I would walk 500 miles

musings of a dysfunctional adult

each word brings you to some different part of the blog!

NAVIGATIONS: everything has to be accessed from the image on your left yeah

"I" brings you to the Profile, which is nothing much.
"Would" is the Blog
"Walk" = Archives
"500" is the Tag board, please drop a note if you've come by
"Miles"is for the links to all other friends miles and miles away

sitting, waiting, wishing

Wishlist?
i long for the warmth of the days gone by...
and of lofts and lakeview penthouses

Thursday, April 20, 2006

haha its the time of the year where i unbashedly share my famous "ancestry". many thanks to the all powerful wikipedia

April 20th

Births
570 - Muhammad, Founder of Islam (d. 632)
1633 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)
1808 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1873)
1889 - Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German dictator (d. 1945)
1918 - Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway
1949 - Massimo D'Alema, Prime Minister of Italy
1950- Aleksandr Lebed, Russian general, politician (d. 2002)
1951 - Luther Vandross, American singer (d. 2005)
1976 - Shay Given, Irish footballer

Events
1770 - Lieutenant James Cook's expedition (first voyage) makes first sighting of eastern Australian coastline, naming the spot Cape Hicks. His logbook recorded the date as April 19, but the 20th was the actual calendar date.
1792 - France declares war on Austria, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
1862 - The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.
1902 - Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
1912 - Opening day for baseball stadiums Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
1945 - US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1972 - Apollo 16 lands on the Moon.
1979 - President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a Swamp Rabbit while on vacation in Plains, Georgia.
1997 - The San Diego Padres face the St. Louis Cardinals in the first Major League Baseball game ever played in Hawaii.
1999 - Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 12 students and a teacher before turning their guns on themselves in the Columbine High School massacre.
2004 - Severe thunderstorms strike Chicagoland, USA. An F3 tornado touches down in Utica, Illinois, claiming eight lives.
2004 - In Iraq, 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92.

Holidays and observances
April 20 (4/20) is associated with 420 (cannabis culture). haha oops.

anyway thanks to everyone who showed up at my door at 9 in the morning ( i could never manage that), haha and the pictures of my half-awake state and messy hair are confidential yar? haha.

and my poster has arrived! haha to compensate the lack of view from my room. (hmm okay just checked. i'll take that back. the view from my room is a lot nicer than many other people)

and italy photos.. from a long long time ago before the treachery of exams came around

left to right, top to bottom (haha sounds like an rgs yearbook):
1. pompeii 2. on the way from naples to rome 3. the colesseum 4. Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II from far away 5. Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II 6. Fountain de Trevi 7. The pope somewhere among the crowd at St Peter's Square, Vatican 8. Piazza Navona (i think)

I would walk
500 miles;10:06 pm

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