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<p><span class="hottrends-trends-list-date-header">Wednesday, March 6, 2013</span></p>
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<div class="hottrends-single-trend-image-container"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/03/07/a-kind-word-for-senator-rand-paul-from-a-typically-unkind-critic/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://news.google.com/news/tbn/XTWDyeMuQat8-M/1.jpg" alt="" /><span>Forbes</span></a></div>
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<div class="hottrends-single-trend-title-container"><a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:3/6/13,cd_max:3/6/13&amp;q=Rand+Paul" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-title">Rand Paul</span></a></div>
<span class="hottrends-single-trend-info"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-info-line">200,000+ searches</span></span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-related-searches"><span>Related searches: </span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-related-searches-list">filibuster, Rand Paul filibuster</span></span></div>
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<div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/rand-paul-wins-applause-from-gop-and-liberals/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title"><strong>Rand Paul</strong> Wins Applause From GOP and Liberals</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">ABC News (blog)</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet"><strong>Rand Paul's</strong> nearly 13 hour live filibuster of John Brennan's nomination to head the CIA got support for the Kentucky Republican from some unlikely places. &ldquo;He's using the filibuster the way it's meant to be used,&rdquo; said Jon Stewart, whose satire carries <strong>...</strong></span></div>
<div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/07/mccain-and-graham-attack-rand-pauls-filibuster/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title">McCain and Graham attack <strong>Rand Paul's</strong> filibuster</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">Washington Post (blog)</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet"><strong>Rand Paul's</strong> (R-Ky.) filibuster appears to have exposed a divide in the Republican Party, with the party's two top foreign policy hawks &mdash; Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) &mdash; taking to the floor Thursday to denounce Paul's effort <strong>...</strong></span></div>
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<div class="hottrends-single-trend-image-container"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/03/former-co-stars-react-to-valerie-harpers-terminal-diagnosis/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://news.google.com/news/tbn/R9DCs__KpmrcQM/1.jpg" alt="" /><span>ABC News (blog)</span></a></div>
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<div class="hottrends-single-trend-title-container"><a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:3/6/13,cd_max:3/6/13&amp;q=Valerie+Harper" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-title">Valerie Harper</span></a></div>
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<div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/03/former-co-stars-react-to-valerie-harpers-terminal-diagnosis/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title">Former Co-Stars React to <strong>Valerie Harper's</strong> Terminal Diagnosis</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">ABC News (blog)</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">Their &ldquo;Mary Tyler Moore Show&rdquo; co-star Ed Asner commented in a statement obtained by&rdquo;Entertainment Tonight,&rdquo; &ldquo;<strong>Valerie Harper</strong> is a century plan and I have come to know her much better in my latter years and have every confidence in the world that she <strong>...</strong></span></div>
<div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/07/7-best-valerie-harper-moments-video.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title">7 Best <strong>Valerie Harper</strong> Moments</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">Daily Beast</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet"><strong>Valerie Harper</strong>, or Rhoda, as she came to be known thanks to her comedic television alter ego, announced Wednesday that she has terminal brain cancer. The 73-year-old actress was diagnosed in January with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare cancer <strong>...</strong></span></div>
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<div class="hottrends-single-trend-image-container"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/9915929/Alvin-Lee.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://news.google.com/news/tbn/qf-YVm25cs8uXM/1.jpg" alt="" /><span>Telegraph.co.uk</span></a></div>
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<div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_22738558/alvin-lee-dies-ten-years-after-guitarist-woodstock" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title"><strong>Alvin Lee</strong> dies; Ten Years After guitarist a Woodstock star</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">San Jose Mercury News</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">LONDON -- British rock guitarist <strong>Alvin Lee</strong>, founder of the band Ten Years After who burst to stardom with a memorable Woodstock performance, has died. He was 68. A statement posted on Lee's official website said he died Wednesday unexpectedly from <strong>...</strong></span></div>
<div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/06/showbiz/obit-alvin-lee/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title">Guitarist <strong>Alvin Lee</strong> of Woodstock fame dies at 68</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">CNN</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">"With great sadness, we have to announce that Alvin unexpectedly passed away early this morning after unforeseen complications following a routine surgical procedure," read the message on <strong>alvinlee</strong>.com. "We have lost a wonderful, much loved father and <strong>...</strong></span></div>
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<div class="hottrends-single-trend-image-container"><a href="http://www.gigwise.com/news/80006/video-glee-star-jane-lynch-raps-nicki-minajs-super-bass" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://news.google.com/news/tbn/7jhbTe8NlsTMPM/1.jpg" alt="" /><span>Gigwise</span></a></div>
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<div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57572802/watch-jane-lynch-raps-nicki-minajs-super-bass/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title">Watch: Jane Lynch raps <strong>Nicki Minaj's</strong> "Super Bass"</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">CBS News</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">Lynch talked about some of the celebrities in attendance, including Steven Tyler and <strong>Nicki Minaj</strong>, whose material Lynch is no stranger to. The 52-year-old Lynch spoke about once performing Minaj's 2011 hit "Super Bass" on an episode of "Glee," and it <strong>...</strong></span></div>
<p><a href="http://www.toofab.com/2013/03/06/jane-lynch-raps-nicki-minaj-super-bass-conan-video/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title">Jane Lynch Raps <strong>Nicki Minaj's</strong> "Super Bass" (Really Well!)</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">TooFab.com</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">The 52-year-old told host Conan O'Brien that she sat with <strong>Minaj</strong> at Elton John's Oscar Party, revealing that she'd actually performed <strong>Nicki's</strong></span></p>
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'''March 6''' in history:

* 1957: [[Directory:Ghana|Ghana]], formerly the British colony of the Gold Coast, became the first black African colony to receive independence.

* 1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed a bank moratorium, closing the banks for four days, and placed an embargo on the export of gold.

* 1857: In the landmark case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, Chief Justice Roger B.Taney delivered the majority opinion of the Supreme Court that Dred Scott should remain a slave.

* 1853: La Traviata, the opera by Guiseppe Verdi, based on La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas the Younger, was first performed, in Venice.

* 1836: After a 12-day siege, the Mexicans broke through the defenses at The Alamo and massacred all within, who were fighting for [[Directory:Texas|Texas]].

* 1820: The [[Directory:Missouri|Missouri]] Enabling Act—part of the Missouri Compromise—forbade the creation of further slave states north of latitude 36° 30', Missouri's southern border.

* 1806: Francis II abdicated as Holy Roman emperor and thus brought to an end the Holy Roman Empire, which—as Voltaire had quipped—"was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."

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