Trousered Ape

An exercise in presumption.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

A Doktor Professor named Hermann
Pedantically mused upon "vermin":
"Strictly speaking, the term
Is collective of 'worm';
So does more than one germ make a German?"

Posted by Bob the Ape 9:04 AM

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Decided to take a crack at the birthday meme that’s been going around (go to Wikipedia, enter the month and day of your birth, but not the year, and pick 3 events, 2 bithdays, one death, and one holiday or observance). For April 26:

Events:

1478: The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de’ Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Florence Cathedral.

1865: American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
and
1865: Union cavalry troopers corner John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in a barn in Virginia. Booth is shot dead by cavalryman Boston Corbett.

1956: First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

Births:

570 - Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. (Other sources suggest April 20).

1933 - Carol Burnett, American comedienne.

Death:

1881 - Ludwig Samson Arthur Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)

Holiday or observance:

Saints Cletus (Pope Anacletus) and Marcellinus (Popes and martyrs)

Tagging the Human Bride, aka The Dizzy Disciple, who's probably the only blogger left who hasn't done it.

Posted by Bob the Ape 1:00 AM