Memege From a Variety of Places

Apr 08, 2006 11:33



Your Inner Blood Type is Type A

You seem cool and collected, though a bit shy.
You are highly driven and a perfectionist, but that's a side you keep to
yourself.
Creative and artistic, you are a very unique person who doesn't quite fit
in.
People accept you more than you realize, seeing you as trustworthy and
loyal.

You are most compatible with: A and AB

Famous Type A's: Britney Spears and Hilter
What's Your
Inner Blood Type?


You Belong in Amsterdam

A little old fashioned, a little modern - you're the best of both worlds.
And so is Amsterdam.
Whether you want to be a squatter graffiti artist or a great novelist,
Amsterdam has all that you want in Europe (in one small
city).
What
European City Do You Belong In?


And Wikipedia:

Events
  • 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet; end of First Punic War.
  • 1496 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
  • 1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.
  • 1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
  • 1891 - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.

Deaths
  • 1864 - Montana vigilantes hang Jack Slade.
  • 1291 - Arghun, Persian ruler
  • 1510 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)
  • 1513 - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443)
  • 1549 - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat

Births
  • 1415 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (d. 1462)
  • 1452 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)
  • 1503 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1564)
  • 1536 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1572)
  • 1606 - Edmund Waller, English poet (d. 1687)

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