditionally served to preserve its tranquility. with cocktail sauce or fry sauce, a mixture of mayonnaise and spices. Buy a Vowel

Who Said So? R _ C _ P _ _ N T This writer of great American rom-coms said, “Above all, be the Someone who

receives something

RECIPIENT ANSWER: heroine of your life, not the victim.”

: Nora Ephron Nora : ANSWER

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SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1900 – The Gold Standard Act of the United States was enacted, “At the end of the day, making gold the only standard for if I can say I had fun, redeeming paper money. The statute it was a good day.” was repealed in 1933. ~ Simone Biles 1935 – Six-year-old actress Shirley Temple pressed her hands in cement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Happy Birthday! in Los Angeles. After first winning attention with a Simone Biles was born in 1997, in song and dance in Columbus, Ohio. Biles discovered the movie Stand gymnastics by accident during a Up and Cheer! school field trip when she was six (1934), Temple years old. She has since become a beat out Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, mind-blowing force in her sport. In and Ginger Rogers to become the 2016 Olympic games, Biles won America’s biggest box office draw. a record-breaking four gold medals. In October of 2018, 1964 – A Dallas jury found Jack Biles was rushed to Ruby guilty of the murder of JFK’s the emergency room assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. due to kidney stones. Less than 24 hours later, at a world Did You Know? championships event, Biles pulled off a stunningly hard vault skill that To have a skill named after you in is now the second move named “the gymnastics, it has to be original and Biles.” Many of her peers, as well as executed in a world championship the media, refer to her as the greatest meet or in the Olympics. gymnast ever.

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UNDAY ARCH S , M 14, 2021

Today is Mothering Sunday. This holiday has fallen on the fourth Sunday of Lent ever since the Middle Ages. Originally, the holiday was a religious event

honoring the “mother church,” but it has since evolved to honor motherhood.

Picture of the Day Bookworm

When this book appeared in 1890, it was criticized for offending public morality. In it, a young man has his portrait painted, in which he looks beautiful and young. A local aristocrat convinces the young man that beauty is everything in this world, so the young man sells his soul so that his portrait will age while he remains young and beautiful. As he Mom was last seen traveling east embarks on a life of hedonism, his on highway 9 at 5 mph. portrait changes into something ugly, reflecting his real life. The young man Now it’s your turn to come up regrets too late his vanity and destroys with a good caption.

the picture. What book is it?

Wilde Oscar

by by Gray, Dorian of Picture The : Word to the Wise ANSWER

The suffix -ish has become its own word in the dictionary. Ish, as a word Word Scramble by itself, means “kind of” or “almost.” It could be used as a reply to someone N R E G T A asking if you are hungry: “Ish,” as in

A hard, dark red stone

GARNET “hungry-ish,” or not really hungry but ANSWER: only kind of hungry.

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MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day Beware, the Ides “I’ve been doing this kind of of March! thing since I was 18, and it rolls right off my back.” Today is the Ides of March, notorious as the date that Julius Caesar, ~ Marjorie Merriweather Post dictator of the Roman Republic, was assassinated in 44 BC. This marked the beginning of a civil war that Happy Birthday! resulted in Augustus becoming the first Roman emperor. Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887– 1973) inherited Postum Cereal Also on This Date Company (later General Foods) at age 27. The company 1892 – The escalator was patented thrived under her by Jesse W. Reno. Reno later teamed leadership, and the up with Elisha Otis, of elevator fame. astute businesswoman Follow the Diamonds grew the family fortune exponentially. Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Post was the first female board 35-carat diamond earrings were member of a major American donated to the Smithsonian in corporation, as well as a generous 1964. Marie Antoinette was their philanthropist. Her donations funded original owner. After her death, the Kennedy Center and many they were gifted to Empress medical clinics during World War I, Eugenie of France, who sold them and she willed one of her mansions to Duchess Tatiana of Russia. to the Smithsonian Museum. Post is They ended up with jeweler also known for building Mar-a-Lago, Pierre Cartier, who reset which was purchased in 1985 by them for Mrs. Post. U.S. President Donald Trump.

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ONDAY ARCH M , M 15, 2021

Today is the Ides of March. Long before the Ides of March became infamous due to the assassination of Julius Caesar, it was a religious holiday.

The ides, or middle, of each month were days devoted to the god Jupiter.

Wild Kingdom Root of the Matter

For years, scientists have been puzzled Get on swimmingly about why pandas stain their fur brown If two people get on swimmingly, then with fresh horse manure. The lovable they enjoy an easy friendship free of black and white bears are very difficulty or disagreement. The term thorough. After rolling in the manure, swimmingly was used in the 1620s to they use their paws to mean “with steady, smooth progress” scrub it into every patch or “in an easy, gliding manner,” and of fur to make sure they even “to bear with conspicuous haven’t missed a spot. success.” All definitions were related After more than a decade of research, to the imagery of gliding gracefully scientists finally discovered that pandas through the water. One early usage of only perform this strange practice the term was in 1622 in a stage play when temperatures are freezing. It where one character asked, “Can such turns out that certain chemicals in the a rascal as thou art, hope for honor?” manure numb the bears to the cold. The rascal replied, “Yes…and bear Since pandas do not hibernate, this is it swimmingly.” the next best strategy to help them survive the winter. Word Scramble

H I L D T E G Punny Business

Great pleasure and enjoyment

DELIGHT My portrait was just sent to jail, ANSWER: but I swear it was framed!

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TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2021 On This Date 1844 – A patent for “a new and Quote of the Day improved harpoon for the destruction and taking of whales” was issued to “I told the doctor I broke Albert Moore. An explosive device my leg in two places. He was cleverly contained in the tip of told me to quit going the harpoon. to those places.“ 1850 – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The ~ Henny Youngman Scarlet Letter was published. The novel was widely read and discussed among the general public. Happy Birthday! 1867 – Joseph Lister published the first of a series of articles in Henny Youngman (1906–1998) was The Lancet on his discovery of a popular comedian antiseptic surgery. and violinist famous for one-liners with 1963 – Peter, Paul and Mary released interludes of violin their third song, the iconic single playing. His career “Puff, the Magic Dragon.” as a comedian began while working at a print shop, where Youngman penned Celebrity Trivia and published a large number of “comedy cards” containing one- Henny Youngman’s classic line line gags that were sold at the shop. “Take my wife, please” was This work brought Youngman, who originally genuine: he had simply became known as “the king of one- asked an assistant to find his wife liners,” to the attention of a young a seat. When his request was taken comedian by the name of Milton as a joke (and got big laughs), he Berle. Youngman’s autobiography is began using the line in his act. entitled Take My Life, Please!

