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Post by onlymark on Nov 18, 2010 12:35:26 GMT
Must have bloody long corridors to reach Lens and Abu Dhabi.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2010 13:51:18 GMT
It sure feels like it when you spend the day there.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 18, 2010 16:31:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2010 17:41:28 GMT
I heard on the radio this morning that it is CYBER MONDAY here in the US.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 29, 2010 17:45:19 GMT
shld we txt on the forum 2day in honor of cybr mon?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2010 22:42:23 GMT
Have been trying to remember what today was,something stood out in my mind. It's Pearl Harbor Day.
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Post by Jazz on Dec 8, 2010 17:31:51 GMT
Today is cold (high of -7C), beautiful sun, and I feel inexplicably happy.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2010 17:53:44 GMT
Today is the Immaculate Conception, the 30th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon and my brother's birthday.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack and the anniversary of my mother's second wedding. Interestingly enough, my stepfather was one of the survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack -- his ship was not sunk.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 8, 2010 17:59:02 GMT
What a lovely thing to read, Jazz ~~ I think your shiny feeling will rub off on others. I finally figured out that today is the feast of the Immaculate Conception. I wish that I could explain that to my dog, who is a trembling wreck from all the fireworks that have been going off for the last week. (religious festivals here start a week before the actual day and continue up to that day) Many things happened on this day in history, December 8: www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20101208.html?th=&emc=a213&nl=todaysheadlinesI think one that sticks in the minds of many members of this forum is the murder of John Lennon. Verlyn Klinkenborg usually writes graceful ruminations on nature. His appreciation of Lennon is no less graceful and likely to resonate with many of us ~~ John Lennon By Verlyn Klinkenborg - Published: December 7, 2010
I don’t remember how I heard that John Lennon had been shot. Thirty years ago, on a warm December night in Manhattan, it was suddenly in the air, on the street — with only a brief, grim gap between news of the shooting at the Dakota, on 72nd Street and news of his death at Roosevelt Hospital. I called my brother in California and then sat in the stairwell of a building at 27th and Third, numb and grieving, like everyone else.
It was a new kind of death — not a political assassination like the ones that claimed the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King Jr.; not the self-immolation that took down Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison. Lennon survived the ’60s and ’70s, and by 1980 he was living in New York City as normally, as modestly, as he and his wife, Yoko Ono, could. Then a deranged young man, Mark David Chapman, found a secular scripture in J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” and shot Lennon in hopes of becoming Holden Caulfield.
Every day I’m at The Times, I pass a photo of the Beatles taken at a press conference during one of their early visits to New York. In the picture, Lennon’s hands are folded behind him, and he stands, with the other Beatles, in a corona from the press lights. Invariably, it reminds me of the famous portrait Annie Leibovitz shot the morning of the day Lennon was killed — the one where he is lying naked, fetal, clinging to Yoko Ono, the ridge of his back so terribly exposed.
We remember what we remember of Lennon, and of that night. When I was young, he was the only adult that mattered outside my family — the Beatle of Beatles. I loved his wit; his irony; his “Help!”; his urgent, reedy voice; his unceasing transformations. Like everyone else who loved him, I can’t help grieving, even now, for all the transformations we lost 30 years ago when John Lennon was only 40.[/size]
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 10, 2010 14:37:36 GMT
“We regret that the Laureate is not present here today. He is in isolation in a prison in northeast China. Nor can the Laureate’s wife Liu Xia or his closest relatives be here with us. No medal or diploma will therefore be presented here today. This fact alone shows that the award was necessary and appropriate.” ~~ from the speech prepared by Norwegian Nobel committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland for delivery at a ceremony to bestow the Nobel Peace Prize on Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo -- source1967, Otis Redding died at age 26 in a plane crash ~ My maternal grandmother would have been 111 today. Happy 89th birthday to my dear stepfather.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 22, 2010 2:38:02 GMT
Huh -- really strange ..... yesterday I was thinking about a funny string of coincidences in my own life involving an Australian author whom I met years ago. Just now, scrolling through the list of people born on Dec. 21, I came across his name. (b. 1938)
If you wanted to share a birthday with people who were mostly famous, rather than infamous, Dec. 21 would be a good choice. (if you doubt this, it's also the date that Thomas the apostle died)
John "Jack" Russell, parson and dog breeder was born on this day in 1795, and Frank Zappa entered the world Dec. 21, 1940. Another musical luminary shares the birthday, in 1947 ~~
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 22, 2010 2:41:49 GMT
It's December 22 in much of the world as I write this.
