chrisroberson.net - 8/21/2008
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Hey look, internets! A meme! (I haven't done one of these in a long while, so...) Look up your birthday in Wikipedia . Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday. EVENTS 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. 1768 - James Cook begins his first voyage. 1835 - The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax .. 1944 - World War II: Paris is ...
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...Snarched from Chris Roberson: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday. Events: 1595 - Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library. 1626 - Peter Minuit buys Manhattan. (In exchange for trade goods valued at 60 guilders, or about $24. Can we have it back, and make New York New Amsterdam again? I'll PayPal the 24 bucks...;-) 1883 - The ...
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A birthday meme, picked up from Chris Roberson: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday. EVENTS 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony on Roanoke Island. 1919 - Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the Constitution (granting suffrage to women) and sends it to the states for ratification. 1989 - Tiananmen Square protests end badly in Bejing BIRTHS 1738 - King George III of Great Britain 1928 - Dr. Ruth Westheimer 1951 - Wendy Pini ...
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