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Celebrate Potato Chip Day
Celebrate Potato Chip Day
This is one holiday you may take with a pinch of salt! Potato Chip Day is a celebration of the world’s best-loved snack, first created in the 19th century.
Tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt was staying at Saratoga Springs in New York and kept on sending back his French fries because he said they were cut too thick. Chef George Crum cut his spuds as thin as possible, initially as a joke – and the result was the world’s first potato chips. The snack’s popularity spread in the 1920s, when the first mass-produced packs went on sale.
Lay’s Potato Chips were the first big-name brand, but there are also many other products on the market. It’s not clear when the holiday was invented, but you can chip in and join the celebrations. Just invite round some friends to try some of the most unusual flavors, like seaweed, buffalo wing and ketchup.
Word of the Day
gamification
ETYMOLOGY:
From game, from Old English gaman (entertainment) + -fication (making), from facere (to do or make). Earliest documented use: 2008.
NOTES:
Typical elements of gamification include progressively increasing challenges, awarding of points or rewards, adding surprises, etc. Should we offer badges and points to readers who send out gift subscriptions of A.Word.A.Day? Badges or not, please do send it to friends and family. That's the only way the word spreads. Help us in our mission of spreading the joy of words.
USAGE:
“Part of its approach involves gamification -- necessary, Neoma says, to hold those wandering minds.”
Helen Barrett; The Gamified Generation Has Hit Business School; Financial Times (London, UK); Sep 10, 2018.
Idiom of the Day
Helen Barrett; The Gamified Generation Has Hit Business School; Financial Times (London, UK); Sep 10, 2018.
dead as a doornail
Meaning
Meaning
- becoming obsolete
- thing that is not used anymore
- non-existing
- lacking life
- absolutely dead
- something that is not functioning properly
- thing whose presence won’t make any difference
- becoming obsolete
- thing that is not used anymore
- non-existing
- lacking life
- absolutely dead
- something that is not functioning properly
- thing whose presence won’t make any difference
Variants
- dead as a dodo
- deaf as a doornail
- dour as a doornail
- dead as a dodo
- deaf as a doornail
- dour as a doornail
Example Sentences
- The flowers are all dead as a doornail.
- Malnutrition will leave you all dead as a doornail.
- The flowers are all dead as a doornail.
- Malnutrition will leave you all dead as a doornail.
Origin
Doornail was one of the heavy studded nails on the outside door. There are different sources available which talks about its origin. It is said that it came from a poem named “The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman” in the 14th century, where is mentioned as:
It is also believed that this is an ancient phrase which came earlier in about 1350.
Charles Dicken also used this phrase in his book called “A Christmas Carol” as:
This Day in History
1681 - Composer Georg Philipp Telemann was born.
Doornail was one of the heavy studded nails on the outside door. There are different sources available which talks about its origin. It is said that it came from a poem named “The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman” in the 14th century, where is mentioned as:
It is also believed that this is an ancient phrase which came earlier in about 1350.
Charles Dicken also used this phrase in his book called “A Christmas Carol” as:
This Day in History
1681 - Composer Georg Philipp Telemann was born.
1743 - First American town meeting was held at Boston's Faneuil Hall.
1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.
1804 - Composer Johann I Strauss was born.
1900 - In Holland, Botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity.
1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.
1923 - President Harding became the first U.S. President to file an income tax report.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office.
1958 - Perry Como's "Catch A Falling Star" was certified as the first gold single.
1965 - Petula Clark made her American TV debut on CBS' "Ed Sullivan Show."
1980 - Quincy Jones got a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
1995 - American astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket.
