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"There
are three ways to get something done:
1. Do it yourself
2. Hire someone
3. Forbid your students to do it"
March Special Days: http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/mar.shtml
March is Youth Art Month. It has been celebrated
each March since 1961 to promote art and quality art education.
March is National Craft Month
National Middle Level Education Month: http://www.principals.org/schoolimprove/middlelevel_home.cfm
March is Music in Our Schools Month:
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6647.html
Daylight Savings Time
One of America's founding fathers and great thinkers, Benjamin Franklin,
came up with the idea of Daylight Savings Time in 1784. He wrote an essay
called "An Economical Project," where he pointed out that rolling
the clocks forward an hour in the summer would save on lamp oil because
people would have an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings, then go to
bed pretty much when it got dark. Englishman William Willett called it
a "Waste of Daylight" in a pamphlet he published in 1907, saying
people wasted April's early morning sun, then were left in the dark. He
proposed moving all the clocks forward 20 minutes on each of the the four
Sundays in April. A bill was introduced to the English Parliament several
times after that, but no one was interested. A year after Willett died,
England went on DST in May 1916 to save coal because of World War I. Germany
had passed a similar law earlier. In 1918, the United States went on DST
to conservce energy for the war, too, but the practice lasted only seven
months. The states Massachusetts and Rhode Island and cities New York
City, Philadelphia and Chicago continued. During World War II, the United
States had year-round DST, but after that it was up to individual communities.
In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, mandating that DST begin
the last Sunday of April and end the last Sunday of October. Any state
that wanted to be exempt needed to pass a state law. In 1986, Congress
changed the law to start DST the first Sunday of April and end the last
Sunday of October. It still saves energy and fuel. After the 1973 Middle
East oil embargo, the United States stretched DST for several more months
in 1974 and 1975 and saved 10,000 barrels of oil each day. Seventy different
countries observe some sort of DST. The time of the change to Daylight Savings Time has now been changed to be earlier in the spring and later in the fall. In the United States, three states
have voted not to switch time: Arizona, Hawaii, and Indiana. Different
countries have different laws. Western Europe goes on DST on the last
Sunday in March. The United Kingdom switches over on the last Sunday in
October. Russia and China are on a schedule similar to Europe's. Countries
in the Southern Hemisphere go on DST from October to March.
March is Women's History
Month: March was designated “National Women’s History Month” by Congress in 1987.
*Women's Winning Ways of Leadership: http://www.geocities.com/leaders4tomorrow
create by 4 Gr 8/9 students
*Women's History Month: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/wom/
showcases historic properties listed in the National Register, National
Register publications, & National Park units commemorating the events
& people, the designs & achievements that help illustrate the
contribution of women to our nation's history.
*Women's History Month Lesson Plans: http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/womenshistory.php
*In honor of Women's History Month in the United States: " 'Not for
Ourselves Alone': The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony,"
by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes, at http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony.
The site includes a "Where Are We Now?" section; a Resources
section, with links to Cady Stanton's and Anthony's writings and speeches,
biographical
material, scholars' essays, and lesson plans for teachers; and a Kids
section, geared to grades 3-6 http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/sa_kids/index.html.
*
National Museum of Women's History: http://www.nmwh.org/
*A History of the American Suffragist Movement: http://www.suffragist.com/
*
Women's Biographies: Distinguished Women of Past
and Present: http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/
The American Federation of Teachers human rights
and community relations department has materials and Web resources that
educators and schools can use to calibrate Women's History Month. The
AFT kit contains lesson plans and planning events and ideas for activities.
To obtain a set of the materials, send a postcard or note with your mailing
address to: Women's History Month Kit, AFT *Human Rights and Community
Relations Department, 555 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20001-2079.
*National Women's Hall of Fame: http://www.greatwomen.org/
Web site for National Women's Hall of Fame located in Seneca, New York.
Find information about the museum, biographies of famous women, nominate
women achievers to be recognized, and learn about the hall's annual poster,
essay and Web contest for older children, the "21st Annual Poster,
Essay, and Web Page Contest".
Women's History Month: http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/index.htm
Great free online resource containing biographies, timeline, quiz and
learning activities about women.
"...Within this site, teachers, parents and students can:
-- Read biographies of significant women throughout time
-- Take a quiz based on women and their achievements
-- Follow a timeline of events of significant dates in women's history
-- Enjoy activities taken directly from the Women's History Month Resource
Book and excerpts from Women's Rights on Trial"
The activities are theme and subject-based, and are mostly for middle
and high school children-- although some are adapted for younger children
as well.
*Women of NASA: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html
Learn about women who work for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA), get information about technology, science and math careers and
try some interesting learning activities (click on "Teaching Tips")
*National Women's History Project: http://www.nwhp.org/
Women scientists, engineers, business leaders, writers, filmmakers, conservationists, teachers, community organizers, and others who are demonstrating leadership in protecting the environment or a local, state, national or international level are spotlighted.
*Women's Voices: Quotations by Women: http://womenshistory.about.com/library/qu/blqulist.htm
Web page containing links to quotations from famous women around the world,
past and present.
*Timeline of Women's History a quiz to see what you've learned at the site.
http://familyeducation.com/topic/front/0,1156,22-5181,00.html?ecu03093
March is National Peanut
Month. Also called the goober, the name comes from
a word from the African Congo name for peanuts called "nguba".
Scientists think the peanut originally comes from Peru or Brazil.
