April 30th, 2006 by striatic
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. Choose three events that happened on your birthday.
4. Choose two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. Post it.
My birthday is on the 15th of May.
Events:
1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe.
1618 - Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1957 - Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
Births:
1856 - L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919)
1859 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
Death:
1935 - Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
Blame:
All the Pretty Words » Blog Archive » Meme thingie
|||| Posted in memes |
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Trackback from your own site.
2 Responses to “Wikipedia Blog Meme Game”
-
jd Says:
August 16th, 2006 at 1:21 amHow do you play this Meme game? What is the next step after registering your info with Wikipedia as set forth above? Thanks, JD
-
striatic Says:
August 16th, 2006 at 12:29 pm“1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. Choose three events that happened on your birthday.
4. Choose two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. Post it.
My birthday is on the 15th of May.”in your post you should link back to this post, or the post where you first found the idea.