Snurched from Terri & Bonz - Birthday Meme: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.

January 14th

Events

• 1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes.
• 1784 - American Revolutionary War: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England.
• 1943 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes ( Read more... )

Back in the '90s, Barnes & Noble used to have engraved portraits of authors (similar to the ones they use in The Wall Street Journal) ranging from Shakespeare and Austen to Stephen King and Anne Rice on their shopping bags, tote bags, and adorning the walls of their stores. They've graduated to other design motifs now (though some of the authors ( Read more... )

I have to admit, one of my major shortcomings is that I'm just not quick enough on my feet. Whether it's with an real answer or a smartass response, I usually have to pull it out of the massive database of trivia that is my mind, and then edit it a few times before it comes out of my mouth. On paper (or in a digital format such as this), it's a ( Read more... )

Stolen from kira...

Bold what you've read, italicize what you intend to read, underline what you love!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty-four - ( Read more... )

Stolen from tomalak. I wouldn't really consider many of these to be classics, even in the modern sense, but what do I know.

Movies you've seen in italics, movies you own in bold.

Pulp Fiction
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Titanic
Blue Velvet
Toy Story
Saving Private Ryan
Hannah and Her Sisters
Silence of the Lambs
Die Hard
Moulin Rouge
Edward Scissorhands
This is ( Read more... )

I'm probably the last one here to post about it, but Tim Russert, the NBC News Washington bureau chief and moderator of Meet the Press, died suddenly on Friday afternoon.

In a day and age where objective news reporting is being shunned in favor of outright partisan hackery (and Olbermann and Matthews are just as guilty of this as the likes of O' ( Read more... )

God, this was gorgeous... The weather here's been the typical wacky spring precip... pouring one minute, sunny the next. Even raining while it's sunny out. This made it all worth it:


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Myanmar cyclone death toll soars above 43,000 - AP (by way of Yahoo!)

The military junta in Burma is warning its citizens that they will take legal action against anyone who trades or hoardes the international aid that's finally trickling into the country. Does that include the military itself? I suppose they're just "holding it for a friend," as ( Read more... )

The rule is you can't duplicate the answers of the person you took it from.

1. Name something a claustrophobic person should not get into:
An elevator

2. What one thing does a woman spend the most time on when getting ready to go on a date?
Hell if I know. Their hair?

3. What is a Spanish word that everyone knows the meaning of?
Hola

4. Name ( Read more... )