Cyberhunt:
1. http://www.foodreference.com/html/fpeanutbutter.html
What was developed in 1890 by a St. Louis doctor for his patients with
bad teeth? (peanut butter). Where was it promoted as a health food in
1904? (St. Louis Exposition)
2. http://www.pbloco.com/funky.html
About how many pounds of peanut butter do Americans eat in one year? (800
pounds)
Most children will eat how many peanut butter sandwiches before they graduate
from high school? (1500)
3. http://www.erdnuss-info.de/Wirtschaft/generell_en.html
According to 2001-2002 statistics, approximately how many tons of peanuts
are harvested each year(world wide)? (33 million tons)
Name the five leading peanut growing countries of the world. (China, India,
United States, Nigeria and Indonesia)
4. http://www.originalnuthouse.com/kids/kids.htm
What is Arachibutyrophobia? (fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the
roof of your mouth)
5. http://www.originalnuthouse.com/kids/carver.htm
George Washington Carver discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts. Name
five. (inks, dyes, soap, face cream and powder, wood stains, plastics,
linoleum, metal polish and synthetic rubber)
6. http://www.coopsjokes.com/amz/amzpnut.htm
Both Thomas Jefferson and this president were famous peanut farmers. (Jimmy
Carter)
About how many pounds of peanuts per person does the average American
eat? (12 pounds)
7. http://www.nationalpeanutboard.com/document_250.asp
Which astronaut brought peanuts with him to the moon? (Astronaut Sheppard)
Where did Tom Miller push a peanut with his nose? (Pike's Peak, 14,100
feet)
How long did it take him to do this? (4 days 23 hours 47 minutes and 3
seconds)
8. http://www.aboutpeanuts.com/every.html
Peanuts, as do beans and peas, belong to the legume plant family. Legumes
have edible seeds enclosed in pods. What's unusual about how a peanut
grows? (its flowers grow above the ground, but fruits grow below the ground)
9. http://www.peanut-institute.org/PeanutFAQs.html
What is the main use for the 2.4 billion pounds of peanuts consumed each
year in the USA? (peanut butter)
What are the growning peanut growing states? (Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia)
Cool peanut facts
Of the 10 top American candy bars, 4 contain peanuts or peanut butter.
Think 225 football fields covered in peanut butter 1 foot thick...that's
how much of the stuff Americans eat in one year. (Source: Ranger Rick
1/04)
The world's largest peanut is a monument found in Ashburn, Georgia. It's
20 ft. tall!
George Washington Carver, nicknamed "Columbus of the Soil" and
the "Wizard of Tuskegee" once served an entire dinner that had
peanuts in every dish!
Carver never took out a patient to protect any of his work believing that
since God gave them to him, he had no right to claim them as his own.
Mr. Peanut, Planter's logo, was created by 13 year old Antonio Gentile
in 1916.
Books:
1. Wizard of Tuskegee, The Life of George Washington Carver by
David Manber
2. George Washington Carver by Sam and Beryl Epstein
3. George Washington Carver, The Man Who Overcame by Lawrence Elliotts
Other websites of interest:
Food Facts, Food information, and Tips! - Peanuts: http://www.hungrymonster.com/FoodFacts/Food_Facts.cfm?Phrase_vch=Peanuts&ttl=9
Food Facts and Trivia: Peanuts: http://www.foodreference.com/html/fpeanuts.html
Homemade Peanut Butter: http://www.theworldwidegourmet.com/nuts/peanut/peanutbutter.htm
Peanut Butter Peanut Brittle: http://www.thenutfactory.com/kitchen/dessert/peanut-butter-brittle.html
from Gail Hennessey: http://www.gailhennessey.com/
A Beginner's Guide to Basketball: http://freezone.com/action/basketball/rulebook.html
In preparation for March Madness, learn everything you need to know about
basketball. Whether you want to study the rules, the job of the point
guard, the history or even the specs of the ball, basket, and court, you
can find your answers here.
Seasonal items for March, including crafts and coloring pages: http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/mar.htm
March 2
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1984, as well as three Academy Awards,
Theodor Geisel (best known as Dr. Seuss) authored and illustrated forty-four
children's books. Since his first children's book in 1936, Dr. Seuss has
introduced several generations of kids to the joy of reading. March 2
is his one-hundredth birthday. Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
Green Eggs and Ham: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/titles/greeneggs/
My Many Colored Days: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/titles/days/
Seussville Contests: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/contests/
Suessville Events: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/events/
Seussville Games: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/games/
The Sneetches: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAPhonogramsSneeches1.htm
Ask The Cat: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/askthecat/
Dr. Suess: http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/dr__seuss.html
Dr. Seuss Seussisms: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/titles/seussisms/
Green Eggs And Ham Lesson Plan: http://tlc.ai.org/lessons/egghamlp.htm
Initial and Final Sounds With Dr. Seuss: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LASoundsWDrSuess1.htm
Meet Dr. Seuss: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/morefun/ted.html
Cat In the Hat: http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/1571.html
Dr. Seuss Page: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/4277/dr.html
Dr. Seuss Web Page: http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.home.html
Horton Hatches The Egg: http://www.nancypolette.com/LitGuidesText/horton.htm
Seuss Hamulator: http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/seussham.html
Wacky Wednesday: http://www.canr.uconn.edu/ces/child/newsarticles/CCC713.html
Word Search: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/games/pdf/WordSearch.pdf
Lunch With Dr. Seuss: http://stuart.fcs.net.au/drseuss/lunch-with-dr-seuss.html
Bartholomew And The Oobleck: http://www.bway.net/~starlite/science.htm
Dr. Seuss:
http://www.hummingbirded.com/storytelling_books_seuss.html#suess
http://www.bond.leon.k12.fl.us/seuss.html
Dr. Seuss Characters and Creatures: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/hamel/seuss.html
