March 6

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

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<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/rand-paul-wins-applause-from-gop-and-liberals/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rand Paul Wins Applause From GOP and Liberals</a>ABC News (blog)Rand Paul's nearly 13 hour live filibuster of John Brennan's nomination to head the CIA got support for the Kentucky Republican from some unlikely places. “He's using the filibuster the way it's meant to be used,” said Jon Stewart, whose satire carries ...

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/03/07/mccain-and-graham-attack-rand-pauls-filibuster/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">McCain and Graham attack Rand Paul's filibuster</a>Washington Post (blog)Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) filibuster appears to have exposed a divide in the Republican Party, with the party's two top foreign policy hawks — Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) — taking to the floor Thursday to denounce Paul's effort ...

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<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/03/former-co-stars-react-to-valerie-harpers-terminal-diagnosis/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Former Co-Stars React to Valerie Harper's Terminal Diagnosis</a>ABC News (blog)Their “Mary Tyler Moore Show” co-star Ed Asner commented in a statement obtained by”Entertainment Tonight,” “Valerie Harper 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 ...

<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/07/7-best-valerie-harper-moments-video.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">7 Best Valerie Harper Moments</a>Daily BeastValerie Harper, 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 ...

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<a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_22738558/alvin-lee-dies-ten-years-after-guitarist-woodstock" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alvin Lee dies; Ten Years After guitarist a Woodstock star</a>San Jose Mercury NewsLONDON -- British rock guitarist Alvin Lee, 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 ...

<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/06/showbiz/obit-alvin-lee/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guitarist Alvin Lee of Woodstock fame dies at 68</a>CNN"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 alvinlee.com. "We have lost a wonderful, much loved father and ...

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<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57572802/watch-jane-lynch-raps-nicki-minajs-super-bass/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Watch: Jane Lynch raps Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass"</a>CBS NewsLynch talked about some of the celebrities in attendance, including Steven Tyler and Nicki Minaj, 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 ...

<a href="http://www.toofab.com/2013/03/06/jane-lynch-raps-nicki-minaj-super-bass-conan-video/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Lynch Raps Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" (Really Well!)</a>TooFab.comThe 52-year-old told host Conan O'Brien that she sat with Minaj at Elton John's Oscar Party, revealing that she'd actually performed Nicki's

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March 6 in history:

1957: 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 Texas.

1820: The 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."