2003 - Israel "Cachao" Lopez received the 2,219th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, March 14
You are multi-talented, strong-minded, and very versatile. At the same time, you give of yourself very freely to the people you care about, and to any cause that you take to heart. Moody and changeable, nevertheless you are determined and responsible. There is always an air of mystery around you that others find intriguing. You are extremely perceptive, seeing things that most others fail to see. Famous people born today:
1879 Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity), born in Ulm, German Empire (d. 1955)
1928 Frank Borman, American astronaut (Gemini 7, Apollo 8) and CEO of Eastern Air Lines (1975-86), born in Gary, Indiana
1933 Michael Caine [Maurice J Micklewhite], English actor (Alfie), born in London, England
1933 Quincy Jones Jr, American composer and singer (We Are The World), born in Chicago, Illinois
1952 Martin Dempsey, American General, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2011-), born in Jersey City, New Jersey
1960 [Anthony] Kirby Puckett, MLB centerfielder (Minnesota Twins), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2006)
1988 Stephen Curry, American basketball guard (NBA MVP 2015-16 Golden State Warriors), born in Akron, Ohio
1997 Simone Biles, American gymnast (4 gold medals 2016), born in Columbus, Ohio
READERS INFO
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20 Pi Puns to Inspire Your Nerdiness - March 14 ... Pi Day
1743 - First American town meeting was held at Boston's Faneuil Hall.
1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.
1804 - Composer Johann I Strauss was born.
1900 - In Holland, Botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity.
1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.
1923 - President Harding became the first U.S. President to file an income tax report.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office.
1958 - Perry Como's "Catch A Falling Star" was certified as the first gold single.
1965 - Petula Clark made her American TV debut on CBS' "Ed Sullivan Show."
1980 - Quincy Jones got a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
1995 - American astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket.
2003 - Israel "Cachao" Lopez received the 2,219th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, March 14
You are multi-talented, strong-minded, and very versatile. At the same time, you give of yourself very freely to the people you care about, and to any cause that you take to heart. Moody and changeable, nevertheless you are determined and responsible. There is always an air of mystery around you that others find intriguing. You are extremely perceptive, seeing things that most others fail to see. Famous people born today:
1879 Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity), born in Ulm, German Empire (d. 1955)1928 Frank Borman, American astronaut (Gemini 7, Apollo 8) and CEO of Eastern Air Lines (1975-86), born in Gary, Indiana1933 Michael Caine [Maurice J Micklewhite], English actor (Alfie), born in London, England1933 Quincy Jones Jr, American composer and singer (We Are The World), born in Chicago, Illinois1952 Martin Dempsey, American General, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2011-), born in Jersey City, New Jersey1960 [Anthony] Kirby Puckett, MLB centerfielder (Minnesota Twins), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2006)1988 Stephen Curry, American basketball guard (NBA MVP 2015-16 Golden State Warriors), born in Akron, Ohio1997 Simone Biles, American gymnast (4 gold medals 2016), born in Columbus, OhioREADERS INFO
1.
20 Pi Puns to Inspire Your Nerdiness - March 14 ... Pi Day
It’s Pi Day, Pi Day, gotta get down on Pi Day . . .
Even those of us who are not math nerds can celebrate March 14, also known as Pi Day.
Pi is a number unlike the ordinary numbers we see every day. It’s a small number, bigger than three but smaller than four. It’s a number that doesn’t have an end—if you started writing down pi, you would eventually run out of all the paper we have in the world and you still wouldn’t be able to write it all down.
We usually round pi to 3.14, and the digits that appear behind the 4 appear in a completely random, non-repeating order. It’s an irrational number, which means that it cannot be represented as a fraction.
Pi is also a number that invites puns, especially when it’s Pi Day. Maybe a non-pun joke or two sneaks in, if you’re lucky, but it’s mostly puns—and we collected twenty of them.
3.14% of sailors are pi-rates.
Never talk to pi. He’ll go on forever.
Come to the nerd side. We have pi.
Simple as 3.141592…
The roundest knight at King Arthur’s table was Sir Cumference. He ate too much pi.
The worst thing about getting hit in the face with pi is that it never ends.
What do you get when you take green cheese and divide its circumference by its diameter? Moon pi.
What was Sir Isaac Newton’s favorite dessert? Apple pi.
What is the official animal of Pi Day? The pi-thon.
A pizza has a radius z and thickness a. Its volume is pizza (or pi*z*z*a)
What is a math teacher’s favorite dessert? Pi!
The mathematician says, “Pi r squared.” The baker replies, “No, pies are round. Cakes are square.”
Just saw American Pi. I gave it a rating of 3.14.
In Alaska, where temperatures get below freezing, pi is only 3.00. After all, everything shrinks in the cold.
What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter? Pi in the sky.
How many pastry chefs does it take to make a pie? 3.14.
What do you get when you cut a jack-o’-lantern by its diameter? Pumpkin pi.
What is 1.57? Half a pie.