Dr. Seuss Inspires Read To Kids' Day: http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr059.shtml
Doorknob: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/games/pdf/Doorknob.pdf
Lessons From Dr. Seuss: http://www.auburn.wednet.edu/homepages/ilalko/Seuss.htm
Oh The Places We Went: http://www.weidt.com/Seusslp.html
Daizy-Head Mayzie Review: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seussfiles/dhm.html
Dr. Seuss Cross-Word Search: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seussfiles/ws.html
Dr. Seuss Wav files: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seussfiles/wavs.html
Grinch Quiz: http://www.inkweb.com/grinch/
Seuss Slots: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seussfiles/seusslot.html
Seusville Gift Tags: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/titles/grinch/tags.html
Dr. Seuss Activities: http://atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/drseuss.shtml
http://atozteacherstuff.com/themes/Seuss.shtml
Dr. Seuss Books In Print: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seussfiles/seussbip.html
Dr. Seuss Collection: http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/speccoll/collects/seuss.html
Dr. Seuss Day Page For Teachers: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/9893/thedrsuesspage.html
Great Grinchy Ascii Art: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seusspics/grinch.html
Hop On Pop: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LASoundsWDrSuess1.htm
The Cat In the Hat Ascii Art: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/pics/cnhascii.html
The Grinch Coloring Pages: http://www.outer-limit.net/coloring/grinchpages.shtml
Daizy-Head Mayzie Review: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seussfiles/dhm.html
Dr. Seuss Cross-Word Search: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seussfiles/ws.html
Dr. Seuss Wav files: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seussfiles/wavs.html
Grinch Quiz: http://www.inkweb.com/grinch/
Seuss Slots: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seussfiles/seusslot.html
Seusville Gift Tags: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/titles/grinch/tags.html
Dr. Seuss Activities:
http://atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/drseuss.shtml
http://atozteacherstuff.com/themes/Seuss.shtml
Dr. Seuss Books In Print: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seussfiles/seussbip.html
Dr. Seuss Collection: http://orpheus-1.ucsd.edu/speccoll/collects/seuss.html
Dr. Seuss Day Page For Teachers: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/9893/thedrsuesspage.html
Flip Book: http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/games/pdf/Flipbook.pdf
Great Grinchy Ascii Art: http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/seusspics/grinch.html
Literature Math Crossover: I Can Lick 30 Tigers
Today: http://www.halcyon.com/marcs/litmath.html
Dr. Seuss: Characters and Unusual Creatures: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/hamel/seuss.html
This is a valuable reference site. Visit to peruse a list
of all of Seuss' books, followed by an alphabetic list of all his creatures
(from Aaron, the alligator to Zummers.) Did you know the word "nerd"
dates to 1950 when it first appeared in Dr. Seuss' "If I Ran the
Zoo"? "I'll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep
and a Proo a Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!"
Dr. Seuss National Memorial: http://www.catinthehat.org/
Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, which is now home to
the Dr. Seuss National Memorial. The Geisel biography (All About Dr. Seuss),
the tour of the sculpture garden (National Memorial), and Dr. Seuss Art
Gallery can be found at this site. Although all the work at the gallery
is for sale, you don't need to buy it to enjoy it. The Secret Art Gallery
displays art not created for any of his books.
Infoplease: Dr. Seuss: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/seuss1.html
"His books were originally considered too
outlandish to appeal to children. His first, 'And to Think That I Saw
it on Mulberry Street' (1937), was reputedly rejected by twenty-eight
publishers before it finally found a home at Random House." Infoplease
has a one page bio, and related articles from their encyclopedia. Grinchy
Trivia compares the 2000 live action movie and the 1966 TV movie with
the original "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" book.
March 3
-1878: The Russo-Turkish War ended with the signing of the Treaty of San
Stefano, which called for a large independent Bulgaria. Sponsored
by Russia, the treaty proved intolerable to other European powers who
saw Bulgaria as an outpost of Russian influence. Consequently the
treaty was revised and a much smaller Bulgarian principality was established.
More on Bulgaria's history: http://www.travel-bulgaria.com/explore/history.html
-1922: F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Beautiful and the Damned"
was published to mixed reviews. Fitzgerald's bleakest work, this novel
portrays the life of Anthony and Gloria Patch, a handsome young couple
who loose their dignity in their obsession for wealth and happiness. Gloria
Patch was modeled after Fitzgerald's real-life wife, Zelda. Zelda
was known as "Fitzgerald's crazy wife":: http://www.clark.net/pub/cosmic/zelda8.html
March 4
-1675 John Flamsteed was awarded the position of Astronomer Royal.
-1861 Abraham Lincoln took the US presidential oath of office.
-1933:During a period of economic recession and massive unemployment,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt assumed the US presidency. Roosevelt helped
Americans to regain confidence in their country by creating millions of
jobs, establishing the social security system, and being the chief of
the US armed forces during World War II. Roosevelt was president
during four consecutive terms: http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/fr32.html
-1975 British comedian Charlie Chaplin was knighted at Buckingham Palace
in London. One of the most celebrated actors of the 20th century, Chaplin
entertained millions with his black-and-white silent films and his immortal
character, the little tramp. He died in Switzerland in 1977. Photographs
of Charlie Chaplin: http://www.odysseygroup.com/acm597/chaplin.htm
-1979 Voyager 1 spacecraft sent back a notable image of Jupiter.
March 5
-1770 The "Boston Massacre" took place.
