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Celebrate Chocolate Caramel Day

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I travel with chocolate – Godiva with caramel. When the craving hits, I have to have it.
Christa B. Allen

Chocolate caramel has got to be the greatest invention in the history of ever. Rich, luxurious high quality chocolate with deep flavors and color, filled with the buttery rich flavor of caramel with a warm gooey texture and golden color, what could be better? Chocolate Caramel Day reminds you that this delightful slice of heaven exists, and that whenever you have chocolate, caramel will make it better. When you have caramel? Chocolate is its missing companion.

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History of Chocolate Caramel Day

The origins of caramel are lost to the annals of history, but what we know that it lay somewhere in the 200 years between 1650 and 1880 in the Americas. The intrepid settlers were making hard candies in kettles sometime after they arrived, a process that would eventually culminate in caramels when some bright spark added fat and milk to the boiling water and sugar, and thus caramel was born. It’s worth noting that during this time refined sugar was both rare and expensive, so they were often made with sugar beet juice.

Chocolate, on the other hand, comes from Mesoamerica and has been prepared as a drink there as early as 1750 BCE. When the settlers arrived and discovered the rich drink, they quickly transported it back to Europe, where it quickly became a huge favorite. From this beginning as a simple and exotic drink, chocolate has evolved into the rich variety we experience today, thanks in part to Mr. Hershey of the Hershey’s candy company.

You see, Hershey got his start preparing and selling caramel, it was actually the foundation of what would become his growing empire. Once he switched to making chocolate as his primary product, it only made sense to introduce the world into the blending of his two loves, chocolate and caramel! So it was that the world was introduced to Chocolate Caramel as a flavor, and it became a sensation. It may have existed before this, but Mr. Hershey was the one that made it popular!

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Word of the Day

facies

MEANING:

noun:
1. General appearance.
2. In medicine, a distinctive appearance associated with a pathological condition.
3. In geology, a body of rock with specific characteristics.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin facies (face). Earliest documented use: 1398.

USAGE:

“The cholera victim no longer has any face: he has a facies -- a facies that could only mean cholera. The eye, sunk deep in its socket and seemingly atrophied.”
Jean Giono; The Horseman on the Roof; North Point Press; 1982.

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Idiom of the Day

in a fog
also, in a haze

Meaning

in a great confusion

not giving attention to something

being in a state of perplexity or confusion

unable to think or understand clearly about what is happening around you

not alert

Example Sentences

Jane always seems to be in a fog.

I always feel like I’m in a fog when I take that medication. It’s like it’s hard for me to think.

After the accident, he went about in a fog, even though he had not been injured.

History is a subject which I hate to study. So whenever I sit in history class, I am in a fog.

I didn’t vote for Alice because she always seems to be in a fog.

I was so upset for two days that I went around in a haze, not even answering when people spoke to me. (Here in this example, “haze” is used instead of “fog” which explicitly means to be in a confused state).

Millie always seems to be in a haze; she never knows what’s going on.

Origin

Although the origin of this idiom is not available, contextually, in a fog is used in situations where we are not attentive of what is happening and seem to be like in the actual fog whose literal meaning is smoky like surroundings. Although these expressions “in a fog” and “in a haze” allude to obscuring one’s view. The term ‘fog’ usage dates from about 1600s, ‘haze’ from mid-1800s.

This Day in History

1628 - The Massachusetts colony was founded by Englishmen.

1822 - The city of Boston, MA, was incorporated.

1831 - The first bank robbery in America was reported. The City Bank of New York City lost $245,000 in the robbery.

1892 - In St. Petersburg, Russia, Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite" was first performed. This performance was a selection of eight numbers from the "Nutcracker" ballet.

1900 - Archaeologist Arthur John Evans began the excavation of Knossos Palace in Greece.

1915 - Pluto was photographed for the first time. However, it was not known at the time.

1918 - The U.S. Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time.

1931 - The state of Nevada legalized gambling.

1953 - The Academy Awards aired on television for the first time.

1954 - Viewers saw the first televised prize fight shown in color when Joey Giardello knocked out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1957 - Elvis Presley bought the mansion he called Graceland.

1964 - Sean Connery began shooting his role in "Goldfinger."

1977 - The last episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" aired.

1987 - Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned from the PTL due to a scandal involving Jessica Hahn.

1990 - The first world ice hockey tournament for women was held in Ottawa.

1994 - The largest omelet in history was made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan.

2002 - Actor Ben Kingsley was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.

DAILY SQU-EEK

If You Were Born Today, March 19

You are a little hard to understand, but that is part of your quirky charm. You have an original sense of humor, and you are given to extremes of feeling. You can certainly be temperamental, and often very determined to get your way, but you are also a caring, compassionate, and perceptive person who is forgiving and aware. Famous people born today:

1589 William Bradford, English separatist, Governor of Plymouth colony for 30 years (baptized), born in Austerfield, England (d. 1657)

1813 David Livingstone, Scottish explorer (found by Stanley in Africa), born in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1873)

1848 Wyatt Earp, American sheriff (OK Corral), born in Monmouth, Illinois (d. 1929)

1891 Earl Warren, Governor of California/14th supreme court chief justice (1953-69), born in Los Angeles, California

1955 Bruce Willis, American actor (Moonlighting, Die Hard), born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany

READERS INFO

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1868 -

Drawn to sports by her recovery from childhood illness, Senda Berenson (March 19, 1868 - February 16, 1954) became known as the “Mother of Women’s Basketball.”

Senda Berenson’s ill health meant she had to be tutored at home and later drop out of the Boston Conservatory of Music. In an attempt to regain her strength, she enrolled in the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, training to become a gymnastics coach.

She began teaching at Smith College at twenty-three, and a year later discovered a new game called “Basket Ball” that she decided to adapt for women players, despite the fact that, at the time, women only played individual sports because team sports were thought too dangerous.

She refereed the first official game of women’s basketball in 1893, with Smith freshmen battling against the sophomores. Within two years, there were hundreds of women’s basketball teams, and the success of the game opened the door for other women’s sports. Berenson developed the official rule-book for women’s college basketball, and many of the rules she created remained in force for the next seventy years.

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North Texas Teen Book Festival 2019

Mar 23, 2019 | Irving, TX

Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas|500 W Las Colinas Blvd.

Unfortunately, you can’t read Captain Underpants forever. Now that you’re a teenager, it’s time to impress mom and climb the literary ladder to the next level. Take a gander at the collection of solid reads waiting to be cracked open at the North Texas Teen Book Festival. If you aren’t convinced yet, let the celebrated wordsmith who wrote it convince you. There will be several authors in attendance to sign your books and speak about the rich worlds they’ve created.

further information: North Texas Teen Book Festival

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HavenCon 2019

Ap 19 - 21, 2019 | Austin, TX

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Austin|6505 N Interstate 35

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HavenCon bills itself as an “LGBTQA Geek and Gaming Convention” with a full schedule of events catering to fans of pop and gaming culture. Attendees come decked out in all kinds of fantastic costumes and compete in the Cosplay Contest, and artists are featured in various cosplay panels. There are also several guest speakers, video and tabletop games and tournaments, a Big Gay Cosplay Wedding, special screenings and more.

further information: HavenCon

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