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[still_just_me]

Got this from notasfatasmike, my thankless roommate. Go to Wikipedia. Type in your birthday without the year. List 3 cool facts, 2 births, and a death.

January 29 IN HISTORY!

3 facts
1933 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany. He represents the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei). Twelve years later

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October 14

[crawenwaru]

3 Facts;
530 - Antipope Dioscorus ends his reign as Catholic Pope. There was an antipope??!? I had no idea, this is awsome.
1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England.
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

2 Births:
1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)
1894 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962)

1 Death:
2003 - Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (b. 1913)

Re: October 14

[still_just_me]

May I assume the Bond dude died of over 3,000 different kinds of STDs, some of which are known to exist only in sharks?

Re: October 14

[crawenwaru]

Definitely! It just took him 90 years to succumb to all of them. :)

July 28

[wukikimonkey]

3 Facts
- 1866 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States

- 1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war.

- 2005 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army (The IRA) call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

2 Births
- 1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)

- 1902 - Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher of science (d. 1994)

1 Death
- 1741 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)

Re: July 28

[still_just_me]

I am confused. We do not use the metric system... Unless the rest of you have been playing an elaborate practical joke on me all these years...

So my birthday marks Hitler's rise to power, and yours commemorates the beginning of World War I. We should find a way to combine our bloodlines and spawn the Antichrist. Say, don't you have a sister?

[stormsewer]

I'll have to do this at my own place.

Mencken is cool. I've been quoting him to my Mormon brother-in-law a lot lately, but the snarkiness doesn't always go over well.

[still_just_me]

Any quotes in particular?

I can pretty much guarantee they'd go over well on me. ;)

[stormsewer]

He and I recently got into a big argument over Mormonism (partly due to my spending too much time on convert_me, I fear). Some of the quotes I used

[still_just_me]

Very nice, thank you. And thanks also for including the Carlin quote. I actually had a chance to see him do a show here in Eau Claire not too long ago. One of the shorter jokes he told:

"Getting out of the bath tub, a little girl asked her father, 'Daddy, when am I going to get one of those?'

'As soon as Mommy leaves for work.' "

OWNED.

Did you ever have a look at evil_genius's info page? Now that guy has a monster list of witty anti-religion quotes.