hi, byron


This isn't all that's happened on April 21, but it's a start...

1519: Cortes lands at Veracruz, Mexico. Through sheer bloodthirstiness (and the aid of European diseases) a few hundred Spaniards manage to conquer, loot, and enslave the millions of people in the Aztec empire.

1782: The Presidio, overlooking San Francisco, was erected by the Spanish to subdue Indians interfering with mail transmissions along El Camino Real.

1834: 30,000 march for freedom of trade unionists transported to Australia from Tolpuddle, Britain.

1835: John Muir, early western conservationist, born.

1863: Texas won its independence with the defeat of the Mexican Army at San Jacinto.

1870: Birth of Vladimir Lenin, patron saint of Fremont.

1898: U.S. uses sinking of battleship Maine as rallying cry, declaring war on Spain in a (successful) attempt to acquire colonies attempting to win independence from Spain. The U.S. picked up, among other new properties, Puerto Rico and the Philippines in the deal, and used its new presence in the Pacific as an excuse for annexing the independent nation of Hawai'i later that year.

1898: Malatesta and several other anarchists tried for "criminal conspiracy" arising from a two-day January general strike and riots in Ancine, Italy, following an increase in bread prices. Three thousand anarchists signed a declaration confessing to be of the same "crime." Public indignation was roused and the tribunal opted for a far lesser charge and six or seven months' prison for forming part not of a "criminal" but of a "seditious" or "subversive" society.

1913: Three French anarchists, members of the Bonnet Gang, guillotined for their role in a Mar. 1912 attack in which two people were killed.

1914: U.S. forces seized Veracruz to prevent a German ship from delivering arms to Mexican dictator Victoriano Huerta, whom the U.S. did not recognize. One hundred twenty-six Mexicans were killed in the attack, and 195 were wounded, despite President Wilson's stated hope that the port could be captured "without bloodshed." The raid, authorized by the President without waiting for Congressional approval, brought the U.S. to the brink of war with Mexico.

1921: Police fire on striking miners in Butte, Mont.

1945: Death of peace artist Kathe Kollwitz, in Germany.

1954: U.S. Air Force begins flying French reinforcements to Indochina.

1967: CIA-assisted right wing coup deposes elected civilian government in Greece, instigating seven years of terror.

1972: Protesters in El Paso, Texas, pelt Gen. Westmoreland with tomatos.

1972: Alberta Indians end six month sit-in at Indian Affairs office in Edmonton.

1999: Greece: Navy officer sentenced to 30 months, suspended, for refusing part in NATO action against Yugoslavia.

2001: Sixty thousand or more dance, shout, and battle police on the streets of Quebec City, where 34 Western Hemisphere heads of state gathered to negotiate a NAFTA-style Free Trade Area of the Americas.
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Tomorrow, in 1970: An estimated 20 million participate in anti-pollution demonstrations across the U.S. to mark the first Earth Day.

Corporate sponsorships were notably absent.

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Paul, is there a particular reason you ALWAYS post the bad side of things. Is everything in your world a conspiracy???

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I'd rather speak my mind because it hurts too much to bite my tongue.

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> .... is everything in your world a conspiracy..
>

Yes!

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> Paul, is there a particular reason you ALWAYS post the bad side of things. Is
> everything in your world a conspiracy???
>

How can something which is general knowledge be a conspiracy...?

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> > Paul, is there a particular reason you ALWAYS post the bad side of
> things. Is
> > everything in your world a conspiracy???
> >
>
> How can something which is general knowledge be a conspiracy...?
>

My point is Paul you continue to list all the bad things that happened on this day.

How about:

# In 1940, the quiz show that asked the "64-dollar question," "Take It or Leave It," premiered on CBS Radio. (64 dollars is cq)
# In 1955, 50 years ago, the Jerome Lawrence-Robert Lee play "Inherit the Wind," loosely based on the Scopes trial of 1925, opened at the National Theatre in New York.
# In 1960, Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.
# In 1972, "Apollo 16" astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the surface of the moon.
# In 1975, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned after ten years in office.

Five Years Ago:
The lower house of the Russian parliament overwhelmingly approved the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

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I'd rather speak my mind because it hurts too much to bite my tongue.

American Spirit BBQ Proudly Serving those that courageously defend freedom.

It all depends on how you look at things.... generalizing has some dangers, no?

if you think dissent is bad.... then commemorating dissent must be bad news....

if you think conservation is bad..... then you must think commemorating earth day and the birth of John Muir is bad news....

I don't happen to agree with your assessment that I post only bad news.....

