Culture Time: 20 PAST MIDNIGHT
Culture Time: 20 PAST MIDNIGHT
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TWENTY PAST MIDNIGHT
Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. Watch for it everywhere.
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03/07 Aristotle died, 322BC
03/07 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896
03/07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel born, 1792, astronomer
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Culture Time: 20 PAST MIDNIGHT
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TWENTY PAST MIDNIGHT
Things will be bright in P.M. A cop will shine a light in your face.
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03/09 "GOTO considered harmful" (E.J. Dikstra) published in CACM, 1968
03/09 Birthday of Joshua Scott <jsc...@unicorn.dorm.umd.edu>
03/09 Decoration Day in Liberia
03/09 Falgun Purnima Day in Nepal
03/09 Robin Trower is born in London, 1945
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TWENTY PAST MIDNIGHT
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets
people's attention.
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03/10 Harriet Tubman died in 1913
03/10 Labor Day in South Korea
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TWENTY PAST MIDNIGHT
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than
two.
- V. S. Naipul, interview in "Time", 10 July 1989
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03/11 Johnny Appleseed Day; anniversary of the death of John Chapman
03/11 Led Zeppelin's "Communication Breakdown" single released, 1969
03/11 Robert Treat Paine born, 1737
03/11 Vannevar Bush born, 1890
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TWENTY PAST MIDNIGHT
"She's got a tongue like an electric eel and loves
the taste of a man's tonsils..."
-- Lord Flash Heart
[BLACK ADDER II]
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03/12 1824: Physicist Gustav Robert Kirchhoff born
03/12 1947: US Congress: $400M to Greece, Turkey to defend against Communists
03/12 1985: Nuclear and Space Talks (NST) open in Geneva
03/12 Commonwealth Day in Swaziland
03/12 Independence Day in Mauritius
03/12 Moshoeshoe's Birthday in Lesotho
03/12 Renovation Day in Gabon
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TWENTY PAST MIDNIGHT
Good cooking takes time. If you are made to wait, it is to serve you
better, and to please you.
- Menu of Restaurant Antoine, New Orleans
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03/13 1894: "Striptease" introduced, Paris
03/13 1961: JFK proposes 10-year plan of economic aid to Latin America
03/13 1971: The Allman Brothers record live album at the Fillmore East
03/13 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev succeeds Chernenko as Soviet General Secretary
03/13 National Day in Grenada
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TWENTY PAST MIDNIGHT
Seen on a button or bumper sticker:
There is no difference between theory and practice in theory, but
there is often a great deal of difference between theory and
practice in practice.
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03/14 0044 BC: Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus
03/14 1768: Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician & physicist, born
03/14 1835: Giovanni Virginia Schiaparelli, astronomer, born
03/14 1864: Casey Jones born
03/14 1874: France assumes protectorate over Vietnam
03/14 1879: Albert Einstein born
03/14 1907: Teddy Roosevelt excludes Japanese laborers from continental US
03/14 1944: Sly Stone born
03/14 1960: LISP introduced
03/14 1966: Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25
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TWENTY PAST MIDNIGHT
Selections from NBC EMPLOYEES TOP TEN FEARS ABOUT
ROBERT C. WRIGHT:
8. Might wear a lot of Old Spice
7. Will forbid feeding of Willard by tour
groups
6. His creepy G.E. pals will drop by at all
hours
2. Will tell endless boring anecdotes about his
6 months at cable outfit
-- Late Night with David Letterman
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03/15 Buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio
03/15 Ides of March
03/15 J.J. Robert's Birthday in Liberia
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"You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, MINE
are even WORSE!"
-- Calvin
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03/16 1739: George Clymer born
03/16 1751: James Madison born
03/16 1827: First Black newspaper founded
03/16 1926: Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket
03/16 1966: 10,000 Buddhists march in Saigon protesting US support of Ky
03/16 1968: My Lai massacre in Vietnam
03/16 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen