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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:47 am
by hobie16
250th Anniversary of the Hermitage Museum

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Re: Google

Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:48 am
by hobie16
Annie Jump Cannon's 151st Birthday

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American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon spent her life studying the night sky. Today our homepage in the U.S. is gazing at the stars Cannon loved so much for her 151st birthday. A pioneer in astronomy, Cannon developed the Harvard Classification Scheme with Edward C. Pickering, which organized and categorized stars based on their temperatures.

Re: Google

Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:49 am
by hobie16
100th anniversary of Platero y yo

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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:49 am
by hobie16
Raj Kapoor's 90th Birthday

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Re: Google

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:09 am
by Big Wallaby
The Hermitage is such an amazing building and museum. I have stood outside it. I never went in.

One of the regrets of my life.

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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:11 pm
by hobie16
40th anniversary of the Cycleway program

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Re: Google

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:12 pm
by hobie16
Wassily Kandinsky's 148th Birthday

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Today, our homepage around the world marks the 148th birthday of influential Russian painter Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky. Kandinsky is credited with painting the first purely abstract work of art.

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Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 8:12 pm
by hobie16
Tadas Ivanauskas' 132nd Birthday

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Re: Google

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 6:33 pm
by hobie16
Henrietta Edwards' 165th Birthday

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Re: Google

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 6:34 pm
by hobie16
Winter Solstice 2014 (Northern Hemisphere)

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