Happy birthday to....
zoara
Happy Birthday, Peter Ceresole!
You share your birthday with:
1507 - Ouchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (died 1551)
1602 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (died 1650)
1610 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist (died 1688)
1620 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (died 1668)
1626 - Queen Christina of Sweden (died 1689)
1661 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (died 1751)
1662 - James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician
(died 1711)
1724 - Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark
(died 1751)
1725 - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator
(died 1791)
1786 - Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (died 1826)
1835 - Lyman Abbott, American author (died 1922)
1847 - Augusta Holmès, French composer (died 1903)
1856 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (died 1914)
1870 - Saki, British writer (died 1916)
1873 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (died 1957)
1878 - Josef Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union (died 1953)
1879 - Paul Klee, Swiss painter and graphic artist (died 1940)
1886 - Ty Cobb, baseball player (died 1961)
1888 - Robert Moses, American public works official (died 1981)
1888 - Gladys Cooper, English actress (died 1971)
1890 - Edwin Armstrong, American inventor (died 1954)
1897 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician (died 1952)
1904 - George Stevens, American director (died 1975)
1912 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general (died 2002)
1913 - Alfred Bester, American author (died 1987)
1913 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize (died 1992)
1916 - Betty Grable, American actress (died 1973)
1916 - Douglas Fraser, Scottish born trade unionist
1917 - Ossie Davis, American actor (died 2005)
1927 - Ramsey Clark, U.S. Attorney General
1927 - Romeo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada
1928 - Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal
1934 - Boris Volynov, cosmonaut
1939 - Michael Moorcock, British author
1939 - Harold E. Varmus, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1943 - Keith Richards, British guitarist (the Rolling Stones)
1946 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
1946 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (died 1977)
1948 - Bill Nelson, English musician and artist
1950 - Gillian Armstrong, Australian film director
1950 - Leonard Maltin, American film critic
1955 - Ray Liotta, American actor
1956 - Ron White, American comedian
1960 - Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist
1961 - Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater
1963 - Karl Dorrell, American football coach
1963 - Brad Pitt, American actor
1964 - Steve Austin, American professional wrestler
1964 - Don Beebe, American football player
1964 - Robson Green, British actor and singer
1970 - DMX, American rapper
1970 - Miles Marshall Lewis, American author
1970 - Cowboy Troy, American rapper
1971 - Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player
1972 - DJ Lethal, American musician (Limp Bizkit)
1973 - Raymond Herrera, American drummer (Fear Factory)
1974 - Peter Boulware, American football player
1975 - Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler
1975 - Masaki Sumitani, Japanese television performer
1976 - Koyuki, Japanese actress and model
1977 - Ryan Scott Ottney, American comic book writer
1978 - Katie Holmes, American actress
1980 - Christina Aguilera, American singer
1983 - Ryan Dowling, American musician (The Tipplin' Weigh)
1987 - Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater
On this day in history:
218 BC - Battle of the Trebia, Hannibal's first great victory over the
Roman Republic.
1352 - Innocent VI is elected Pope.
1642 - Abel Tasman lands at Mohua Golden Bay becoming the first
European in New Zealand.
1776 - North Carolina's Constitution is ratified.
1787 - New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the United States
Constitution
1865 - Slavery is abolished in the United States, with the passing of
the 13th Amendment
1892 - Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker debuts at the Mariinsky
Theatre in St. Petersburg Russia.
1894 - Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain
the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament.
1912 - Piltdown Man is "discovered"
1916 - The Battle of Verdun ends in World War I
1926 - The Makropulos Affair, an opera by the Czech composer Leo
Janá ek, premieres in Brno, the Czech Republic.
1958 - Niger becomes an autonomous state within the French Community
on December 4, 1958, after the establishment of the Fifth French
Republic. Following full independence on August 3, 1960,
however, membership was allowed to lapse.
1961 - Indonesia invades New Guinea to annex western New Guinea,
formerly known as Netherlands New Guinea.
1965 - Japan and South Korea begin formal relations
1966 - Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker,
and then lost for 12 years
1969 - Capital punishment is ended in the United Kingdom
1973 - The Soyuz 13 was launched.
1996 - "Ebonics" was declared a language or dialect by the outgoing
school board of Oakland, California, whose vote was overturned
by the incoming board.
1997 - HTML 4.0 is released by the World Wide Web Consortium
2001 - Fire damages a part of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the
Divine--one of the world's largest houses of worship--in New
York City.
2002 - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the second film in Peter
Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, opens in theaters.
2002 - California Governor Gray Davis announces that the state would
face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the
figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier;
the budget issue was used to support his 2003 recall from office.
