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TIDBITS® SAYS HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO
MARCH BABIESby Kathy Wolfe
You’ll recognize most of these folks, but what do they all have in common? They were all born during the month of March!• In his younger years, we knew him as Opie Taylor and Richie Cunningham, but today he’s a famous film director and producer, having brought us such memora-ble films as “Splash,” “Cocoon,” “Apollo 13,” “A Beau-tiful Mind” and “The Da Vinci Code.” Ron Howard ap-peared in his first movie at the age of 18 months, the 1956 film “Frontier Woman.” He portrayed Opie Taylor living in Mayberry from 1960 to 1968, and starred in “Happy Days” from 1974 to 1980. Howard was actu-ally a sixth cousin to his “Andy Griffith” co-star Don “Barney Fife” Knotts. Howard has been married to his high school sweetheart since 1975. • March 2 seems to be a popular day for the birth of musicians. In 1950, mellow crooner and drummer Kar-en Carpenter of the popular 1970s duo The Carpenters was born in Connecticut. On the same day five years later, Jay Osmond of Osmond Brothers fame was born, and the next year, John Cowsill of the 1960s pop group The Cowsills made his appearance. Jon Bon Jovi and English musician Chris Martin of Coldplay share that March 2 birth date as well.
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MARCH BABIES (continued):• The 7-foot, 1-inch (2.16-m) tall, 325-pound (147-kg) basketball star Shaquille O’Neal turns 39 this month. O’Neal traverses the court wearing a size 23 shoe. He was drafted out of Louisiana State Univer-sity as the first overall pick in NBA’s 1992 draft by the Orlando Magic. His 18-year career has moved him from the Magic to the Los Angeles Lakers, on to the Miami Heat, Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cava-liers and in 2010, to the Boston Celtics. He’s racked up three All-Star Game MVP awards, three Finals MVP’s, and was selected for the All-NBA team 14 times. During his hot 2000 season, he was the NBA MVP, All-Star Game MBP and Finals MVP, one of only three players to accomplish this feat in the same year. O’Neal is fifth in all-time points scored. Off the court, he has released four rap albums and starred in two of his own reality shows. • The first British royal baby to have a public chris-tening was Princess Eugenie of York, the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, former Duchess. Eugenie, born in March of 1990, is sixth in the line of succession to the throne. • The Muscular Dystrophy Labor Day Telethon has been hosted every year since 1966 by comedian Jerry Lewis. Born Jerome Levitch, Lewis got his start in 1946 when he paired up with Dean Mar-tin, and the two began a series of comedy films. In the late 1960s, Lewis taught a film directing class at the University of Southern California, teaching students that included a young Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. The first MD fundraiser brought in $1,002,114, while 2010’s reached $58,919,838. Since its inception, it has raised over $2.5 billion.
• It was a wonderful day in the neighborhood from 1968 to 2001 when March baby Fred Rogers hosted the children’s program “Mister Rogers’ Neighbor-hood.” A typical episode might include a field trip to a local business, a visit with the television audi-ence, a live guest, and a time to feed his fish Fennel and Frieda. The gentle, soft-spoken Fred had a mu-sic composition degree, and in fact, composed most of the music used on the Emmy-winning program. Rogers was also an ordained Presbyterian minister. Many of his trademark cardigan sweaters were made by his mother. You can view a red cardigan worn by Rogers at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History. Interestingly, Rogers never saw his sweater as red, since he was red-green color blind.
• Born in March of 1956, Swedish skier Ingemar Stenmark has won more races than any other skier in history. The gold medal winner in slalom and gi-ant slalom at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics began skiing at age five, winning his first national compe-tition at age eight.
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1. Name the two people and two teams involved in the only trade of managers in major-league history.2. How many consecutive years did Chicago White Sox knuckleballer Wilbur Wood win at least 20 games?3. When was the last time before the 2009 season that SMU’s football team played in a bowl game?4. In 1978-79 and 1979-80, George Gervin led the NBA in scoring, while the same player was second both times. Who was it, and what team did he play for? 5. Who is the only person to win the Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the year three times with three different teams?6. Name the two people to have won a men’s World Cup soccer crown as a player and as a coach. 7. In how many weight divisions has boxer Manny Pacquiao won titles?
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Ronald Reagan was laid to rest. Who served as Ronald Reagan’s vice president during both of his terms of office?
10. On the Wednesday before his funeral a caisson carried President Reagan through the streets of Washington D.C. A single muffled drum beat a slow rhythm, and a riderless horse followed close behind. What is a caisson?
11. What significant New York attraction re-opened in 2004 after having been closed since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New York?
12. The Summer Olympics were held in 2004. What city hosted the event?
13. In one of the closest Super Bowl games ever, the Carolina Panthers played the New England Patriots. Who won?
14. The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series. Who did they beat to take the title of World Champions?
15. In 2004 a new war memorial was opened up in Washington DC honoring the veterans of what war?
16. Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in a federal prison and five months of house arrest. What was she convicted of?
