Towers and Broadway and Birthday's, Oh my!

Oh March, how you must come to an end. Following short February you are but a long reminder that spring doesn't officially begin in New England until mid-April. You come in like a lion and, around here, you go out like a lion that just ate that tasty little lamb. It's dreary, wet and windy. Depressing almost. But wait! there is one glimmer of hope at the end of this month, at least for me anyway. See, March 31st is my birthday and I can't think of any better way to celebrate the end of the month other than a whole day committed to me, me ME. Just kidding (kinda?) Birthday's aren't that big of a deal to me (right?) and I hardly expect anyone to waste time on me (do I?)

Yes, I totally do.

Er, anyway in honor of my birthday I'm bringing you a couple little dinosar shaped historical chicken nuggets, not just one. Both of which are kind of exciting for me because A. I'm a loser and B. both happened on March 31st.
FIRST:
The Eiffel Tower officially opened for business. Not that the people of Paris did see it being built for like, ever. The story itself is kind of cool. It was built in honor of the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. Personally I think Eiffel, the steelworker and designer, did a great job on it, but I think it would have been a nice touch to have a giant iron severed head of Marie Antoinette on the top there. I mean, would have looked a little more bad ass.

I mean the French are known for being a little brutal..

The Eiffel tower also served as the opening gates for the 1898 French World's Fair. This is where the story gets awesome. So it was the most impressive steel structure in the world at the time, right. So the American's were all like "Ok France, anything you can do we can do better, you're on." And then in 1892 we put on the Chicago World's Fair, which was even more awesome than the French one. We also debuted the world's first Ferris wheel, a massive steel structure that was taller, and far more impressive then the Eiffel Tower. "Suck my escgargot, France" was apparently muttered by Chicago workers (kidding).


Also on March 31st Oklahoma! opened on Broadway. Ok, so what, right? NO. OKLAHOMA! CHANGED EVERYTHING. On Broadway anway. It was the first modern-day musical combining dance, song, story and dress. Rogers and Hammerstein hit the big time with that one. So in honor of that (and just so I can hear it) here's a little Oklahoma! for you guys.