-1856 London's Theatre Royal was destroyed in a fire. This venue was actually
the second one to be built on Covent Garden; the first one was also destroyed
in a fire in 1808. After the second Theatre Royal was destroyed, a third
one renamed the Royal Opera House was founded in 1892, which is the one
still in operation. The Royal Opera House was remodeled to celebrate
the new millenium: http://www.royalopera.org/
-1922 F. W. Murnau's film "Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror"
premiered in Berlin. The most important film by the German director, Nosferatu
was based on the original legend of the vampire. The brilliantly eerie
silent film revolutionized cinematic expression because in it Murnau used
the camera to interpret the mood of the characters. Images from Nosferatu:
http://home.earthlink.net/~jakre/murnau/nosferat.htm
-1946 Winston Churchill spoke of an "iron curtain".
-1963 Country music performers Patsy Cline, "Cowboy" Copas,
and "Hawkshaw" Hawkins were killed in a plane crash.
March 11
-1931 Rupert Murdoch, media mogul was born in Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia. He is the founder of the Fox Entertainment Group
and the News Corp. and owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He has
acquired The Times and The Sunday Times, The New York Post, The New York
Magazine Company, (New York Magazine, New West, The Village Voice). He
also has major interests in other media especially television, films and
publishing, on three continents. He became a US citizen in 1985. He was
treated prostate cancer in 2000.
March 12
-1664 New Jersey became a British colony as King
Charles II granted land to his brother James, the Duke of York.
-1831 Pioneer automaker Clement Studebaker
-1858 New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs
-1912 Juliette Gordon Low organized the first Girl
Scouts of America troop in Savannah, Ga.
-1921 Actor/singer Gordon MacRae
-1922 Novelist Jack Kerouac, Union
leader Lane Kirkland
-1923 Astronaut Wally Schirra in 1923
-1925 Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen died
-1928 Playwright Edward Albee
-1930 Mahatma Gandhi began a campaign of civil disobedience
against British rule in India. by beginning a 200-mile
march to protest a British tax on salt.
-1932 Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young.
-1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the first
of his Sunday evening "fireside chats" -- informal radio addresses
from the White House -- to the American people telling them what
was being done to deal with the nation's economic crisis.
-1938 German troops entered Austria as part of the Anschluss, or union
of the two countries.
-1939 Pope Pius XII was crowned in ceremonies at the Vatican.
-1940 Singer/songwriter Al Jarreau was born.
Finland and the Soviet Union concluded an armistice during World War II.
(Fighting between the two countries flared again the following year.)
-1941 Actress Barbara Feldon
-1946 Liza Minnelli singer/dancer/actress
was born to actress Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli.
She was less than 3 years old when she made her screen debut in the "Good
Old Summertime" (1949). She became the youngest-ever actress to win
a Tony Award at age nineteen. Minnelli has been married three times:
to entertainer Peter Allen, producer Jack Haley, Jr. and to stage manager/sculptor
Mark Gero. In 2000, she was hospitalized twice with viral encephalitis.
-1947 In a speech to Congress, President Truman outlined what became known
as the Truman Doctrine, calling for U.S. aid to help Greece and Turkey
resist communism.
-1948 Singer/songwriter James Taylor
-1962 Baseball player Darryl Strawberry
-1963 The House of Representatives voted to grant former British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill honorary U.S. citizenship.
-1969 Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman in London.
-1990 The Food and Drug Administration approved a nationwide test of a
post-exposure AIDS vaccine developed by polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk.
Exxon pleaded guilty to criminal charges and agreed to pay $100 million
fine in a $1.1 billion settlement of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Also
in 1990, Kuwait City reopened its port for the first time since the Persian
Gulf War. In 1990, South African President F.W. de Klerk introduced legislation
to revise land tenure laws and end racial discrimination in land ownership.
Vice President Quayle met in Santiago, Chile, with Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega, who promised to peacefully relinquish power to Violeta
Chamorro, the U.S.-backed candidate who had won Nicaragua's presidential
election.
-1992 Jim and Tammy Bakker, who ran a multimillion-dollar television evangelism
empire before he went to prison for fleecing his flock, announced they
were divorcing.
-1993 Defense Secretary Aspin recommended closing 31 more major military
bases around the country. Also in 1993, more than 250 people were killed
when a wave of bombings rocked Bombay, India, the country's business capital.
-1994 the Church of England ordained its first women priests.
-1995 World leaders wound up a week-long summit in Copenhagen, Denmark,
committing themselves to fighting poverty, but differing on how to do
so.
-1996 Republican president hopeful Bob Dole swept the Super Tuesday GOP
primaries.
-1999 the former Soviet allies -- the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland
-- joined NATO.
-2000 Pope John Pail II apologized for the errors of his church during
the past 2,000 years.
March 13
1781 Astronomer William Herschel discovered the Georgian Planet.
1947 "Brigadoon" opened at the Ziegfeld in New York.
1988 Japan's underwater Seikan Tunnel was opened.
1881 (March 1st in the Julian calendar) Russian Czar Alexander II was
killed in St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown by a member of the revolutionary
group, "The National Will." A liberal reformer, he embarked
in a process of modernization
that included the abolition of serfdom. In terms of foreign policy, he
refrained from imperialistic actions and sought to protect the Russian
borders. Alexander II was instrumental in decentralizing the Russian
government:
http://www.sptimes.com/Treasures/TC.2.3.17.html
1925 The State of Tennessee prohibited the teaching of Evolution in public
schools and universities. The new law mandated that schools could only
teach the belief that humans were created by God and had not evolved from
lower animals. The law was put to the test by the "Scopes Monkey
Trial," in which John Scopes, a high school teacher, was convicted
for teaching Evolution. More on the Scopes Monkey Trial: http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Scopes/
March 14
Pi Day: http://mam2000.mathforum.org/t2t/faq/faq.pi.html
Each year on March 14th many classrooms break from
their usual routines to observe the festivities of "Pi Day"
because the digits in this date correspond with the first three digits
of (3.14). Activities may include investigations of the value of by approximating
the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle. Some teachers
choose to end their Pi Day celebration by eating pie!
