Birthday meme
Apr.07, 2006, filed under Miscellany
On the instigation of ythrykythyr:
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
- Fact 1 – 1862 – Charles Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll) sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Underground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.
- Fact 2 – 1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
- Fact 3 – 1968 – British rock band Cream play their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
Births:
- 1869 – Maud, Queen of Norway
- 1889 – Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Lindbergh III
Deaths
- 1836 – John MacAdam, British road builder
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Singularity
~something that is singular as (a) a separate unit, or (b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior; PECULIARITY;
~the quality or state of being singular;
~a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists;
~a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. Sight
