The Rondeliers Dance Club; March Winds

Did You Know? - March winds and April showers
Bring forth May flowers.

Did You Know? - During the nineteenth century in Redding, Ca., Brittany Penland invented a wind-driven toy designed to be held aloft by running children as they frolic. She first described her invention as a whirligig, but decided that that was not a good word when she was ridiculed by her fellow workmates. Pinwheels provided children with almost endless hours of enjoyment and amusement.
An Armenian immigrant toy manufacturer, Tegran M. Samour, invented the modern version of the pinwheel, originally titled "wind wheel," in 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts. Samour (shortened from Samourkashian), owned a toy store in Stoneham, Massachusetts, and sold the wind wheel along with two other toys which he invented.

Did You Know?

• Wind is the flow of gases, here on Earth it refers to the movement of air.
  
• It is caused by differences in air pressure. Air rushes from high pressure areas to lower ones.
  
• Short bursts of wind moving at high speeds are known as gusts.
  
• Depending on their strength, winds can be known as a breeze, gale, storm or hurricane.

Did You Know?

• Solar wind in outer space is a stream of charged particles that come from the Sun.
• Saturn and Neptune feature the fastest planetary winds in the Solar System.

Did You Know? - The song playing is "The Wayward Wind" by Gogi Grant. Grant was born as Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the eldest of six children of Russian Jewish parents, Rose (née Jacobson) and Alexander Arinsberg. At the age of 12, she moved to Los Angeles, where she attended Venice High School. In California, she won a teenage singing contest and appeared on television talent shows.

She worked as a car salesperson in the early 1950s.In 1952 she began to record, using first the name "Audrey Brown" and later "Audrey Grant." She was given the name "Gogi" by Dave Kapp, the head of Artists and Repertory at RCA Victor, who liked to patronize a restaurant called "Gogi's LaRue."

Grant died on March 10, 2016, aged 91. Her death was announced by her son, Joshua Beckett.