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?? Fun Facts For MY Birthday.

11/30/2015

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This idea came from Wendy over at Hammermarks where she posted 40 fun facts for her 40th birthday.

Since today is MY birthday and this is a biggie, I have posted quite a few fun facts to celebrate mine. How old am I?? Well you will have to read them all to figure that out.
  1. The earliest record of an eclipse was recorded way back in 3340 on this date. I am not that old and I wonder if this is adjusted for the corrections made in the calendar (Julian/Gregorian) back in 1582.
  2. Billy Idol, English singer-songwriter and actor and I are the same age. Are we long lost twins?? 
  3. Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate was born on this day. 
  4. 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
  5. 1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish essayist, novelist, playwright and poet died
  6. 1982 Michael Jackson's second solo album, Thriller is released worldwide.
  7. 1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz.
  8. November 30 is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining until the end of the year.
  9. Krypton is not the planet where Superman was born it is actually an element here on earth and should not be confused with kryptonite.
  10. Neodymium is a chemical element with symbol Nd and atomic number 60. It is a soft silvery metal that tarnishes in air. Neodymium was discovered in 1885 by the Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach.
  11. Pinocchio is Italian for “pine head.”
  12. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a ‘Friday the 13th’.
  13. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why
  14. The word Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell.
  15. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
  16. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
  17. All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
  18. The largest U.S. state (Alaska, 665,384 square miles) is 431 times bigger than the smallest (Rhode Island, 1,544 square miles).
  19. Sonny Bono is the only member of the United States Congress to ever have a number one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 music chart.
  20. Over 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
  21. Multiply the last fun fact by 3 and you have my age as of today!!
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Hey, Guess What; Another Trip to NYC!

11/14/2015

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Yup, another one. I went to see family and a workshop. Of course Bunny Braveheart came with me and we met a new friend Pi the Interplanetary Panda who came home with us. 

Here is a movie of their adventures together along with my cousin Amy. 
And I stayed at an AirBnB place in Dumbo not far from the workshop. Andrew has a cute cat, MAX, who is 15+ pounds and he was so cute. Like any cat, he wanted to be in the bathroom any time I was in there - washing up, using the loo, taking a shower. He would push his paw against the bathroom door to be let in so he can jump into the tub and lick water from the faucet; is this TMI? 
Anyway here is another small video of some photo's I took of him.
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