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MARCH BABIES (continued): • It was a wonderful day in the neighborhood from 1968 to 2001 when March baby Fred Rogers hosted the children’s program “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” 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, 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. • 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 graduated 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. • Governor--In 1859, two years before the start of the War Between the States, Sam Houston ran for Governor of Texas on an antisecession platform, which meant he was opposed to having Texas secede from the Union. However, in 1861, Texas voted to secede anyway. Houston refused to take an oath of allegiance to the new Confederacy, and he was removed as governor. There were rumors that Houston would fight to keep Texas in the Union. Abraham Lincoln wrote him to say that Federal troops could be transported to the Texas coast to support his cause. But he refused Lincoln's offer.

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Praise comes from an unlikely source for a job well done. Enjoy the accolades, Capricorn. A family argument is revisited and settled once and for all.

January 20– February 18 Up for an adventure, Aquarius? A friend invites you along on their great escape. Don’t be fooled by the itinerary. You’ll have more fun than you think.

February 19– March 20 Your can-do attitude comes in handy this week when your team is handed an unwieldy project. Take the lead and show them how it’s done, Pisces.

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June 22– July 22 A chance meeting with a mentor gets the momentum going. Push hard, push fast, and you will pass the test with flying colors, Cancer.

July 23– August 22 Little notice is given for an event. Go anyway, Leo, and you’ll have a ball. A traipse down memory lane paves the way to a genealogy project.

August 23– September 22 Rumors begin to fly at work. Don’t get caught up in the fury, Virgo. Very few of them are true. A home improvement project wraps up beautifully.

MARCH BABIES (continued): • Two of the actors who have portrayed James Bond were March babies. Welsh actor Timothy Dalton was the secret agent in 1987’s “The Living 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 to 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 controversy 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 appear 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 conviction 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 maintained that he alone was responsible for Oswald’s death, saying, “There is nothing to hide. There was no one else.”

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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 “creative thinking and hands-on learning,” Einstein’s academic performance took a giant leap forward. • In 1896, at the age of 17, he renounced his citizenship 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 acquired Swiss citizenship the same year. When Einstein 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 accept this view. • The 20th century’s best-known equation was Einstein’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 considered 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 teaching 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 warning him of the possibility that the Nazis might be working on an atomic bomb. It was Einstein’s recommendation 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 Roosevelt, but there was some justification — the danger that the Germans would make them.” • Einstein made one last citizenship change in his life in 1940, becoming an American citizen. Four months after his death in 1955, chemical element 99 was named Einsteinium. In 1999, he was named “Person of the Century” by Time magazine.

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