Following the events of Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, Interpol agents are dispatched to search for Mecha Godzilla’s remains at the bottom of the Okinawa Sea in the hopes of gathering information on the robot’s builders, the alien Simians. Unfortunately the submarine is attacked by a huge aquatic Kaiju (which the authorities name Titanosaurus) . Interpol launches an investigation into the incident. With the help of marine biologist Akira Ichinose, they trace Titanosaurus to a reclusive, mad scientist named Shinzô Mafune, who had previously warned them that such a creature existed, but was initially laughed at by the authorities and sacked from his job.
Predictably after this disgraceful treatment, Shinzo Mafune and his daughter Katsura (who has a psychic link with the huge aquatic reptile Titanosaur) have no intention of helping the authorities. Mafune is then visited by Tsuda, an aide to the Simian leader Mugal, who is leading a project to rebuild Mechagodzilla and Mafune agrees to help The alien Simians to build a second Mechagodzilla in their hidden secret base beneath a mountain near Tokyo. It transpires that The Simians previously saved Mafune’s daughter Katsura’s life with cybernetic implants and are using her powers to get Titanosaurus to attack anything in the area. This leads an impatient Mafune to release Titanosaurus on Yokosuka, however Godzilla arrives, then Interpol make an important discovery. Later Ichinose visits Katsura at home but is captured by the Simians who implant further cybernetic devices inside Katsura to control Mechagodzilla. Then Ichinose is forced to watch as Mechagodzilla and Titanosaurus are both unleashed on Tokyo with The Aliens hoping that with Mafune and Katsura controlling Titanosaurus and Mechagodzilla they can defeat Godzilla, take over the world, and wipe out mankind…
Best known for his role as Montgomery “Scotty” Scott in the television and film series Star Trek, the Canadian actor, voice actor, author and soldier, James Montgomery Doohan was born 3 March 1920 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was the youngest of four children of Sarah Frances (née Montgomery) and William Patrick Doohan, who both emigrated from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. His father, William Doohan , was a pharmacist, veterinarian and dentist, and a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland who owned a chemist shop in Main Street in Bangor, beside Trinity Presbyterian Church. Doohan’s paternal grandfather, Thomas Doohan, was Head Constable in the Royal Irish Constabulary. The family moved from Vancouver to Sarnia, Ontario. Doohan attended high school at Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School (SCITS), where he excelled in mathematics and science and Also developed a talent for performing different accents.
He enrolled in the 102nd Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps in 1938 and At the beginning of the Second World War, Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery and was a member of the 14th (Midland) Field Battery, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and was sent to England in 1940 for training. He first saw combat landing at Juno Beach on D-Day. Shooting two snipers, Doohan led his men to higher ground through a field of anti-tank mines, where they took defensive positions for the night. Crossing between command posts at 11:30 that night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren Gun by a nervous Canadian sentry: four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger. The bullet to his chest was stopped by a silver cigarette case given to him by his brother. His right middle finger had to be amputated, something he would conceal on-screen during most of his career as an actor.
Doohan graduated from Air Observation Pilot Course 40 with eleven other Canadian artillery officers and flew Taylorcraft Auster Mark V aircraft for 666 (AOP) Squadron, RCAF as a Royal Canadian Artillery officer in support of 1st Army Group Royal Artillery. All three Canadian (AOP) RCAF squadrons were manned by artillery officer-pilots and accompanied by non-commissioned RCA and RCAF personnel serving as observers. Although he was never actually a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Doohan was once labelled the “craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force After he slalomed a plane between telegraph poles on Salisbury Plain north of RAF Andover, just to prove it could be done”—earning himself a serious reprimand.
After the war, he had extensive experience performing in radio and television, After the war, Doohan moved to London, Ontario, for further technical education. After hearing a radio drama that he knew he could do better, he recorded his voice at the local radio station, and learned about a drama school in Toronto. There he won a two-year scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where his classmates included Leslie Nielsen, Tony Randall and Richard Boone. In 1946, he had several roles for CBC radio, starting January 12. For several years, he shuttled between Toronto and New York as work demanded. He estimated he performed in over 4,000 radio programs and 450 television programs during this period, and earned a reputation for versatility. In the mid-1950s, he appeared as forest ranger Timber Tom (the northern counterpart of Buffalo Bob) in the Canadian version of Howdy Doody. Coincidentally, fellow Star Trek cast member William Shatner appeared simultaneously as Ranger Bill in the American version. Doohan and Shatner both appeared on the 1950s Canadian science fiction series Space Command. Doohan also appeared in several episodes of Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans in 1957-58.
