Page 4 March Horoscopes and Birthdays In astrology, those born between Janice Ragland Mar 07 The Richwood Chronicle March 1–20 are the Fish of Charles Lagle Mar 10 March 2020 Pisces. Fish feel things deeply, Larry Lotze Mar 11 as in under-the-sea deep. These Mary Jane Cole Mar 12 intuitive and creative people love Monica Huber Mar 13 Richwood Nursing and Rehab, 1012 to help others. Those born Alma Taylor Mar 13 Richwood Way LaGrange, KY 40031, (502) between March 21–31 are James Standleehall Mar 14 222-3186 the Rams of Aries. As the first Enoch Whisman Mar 15 sign of the zodiac, Aries are John Warren Mar 17 bold, courageous, passionate, Carol Langdon Mar 26 and somewhat impulsive, Rams dive headfirst into even the Celebrating The Power of Names most challenging situations. March The power of bestowing names such as Berrien. The names is so great that in the The Power of Names continued from pg. 1 Women’s History professors concluded that rare Month Old Testament of the Bible it is or unusual names had negative “implicit-egoism” effect, or the fact often change their name if it’s God who grants this amazing psychological effects. More Notable that we are drawn to things that very common. They list Britney gift to Adam and Eve. Modern studies followed, and they resemble us. Other psychologists and Ashley as two examples. International psychologists agree that names bore out similar results. Names Quotable offer a different explanation. Another reason people change Black Women in are significant. As children seemingly influence where we their name is because it’s difficult Jazz and the develop the ability to speak, they go to school, where we choose “From our Names send powerful signals to spell or pronounce. Arts Month name things to make sense of the to live, who we marry, and even ancestors come about where we come from: our world around them. The first full the kind of financial investments our names, but week of March is Celebrate Your we make. Psychologists have native country, ethnicity, religion, Celebrate Your Name Week is a World from our virtues and economic background. chance to be proud of not just our Name Week, a time to appreciate attempted to explain this our honors.” When we hear a name, we hear names but of who we are. When Compliment Day our names. phenomenon as a result of the so much more. Of course, not you introduce yourself, say your March 1 Cont’d on pg. 4 ~ old Latin everyone loves their given name, name loud and proud, for the way In 1948, professors at Harvard proverb and many choose to change it. you treat your name shows the International University studied the success of According to Legal Zoom, people way that you want to be treated. Women’s Day recent Harvard graduates. As it turned out, those with common March 8 names like Mike had found more Istanbul Not Constantinople success than those with unusual On March 28, 1930, the city of 1923, the newfound Republic of Wellderly Week Constantinople, Turkey, changed Turkey changed the name from March 16–22 its name to Istanbul, a change Constantinople to Istanbul, a Won’t You Be My Neighbor? famously celebrated by the Four name many had used to describe St. Patrick’s Day Lads in their 1953 novelty song the city. Istanbul was a Turkish March 17 Each year, March 20 is nurturing those who would watch “Istanbul (Not Constantinople).” translation of an old Greek celebrated as Won’t You Be and listen. Rogers was a natural Why did Turkey change the name phrase meaning “in the city.” My Neighbor Day, honoring when it came to children’s of its most important city? In Despite the official change, Tuskegee Airmen the birthday of Fred Rogers, broadcasting, using his talents AD 330, the city, then called travelers, businesses, and even Day everybody’s favorite television to develop puppets, music, and Byzantium, was the world’s hub foreign governments still referred March 22 neighbor. Rogers had a shy characters that appealed to kids. of culture and trade. Emperor to the city as Constantinople. This and lonely childhood. He By the time the show Mister Constantine declared the city the all changed in 1930 when the Make Up Your overcame his shyness to become Rogers’ Neighborhood aired in a Presbyterian minister but left 1968, he had mastered his use capital of the Eastern Roman Turkish government decreed Own Holiday Day Empire and changed its name that all mail addressed to the seminary to go into television. of imaginative elements and to Constantinople. When the Constantinople, paychecks March 26 He hated TV and wanted to the kind, quiet manner that Ottoman Empire collapsed in included, would not be delivered. transform it into a means of became his beloved trademark. Page 2 Page 3 The Great Escape The Old New Year On March 24, 1944, the British but he also procured civilian During the Colonial era in the date of the start of the new bomber pilot Leslie “Johnny” clothes for escapees, forged America, New Year’s Day was year. This date was chosen to Bull poked his head out of the travel documents, and equipment celebrated