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- Ok... it's the last day of 1992, do you know where you're bodhran player is?
- :)
-
- This is a forward (doctored of course) from Renato on important (and not so
- important) happenings on this date in history. Please note the em-bed-dead
- OMC... :)
-
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- * THE KALENDAR - REASONS TO CELEBRATE *
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- * Compiled for C18-L by Kevin Berland *
- * BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET *
- * BCJ@psuvm.psu.edu *
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- DECEMBER 31
-
- BIRTHDAYS: Andreas Vesalius, Flemish physiologist & anatomist
- (1514-64); Hermann Boerhaave, Dutch physician, philosopher, medical
- author, father of systematic physiology (1668-1738); Peter Bochler,
- Prussian Moravian theologian, led emigration of Georgian Moravians
- to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (1712-75); Charles Edward Stuart, the
- "Young Pretender" (1721); Charles, 1st Marquis Cornwallis, English
- general during American Revolution, afterwards Governor-General of
- India, 1786 & 1806, and Viceroy of Ireland 1798-1801 (1738-1805);
-
- LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Dr. Johann Gaspar
- Spurzheim, German-English phrenologist (1776); Jose Maria Heredia,
- Cuban-born French poet (1803-39); George Gordon Meade, US
- general (1815-72); Ismail Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt (1830-95); Henri-
- Emile Benoit Matisse, French painter, Fauve (1869-1954); George
- Catlett Marshall, US general, diplomat, 1953 Nobel Peace Prize (1880-
- 1959); Stanley Forman Reed, US jurist (1884-1980); Appolonia
- Chalupek, better known as Pola Negri, Polish-born US actress & arch-
- vamp (1894); Jule Styne, US composer & songwriter (1905); Felious
- Gordon, aka Odetta, African-American folk singer (1930); Anthony
- Hopkins, Welsh actor (1927); Diane Simone Michelle von Furstenburg,
- Belgian-born US fashion designer (1946); Libby Doe (19??), ALLMUSIC's
- lone bodhran player and possibly the horniest woman north of the 49th
- parallel. ;*)
-
- And... if I remember correctly, John "Rocky Mountain High" Denver also
- celebrates his birthday today...
-
- DEATHS: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1679); Robert Boyle (1691);
- John Flamsteed (1719); Jean-Francois Marmontel (1799); William
- Gifford (1826);
-
- ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1600, the East India Company (of
- London) was chartered; in 1992 a nude bodhran player was cited for
- frightening small hibernating animals while performing in -33 degree
- temperatures.
-
- MISCELLANEA: It's New Year's Eve! Celebrate, but be careful,
- okay? Today Benin observes Feed Yourself Day; in Japan it's
- Omisoka (Grand Last Day); Scotland celebrates Hogmanay.
-
- Hogmany!! Don't Scots refer to young sheep as hogs??!! This has me mighty
- suspicious! Rev. Dave, are any of your flock involved in this
- celebration?
-
- On this day in 1908, Sergei Prokovief made his 1st professional concert
- appearance at the age of 17 in St. Petersburg.
-
- There you go Tim "I'm too sexy for my dewar" J ... what had you accomplished by
- 17, eh? Libby had already mastered the BJ... :*)
-
- Happy New Year everyone!!
-
- With Irish Creme in her this am,
- Carol O'Lickme
-