March 7 - Shopping

Shopping

Welcome to Walmart. Don't we look enthusiastic?

Overheard

Yesterday morning:
E (looking at the SETI@Home screensaver): That's outer space! What's it doing here?  
D: They're looking for radio messages from other planets. I don't really think they'll find any, but I'm helping them look.  
E: Oh.  
E: I think I found something!

Family Birthdays

Cousin Tim Krewson

This Day In History

1876

Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1900

The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.

1912

Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.

1994

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.

2009

The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.

Famous Birthdays

1671

Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)

1765

Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)

1792

John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)

1872

Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (d. 1944)

1875

Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)

1942

Michael Eisner, American film studio executive

1944

Sir Ranulph Fiennes, British soldier and explorer

1945

Elizabeth Moon, American science fiction and fantasy author

1960

Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player