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Go to Wikipedia .
Type the month and day of your birthday (but not the year) into the search box.
Review the results, and pick out three events, two births, and one death. Post in your lj.

Events
1835 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales
1952 - The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation.
1955 - American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Births
1935 - Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian
1940 - Richard Pryor, American actor, comedian (d. 2005)

Deaths
1947 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist (b. 1875)

Thus my knowledge of my birthday ever grows.

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Two Doctor Who vid recs:

Clocks by fieryhands, mesmerising vid of Eight, Nine and Ten that sneaked into my house, overcame my Coldplay phobia and then stunned me with awesomeness.


Lucky by uktechgirl. Tongue-in-cheek Five/Turlough to Franz Ferdinand's Do You Wanna. This just owns me. There are so many bits which were perfectly innocent onscreen but are somehow rendered pure filth here. (All right, that "while you're down there..." bit from Frontios where the Doctor shoves Turlough's head beneath the console is wrong in any context.) I keep watching this and cracking up. Whoops, didn't realise that was a locked comm post. Damn.