For GM Presents, he played the lead role in the CBC TV drama Flight into Danger (1956), then in The Night they Killed Joe Howe (1960). Arthur Hailey rewrote the former into the novel Runway Zero-Eight, then adapted to Terror in the Sky. This story was later satirized in Airplane!.) Doohan’s other credits included The Twilight Zone, Season 4, Episode 3 “Valley of the Shadow” (17 January 1961), GE True, Hazel, The Outer Limits, The Fugitive, Bewitched, Fantasy Island, Magnum, P.I., The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Bonanza. co-starring with actress Majel Barrett who would later play Star Trek’s Nurse Christine Chapel. He played an assistant to the United States president in two episodes of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. He had an uncredited role in The Satan Bug (1965), appeared in the Daniel Boone episode “A Perilous Passage” (1970), appeared as a state trooper in Roger Vadim’s film Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) (which was produced by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry), and also played opposite Richard Harris in the movie Man in the Wilderness (1971).
Scotty then landed the role of Scotty in Star Trek. He was originally conceived as semi-regular; but was elevated to be a regular supporting character. Doohan also provided voices for inanimate characters, including Sargon in “Return to Tomorrow”, the M-5 in “The Ultimate Computer”, the Mission Control Voice in “Assignment: Earth”, and the Oracle in “For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky”. Doohan returned to the role of Scotty in the early 1970s for Star Trek: The Animated Series. Walter Koenig (navigator Pavel Chekov) was not hired for this series due to budget limitations, so Doohan voiced a replacement character: alien navigator Arex. He also voiced most guest male roles, including that of Robert April, the first captain of the Enterprise and around 50 other roles, voicing as many as seven different characters in a single episode. He rejoined the entire regular cast of Star Trek for the feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), for which he also devised the Vulcan and Klingon language dialogue. He continued in the role of Scotty for sequels The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country. In 1992, he guest-starred in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Relics”, playing an elderly Scotty reminiscing about his time on the Enterprise. He and Walter Koenig appeared briefly with William Shatner in Star Trek: Generations, in a scene which transitioned the film series to the cast of the more recent television series.
After Star Trek ended, however, he found himself typecast and had a hard time getting other roles. After his dentist reminded him he would “always be Scotty”, he supported his family with income from personal appearances. Unlike some other members of the cast, Doohan relished meeting fans and was always ready to entertain with a story or a song. Most of the roles Doohan subsequently played made at least oblique references to his Trek fame and engineering reputation. He was Commander Canarvin in the short-lived Saturday morning live-action kids’ show Jason of Star Command, and had a cameo in the made-for-TV movie Knight Rider 2000 as “Jimmy Doohan, the guy who played Scotty on Star Trek”. On the television series Homeboys in Outer Space, he was Pippen, a pun on Scotty and basketball star Scottie Pippen. He played himself in an episode of The Ben Stiller Show. He played Damon Warwick, father of James Warwick, on the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. After learning about cold fusion from technical journals in 1989, he narrated the video “Cold Fusion: Fire from Water”, about the physics behind cold fusion.
When the Star Trek franchise was revived, Doohan reprised his role of Scotty in seven Star Trek films and made a guest appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation’s 130th episode, “Relics”. Many of Doohan’s film appearances centred on the role of Scotty, such as a cameo in National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1, where he plays a policeman doing repair work who tells his superior officer “I am giving it all she has got, Captain!” in the same accent he used in Star Trek. However, he refused to contribute to the Futurama episode “Where No Fan Has Gone Before” or allow his image to be used in it, and was “replaced” in the episode by the created character “Welshie” who was ultimately given the redshirt treatment.
Although he continued to work with William Shatner in the Star Trek films, Doohan did not get along well with him and was once quoted as saying, “I like Captain Kirk, but I sure don’t like Bill.” He was the only former Star Trek co-star to decline to be interviewed by Shatner for Shatner’s first Star Trek: Memories book about the show, nor did he consent to do so for Shatner’s follow-up book, Star Trek: Movie Memories, though Shatner mentioned in the latter that the icy relationship between the two started to thaw when both men were working on Star Trek Generations in 1993-94. At Doohan’s final August 2004 convention appearance, Doohan and Shatner appeared to have mended their relationship. Doohan’s final role was that of Judge Peterson in the American horror film Skinwalker: Curse of the Shaman (2005). He sadly died July 20, 2005 however his character in Star Trek remains popular
National Anthem day takes place annually on 3 March in the United States to commemorate the anniversary of the day on which the United States adopted the Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key as their National Anthem. The story behind “The Star Spangled Banner” concerns an Attorney named Francis Scott Key who was serving in the Georgetown Light Field Artillery during the War of 1812. In 1814 his negotiation skills as a lawyer were called upon to release Dr. William Beane who was a prisoner on the British naval ship, Tonnant. So Key traveled to Baltimore in the company of Colonel John Skinner to begin negotiations. Key and Skinner subsequently secured Beane’s release, however since the British navy had begun attacking Baltimore, the trio had to wait at sea to return to Georgetown.
