March 26 is National Nougat Day
Varieties of nougat are found in:
3 Musketeers, Mars, Snickers, Milky Way, Zero, Salted Nut Rolls, Reese’s Fast Break, Reese’s Whipps, Baby Ruth, and others.
There are three basics kinds of nougats:
- White nougat – made with beaten egg whites and honey.
- Brown nougat – made without egg whites and has a firmer, often crunchy texture.
- Viennese or German nougat – chocolate and nut praline
Publication of Federalist Paper #75: The Treaty-Making Power of the Executive written by Alexander Hamilton in 1788.
From www.teaparty911.com
A president acting alone and soon to be out of office and of slender means might be subject to monetary influence from foreign powers. Human history suggests it would not be wise to entrust so delicate and momentous an intercourse with the rest of the world to the sole disposal of the chief magistrate. To have entrusted the treaty making power to the senate alone would have deprived it of the benefits of the constitutional agency of the president in the conduct of foreign negotiations. The security of the people is best served by the combination of the senate and the president.
Congress ordered removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana in 1804.
1804 – The Louisiana Purchase was divided into the District of Louisiana and the Territory of Orleans.
1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term “gerrymander” to describe oddly shaped electoral districts.designed to help incumbents win re-election.
Death of Ludwig van Beethoven (Mar 26, 1827), His dying words were “Applaud, friends, the comedy is finished.”
March 26, 1830 – The Book of Mormon was published in Palmyra, New York.
1872 Thomas J. Martin patented fire extinguisher.
Birthday of Robert Frost (1874), American poet, remembered for “A Road Not Taken” and “Stopping By Woods” (“I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep.”.)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
On March 26, 1910, The U.S. Congress passed an amendment to the 1907 Immigration Act that barred criminals, paupers, anarchists and carriers of disease from settling in the U.S.
Congress appropriated $50,000 for Inter-American highway March 26, 1930.
Spinach growers in Crystal City, TX, (Spinach capital of the world) erected a statue of Popeye in 1937.
1958 – US Army launched America’s third successful satellite, “Explorer III“
“The Young and The Restless” aired for the first time in 1973.
1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter signed the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C..