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UESDAY ARCH T , M 16, 2021

Today is St. Urho’s Day. St. Urho is a fictional Finnish saint created by Richard Mattson, the owner of Ketola’s Department Store in Minnesota. Mattson

made up the saint as a tribute to Finnish Americans and to compete with St. Patrick.

Think-tionary Only Human

usufruct The human heart beats an average of A. The right to use or profit from 70 to 85 times per minute. The male another’s property as long as it heart rate is 70 to 72 bmp, is not altered or damaged while the female rate is or between 78 and 82 beats.

B. The extraction of fruit sugars to Why are women’s heart rates higher create healthy alternatives to than men’s? It all has to do with heart

cane sugar size. Women typically have smaller

apples of the nearby orchard by usufruct. usufruct. by orchard nearby the of apples hearts than men. A smaller heart

the the sell and harvest could I that unaware

was pumps less blood with each beat and I home, my purchased I When A. NSWER: A so needs to beat more times per Who Am I? minute to carry blood through the human body. The heart is a muscle, Legends tell of how I performed many and like any muscle, it strengthens miracles during my youth, including with training. Exercise often lowers healing and feeding the poor and the heart rate of both men and women. turning water into beer. I founded monasteries and inspired many to Buy a Vowel devote their lives to God. I founded a school of art, and it was my _ N T _ R T _ _ N _ R scriptorium that made the Book of Kildare, an illuminated Gospel. I One who performs for the

amusement of others

ENTERTAINER remain one of Ireland’s patron saints. ANSWER:

Kildare of Brigid

Who am I? ANSWER:

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2021 Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Quote of the Day Did you know? Queen Elizabeth I wanted Irish chiefs to occupy their “Luck is believing own lands under title from her. you’re lucky.” Cormac McCarthy, the Lord of ~ Tennessee Williams Blarney, tactfully handled every royal request by promising loyalty to the queen without fully giving in. Elizabeth later described similar sweet-talking blather as “a lot of Happy Birthday! Blarney”; thus, the famous phrase. Marjory Shedd (1926–2008) was On This Date a Canadian sports phenomenon who played badminton, basketball, and 1958 – Vanguard 1 was launched volleyball. Shedd won a total of 23 into orbit. The three-pound sphere Canadian National Championship was the second satellite launched titles in badminton (six in singles, 12 by the United States and the first in women’s doubles, to use solar cell power. Although and five in mixed communication was lost in doubles). The gifted 1964, it is the oldest satellite still athlete also played orbiting Earth. Vanguard 1 is on several Canadian expected to remain in orbit for national basketball another 180 years. and volleyball championship teams and played in the 1967 Pan American Games. Shedd was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1970. She coached badminton and volleyball at the University of Toronto from 1964 to 1991.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2021

Today is St. Patrick’s Day. The shamrock so often associated with the holiday was considered sacred to the Celts and a symbol of rebirth during the

spring. St. Patrick used the clover’s three leaves to explain the Holy Trinity.

Garden Party Eye in the Sky

Five years ago, a team of Czech It was a little over 50 years ago that botanists was on an expedition the United States put the American to the mountain region of Ladakh flag on the moon. In later lunar in northern India. Working at such missions, astronauts would plant a high altitude was hard. The five more U.S. flags. Last researchers suffered fatigue and December, China became sickness and could work only a only the second nation to couple of hours each day. Yet they plant a flag on the moon. found a type of plant adapted to that China’s robotic Chang’e-5 mission harsh environment. Six species of also collected soil samples and lunar cushion plant, each no larger than a rocks. Flags planted on the moon coin, lived at over 20,000 feet thanks must be uniquely constructed to to a natural antifreeze that prevented them from dying in the extreme cold. withstand freezing temperatures. Even with special construction, though, These are the world’s highest plants. they are not likely to last long. Whatchamacallit? Radiation from the sun is likely to turn What do you call a group any flag’s colors white. of parrots? Riddle Me This zeal fracas You will buy me to eat but

pandemonium mob

PANDEMONIUM ANSWER: never eat me. What am I?

A plate A ANSWER:

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THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2021 On This Date 37 – Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Quote of the Day was declared emperor of Rome. “Aim at the highest and you 1836 – Hudson’s Bay Company will arrive at something paddle wheel steamer SS Beaver above mediocrity, aim at arrived at the Columbia River after mediocrity, and you will a trip from England via Cape Horn. fall below it.” It was the first steamboat on the Pacific Coast. ~ Maude Abbott 1924 – The Thief of Baghdad, starring Douglas Fairbanks, opened. Happy Birthday! 1931 – A new grooming device, the electric razor, was marketed for the Maude Abbott (1869–1940) was first time by Schick. a physician and heart pathologist who attended McGill University on a scholarship. However, she was turned down when she applied to the university’s medical 1990 – In the largest art theft in U.S. school because she history, 13 paintings, collectively was a woman. She worth around $500 million, were went on to graduate stolen from the Isabella Stewart with honors from Bishop’s Medical Gardner Museum in Boston. The College. Abbott set up a practice for artwork has never been recovered. women and children in Montreal, Daily Trivia? where she gained fame for her work on congenital heart diseases. In 1910, Montreal is the world’s Abbott was appointed lecturer in second-largest French-speaking pathology at McGill eight years before city after Paris. female medical students were admitted.

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HURSDAY ARCH T , M 18, 2021

Today is Awkward Moments Day, but there’s no need to blush. A blush is a response triggered by adrenaline. Adrenaline coursing through our veins causes

capillaries to widen, allowing blood to rush to the surface of our skin.