The Story of Pi: http://www.projectmathematics.com/storypi.htm
Pi Day: http://www.winternet.com/~mchristi/piday.html
This site features special pi songs.
Making a Pi Necklace: http://mathforum.org/teachers/middle/activities/pi_day.html
Solving Problems: http://www.marcopolo-education.org/marcograms/Mar2004.html
March 15
Reading Guide to Julius Caesar: http://members.tripod.com/~lklivingston/caesar/
The ides of March are the only thing you'll have to fear with this reading
guide to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Titled a "paraphrase,"
this Web site provides a summary of each act and its scenes, and then
links (via the arrows on each summary page) to the corresponding original
text.
March 16
-1926: Robert Goddard launched the first successful rocket using liquid
fuel. This and his other discoveries are the basis for today's space
flights.
March 17
Awesome Clipart for Kids: St. Patrick's Day: http://www.awesomeclipartforkids.com/stpatricksday.html
The History of St. Patrick's Day: http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/stpatricksday/main.html
Irish Culture and Customs: http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/
Irish recipes for St. Patrick's Day and other occasions:
http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/patrick/recipes.htm
Larry The Leprechaun Fill In Story:
http://abcteach.com/MonthtoMonth/March/LARRY%20THE%20LEPRECHAUN.pdf
Shamrock Shape Book: http://abcteach.com/shapebooks/Holidays/shamshape.htm
St. Patrick's Day: http://familyeducation.com/topic/front/0,1156,22-12773,00.html?ecu03095
St. Patrick's Day: http://www3.kumc.edu/diversity/ethnic_relig/stpats.html
Find out more about the best-known March holiday. This site provides
an overview of the religious and secular history behind the traditions
of St. Patrick's Day. Hyperlinks in the text lead to sources of additional
information, including a glossary of commonly heard St. Patty's Day phrases.
Celebrate all things Irish with websites and activities about the history
and culture of this fair country. Be sure to test your luck with quizzes,
build your family tree, and have a wee bit o' fun with Irish screensavers!
St. Patrick's Day Coloring Page: http://www.coloring.ws/t/patrick/patrick6.htm
St. Patrick's Day Lesson Plans: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/StPatricksDay.htm
St. Patrick's Day Online Games: http://www.kidsdomain.com/games/patrick.html
St. Patrick's Day Trivia Hunt: http://arthur.k12.il.us/arthurgs/stpthunt.htm
St. Patrick's Fun at Kid's Domain: http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/patrick/
March 18
-1949: NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was officially formed.
It was intended to share defense responsibilities amongst all of its member
nations. Despite defections and the many critics over the years, NATO
has survived.
-1965: The first person to leave
a spacecraft and take a walk in space was Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.
He stayed outside for 12 minutes.
March 19
-721 B.C.: According to the Roman historian Ptolemy, Babylonian astronomers
noted history's first recorded eclipse: an eclipse of the moon.
-1589: Plymouth Colony
Gov. William Bradford was born
-1813: Scottish explorer of Africa David Livingstone was
born
-1848: Marshal Wyatt Earp was
born
-1860: Jurist William Jennings Bryan was born
-1891: Chief Justice Earl Warren was born
-1904: "Watergate" Judge John Sirica was
born
-1918: Congress passed the Standard Time Act, which authorized the Interstate
Commerce Commission to establish standard time zones in the United States.
In 1920, the Treaty of Versailles, establishing the League of Nations,
was rejected by the U.S. Senate.
-1928: Actor Patrick
McGoohan was born
-1933: Author Philip Roth was
born
-1936: Actress Ursula Andress was
born
-1942: With World War II under way, all men in the United States between
the ages of 45 and 64, about 13 million, were ordered to register with
the draft boards for non-military duty.
-1947: Actress Glenn
Close was born
-1955: Actor Bruce Willis was
born
-1987: South Carolina televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as head of the
PTL Club, saying he was blackmailed after a sexual encounter with former
church secretary Jessica Hahn.
-1992: Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Andrew and his wife, the
duchess of York, were separating.
-1993: Justice Byron White, the only member of the U.S. Supreme Court
appointed by a Democrat, announced he would retire, opening the way for
President Clinton to make his first high judicial nomination.
-1996: Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole won primaries in Illinois,
Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.
-1997: A federal judge in Phoenix, Az., began sentencing 10 members of
a paramilitary group to prison after they pleaded guilty to various counts,
including conspiracy to make and possess destructive devices. President
Clinton nominated acting CIA director George Tenet to head the agency.
March 21
-1962 Rosie O' Donnell Comedienne, actress; born in Commack, NY; host
of "The Rosie O'Donnell Show." Her father designed cameras
for spy satellites and her mother was a homemaker. When she was 10 her
mother died of cancer, leaving Rosie and her four brothers and sisters
to fend for themselves emotionally. She often sought the comfort of movies
and TV, finding idols and role models in Lucille Ball, Barbra Streisand,
Carol Burnett, and Bette Midler. She plans to leave her talk show
after her contract expires in 2002 in order to spend more time on her
nonprofit organization, Rosie Adoptions, which helps facilitate the adoption
between birth mothers and adoptive families.
March 22
World Water Day
World Water Day Theme Page: http://www.nps.gov/wica/Hydrology/PDF.htm
-1622 Settlers around Jamestown, Virginia were massacred by Algonquian
Indians.
-1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled
from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
-1765 Britain enacted
the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies. (The Act was
repealed the next year.)
