A thought for the day: The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story ... The consequence of the ...Read More

On this date in history:

In 1842, Dr. Crawford Long became the first physician to use anesthetic (ether) in surgery.

In 1858, a U.S. patent was granted to Hymen Lipman for a pencil with an attached ...Read More

Those born on this date include:

- Spanish painter Francisco Jose de Goya in 1746
- German chemist Robert Bunsen, inventor of the Bunsen gas burner, in 1811
- English author Anna Sewell in 1820
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Today is Thursday, March 30, the 89th day of 2023 with 276 to follow.

The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mars and Saturn. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.

On March 30th, 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward purchased Alaska for $7.2 million, a move referred to by the media as "Seward's Folly."

A thought for the day: Architecture is the printing press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected. -- Irish-English novelist Lady Sydney Morgan