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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:49:08 MST
From:         Thumper <watson@HG.ULETH.CA>
Subject:      MWF ISO well-hung pennywhistler

Ok... it's the last day of 1992, do you know where you're bodhran player is?
:)

This is a forward (doctored of course) from Renato on important (and not so
important) happenings on this date in history.  Please note the em-bed-dead
OMC...   :)

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                            DECEMBER 31

     BIRTHDAYS:  Andreas Vesalius, Flemish physiologist & anatomist
(1514-64);  Hermann Boerhaave, Dutch physician, philosopher, medical
author, father of systematic physiology (1668-1738);  Peter Bochler,
Prussian Moravian theologian, led emigration of Georgian Moravians
to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (1712-75);  Charles Edward Stuart, the
"Young Pretender" (1721);  Charles, 1st Marquis Cornwallis, English
general during American Revolution, afterwards Governor-General of
India, 1786 & 1806, and Viceroy of Ireland 1798-1801 (1738-1805);

     LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST:  Dr. Johann Gaspar
Spurzheim, German-English phrenologist (1776);  Jose Maria Heredia,
Cuban-born French poet (1803-39);  George Gordon Meade, US
general (1815-72);  Ismail Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt (1830-95);  Henri-
Emile Benoit Matisse, French painter, Fauve (1869-1954);  George
Catlett Marshall, US general, diplomat, 1953 Nobel Peace Prize (1880-
1959);  Stanley Forman Reed, US jurist (1884-1980);  Appolonia
Chalupek, better known as Pola Negri, Polish-born US actress & arch-
vamp (1894);  Jule Styne, US composer & songwriter (1905);  Felious
Gordon, aka Odetta, African-American folk singer (1930);  Anthony
Hopkins, Welsh actor (1927);  Diane Simone Michelle von Furstenburg,
Belgian-born US fashion designer (1946); Libby Doe (19??), ALLMUSIC's
lone bodhran player and possibly the horniest woman north of the 49th
parallel.  ;*)

And... if I remember correctly, John "Rocky Mountain High" Denver also
celebrates his birthday today...

     DEATHS:  Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1679);  Robert Boyle (1691);
John Flamsteed (1719);  Jean-Francois Marmontel (1799);  William
Gifford (1826);

     ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  in 1600, the East India Company (of
London) was chartered; in 1992 a nude bodhran player was cited for
frightening small hibernating animals while performing in -33 degree
temperatures.

     MISCELLANEA:  It's New Year's Eve!  Celebrate, but be careful,
okay?  Today Benin observes Feed Yourself Day;  in Japan it's
Omisoka (Grand Last Day);  Scotland celebrates Hogmanay.

Hogmany!!  Don't Scots refer to young sheep as hogs??!!  This has me mighty
suspicious!  Rev. Dave, are any of your flock involved in this
celebration?

On this day in 1908, Sergei Prokovief made his 1st professional concert
appearance at the age of 17 in St. Petersburg.

There you go Tim "I'm too sexy for my dewar" J ... what had you accomplished by
17, eh?  Libby had already mastered the BJ... :*)

Happy New Year everyone!!

With Irish Creme in her this am,
Carol O'Lickme
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