Seat reservation, Aspendos

Seat reservation, Aspendos
Originally uploaded by tamaranth.

Positive Things for Friday in Turkey

1. Starting the morning with bottomless coffee and stripy cat.
2. The Splendour that was Rome.
3. Fresh fish -- the first meal that was actually hot.

More photos from last Friday over at Flickr.

If you missed an instalment, all photos from the trip are being added (a day at a time) to Turkey 06.

October the Sixth is Too Late

Meme gacked from mr_flay (why, yes, am bored, and still awaiting my 11:30 meeting):

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List two neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence.

1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
1573 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624)

1536 - William Tyndale, English Bible translator (burned at the stake)

I don't mind sharing my birthday with Thor Heyerdahl or Barbara Castle, but David Brin?

FAO fellow-eclipsers

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060407.html
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