The British navy eventually abandoned Baltimore and began to bombard Fort McHenry instead. This is built on a peninsula of the Patapsco River, and the city of Baltimore is just across the Northwest Branch. In 1814, the population of Baltimore was roughly 50,000 people, As the 190-pound shells began to shake the fort, a thunderstorm occurred. There were reports of the explosions being felt as far away as Philadelphia. It was a long night of fear, worry and providing comfort to one another, Key was a religious man, who believed the war could have been avoided, For 25 hours the star-shaped fort manned by approximately 1,000 American soldiers endured over 1,500 cannon shots. The Fort answered with their own with almost no effect.
Finally on September 14th, Major George Armistead’s troops managed to stop the British landing party then ordered the oversized American flag raised in all its glory over Fort McHenry. This had been Sewn a few months previously by Mary Pickersgill and her daughter. As the conflict died down Key was greeted by the inspiring sight of his country’s flag fully unfurled and the fort standing firm.
National Cold Cuts Day takes place annually on 3 March. A cold cut refers to the cold slices of meat you get from the delicatessen counter or the grocery story. It is also known as luncheon meat, deli meat, sandwich meat, sliced meats, smallgoods, or Colton. Cold meats include ham, Bologna, Pastrami, salami, prosciutto, pepperoni, spam, turkey, chicken, beef, pork, corned beef, cheese or braunschweiger. The taste of Cold meats varies from nation to nation and is altered by seasoning, curing, spices, smoking and time. Bologna is one of the most popular cold cuts in the United States . It is Named after the Italian city of the same name, and is similar to an Italian sausage called Mortadella.
National I want you to be happy day
National I Want You to be Happy Day is observed annually on March 3 by all people who want someone else to be happy on March 03, 2019. This day was created as a day to encourage people to do something to make others happy. This can be done with something simple like A flower, a silly joke, Buying somebody coffee, reminding a loved one how much you love them, encouraging a co-worker, visiting a lonely or unhappy person, or by giving someone a hug. Putting a smile on someone’s face tends to put one on ours, too.
More National holidays and events happening 3 March
National Mulled Wine Day Simplify-Your-Life Day What if Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs Day World Wildlife Day
World Hearing Day takes place annually on 3 March. It was created by the Office of Prevention of Blindness and Deafness of the World Health Organization (WHO). The campaign’s objective is to share information and promote actions towards the prevention of deafness and hearing loss and promote ear and hearing care across the world. to highlight the cause a number of activities take place across the globe with The first event being held in 2007. Before 2016 it was known as International Ear Care Day. Each year, the WHO selects a theme, develops educational materials, and makes these freely available in several languages. It also coordinates and reports on events around the globe.
The theme of the campaign for World Hearing Day 2019 was “Check your hearing”. Data from both developed and developing countries indicate that a significant part of the burden associated with hearing loss comes from unaddressed hearing difficulties. A study conducted in the United Kingdom indicate that only 20% of those who have a hearing problem seek treatment. A study performed in South Africa reported that individuals who experience hearing difficulties wait between 5 and 16 years to seek diagnosis and treatment. Part of the 2019 activities of the campaign is Wiki4WorldHearingDay2019 . The purpose of this is to facilitate the contribution of hearing-related content into Wikipedia in several languages. Activities are reported in a Wikimedia dashboard.
World hearing day 2022 focusses on the importance of safe listening, preventing hearing loss and maintaining good hearing throughout life. This can be a achieved by means of good ear care, and by protecting your hearing when working in an excessively loud work environment , or when exposed to to loud music at music venues or by not listening to music at excessively high volume through earphones.
Hearing researchers from the Hear in Cincinnati group met up to discuss research from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities and National Center for Environmental Health, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, by the Wikipedian-in-Residence from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the Wikipedia Consultant for Cochrane. A recording can be viewed online.
Peach Blossom Day is observed on March 03, 2022. It is a day to celebrate peach blossoms and a day for girls to celebrate being girls. Peach Blossom Day refers to the Japanese Doll Festival, which takes place on March 3.
The peach, Prunus persica, is a deciduous tree, native to China and South Asia, where it was first cultivated. It bears an edible juicy fruit also called a peach. The flowers are produced in early spring before the leaves; they are solitary or paired, pink, with five petals. The fruit has yellow or whitish flesh, a delicate aroma, and a skin that is either velvety in different cultivars. Peaches are also symbolic in many cultural traditions, such as in art, paintings and folk tales such as Peaches of Immortality. Momotaro, one of Japan’s most noble and semihistorical heroes, was born from within an enormous peach floating down a stream. Momotaro or “Peach Boy” went on to fight evil oni and face many adventures.
Japanese Doll Festival
The Japanese doll Festival Hinamatsuri (雛祭り), is a religious (Shinto) holiday in Japan, celebrated on 3 March of each year. Platforms covered with a red carpet–material are used to display a set of ornamental dolls (雛人形, hina-ningyō) representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the Heianperiod.
