Aside from the morning after pill, Wikipedia is the greatest resource invented in the last 20 years. Apparently there is something called a "Wikipedia meme." I have no idea exactly what it means, but Beth and Jaleh each did one, so I figured I would too.
I decided to go with 5 events for each category because I discovered that my birthday has a lot to offer, much of which is rather dubious, but some of which is totally rad.
Birthday: October 29
Events:
1863 - Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
1886 - The ticker-tape parade is invented in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1923 - Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1929 - The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or Black Tuesday, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1960 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
Births:
1017 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
1947 - Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
1968 - Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater
1971 - Winona Ryder, American actress
1983 - Maurice Clarett, American football player
Deaths:
1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer (executed) (b. 1554)
1877 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born newspaper publisher (b. 1847)
1971 - Duane Allman, American musician (b. 1946)
1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
Feel free to post your own. You will undoubtedly gain a deeper understanding of yourself.
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According to About.com:
"Definition: In the world of blogs and bloggers, a meme is an idea, question, statement or project that is posted in one blog and answered to in many other blogs. Memes are used to propagate ideas in the blogosphere. Some blogs or web sites post memes on a daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly basis."
Since most memes that I've seen and done are pretty self-centered and are about the blogger themselves, I also like to think of them in terms of being about "Me. ME!!!" Yaaaay, narcissism!!!
I am glad to hear that some memes are posted fortnightly.
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