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MARCH BABIES

by 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 Tay-lor and Richie Cunningham, but today he’s a famous film director and producer, having brought us such memorable films as “Splash,” “Cocoon,” “Apollo 13,” “A Beautiful Mind” and “The Da Vinci Code.” Ron Howard appeared 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 actually a sixth cousin to his “Andy Griffith” co-star Don “Barney Fife” Knotts. Howard has been married to his high school sweet-heart since 1975. • March 2 seems to be a popular day for the birth of musicians. In 1950, mellow crooner and drummer Karen Carpenter of the popular 1970s duo The Car-penters 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 appear-ance. Jon Bon Jovi and English musician Chris Mar-tin of Coldplay share that March 2 birth date as well.

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The 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 earlier 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. • 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 burnings, 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-ing him of the possibility that the Nazis might be working on an atomic bomb. It was Einstein’s rec-ommendation that the United States should begin research into the use of uranium, and the top secret “Manhattan Project” was put in place to develop the first nuclear weapons. Although Einstein himself did not work on the bomb project, he later expressed sadness that the bomb was used against civilian populations, saying, “I made one great mistake in my life — when I signed the letter to President Roo-sevelt, but there was some justification — the dan-ger that the Germans would make them.”

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So, she finds a suitable sperm donor (Patrick Wil-son). At Kassi’s “insemination party,” her neurotic -- and very drunk -- best friend Wally (Jason Bate-man) switches his baby batter with the donor’s. And because he’s three sheets to the wind, he promptly forgets what he’s done the next day.Fast-forward seven years, and Wally begins to no-tice that Kassi’s son, Sebastian, exhibits the same neurotic qualities as himself. Cue Hilarity and Anis-tonian Waterworks.

TV SERIES“Coach: The Fourth Season”“Batman: The Brave and the Bold” Season One, Part Two“Who Do You Think You Are?” Season One “Nature: Predators: Moment of Impact”“Nature: Extraordinary Birds”“Nova Science Now: How Does the Brain Work”“The Morgana Show”“Babylon 5: The Movie Collection”“Red Green Show: The Delinquent Years” (Sea-sons 1997-99) “Gunslinger Girl” Complete Collection“The Virginian” The Complete Third Season“Laramie” The Complete First Season“D. Gray-Man” Season Two

TOP TEN MOVIES1. Unknown (PG-13) Liam Neeson, January Jones2. I Am Number Four (PG-13) Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant3. Gnomeo & Juliet (G) animated4. Just Go With It (PG-13) Adam Sandler, Jen-nifer Aniston5. Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (PG-13) Martin Lawrence, Brandon T. Jackson6. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (G) Justin Bieber, Usher7. The King’s Speech (R) Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter8. The Roommate (PG-13) Leighton Mester, Minka Kelly9. The Eagle (PG-13) Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell10. No Strings Attached (R) Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher

TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD of February 26, 2011

Top 10 Video Rentals1. Red (PG-13) Bruce Willis2. Life As We Know It (PG-13) Katherine Heigl3. Secretariat (PG) Diane Lane4. Paranormal Activity 2 (R) Brian Boland5. The Social Network (PG-13) Jesse Eisen-berg6. Let Me In (R) Kodi-Smit McPhee7. You Again (PG) Kristen Bell8. Takers (PG-13) Chris Brown9. My Soul to Take (R) Max Thieriot10. Conviction (R) Hilary Swank

Top 10 DVD Sales1. Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 (G) (Disney)2. Red (PG-13) (Summit)3. Secretariat (PG) (Disney)4. Open Season 3 (PG-13) (Sony)5. Let Me In (R) (Anchor Bay)6. Saw: The Final Chapter (R) (Lionsgate)7. Despicable Me (PG) (Universal)8. Takers (PG-13) (Sony)9. The Social Network (PG-13) (Sony)10. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (PG-13) (Sum-mit)

PICKS OF THE WEEK“The Fighter” (R) -- Directed by David O. Rus-sell (“Three Kings”), “The Fighter” is an above-average boxing movie about the real-life story of Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and his unconven-tional road to winning the light-welterweight title.Like most sports movies, “The Fighter” ham-mers home most of the usual cliches: A plucky underdog from the wrong side of the tracks overcomes the odds to win the championship, etc. But thanks to some good performances by Wahlberg and Christian Bale (who plays his crack-addict brother), “The Fighter” rises slightly above the usual melodramatic fare we’re accus-tomed to.

“Hereafter” (PG-13) -- As director Clint East-wood edges ever closer to the sweet release that only death can bring, it seems only natural that his latest film tackles the concept of The Af-terlife.Matt Damon stars as George Lonegan, a blue-collar fella who acquired psychic abilities follow-ing a childhood illness. His brother (Jay Mohr) wants to turn George into a celebrity, but he’d rather try to live a normal life with his girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard). Meanwhile, a French journalist (CŽcile De France) has a near-death experience following a natural disaster in In-dia and a London boy named Marcus (Frankie McLaren) suffers the loss of his twin brother and is sent to foster care.Through a series of events, George, the jour-nalist and Marcus find each other as they seek answers to the mysteries of life and death.

The Switch (PG-13) -- Jennifer Aniston stars in yet another movie where she attempts comedy, and then cries a lot. In this one, she plays Kassi, a single woman who wants a baby, but is tired of waiting around for Mr. Right.

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¥ It was computer guru Jef Raskin who made the following sage observation: “Imagine if every Thurs-day 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 icon-ic 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 information: Nearly every human carries around tiny eyelash mites that live out their entire lives on our faces -- including 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 so-lar 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 Walk-Up-To Dragon,” “Harry Potter and the Chinese Overseas Students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,” “Harry Potter and the Chinese Porcelain Doll,” “Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Harry Potter” and “Harry Potter and the Filler of Big.”

