And a bunch of links from CNN...

[conuly]

One on how Notre Dame (the college) is preserving the Irish language.
One on an Ebola-like disease in Angola.
One on a "face phone". Really, isn't this old news?
One on a pro-democracy riot in Kyrgyzstan. We think my mother's father's family may have been from there originally.
Oh yeah. Happy Mid-spring, everybody!

(And, for the record, May Day is the start of summer. Midsummer is exactly that, mid-summer. When Shakespeare compares us to a summer's day, he talks about rough winds in May, not late June.)

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"And, for the record, May Day is the start of summer. Midsummer is exactly that, mid-summer. When Shakespeare compares us to a summer's day, he talks about rough winds in May, not late June."

Northern hemisphere only thank you.


grins scarcasticaly.

THe aborigionals in Victoria identified six distinct seasonal varations in the course of one planetry rotation. This basicaly spaces the european concepts of spring, summer and autmun with two transitionary seasons. I'm sorry i cant rememebr the correct seasonal words, it's been quite a long time.
The ones in the north of course had 2, "wet and "dry".

This has been your random chunk of rantin trivia. I hope it was moderately educaitonal, or at least amusing.
Now comence the heckling ;)