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By Guess on Friday, January 30, 1998 - 02:32 am:
By Kelsey on Friday, January 30, 1998 - 02:45 pm:
    are you going to tell us, or what?
By What on Friday, January 30, 1998 - 08:01 pm:
    you haven't even tried. it's easy.
By Whew on Friday, January 30, 1998 - 11:08 pm:
    Oh all right. (sigh)

    1. Fr. Pierre-Jean de Smet, b. 1/30/1801 in Termonde (now in Belgium), d. 5/23/1873 in St. Louis, was a Jesuit missionary to the Indians in the American West.

    2. The Lone Ranger first aired on radio station WXYZ in Detroit, Mich. on 1/30/1933. This continuing radio and tv drama was about a man on horseback.

    3. "The Card Sharper with the Ace of Diamonds" was painted by Georges De La Tour, b. 3/19/1593 in Vic-sur-Sevilly, France, d. 1/30/1652 at Luneville.

    4. The ITT corporation was founded by Sosthenes Behn ( b. 1/30/1892 in St. Thomas, V.I., D. 6/6/1957 in New York City) along with his brother Hernand. Today the corporation has nothing to do with making telephones or telegraphs but owns a famous gambling casino in Las Vegas (o.k. it's not the Aladdin, but whaddaya want...)

    5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, b. in Hyde Park, N.Y., 1/30/1882, d. 4/12/1945 at Warm Springs, Ga. FDR Drive in New York City is named after him.

    6. It's a joke

    get it?
By R.C. on Friday, January 30, 1998 - 11:24 pm:
    Now Mark -- you CAN'T be drunk if you remembered all that! What are you even doing home at 11:08 pm on the anniversary of your arrival on this planet? GO FORTH & CONSUME MASS QUANTITIES! WINE (or Stout),WOMEN & SONG UNTIL DAWN!
By Huh on Friday, January 30, 1998 - 11:53 pm:
    Who are you talking to?

    As far as I know that's what he's doing.

    This was by way of a birthday greeting...

    u shd learn to vu source...
By R.C. on Saturday, January 31, 1998 - 12:21 am:
    Show me yr source & I promise I'll vu it -- but good! (And it's not nice to tease a web-cretin -- esp. when she's getting queasy from drinking Guinness. It has NEVER taken me this long to finish a bottle of beer. BLECH!)
By Sorabji on Sunday, February 1, 1998 - 10:31 pm:
    I was going to say that each of these sites (except for the ITT one) elicited traumatic childhood memories. Maybe they did not, after all.
By Nelly on Sunday, February 1, 1998 - 10:44 pm:
    there, there, Mark...wasn't trying to weird you out...just let those traumas ooze on out...wash them down...have a warm bath and some nice beer...

    well, maybe there's something to this numerology/astrology mumbo after all...

    Shoulda left ITT out. Not a good connection. The corporation probably had its own birthday that was way off...

    Anyway, got some use out of the trial subscription to the Brittanica.