-1791 Congress enacted legislation forbidding slave
trading with foreign nations.
-1820 U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed
in a duel with Commodore James Barron near Washington D.C.
-1846: Illustrator Randolph Caldecott was born in Chester, England. The
Caldecott Medal, awarded every year to an outstanding illustrator of children's
literature, was named after Randolph Caldecott.
-1873 The Spanish Crown finally ended slavery in Puerto Rico.
-1882 Congress outlawed polygamy.
-1894 Hockey's first Stanley Cup championship was played. The Montreal
Amateur Athletic Association defeated the Ottawa Capitals.
-1895 The brothers Louis and Auguste Lumiere made the first demonstration
of a motion picture using celluloid film at a private session in Paris.
This presentation was made possible thanks to the "cinematographe,"
a lightweight camera patented by Louis
that allowed for spontaneous filming. The Lumiere's technical innovations
radically changed the nascent motion film art: http://www.presscard.com/sprocketholes2.html
-1913 Karl Malden born
-1931 William Shatner Actor; born in Montreal, Canada; starred on the
"Star Trek" TV series and films as Captain James T. Kirk.
Though he was always best known for his portrayal of Kirk, Shatner also
found a good deal of success as the star of "T. J. Hooker,"
a TV drama about a veteran police officer (1982-86). From 1989 to 1995,
he hosted "Rescue 911," a popular reality-based TV show.
He faced personal tragedy in August 1999 when his wife, Nerine, was found
dead in the swimming pool of their home in Los Angeles. Shatner
married his fourth wife, horse trainer Elizabeth Martin, on February 13,
2001. (May he live long and prosper.)
-1933 During Prohibition, President Roosevelt signed
a measure to legalize wine and beer containing up to 3.2% alcohol.
-1945 Seven countries formed the
League of Arab States in Cairo. The League is a regional organization
that seeks to promote closer ties among member-states and coordinate their
economic, cultural, and security plans. The League is composed today by
22 members. The headquarters of the League are located in Cairo.
-1946 The first American-built rocket left the Earth's atmosphere.
The British mandate in Transjordan came to an end.
-1948 British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber born
-1952 Sportscaster Bob Costas born
-1959 Actor Matthew Modine born
-1968 President Johnson recalled Gen. William Westmoreland as commander
of U.S. troops in Vietnam and made him Army chief of staff. Gen. Creighton
Abrams took over in Saigon.
-1972 Canadian skater Elvis Stojko was born, The Senate passed and
sent to the states for ratification the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
a measure popularly known as the Equal Rights Amendment. However, the
required number of states -- 38 -- failed to ratify it before the deadline.
-1976 Actress Reese Witherspoon born
-1978 Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of
The Flying Wallendas high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting
to walk a cable strung between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
-1987 Chad troops drove Libyan forces from a key airstrip in northern
Chad, apparently ending Moammar Gadhafi's seven-year occupation. The Libyans
abandoned $500 million worth of Soviet-made tanks and airplanes.
-1990: A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found former
tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of three major charges in connection
with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but convicted him of a minor charge of
negligent discharge of oil.
-1992 27 people were killed when a US Air plane bound for Cleveland skidded
off a runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport during a snowstorm and landed
in the bay.
-1993 a U.S. nuclear submarine collided with a Russian nuclear sub in
a Russian training area in the Barents Sea. There were no casualties.
-1995 Brian "Kato" Kaelin, a houseguest at O-J Simpson's estate,
testified at the former athlete's double murder trial in Los Angeles.
Shouting erupted in the U.S. House of Representatives
as Democrats bitterly accused majority Republicans of trying to ram through
a mean-spirited welfare overhaul bill.
-1997 Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth -- about 122
million miles.
-1999 Dr. Jack Kevorkian went on trial on murder
charges, telling a jury in Pontiac, Mich., he was merely carrying out
his professional duty in a videotaped assisted death. (Kevorkian was convicted
of second-degree murder.)
-2000 Pope John Paul II visited a Palestinian refugee camp and declared
the conditions there to be "degrading."
March 23
-1765 the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act for taxing the American
colonies, an action that became a major grievance for rebellious colonials
-1775 in a speech supporting the arming of the Virginia militia, Patrick
Henry declared, "Give me liberty or give me death" from Britain
-1806 Explorers Lewis and Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began
their journey back east
-1857 Culinary expert Fannie Farmer was born
-1900 Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm was born
-1908 Actress Joan Crawford was born
-1910 Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was born
-1912 Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun was born
-1919 Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan,
Italy
-1929 Roger Bannister Athlete and neurologist; born in Harrow, England;
he studied at Oxford, and completed his medical training at St. Mary's
Hospital, London, in 1954. At an athletics meeting at Iffley Road, Oxford,
on 6 May 1954, he became the first man to run the mile in under 4 minutes
(3 min 59 sec). He was knighted in 1975, and appointed Master of Pembroke
College, Oxford, in 1985.
-1933 German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted
Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers
-1938 Former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson Jr. was born
-1942 Japanese-Americans were forcibly moved from their homes along the
Pacific Coast to inland internment camps during World War II
-1950 At the Academy Awards, "All The King's Men" won best picture
of 1949. Its star, Broderick Crawford, won best actor. Olivia de Havilland
won best actress for "The Heiress."
-1953 Comedian Louie Anderson and singer Chaka Khan was born
-1956 Pakistan became an independent republic within the British Commonwealth.
