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Today is the 6th day of the 11th week, the 15th day of the 3rd month, the 74th day of 2019, and: 
  • Buzzards Day
  • Dumbstruck Day
  • Everything You Think is Wrong Day
  • Ides of March
  • International Day of Action Against Canadian Seal Slaughter
  • International Day Against Police Brutality
  • National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence
  • International Eat an Animal for PETA Day
  • National Brutus Day
  • National Peanut Lovers Day
  • National Pears Helene Day
  • national Preschool Teachers Appreciation Day
  • National Shoe the World Day
  • True Confessions Day
  • World Consumer Rights Day
  • World Sleep Day
 
Beware the Ides of March
 
It’s probably thanks to William Shakespeare that we remember this day as in his play Julius Caesar, a soothsayer or haruspex [a religious official who interpreted omens by inspecting the entrails of sacrificial animals] named Spurinna attracts Caesar’s attention and tells him:
 
"Beware the ides of March."
Caesar demands:
"What man is that? Set him before me, let me see his face."
When the soothsayer repeats his warning, Caesar dismisses him, saying:
"He is a dreamer; let us leave him. Pass."
Two acts later, Caesar is assassinated on the steps of the Senate.
 
It is said that on his way to the Theatre of Pompey, where he would be assassinated, Caesar passed the seer and joked, "The Ides of March are come", implying that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied "Aye, Caesar; but not gone."
  
The ancient Roman calendar had an ides every month – in March, May, July, and October the ides were on the 15th but on the other months the ides were the 13th.    The Ides of March marked the first full moon of the Roman year and was considered by the Romans to be a deadline for settling debts.  It wasn’t a particularly unlucky day until Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC.  Not only was the murder rather brutal and carried out by his trusted associates, it was one of those pivotal points of history when everything changed as Rome succumbed to dictatorship triggering its decline. 
 
Back in the day, when I was in school, we very pretentiously walked around with black mourning bands on our arms.  I have no idea what we were supposedly in mourning FOR  and I’m sure we were just indulging in a pre-internet meme. 

 
 
Hey, it’s Friday.  Not sure Julius would agree, but a Friday does make the whole day a bit better!
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