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On the 26th of September (sorry folks it is the 26th here already) my Dad was born ..hmm eleventeen years ago or so <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

25 august 19??
Mea's grandmother decided that she would deliver a baby boy the next day, and so she did... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/birthday.gif" alt="" /> to Mea's dad! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bday_jump.gif" alt="" />

25 august 1814
- Washington, D.C. was burnt down during the War of 1812.

25 august 1830
- Belgium revolts from the Netherlands <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bday_jump.gif" alt="" />

Mea & Gal are living in places where there seem to be slight temporal distortions... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

August 25: the Opiconsivia Roman festival was held in honor of Ops.
Opiconsivia was also a surname of Ops herself. The Latin word consivia (or consiva) derives from conserere ("to sow"). Hence, the word Opiconsivia may be interpreted as meaning "the sowing of crops", since Ops ultimately means "crops" in the sense of "riches, goods".

26 August 1968
The Beatles' Hey Jude is released as a single in the United States under the Apple Records label.

on the 27th of August Mea realized that it isn't September yet <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />

And Gal did too <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" /> *Gal is looking for a hole in the ground to hide herself* <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

27 august 2003 – The planet Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years.

8 September 1504
Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.

WOW this statue is sexually offensive. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Florence / Firenze is my favourite place in Italy.

Barta

@ Stone
Now I see why they have waited so long to unveil it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

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Florence greatest treasure :

9 september 1999
- Final Fantasy VIII is released in the United States

Birthdays

9 september 1828
- Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
9 september 1935
- Chaim Topol, Israeli actor ("Tevye the Milkman" in the film version of "Fiddler on the Roof")
9 september 1966
- Adam Sandler American actor and comedian

FF VIII sucked

I wouldn't know, since I never played it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> but thanks for the advice <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

oh, I forgot some famous people that had died today

9 september 1569
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter

1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter

1976 - Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist leader

First reaction was that he was Lenin's second man, then I looked at his birthyear... Trotskij, that's the guy I was thinking off! I think...

Übereil

10th September 2005, Exeter City -v- Cambridge United . St.James park, 3:00pm kick Off.

10 september 1960:
- Mickey Mantle hit what is thought to be the longest home run in major league baseball, an estimated 643 feet (160 m).

Births
10 september 1938
- Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer

10 september 1941
- Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)

10 september 1960
- Colin Firth, English actor (Bridget Jones's diary)

4-0 to City...Yeeeeeeeesssssss. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" />

11th of september 2001 : Two planes crashes on the World Trade Center in New York.

Barta