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Last Monday in March Actual birthday: March 31
“Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That’s why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.” – César Chavez On March 31 (or the last Monday in …Read more 
March 22 If you thought the American Civil War ended slavery in North America, you’re half right. Cuba didn’t abolish slavery until 1869, and did so almost at the very moment of its independence from Spain. Puerto Rico, also a colony of Spain, had to wait even longer. On September 24, 1868, about 500 Puerto Rican rebels had led an uprising against the Spanish government in the town of Lares. The Grito de Lares (Shout of Lares) …Read more 
March 21 March 21, the birth of spring, is also the birth of Mexico’s greatest leader, Benito Juarez.
On this day in 1806 Benito was born to poor Amerindian peasants in the mountains of Oaxaca. His parents died when he was three and Benito spent his youth working the corn fields and shepherding local flocks. At age 12 he left the mountain village for the city of Oaxaca to live with a sister and work …Read more March 17
I’m tired of these @#$%! snakes on these #$%@$! Irish plains! – St. Patrick, 433 AD When the going gets tough, the tough go green. And the hard times haven’t dimmed the green glow (or watered down the green beer) of St. Patrick’s Day from the Emerald Isle to North America. For a run-down of the slave-turned-priest who we celebrate today, check out last year’s St. Patrick’s Day post: Green is …Read more 
March 16 St. Urho statue, Menahga, Minnesota St. Patrick is world-famous for driving the snakes out of Ireland, but the day before St. Patrick’s Day we celebrate an oft-overlooked saint named Urho, who is said to have performed the equally admirable feat of ridding his Finnish homeland of hungry grasshoppers, thus saving Finland’s all-important grape crop, and the Finns themselves, from devastation. Plaques proclaim St. Urho’s glory, including one in Minnesota that describes the annual ceremony in …Read more 
March 13 The Good Samaritan, by Luca Giordano [published March 13, 2009] Last week, Warner Brothers released the long-awaited blockbuster Watchmen. Watchmen is based on a comic book about a group of not-your-run-of-the-mill superheroes in a dark, film noir alternate reality. It’s a superhero story without heroes, but its antihero may be Rorschach, a masked vigilante who before donning a mask was Walter Kovacs, a New York City tailor. In the original Watchmen, a chance encounter with a …Read more 
Second Monday in March March 12, 2012 Here’s a geography quiz: 1. What is the official language of Belize? 2. Whose portrait adorns the Canadian loonie? 3. What comprises 53 countries, covers over a fifth of the world’s land area, and accounts for 2 …Read more 
March 9
Baron Bliss. Sounds like the name of a Batman character, and its eccentric, British, paralyzed bearer could have easily been one. Little is known of Henry Edward Ernest …Read more |
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