***Thought for the Day: “You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.” -- Cecil Baxter

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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 University 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 Lak-ers, on to the Miami Heat, Phoenix Suns, Cleve-land Cavaliers 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 Fi-nals 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 host-ed the children’s program “Mister Rogers’ Neigh-borhood.” A typical episode might include a field trip to a local business, a visit with the television audience, a live guest, and a time to feed his fish Fennel and Frieda. The gentle, soft-spoken Fred had a music composition degree, and in fact, com-posed most of the music used on the Emmy-win-ning program. Rogers was also an ordained Pres-byterian 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.

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March has been a busy month in the history books. Let’s tak a look at some of the events that have oc-curred over the years.

• March 9, 1959, is considered the official birth date of the Barbie doll. That’s the day she made her debut at New York City’s American Internation-al Toy Fair. Her inventor, Ruth Handler, named the toy after her own daughter Barbara and pitched the idea to the Mattel Toy Company, which had been founded by her husband and his business partner. Mattel estimates that more than a billion Barbie dolls have been sold around the world. • Somewhere between 11 and 32 million U.S. gal-lons of crude oil were spilled into Prince William Sound off Alaska’s coastline in March of 1989 when the Exxon Valdez ran aground. The oil had been removed from the Prudhoe Bay oil field and was bound for Long Beach, California. The slick even-tually covered 1,300 miles (2,100 km) of coast-line, killing as many as 250,000 seabirds, close to 3,000 sea otters and 22 orca whales, among other creatures and millions of fish. It’s estimated that 22 years after the spill, more than 26,000 U.S. gallons still remain along the shoreline.• Time magazine’s very first issue hit the stands the first week of March in 1923. Its first cover subject was Joseph Gurney Cannon, an Illinois Congress-man who had served as Speaker of the House and was the longest-serving Congressman to date with 48 years of service. The day his picture appeared on the cover was his last day of office.• Opening day at Seattle’s Kingdome was March 27, 1976. Almost exactly 24 years later, on March 26, 2000, it was demolished by implosion at a cost of $9 million. The structure was drilled with 5,905 holes for placement of 4,700 pounds (2,132 kg) of explosives strategically located to control its fall. King County residents were still responsible for $80 million in debt on the stadium at the time of its de-struction. The new Seattle Seahawks stadium was constructed on the site. • The name of Frederick William Herschel may not be familiar, but his many accomplishments have certainly set him apart. He is most noted for his dis-covery of the planet Uranus in March of 1781. He also discovered that planet’s two moons as well as two moons of Saturn. During the 1770s, Herschel began building telescopes, spending 16 hours a day grinding and polishing the mirrors. He saw the planet with a 6-inch (150 mm) diameter, 7-foot (2.1-meter) long telescope from his garden in Bath, England. Although Herschel dubbed it “Georgian Star,” the name was eventually changed to Uranus, which comes from the Greek god of the sky, Oura-nos. Two years after his discovery, he gifted his sis-ter Caroline with a telescope, and she discovered eight comets and three nebulae. In addition to his astronomy feats, he was also an accomplished mu-sician who composed 24 symphonies.

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1. SCIENCE: Which scientist was the first to use the word “cell” in describing the basic com-ponents of life forms?2. TELEVISION: Which state was the setting for TV’s “Knots Landing”?3. MYTHOLOGY: In the legend of King Arthur, what was the name of Merlin’s mistress, who also was called The Lady of the Lake?4. POETRY: Who wrote, “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come”?5. GEOGRAPHY: Which body of water would one find east of Greece?6. MUSIC: Where would one find a coda to a piece of music?7. INVENTIONS: When was the zipper invent-ed?8. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is terra cot-ta often used to make?9. ANATOMY: What’s another word or words for capillary?10. U.S. STATES: Which state’s largest body of fresh water is called Moosehead Lake?

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1. Robert Hooke2. California3. Vivian4. Carl Sandburg5. Aegean Sea6. At the end7. 18918. Pottery9. Blood vessel10. Maine

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1. Name the two people and two teams in-volved 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 sea-son 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 Ad-ams 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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1. Joe Gordon was traded from Cleveland to Detroit for Jimmy Dykes in 1960.2. Four -- 1971-74.3. It was 1984.4. World B. Free of the San Diego Clippers.5. Pat Burns, with Montreal (1989), Toronto (1993) and Boston (1998).6. Brazil’s Mario Zagallo and West Germany’s Franz Beckenbauer.7. Eight.

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1. Name the three bands that Randy Bachman has been associated with.2. Which rock group is known for the following songs: “30 Days in the Hole,” “Natural Born Bu-gie” 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 sing-er covered the song a decade later?5. Name the one hit by Crazy Elephant.6. Is Percy Sledge the brother of Sister Sledge?

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1. The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Over-drive 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 cov-ered 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. Sister Sledge is a four-sister group born in Philadelphia from 1954 to 1961. They formed the group in 1972.

• 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 giant slalom at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics began skiing at age five, winning his first national competition at age eight. • The winner of “American Idol’s” fourth season, Carrie Underwood, is an “Okie from Muskogee.” Born there in March of 1983 to a sawmill worker and elementary school teacher, Underwood grad-uated as salutatorian of her high school class. She went on to graduate magna cum laude from Oklahoma’s Northeastern State University with a degree in mass communications. Prior to her 2004 audition for “Idol,” Underwood had never been on an airplane. She has been on People magazine’s “100 Most Beautiful People” list four years in a row.• 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 considered 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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