Wikimeme
Because I'm too tired and lazy to write a proper blogthingy tonight (borrowed with thanks from Zhoen and Pacian):
1. Go to wikipedia and type in your birthday, month and day only.
OK, done that.
2. List events that occurred on that day that interest you.
1099 - the siege of Jerusalem (First Crusade) begins.
1654 - Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1800 - David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
1982 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
3. List a few birthdays.
1778 - Beau Brummell, English fashion leader
1879 - Knud Rasmussen, Greenland-born explorer
1940 - Tom Jones, Welsh singer
1958 - Prince, American musician
1981 - Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
4. List a few deaths.
1329 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland
1866 - Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1954 - Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist
1970 - E. M. Forster, English author
1980 - Henry Miller, American writer
5. List a holiday or observance. (if any)
Roman Empire - first day of the Vestalia.
The feast days of Saints Godoald, Fortunatus, Maximinus, Procopius, Robert, Servatius and Wulstan, not to mention the Blessed Willibald.
posted by Udge @ 22:14
11 Comments:
I love the blog that you have. I was wondering if you would link my blog to yours and in return I would do the same for your blog. If you want to, my site name is American Legends and the URL is:
www.americanlegends.info
If you want to do this just go to my blog and in one of the comments just write your blog name and the URL and I will add it to my site.
Thanks,
David
Love that you put the seige of Jerusalem.
I had a hard time with the famous births/deaths not just using actors or other pointless celebrities.
the Blessed Willibald, eh? Now there's a blog name just begging to be used ... :> ... i've shamelessly nicked this meme, matie
David, I'm sorry to say that I won't be linking to your blog. I only place links to blogs that I actually read on a regular basis, and I have no interest in American sports. Sorry.
Zhoen, Kournikova was an "edge condition" for me: clearly she's become a close-to-meaningless celebrity, but she was once a good tennis player and that is the only sport that I semi-follow.
Late, Willibald is wonderful, isn't he? I'll have find a role for him somehow, somewhere...
I have done this before but I can't remember anything about it. My friend Bryan got Tchyo Brae (?) and that was interesting...gold nose, check. Pet monkey, check. Small statured jester, check. I may have to look into the Blessed Willibald. I'm intrigued.
Tycho Brahe... without him, where would Kepler have been?
Somehow, I always thought Kournikova was younger than me.
1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
This is the coolest result for all the people that I've seen do this.
Turing, Miller and Forster died at your birthday. Now what should tell this, Turing, udge, I mean Turing. Udge are you a reborn Turing :)?
I'd rather be a reborn Miller, I think that of the two M had vastly more fun in his life.
Seriously, love the fact you share a birthday with Tom Jones. Is it wrong that I adore him?
It's not unusual ;-)
bwahahahaaaaaaaaaa ... you two should go onstage ... lol
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