JANUARY 2001

"Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader." - Nostradamus, 1555 THIS MONTH: Look our for the new state quarter featuring New York. Truffle season continues through March Presidential Inauguration Day (US) 1/1/2001 - New Year's Day: the first day of the third millenium. What's 010101 in binary? (21) 1/1/2001 - Kwanzaa ends 1/2/2001 - New Year Holiday (Scotland) 1/3/2001 - Quadrantids meteor showers (dark sky, good viewing) 1/4/2001 - Earth is at perihelion of its orbit, closest to the Sun this year. (Why the heck is it so cold, then...?) 1/6/2001 - Epiphany 1/9/2001 - Full moon, also called Old Moon. Also called Snow Thaws Moon by the Ponca tribe. 1/9/2001 - Partial lunar eclipse visible in northern North America. Total eclipse of the Moon and is visible from Europe, Africa and Asia. 1/15/2001 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day (US). Free from slavery like this. 1/24/2001 - New moon. 1/24/2001 - Chinese New Year, Year of the Snake 1/26/2001 - Australia Day (Australia)

FEBRUARY 2001

In Chaucer's Parliament of Foules we read: For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne's day Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate. THIS MONTH: Black History Month Truffle season continues through March NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) Shoemaker will try to touch down on asteroid 433 Eros this month. It is expected to send incredibly detailed pictures of the asteroid's surface to Earth, then destruct on landing. Follow the tragic sacrifice on their website. Build your own color paper NEAR model of the little space ship with these PDF files. (Use download link to disk command on your browser if you have trouble.) There are other free space ship paper models available, too. 2/9-12/2001 - We think we can top Paris with The Second Sanctioned Get Lost Magazine Dumb-Ass trip: The Frozen North Wretched Excess Tour, skidding to Ottawa on ice. 2/2/2001 - Candlemas, a cross-quarter day roughly halfway between the Winter solstice and Vernal equinox. 2/2/2001 - Groundhog day. 2/8/2001 - Full moon, also known as the Snow Moon. The Algonquin call it the Ice in River is Gone Moon. 2/14/2001 - Valentine's Day. From the Catholic Encyclopedia: The popular customs associated with Saint Valentine's Day undoubtedly had their origin in a conventional belief generally received in England and France during the Middle Ages, that on 14 February, i.e. half way through the second month of the year, the birds began to pair. 2/19/2001 - Presidents Day (US) 2/23/2001 - New moon. 2/27/2001 - Mardi Gras 2/28/2001 - Ash Wednesday

MARCH 2001

THIS MONTH: Look our for the new state quarter featuring North Carolina. Truffle season continues through March Avalanche season in Western Washington's Cascade Mountains coincides with an irrational need to drive through Snoqualmie Pass for hamburgers at the historical Brick tavern in Roslyn, Washington. Falcon Research Group resumes its observation of the nesting Peregrine falcons on Seattle's Washington Mutual Tower. 3/1/2001 - Get Lost Magazine foods editor Martha Strom's birthday. 3/4/2001 - The only day in the year that states a command. March forth. 3/8/2001 - Purim begins at Sundown 3/9/2001 - Full moon, also known as Crow Moon or Sap Moon. The Kiowa people call it the Bud Moon. 3/14/2001 - Get Lost Editor Leslie Strom's birthday, where she has tastefully listed her favorite books on Amazon.com . It's a middle-aged thing. So shut up and get her a book. 3/17 - The ferry Kalakala was towed in 1999 from the Seattle waterfront to Lake Union. 3/17/2001 - St. Patrick's Day. 3/20/2001 - First day of Spring! Printemps! Spring equinox occurs at 7:31 am CST. The sun rises due east and sets due west. Spring begins. According to the Farmer's Almanac, the vernal, or spring, equinox refers to the point at which the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator from south to north, signaling the beginning of nature's renewal in the Northern Hemisphere. 3/24/2001 - New moon. 3/25/2001 - Islamic year 1422 begins at sunset. 3/25/2001 - Mothering Sunday (UK) - be very afraid.