SHORTIE TIP – Tunnel Vision

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Genealogy tip for the day: SHORTIE TIP – Tunnel Vision

When researching your genealogy on computers, or over the Internet, be sure and use more than one website. We can sometimes get stuck using only one website because we have learned how to use and it’s become our favorite. But that can give you tunnel vision.

Explore other websites as well. They may have the same or similar databases. Oft times they will give you slightly different results. So be sure and check out other options. What one isn’t giving you, another just might.

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Juliette Low

Today in History

March12

1496		The Jews are expelled from Syria.
1507		Cesare Borgia dies while fighting alongside his brother, the king of Navarre, in Spain.
1609		The Bermuda Islands become an English colony.
1664		New Jersey becomes a British colony.
1789		The United States Post Office is established.
1809		Great Britain signs a treaty with Persia forcing the French out of the country.
1863		President Jefferson Davis delivers his State of the Confederacy address.
1879		The British Zulu War begins.
1884		Mississippi establishes the first U.S. state college for women.
1894		Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1903		The Czar of Russia issues a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout the land.
1909		British Parliament increases naval appropriations for Great Britain.
1911		Dr. Fletcher of the Rockefeller Institute discovers the cause of infantile paralysis.
1912		Juliet Low founds the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia.
1917		Russian troops mutiny as the "February Revolution" begins.
1930		Gandhi begins his march to the sea to symbolize his defiance of British rule in India.
1933		President Paul von Hindenburg drops the flag of the German Republic and orders that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side.
1933		President Roosevelt makes the first of his Sunday evening fireside chats.
1938		German troops enter Austria without firing a shot, forming the anschluss (union) of Austria and Germany.
1939		Pius XII is elected the new pope in Rome.
1944		Great Britain bars all travel to neutral Ireland, which is suspected of collaborating with Nazi Germany.
1945		Diarist Anne Frank dies in a German concentration camp.
1959		The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii.
1984		Lebanese President Gemayel opens the second meeting in five years calling for the end to nine-years of war.
1985		The United States and the Soviet Union begin arms control talks in Geneva.
1994		The Church of England ordains women priests.
Born on March 12
1554		Richard Hooker, English theologian (Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity).
1858		Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of The New York Times.
1862		Jane Delano, nurse, teacher, founder of the Red Cross.
1890		Vasav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer.
1922		Jack Kerouac, American novelist (On the Road).
1928		Edward Albee, American dramatist (Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf).
1946		Patricia Hampl, poet and memoirist (A Romantic Education, Virgin Time).

Patricia Hampl

Word for the Day

Bristol fashion

PRONUNCIATION:

(BRIS-tl FASH-uhn)

MEANING:

adjective: In good order.

ETYMOLOGY:

We know the term is coined after Bristol, England, but we are not so certain why. Some believe the term alludes to the prosperity of the city from its flourishing shipping business. Others claim that the term arose as a result of the very high tidal range of the port of Bristol: at low tides ships moored here would go aground and if everything on the ship was not stowed away properly, chaos would result. The term is often used to describe boats and typically used in the phrase "shipshape and Bristol fashion".

USAGE:

"Everything was shipshape and Bristol fashion, the parallel bars looked spruce, the leaves had been raked out of the swimming pool, there was not a drop of horse poo on the riding course."
Patsy Crawford; Olympic Gold is a Little Tarnished; Sunday Tasmanian (Australia); Jul 18, 2004.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. -Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917-2008)

Today’s Recipe

March - Breakfast Foods

Mini Quiche

These are mini quiches made with puff pastry for the crusts. I've seen similar ones also called baked egg souffle before (like the Panera version, which I love!). [Editor – comments come from the website where we got the recipe.]

Mini Quiches, makes 3
puff pastry
3-4 eggs
1/4 cup half and half or cream
salt + pepper
1/4 cup cheese (I used parmesan)
Preheat the oven to 350°F. In a bowl whisk together the eggs, cream, salt and pepper. Butter your baking dishes (I used large ramekins). Cut your puff pastry into large squares that will slightly hang over once placed in the baking dishes. Fill 2/3 full with the egg batter. Fold the edges in toward the center. Sprinkle on the cheese and bake for 35-40 minutes, until the egg looks set. 
These will appear quite puffy as you remove them from the oven, but they will settle a little as they cool.

Mar 4^th Corned Beef Hash

Mar 5^th Sunday Morning Muffins

Mar 6^th Breakfast Pizza

Mar 9^th Buttermilk biscuits and Mushroom gravy

Mar 10^th Baked Fruit – 3 ways

Mar 11^th French Toast Sticks – Kid Friendly

Mar 12^th Mini Quiche

ENJOY!

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