January 18th

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I haven't really had the much to say of late, so I was quite pleased to hear that today William Shatner successfully auctioned his kidney stone off to an online casino. Rather disappointedly for any potential mocking of this, he did it to raise money for charity and he mocked himself and the people who would pay money for such a thing.

If that wasn't enough excitement for one day, lets not forget that 228 years ago today Captain Cook discovered Hawaii, which probably came as something of a shock for the Polynesians, Tahitians and Spaniards already living there. Also on this day Francisco Pizarro founded the city of Ciudad de los Reyes in Peru. Ciudad de los Reyes didn't stick as a name though and instead everyone called it by it's original name of Lima, which makes you wonder exactly how he defined founding. Also on this day pirate / captain Henry Morgan captured Panama. Quite sensibly upon capturing it he decided against discovering or founding it, but rather plundering it for all it's worth, which turned out to be a grand total of 100,000 pounds. That may seem like a lot of money but in today's money after inflation is taken into account it's probably only worth around one kidney stone.

January 18th; a great day for history

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Paul

I'm off the top spot! Calloo Callay! Or something!

Written by Paul at 18:27, Wed, 18/01/06

Dinorider d'Andoandor

Greetings from the Ciudad de los Reyes or The City of the Kings: Lima, Peru. We had fireworks, parties, parades and so on.

Written by Dinorider d'Andoandor at 02:54, Thu, 19/01/06

Paul

I LOVE Fireworks.

Written by Paul at 14:31, Sun, 22/01/06

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