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SPRING IS HERE!by Rick Dandes

Lewis Grizzard, the famous Atlanta author once wrote, “Spring time is the land awak-ening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” That about sums it up for us. Spring-time brings relief from winter. It’s all about renewal, warmth and new beginnings. So sit back and enjoy, as Tidbits welcomes in the new season this week.

The start of spring is seen by the vernal •equinox, which occurs on March 20 or 21 each year in the Northern Hemisphere. Oddly enough, this date is also the autum-nal equinox—the first day of autumn—inthe Southern Hemisphere. Turnabout is fair play: the autumnal equi-•nox in the north (which occurs in late Sep-tember),isalsothefirstdayofspringsouthof the equator.Nokidding:Springfeverisnotafigmentof•your imagination. It is a real physical con-dition that occurs when a sudden warm spell follows a long cold period. As the temperature rises, the body has to get rid of heat; there’s a dilation or expansion of the blood vessels so that blood can be car-ried to the body surface where heat can be lost quickly. Some people experience an energetic feeling. Hence, spring fever.Here comes the sun: Suppose you were •standing on the equator during either the vernal or autumnal equinox. Now look up. You would see the sun pass directly over-head. There are only two times in the year when this happens.Full tilt: Why is there more daylight in spring •and summer? Easy. In spring, the Earth’s axis is tilted toward the sun, increasing the number of daylight hours and bring-ing warmer weather that causes plants to bring forth new growth.

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Germany, people make “egg trees” that are decorated like Christmas trees. In Hungary, boys sprinkle girls with perfumed water — and in return, girls prepare a holiday dinner for them.It’s commonly called “Spring Break,” that •time of year when students have a week-long break from the tedium of school and travel south or to parts unknown to party; Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and Cancun, Mexico are two favorite hot spots. Other countries celebrate it too, including China, Korea, Ja-pan, Germany and Mexico.

SPRING IS HERE! (continued)Celtic tradition, which is based solely on •daylight and the strength of the noon sun, says that spring begins in early February and continues until early May.Spring forward. In recent decades season-•al creep has been observed, which means that many signs of the season are happen-ing earlier than expected in many regions. We’re talking a couple of days per decade.Akitu was a spring festival in ancient Meso-•potamia. The name is from the Sumerian language for “barley”, originally marking two festivals celebrating the beginning of each of the two half-years of the Sumerian Calendar, marking the sowing of barley in autumn and the cutting of barley in spring. The Lunar New Year is sometimes called •the Chinese Spring Festival. It is the most important of the traditional Chinese holi-days, particularly by people on mainland China and Taiwan. The festival traditionally beings on the first day of the first monthin the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th.Hurricane season •also begins in late spring, on May 15th in the northeastern PacificandJune1stin the northern At-lantic. You don’t see hurricanes before these dates although they do sometimes occur. One of the earliest was Tropical Storm Ana in mid-April 2003. Severe weather generally occurs during •the spring, when warmer air invades the lower latitudes just as cold air pushes out from the polar regions. Spring is also when floodingisalsomostcommoninandnearmountainous areas during this time of year due to the melting of snow, aided by warm rains. In America, “Tornado Alley” is most active •by far during the spring. The Rocky Moun-tains prevent the surging hot and cold air fronts from moving westward and instead force them directly at each other.Some of the worst blizzards have occurred •in the spring. Does anyone remember the Great Blizzard of 1993, which brought hur-ricane conditions and then light snow to northern Florida on March 13th, and de-positedup tofive feetofsnow inpartsofthe Appalachian Mountains.The festival of Basant, in Pakistan, is held in •the ancient eastern city of Lahore. Basant ismarkedbykite-flying,rooftopgatherings,garden parties and horse riding events.

May Day is not an American holiday, but it’s •celebrated all over the world. During ancient Roman times, spring was •celebrated with the Feast of Floralia. This markedthefloweringofthegrainsandthebounty of the animals as spring continued. The egg became an important symbol dur-ing this time period, thanks to the symbol-ism of egg bringing forth life and nourishing people. As the Italian Feast of Floralia evolved, •people began creating eggs out of many materials, including chocolate, as gifts for their loved ones. Young matrons carried these eggs with them in baskets through-out the spring, trying to determine the pos-sible gender of a future child.In Germany, Walpurgisnacht, on April 30th •and May 1st celebrates the release of win-ter’s hold on the land and the oncoming joy of summer. More spring legends: On May 1st, it is be-•lieved that the earth spirits like sprites and fairies, emerge to bring the land safely to summer. People celebrate with great feasts of food and drink as the look forward to the coming of summer.In Thailand, a three-day water festival on •April 13-15 marks Songkran, the Buddhists’ celebration of the new year. Parades fea-ture statues of Buddha that spray water on passersby. In small villages, young people throw water at each other for fun. People also release fish into rivers as an act ofkindness.The Jewish holiday of Passover is held dur-•ing spring. Passover begins with two nights of a special dinner called Seders. During these two dinners, families read from a book called the Haggadah about the an-cient Israelites’ exodus from Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. As they honor their ancestors,Jewsreaffirmtheimportanceoffreedom.On Easter, Christians celebrate the res-•urrection of Jesus. People attend church and also enjoy different Easter customs. In