Deaths on this day:
821 - Theodulf, Bishop of Orléans
1133 - Hildebert, French writer
1290 - King Magnus I of Sweden (born 1240)
1442 - Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (born 1371)
1495 - King Alphonso II of Naples (born 1448)
1692 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (born 1626)
1737 - Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker (born 1644)
1787 - Francis William Drake, British admiral and Governor of
Newfoundland (born 1724)
1787 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (born 1704)
1799 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (born 1725)
1803 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (born 1744)
1843 - Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Viceroy of India
(born 1748)
1848 - Bernard Bolzano, Czech mathematician and philosopher (born 1781)
1869 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American composer and pianist
(born 1829)
1936 - Andrija Mohorovi i , Croatian seismologist (born 1857)
1971 - Bobby Jones, American golfer (born 1902)
1974 - Harry Hooper, baseball player (born 1887)
1980 - Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the USSR (born 1904)
1982 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German World War II pilot (born 1916)
1990 - Paul Tortelier, French musician (born 1914)
1991 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (born 1913)
1992 - Mark Goodson, American game show producer (born 1915)
1993 - Sam Wanamaker, American actor (born 1919)
1994 - Roger Apéry, French mathematician (born 1916)
1995 - Konrad Zuse, German engineer and computing pioneer (born 1910)
1997 - Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (born 1964)
1998 - Lev Demin, cosmonaut (born 1926)
1999 - Robert Bresson, French film director (born 1907)
2000 - Kirsty MacColl, British musician (born 1959)
2001 - Gilbert Bécaud, French singer (born 1927)
2002 - Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (born 1934)
2004 - Anthony Sampson, British journalist and biographer (born 1926)
The BBC's "On this Day" page:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/18
Hope today is a good day in CeresoleWorld!
Have a good one,
-zoara-
--
Highly susceptible to memetic reprogramming
Chris Ridd
<m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> 1964 - Steve Austin, American professional wrestler
> 1964 - Don Beebe, American football player
> 1964 - Robson Green, British actor and singer
> 1970 - DMX, American rapper
What company you keep :-)
> Hope today is a good day in CeresoleWorld!
The sun's been shining furiously for a while already, so the omens are good.
Have a good one Peter!
Cheers,
Chris
Andy Hewitt
> Happy Birthday, Peter Ceresole!
> [Snipped Text]
> Hope today is a good day in CeresoleWorld!
>
> Have a good one,
Absolutely, happy birthday old chap :-)
--
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Windows free zone (Mac G5 Dual Processor)
<http://andyhewitt.webhop.net/>
(updated Nov. 2005)
PeterD
> Happy Birthday, Peter Ceresole!
You're a bit early, zoara. Remember CeresoleTime is a whole dot release
behind geektime, although I'm not sure how that translates into hours
and days.
Either way, happy birthday you old fart.
--
Pd
Peter Ceresole
> Have a good one Peter!
Thank you all!
Seasonal disease is running a spoiler today, but looking out of the
window it looks just gorgeous in the Big Blue Room.
--
Peter
Bella Jones
> Happy Birthday, Peter Ceresole!
Many happy returns, and may the bugs depart forthwith.
> You share your birthday with:
>
> 1878 - Josef Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union (died 1953)
> 1943 - Keith Richards, British guitarist (the Rolling Stones)
> 1946 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
> 1946 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (died 1977)
Interesting selection!
--
bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
Peter Ceresole
> > 1878 - Josef Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union (died 1953)
> > 1943 - Keith Richards, British guitarist (the Rolling Stones)
> > 1946 - Steven Spielberg, American film director
> > 1946 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (died 1977)
>
> Interesting selection!
All okay except for the butcher of the Steppes.
--
Peter
Woody
Yes - I am not a fan of Keith Richards either.
Happy birthday :-)
--
Woody
Peter Ceresole
> > All okay except for the butcher of the Steppes.
>
> Yes - I am not a fan of Keith Richards either.
>
> Happy birthday :-)
Oh, I dunno. Mad Axeman maybe. Murderer of a generation, not quite.
--
Peter
zoara
> zoara <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Happy Birthday, Peter Ceresole!
>
> You're a bit early, zoara. Remember CeresoleTime is a whole dot release
> behind geektime, although I'm not sure how that translates into hours
> and days.
I thought my timing was accurate, considering we aren't using British
Summer Time right now.
I may have been off by up to four minutes, because it's a bit windy here
and the bytes have been blown about a bit.
> Either way, happy birthday you old fart.
Yup.
-z-
Jim
Happy Birthday from here as well matey. May you have many, many more.
Jim
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Bruce Horrocks
<m...@privacy.net> writes
>1969 - Capital punishment is ended in the United Kingdom
until 1971. Piracy with violence and high treason remained capital
offences until 1998.
<http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/timeline.html>
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Surrey
England
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PeterD
> In message <1h7qoc4.9lvdjwbcmiajN%m...@privacy.net>, zoara
> <m...@privacy.net> writes
> >1969 - Capital punishment is ended in the United Kingdom
> Only for murder. Arson in a Royal Dockyard remained a capital offence
> until 1971. Piracy with violence and high treason remained capital
> offences until 1998.
>
> <http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/timeline.html>
Not a good site to idly meander around. 'Baby farmers' and witch
burnings, various methods of execution... people can be so barbaric.
--
Pd
Hugh Browton
(in article <1h7qoc4.9lvdjwbcmiajN%m...@privacy.net>):
>
> Happy Birthday, Peter Ceresole!