not on January 1, coincide with the Feast of the ground, freeing himself from the for the 600 digging inmates. As but on March 25, a date that Annunciation, the date when Nazi-controlled Stalag Luft III the plan’s mastermind, Bushell can be traced to the colonies’ the archangel Gabriel visited camp. The so-called “Great was given the code name “Big X.” roots in England. As leader the Virgin Mary to announce Escape” had begun, one of the of a Protestant nation, Queen that she would be the mother of most daring mass breakouts His plan proved ingenious. Elizabeth I refused to adopt Jesus. The new year continued ever attempted during wartime. Powdered milk cans were the Gregorian calendar to fall on March 25 from 1155 fashioned into shovels, picks, The old New Year’s proposed by the Catholic until September 2, 1752, when In 1944, the camp housed over and lanterns. The tunnels were Day was also known Pope Gregory XIII. As such, the Gregorian calendar was 10,000 Allied service members. 30-feet deep and just 2-feet as “Lady Day” after March 25 officially remained finally adopted. The location of the camp was square, the walls shored up the Virgin Mary. chosen in part due to its sandy with pieces of wood scavenged Women of the World Unite soil, which made any attempts from all over the camp, most to tunnel out extremely difficult. notably the prisoners’ bunk Women around the world will On March 11, 1911, International The Great Escape was This did not deter Royal Air beds. Many of the guards, who take to the streets promoting Women’s Day was celebrated not the first attempt to Force Squadron Leader Roger were openly anti-Nazi, assisted women’s rights to celebrate by over a million people in escape from Stalag Bushell from devising a grand in the procuring of forged International Women’s Day on Austria, Denmark, Germany, Luft III by tunnel. tunneling scheme. His plan documents and materials. March 8. The first National and Switzerland. Women consisted of “three bloody By the moonless night of Women’s Day occurred on marched for the right to vote, deep, bloody long tunnels” March 24, 1944, the tunnel February 28, 1909, in New to hold public office, and to code-named Tom, Dick, and “Harry” was complete, and York. Theresa Malkiel, a enjoy equal opportunities for Harry. Previous escapes had 76 men tunneled to freedom. factory-worker-turned-civil- employment. Six years later, been attempted, but none on Of the 76 escapees, 73 were rights-leader proposed the first on March 8, 1917, International the scale Bushell proposed. captured, but the “Great celebration. Malkiel believed Women’s Day marchers across Not only did he oversee the Escape” became legendary that socialism was the path Russia marched for “Bread and excavation of three tunnels, and a Hollywood blockbuster. toward the equality of women. Peace,” demanding an end to When the men of the party World War I, tsarism, and showed no interest in equal government-imposed food Sock Monkey Day rights for women members, shortages. This marked the Malkiel took it upon herself to The fabulous folk-art-toy-turned- and, of course, monkeys. These beginning of Russia’s February organize her fellow women. The kitschy-gift known as the sock stuffed monkeys transformed Revolution (according to their first Women’s Day celebration monkey enjoys its own holiday into sock monkeys in America. old calendar). Seven days later, was a show of strength for the on March 7. (Some sources say Swedish immigrant to America Some countries where Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the women she organized. March 1.) The sock monkey can John Nelson patented a sock- International Women’s throne, and women were trace its origins back to England’s knitting machine in Rockford, Day is an official granted the right to vote. holiday are Russia, The struggle for women’s rights Victorian era and the exploration Illinois, in 1868. His red-heeled was not unique to America. Over the decades, the of the continent of Africa. Tales socks became so popular that Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Uganda. Across Europe, women were holiday has transformed from a of exotic new animals were they became known as “Rockford organizing for workers’ rights socialist holiday to a mainstream Rockford, Illinois, is recounted in news reports and Red-Heels.” During the Great and the right to vote. In 1910, celebration of women. The day known as the official fictional tales such as Rudyard Depression in America, at the International Socialist is an official holiday in many “home of the sock Kipling’s The Jungle Book. It economical families created Women’s Conference in countries, but the fact that it is monkey.” became fashionable to decorate their own stuffed animals, Denmark, European activists not observed in many places children’s rooms with all manner notably monkeys, using these established an international speaks to the need to continue of stuffed animals such as lions trademark red-heeled socks. holiday modeled on Malkiel’s. the fight for women’s rights.