I’m passing along this Birthday meme from Rethabile. Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday, month and day only
List 3 events that occurred on that day
List 2 important birthdays
List one notable transition
List a holiday or observance (if any)
Tag five of your friends.
1. March 14
2. Three events
1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
1994 - Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
3. Two Birthdays
1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Quincy Jones, American musician and composer
4. One notable transition
5. Holiday(s)
Worldwide - Pi Day, a celebration of the constant 3.14.
Liturgical Feast: Saint Paulina
6. Tag Five Friends
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Ha! Thought you were going to get away for the weekend? Have a great one!
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8 comments:
Hello Geoffrey! I did this one yesterday or the day before. You and Q, huh? :)That's cool. By the way, I like how you changed the word from death to transition. Enjoy your weekend. Peace~
Stephen,, transition seems to be a better word because it's all consciousness.
Enjoy your weekend, my brother.
Peace,
Geoffrey
Amazing how this meme is a history lesson of sorts. The Q hisself, huh? I wonder if 14 March breeds lyrical folk as a rule.
Pi Day was a new one for me. I remembered Eli Whitney from history lessons in Lesotho when I was a kid.
Cheers
Yeah, me and Q
I like Pi and the definition from Wikipedia: The mathematical constant π is a transcendental (and therefore irrational) real number.
I'm going to participate. Check my blog. My birthday's March 25.
By the way, a resident of The Bahamas by the name of Joseph Eve patented the cotton gin before Eli Whitney. For a number of reasons -- primarily the fact that his gin was designed to deparate sea island cotton, which grew in The Bahamas and the coastal USA, but not on the majority of the American cotton plantations -- Whitney's revolutionized the cotton industry, which was dominated by the continent.
I'm coming over to your bog today!
Great meme. But I'll participate on my birthday, April 6th.
Cool!
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