 March 11, 2012  People throughout the tsunami-ravaged areas of Japan marked a minute of silence at 2:46 p.m., the time of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that set off the devastating tsunami that killed more than 15,000 people. A further 3,000 are missing one year later.
Egypt Opens Registration for Presidential Race Female Musher Leading Iditarod March 11, 2012 |
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The Advent of the Pillsbury Doughboy
 The Pillsbury Doughboy, one of the baking industry's most recognizable figures, was originally the figment of one man's imagination. Poppin' Fresh debuted in 1965 and has been inspiring bakers ever since. |
 The Repeal of the Stamp ActOne of the most incendiary British taxes on the American colonists in the 18th Century was the Stamp Tax, a levy on the publication and transfer of many different kinds of things that involved paper, including many kinds of trade.
The reaction was loud, and the result was eventually the repeal of the tax, on March 17, 1766. Click on the headline above to read the rest of the story. | ||
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The Life of Saint Patrick |
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If Aliy Zirkle keeps her lead, she will be the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race since Susan Butcher in 1990. Zirkle, of Two Rivers, Alaska, was the first musher to drive her team of dogs to Norton Sound, a tiny community on the state's west coast. The effort gained her $2,500 in gold nuggets and a golden cup. The 11th-place finisher last year, she planned on extending her lead on the run in to Nome.
The Stamp Act required a stamp to be put on all kinds of paper used by the colonists. They did use a lot of paper in those days, just as we do now. Documents of court proceedings and land and business sales were printed on paper, as were newspapers, pamphlets, and even playing cards. Think of how much you use paper today, and imagine if you had to pay a tax on every piece of paper. In colonial times, people used paper even more. They certainly were not happy about paying a paper tax.