What’s the Difference? You Are What You Eat

What’s the difference between While many Americans are familiar regular molasses and blackstrap with Hot Pockets, those microwaveable molasses? Molasses is made from turnovers, real Nebraskans love runza. crushing sugarcane, boiling off excess Similar to a hot pocket, a runza is a yeast water, and keeping the sweet syrup dough bread pocket traditionally filled that is left behind. Sucrose crystallizes with beef, cabbage or sauerkraut, into sugar. The mineral-rich syrup is onions, and seasonings. It is very similar molasses. Light or dark molasses has to a German bierock, a a sugar content of around 70%. yeasted pastry sandwich Continued boiling concentrates the with savory ingredients. mixture even more, carbonizing Sally Everett of Sutton, Nebraska, is credited with inventing in the sugars and turning the molasses the 1940s both the food and its name, into a thick, dense, and salty sludge taken from the Low German word that has a sugar content of only 45%. runsa, meaning “belly.” Runzas are so This is blackstrap molasses. popular in Nebraska that there is a chain of fast-food restaurants with the name. Buy a Vowel Who Said So? _ N V _ S _ V _ This English statesman and Lord Undesirable, harmful, and Protector said, “Nature can do

quickly spreading more than physicians.”

INVASIVE ANSWER:

Cromwell Oliver ANSWER:

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FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021 Today is… Quote of the Day “Fast is fine, but accuracy St. Joseph’s Day, the day when the is everything.” swallows traditionally return to ~ Wyatt Earp Mission San Juan Capistrano in southern California. On This Date 1931 – The Nevada state legislature Happy Birthday! voted to legalize casino gambling Wyatt Earp (1848–1929) was a and “quickie” divorces. legendary American Old West 1954 – Willie Mosconi set a world lawman and deputy marshal in record by running 526 consecutive Arizona Territory. Earp famously balls without a miss during a straight participated in—and walked away pool exhibition. unscathed from—the notorious gunfight at the O. K. Corral, one 1954 – Air Force Lt. Col. John Stapp of his many Wild rode a rocket sled that subjected him West shoot-’em-up to a force of 22 times that of gravity. outlaw encounters. 1990 – The first world ice hockey The lifelong gambler tournament for women was held in also had many of his Ottawa. The championship series own run-ins with the continues to this day. Canada holds law, for offenses including theft, 10 world titles. fighting, and running a brothel. A jack- of-all-trades, Earp was also a boxing Daily Trivia referee, buffalo hunter, saloon keeper, The original Plymouth colony and miner who chased his fortune in consisted of 102 settlers. boomtowns across the American West.

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RIDAY ARCH F , M 19, 2021

Today is when the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano in California. Legend says that hundreds of migrating swallows, returning from Argentina to

find their nesting site destroyed, took up residence in the Capistrano Mission.

The Games People Play Mad Science

Munich, the home of Oktoberfest, is Scientists have long been working on also home to the sport of Kastenlauf, a way to restore vision to the blind. or “crate-running.” What kind of Researchers at the Netherlands crates, you ask? Beer crates, of Institute for Neuroscience believe course. The rules are fairly simple. they have come one step closer to this Teams of two carry a goal. They created a brain implant crate of beer over a route loaded with electrodes that stimulate that varies in length from the part of the brain that processes 3 to 8 miles long. The visual information. Monkeys were first team to cross the able to perform several tasks using finish line after drinking all the beer this artificial vision to see shapes, in their crate is the winner. Typically, lines, dots, and letters. Scientists are race routes lead to Munich’s famous hopeful that this technology will beer festivals. The races are often restore functional sight to those who held with pageantry and fanfare to cannot see. mark each festival’s opening day.

High Five Word Wise Which word is not like the others? Can you name the five tallest dams

in the United States? Chinook Destroyer

(California), 645 feet 645 (California),

(Arizona), 710 feet; 5. New Bullards Bar Bar Bullards New 5. feet; 710 (Arizona), Corvette Frigate

Dworshak (Idaho), 717 feet; 4. Glen Canyon Canyon Glen 4. feet; 717 (Idaho), Dworshak warships. naval are others

Hoover (Arizona/Nevada), 726 feet; 3. 3. feet; 726 (Arizona/Nevada), Hoover

A Chinook is a helicopter; the the helicopter; a is Chinook A ANSWER:

1. Oroville (California), 770 feet; 2. 2. feet; 770 (California), Oroville 1. : ANSWER

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SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2021 Spring Begins Today! Quote of the Day “All of us have special ones who have loved us into being.” ~ Fred Rogers On This Date 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Happy Birthday! classic book was published. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, subtitled Life Among Fred Rogers (1928–2003), who is the Lowly, became an instant known to generations of kids and success, selling 300,000 copies in parents as Mister Rogers, was a three months. celebrated children’s television personality. Rogers was also a 1883 – Jan Matzeliger, from present- Presbyterian minister. The talented day Suriname in South America, musician, puppeteer, received a patent for and writer was the a machine that could creator and host of attach the upper part the masterful TV of a shoe to the sole. series Mister Rogers’ His machine could Neighborhood, which produce 700 pairs ran from 1968 to 2001. The show of shoes a day. emanated a message of kindness, Spring Trivia empathy, curiosity, and common decency, while delving into the The first day of spring is called sometimes emotionally fraught the vernal equinox—vernal for real-world concerns of his viewers. “spring” and equinox for “equal Rogers received the Presidential night,” meaning it is approximately Medal of Freedom in 2002 and a equal to the daytime hours. Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 1997.

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ATURDAY ARCH S , M 20, 2021

Today is Worldwide Quilting Day. Some of the oldest surviving quilts are not blankets, but stuffed chest protectors sewn by Chinese warriors around 3000 BC.

The oldest quilt still in existence is the Tristan Quilt, sewn around 1360 AD.

