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Who's Birthday is it today?

Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (1946)
Barrett, an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artist, is best remembered for his role as one of the founding members of Pink Floyd. He joined the band in 1965, and it soon became the most popular group in the "London Underground" psychedelic music scene. As the group's popularity grew, the mentally unstable Barrett began behaving increasingly erratically, and the band elected to replace him. After a short-lived solo career, Barrett retreated from public life and returned to doing what?

published on Tue, 6 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Julio Garavito Armero (1865)
Armero, a Colombian astronomer, was a child prodigy in the fields of science and mathematics. As an adult, his studies of celestial mechanics eventually led him to investigate how lunar fluctuations affect weather, floods, polar ice, and the Earth's orbital acceleration. He contributed widely to research on comets and solar eclipses and later lectured on economics and population growth. How did Armero secure his membership in the secret scientific society El CĂ­rculo de los Nueve Puntos?

published on Mon, 5 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Louis Braille (1809)
Braille was a young boy when he lost his eyesight to an eye infection. As an adolescent, while attending the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris, he began developing a system of raised dots representing letters to facilitate reading and writing among the visually impaired. This evolved into braille, a writing system for the blind, which was later extended to include notations for mathematics and music. Braille's invention was inspired by another writing system designed for what purpose?

published on Sun, 4 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT


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