17. Hollywood lost several notable celebrities in 2004. Which of the following did not die in 2004: Ray Charles, Marlon Brando, Janet Leigh, Don Knotts, or Isabel Sanford?
18. Name the U.S. Senator whose name somehow got on the federal government’s “no-fly” list and had trouble getting it removed?
19. United Airlines launched a discount airline in 2004. Name the airline.
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There is an old Egyptian legend that says Tourma-line has a wide variety of colors because, as it made its way up from the center of the earth, it passed over a rainbow. In so doing, it took on all the colors of the rainbow. Indeed, if you like a variety of color in your gems, you will love Tourmaline. Even the name “Tourmaline” helps to define the gem as it comes from two Singhalese words “tura mali” which loosely translated means “stone with mixed colors.” There are Tourmaline gems from red to green and from blue to yellow. They often have two or more colors in a single stone. Some Tourmaline changes color when taken outdoors and then changes again when brought into artificial light. No two Tourmaline are exactly alike so you can probably find one to meet a variety of your personal needs or moods. The wide color spectrum of Tourma-line surpasses that of all other precious stones. In ancient times magical powers were attributed to this stone. Today it is considered the gemstone of passion and friendship. Some believe that if you give your beloved a Tourmaline that your love will be miraculously enduring.
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• Two of the actors who have portrayed James Bond were March babies. Welsh actor Timothy Dalton was the secret agent in 1987’s “The Liv-ing Daylights” and 1989’s “License to Kill.” When Dalton was just 22 years old, he was approached by Albert Broccoli to replace Sean Connery for the role. Dalton turned him down, feeling he was too young to play Bond. He was actually consid-ered four separate times before finally taking it at age 46. British actor and March baby Daniel Craig is the current Bond, the sixth actor have the part. We’ve seen him in 2006’s “Casino Royale” and 2008’s “Quantum of Solace.”
• In the midst of the JFK assassination contro-versy was the figure Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald. As deputies prepared to transfer Oswald from police headquarters to the county jail, Ruby stepped from the crowd and shot the 24 year old in the abdomen during a live television broadcast. A Dallas nightclub owner, Ruby had connections with gangsters, leading to the theory that Ruby was part of a large-scale conspiracy. He denied it, stating that his only motive was to spare Jackie Kennedy the trauma of having to ap-pear at Oswald’s trial. Less than four months after the murder, Ruby was convicted and received the death penalty. His lawyers appealed, arguing that he could not have received a fair trial in the city of Dallas. The appellate court agreed and granted a new trial in a different venue, overturning his con-viction and sentence. Two months before the new trial was to begin, Ruby entered Dallas’ Parkland Hospital (the same hospital where both Kennedy and Oswald had been declared dead), suffering from pneumonia. One day later, he was diagnosed with liver, lung and brain cancer, and three weeks later, Ruby was dead. To the very end he main-tained that he alone was responsible for Oswald’s death, saying, “There is nothing to hide. There was no one else.”
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ALBERT EINSTEINThe name of Albert Einstein is synonymous with the word “genius,” but it nearly didn’t turn out that way. Follow along as Tidbits examines the life of this famous physicist, philosopher and author, born in March of 1879.• Experiencing difficulties with language, Albert Einstein didn’t begin to speak until he was nearly four years old. He didn’t read until age nine and was considered slow and even borderline mentally retarded by some of his teachers. The headmaster of his school advised Einstein’s parents to send him to a trade school. There was nothing wrong with his intelligence — the real problem was dyslexia, and when he transferred to a school that stressed “cre-ative thinking and hands-on learning,” Einstein’s academic performance took a giant leap forward. • In 1896, at the age of 17, he renounced his citi-zenship in the German Kingdom of Wurttemberg to avoid conscription in the military. He enrolled in Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology,
where he received his diploma in 1901 and ac-quired Swiss citizenship the same year. When Ein-stein couldn’t find a teaching position after months of searching, he took a job as an examiner in the Swiss Patent Office evaluating patent applications for electromagnetic devices, a position he held for seven years. • During his employ at the Patent Office, Einstein earned his doctorate from the University of Zurich and began publishing papers on the photoelectric effect, relativity, and matter and energy. His ear-lier papers attempted to prove that atoms exist and were written at a time when physicists did not ac-cept this view. • The 20th century’s best-known equation was Ein-stein’s E = mc2, which suggests that small amounts of mass could be converted into large amounts of energy. He was finally being recognized by the
academic world and by 1908, at age 29, was con-sidered a leading scientist. A teaching position was finally his at the University of Zurich. • By 1914, Einstein was once again a German citizen and director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. In 1921, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. • In 1933, as the Nazis rose to power in Germany under Adolf Hitler, Jews were barred from teach-ing at universities. The Nazis began book burn-ings, and Einstein’s works were some of the first to go. His name was on a list of assassination targets. He renounced his German citizenship, emigrated to the United States and became the Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton University.• In 1939, as World War II was brewing, Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt warn-
