CeilingCat
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| Quote (Bob O'H @ Feb. 25 2008,14:02) | | Quote (sparc @ Feb. 25 2008,13:52) | | Quote | | Looks like the whole Expelled release/Darwin's death day thread has been 404-ed. |
To sad. I had suggested to use May 25th instead because it's kind of another Lincoln day. |
I thought it was a rather nice use of irony (look the date up, folks!). I'm not sure any of the UDites understood it, though. |
I'z tryin to figure it out. But there are so many May 25s! There's practically one every year!
(From Wikipedia)
1521 - The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1738 - A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners. Settling any Conojocular War is good. Especially between two American states.
1895 - Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison. Arden? Any thoughts?
1925 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Quote the CeilingCat: "Ah haas!"
1953 - Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. This could be it. Like ID, Nuclear Artillery was Very Bad Idea.
1966 - The first prominent DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China was posted at Peking University.
Ah haas again! Lookup DaZiBao and you find this: "A key trigger in the Cultural Revolution was the publication of a dazibao on May 25, 1966 by Nie Yuanzi (???) and others at Peking University, claiming that the university was controlled by bourgeois anti-revolutionaries." That's Dembski, all right. He's the one who really called the world's Universities on their Christ-denying Corruption™. And look at what happened next: "The poster came to the attention of Mao Zedong, who had it broadcast nationally and published in the People's Daily. Big-character posters were soon ubiquitous, used for everything from sophisticated debate to satirical entertainment to rabid denunciation; being attacked in a big-character poster was enough to end one's career." Yes sir, that's ID in a nutshell. Paste up a few DaZiBaos, drop a dime to Homeland Security and watch your opponants fall! That's got to be the May 25 reference. It's the story of ID.
1887 - Pio of Pietrelcina, Catholic saint born. (d. 1968) Hmm, but Pope John-Paul-George&Ringo was a big fan of Padre Pio and Dembski used to be a Catholic...
1918 - Claude Akins born, American actor (d. 1994) Snif!
1921 - Jack Steinberger born, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate This has got to be it. Steinberger is just like Sternberger except he accomplished something.
2006 - Desmond Dekker died, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941) Oh Nos! CeilingCat very sad, must go mourn. (Dekker sang "The Israelite", early Reggae hit.)
Edited to spell the Pope's name catrectly.
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