Weather or Not Gadgets & Gizmos

On the morning of July 18, 1942, the skies were already dark above Smethport, Pennsylvania, after a night of rain. But the storm suddenly intensified. Thunder crashed and lightning flashed as bolts jumped from cloud to cloud. The rain fell not in drops or sheets, but in what some Nike has developed a new running described as a “stream.” People shoe called the Air Zoom Alphafly, feared that they would drown in the which is loaded with technology that rain because they could not breathe will help runners shatter records. In air. Ten inches of rain fell over five 2019, a runner wearing this shoe ran hours across 2,000 square miles, with the first sub-two-hour marathon. It has some places recording 14.8 inches of carbon fiber, foam, and giant air rainfall. The Great Smethport Rain of pockets that reduce the energy lost 1942 was likely the greatest rain ever when the foot strikes the ground. to fall outside the tropics. Buy a Vowel Who Said So?

This writer of ancient Greek _ R _ G _ N _ L

tragedies said, “Not knowing

First or earliest; not a copy

anything is the sweetest life.” ORIGINAL ANSWER:

Sophocles ANSWER:

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SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 2021 On This Date 1804 – Napoleon introduced France Quote of the Day to a new legal framework, known as the Napoleonic Code, “Real courage is knowing to replace feudal laws. what faces you and The Code stressed knowing how to face it.” clearly written and ~ Timothy Dalton unambiguous laws. Historians have called it “one of the few documents that have influenced the whole world.” Happy Birthday! 1997 – U.S. talk show host Oprah Timothy Dalton, born in 1946, is Winfrey surprised guest Céline an English actor who starred as the Dion by flying in her parents and all iconic MI6 spy James Bond in The of her 13 brothers and sisters from Living Daylights (1987) and License Québec. Dion sang two numbers to Kill (1989). His turns as 007 were with her family. highly successful; however, legal 1999 – The first nonstop, around-the- disputes between the movie studio world balloon flight was completed and production company derailed when pilots Brian Jones of England his planned additional films as Bond. and Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland Dalton was inspired to pursue acting landed in Cairo, Egypt. at age 16 after seeing a performance of Movie Quiz Macbeth. He worked Q: What film contains the famous line in theater and “If you build it, they will come”? then moved on to television and film, A: 1989’s Field of Dreams. starring in multiple The line is in reference to period dramas, including Wuthering constructing a baseball field. Heights, Jane Eyre, and Scarlett.

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UNDAY ARCH S , M 21, 2021

Today is the International Day of Forests. In many ways, trees provide the foundations for life itself. Trees clean the air and water, shelter living things, and provide us with food, oxygen, shade, and tranquil spaces.

Picture of the Day Wild Kingdom

When a 36-year-old Asian elephant named Kaavan lost his partner in 2012, he and was dubbed the “world’s loneliest elephant.” To make matters worse, Kaavan lived in Pakistan’s Marghazar Zoo, where poor living conditions were common. In 2016, American pop star Cher began a campaign to relocate Kaavan. When The yogi was shocked to discover the zoo closed in late 2020, Kaavan the trees doing a new “tree pose.” and Cher’s wish came true. The elephant was moved to a wildlife Now it’s your turn to come up sanctuary in Cambodia, where he with a funny caption. now lives in a massive jungle Word to the Wise enclosure with three other elephants for company. The word janky was added to the dictionary, meaning “of extremely Word Scramble poor or unreliable quality.” It is a term often used by computer engineers to N R D I B G A describe sluggish software, but it is A bandit who robs travelers in now used as a general slang term, as

the mountains and forests

BRIGAND in the phrase, “Our janky tour bus ANSWER: barely made it back to the hotel.”

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MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2021 On This Date 1894 – The Montreal Hockey Club Quote of the Day beat the Ottawa Generals to become “Realizing you’re not the first team to win the Stanley Cup. anything special to the kids The original Cup, the is always a great sort of oldest professional sports trophy in reminder that you’re just a North America, is regular person. A regular, on display at the embarrassing, old mom.” Hockey Hall of Fame ~ Reese Witherspoon in Toronto. 1935 – Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asked the international Happy Birthday! community to call Persia by its native name: Iran. Reese Witherspoon, born in 1976, is an American movie 1954 – The first shopping mall, star and producer. Northland Center, opened in She started acting as Southfield, Michigan. a teen and soon found 1963 – The Beatles’ first album, fame with 1999’s Please Please Me, was released in Cruel Intentions and Britain. Its 14 songs include “Twist Election, followed and Shout,” “Love Me Do,” “I Saw by Legally Blonde (2001) and Her Standing There,” and, of course, Legally Blonde 2 (2003). She is now “Please Please Me.” one of Hollywood’s highest-paid Daily Trivia actresses. Her other projects include Water for Elephants, Wild, and the Haiku is a traditional form of HBO series Big Little Lies. She won Japanese poetry. Haiku poems an Academy Award for Best Actress consist of 17 syllables in three for her role as June Carter Cash in lines. The lines rarely rhyme. 2005’s Walk the Line.

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ONDAY ARCH M , M 22, 2021

Today is the World Day of Metta. Metta is from Pali, the language of Theravada Buddhism, and means “loving kindness.” Today is a day to wish

love and kindness toward all living things, to spread peace and goodwill.

Think-tionary Root of the Matter

gasconade Black sheep

A. The official announcement of a If someone is called the black sheep key strategic victory by a of the family, then they are being military leader identified as a disreputable family

or member, one who has strayed from

B. Extravagant boasting honor and respectability. Ironically,

strength for her entire career. entire her for strength prior to the 19th century, British athletes’ gasconading about their speed and and speed their about gasconading athletes’ shepherds believed that black sheep

ANSWER: B. The sports reporter had heard heard had reporter sports The B. ANSWER: born into their predominantly white flocks were good omens. This likely When Was It? stemmed from a Bible passage

It was during this year that the referring to the removal of black Hewlett-Packard company was sheep from a flock as a mark of founded in Palo Alto, California, integrity. Over time, though, the starting Silicon Valley. Timely Bible passage was misinterpreted, Comics (which would become and black sheep became a bad omen.

