Sites
of the Month for February 2004
St. Patrick
Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/65/pa/Patrick.html
A brief introduction to St. Patrick from the Columbia encyclopedia.
Ireland's
Millenia: People History and Politics
http://www.rte.ie/culture/millennia/people/patrick.html
More details about St. Patrick from RTE, Ireland's public broadcaster.
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/features/stpatrick/index.shtml
Facts and legends from the BBC website.
St.
Patrick's Day Parade
http://www.saintpatricksdayparade.com/
Learn more about New York's Saint Patrick's Day Parade.
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Holi
The
holiday Holi is celebrated throughout India, but Northern India
goes the craziest on this day. You can't walk anywhere without
having someone drop colored flour from rooftops, having balloons
filled with paint burst around you or even on you, and being squirted
with colored water. Holi is both a celebration of the triumpth
of good over evil as well as the arrival of spring.
Holi
http://www.kidzworld.com/site/p487.htm
A description of Holi for kids.
The
Colors of Holi
http://www.colorsofindia.com/holi/aboholi.htm
Read about and see pictures of Holi.
Holi
ecards
http://egreetings.indiatimes.com/egreet/subcategory.jsp?langid=13&subcatid=130038
Send a Holi e-greeting.
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Mardi
Gras
Holidays.net
http://www.holidays.net/mardigras/
An introduction to the holiday.
New
Orleans, Louisiana
http://www.nola.com/mardigras/
Coverage from the Times-Picayune.
Mardi
Gras from Louisiana State University at Eunice
http://www.lsue.edu/acadgate/mardmain.htm
Mardi Gras in Cajun Country.
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Taxes
IRS
http://www.irs.gov/
Website of the Internal Revenue Service.
Franchise
Tax Board
http://www.ftb.ca.gov/
Website of the Franchise Tax Board.
Board
of Equalization
http://www.boe.ca.gov/
Website of the Board of Equalization.
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Women's History Month
About.com
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa030200a.htm
How Women's History Month came to be.
Census
of women
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2003/cb03ff03.html
Statistical snapshot of American women now and then from the Census
Bureau.
Julia
Morgan
http://www.juliamorgan.org/story.shtml
The story of Julia Morgan, pioneering Bay Area architect.
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March is National Nutrition Month
March
is National Nutrition Month
http://www.nutrition.gov/home/index.php3
Your
guide to nutrition and health information on Federal Government
websites.
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Historical
Events and Birthdays
This month we acknowledge the birthdays of a children's book
author, an inventor, a Soviet president, a poets, authors, actors,
and a saint among others.
2
March
1904:
Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
http://www.seussville.com/lb/biography.html
3
March
1847:
Alexander Graham Bell
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/bellag.html
1931:
Mikhail Gorbachev
http://www.mikhailgorbachev.org/
4
March
1678:
Antonio Vivaldi
http://inkpot.com/classical/vivaldi.html
6
March
1806:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=153
7
March
The
Vasaloppet
cross country ski race takes place in Sweden in honor of Gustav
Vasa's run in 1520. Gustav
Vasa became King Gustav I of Sweden.
1872:
Piet Mondriaan
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/mondrian_piet.html
1875:
Maurice Ravel
http://www.maurice-ravel.net/
14
March
Pi
Day (3/14):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day
1933:
Michael Caine
http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:10198
17
March
1938:
Rudolph Nureyev
http://www.culturekiosque.com/dance/Features/rhebaya.htm
18
March
1932:
John Updike
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/updike.htm
23
March
191:0
Akira Kurosawa
http://www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990823/kurosawa1.html
24
March
1919:
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/08/12/MN76094.DTL&type=printable
30
March
1979:
Norah Jones
http://www.norahjones.com/
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