Realm: Personal - Subrealm: Birthday Meme
Apr. 8th, 2006 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
choco_froshOK, I should really be working on the introduction to my dissertation, but this is just too good to pass up...
Go to Wikipedia. Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
So many to choose from!
1187 - Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
1987 - Star Trek: TNG premiers.
Also, Opus Dei was founded, the Texas revolution began, Charles Darwin returned to England, and Phineas Fogg set off on his travels).
In addition, although this ISN´T in the Wikipedia entry, on the actual day of my birth Bucky (F´ing) Dent apparently hit the home run that lost the Sox the division.
Births: Richard III (1452), St. Carlo Borromeo (1539), and Mahatma Gandhi (1869).
(OK, that´s three, but Borromeo was actually pretty cool, and you CAN´T leave the other two out).
Died: 1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
Meantime: we had our wonderful landlady (and her husband) over for dinner last night: initially planned to do Chicken Chasseur, but they don´t usually eat heavily in the evening. So I was going to do Mulligatawny Soup and popovers, until Grace (somewhat braindead after a week on a farm, but apparently more alert than I) reminded me that we don´t actually have any muffin tins. So we went the Traditional American route, with fried chicken and biscuits. And actually managed to keep conversation going through dinner. Go us!
Oh, and we fly to Istanbul on Wednesday...
Go to Wikipedia. Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
So many to choose from!
1187 - Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
1987 - Star Trek: TNG premiers.
Also, Opus Dei was founded, the Texas revolution began, Charles Darwin returned to England, and Phineas Fogg set off on his travels).
In addition, although this ISN´T in the Wikipedia entry, on the actual day of my birth Bucky (F´ing) Dent apparently hit the home run that lost the Sox the division.
Births: Richard III (1452), St. Carlo Borromeo (1539), and Mahatma Gandhi (1869).
(OK, that´s three, but Borromeo was actually pretty cool, and you CAN´T leave the other two out).
Died: 1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
Meantime: we had our wonderful landlady (and her husband) over for dinner last night: initially planned to do Chicken Chasseur, but they don´t usually eat heavily in the evening. So I was going to do Mulligatawny Soup and popovers, until Grace (somewhat braindead after a week on a farm, but apparently more alert than I) reminded me that we don´t actually have any muffin tins. So we went the Traditional American route, with fried chicken and biscuits. And actually managed to keep conversation going through dinner. Go us!
Oh, and we fly to Istanbul on Wednesday...
Mine ...
Date: 2006-04-12 10:17 am (UTC)Can I lodge an official complaint that NAFTA was signed on my birthday??
Births: Horace and Mary Queen of Scots. (Yeah, they're the first two. They're also the most interesting.)
Death: Richard Baxter.
-g (8 Dec 1978)