Blue Favorites
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- Subject: Blue Favorites
- From: J* I* J* <j*@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 15:36:37 -0700 (MST)
CEMahan@aol.com wrote:
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> Hurray for SHIPSHAPE! Clarence Mahan in Virginia
I'll add my vote for Shipshape, AND it reblooms for me here in iris
growers heaven.
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REMEMBER: Edit those Subject lines, and send personal messages that are
not of interest to the iris-l to the recipient's private address (To
remind myself as well)
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Happy Birthday to Dennis Stoneburner
On 25 Jan in -
1799, the Seed-Planting Device was patented by Eliakim Spooner of
Vermont.
1905, the world's largest diamond, "The Cullinan" (1 and 1/4 pounds,
3,106
metric carats) is discovered in the Premier Mine, Pretoria, South
Africa.
And at the top of the charts in:
1959 - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Platters
Born on this day in:
1736 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, COUNT (comte) DE L'EMPIRE Italian-French
mathematician who made great contributions to the theory of numbers and
to analytic and celestial mechanics.
1759 - Robert Burns poet: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us / To see
oursels as others see us!" National poet of Scotland, who wrote lyrics
and songs in the Scottish dialect of English. He was also famous for
his amours and his rebellion against orthodox religion and morality.
1863 - Rufus Matthew Jones One of the most respected U.S. Quakers of
his time, who wrote extensively on Christian mysticism and helped found
the American Friends Service Committee.
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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.