Hinamatsuri is one of the five seasonal festivals (五節句, gosekku) that are held on auspicious dates of the Chinese calendar: the first day of the first month, the third day of the third month, and so on. After the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, these were fixed on 1 January, 3 March, 5 May, 7 July, and 9 September The festival was traditionally known as the Peach Festival (桃の節句, Momo no Sekku), as peach trees typically began to flower around this time. Although this is no longer true since the shift to Gregorian dates, the name remains and peaches are still symbolic of the festival.
The primary aspect of Hinamatsuri is the display of seated male and female dolls (the obina (男雛, “male doll”) and mebina (女雛, “female doll”)), which represent a Heian period wedding, but are usually described as the Emperor and Empress of Japan. The dolls are usually seated on red cloth, and may be as simple as pictures or folded paper dolls, or as intricate as carved three-dimensional dolls. More elaborate displays will include a multi-tiered doll stand (雛壇, hinadan) of dolls that represent ladies of the court, musicians, and other attendants, with all sorts of accoutrements. The entire set of dolls and accessories is called the hinakazari (雛飾り). The number of tiers and dolls a family may have depends on their budget.
Families normally ensure that girls have a set of the two main dolls before their first Hinamatsuri. The dolls are usually fairly expensive ($1,500 to $2,500 for a five-tier set, depending on quality) and may be handed down from older generations as heirlooms. The hinakazari spends most of the year in storage, and girls and their mothers begin setting up the display a few days before 3 March (boys normally do not participate, as 5 May, now Children’s Day was historically called “Boys’ Day”). Traditionally, the dolls were supposed to be put away by the day after Hinamatsuri, the superstition being that leaving the dolls any longer will result in a late marriage for the daughter, but some families may leave them up for the entire month of March. Practically speaking, the encouragement to put everything away quickly is to avoid the rainy season and humidity that typically follows Hinamatsuri.
Historically, the dolls were used as toys, but in modern times they are intended for display only. The display of dolls is usually discontinued when the girls reach 10 years old. During Hinamatsuri and the preceding days, girls hold parties with their friends. Typical foods include hina-arare (雛あられ, multi-colored rice crackers), chirashizushi (ちらし寿司, raw fish and vegetables on rice in a bowl or bento box), hishi mochi (菱餅, multi-colored rice cakes), ichigo daifuku (いちご大福, strawberries wrapped in adzuki bean paste), Sakuramochi (桜餅) and ushiojiru (うしお汁, clam soup, as clam shells represent a joined pair). The customary drink is shirozake (白酒, lit. “white sake”), also called lit. “sweet sake” (甘酒, amazake), a non-alcoholic sake.
Nagashi-bina (流し雛, “doll floating”) ceremonies are held around the country, where participants make dolls out of paper or straw and send them on a boat down a river, carrying one’s impurities and sin with them. Some locations, such as at the Nagashibina Doll Museum in Tottori City, still follow the lunisolar calendar instead of doing it on 3 March.
Tsurushi-Bina (雛祭り, (“Hanging Dolls”), are a traditional decoration for Hinamatsuri, which consist of lengths of coloured cords (usually in red), usually featuring decorations of miniature baby-dolls. These were originally made from leftover kimono silk (so the idea of repurposing fabric scraps is central to this craft; and is a great way for using up left over materials). Tsurushi-Bina are not limited to featuring miniature baby-dolls, but also flowers (i.e. camellia flower, etc.), shells, Tamari balls, colourful triangles to represent mountains (such as Mount Fuji, etc.), etc., and with tassels at the bottom. Another old tradition is to bring the Chōyō noSekku dolls out again to air, making it a Hinamatsuri for adults.
United Nations world wildlife day takes place annually on 3 March. It was created Following a suggestion by Thailand. The United Nations General Assembly decided to use the date of 3 March to commemorate the anniversary Of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) on 3 March 1973.
The purpose of World Wildlife day is to celebrate the benefits and raise awareness of the value of theworld’s wild fauna and flora and its various contributions, including ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational and aesthetic. Another purpose of World Wildlife day is to encourage sustainable development, raise awareness of the multitude of benefits that their conservation provides to people and reminds us of the urgent need to step up the fight against wildlife crime and human-induced reduction of habitat and species, which can have wide-ranging economic, environmental and social impacts.
Every year, World Wildlife Day has a different theme. The theme for World Wildlife day 2022 is Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration”. Past themes have included Forests and Livelihoods: sustaining people and planet”, Sustaining all life on earth”: “Life below water: for people and planet”: “Big cats – predators under threat”.: “Listen to the young voices”: “The future of wildlife is in our hands”, with a sub-theme “The future of elephants is in our hands”: “It’s time to get serious about wildlife crime”.
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