Today is...
Old New Year's Day!

Although the Gregorian calendar was created in 1582, many countries chose to ignore it for several hundred years. Instead, they used “Annunciation Style dating,” which recognized the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25) as New Year’s Day.
England didn’t adopt our modern-day Gregorian calendar until 1751. Russia held out until 1918! In fact, people in Russia, Switzerland, Macedonia, Georgia, Belarus, and Serbia still celebrate the Old New Year.
Plan a grand feast with family and friends to celebrate the occasion. Happy Old New Year!

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March is International Ideas Month & National Craft Month & National Peanut Month

This week is National Spring Fever Week

 

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		History for March 25th 1668 - First horse race in America (Salisbury Plain, Long Island, New York).   1807 - Swansea and Mumbles (Oystermouth) Railway: the world's first fare-paying passenger carrying railway, begins running..   1913 -  The Palace theatre, the premiere venue for vaudeville acts, open. 1955 -  U.S. Customs officials seize shipment of Allen Ginsberg's book "Howl", on grounds of obscenity. 1994 - Prompted by the "Black Hawk Down" incident, American troops leave Somalia. ______________________________________________________ "I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done." - Rachel Carson