Bloom Season
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- Subject: Bloom Season
- From: J* I* J* <j*@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 20:16:47 -0700 (MST)
Well Saturday Feb 15th marks the beginning of my 1997 bloom season.
CRIMSON KING blossomed forth in all its gentle glory.
The log of the chat conversations from Fri 14th is available. If you
would like a copy please Email me privately. It is a little big to post
to the list.
I am also a little behind on my birthday wishes, please accept my
apologies.
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On 16 Feb in -
374 - ninth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
600 - Pope Gregory the Great issued a papal decree declaring that "God
Bless You" is the proper response to a sneeze.
1804 - Lt. Stephen Decatur led a successful raid into Tripoli Harbor to
burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands
of pirates. Source of the phrase "to the shores of Tripoli" in the
Marine Corps Hymn.
and at the top of the charts in:
1958 - Sugartime - The McGuire Sisters
Born on Feb 5th (Jim Wilson's birthday)
Jean-Marie-Constant Duhamel - French mathematician and physicist who
proposed a theory dealing with the transmission of heat in crystal
structures based on the work of the French mathematicians
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier and Simion-Denis Poisson.
Born on Feb 12th (Donald Mosser's birthday)
Charles (Robert) Darwin - English naturalist, renowned for his
documentation of evolution and for a theory of its operation, known as
Darwinism. His evolutionary theories, propounded chiefly in two
works--On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection .
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John | "There be dragons here"
| Annotation used by ancient cartographers
| to indicate the edge of the known world.
John Jones, jijones@ix.netcom.com
Fremont CA, USDA zone 8/9 (coastal, bay)
Max high 95F/35C, Min Low 28F/-2C average 10 days each
Heavy clay base for my raised beds.