I guess it depends on what you want to hear.....

I also posted the beginning of the American Revolution.... was that bad news?

Vancouver's discoveries.... bad news, eh?

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Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ...... didn't Bush abrogate that treaty?

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> > Paul, is there a particular reason you ALWAYS post the bad side of
> things. Is
> > everything in your world a conspiracy???
> >
>
> How can something which is general knowledge be a conspiracy...?
>
I think what Paul is trying to point out is not the negative aspects of history,
but rather all the things that people have swept under the carpet by rewriting
history to suit there own needs.

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Account frozen...

> if you think conservation is bad..... then you must think commemorating earth
> day and the birth of John Muir is bad news....
>
> I don't happen to agree with your assessment that I post only bad news.....
>

OK so you threw a few good points in there, but one or two out of 20 do not make for a positive or neutral spin.

I have yet to see you astound on any of the good things our government has done, but you spew forth thread after thread of all the bad things "Bush" has done.

This what leads me to beleive that you lead a sheltered life up there, or you are yet another member of some cult militia advocating the overthrow of the evil in Washington.

For the record the only reason Bush had anything to do with the Washington Nationals and their new stadium is because the District is not allowed to have a Governor like other states. Bush is technically the Governor of the District of Columbia and has to approve any spending by the District.

However, I will concede that sports teams owners should pay for there own dayum stadiums..

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cw,

> I have yet to see you astound on any of the good things our government has
> done, but you spew forth thread after thread of all the bad things "Bush" has
> done.

After you, ..... I'm astounded that there is so little of record to report in that arena. That's not to say good things don't happen, I just haven't found them to be conceptualized in the current administrations actions.... can you give me some examples? Something directly attributable to the Bush doctrines?

> For the record the only reason Bush had anything to do with the Washington
> Nationals and their new stadium is because the District is not allowed to have
> a Governor like other states. Bush is technically the Governor of the
> District of Columbia and has to approve any spending by the District.

If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have had no idea that Bush had something to do with the Washington Nationals..... I never connect Bush to them, I only reported that Congress added riders to the war spending bill.... Interesting that while we are supposed to be on a 'war' footing, that Bush didn't vetoe the unnecessary pork. Thanks for pointing that out.

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dogbite,

yes, ...............that's a part of it,......

> rewriting
> history to suit there own needs.
>

Revisionist history is a fact of life..... but there's much more and I will quote rocky here, earlier in this thread, he said:

""......this peticular thread reminds us all...Where we have been!""

Yes indeed it does.... and everywhere we have been has not always been good.

We need to learn from that and not repeat the same mistakes....

But then everyone knows all that, right?

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> If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have had no idea that Bush had something
> to do with the Washington Nationals..... I never connect Bush to them, I only
> reported that Congress added riders to the war spending bill.... Interesting
> that while we are supposed to be on a 'war' footing, that Bush didn't vetoe
> the unnecessary pork. Thanks for pointing that out.
>

While I am pointing out the the faults in your arguments let me point out that D.C's equivilant of State Legislator is the US Congress. Therefore, the only way DC can get money is if Congress give it to them.. Course you could blame that on Bush too, but you need to go back to our Fore Fathers thinking that the workings of our Federal Government should not be influenced by state politics.

Once again you are only giving one side of the story and once again I will point out that our Government is NOT just George W. Bush. Come up with a new set of rhetoric will you please..

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I'd rather speak my mind because it hurts too much to bite my tongue.

American Spirit BBQ Proudly Serving those that courageously defend freedom.

> > If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have had no idea that Bush had
> something
> > to do with the Washington Nationals..... I never connect Bush to them, I
> only
> > reported that Congress added riders to the war spending bill....
> Interesting
> > that while we are supposed to be on a 'war' footing, that Bush didn't
> vetoe
> > the unnecessary pork. Thanks for pointing that out.
> >
>
> While I am pointing out the the faults in your arguments let me point out that
> D.C's equivilant of State Legislator is the US Congress. Therefore, the only
> way DC can get money is if Congress give it to them.. Course you could blame
> that on Bush too, but you need to go back to our Fore Fathers thinking that
> the workings of our Federal Government should not be influenced by state
> politics.
>
> Once again you are only giving one side of the story and once again I will
> point out that our Government is NOT just George W. Bush. Come up with a new
> set of rhetoric will you please..
>
Huh, ? Have you got some insecurities about GW doing the job here....? As I said, Congress included pork in an emergency 'war' appropriations.....

what fault in my argument were you making? Are you saying Bush controls Congress?

