Library Staff WeblogThe Takoma Park Maryland Library staff web log.Earth Hour 08- March 28, 2008 8 PM, Saturday March 29, wherever you are. Beginning in New Zealand, earth hour will roll around the world with people extinguishing their electric lights and non-essential appliances for one hour as eight PM arrives. This includes your computers folks. Try some candlelight. In North America cities turning out the lights include: Atlanta (including all City owned buildings), Chicago, Montreal, Ottawa, Phoenix, San Francisco (even the Golden Gate bridge will go dark), Toronto (the...http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001159.html Spring- March 10, 2008 Vernal Equinox coming up! 2008-03-20 05:58 It moves. Norooz, the Zoroastrian Mesopotamian Chaldean Persian New Year was celebrated (and still is) for 13 days beginning at the moment of the Equinox. Want to celebrate the equinox with some sweet Norooz food There are seven traditional dishes, each beginning with the letter sinn. About two weeks after the equinox comes Tomb Sweeping Day, Qing Ming Jie, which also follows the solar calendar. Celebrate by flying a kite. The original Earth..http://www.takomapark.info/library/mt/archives/001144.html |