What is the ideal number of pieces to cut a pie into? 3.14.
How many calories are there in that slice of chocolate pi? Approximately 3.14.
2.
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
DOOR-TO-DOOR SALESMAN
The Encyclopedia Britannica was first published in 1768 and appeared in fifteen official editions. On March 14, 2012, Britannica announced it would not be printing any more sets of its paper version, which accounted for less than 1 percent of its sales, and would instead focus on its DVD and on-line versions. It had not printed any new sets since 2010. The "Book of the Year" continues to be published even
today.
3.
1923-
Wildly controversial in her lifetime, Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 - July 26, 1971) was only fully recognized for her contributions to the art of photography after her death.
Arbus began work as a fashion photographer with her husband, her first commission taking pictures of the family fur store. But dissatisfied with purely commercial work, Arbus began making forays into the world of art photography, seeking out unconventional subjects such as Coney Island freak shows and gay bars, launching her solo career with her first photo essay for Esquire, “The Vertical Journey.”
Art Shock Art
While Arbus was widely published in some of the best magazines in Great Britain and America, her controversial images also evoked powerful negative reactions: the curator of a show at MOMA that included Arbus’s work came in early every morning to clean spit off her pictures. While her fame rose within the art world, her career faltered as more mainstream magazines began hesitating to ask her to photograph subjects for their stories. Suffering from depression and feeling overwhelmed by both internal and external expectations of her work, Arbus committed suicide in 1971, but her work has continued to influence photographers for decades.
4.
It’s Pi Day, Pi Day, gotta get down on Pi Day . . .
Even those of us who are not math nerds can celebrate March 14, also known as Pi Day.
Pi is a number unlike the ordinary numbers we see every day. It’s a small number, bigger than three but smaller than four. It’s a number that doesn’t have an end—if you started writing down pi, you would eventually run out of all the paper we have in the world and you still wouldn’t be able to write it all down.
We usually round pi to 3.14, and the digits that appear behind the 4 appear in a completely random, non-repeating order. It’s an irrational number, which means that it cannot be represented as a fraction.
Pi is also a number that invites puns, especially when it’s Pi Day. Maybe a non-pun joke or two sneaks in, if you’re lucky, but it’s mostly puns—and we collected twenty of them.
3.14% of sailors are pi-rates.
Never talk to pi. He’ll go on forever.
Come to the nerd side. We have pi.
Simple as 3.141592…
The roundest knight at King Arthur’s table was Sir Cumference. He ate too much pi.
The worst thing about getting hit in the face with pi is that it never ends.
What do you get when you take green cheese and divide its circumference by its diameter? Moon pi.
What was Sir Isaac Newton’s favorite dessert? Apple pi.
What is the official animal of Pi Day? The pi-thon.
A pizza has a radius z and thickness a. Its volume is pizza (or pi*z*z*a)
What is a math teacher’s favorite dessert? Pi!
The mathematician says, “Pi r squared.” The baker replies, “No, pies are round. Cakes are square.”
Just saw American Pi. I gave it a rating of 3.14.
In Alaska, where temperatures get below freezing, pi is only 3.00. After all, everything shrinks in the cold.
What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter? Pi in the sky.
How many pastry chefs does it take to make a pie? 3.14.
What do you get when you cut a jack-o’-lantern by its diameter? Pumpkin pi.
What is 1.57? Half a pie.
What is the ideal number of pieces to cut a pie into? 3.14.
How many calories are there in that slice of chocolate pi? Approximately 3.14.
2.Never talk to pi. He’ll go on forever.
Come to the nerd side. We have pi.
Simple as 3.141592…
The roundest knight at King Arthur’s table was Sir Cumference. He ate too much pi.
The worst thing about getting hit in the face with pi is that it never ends.
What do you get when you take green cheese and divide its circumference by its diameter? Moon pi.
What was Sir Isaac Newton’s favorite dessert? Apple pi.
What is the official animal of Pi Day? The pi-thon.
A pizza has a radius z and thickness a. Its volume is pizza (or pi*z*z*a)
What is a math teacher’s favorite dessert? Pi!
The mathematician says, “Pi r squared.” The baker replies, “No, pies are round. Cakes are square.”
Just saw American Pi. I gave it a rating of 3.14.
