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[IceWizard]

19 Mar 2017



National Poultry Day



Oh yes, it’s a fowl, fowl day – Poultry Day, that is! Celebrate this whole range of domestic feathered friends that are raised for their meat and eggs by thinking about just how boring Thanksgiving, Christmas and other holidays would be without the addition of a turkey, chicken, duck, goose or pheasant to the table. How naked would your fancy salad be without a quail’s egg quivering at the top? How incomplete would that Chicken Pot Pie be without…well…the chicken?

It is for all these reasons and more that we pause and say thank you to poultry for enhancing our diets and giving us opportunities to fight over the wishbone, draw lots over who gets the last drumstick, and encourage sibling rivalry by letting them fight out whose turn it is to crack the egg into the cake batter.

Whether it’s a honk honk, gobble gobble, or a cluck cluck, it all sounds the same to us – delicious!


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International Read To Me Day



When we’re young, bedtime meant a number of things. It often meant taking a warm bath to get clean before shuffling off to bed, begging for a glass of water no less than three times and, of course, cuddling down with our parents for a bedtime story. There was something about the sound of their voice telling us our favorite stories that helped drag us into a contented slumber, where perhaps we’d dream these tales they told us.

There’s a day to recall these days and even to remind you to share these moments with your loved ones, and that’s International Read To Me day.

History of International Read To Me Day

International Read To Me day was established by the Child Writes Foundation to encourage the growth and spread of adult literacy. It became clear that in countries throughout the world adult literacy is a problem, and many adults simply lack the ability to read even for pleasure. When trying to find ways to help offset this, it became apparent that being read to as a child helped to encourage literacy and a love of reading in adults.

The result of these findings was obvious!

A holiday needed to be established to encourage the foundations of literacy by reading to our children, and thus was born “International Read To Me Day”!

While the holiday is definitely focused on encouraging children to read, some of the fundamental facts about this holiday extend even into adults. Reading to someone is an intimate act, something that can create closeness between two people and bring comfort to those we share it with. In Victorian times it was not at all unusual for an elderly person with failing eyes to employ someone strictly to read to them from their favorite tales.

Reading a story to our partner at bed time can help foster a sense of togetherness far more intimate than watching a movie together.

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March 19 Birthdays



Bruce Willis - 62




Glenn Close - 70




Casey Anthony - 31




Wyatt Earp - (1848 - 1929) (80)




Ursula Andress - 81









March 19th

2001: Aerosmith, Queen, Steely Dan, Paul Simon & Michael Jackson were some of the acts inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Kid Rock inducted Aerosmith, Dave Grohl of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters inducted Queen, & Moby inducted Steely Dan.

1982: Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarist Randy Rhoads died in a plane crash in Leesburg, FL when the plane crashed into Osbourne’s tour bus. The pilot Andrew Aycock & hairdresser Rachel Youngblood were also killed. Rhoads was 25 years old.

1976: Free guitarist Paul Kossoff died of drug-related heart problems on a flight from Los Angeles to New York. He was 25 years old.

1975: Kiss recorded their concert at Detroit’s Cobo Hall which was recorded in part for their Alive! live album. Rush opened the concert.

1974: Jefferson Airplane officially renamed themselves Jefferson Starship.

1971: Jethro Tull released Aqualung, which went on to become their most successful album selling three million copies in the U.S. alone.

1970: David Bowie married his first wife, Angela Barnett at Bromley Register Office in Kent, U.K.

1962: Bob Dylan released his self-titled debut album. It was Dylan’s only album not to chart in the U.S.

1957: Elvis Presley purchased Graceland in Memphis. Presley paid approximately $100,000 for the property, which is now a National Historic Landmark.



Birthdays:

Billy Sheehan - Bassist for Mr. Big, David Lee Roth & Steve Vai born in 1953