"Just your smile leaves me satisfied, though you're not mine..."

Name that band!
Today is... no fooling... Leprechaun Day. This is INSANE! ok, thats all.

The bizarre picture of the day, can be found at http://www.bizarrenews.com/friend/chiccar.jpg

Happy Birthday to:
Arthur Seymour Sullivan, 1842 (you know, like Gilbert and Sullivan)
Peter Henry Emerson, 1856 (first person to call photography "art" good call!)
Jim Jones, 1931 (ever hear of the Jonestown massacre? this guy was a reverend and he poisoned over 100 people)
Stig Gustav Schonberg, 1933
Stevie Wonder, 1950 *cringe, cringe*
Danny Kirwan, 1950 (with Fleetwood Mac)
Dennis Rodman, 1961
Darryl Sydor, 1972 (dallas stars)
Sara DeCosta, 1977 (Olympic hockey goalie! I think I'm in love...)

Happy Deathday to:
Robert II the Steward, 1390
Theodor Schwartzkopff, 1732
John Nash, 1835 (planned Regent's Park)
Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, 1839
Sholem Aleichem, 1916 (TELL ME WHAT HE WROTE FOR A PRIZE!!!)

Today in History:
Crusaders march into Beirut, 1110
Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel, 1559
English colonists lands near James River in VA (Who was leading that party? PRIZE TIME)
University library at Vienna opens, 1777 (I'm going to live there someday. in the library.)
Republic of Ecuador is founded, 1830
1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms, 1835
Native American Day is 1st observed, 1916
Black Friday on Berlin Stock Exchange, 1927 (oooh, friday the 13th. if you are afraid of that, you are a triksedekaphobiac)
Only known fatality due to hail, 1930
Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens, 1956 (I did a whole unit on pachyderms in geology. ask me anything!)
3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time, 1992

Words of the Day:

trouvaille, (troo-VYE) something discovered by chance; a windfall

disingenuous • \dis-in-JEN-yuh-wusslacking in candor; also : giving a false appearance of simple frankness : calculating

Aqueous, a. Of, or of the nature of, water; watery; diluted with water.

suasion \SWAY-zhun\, noun:
The act of persuading; persuasion.

polyvalent (pol-ee-VAY-luhnt) adjective:
1. Having many layers, meanings, values, etc.; multifaceted.
2. (In chemistry) Having multiple valences.
3. (In medicine or biology) Effective against multiple agents.

Irish Word of the Day:
fear /fær/ n., Man
Usage: Fear is the ordinary word for man. The plural is fir (FIHR - rhymes with "cheer"). Just as mna/ (women) is commonly seen on certain doors, fir is common on the others. Those into Irish mythology will have encountered the Fir Bolg (The Bolg Men), one of the early races said to have occupied Ireland.
History: Fear can be traced back the reconstructed Indo-European form *wiros (man), making it cognate with words such as "virile" and "werewolf". Latin for "man" was "vir" (v pronounced like a w)

Person of the Day:
Muhammad: conqueror of Arabia, prophet of Islam.
Exerpt from Michael H. Hart's book:

"My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels...

Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world's great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, thirteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive... Like all religions, Islam exerts an enormous influence upon the lives of its followers. It is for this reason that the founders of the world's great religions all figure prominently in this book. Since there are roughly twice as many Christians as Moslems in the world, it may initially seem strange that Muhammad has been ranked higher than Jesus. There are two principal reasons for that decision. First, Muhammad played a far more important role in the development of Islam than Jesus did in the development of Christianity. Although Jesus was responsible for the main ethical and moral precepts of Christianity (insofar as these differed from Judaism), St. Paul was the main developer of Christian theology, its principal proselytizer, and the author of a large portion of the New Testament.

Muhammad, however, was responsible for both the theology of Islam and its main ethical and moral principles. In addition, he played the key role in proselytizing the new faith, and in establishing the religious practices of Islam. Moreover, he is the author of the Moslem holy scriptures, the Koran, a collection of certain of Muhammad's insights that he believed had been directly revealed to him by Allah. Most of these utterances were copied more or less faithfully during Muhammad's lifetime and were collected together in authoritative form not long after his death. The Koran therefore, closely represents Muhammad's ideas and teachings and to a considerable extent his exact words. No such detailed compilation of the teachings of Christ has survived. Since the Koran is at least as important to Moslems as the Bible is to Christians, the influence of Muhammed through the medium of the Koran has been enormous It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity. On the purely religious level, then, it seems likely that Muhammad has been as influential in human history as Jesus.

Furthermore, Muhammad (unlike Jesus) was a secular as well as a religious leader. In fact, as the driving force behind the Arab conquests, he may well rank as the most influential political leader of all time... the Arab conquests of the seventh century have continued to play an important role in human history, down to the present day. It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history."

Ok so thats really about all i have for today, im sitting here with a can of Campbell's soup (do you know awkward it feels to put a 'p' in Cambell's name?) and i have these blasted stiches in my stomach, so i cant really do much else besides sit here. not that i ever do anything besides sit here anyway, but yah. I'm going to get started on my lunch, as its five minutes to noon. Have a good day everyone. Don't get into fights, dont smack your lips or talk on cell phones, and eat a popsicle. also, girls: do your hair in ponytails, its better that way ;^D. Ok, im gone now. catch y'all later.
Nairb