On This Day: July 25 #3

clipped from www.reference.com On This Day: July 25 Today is Friday, July 25, 2008. This is the 207th day of the year, with 159 days remaining in 2008. Holidays Feast day of St. Christopher, Saints Thea, Valentina and Paul, St. James the Greater, and St. Magnericus. Spain: St. James Day. Costa Rica: Guanacaste Day. Puerto Rico: Constitution Day. Tunisia: Republic Day. 1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England; she'd been conceived through in-vitro fertilization. 1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. 2000 - A New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground. 2007 - Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president. 2007 - Jeremy Clarkson and James May become the first people to reach the magnetic North Pole in a car. 1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor.

On This Day July 25

clipped from encarta.msn.com On This Day July 25 ope Pius XI makes the first public appearance by a pope outside the Vatican since 1870. Learn more about Pius XI. Louise Joy Brown, the world's first "test-tube" baby, is born in England. She is the product of in vitro fertilization, in which the mother's egg is fertilized outside of her body. Learn more about In Vitro Fertilization. 1997: 1999: American cyclist Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France, bicycle racing's top event, less than three years after being diagnosed with testicular cancer. Learn more about Cycling. Maxfield Parrish, painter (1870) Arthur James Balfour, British prime minister (1848) David Belasco, theatrical producer and playwright (1859) Thomas Eakins, painter (1844) Walter Payton, running back (1954) Elias Canetti, writer (1905) Leos have regal and warm-hearted natures. Leos are said to be protective of people close to them, especially those who are weak. surprisingly sensitive

Friday, July 25th - On This Day 1

clipped from www.nytimes.com Friday, July 25th The 207th day of 2008. There are 159 days left in the year. Go to a previous date. On July 25, 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast, claiming the lives of 51 people. (Go to article.) On July 25, 1848, Arthur James Balfour, the British statesman best remembered for issuing the British declaration of support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, was born. Following his death on March 19, 1930, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays) 1593 France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. 1866 Ulysses S. Grant was named general of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank. 1868 Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory. 1946 The United States detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device. 1952 Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

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An open invitation

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The WORLD 2008 CIA World Factbook

Amazing bits of information

clipped from www.cia.gov Population: 6,677,563,921 (July 2008 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 27% (male 933,716,943/female 877,734,429) 15-64 years: 65% (male 2,205,342,972/female 2,153,959,605) 65 years and over: 8% (male 222,346,221/female 284,463,751) (2008 est.) Median age: total: male: 27.4 years female: 28.7 years (2008 est.) Population growth rate: 1.159% (2008 est.) Birth rate: 19.97 births/1,000 population (2008 est.) Death rate: 8.32 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.) Sex ratio: at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.02 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.78 male(s)/female total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2008 est.) Religions: Languages: Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 82% male: 87% female: 77% note: over two-thirds of the world's 785 million illiterate adults are found in only eight countries Government 266 nations, dependent areas, and other entities Internet users: 1,018,057,389 (2005)

Homemovies Conversion

clipped from skwirlshare3.blogspot.com Homemovies Conversion Well, I finally hooked up the old VCR to my media center pc and started converting our homemovies to movie files Right now they are very raw and hugely big (38.2GB). I will be chopping them down and posting them on photobucket soon. Eventually I will use moviemaker to create some kind of watchable story. I just think its great to capture those old vhs movies to my computer - its why I bought the media center pc in the first place. Those old vcr tapes are treasures that are deteriorating every year. Right now everything is raw footage. Pretty boring stuff unless it is your zygotes you are watching. Memories are dear.

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I should see some pops on this one

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