April 2010
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spaghetti tree
On April Fools’ Day 1957, the BBC’s news show Panorama broadcast a 3 minute program showing spaghetti being harvested from spaghetti trees.
March 2010
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april's fool
Today is April 1st. April used to be the second month of the year. King Numa Pompilius added February and March to the calendar in the year 700 B.C.
Aprilis is the Latin name, traditionally considered to have been derived from aperire, which means to open, an allusion to spring. It is April Fools’ Day, a day of pranks that’s origin is traced to Chaucer’s Canterbury...
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You, Andrew Marvell →
born March 31, 1621.
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Emil Dimitrov →
Bulgarian singer, died March 30, 2005.
The Starry Night
by Anne Sexton
That does not keep me from having a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out at night to paint the stars. —Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother The town does not exist except where one black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.
The town is silent. The night...
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A Brown Girl Dead
by Countee Cullen
With two white roses on her breasts, White candles at head and feet, Dark Madonna of the grave she rests; Lord Death has found her sweet. Her mother pawned her wedding ring To lay her out in white; She’d be so proud she’d dance and sing to see herself tonight.
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two fat ladies
March 29th is the 88th day of the year. 88 is ham radio code for hugs and kisses, double luck in china, the number of keys on a piano and name of a town in kentucky. 88 is called two fat ladies in bingo. On today’s date in 1848, Niagara Falls ran dry.
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