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Articles tagged with "birthday"

A very merry unbirthday

1 May 2006

"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents and only one for birthday presents, you know."

Skeptics join celebration of Earth's birthday

1 February 2006

The last of Hamilton's highly successful Café Scientifique series for 2005 examined the issue of dating the Earth and the universe. The date was chosen to be as close as possible to Bishop Ussher's preferred date of October 22 when, he calculated, the creation of the universe began in the year 4004 BC.

Star Chart

1 August 1992

There is much upheaval among the stars this month. Jupitor moves into the house of Aquarius. Aquarius goes to stay in Gemini's house for the weekend. Meanwhile Saturn moves into the house of Aries for a nominal rent while the builders damp-proof his rings. (They should be out by Thursday).