DIANE'S CORNER: International Day of Happiness

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Celebrate Int'l Day of Happiness

Happiness on a personal level can make any day better and can add great value to your life. However, what if happiness was applied on a global scale? How would that change the way the economy works or how societies function?

International Day of Happiness is the kind of holiday that aims to see the happiness on a global scale, encouraging others to spread happiness big and small and make radical changes to the way people view the world.

History of International Day of Happiness

International Day of Happiness has a huge global history regarding its creation and founding. It was introduced by Advisor Jayme Illien, CEO of the United Nations New Economic Paradigm Project and founder of happytalism.

The General Assembly of the United Nations agreed with this idea and proclaimed this day as International Day of Happiness back in July of 2012. According to the United Nations, this holiday recognizes the relevance of happiness as being an essential part of universal goals and aspirations when it comes to public policy.

Happiness can bring an inclusive, balanced approach to economic growth and can promote sustainable development, reduce, and bring about well-being for many people.

The resolution to the holiday was brought about by Bhutan, a country that adopted the idea of Gross National Happiness over Gross National Product, hosting meetings and presentations at the sixty-sixth session at the General Assembly.

Today, the holiday is celebrated and hosted by various organizations, including Action for Happiness, Happinessday.org, and the United Nations. Through these websites, people can share their stories about what makes them happy, how their happiness contributes to their impact on the global economy.

Throughout the day, people share inspirational stories about how they inspire happiness in others, share the holiday logo, and post all over social media how happiness can make way towards a better future.

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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) is regarded as the most important Spanish artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over the course of his long career, Goya moved from jolly and lighthearted to deeply pessimistic and searching in his paintings, drawings, etchings, and frescoes.

Joke of the Day

Pet Name

Igor: "Why do you call your pet fawn 'Ninety-Nine Cents'?"

Boris: "Because it’s not old enough to be a buck."

Word of the Day

lardy-dardy

MEANING:

adjective: Pretentious; affected; dandyish.

ETYMOLOGY:

A reduplication of la-di-da which is imitative of affected pronunciation. Earliest documented use: 1861.

USAGE:

“Gov was too lardy-dardy with them, Gov had made my sisters too superior to breathe.”
Ursula Holden; Tin Toys; Methuen; 1987.

Idiom of the Day

TIME FLIES WHEN YOU’RE HAVING FUN

When you’re enjoying something time seems to move faster and you don’t notice the passing of time
I can’t believe it’s 10pm already! Time flies when you’re having fun!

This Day in History

1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," subtitled "Life Among the Lowly," was first published.

1854 - The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group.

1885 - John Matzeliger of Suriname patented the shoe lacing machine.

1888 - The Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia," began.

1914 - The first international figure skating championship was held in New Haven, CT.

1922 - The USS Langley was commissioned. It was the first aircraft carrier for the U.S. Navy.

1959 - Bobby Rydell made his first TV appearance, on "American Bandstand."

1963 - The first "Pop Art" exhibit began in New York City.

1967 - Twiggy arrived in the U.S. for a one-week stay.

1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married in Gibraltar.

1982 - U.S. scientists' returned from Antarctica with the first land mammal fossils found there.

1987 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved AZT. The drug was proven to slow the progress of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

1990 - The Los Angeles Lakers retired Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33.

1997 - Liggett Group, the maker of Chesterfield cigarettes, settled 22 state lawsuits by admitting the industry marketed cigarettes to teenagers and agreed to warn on every pack that smoking is addictive.

1999 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first men to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. The non-stop trip began on March 3 and covered 26,500 miles.

thanks, Debbie

DAILY SQU-EEK

If You Were Born Today, March 20

Extremely creative and enterprising, you are also very charismatic and warm. As much as you need stability and security, especially with close relationships, you crave variety in your daily life, balking at routine and needing to mix things up from time to time. You have an unmistakable innocent charm to your manner, and your optimism and friendliness help win you much success in life, both personally and professionally. Famous people born today:

1922 Carl Reiner, American comedian, actor and writer (2000 Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show), born in The Bronx, New York

1928 Fred Rogers, American children's TV host (Mr Rogers' Neighborhood), born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)

1939 Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada (1984-93), born in Baie-Comeau, Quebec

1948 Bobby Orr, Canadian hall of fame NHL defenseman (Boston Bruins), born in Parry Sound, Ontario

1950 William Hurt, actor (Big Chill, Children of a Lesser God), born in Washington, D.C.

1957 Spike Lee [Shelton Jackson Lee], American film director (Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X), born in Atlanta, Georgia

1958 Holly Hunter, American actress (Broadcast News, The Piano), born in Conyers, Georgia

READERS INFO

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thanks for the Offbeat Holiday, Patty

MARCH 20: WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR DAY

Everyone's favorite neighbor, Fred Rogers, was born on March 20, 1928 and this holiday now serves as an occasion to remember the beloved TV star, and honor him by being kind, generous, and, well, downright neighborly.

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MARCH 21: PLAY THE RECORDER DAY

Limber up those fingers and celebrate this ubiquitous childhood instrument with a rousing rendition of "Hot Cross Buns."

FRIDAY'S INTERESTING FACTS

There is a total of 1,710 steps in the Eiffel Tower.

Standing 108 stories tall, there are 1,710 steps to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower. However, guests are only allowed to climb the stairs until the first platform. From there, they must take a lift to the top.

A woman tried to commit suicide by jumping off the Empire State Building. She jumped from the 86^th floor but was blown back onto the 85^th floor by a gust of wind.

Standing almost 1,500 feet tall, there’s no way anyone could survive that fall. However, when Elvita Adams tried to kill herself by jumping, a strong gust of wind blew her to the floor below. The worst injury she sustained was a fractured hip.

The Pokémon Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are based off of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.

The third Pokemon of the Hitmons is also named after a martial artist. Hitmontop is named after a lesser known martial artist, Larry Top.

Hewlett-Packard’s (also known as HP) name was decided in a coin toss in 1939.

The name was always going to be a hyphenation of the two founders last names, so in order to decide between Hewlett-Packard and Packard-Hewlett, they flipped a coin. You may also like these top 100 fun facts about technology.

J.K. Rowling chose the unusual name “Hermione” so young girls wouldn’t be teased for being nerdy.

The name Hermione came from Shakespeare’s “A Winter’s Tale.” Rowling says when she chose the name, she “didn’t want a lot of fairly hard-working little girls to be teased if ever the book was published.”

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Pictures of the day

The Allegory of Faith is an oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Vermeer. Painted in the early 1670s, it is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where it has been since 1931. The painting depicts a finely dressed woman, representing the Catholic faith, sitting on a platform, with her right foot on a terrestrial globe and her right hand on her heart. She looks up, adoringly, at a glass sphere hung from the ceiling by a blue ribbon. Her left arm rests on the edge of a table which holds a golden chalice, a large book, and a crucifix. Resting on the book is a crown of thorns. At the bottom of the picture is an apple, and near that a snake squashed by a cornerstone. In the dim background hangs a large painting of the crucifixion of Jesus. Much of the symbolism, including the color of the woman's clothing, her hand gestures, and the presence of the crushed snake and the apple, may have come from Cesare Ripa's emblem book Iconologia.

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