Historical Events

On this day, October 25, in history:

--1400: Geoffrey Chaucer dies.
Does this mean we get to have a cake, Dr. Steinberg?

--1760: George III becomes King of Great Britain.
Aka, the King Who Went Batshit Insane.

--1854: The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
I realize that the Crimean War was not at all amusing, but the first time I read this sentence I saw "The Battle of Baklava." Reaction: "What? They had a battle over a pastry ?"

1920: Alexander I of Greece dies.
An interesting-sounding fellow, who died from a monkey bite .

--1983: Operation Urgent Fury.
The other students and I learned about this in Anthropology of the Caribbean. After hearing the name, none of us could stop laughing for the rest of the class period.

--2002: Richard Harris dies.
Goodbye, Dumbledore.

Random Facts

Meme gotten from >lj user="titivillus32">

Once tagged by this entry, the assignment is to write a blog entry of some kind with six random facts about you. then, pick six of your friends and tag them; no tag backs.

1. I become lonely and bored very easily. (ex. today)

2. Recently, I have become addicted to musicals in foreign languages.

3. I have begun to worry that the only ideas for novels I will ever have are retellings of fairy tales, and I want to do more than that.

4. I want to at least visit Moorish Spain.

5. Sometimes I daydream of just walking somewhere with no goal, just to see where I will end up.

6. I write fiction during classes. (Who doesn't?)

People I tag:
bwinter
redpirk
kreater

No more, because I don't have that many people friended yet!