It's my birthday
Aug. 8th, 2008 05:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
meme via
gramarye1971 which seems particularly apt:
Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date and then pick 3 events, 2 births, and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.
Events
1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The naval engagement ends, thus ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
1786 - Mont Blanc on the French- Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1963 - Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
Births
1902 - Paul Dirac
1931 - Sir Roger Penrose FTW
Holiday
It's a thin day for holidays but it is the feast day of Saint Hormisdas who is best remembered fo bringing an end to the Acacian Schism.
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Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date and then pick 3 events, 2 births, and 1 holiday that occurred on the day of your birthday.
Events
1588 - Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The naval engagement ends, thus ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.
1786 - Mont Blanc on the French- Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1963 - Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
Births
1902 - Paul Dirac
1931 - Sir Roger Penrose FTW
Holiday
It's a thin day for holidays but it is the feast day of Saint Hormisdas who is best remembered fo bringing an end to the Acacian Schism.
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Date: 2008-08-08 12:09 pm (UTC)But WTF is the Acacian Schism?
I know, I know - off to wiki it now...
Have a great day.
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Date: 2008-08-08 12:10 pm (UTC)Something to do with Monophysites (isn't it always)
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Date: 2008-08-08 07:45 pm (UTC)and a future one too by the look of things
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Date: 2008-08-08 02:33 pm (UTC)(No, I'm not even Catholic, but as a medievalist, I'm allowed to have a favorite religious order. For some reason it's always been the Dominicans. There's something about those fantastic 13th-c. pocket Bibles...)
Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
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Date: 2008-08-08 07:13 pm (UTC)Also, I recently got some of that Wellington Iron Duke ale you recommended oh, three months or so ago, and am liking it quite a lot. Much easier to find here in Ontario, too!
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Date: 2008-08-10 03:44 am (UTC)I will smack my own ass for you. :P