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Horked from ersatzpixie the Linguistics Meme

Your Linguistic Profile:

75% General American English
15% Yankee
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Shamelessly ganked from adoraluna, the Wikipedia History Meme:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

December 4

History:

1619 - 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).

1918 - US President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.

1980 - The rock group Led Zeppelin formally announce their breakup.

Birthdays:

1849 - Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief (d. 1877)

1973 - Tyra Banks, American model

Death:

1123 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)