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Happy 126th Birthday to a former Swiss Patent Clerk
LJK — (archived)

http://www.westegg.com/einstein/

And yesterday, March 13, was the 150th birthday of Percival Lowell, big
supporter of alien canal-builders on Mars and the idea of Planet X.

You can read some nice, concise biographies of him here:

http://www.lowell.edu/AboutLowell/plowell.html

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/L/LowellP.html

You can also read his 1895 book Mars online here:

http://www.bibliomania.com/2/1/69/116/frameset.html

And the 170th birthday of Giovanni Schiaparelli, also of the infamous canals:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Schiaparelli

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