Marvel) was founded in New York City. Scientists first split the atom. Buy a Vowel Glamour magazine

published its first issue, N _ X _ _ _ S

and Batman made his Harmful, toxic, or poisonous

NOXIOUS

first appearance in Detective Comics. ANSWER:

1939 ANSWER: ANSWER: When was it?

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TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2021 On This Date 1743 – It was the first London Quote of the Day performance of Handel’s Messiah, and King George II was in the “I certainly feel that the time audience. In the middle of the is not far distant when a “Hallelujah” chorus, the king rose knowledge of the principles to his feet in appreciation of the of diet will be an essential great piece. Out of respect for the part of one’s education.” king, the entire audience followed suit, and so began the custom of ~ Fannie Farmer standing during the singing of the “Hallelujah” chorus. 1752 – John Bushell published the Happy Birthday! first issue of the Halifax Gazette, Fannie Farmer (1857–1915) was Canada’s first regular newspaper, a renowned chef. She suffered a which took no government funds. stroke in high school, leaving her 1857 – Elisha Otis installed the first homebound for years. Farmer took modern passenger elevator, featuring up cooking to keep busy and at age a safety brake, in a Manhattan 30 enrolled in the Boston School of department store. Cooking. She eventually became the school’s principal. Farmer emphasized the role of science in Did You Know? cooking, including nutrition and sanitation. Her Boston Cooking- Before Fannie Farmer’s cookbooks School Cookbook was were published, recipes did not a surprise hit and is use standard measurements. still in print. The tome Instead, authors gave directions is usually referred to such as “add a thimble of salt” or simply as the Fannie “use an egg-sized piece of butter.” Farmer Cookbook.

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UESDAY ARCH T , M 23, 2021

Today is Near Miss Day. On this day in 1989, a massive asteroid known as 4581 Asclepius nearly missed hitting Earth by 425,000 miles. That may sound

like a great distance, but it is a hair’s breadth in the scale of the universe. A collision would have released the energy of a 600-megaton atomic bomb.

Where Am I? Only Human

I emerge from the jungle and see it: a Charles Osborne had the hiccups crystal-clear saltwater river springing from 1922 until June 5, 1990. He magically out of the ground and hiccupped for 68 years! His epic bout flowing lazily to the ocean. The waters of hiccups began while working on have long been thought miraculous. an Iowa farm. He was preparing a They are free of silt, mud, or dirt of any 350-pound hog for slaughter when he kind. Some think the water emerges fell. He felt fine, but the from an underground cave. Others hiccups began. A doctor prefer to believe that the water is the later told him that as a handiwork of fairies. Swimming is result of the fall he had allowed, but not in the main pool, “busted a blood vessel the

which was protected in 2017. Where size of a pin” in his brain. From that

am I? Philippines moment on, Osborne hiccupped an Enchanted River, Hinatuan, Hinatuan, River, Enchanted

ANSWER: estimated 40 times per minute. He tried every remedy he could find and Whatchamacallit? visited doctors for a cure but found no relief until one year before he died, when What do you call a group his hiccups mysteriously stopped. of vultures?

Riddle Me This venue troupe What needs an answer but doesn’t

omen chain

VENUE ANSWER:

ask a question? telephone A ANSWER:

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2021 On This Date 1603 – After 44 years of rule, Queen Quote of the Day Elizabeth I of England died, and King “Fire has always been and, James VI of Scotland ascended to the seemingly, will always throne, uniting England and Scotland remain, the most terrible under a single British monarch. of the elements.” 1989 – The Exxon Valdez oil tanker, ~ Harry Houdini after hitting a reef, spilled at least 260,000 barrels of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound. Happy Birthday! The damage to the environment led to the U.S. Oil Pollution Act. Harry Houdini (1874–1926), born Erik Weisz, was a famed Hungarian 1993 – The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 American escape artist was discovered by astronomers who thrilled audiences Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker from the turn of the and David Levy. It later broke into 20th century until his fragments and crashed into Jupiter in death. He began his spectacular fashion in July 1994. The magic career as a teen vaudeville prominent scars from the impacts performer, where he met his future were visible for many months. wife, fellow magician Wilhelmina Did You Know? “Bess” Rahner. She joined his act as his stage assistant. Houdini’s According to the Otis Elevator sensational stunts included working Company, 85 percent of high-rise his way out of outlandishly dangerous buildings in the world don’t situations, including being buried alive, have a labeled 13th floor. trapped under water, and locked up in chains, straightjackets, and handcuffs. He became known as “the Handcuff King.” He died at age 52 from complications with appendicitis.

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EDNESDAY ARCH W , M 24, 2021

On this day in 1958, Elvis Presley was drafted into the army. Elvis received his draft notice at the peak of his career. While fans lobbied for Elvis to be spared

from service, the King was proud to serve his country as an army private.

Eye in the Sky Centennial Memories

Before he died in 2018, Paul Allen, On this day 100 years ago, the billionaire tech magnate and co- Women’s Olympiad, the first founder of Microsoft, founded the international women’s sporting event, aerospace company Stratolaunch. opened in Monte Carlo. When the The company has recently begun International Olympic Committee construction of a hypersonic plane (IOC) decided not to host called the Talon, which will fly at any women’s events in the speeds of Mach 5 and higher. That’s 1924 Olympics, women’s five times faster than the speed of sporting pioneer Alice sound! Talon is to be the first of Milliat organized the all-women’s a new generation of hypersonic sporting event in Monaco. Milliat’s aircraft that allows faster access to games were a success, and the event space, faster travel around the globe, continued in 1922 and 1923. The IOC and faster military response. The was furious that Milliat called her sleek and futuristic-looking Talon event an Olympics and so allowed will launch from the back of an more women to compete in the airplane and land on runways. 1928 Olympic Games.

Word Scramble Who Said So?

