Re: birthday

[tuckr@digital.net]

> In a message dated 97-02-12 11:17:59 EST, MNHPB018@SIVM.SI.EDU (Mike
> Brett-Surman) writes:
> 
> << February 12 is the birthday of CHARLES DARWIN >>
> 
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't Darwin and Abe Lincoln born on
> the same DAY (Feb 12 1809), not just the same date? (My biographical
> dictionaries are all back in Buffalo...)

True. And I have, indeed, been honouring the day appropriately. I even answered 
the telephone by wishing a caller "Happy 
Charles Darwin's Birthday," only to discover it was one of our local 
fundamentalist Christian schools calling to arrange a 
class visit to the Planetarium. Oops.

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