That's Mothers Day in Indonesia, and Armed Forces Day in all these countries: # 1 Azerbaijan # 2 Australia and New Zealand # 3 Bangladesh # 4 Brazil # 5 Bulgaria # 6 Canada # 7 Chile # 8 China
* 8.1 Republic of China (Taiwan) * 8.2 People's Republic of China (Mainland China)
# 9 Croatia # 10 Egypt # 11 Guatemala # 12 Hungary # 13 India # 14 Indonesia # 15 Iran # 16 Israel # 17 Italy # 18 Lebanon # 19 Mauritania # 20 Mexico # 21 Montenegro # 22 Myanmar # 23 Nigeria # 24 Pakistan # 25 Peru # 26 Poland # 27 Romania # 28 Russia # 29 Singapore # 30 Slovenia # 31 South Korea # 32 Sri Lanka # 33 United Kingdom # 34 United States # 35 Vietnam
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Post by onlymark on Dec 22, 2010 4:38:18 GMT
It's not, as far as I know, Armed Forces Day in Egypt. That is on Oct. 6th. As says the font of all knowledge, Wikipedia - In Egypt, Armed Forces Day is celebrated on October 6, the date on which the October War of 1973 began with the Egyptian Army's successful crossing of the Suez Canal that culminated in the capture of the Bar Lev Line.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 22, 2010 5:46:16 GMT
Tsk, tsk. I got my info from Wikipedia, too. Actually, far from being the font of all knowledge, it's a mish-mash of stuff contributed by people who may or may not even be sane, much less correctly informed. Wikipedia does attempt to stay on top of things, but boo-boos do get through. Here is their entry for "armed forces day" ~~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Day
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Post by onlymark on Dec 22, 2010 6:01:23 GMT
If that's the page you copied the list from then if you go to each of the countries you'll see a different date for when each celebrate that day. That's where I got confirmation of when it is in Egypt.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 22, 2010 13:35:46 GMT
Huh -- really strange ..... yesterday I was thinking about a funny string of coincidences in my own life involving an Australian author whom I met years ago. Just now, scrolling through the list of people born on Dec. 21, I came across his name. (b. 1938) If you wanted to share a birthday with people who were mostly famous, rather than infamous, Dec. 21 would be a good choice. (if you doubt this, it's also the date that Thomas the apostle died) John "Jack" Russell, parson and dog breeder was born on this day in 1795, and Frank Zappa entered the world Dec. 21, 1940. Another musical luminary shares the birthday, in 1947 ~~ Talking of Frank Zappa I see his mate Captain Beefheart has just died.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 22, 2010 16:46:34 GMT
If that's the page you copied the list from then if you go to each of the countries you'll see a different date for when each celebrate that day. That's where I got confirmation of when it is in Egypt. So now you want me to actually read the crap interesting information that I post?! Talking of Frank Zappa I see his mate Captain Beefheart has just died. Look here, Mick ~ anyportinastorm.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=music&action=display&thread=4695
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 24, 2010 15:09:50 GMT
Friday, December 24th The 358th day of 2010. There are 7 days left in the year. On this date in: 1814 The War of 1812 officially ended as the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium. 1865 The Ku Klux Klan was founded as a private social club by several Confederate Army veterans in Pulaski, Tenn. 1871 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" had its world premiere in Cairo, Egypt, to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal. 1906 Canadian physicist Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to broadcast a music program over radio, from Brant Rock, Mass. 1920 Enrico Caruso gave his last public performance, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Historic Birthdays: I. F. Stone12/24/1907 - 6/18/1989 American journalist Kit Carson 12/24/1809 - 5/23/1868 American frontiersman and folk hero Matthew Arnold 12/24/1822 - 4/15/1888 English poet and social critic Michael Curtiz 12/24/1886 - 4/10/1962 Hungarian-born American film director Georges-Marie Guynemer 12/24/1894 - 9/11/1917 French World War I combat pilot Baby Dodds 12/24/1898 - 2/14/1959 American jazz musician Howard Hughes 12/24/1905 - 4/5/1976 American manufacturer and aviator Ava Gardner 12/24/1922 - 1/25/1990 American actress
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 25, 2010 15:26:06 GMT
All kinds of important things happened on this day in history. Maybe the one all of us here will take as our Christmas present is the birth of the World Wide Web as computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau created the world's first hyperlinked Web page on December 25, 1990.
Happy Christmas to all!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2010 18:51:09 GMT
I'm already thinking about tomorrow in Asia. More than 230,000 people died in the tsunami on December 26, 2004.
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Post by lagatta on Dec 26, 2010 17:02:40 GMT
Yes, how time passes. I remember that sad Boxing Day tsunami well. Boxing Day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day came from alms-giving (and "re-gifting" on the Feast of Stephen) Now it is mostly a celebration of the Church of Shopping.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 31, 2010 6:58:06 GMT
Huh -- it's the last day of the year, and I just happened to notice this:
Forum Age: 1 year, 11 months, 1 days
All ones. That's gotta be good, right?
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Post by tod2 on Dec 31, 2010 16:35:26 GMT
Yes, really good Bixa! And congratulations all round ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 6, 2011 16:55:49 GMT
On this day in history ~~
Joan of Arc was born -- 1412, Domremy, France
Some famous people got married: Henry VIII (to Anne of Cleves, the 4th wife), 1540 George & Martha (Washington), 1759 George & Barbara (Bush), 1945
And, in a day that should live in infamy in the history of the US: Congress certified Republican George W. Bush the winner of the close and bitterly contested 2000 presidential election, 2001.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2011 18:29:57 GMT
And let us not forget please that it is the Feast of the Epiphany,Twelfth Night,King's Day,"Little Christmas",and a very special celebratory day for me personally.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 6, 2011 20:01:38 GMT
My maternal Grandmother -- my Mimi -- died on Epiphany, 1994, 17 years ago today.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 7, 2011 18:26:10 GMT
On this day in ~
1789, the first U.S. presidential election was held. Americans voted for electors who, a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation's first president.
1927, commercial transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated between New York and London.
1979, Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.
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Post by hwinpp on Jan 8, 2011 4:29:59 GMT
Yes, and as every year the opposition claimed it was the beginning of the occupation by Vietnam... Wasn't a holiday for my office.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 8, 2011 18:44:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2011 5:56:02 GMT
On January 10th, 2010, China passed Germany to become the largest exporter in the world.
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