eclecticism

Earlier this month there was a Wikipedia Birthday Meme running around that, given its subject and the proximity to my own birthday, I figured I’d just hold off on playing with for a bit.

So, three weeks or so after everyone else, it’s my turn!

> Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

May 3rd:

• Three ‘neat things’:

  1. 1937 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
  2. 1959 - The first Grammy Awards are announced.
  3. 1971 - All Things Considered, National Public Radio’s flagship news program, broadcasts for the first time.

• Two births:

  1. 1933 - James Brown, American singer
  2. 1959 - David Ball, British musician (Soft Cell)

• One death:

  1. 1758 - Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)

“Coriolan Overture Op. 62” by Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Jose Serebrier) from the album 200 Greatest Classics, Vol. 14 (1995, 8:18).

[See also: Googling a Dead Horse | Friday cat Tribble blogging! | This shouldn’t be a surprise | She struggled to what? | More scary gov’t agencies ]

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