H K P I N I S This transcendentalist writer said, “When nature has work to be done, Connection by heredity or family

she creates a genius to do it.” KINSHIP ANSWER:

Emerson Waldo Ralph ANSWER:

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THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021 On This Date 1934 – Golfer Horton Smith won the first Masters Tournament under Quote of the Day the magnolia trees of the Augusta “I sing to the realists—people National in Georgia. He won again who accept it like it is.” in 1936. ~ Aretha Franklin 1944 – RAF Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade survived a jump from his damaged Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute. His fall into a German forest was broken Happy Birthday! by pine trees and soft snow. Aretha Franklin (1942–2018) was 1958 – Army private Elvis Presley’s an American singer and songwriter hair was cut off at Fort Chaffee, an who was known as the “Queen of event the fort still commemorates to Soul.” Her legendary voice ruled this day. Elvis treated it all with good the 1960s and beyond with such hits humor, staring longingly at the cut-off as “Respect,” “(You Make Me Feel sideburns as a joke for the cameras. Like) A Natural Woman,” “Chain of Fools,” “I Say a Little Prayer,” and “Rock Steady.” The winner of 18 Grammy Awards, Franklin is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, with more than 75 million albums sold. Rolling Stone honored her with Daily Trivia the No. 1 spot on its 2010 list of the “100 Art was once an Olympic event. Greatest Artists of From 1912 to 1948, medals were All Time.” Franklin awarded for works of art and had four children and literature relating to sports. married twice.

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HURSDAY ARCH T , M 25, 2021

Today is Old New Year’s Day. In the 12th century, England celebrated the new year on March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation. It wasn’t until Pope Gregory XIII introduced his Gregorian calendar that New Year’s Day was moved.

Centennial Memories You Are What You Eat

On this day 100 years ago, the first Pancakes have been a favorite breakfast Lowe’s hardware store opened in for humans for over 5,000 years! In North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. 1991, hikers in the Alps discovered the That first home improvement store frozen body of a prehistoric opened by Lucius Lowe was known human, Otzi the Iceman. as North Wilkesboro Hardware. Analysis of Otzi’s stomach When Lowe died in 1940, his son Jim revealed that he had eaten a cake-like and son-in-law Carl Buchan ran flatbread of ground einkorn wheat— the business as partners. Buchan essentially a pancake. The ancient anticipated a post-World War II Romans cooked and sold sweet construction boom and so refocused pancakes, much like the ones we love the store on building materials and today, on street corners. And both hardware. Lowe’s resisted the big box George Washington and Thomas store format for decades, preferring to Jefferson loved pancakes with syrup remain a small town presence, but this for breakfast. Jefferson loved them so changed in the 1990s in order to much he sent a recipe from compete with rival the Home Depot. Washington to his home at Monticello.

Buy a Vowel What’s in a Name?

This Latin pop star and former P _ P _ L _ C _ husband of Jennifer Lopez was

The inhabitants of an area born Marco Muñiz. POPULACE ANSWER:

Antony Marc ANSWER:

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FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2021 On This Date 1199 – The English king Richard Quote of the Day the Lionheart was fatally wounded while fighting in France. “I’m just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the 1830 – In the small town of guy who has limited talent but Palmyra, New York, E. B. Grandin, is pretending he’s a genius.” an ambitious printer, publisher, and bookshop owner, printed the first ~ Martin Short copies of the Book of Mormon. 1979 – Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin signed the Egypt-Israel Peace Happy Birthday! Treaty. Brokered by Jimmy Carter, , born in 1950, is the deal ended a state of war that had Martin Short a Canadian actor and comedian existed between the two countries whose movie credits include Three since the founding of Israel in 1947. Amigos, Father of the Bride, and The Did You Know? Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. During the Third Crusade, Richard He received a Tony the Lionheart was captured by the Award for the 1999 Duke of Austria. Broadway revival The ransom asked of the musical Little was about two Me. Over the years, he has developed billion pounds in a number of hilarious characters today’s money, and such as Ed Grimley and Jiminy its payment required Glick. He also frequently tours with about 25 percent of his comedy show, which features each Englishman’s many of his best-loved characters income for a year. and skits.

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RIDAY ARCH F , M 26, 2021

On this day in 1812, the word gerrymander was first used in a political cartoon in the Boston Gazette. The word was named after Massachusetts Governor

Elbridge Gerry, who delineated a partisan district in Boston in the shape of a salamander. The term combines the name Gerry and the word salamander.

Gadgets & Gizmos The Games People Play

Letter Jam is a cooperative word game for 2 to 6 players. In the game, players are dealt letter cards that they can’t look at, which they display in front of them facing outward, toward the other players. Players assist each other in creating words using only the letters they can see, all the while trying to guess, based on the other players’ It didn’t take long for marketers words, which letters are concealed in to invent the MaskFone, the first front of them. The more creative facemask with an integrated pair of words that are created, the higher the Bluetooth-enabled earbuds and a built- likelihood of guessing your hidden in microphone. When paired with your letters. The goal of the game is to help smartphone, MaskFone eliminates your teammates guess the letters in the need to remove your mask to make front of them. or take a phone call. Word Scramble Riddle Me This N C L E T E L X E What tire doesn’t move when

a car turns right? Extremely good, outstanding

EXCELLENT

ANSWER: tire spare The ANSWER:

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SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 2021 On This Date 1883 – Regina was named the capital Quote of the Day of the Northwest Territories, which “Fame was thrilling only until included present-day Saskatchewan, it became grueling. Money NWT, and Alberta. In 1882, the was fun only until you ran town’s name was changed from Pile O’ Bones to Regina in honor of out of things to buy.” Queen Victoria. ~ Gloria Swanson 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev became the prime minister of the Soviet Union. Khrushchev tried to humanize Happy Birthday! the Soviet system by releasing waves of political prisoners from the Gloria Swanson (1899–1983) was Gulag-forced labor camps. an American silent film star. She was born in Chicago and grew up 1966 – Canada sent space instruments in a military family, moving from into the upper atmosphere to collect base to base. Swanson got her big data on the aurora borealis. break at age 15 when a tour of actor Baseball Trivia Francis X. Bushman’s studio led to a walk-on role in one Jackie Mitchell, a 17-year-old of his films. She then girl from the (otherwise all-male) quit school to pursue Chattanooga Lookouts, struck out acting, soon heading Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in a to California, where 1931 exposition game against she both acted in and the New York Yankees. produced movies—making her one of Hollywood’s pioneering female film producers. She was nominated for three Academy Awards and starred in such films asSadie Thompson, The Trespasser, and Sunset Boulevard.

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ATURDAY ARCH S , M 27, 2021

Today is the start of Passover. This holiday commemorates the Hebrews’ exodus from slavery in Egypt and the sparing, or “passing over,” of the

Hebrews’ firstborn by God, who “smote the land of Egypt.”

