3/13/26 (Friday the 13th..again?), Oscar Movies, and Uranus
- bribriny
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Friday 3/13/26
Celebrate:
Donald Duck Day
Earmuff Day
K-9 Veterans Day
Ken Day
National Chicken Noodle Soup Day
National Coconut Torte Day
National Dermatologist Day
National Ginger Ale Day
National Good Samaritan Day
National Jewel Day
National Open an Umbrella Indoors Day
National Preschooler's Day
National Riesling Day
World Sleep Day
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Here we go again. Since February and March usually mimic each other with their dates, we again get a Friday the 13th!
The fear of the number 13 is known as triskaidekaphobia.
Friday has also carried negative connotations for centuries, particularly within Christian tradition. It is believed to be the day Eve gave Adam the forbidden fruit, the day Cain killed his brother Abel, and the day the Great Flood began.
Japan and China: The number 4 is considered unlucky because it sounds like the word for "death" in Japanese and Chinese. Consequently, the 4th day of the month can be a focus of superstition.
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Sunday night is the Academy Awards and another film with join the 97 that have won in past years.
USAToday ranked all the former winners.
1. 1972's The Godfather
2. 1943's Casablanca
3. 1993's Schindler's List
4. 1954's On the Waterfront
5. 1950's All About Eve
6. 1984's Amadeus
7. 1971's The French Connection
8. 1991's The Silence of the Lambs
9. 1974's The Godfather Part II
10. 1975's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The bottom two
97. 'The Broadway Melody' (1928/29)
The second best picture winner, it's a musical dud with vaudevillian sisters and romantic malarkey that could have won worst picture, too.
96. 'Crash' (2005)
A mess of interwoven stories centered on social and xenophobic tensions in LA, it has a good cast (Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle) and little else.
See their full list here.
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Jimmy Kimmel is gearing up to host the Oscars for the fifth time, and he's promising a looser, more unpredictable show. In a preview interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Kimmel joked that he's "run out of celebrities to offend" and is planning to lean into the unpredictability of live television. Producers confirm the show will feature several unscripted segments, a risky move for an event known for its rigid timing, but Kimmel says that's exactly the point.
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A new 2026 study published in Nature Mental Health highlights the effectiveness of the "3-3-3" rule for grounding during high-stress moments. The technique involves identifying 3 things you see, 3 things you hear, and moving 3 parts of your body. The study found that this specific sensory engagement can lower cortisol spikes by nearly 22% in under two minutes.
Again, like all these "cures" you will never remember it at the time of the crisis.
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Where better to celebrate St. Patrick's Day thank in Boston! The South Boston St. Patrick's Day parade this weekend and the MBTA is expecting nearly one million people to flood the city for the Sunday celebration, prompting major schedule changes and extra train cars on the Red Line and Commuter Rail.
Not so crazy here for the Horseheads St. Patrick's Day Parade Saturday at 2pm!!
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - In 1781, astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus while scanning the sky from his garden in England.
Herschel didn't want to call it Uranus. He tried to name it "Georgium Sidus" (George's Star) after King George III. He figured that since the King was his patron, naming a giant ice planet after him was a solid career move.
The name didn't stick outside of Britain. Astronomers eventually settled on Uranus to keep with the tradition of naming planets after Roman and Greek gods. It remains the only planet named after a Greek god (Ouranos) rather than a Roman one.
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