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little known celebrations
Posted Feb 13, 2005
I was just in a conversation about moles (chemistry) not the furry lawn destroyers and found that there's a holiday celebrated by chemists in the USA called mole day and it's held on 23rd of October every year between 6:02 am and 6:02 pm (Chemist, use the American date format to figure it out).
This led me to look for other little known celebrations:
Darwin Day - 12th of Feb (his birthday) 200th anniversary coming in 2009
Pi Day - 3rd of March(American date format)
Approximate Pi day - 22nd of July
NewtonMas - 25th December (his birthday)
sqare root day - the last one was the 2nd of Feb 2004, the next one is 3rd of March 2009 (you can use the official title of maths 
if you can work out when the next one in the sequence is). 
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Anyone know of any other 
holidays?
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Will we ever learn?
Posted Nov 13, 2004
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning.
We will remember them.
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sheep/badger/ninja weasel command complex
Posted Oct 23, 2004
Welcome to the command complex for the small mammals and rodents allied forces.
A brief history of the movement: The allied forces are loosely alligned with the Thingites, the assassins guild and the MotMV. Although this does not preclude military action against any members of the afore mentioned groups if they get a bit upity!
This forces was created by the combining of the sheep/badger army of U982350 and me (link above)thus avoiding the almost inevitable mammal wars.
We are currently looking for other small mammal recruits to join our forces (stoats and polecats may also apply, lemmings for kamikaze squad only)and we are also interested in recruiting s for an airforce and s for our navy.
Research is always required, although I am principally a scientist, my military duties exclude me from any research so we need a weapons and technology research centre - any aplicants?
our motto: Peace keeping with extreme prejudice!
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Percy Biss Shelley
Posted Oct 18, 2004
Here's anothe one that captures my imagination. I personally think it evokes a feeling of desolation. It shouts of the arrogance of man and saddens with the realisation that what was true thousands of years ago is still the same.
Ozymandias of Egypt
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-- Shelley 1818
Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
-- Shelley 1818
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Walter De La Mare 1873 - 1956
Posted Oct 18, 2004
I haven't quoted for a while so here's half of my favourite poem ...I did have all the poem posted previously but pulled half in case of copyright infringement. Read it out loud in a dilmly lit room , I guarantee the hair on your neck will rise (guarantee not valid in this solar system)
The Listeners
"Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grass
Of the forest's ferny floor;
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller's head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
"Is there anybody there?" he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
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