Wikipedia Experiment--thanks Jared for the idea!

Here's a fun thing that I saw on my friend's blog. Go to wikipedia and enter your birth month and day (sans year) and you can find interesting events, births and deaths on your special day. Here are my top three events and births, which I thought were relevent to my life:


1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
1582 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.
1975 - East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.

Just a tiny explaination of why I chose these three facts: 1095, because I love Muslims, and being a Christian I share in the shame of the Crusades; 1582, because I've read many of Shakespeare's plays (currently working on reading all the comedies); 1975, because I've been to East Timor. It was interesting to see through the timeline about four or five different things happening in Albania on my birthday, so I suppose had I been born in Albania to Albanian parents maybe I would have been considered a lucky kid and have gotten some interesting name like Liberty or Freedom From The Ottomans or just plain Albania.

I share my birthday with:
1489 - Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland, grandmother of Mary Queen of Scots
1628 - John Bunyan, English cleric and author
1757 - William Blake, British poet and artist

It's surprising how many people are on that list that I've never heard of once. So I picked three of the four with whom I was familiar.

That was fun. The end.