-1957 Actresses Amanda Plummer was born
-1965 America's first two-person space flight began as Gemini 3 blasted
off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young aboard
-1966 Pope Paul VI met Britain's archbishop of Canterbury at the Sistine
Chapel in the Vatican, the first meeting between the heads of the Roman
Catholic and Anglican churches in 400 years
-1976 Keri Russell ("Felicity") was born
-1983 the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart, Barney
Clark of Seattle, died in at the University of Utah Medical Center after
112 days with the device.
-1985 the United States completed the secret air evacuation of 800 Ethiopian
Jews to Israel
-1990: Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood was sentenced by a
judge in Anchorage, Alaska, to help clean up Prince William Sound and
paid $50,000 for his role in the oil spill
-1993 President Clinton held his first full-blown White House news conference
on his 62nd day in office
-1994 The nominee of the ruling party in Mexico was shot to death just
after delivering a campaign speech in Tijuana. A suspect believed to be
the gunman was arrested immediately
-1995 Secretary of State Warren Christopher met with Russian Foreign Minister
Andrei Kozyrev in Geneva. Afterward, Kozyrev said the U.S.-Russia "honeymoon
has come to an end," referring to disagreements over Chechnya and
nuclear sales to Iran.
-1996 Taiwan elected Lee Teng-hui in the island nation's first direct
presidential election. -1998 Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired
his entire cabinet. "Titanic" won 11 Academy Awards, tying the
record total won by "Ben-Hur" in 1959.
-1999 The vice president of Peru was assassinated. NATO Secretary-General
Javier Solana gave the formal go-ahead for air strikes against Serbian
targets following the failure of Kosovo peace talks.
March 24
-1874 Harry Houdini Magician; born Ehrich Weiss in Budapest, Hungary;
The son of a rabbi, he emigrated to Appleton, Wisconsin, and borrowed
the name of a French magician. He specialized in escaping from padlocked
chains, cells, straitjackets, and underwater boxes. His escapes in public
locales were covered in the international press and in 1910 he started
a company to film his feats. Founder of the Society of American Magicians,
he campaigned against mind readers and mediums who claimed to possess
supernatural powers, but he encouraged attempts to contact him through
a medium after his death.
March 25
-1911: In a tragedy that galvanized America's labor movement, 146 immigrant
workers were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company
in New York.
-1634: Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord
Baltimore.
-1865: During the Civil War, Confederate forces captured Fort Stedman
in Virginia.
-1894: Jacob Coxey began leading an army of unemployed from Massillon,
Ohio, to Washington D.C., to demand help from the federal government.
-1913: The home of Vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York
City.
-1918: French composer Claude Debussy died in Paris.
-1947: A coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill., killed 111.
-1957: The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community.
-1965: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol
in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
-1975: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with
a history of mental illness. The nephew was beheaded the following June.
-1982: Canada officially became an independent nation. Canada had been
unofficially governing herself since 1867 but on March 25, 1982 Queen
Elizabeth II of Great Britain signed the Canada Act which ratified the
Canadian Constitution and made the country officially independent. It
took 115 years to achieve but Canada reached her independence without
any bloodshed.
-1994: American troops completed their withdrawal from
Somalia.
-1990: Eighty-seven people, most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants,
were killed when fire raced through an illegal social club in New York
City.
-1995: Mike Tyson was released from the Indiana Youth Center after serving
three years for the 1992 rape of Desiree Washington, a beauty pageant
contestant.
-1999: NATO aircraft and missiles blasted targets in Yugoslavia for a
second night, directing much of their fire on Kosovo, where fighting raged
between Serbs and ethnic Albanians.
March 28
-AD 193 After three months in power, Roman Emperor Publius Helvius Pertinax
was murdered by the Praetorian Guard. An able manager, Pertinax sought
to balance the finances of the Empire, which forced him to reduce the
donative soldiers were to receive. Resentment from the guards led to the
emperor's death. Pertinax's murder was the beginning of a prolonged
civil war:
http://www.salve.edu/~romanemp/pertinax.htm
-1910 The first seaplane took off from water and flew for 1,650 feet.
-1930 The Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora changed their names
to Istanbul and Ankara, respectively.
-1939 The Nationalist forces of Gen. Francisco Franco occupied Madrid,
virtually ending the Spanish Civil War and starting a fascist dictatorship
in Spain. With Franco's triumph, the Republican forces lost any possibility
of improving the standard of living of landless peasants and of separating
the Church from the State. Images from the Spanish Civil War:
http://burn.ucsd.edu/scw.htm
-1979 The most serious nuclear accident in the US occurred at the Three
Mile Island power plant in Pennsylvania.
March 29
-1945: Basketball legend Walt Frazier was born in Atlanta, Georgia. With
his Rolls Royce car, flamboyant wardrobe that featured knee-length fur
coats, and stylish fedora hats, Walt Frazier was the toast of New York
City as a member of the Knicks from 1967 to 1977. On the court, Frazier
was "super cool." His quick hands on defense combined with his
calm, cool and collected demeanor on the court, earned him the nickname
"Clyde." The cornerstone of Knick teams
for a decade, Frazier first caught the attention of pro scouts while playing
at Southern Illinois University. A Division II All-America in 1964 and
1965 and a Division I All-America in 1967, Frazier led the Salukis to
the 1967 NIT championship and was named Tournament MVP. Frazier was the
first-round choice of the Knicks in the 1967 NBA draft, and earned NBA
All-Rookie honors. Frazier's smooth play electrified crowds at Madison
Square Garden. His offensive repertoire was a blend of smooth drives to
the bucket and mid-range jump shots that burned opponents for 15,581 points
(18.9 ppg) during his career. Even with an All-Star cast, Frazier led
the Knicks in scoring five times. An adept passer, Frazier dished out
5,040 assists during his career (6.1 apg) and led the Knicks in assists
10 straight years. Many of those passes were directed to fellow Hall of
Famers Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, Dave DeBusschere, Jerry Lucas and Earl
"The Pearl" Monroe. Frazier, Reed, Bradley and DeBusschere copped
the 1970 NBA title, and with the addition of Lucas and Monroe, the Knicks
repeated in 1973.