In Alaska, where temperatures get below freezing, pi is only 3.00. After all, everything shrinks in the cold.
What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter? Pi in the sky.
How many pastry chefs does it take to make a pie? 3.14.
What do you get when you cut a jack-o’-lantern by its diameter? Pumpkin pi.
What is 1.57? Half a pie.
What is the ideal number of pieces to cut a pie into? 3.14.
How many calories are there in that slice of chocolate pi? Approximately 3.14.
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
DOOR-TO-DOOR SALESMAN
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The Encyclopedia Britannica was first published in 1768 and appeared in fifteen official editions. On March 14, 2012, Britannica announced it would not be printing any more sets of its paper version, which accounted for less than 1 percent of its sales, and would instead focus on its DVD and on-line versions. It had not printed any new sets since 2010. The "Book of the Year" continues to be published even
today. |
3.
1923-
Wildly controversial in her lifetime, Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 - July 26, 1971) was only fully recognized for her contributions to the art of photography after her death.
Arbus began work as a fashion photographer with her husband, her first commission taking pictures of the family fur store. But dissatisfied with purely commercial work, Arbus began making forays into the world of art photography, seeking out unconventional subjects such as Coney Island freak shows and gay bars, launching her solo career with her first photo essay for Esquire, “The Vertical Journey.”
Art Shock Art
While Arbus was widely published in some of the best magazines in Great Britain and America, her controversial images also evoked powerful negative reactions: the curator of a show at MOMA that included Arbus’s work came in early every morning to clean spit off her pictures. While her fame rose within the art world, her career faltered as more mainstream magazines began hesitating to ask her to photograph subjects for their stories. Suffering from depression and feeling overwhelmed by both internal and external expectations of her work, Arbus committed suicide in 1971, but her work has continued to influence photographers for decades.
St. Patrick's Day New Orleans 2019
Mar 15 - Ap 6, 2019 | New Orleans, LA
Through the French Quarter|Convention Center Blvd & Girod St
With events over several weekends in March and April, the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day in New Orleans is an opportunity for friends and family to enjoy a plenty of Irish-themed outdoor festivities. The parades of floats are famous for throwing cabbages, onions, carrots and moonpies out into a crowd of people calling out for something from the float riders. People camp out on the street with picnic baskets and umbrellas to enjoy one of the year’s biggest street parties, and lucky parade goers receive plenty of flowers, beads and kisses.
Delray Beach St. Patrick's Day Parade & Festival 2019
Mar 15 - 16, 2019 | Delray Beach, FL
Before you pound a couple pints of Guinness and jump around to House of Pain, show your support for the men and women who risk their lives every day serving as members of law enforcement and the fire department. A sea of green will surround the streets of downtown Delray Beach to witness the incredible image of police officers, firefighters and EMS personnel leading the parade together.
The fruit of Syzygium samarangense, a tree of the myrtle family. Known in English as the wax apple, Java apple, Semarang rose-apple, or wax jambu, the fruit is a bell-shaped edible berry and appears in crops of up to 700. S. samarangense is a tropical tree, growing to a height of 12 m (39 ft), with evergreen leaves. Its flowers are white, 2.5 cm (0.98 in) in diameter, and feature four petals and numerous stamens.
INDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATION
Commuters on the London Underground are communicating. They are not communicating with each other, but across the world from their cell-like positions on the platform.
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Endpaper Mitts pattern by Eunny Jang
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HANDWARMER MUFF
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Knit Pattern of the Day: Valerie, Canadian Correspondent
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Spicy Diamond blanket
RECIPE
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ITALIAN SAUSAGE LASAGNA
CROCKPOT RECIPE ... St. Patrick's Day
Irish Guinness Beef Stew (Easy Slow Cooker Beef Stew)
SWEETS ... St. Patrick's Day
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CRAFTS
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CHILDREN'S CORNER ... origami
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HOW TO MAKE AN ORIGAMI ALPHABET
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SUDOKU ... very hard
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Repurposed Coffee Beans
This is not only practical, it also doubles as an air freshener! Fill up a small vase or glass jar with things like coffee beans, dried beans, marbles, popcorn kernels, rice, or mini crystals, and use it to store all of your makeup brushes. This is also a fantastic idea for table centerpieces. Simply throw a tea light or battery operated candle in there. 
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