Friday, March 11, 2011

Your new friend perhaps?

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We’re referring to the friendly pup who’s licking Mike’s face.  This is Sheila who is about 8 months old.  She’s well behaved, very sweet and, as you can see, very friendly.  She can be adopted at the Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley.

Today is Dream Day, a time to focus attention on dreams for a better world.

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Today is Middle Name Pride Day. Today, tell three people who don't know it what your middle name is, even if it's Yoshie or Egbert..

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History 101: March 11, 1302: Romeo Monteveccio married Juliet Cappelleto in Citadela, Italy, and inspired Shakespeare to write a play about them. They had never seen each other.

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Music history 101: March 11, 1997: Queen Elizabeth II knighted rock musician Paul McCartney.

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The 101 number one song of the day was the most successful song ever from a group most observers thought had peaked more than a decade before.  Between 1962 and 1964 they had loads of hits including four number ones. But this was 1976 and chart success for them seemed a thing of the past. Then came a song, written by one of the group’s former members, about the repeal of prohibition --and soon they were back on top once again. But not before some changes. They added some new choruses and dropped the reference to 1933 and during this week in March, 1976 the song which fast forwarded thirty years became the number one song in America while becoming the group’s ONLY number one in Great Britain – the Four Seasons and “December 1963 (Oh What a Night)

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