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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 12, 2012 19:02:36 GMT
This morning's news featured a local boy who was born at 12:12 on December 12th, TWELVE years ago! A momentous alignment of numbers. (Too bad he will die when the world ends in 9 days!) He might as well die, seeing as how he's already used up his 15 minutes of fame.
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Post by mossie on Dec 12, 2012 19:56:24 GMT
The lotto jackpot tonight in France is 12 million euros. Too bad the winner will have only a few days to spend it. That is if we believe Kimby, you old pessimist, you ;D ;D
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Post by htmb on Dec 12, 2012 20:57:46 GMT
So, the world ends on 12/21? Is that correct?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2012 21:22:37 GMT
Yes, it's been in all the papers. It's a sure thing.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 13, 2012 3:09:50 GMT
So we can all go off our diets, right?
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 17, 2012 16:33:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 19:27:18 GMT
On 26 December 2004, the worst tsunami in recorded history killed more than 227,000 people around the Indian Ocean. I knew a victim from Canada, who had finally managed to rent her dream bungalow on the beach in Phuket.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 28, 2012 15:26:09 GMT
First streetcar rolled in San Francisco 100 years ago today!
Kerouac was on it! ;-)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 19:20:48 GMT
Today is the 20th anniversary of the unified European trade area, which put an end to most border controls on the continent, even though the Schengen agreement came 2 years later.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2013 17:08:10 GMT
Twelth Night,, The Epihany, and the commencement of the Carnival season here and elsewhere that observe it. I was due to set sail on a cruise for 3 nights to the Bahamas out of Miami but, due to health reasons and some tests to be run for a 3rd opinion, I did not go. But, I will be donning my deceased freind Dusty's formal tuxedo, which I had tailored to fit me better in lieu of a gown to celebrate with the neighborhood loved ones and was named demi-goddess ( : by the current Queen. At least I'll be warm and snug as the weather here currently sucks.
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Post by htmb on Jan 6, 2013 17:52:20 GMT
Sending best wishes westward to you, casimira.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2013 12:23:54 GMT
Today in 1979, the Vietnamese army recaptured Phnom Penh from the Khmer Rouge.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 7, 2013 16:13:37 GMT
*gnashes teeth*
Your time zone allows you to post MY entries first. ;D
Why do you say "recaptured", though? Is it a reference to Pol Pot having initially captured Phnom Penh with the aid of the Vietnamese?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2013 17:28:01 GMT
Basically I mean that Phnom Penh has been captured quite a few times.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 8, 2013 18:06:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2013 19:24:57 GMT
Today is the anniversary of François Mitterrand's death in 1996. I was in California at the time and kind of regretted missing all of the hoopla, since in the US it was worth about 5 seconds on the news.
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Post by lugg on Jan 9, 2013 18:19:06 GMT
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Post by nautiker on Jan 10, 2013 8:19:22 GMT
Ceasar crosses the Rubicon, not knowing he's bestowing the world with an idiom that will last for millenniums...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 10, 2013 15:46:34 GMT
;D Maybe that's the real reason he did it!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2013 7:12:11 GMT
One year ago today, the Costa Concordia cruise ship was shipwrecked off the coast of Italy, causing the death of 32 people. The ship is still lying where it was wrecked.
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Post by nautiker on Jan 15, 2013 11:15:33 GMT
January 15th, 1776: Friedrich II. von Hessen-Kassel signs subsidiary treaties with King George III., hiring out a contigent of 12.000 soldiers to fight in the American Revolutionary War (where they made up approx. 1/3 of the British forces). though a number of soldiers signed up voluntarily, impressment was a major factor. most of them are forgotten by now, however one remains pretty popular: www.imdb.com/title/tt0162661/more relevant and somehow strangely fitting: it's Martin Luther King's birthday, too
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 15, 2013 18:18:41 GMT
And don't forget they gave us the name of a crayon, as well. Due to the fact that MLK Day is celebrated on whichever Monday (2nd, 3rd?) in January, I didn't know that January 15 was the actual birthday.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 15:15:38 GMT
On 21 January 1793, Louis XVI was guillotined on the Place de la Révolution (Place Louis XV before the revolution, Place de la Concorde since 1795). He tried to harangue the crowd, but whatever he was saying was drowned out by a drum roll.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 16:42:15 GMT
MLK Day here, therefore, a holiday. And, the inauguration of our President which I am watching on the telly as I post. It is a good day, I would like to think.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 16:51:28 GMT
James Taylor singing 'America The Beautiful.' I'm positively in awe and have tears in my eyes seeing/hearing this.....
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 21, 2013 17:01:32 GMT
Oh, shoot! I was watching the inauguration & wandered away (to come here, obviously. ) & missed that!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 18:06:21 GMT
Oh heck Bixa..... Call me a sentimental, optimistic fool but, the whole thing has been marvelous and dare I say, hopeful. (Although, I wish the f'n media wouldn't focus so much on what they are wearing, fashion wise. It's kind of embarassing truth be told IMHO) On another note, the poem which I hope to transcribe into Poem Of The Day was so incredibly beautiful. What an honor!!! Oh Happy Day.....
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Post by nautiker on Jan 22, 2013 7:08:09 GMT
my contributions to this thread have been mainly tongue-in-cheek so far, for a change I want to post something more serious today:
50th anniversary of the Élysée treaty
it’s one thing to negotiate and sign a peace treaty, yet something else to try to actually put the objective into practice and end a stupid ‘hereditary enmity’ which has lasted for centuries with terrible consequences – yet de Gaulle and Adenauer succeeded: for my grandfathers’ generation, 'the French' still were the enemies per se, for my generation, we already have a hard time understanding how we could get into this hate-filled mess in the first place!
looking at all these ever-lasting conflicts throughout the world right now, for me this is a straw that minds actually can change and vicious circles might be broken…
on a sidenote, it's sad that less and less German pupils care about French language, and less and less French pupils care about learning German - at least that's what the media report over here...
p.s. bixaorellana - crayon? don't confuse Kassel with Faber-Castell (headquarters located near Nuremberg)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2013 7:11:02 GMT
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty of Franco-German reconciliation and friendship.
A joint session of the French and German parliaments is being held in Berlin today, in the presence of Angela Merkel and François Hollande.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2013 7:11:20 GMT
simul post!
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