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  Here's what's been happening Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> - 2024-08-31 15:33 +1200
    Re: Here's what's been happening Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2024-08-31 18:43 +0100

#306224 — Here's what's been happening

Yes, I'm back. Highlights of my travels":

- World's largest indoor waterfall (The Jewel, Changi Airport, Singapore)
- Chartres cathedral, with "Illuminations"
- Boat on the Medway going through Tonbridge Lock on a rainy Saturday 
morning
- Jardins de Quatre-Vents, La Malbaie, Quebec

But here's what happened in Crystal's _A Date With Language_:

12/7	New Conversations Day
13/7	Wole Soyinka born, 1934
14/7	Richard Taverner died, 1575
15/7	Launch of Twitter, 2006
16/7	Mark Evans born, 1919
17/7	World Emoji Day
18/7	John Hart became Chester Herald, 1567
19/7	Alan Lomax died, 2002
20/7	Deborah Schiffrin died, 2017
21/7	Jonathan Miller born, 1934
22/7	Sponsor's Day
23/7	Yada Yada Yada Day
24/7	Robert Graves born, 1895
25/7	Samuel Taylor Coleridge died, 1834
26/7	Esperanto Day
27/7	Hilaire Belloc born, 1870
28/7	Gerard Manley Hopkins born, 1844
29/7	Braj Kachru died, 2016
30/7	Jean Arasanayagam died, 2019
31/7	Denis Diderot died, 1784

1/8 	Yorkshire Day
2/8	William S.Burroughs died, 1997
3/8	P.D.James born, 1920
4/8	Percy Bysshe Shelley born, 1792
5/8	Toni Morrison died, 2019
6/8	National Gossip Day
7/8	Professional Speakers Day
8/8	Terry Nation born, 1930
9/8	International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
10/8	Julia Mood Peterkin died, 1962
11/8	Geoff Nunberg died, 2020
12/8	Paule Marshall died, 2019
13/8	Joyce Carol Thomas died, 2016
14/8	Thomas Sheridan died, 1788
15/8	E.Nesbit born, 1858
16/8	National Tell A Joke Day
17/8	Meaning of 'is' Day
18/8	Virginia Dare born, 1587
19/8	Ogden Nash born, 1902
20/8	Voyager 2 launched, 1977
21/8	Lady Mary Worley Montagu died, 1762
22/8	Dorothy Parker born, 1893
23/8	Tom McArthur born, 1938
24/8	Jorge Luis Borges born, 1899
25/8	Thomas Dekker died, 1632
26/8	Elizebeth Smith Friedman born, 1892
27/8	Neville Alexander died, 2012
28/8	Paul Grice died, 1988
29/8	Sybill Marshall died, 2005
30/8	John Kani born, 1943
31/8	We Love Memoirs Day

Feel free to discuss any of these (or not), to ask (or answer) the 
inevitable "who?" "what??" "why???" questions. I may do so myself.

But tomorrow: September!

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#306229

 Ar an t-aonú lá is triochad de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Ross Clark: 

 > Yes, I'm back.

Welcome back! It hasn’t been buzzing here with you away. I had idle plans to
fish out my World’s Writing Systems and summarise a chapter a week here, but,
you know, business to run, family to spend time with.

 > Highlights of my travels":
 > 
 > - World's largest indoor waterfall (The Jewel, Changi Airport, Singapore)
 > - Chartres cathedral, with "Illuminations"
 > - Boat on the Medway going through Tonbridge Lock on a rainy Saturday morning
 > - Jardins de Quatre-Vents, La Malbaie, Quebec

Looks all very agreeable, I do hope there were no logistical hiccups that put
you all in misery.

 > But here's what happened in Crystal's _A Date With Language_:
 > 
 > 12/7	New Conversations Day
 > 13/7	Wole Soyinka born, 1934
 > 14/7	Richard Taverner died, 1575
 > 15/7	Launch of Twitter, 2006
 > 16/7	Mark Evans born, 1919
 > 17/7	World Emoji Day
 > 18/7	John Hart became Chester Herald, 1567
 > 19/7	Alan Lomax died, 2002
 > 20/7	Deborah Schiffrin died, 2017
 > 21/7	Jonathan Miller born, 1934
 > 22/7	Sponsor's Day
 > 23/7	Yada Yada Yada Day
 > 24/7	Robert Graves born, 1895
 > 25/7	Samuel Taylor Coleridge died, 1834
 > 26/7	Esperanto Day
 > 27/7	Hilaire Belloc born, 1870
 > 28/7	Gerard Manley Hopkins born, 1844
 > 29/7	Braj Kachru died, 2016
 > 30/7	Jean Arasanayagam died, 2019
 > 31/7	Denis Diderot died, 1784
 > 
 > 1/8 	Yorkshire Day
 > 2/8	William S.Burroughs died, 1997
 > 3/8	P.D.James born, 1920
 > 4/8	Percy Bysshe Shelley born, 1792
 > 5/8	Toni Morrison died, 2019
 > 6/8	National Gossip Day
 > 7/8	Professional Speakers Day
 > 8/8	Terry Nation born, 1930
 > 9/8	International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
 > 10/8	Julia Mood Peterkin died, 1962
 > 11/8	Geoff Nunberg died, 2020
 > 12/8	Paule Marshall died, 2019
 > 13/8	Joyce Carol Thomas died, 2016
 > 14/8	Thomas Sheridan died, 1788
 > 15/8	E.Nesbit born, 1858
 > 16/8	National Tell A Joke Day
 > 17/8	Meaning of 'is' Day
 > 18/8	Virginia Dare born, 1587
 > 19/8	Ogden Nash born, 1902
 > 20/8	Voyager 2 launched, 1977
 > 21/8	Lady Mary Worley Montagu died, 1762
 > 22/8	Dorothy Parker born, 1893
 > 23/8	Tom McArthur born, 1938
 > 24/8	Jorge Luis Borges born, 1899
 > 25/8	Thomas Dekker died, 1632
 > 26/8	Elizebeth Smith Friedman born, 1892
 > 27/8	Neville Alexander died, 2012
 > 28/8	Paul Grice died, 1988
 > 29/8	Sybill Marshall died, 2005
 > 30/8	John Kani born, 1943
 > 31/8	We Love Memoirs Day
 > 
 > Feel free to discuss any of these (or not), to ask (or answer) the inevitable
 > "who?" "what??" "why???" questions. I may do so myself.

Diderot’s mildly interesting and more relevant than the rest; what does he say
on him?

 > But tomorrow: September!

-- 
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)

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