What Am I? Household Tips

My story begins in the 19th century in When hammering in a small nail or the town of Vilnius in Lithuania. tack, it is all too easy to hammer your Residents of a Jewish neighborhood large fingers that are trying to hold the known as the “Jerusalem of the nail in place. One trick is to not use North” would prepare meals for the your fingers at all. Instead, Sabbath by placing their full stew pots position the nail with a in the ovens of the village bakery, clothespin. This will keep which remained warm throughout the your fingers far away from night. The next day, a stew known as the heavy head of the hammer. If you cholent would be ready. Years later, cannot find a clothespin, then you General Electric’s first Jewish could slip the nail between the teeth of electrical engineer, inspired by this a comb. The teeth should grip the nail story, invented an electric pot that and keep it in place. If all else fails, you replicated the style of slow, overnight can purchase a finger protector known cooking. By 1971, the invention was as a safety nail framer for about $10.

a kitchen staple. What am I? Pot - Crock A ANSWER:

Screen Gems

Buy a Vowel This cowboy in search of his kidnapped niece faces hardship and R _ P _ _ R death, often responding with the

macho quip, “That’ll be the day.”

(1956) Searchers The

To fix or mend in

REPAIR ANSWER:

John Wayne as Ethan Edwards Edwards Ethan as Wayne John ANSWER:

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SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1920 – Hollywood stars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford married “Sweet things happen. just three and a half weeks after They still do.” Pickford’s divorce from her first ~ Diane Wiest husband, Owen Moore. As a wedding present for his new bride, Fairbanks bought an estate Happy Birthday! boasting 22 rooms on 18 acres and Diane Wiest, born in 1946, is an Beverly Hills’ first American actress from Kansas City, swimming pool. The Missouri. Wiest studied theater at the couple dubbed the University of Maryland, getting her property “Pickfair.” start with a Shakespearean troupe and as an understudy on Broadway. Her 1979 – One of the nuclear reactors theater career quickly took off. She at the Three Mile Island power plant won an Obie Award experienced a partial meltdown. in 1980, among many Although it was the other accolades. Her most significant film career has been accident in U.S. equally as successful, nuclear energy including such hits as history, the incident Footloose, Parenthood, and Edward resulted in no deaths Scissorhands. Wiest is the winner of or injuries. two Best Supporting Actress Oscars A “Light” Fact for her work in the Woody Allen filmsHannah and Her Sisters (1986) In 2017, light beers were the top and Bullets over Broadway (1994). selling three beers in the U.S. for She’s also starred in multiple TV the first time ever: 1) Bud Light, shows, including In Treatment and 2) Coors Light, and 3) Miller Lite. Life in Pieces.

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UNDAY ARCH S , M 28, 2021

Today is Palm Sunday. This Sunday before Easter commemorates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem upon a donkey, a symbol of his peaceful return. Upon his

arrival, the people of Jerusalem laid a path of palm fronds before him.

Garden Party Root of the Matter

The achocha is the forgotten member Buckle down of the cucumber family. This hardy When someone buckles down, cucumber relative is immune to many they have finally begun to work diseases and pests that plague diligently on a task. The expression cucumbers, squash, buckle down comes from an earlier zucchini, and melons. phrase, buckle to, from the 1700s. The achocha is an These buckles are related to the ancient crop that was once grown by buckles of traveling trunks and the Incas in the Andes mountains of belts, which were used to keep Peru and Bolivia. Today, it is still things secure. In this way, buckles common across Central and South were symbols of strength. To buckle America. The plant grows as a vine to meant “to face with strength or that can reach heights of up to seven resolve.” The phrase would evolve feet, sporting large leaves similar to into buck up, which means to those of a Japanese maple tree. Fruits “toughen up” and “persevere.” look like peppers in a cucumber skin, curved and slipper-shaped with Word Wise cucumber-like spikes. Which word is not like the others?

Who Said So? cumulus talus This American French Cuban diarist

said, “Life shrinks or expands in cirrus nimbus

clouds. are others the cliff; a of base

Talus is a pile of rocks at the the at rocks of pile a is Talus

proportion to one’s courage.” ANSWER: Nin Anaïs ANSWER:

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MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2021 On This Date 1871 – Queen Victoria opened the Royal Albert Hall in London, Statistic of the Day England. Many of the world’s An ESPN poll discovered that leading artists have America’s favorite baseball appeared on its stage, and it has players are Derek Jeter, become one of the Pete Rose, and Babe Ruth. United Kingdom’s most treasured and distinctive buildings. 1939 – Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married on this day, Happy Birthday! while Gable was filming Gone Cy Young (1867–1955) is considered with the Wind. The marriage was one of the greatest pitchers of all considered one of Hollywood’s time. One of the most coveted awards happiest, but it ended in tragedy in baseball is the Cy when Lombard was killed in a plane Young Award, given crash in 1942, en annually to the most route from a war valuable pitcher in bond drive. Gable the league. Young later joined the U.S. has an unbroken Air Force and rose record of 511 wins. to the rank of major. He also pitched three Did You Know? no-hitters and a perfect game. He started his career on the Cleveland The fastest Major League Baseball Spiders with a fierce fastball and pitch ever clocked by radar was in then developed an arm-saving and 1974, when Nolan Ryan playing tricky “slowball” pitch, now known for the California Angels threw as a changeup. After his retirement, a 108.5 -mile-per-hour fastball. Young returned to his farm in Ohio.

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ONDAY ARCH M , M 29, 2021

Today is Smoke and Mirrors Day, a day of illusions and deception. While some folks may choose to perform magic tricks on this day, others will spend the day

trying to cut through illusion and trickery and see the truth for what it really is.