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¥ It was computer guru Jef Raskin who made the fol-lowing sage observation: “Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.” ¥ Most people think of Abraham Lincoln as an iconic president and the Great Emancipator, but many don’t realize that he also was an inventor. He was issued patent No. 6,469 for an inflatable device he designed to help buoy river-going vessels over shoals. ¥ In Somalia it is common for a girl to be engaged before she is even born. ¥ If you get squeamish around bugs, you might not want to read the following little tidbit of informa-tion: Nearly every human carries around tiny eyelash mites that live out their entire lives on our faces -- in-cluding mating and laying eggs there. ¥ Due to a series of earthquakes in 1811 and 1812, the Mississippi River ran backward for a time. ¥ An enterprising inventor named Andrew Schnei-der has come up with the latest geek apparel: a solar bikini. With it, you can tan while also charging up your iPod. No word on whether there are solar swim trunks in the pipeline for men. ¥ J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books are so popular worldwide that now they’re not even being writing by Rowling herself. The booming bootleg industry in China seems to have taken the Potter series to heart, creating such titles as “Harry Potter and the Leopard
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Many Christians have a gold mine in their home and do not even know it. You may even be one of them. A gold mine…in my home…what in the world do you mean? I am talking about the Bible. Many people have a copy that simply sits on the shelf or is used as a decorator piece on a coffee table or hutch. It lays there month in and month out, collecting dust and looking pretty, but never having an impact on our lives. And the reason I call it a gold mine is that anything and everything you will ever need or want in this life can be found in its pages. The Bible is the living and active Word of God, the very one that created you and me. Jesus is called “The Word of Life” and for anyone who will read their Bible, that is just what you will find, LIFE! Listen to what The Message says in 1 Tim 3:16, “There’s nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another—showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us.”In these pages of the Bible you will discover that there is a wonderful relationship waiting for you. It is Jesus Christ himself, waiting with open arms to come into your life and to begin an eternal relationship with you. You see Jesus, through the death of the cross, paid the ultimate price for you and me, so that we would not have to. He took your sins, He took your sickness and disease, and now He is inviting you to come and live an abundant life with Him. But each of us has a free will; God will never make you do anything. But the Good News is He is as close as a single prayer. Again, listen to what “The Message” says in Romans 10:10, The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest. It’s the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God—”Jesus is my Master”—embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!” Let me encourage you to find a good church this weekend and find out more about this wonderful relationship with Jesus Christ. You will never be the same again!
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1. Name the three bands that Randy Bachman has been associated with.
2. Which rock group is known for the follow-ing songs: “30 Days in the Hole,” “Natural Born
Bugie” and “I Don’t Need No Doctor”?3. “The Heat Is On” was featured in which 1984
film?4. Name the group that released “This Old Heart of Mine”? Bonus: What well-known singer cov-
ered the song a decade later?5. Name the one hit by Crazy Elephant.
6. Is Percy Sledge the brother of Sister Sledge?
Answers1. The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive
and Ironhorse.2. Humble Pie. The group formed in 1968.
3. “Beverly Hills Cop.” The song only hit No. 12 on the pop charts but became the theme song for
the NBA’s Miami Heat in 1988.4. The Isley Brothers, in 1966. The song went to No. 6 on the R&B charts. Rod Steward covered
the song in 1976, with less success.5. “Gimme Gimme Good Lovin,” in 1969,
reached No. 12 on the charts. Other songs didn’t make it into the Top 100.
6. Nope. Percy was born in 1941 in Alabama. Sis-ter Sledge is a four-sister group born in Philadel-phia from 1954 to 1961. They formed the group
in 1972.
¥ On March 15, 45 B.C, Julius Caesar, the “dictator for life” of the Roman Empire, is murdered by his own senators at a meeting in a hall next to Pompey’s Theatre. The conspiracy against Caesar encompassed as many as 60 noblemen, including Caesar’s own protege, Marcus Brutus.
¥ On March 20, 1345, according to scholars at the Uni-versity of Paris, the Black Death, also known as the Plague, is created from what they call “a triple conjunc-tion of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the 40th degree of Aquarius. It is now known that bubonic plague was car-ried by fleas.
¥ On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer, in Ulm, Germany. Ein-stein’s theories of relativity drastically altered man’s view of the universe, and his work helped make possible the atomic bomb.
¥ On March 17, 1905, future president Franklin Delano Roosevelt weds his fifth cousin once removed, Eleanor Roosevelt, in New York. In 1918, Eleanor was devas-tated to discover that Franklin was having an affair with her secretary, Lucy Mercer. When Eleanor threatened to leave him, his mother intervened and offered to support Eleanor financially if she would stay in the marriage.
¥ On March 18, 1911, Irving Berlin copyrights the big-gest pop song of the early 20th century, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” In the first two decades of the 20th cen-tury, musical popularity was based not on the sale of recorded performances, but on the sale of sheet music. Future Berlin hits would include “White Christmas” and “God Bless America.”
¥ On March 16, 1926, American Robert H. Goddard launches the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket at Au-burn, Mass. The rocket, fueled by liquid oxygen and
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