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MerryBlooms

(11,770 posts) Thu Mar 15, 2012, 02:48 PM Mar 2012

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Ides of March: What Is It? Why Do We Still Observe It?

Caesar: The ides of March are come.
Soothsayer: Aye, Caesar, but not gone.
—Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120315-ides-of-march-beware-caesar-what-when-shakespeare-quote/?source=link_fb20120315news-idesofmarch

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Ides of March: What Is It? Why Do We Still Observe It? (Original Post) MerryBlooms Mar 2012 OP

Republican soothsayers: Beware the march of ideas! Liberal Veteran Mar 2012 #1

I always thought it was Buzzard Day in Hinkley, LOL. n/t InkAddict Mar 2012 #2

Liberal Veteran

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1. Republican soothsayers: Beware the march of ideas!

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Thu Mar 15, 2012, 02:58 PM

Mar 2012

InkAddict

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2. I always thought it was Buzzard Day in Hinkley, LOL. n/t

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Thu Mar 15, 2012, 04:47 PM

Mar 2012

http://blog.cleveland.com/brunswicksuntimes/2011/03/buzzards_return_to_hinckley_on.html

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