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On • March 28, 1814, the funeral of Guillotin, the inventor and namesake of the infamous execution device, takes place outside of Paris. Guillotin had built the guillotine to show the intellectual and social progress of the Revolution; by killing aristocrats and journeymen the same way, equality in death was ensured.On • March 23, 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published, in TheBoston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for “oll correct,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans.On • March 27, 1912, in Washington, D.C., Helen Taft, wife of President William Taft, and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant two Yoshina cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River, near the Jefferson Memorial. The event was held in celebration of a gift by the Japanese government of 3,020 cherry trees to the United States.On • March 22, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Beer and Wine Revenue Act. This law levies a federal tax on all alcoholic beverages to raise revenue for the federal government and gives individual states the option to further regulate the sale and distribution of beer and wine.On • March 24, 1945, Billboard publishesitsfirstpop-musicchartforalbums.ThefirstNo.1albumwasNat King Cole’s “King Cole Trio.” Billboard had been publishing charts for single records since 1940.On • March 25, 1958, Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Carmen Basilio to regain the middleweight boxing championship. Born Walker Smith, Jr., “Sugar Ray” got his boxing name when he borrowed his friend Ray Robinson’s Amateur Athletics Union card to enter a boxing tournament at age 16.On • March 26, 1987, responding to a 911 call, police raid the Philadelphia home of Gary Heidnik and findan appalling crime scene. In the basement of his dilapidated house was a veritable torture chamber where three women were found chained to a sewer pipe. Heidnik was one the inspirations for the Buffalo Bill character in “Silence of the Lambs.”

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The teacher gave her fifth-grade class an assignment: get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one be-gan to tell their stories. Ashley said, “My fa-ther’s a farmer, and we have a lot of egg-lay-ing hens. One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket on the front seat of the car when we hit a big bump in the road and all theeggswentflyingandbrokeandmadeamess.” “What’s the moral of the story?” asked the teacher. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket!” “Very good,” said the teacher. Next little Sarah raised her hand and said, “Our family are farmers too. But we raise chickens for the meat market. We had a dozen eggs one time, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks, and the moral to this story is, ‘Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.’”“Thatwasafinestory,Sarah.Mi-chael, do you have a story to share?” “Yes, my daddy told me this story about my Aunt Karen.Aunt Karen was a flight engineer inthe Gulf War and her plane was hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory, and all she had was a bottle of whiskey, a machine gun, and a machete. She drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn’t break and then she landed right in the middle of a hundred ene-my troops. She killed seventy of them with the machine gun until she ran out of bullets. Then she killed twenty more with the machete until the blade broke. Then she killed the last ten with her bare hands.” “Good heavens,” said thehorrifiedteacher,“whatkindofmoraldidyour daddy tell you from that horrible story?” “Stay away from Aunt Karen when she’s been drinking!”A flock of sheep are romping in a field, happily going “baa baa” to each other and dis-cussing life as usual when suddenly they hear a “moo mooooooo!” They look around and see only sheep. They carry on playing as before. “Moo moooo mmmoo!” One sheep can hear

italltooclearlynexttohim.Heshufflesawaya little from his friend, a worried look on his face, and then asks, “Georgie, why are you mooing? You’re a sheep. Sheep go ‘baa’!” His friend replies gladly, “I know. I thought I would learn a foreign language!”This guy was watching TV as his wife was out cutting the grass during the hot summer. Hefinallyworkeduptheenergytogooutandask his wife what was for supper. Well, his missus was quite irritated about him sitting in the air-conditioned house all day while she did all the work, so she scolded him. “I can’t believe you’re asking me about supper right now! Imagine I’m out of town. Go inside and figuredinneroutyourself.”Sohewentbackinto thehouseandfixedhimselfabigsteakwith potatoes, garlic bread, and a tall glass of icedtea.Thewifefinallywalkedinaboutthetimehewasfinishingupandaskedhim,“Youfixedsomethingtoeat?Sowhere’smine?”Hesaid, “Huh, I thought you were out of town.”The waitress comes over and recognizes the family seated at the table -- Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their little son, Jonathan. She says, “Jonathan, what would you like?” He says, “I’ll have a grilled cheese sandwich.” She says, “Jonathan, I’m sorry, we don’t serve grilled cheese sandwiches.” He says, “You have a grill, don’t you?” She says, “Yes.” He says, “You have cheese, don’t you?” She says, “Yes.” He says, “You have bread, don’t you?” She says, “Yes.” He says, “Well, I’ll have a grilled cheese sandwich.” This kid is four years old! The waitress says, “Jonathan, I’ll goseeifthechefwillfixyouagrilledcheesesandwich.” She comes back in a little while and says, “Okay, Jonathan, the chef agreed tofixyouagrilledcheesesandwich.Iforgottoask you, though, what you want to drink.” He says, “I’ll have a milkshake.” She says, “Jona-than, your parents have probably already told you we don’t serve milkshakes.” (She was ready for him this time.) “Now, it is true we have milk. And it is true we have ice cream. But we don’t have the syrup.” He says, “You have a car, don’t you?”A farmer gets sent to jail, and his wife is trying to hold the farm together until her hus-band can get out. She’s not, however, very good at farm work, so she writes a letter to him in jail: “Dear sweetheart, I want to plant the potatoes. When is the best time to do it?” The farmer writes back: “Honey, don’t go near thatfield.That’swhereallmygunsarebur-ied.” But, because he is in jail, all of the farm-er’s mail is censored. So when the sheriff and his deputies read this, they all run out to the farmanddiguptheentirepotatofieldlookingfor guns. After two full days of digging, they don’tfindonesingleweapon.Thefarmerthenwrites to his wife: “Honey, now is when you should plant the potatoes.”

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