March 30
-1746: Spanish painter Francisco Jose de Goya was born
-1820: English author Anna Sewell ("Black Beauty") was born
-1822: Florida became a U.S. territory.
-1840: English social reformer Charles Booth was born
-1842: Dr. Crawford W. Long of Georgia first used ether as an anesthetic
during a minor operation.
-1853: Vincent Van Gogh was born
in Holland
-1867: U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward signed a treaty
with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million, two
cents and acre, a deal roundly ridiculed as "Seward's
Folly" , convinced it was a waste of even that much money. But
just 13 years later, gold was discovered in Juneau! To see Alaska's
treasures, take a virtual
tour.
-1870: the 15th amendment to the Constitution, giving black men the right
to vote, was declared in effect.
-1870: Texas was readmitted to the Union.
-1880: Irish dramatist Sean O'Casey was born
-1909: the Queensboro Bridge, linking the New York boroughs of Manhattan
and Queens, opened.
-1913: Former CIA Director Richard Helms and singer Frankie Laine were
born
-1923: the Cunard liner "Laconia" arrived
in New York City, becoming the first passenger ship to circumnavigate
the world, a cruise of 130 days.
-1927: TV host Peter Marshall was
born
-1929: Actor Richard Dysart was born
-1930: Actor John Astin was born
-1937: Actor Warren Beatty was born
-1945: the Soviet Union invaded Austria during World War II. British blues/rock
guitarist Eric Clapton was born.
-1957: Actor Paul Reiser was born
-1963: Singer Hammer was born
-1964: "Jeopardy!", the "thinking
person's game show," premiered on television. Singer
Tracy Chapman was born.
-1968: Singer Celine Dion was
born.
-1975: the South Vietnamese city of Da Nang fell
to North Vietnamese forces.
-1979: Airey Neave, a leading member of the British parliament, was killed
by a bomb planted by the Irish National Liberation Army.
- 1981: President Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington,
D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr. Also wounded were White House press
secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent and a District of Columbia
police officer.
-1989: "The Heidi Chronicles" by Wendy Wasserstein won the Pulitzer
Prize for drama; in the journalism category, the Anchorage Daily News
won the public service award for its reports on alcoholism and suicide
among native Alaskans.
-1990: Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus vetoed a restrictive
abortion bill, ending the anti-abortion forces' goal of giving Supreme
Court a chance to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
-1992: "The Silence of the Lambs" swept the 64th annual Academy
Awards, including best picture, best director, best actor for Anthony
Hopkins and best actress for Jodie Foster.
-1993: a two-state custody battle over a 2-year-old girl took a dramatic
turn when the Michigan Court of Appeals ordered the child who'd been living
with her custodial parents in Michigan since shortly after birth returned
to her biological parents in Iowa. After 43 years, the unthinkable happened
on the comic pages -- Charlie Brown was a hero when he hit a homerun and
his baseball team won for the first time.
-1994: Serbs and Croats signed a cease-fire to end their war in Croatia
while Bosnian Muslims and Serbs continued to battle each other. The Clinton
administration announced it was lifting virtually all export controls
on non-military products to China and the former Soviet bloc.
-1995: the compromise "don't ask, don't tell,
don't pursue" policy allowing homosexuals to serve in the military
under certain conditions was struck down by a federal judge in New York
as unconstitutional.
In 1997, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he warned Chinese leaders that
the United States would intervene militarily if China attacked Taiwan.
-1998: Rolls-Royce was purchased by German automaker BMW in a $570 million
deal. Armenian Premier Robert Kocharian was
elected president in a run-off election in the former Soviet republic.
The University of Kentucky Wildcats won the NCAA basketball title for
the second time in three years and the seventh time overall.
-1999: a jury in Oregon awarded $81 million dollars in damages to the
family of a smoker who had died from lung cancer. The plaintiff in the
case, tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris, promised to appeal. A state
judge later reduced the punitive portion of the judgment to $32 million.
March 31
-1492: King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued an edict expelling
those Jews unwilling to convert to Christianity.
-1889: French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor
from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion.
-1917: the U.S. took possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
-1923: the first U.S. dance marathon, held in New York City, ended with
Alma Cummings setting a world record of 27 hours on her feet.
-1933: Congress authorized the Civilian Conservation Corps.
-1943: Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "Oklahoma!" opened
on Broadway.
-1945: the Tennessee Williams play "The Glass Menagerie" opened
on Broadway.
-1949: Newfoundland entered confederation as Canada's 10th province.
-1968: President Johnson stunned the country by announcing he would not
run for another term of office.
-1976: the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that coma patient Karen Anne
Quinlan could be disconnected from her respirator.
-1986: 167 people died when a Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashed in
a remote mountainous region of Mexico.
-1989: The FBI announced it would conduct a criminal investigation into
the massive oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound.
-1994: The PLO and Israel agreed to resume talks on Palestinian autonomy,
more than a month after the Hebron mosque massacre.
-1995: Mexican-American singer Selena, 23, was shot to death in Corpus
Christi, Texas, by the founder of her fan club.
-1998: For the first time in history, the Clinton administration released
a detailed financial statement for the federal government showing its
assets and liabilities. The U.N. Security Council imposed a new arms embargo
on Yugoslavia to pressure the Serbs into concessions concerning ethnic
Albanians in Kosovo. Former New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug died at
age 77. |
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