#HappyBirthday to the #March7 #BirthdayCohort (with @LauraPrepon & #WandaSykes @iamWandaSykes & ALL the #FamousBirthdays @Bing lists) on #AlexanderGrahamBellDay | @HolidaysCalendr @BirthdayMates @YourTango @MySundayMass

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... or -on 'whichever of these holidays, awareness-dates &/or event-anniversaries you celebrate!'

Holidays Calendar explains Alexander #Graham #Bell Day in a report accessed through 'the bold hyperlink(s)' below; but first I want to teach you about those words. And I find you understand words better if you see 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum into their Foundation)
The 'middle name' “Graham” is built on the ancient English location #Grantham, which means Gravelly Homestead.

(odd ... BehindTheName says that middle-names are "secondary given-names," but then call's Alexander's 'Graham' a surname (as originally taken to Scotland by the Norman baron William de Graham).

(Do you know how Alexander got that 'surname'? I know married women often take their maiden-names as middle-names; maybe Alexander took his mother's maiden-name as his middle-name ... no; Holidays Calendar explains that it is a surname, and tells how he got it ...)

The surname "Bell" names the family who lives near the Town-Bell and/or has the job of Bell-Ringer. The word "Bell (\ #Belled #Belling #Bells #BellBoy #Bellhop #BellJar #BellMetal #Bluebell #Cowbell #DoorBell #DumbBell #Handbell #BellCurve #BellPepper #BellBookAndCandle #ThatRingsABell)" is built on ancient words that mean "to Sound, |Roar" (|Bellow).
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It 'thrills me' a little that I have the same birthday as several famous people, and enough other people get that thrill from seeing their birthday-cohort (both the currently-famous & the probably-not-yet famous) that I figure it's worth doing 'one of these entries for every birthday' ...

This Day's Birthday-Cohort

Astrologically, their sign is Pisces ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: Tammy Faye Baker, Rachel Weisz, Willard Scott, Laura Prepon (... THAT 70's SHOW), Bryan Cranston, Jenna Fischer, John Heard (Kevin's dad in HOME ALONEs), Wanda Sykes, Michael Eisner

... and many others (most of whom are at the 'Birthday-Cohort' link)---

you might comment telling why we should recognize a special one I missed ...

Or maybe you'd like a reminder of 'where you've seen one of the ones we DO mention'; Ask in your comment!

My Heart of the Nation calendar (which tells me which celebrations we (Catholics) are celebrating, and which color Vestments the clergy are wearing) tells us that this day's in Violet (whether they choose to celebrate a memorial for Saint Perpetua & -Felicity, or not)


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