Garden at the beginning of Fall…
Thursday, September 20th, 2007Click on the photo for a key to which plant is which...
Click on the photo for a key to which plant is which...
Great Flood!
Saturday, November 26th, 2005Dang, missed it. Yesterday was the anniversary of the Great Flood: According to the most experienced chonologists the deluge commenced this day 2348 years before Christ, and in the yar 1656 of the world. - Time's Telescope (1830), 398 **This Day, as in: November 25th**
Guy Fawkes Day
Saturday, November 5th, 2005Remember, Remember, the 5th of November Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot I see no reason Gunpowder Treason Should Ever be forgot It is comical to me that the Brittish would name this day after one of the guys (no pun intended) who was responsible for the Gunpowder Plot... This day was celebrated with burning Guy Fawkes ...
Sadie Hawkins Day
Thursday, November 3rd, 2005Apparently the first Saturday in November is Sadie Hawkins day... a day in which women are expected to take the initiative in asking men out... I'm waiting ladies... :-P
Reformation Day
Monday, October 31st, 2005Happy Reformation Day! Celebrate: Read Galatians... have a beer...
St Crispin and St. Crispinian Day
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005You may recognize the name of the day "St. Crispin's Day" from Harry's speach in Henry V: This day is called the Feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day and comes safe home Will stand a-tiptoe when this day is named And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall see this ...
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2005Happy birthday to the world. According to James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh the world was created today at 6pm 4004 B.C. Seems like great cause for celebration! ":-D" a link to somewhere
Leif Erickson Day!
Sunday, October 9th, 2005Today is Leif Erickson day in Iceland, Norway, Wisconson, and Minnesota. In other news, I'm back! My brother changed servers, so that's why I was gone...
October
Saturday, October 1st, 2005Latin: October (eighth month), French: octobre, Spanish: octubre, Portuguese: Outubro, Italian: ottobre, German: Oktober, Welsh: Hydref (denotes lowing of cattle, from hyddfref), Scots Gaelic: an Dambar (derived from damb, "ox or stag", means "rutting time"), Irish: Deireadh Fomhair (end of autumn)
30th of September
Friday, September 30th, 2005Today is St. Jerome's day... he is the translator of the Vulgate(from Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek to Latin). Luther is conatantly disagreeing with him about Galatians. Apparently Jerome thought Paul meant the ceremonial law and not the ten commandments each time he said 'law' in Galatians. Luther points out that he is doing ...
Yesterday…
Monday, September 26th, 2005all my troubles... no wait... Yesterday (the 25th of September) coincidently was the day that King Harold (of Brittan? England?) defeated King Harold of Norway in 1066; just weeks before the big battle of Hastings...
Happy St. Matthew’s Day
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005And the last day of Summer... at least for the Northern Hemisphere... St. Matthew is a pretty well known saint; the patron saint of taxcollectors, and he wrote a pretty famous book. I got my OT test score... it was an 85 (he actually curved it so I got 85/90), which ...
