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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. ~ Adlai Stevenson

Friday, April 20, 2007

On my birthday...

Go to Wikipedia and type in your Birthday Month and day only: December 18

1. List 3 Events that occurred that day:
*1793 - Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French royalists to Lord Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
*1892 - The first performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is held at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg
*1966 - Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.

List 2 important Birth days
*1626 - Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689)
*1856 - Sir J.J. Thomson, British physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
Gee... I also share a birthday with Brad Pitt.... hmmmmm


List 1 Death
*1848 - Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1781)


List a Holiday or Observance. (if any) Here are a couple
*Roman festivals - Feast of Epona (during Saturnalia)
*Greek Orthodox Church – Feast of Sebastian the Martyr

Tag 5 people
Hmmm. well, I don't know. I'll have to think of 5 people to tag!

1 comment:

  1. Just came across your blog. Interesting post.

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