>
>
Oooops, missed it! Happy yester-birth-day!
--
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hugh
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(by the sea) (using Hogwasher)
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Sara Kirk
Ceresole <pe...@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Bugger! Missed *another* one[1]. Happy belated birthday Peter, hope it
was as wonderful and sparkly as I always imagine the rest of Ceresole
world to be.
1. Someone[2] should have told me!
2. You know who you are >:(
--
Sara
Sigless in Kingston.
Sak Wathanasin
Bruce Horrocks <ne...@horrocks.plus.com> wrote:
> Only for murder. Arson in a Royal Dockyard remained a capital offence
> until 1971. Piracy with violence and high treason remained capital
> offences until 1998.
>
No hanging, drwaing and quartering any more? What's the world coming to?
--
Sak Wathanasin
Network Analysis Limited
http://www.network-analysis.ltd.uk
Peter Ceresole
> No hanging, drwaing and quartering any more? What's the world coming to?
It was probably too labour and skills intensive to survive into our era.
Remember, keeping the prisoner conscious until you stuffed his guts and
his testicles into his mouth was a skill learnt and nurtured over the
years.
--
Peter
Giles
Albeit not by the prisoner, unless he was really, really unlucky.
Anyway, although <Brian Sewell> as any fule knows drawing as a skill
just isn't taught any more </Brian Sewell>, I'm sure that Delia has a
book out on how to quarter, following up how to boil and how to peel.
I'll grant you that hanging, even amongst auto-erotically inclined
Tories, appears to have suffered a decline.
Belated birthday greetings, Peter
Giles
Bruce Horrocks
Wathanasin <s...@network-analysis.ltd.uk> writes
>In article <dwEq4IWQ...@horrocks.plus.com>,
> Bruce Horrocks <ne...@horrocks.plus.com> wrote:
>
>> Only for murder. Arson in a Royal Dockyard remained a capital offence
>> until 1971. Piracy with violence and high treason remained capital
>> offences until 1998.
>>
>
>No hanging, drwaing and quartering any more? What's the world coming to?
It went metric.
Chris Ridd
<usenet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2005-12-19 23:23:34 +0000, pe...@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) said:
>
>> Sak Wathanasin <s...@network-analysis.ltd.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> No hanging, drwaing and quartering any more? What's the world coming to?
>>
>> It was probably too labour and skills intensive to survive into our era.
>> Remember, keeping the prisoner conscious until you stuffed his guts and
>> his testicles into his mouth was a skill learnt and nurtured over the
>> years.
>
> Albeit not by the prisoner, unless he was really, really unlucky.
>
> Anyway, although <Brian Sewell> as any fule knows drawing as a skill
Argh, now *there's* someone who desperately needs hanging, drawing and
quartering.
Cheers,
Chris
Peter Ceresole
> > Anyway, although <Brian Sewell> as any fule knows drawing as a skill
>
> Argh, now *there's* someone who desperately needs hanging, drawing and
> quartering.
But a genuinely lovely man. He just hides it so well...
--
Peter
Chris Ridd
"Peter Ceresole" <pe...@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
He may be, but he hides it *bloody* well. Perhaps his writing style is doing
him a disservice. Then again, perhaps his TV style is also doing him a
disservice.
Cheers,
Chris
Peter Ceresole
> >>> Anyway, although <Brian Sewell> as any fule knows drawing as a skill
> >>
> >> Argh, now *there's* someone who desperately needs hanging, drawing and
> >> quartering.
> >
> > But a genuinely lovely man. He just hides it so well...
>
> He may be, but he hides it *bloody* well. Perhaps his writing style is doing
> him a disservice. Then again, perhaps his TV style is also doing him a
> disservice.
I think his 'style' is actually genuine- although remember that we are
in class ridden Britain so it takes on all kinds of layers of extra
meaning.
My only direct experience of Sewell is when we were both waiting for
flights at LHR T2. As I remember it, his lot were going to Bratislava
for the Furniture History Society; I was with the Decorative Arts Soc
going to Budapest. The way these things are, everybody in each group had
multiple friends in the other.
Sewell was absolutely the way he appears, but huge fun and terribly
nice.
--
Peter
David Kennedy
> Happy Birthday, Peter Ceresole!
>
Yes indeed, belated greetings. I'm sure you had a good one.
--
David Kennedy
Graham Lee
> Happy Birthday, Peter Ceresole!
>
Mine too, BTW. Have been on extended AFK what with my birthday falling
so close to Jebus'...
Belated best wishes, Peter :-)
Bella Jones
Happy belated Brithday. Any shinies to report?
Graham Lee
> Graham Lee <uk.ac.ox.phy...@leeg.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>On 18/12/05 12:33, zoara wrote:
>>
>>>Happy Birthday, Peter Ceresole!
>>>
>>
>>Mine too, BTW. Have been on extended AFK what with my birthday falling
>>so close to Jebus'...
>>
>>Belated best wishes, Peter :-)
>
>
> Happy belated Brithday. Any shinies to report?
>