Wikipedia meme

[fluffymark]

Go to Wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don't put in the year. Post in your LJ with three neat/important events, three births, and three deaths

Events:
600 - Pope Gregory I decreed that "God bless you" was the correct response to a sneeze
1568 - The entire population of the Netherlands - three million people - was sentenced to death by the Roman Catholic Church for heresy
1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun

Births:
1941 - Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader
1954 - Iain Banks, Scottish author
1968 - warren_ellis, British comic book writer

Deaths:
1391 - John V Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1332)
1898 - Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet (b. 1843)
1917 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)

Popes these days just aren't what they used to be. What happened to all the exciting popes?

I seem to be going fleet-walking (with duck-putting) on Sunday. This should be fun! :)

Comments

[panzerpenguin.livejournal.com]

Not if you're Greek, obviously.

[fluffymark]

Even in Greek, doesn't Palaeologus mean something like OldSpeak? Which, even if it isn't Orwellian, sounds very strange.