Think-tionary Mystery to Me

saxicolous In late 2020, people began stumbling A. Living or growing on or upon monoliths hidden throughout among rocks the world. These strange objects or were 10-foot-tall triangular pillars

made of metal. The first monolith

B. Reclusive and unfriendly

species. secretive a a was discovered in a Utah desert in

is hyrax rock saxicolous The A. R: ANSWE November by biologists studying bighorn sheep from a helicopter. Toys of Yesteryear Some locals believe the mysterious obelisk was installed in 2016 and In 1985, Cabbage Patch not found for four years. After Kids dolls were all the rage. its discovery, copycat monoliths The Topps trading card were found all over the world. The company, taking the advice original Utah monument caused a of their consultant and media sensation and lasted only Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art 10 days before it was removed Spiegelman, developed a parody of the rather mysteriously. dolls, called Garbage Pail Kids, featured on trading stickers. Gross Word Scramble artwork accompanied a name like Adam Bomb or Smelly Sally. The C O P A T R G S E N I O T concept was such an international

Foretell the future

PROGNOSTICATE success that The Garbage Pail Kids ANSWER: became a live-action movie in 1987.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2021 On This Date 1867 – The U.S. purchased Alaska Quote of the Day from Russia for $7.2 million. The deal was ridiculed as “Seward’s “I’ve never been cool—and Folly” after the man who negotiated I don’t care.” it, Secretary of State William Seward. ~ Céline Dion

Happy Birthday! Céline Dion was born in 1968 in 1967 – The cover of the Beatles’ Charlemagne, Québec. She was the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 14th child of a musical family who was photographed by Michael Cooper. performed locally. Producer René Angélil, Dion’s future husband, 1981 – John Hinckley Jr. shot and heard her sing when she was 12 injured President Ronald Reagan and mortgaged his outside a Washington, D.C. hotel. house to back her Hinckley was found not guilty by career. She quickly reason of insanity. He remained under became well-known institutional psychiatric care until in French-speaking being released in 2016. countries. Dion took Daily Trivia a hiatus to perfect her English and adopt a more mature “look.” She emerged The Beatles are the best-selling as an American pop star, ultimately recording artists of all time, according selling over 200 millions records. She to Billboard and Rolling Stone. is especially beloved for singing the The Eagles’ Their Greatest Hits theme to the film Titanic. Some of (1971-1975) has sold more copies than her other hits include “The Power of any other record in the United States. Love” and “Beauty and the Beast.”

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UESDAY ARCH T , M 30, 2021

Today is International Laundry Folding Day. Properly folding laundry is key to preventing wrinkles and maximizing closet space. Laundry should be folded promptly, while it is still warm from the dryer, before wrinkles have set.

Wild Kingdom 50 Years Ago Today

In the world of pigeon racing, On this day 50 years ago, the first the Belgians are known as the Starbucks coffee shop was opened best breeders in the in Seattle, Washington, by three business. Yet even the friends who met while studying at most proficient pigeon the University of San Francisco. professionals were flabbergasted While in San Francisco, the three when a Belgian-bred racing pigeon students met Peet’s Coffee owner named New Kim sold at auction Alfred Peet. It was Peet who taught for $1.9 million to an anonymous them how to roast beans and Chinese buyer. Pigeon racing has encouraged them to open their own become popular in China, but the coffee store in Seattle. The three sale still sent shockwaves through thought that words starting with the pigeon racing community. New St-were powerful. After coming Kim was one of the last birds to be across a town named Starbo on a bred by famed Belgian breeder map of the Cascade Mountains Gaston Van de Wouwer. One source of Washington, they decided on compared the sale to buying a Starbucks from Moby Dick. “Picasso painting.” Buy a Vowel Name Three

_ M B _ B _ Can you name three fruits that

begin with the letter A?

To drink avocado, acai berry acai avocado,

IMBIBE ANSWER: apricot, apple, ANSWERS: POSSIBLE

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1821 – McGill University was granted a Royal Charter. The school “Fashion is the armor to was formally opened as McGill survive the reality of College in June 1829. everyday life.” 1870 – Thomas Peterson-Mundy of ~ Fashion photographer New Jersey, became Bill Cunningham the first African American to vote under the Fifteenth Happy Birthday! Amendment to the Liz Claiborne (1929–2007) was an U.S. Constitution. American fashion icon who grew 1880 – Wabash, Indiana, became up in Brussels and New Orleans. the first electrically lighted city in Before completing high school, she the world using carbon-arc lights. left the United States for Europe, where she studied art 1975 – The 36th piece of the antenna and fashion. She then mast was placed on the CN Tower in moved to Manhattan, Toronto, which until recently was the where she worked in world’s tallest freestanding structure. the garment district as a sketch artist. In 1976, she launched her own label, The Trivia Buzz Liz Claiborne Inc., which is now owned by J.C. Penney, with the The bumblebee does not die when goal of creating colorful, upscale, it stings. In bumblebee hives, the easy-to-wear clothing for working entire colony, except for the queen, women, The brand was an immediate dies at the end of each summer. success, making the Fortune 500 list Each year, an entirely new colony and over $1 billion dollars in sales in of bees must be produced. just 10 years.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 2021

Today is Bunsen Burner Day, in honor of the birthday of Robert Bunsen. In 1852, the University of Heidelberg hired Bunsen and built him a new lab outfitted with gas power. Bunsen designed gas-powered burners for his students.

Only Human Eye in the Sky

Flying in an airplane is a routine In 2014, Japan launched the Hayabusa 2 habit of modern life, but research spacecraft in the hopes that it would suggests that flying is anything but reach the Ryugu asteroid. It took four healthy for human bodies and years for the probe to reach Ryugu minds. The air pressure and successfully land on the rock. in an airplane cabin is Hayabusa 2 then spent one year on the similar to that of an asteroid’s surface collecting one meager 8,000-foot mountain. gram of space dirt. Last December, the This reduced air pressure can lead craft finally returned to Earth in to low oxygen levels, which can spectacular fashion, exploding in a ball impair reasoning and cognitive of fire before safely landing in the performance. The conditioned air Australian Outback. Japanese authorities also makes airline cabins dryer than were eager to retrieve their space probe some deserts. Low pressure and lack with the help of the Australian of humidity also affect our sense of government and announce their six-year taste, increase fatigue, and make us mission to collect asteroid dust a success. less physically comfortable. The friendly skies look less friendly for Word Scramble many travelers. E R P S U R S E

Punny Business Physical force or mental stress

exerted on an object

PRESSURE A lawyer should always show up in ANSWER: court wearing a good lawsuit.

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