March
March 1936 brought severe flooding when temperatures rose above freezing. Above average to near average temperatures were recorded throughout the United States, except for the Pacific Northwest, which was not hit hard by the cold wave. Melting snow and ice caused rivers to burst their banks. It ended as the coldest winter of the 1930s. Four states saw their coldest winter on record, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa. In one town in Iowa, the average winter temperature was 31 °F (17 °C) below average.
Read more about this topic: 1936 North American Cold Wave
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“Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically—while simulating a triumphant march forward—than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
“Unaffected by “the march of events,”
He passed from men’s memory in l’an trentiesme
De son eage; the case presents
No adjunct to the Muses’ diadem.”
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“As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.... The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)