Or do you just wish to associate only what you think you see?


>

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Take it back to the Political thread Boys.....
Jeeze wiz....

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> Take it back to the Political thread Boys.....
> Jeeze wiz....
>

Ohhhhh hush...

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I'd rather speak my mind because it hurts too much to bite my tongue.

American Spirit BBQ Proudly Serving those that courageously defend freedom.

This Day In History | Entertainment

April 22

1937 Jack Nicholson born


Film actor Jack Nicholson is born in Neptune, New Jersey.

Nicholson's father, an alcoholic, left his mother before Jack was born. Jack, an overweight child, developed a caustic humor to protect himself from the teasing of his peers. He won a scholarship to the University of Delaware but decided to try acting instead and moved to Los Angeles. In Hollywood, he landed a series of odd jobs, from answering fan letters written to MGM cartoon characters Ben and Jerry to fighting fires. He studied acting at the Players Ring Theater and began winning TV parts.

In 1958, Nicholson appeared in his first film, a low-budget horror flick called The Cry Baby Killer. This was the first of many appearances in horror, biker, and other second-rate genre movies. He married actress Sandra Knight in 1962, but the marriage lasted only five years.

In 1967,

he finally got his break with a small but highly praised part as a lawyer in Easy Rider, and received an Oscar nomination. After Easy Rider, Nicholson began landing better parts, including a role as a talented musician stuck working on an oil rig, in Five Easy Pieces(1970). Five years later, he won an Oscar for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in which he played an asylum inmate. A string of other accolades followed, including Oscar nominations for Reds (1981), Terms of Endearment (1983), and A Few Good Men (1992). In 1997, Nicholson and co-star Helen Hunt both won Oscars for the quirky comic-drama As Good as It Gets.

Nicholson, an avid basketball fan, frequently attends Lakers games. Although he never married again, he was for many years romantically associated with Angelica Huston.



1976

Barbara Walters signs $5 million contract
Barbara Walters signs a record-breaking five-year, $5 million contract with ABC on this day in 1976. The contract made her the first news anchorwoman in network history and the highest paid TV journalist to date.

This Day In History | Literary

April 22

1873 Ellen Glasgow, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, is born


Southern writer Ellen Glasgow is born in Richmond, Virginia.

The daughter of a sadly mismatched couple, Glasgow felt pulled between her father's stern pioneering background and her mother's aristocratic Virginia family. The ninth of 10 children, the young Glasgow felt isolated growing up, and her mother was constantly in poor health. Her father worked in manufacturing, and she attended private schools.

At the age of 16, Glasgow began to lose her hearing, which increased her sense of isolation. She retreated into the world of books and began to write seriously at the age of 18. She had started work on two novels before she was 20 but destroyed much of her work after her mother's death in 1893. Her first novel, The Descendants, was published in 1897 to instant critical success.

Glasgow wrote 19 novels, a collection of stories, an autobiography, and other works, many centered on the oppression of women in the South. Among her major works are Barren Ground (1925), Veins of Iron (1935), and In This Our Life (1941). Although involved in several passionate romances with men, Glasgow never married. She suffered heart trouble in her late 60s and did not live to see her work win the 1942 Pulitzer Prize.

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<A><B>Albert Einstien ........ wrote the following:</B>[/url]

a human being is a part of a whole, called by us humans as the universe .... a part limited in time and space we humans experiences our selfs , our thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us humans, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us

<A><B> ............. therefore ............ </B>[/url]

[url=http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/ ] ___ our task as ___ humans ___ must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace . all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty [/url]
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<font><font> ..... April 23 .. 1564 Birth and death of William Shakespeare celebrated</font></font>

This Day In History | Literary

Historians believe Shakespeare was born on this day in 1564, the same day he died in 1616.

Although the plays of William Shakespeare may be the most widely read works in the English language, little is known for certain about the playwright himself. Some scholars even believe the plays were not written by William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon but by some other well-educated, aristocratic writer who wished to remain anonymous.

Shakespeare's father was probably a common tradesman. He became an alderman and bailiff in Stratford-upon-Avon, and Shakespeare was baptized in the town on April 26, 1564. At age 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, and the couple had a daughter in 1583 and twins in 1585. Sometime later, Shakespeare set off for London to become an actor and by 1592 was well established in London's theatrical world as both a performer and a playwright. His earliest plays, including The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew, were written in the early 1590s. Later in the decade, he wrote tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet (1594-1595) and comedies including The Merchant of Venice (1596-1597). His greatest tragedies were written after 1600, including Hamlet (1600-01), Othello (1604-05), King Lear (1605-06), and Macbeth (1605-1606).

