Apr 01, 2011 22:21
_Thursday, March 31 - Play with Fire Day.
Bunsen Burner Day marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Wilhelm Eberhard von Burnsen, whose flame-on-a-stick instrument provided chemists and chemistry students with a relatively safe means of playing with fire and calling it science._
source: 'The Rhinoceros Times' weekly, specifically a column written by Orson Scott Card.
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