Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:23:26 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Conspiracy, was Saturday: National Flying Saucer Day

> ccah at earthlink.net 7/1/2005 5:08:50 AM >>>
>Has anyone else noted that Ernest's message talked about an event
>in 1947
>and Keith mentioned one that was 97 years ago .... AND it is 2007?
>
>Okay, I might be suffering from bronchitis and lack of sleep, but I
>think I
>see a pattern. Call in the Marines!

Also in 2007... the year of Colleen's Capclave....

Centennial of Oklahoma joining the Union.
Norway adopts female suffrage.
Scouting is founded by Robert Baden-Powell in the United Kingdom
Train robbery in Sweden (first and only as of 2004)
Robert Heinlein, American science fiction author is born

 ... and in case anyone is suffering from insomnia:

Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at
Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded for a
county cricket match (or for a single day's bowling), and not bettered
in first-class cricket until 1956.

Next up: importand dates in the history curling...

mjw

>Colleen
>
>Colleen R. Cahill
>ccah at earthlink.net
>Librarian by Profession, Reviewer by Avocation, Reader by Addiction
>