He became a member of the popular theater group the Lord Chamberlain's Men, who later became the King's Men. The group built and operated the famous Globe Theater in 1599. Shakespeare ultimately became a major shareholder in the troupe and earned enough money to buy a large house in Stratford in 1597. He retired to Stratford in 1610, where he wrote his last plays, including The Tempest (1611) and The Winter's Tale (1610-11). Meanwhile, he had written more than 100 sonnets, which were published in 1609. Although pirated versions of Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet and some other plays were published during Shakespeare's lifetime, no definitive collection of his works was published until after his death. In 1623, two members of Shakespeare's troupe collected the plays and printed what is now called the First Folio (1623).

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<A><B> Edmund Brisco Ford </B>[/url]

Born 23 Apr 1901; died 22 Jan 1988.

British geneticist who made substantial contributions to the genetics of natural selection and defined and developed the science of ecological genetics.

<A><B> Johannes Fibiger </B>[/url]

Born 23 Apr 1867; died 30 Jan 1928.

Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger was a Danish pathologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1926 for achieving the first controlled induction of cancer in laboratory animals, a development of profound importance to cancer research.

<A><B> Max Planck </B>[/url]

Born 23 Apr 1858; died 4 Oct 1947.

Max (Karl Ernst Ludwig) Planck was a German theoretical physicist. He studied at Munich and Berlin, where he studied under Helmholz, Clausius and Kirchoff and subsequently joined the faculty.he became professor of theoretical physics (1889-1926). His work on the law of thermodynamics and the distribution of radiation from a black body led him to abandon classical Newtonian principles and introduce the quantum theory (1900), for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918. This assumes that energy is not infinitely subdivisible, but ultimately exists as discrete amounts he called quanta (Latin, "how much"). Further, the energy carried by a quantum depends in direct proportion to the frequency of its source radiation.

<A><B> Alphonse Bertillon </B>[/url]

Born 23 Apr 1853; died 13 Feb 1914

Chief of criminal identification for the Paris police (from 1880) who developed an identification system known as anthropometry, or the Bertillon system, that came into wide use in France and other countries.

<A><B> Pierre-Louis-Georges Du Buat </B>[/url]

Born 23 Apr 1734; died 17 Oct 1809.

French hydraulic engineer who derived formulas for computing the discharge of fluids from pipes and open channels.

<A><B> Johan van Waveren Hudde </B>[/url]

Born 23 Apr 1628; died 15 Apr 1704.

Dutch mathematician and statesman who promoted Cartesian geometry and philosophy in Holland and contributed to the theory of equations.

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<font><font>This Day .... April 24 ..... in Literary History </font></font>


<A><B> 1940 Sue Grafton is born</B>[/url]


Bestselling mystery novelist Sue Grafton, creator of tough, divorced private eye Kinsey Millhone, celebrates her birthday today. Starting with A Is for Alibi in 1982, Grafton reached O Is for Outlaw, the 15th book featuring Millhone, in 1999.

Grafton was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father, a Louisville attorney, wrote three critically acclaimed mystery novels between 1943 and 1951, and her mother was a passionate reader. Grafton grew up surrounded by books. She wrote three novels by the time she was 27, but all remained unpublished. She entered a novel in a British book contest and landed a contract for her first published novel, Kezia Dane (1967), which was not a mystery. Neither was her second book, The Lolly-Madonna War (1969), which was made into a movie in 1973. Grafton worked on the screenplay, which led to a scriptwriting career for television in the mid-1970s, a job she hated.

She came up with the idea for a mystery series featuring a modern female detective while locked in a bitter custody dispute in 1977 with her second husband. At the time, mystery novels featured few female detectives besides Nancy Drew and Miss Marple. Coincidentally, Sara Paretsky's first mystery featuring V.I. Warshawski, another modern female detective, was published in 1982, the same year as A Is for Alibi. Grafton has three children and two grandchildren (one named Kinsey). She and her third husband divide their time between California and Kentucky.


<font><font>This day .... April 24 ..... in science history</font></font>



<A><B> Robert Porter Allen </B>[/url]

Born 24 Apr 1905; died 28 Jun 1963.

