{"id":210,"date":"2006-04-11T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmayhaps.wordpress.com\/2006\/04\/11\/fun-with-numbers"},"modified":"2006-04-11T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T11:50:00","slug":"fun-with-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/11\/fun-with-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBorrowed from <a href=\"http:\/\/hippopottoman.livejournal.com\/#entry_55810\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bloglink\">Hippopottoman<\/a>: <i>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a> and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three events, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Three events:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1845\" title=\"1845\">1845<\/a> &#8211; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rubber_band\" title=\"Rubber band\">rubber band<\/a> is invented<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1931\" title=\"1931\">1931<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nevada\" title=\"Nevada\">Nevada<\/a> legalizes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gambling\" title=\"Gambling\">gambling<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1950\" title=\"1950\">1950<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley\" title=\"University of California, Berkeley\">University of California, Berkeley<\/a> researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Californium\" title=\"Californium\">Californium<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Two births:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1919\" title=\"1919\">1919<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nat_King_Cole\" title=\"Nat King Cole\">Nat King Cole<\/a>, American singer (d. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1965\" title=\"1965\">1965<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1948\" title=\"1948\">1948<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Gibson_%28novelist%29\" title=\"William Gibson (novelist)\">William Gibson<\/a>, American-born writer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>One death:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1853\" title=\"1853\">1853<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_Doppler\" title=\"Christian Doppler\">Christian Doppler<\/a>, Austrian physician and mathematician (b. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1803\" title=\"1803\">1803<\/a>)<\/li>\n<p> (Yeah, I didn&#8217;t go for the obvious one here)\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"footnote\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><a href=\"2006_04_01_archive.html\">Previously (a year and a half in the life of a house)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borrowed from Hippopottoman: Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three events, two births and one death in your journal, including the year. Three events: 1845 &#8211; The rubber band is invented 1931 &#8211; Nevada legalizes gambling. 1950 &#8211; University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vfXi-3o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}