Seeing as it actually *is* my brithday...
Apr. 8th, 2006 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akashiverThe Meme:
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
The facts:
217 - Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1994 - The body of Kurt Cobain is discovered in his Washington home after having died three days earlier.
The births:
563 BC - Gautama Buddha, Indian religious leader (d. 483 BC)
1955 - Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist
One death:
(I have to pick just one?)
1492 - Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1449)
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.
The facts:
217 - Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1994 - The body of Kurt Cobain is discovered in his Washington home after having died three days earlier.
The births:
563 BC - Gautama Buddha, Indian religious leader (d. 483 BC)
1955 - Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist
One death:
(I have to pick just one?)
1492 - Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1449)