American author and conservationist recognized for saving the whooping crane from extinction by discovering (1955) the nesting ground of the sole remaining flock near the Arctic Circle. He was a leader in having whooping crane habitats in Texas and Canada proclaimed as refuges. He helped establish a working protective plan for flamingos and recommended methods of saving the small surviving colonies of roseate spoonbills, thus helping to perpetuate the species. His monographs on the whooping crane, the roseate spoonbill, and the American flamingo are the standard authoritative works on these species. [Listen to the whooping crane call]

<A><B> S. F. Nadel </B>[/url]

Born 24 Apr 1903; died 14 Jan 1956.

S(iegfried) F(rederick) Nadel was an Austrian-born British anthropologist whose investigations of African ethnology led him to explore theoretical questions. From 1934-36, he worked with the Nupe and other groups in northern Nigeria. From 1941-46, he joined the Sudan Defense Force in order to have a personal involvement with the destruction of the Nazi forces. He produced outstanding ethnographic writings. Nadel was also a major theoretician who attempted to develop a new synthesis of social science, as in his books, The Foundations of Social Anthropology and A Theory of Social Structure. He wanted to link the "Study of Man with the whole universe of scientific knowledge."

<A><B> Jean-Charles-Galinard de Marignac </B>[/url]

(source) Born 24 Apr 1817; died 15 Apr 1894.

Swiss chemist whose life work consisted of making many precise determinations of atomic weights suggested the possibility of isotopes and the packing fraction of nuclei. He began a study of the rare-earth elements in 1840, when barely 23 years old. In 1878, he heated until it decomposed some erbium nitrate obtained from gadolinite. Extracting the product with water he obtained two oxides: a red one he named erbia and a colourless one he named ytterbia. Thus he discovered ytterbium, and later was a codiscover of gadolinium (1880). By separating tantalic and columbic acids, he also proved that tantalum and colubium (niobium) were not identical. The last 10 years of his life he lay prostrate, suffering intensely from heart disease.

<A><B> Anthony Trollope </B>[/url]

Born 24 Apr 1815; died 6 Dec 1882.

English novelist who instigated the use of the familiar red pillar boxes in Britain as street-side receptacles of letters to be collected by the Post Office. Before his celebrity as a novelist, Trollope was a Surveyor's Clerk, and in 1851 he was sent to the Channel Islands to inspect the postal services. He did not invent the pillar box (the first appeared in Belgium, and the idea was also used in in France by 1850.) Rather, he recommended their use at St. Helier, Jersey, where there was no receiving office. After approval by the Postmaster- General, the first of four pillar boxes was installed there 23 Nov 1852. On the mainland, the first pillar box in England appeared in Carlisle in 1853, and the first six in London on 11 Apr 1855.*

<A><B> Edmund Cartwright </B>[/url]

(source) Born 24 Apr 1743; died 30 Oct 1823.

English inventor of the power loom. In 1784, Cartwright visited a factory owned by Richard Arkwright. Inspired by what he saw, he began working on a machine that would improve the speed and quality of weaving. With the help of a blacksmith and a carpenter, Cartwright produced his power loom, which he patented (1785). The invention revolutionised weaving, changing it from a manual process into a mechanical one. By 1787, he opened a weaving mill in Doncaster. Two years later, he powered his looms with steam engines produced by James Watt and Matthew Boulton. He also invented a machine for combing wool. In 1793 his business failed but parliament recognized his achievements in 1809 with an award of £10,000.

<A><B> John Graunt </B>[/url]

(source) Born 24 Apr 1620; died 18 Apr 1674.

English statistician, generally considered to be the founder of the science of demography, the statistical study of human populations. His analysis of the vital statistics of the London populace influenced the pioneer demographic work of his friend Sir William Petty and, even more importantly, that of Edmond Halley, the astronomer royal.

Hi Byron!

Did you see I left a little sonet for you over [url=http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=14035#103104]here<a>?

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> Hi Byron!
>
> Did you see I left a little sonet for you over [url=http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=14035#103104]here<a>?
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Hi Fuzzy!

I just now went over there ..... to read those beautiful words :-)

:-)

Fuzzy .....those are .... beautiful ... beautiful ... beautiful ..... Words ... thank you ... Fuzzy

I admire soo much ... writers .. who can take .. words and arrange them in such a way that .... they can tell Great stories .. or Great lovesongs .... that tell us humans .... about our ... humanity ...

:-)

thank you ... Fuzzy

byron

>
> thank you ... Fuzzy
>
> byron
>
You're wellcome, Byron! But it's John Dowland you must thank as it was him who wrote them and the music.

The song goes like [url=http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=999003&selectedItemId=998973]this<a> even it's a bad interpretation!!! But I couldn't find a better one. But I think I sing it better than that!

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