another meme

You Belong in Paris

You enjoy all that life has to offer, and you can appreciate the fine tastes and sites of Paris. You're the perfect person to wander the streets of Paris aimlessly, enjoying architecture and a crepe.

What European City Do You Belong In?

Sounds good to me. Someone pass me the Brie and bread, or the chocolate-dipped strawberries with a glass of Viognier, please.

The birthday meme

Okay, I usually copy the wording for these memes from someone else's blog, but I've seen so many variations on numbers of events, births, and deaths, that I'm just doing it from memory here. Go to Wikipedia, put the month and day of your birth (not the year) into the search box, and then list events, births, and deaths that share that date with you.

December 1:

Events:
1835 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales.
1919 - Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28).
1952 - The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation.
1990 - Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the seabed.
2001 - Trans World Airlines flies its last flight, after being bought by American Airlines.

Births:
1690 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764)
1792 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856) (which name I know because of Tom Lehrer)
1886 - Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)
1913 - Mary Martin, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
1940 - Richard Pryor, American actor, comedian (d. 2005)

Deaths:
1135 - Henry I of England
1521 - Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
1825 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
1830 - Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
1985 - Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931)