Tag Archives: Handel’s Water Music

First Heard: ‘Water Music’

Posted on July 17, 2016 by wordcloud9

I don’t envy Royalty very often – I’ve never had a lust for power, and most of the job just looks tedious and stuffy to me. But I would love to be able to say, “I’m going to be boating … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: July 17, 2016

Posted on July 17, 2016 by wordcloud9

July 17th is Peach Ice Cream Day Yellow Pig Day Mathematicians obsess over the number 17. The Yellow Pig was the brainchild of Princeton math majors Michael Spivak and David C. Kelly in the 1960s, while they were working on an … Continue reading →

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