Songs from an Untamed Heart

Courtesy of ribbin, sylphbranching, and masterfiddler.

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As seen in the journal of klellingson:

Instructions: Go over to Wikipedia and enter the day you were born [such as "March 27"] and then pick 3 events, 2 births and 1 holiday that occurred on your birthday.

Events:

1795 - France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.

1933 - Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.

1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

Births

1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959)

1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director

*there were lots and lots of other neat ones, like Ravi Shankar.

Holiday

Mozambique - Women's Day.

(Around the world it is also World Health Day.)

Rules: Post 3 things you've done that you believe nobody else on your F-list has done.
Indulge in remorse if someone calls you out on a listed item.

1. I have figured out how to catch a snake that my herpetology professor said he'd never seen caught by hand in the Mojave desert.

2. I studied the effects of bird guano on intertidal zone diversity in small islands in Baja California.

3. Run the Mentos and Cola demonstration as a lab for 30 students as an introduction to the scientific method.