Comments | rj_anderson: Birth Date Meme

rj_anderson

Birth Date Meme

Apr 07, 2006 14:37

It's everywhere by now, but I gacked this particular version from npkedit:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and two deaths in your journal, including the year.

March 23

Neat Facts:1801 - Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his ( Read more... )

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Comments 7

cesario April 7 2006, 19:09:23 UTC

hey, can you get online? if you're so bored, i have a Who fic that needs an audience!

greenwoodside April 7 2006, 20:20:19 UTC

Though I do feel sorry for Tsar Paul, because ouch.

The Russians do like to be thorough when it comes to killing Tsars, don't they?

The most memorable thing to happen on my birthday is the Slave Trade Act (1807). Pretty chuffed about that.

camillofan April 8 2006, 03:58:15 UTC

I think greenwoodside and I must share a birthday!

pharnabazus April 7 2006, 22:08:10 UTC

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown! But yes, it does sound painful! Most history books just say he "was assassinated" without saying much how.

Anyway, I "always" wondered where the expression "OK" came from, and what it originally meant! Thanks for that!

sollersuk April 8 2006, 08:52:03 UTC

Apparently it was a bunch of upper crust young men who went in for jokey mis-spellings.

Paul sounds as if he needed nearly as much effort to kill as Rasputin.

pharnabazus April 8 2006, 13:04:06 UTC

Rasputin sounds as though someone had given him a Bezoar! He seems to have been immune to "any" poison! What else was tried in the end? Drowning? Bullets?

crazyluke April 8 2006, 11:27:21 UTC

Grr... Margaret of Anjou. Nasty piece of work. Nasty, nasty nasty. ¬.¬