According to Bartleby.com, this is the day the Roman general Pompey was born.
How do they know exactly which day he was born?
Plutarch tells us that Pompey was killed the day after his 59th birthday.
It’s my birthday as well, by the way.
Happy birthday! You share a birthday with a very interesting person. 
Thank you. I just hope i don’t end up of equal interest to future historians 
;D
Happy Birthday to the both of you…though I hope Bingley doesn’t become nearly as infamous!
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It’s my birthday as well, by the way.
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Les anniversaires sont une occasion spéciale pour célébrer et s’amuser.
Que le vôtre soit rempli de belles pensées qui dureront toute l’année!
Joyeux Anniversaire!
Que tu aies du grand plaisir; Que Dieu te bénisse. Que sa mère te donne un cadeau incroyable aussi. Que cet éveque se taise.
L’anniversaire pour moi c’est une occasion a laquelle ma mere ne me donne rien, mon pere il me demande de faire des choses dont je n’ai point besoin! (non non je me trompe!)
Joyeux Anniversaire!
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Thank you. I just hope i don’t end up of equal interest to future historians ;D
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Perhaps you could be of interest…in nicer ways? 
As the greatest Latin writer who ever lived?
Now that’s more like it. ;D
At Netherfield, with what pleasant birthday surprises Jane must have showered the greatest Latin writer who ever lived!
An engraved phallovitrobibulus perhaps.
What more could a guy ask for?
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At Netherfield, with what pleasant birthday surprises Jane must have showered the greatest Latin writer who ever lived!
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I almost missed the point of this reference…I was just writing a post to inquire what Jane Bennet had to do with anything, when I realized that she isn’t Jane Bennet anymore. Are you a fan of Jane Austen, Bingley?
Very much so. I used to belong to a board, now defunct, where the participants were encouraged to take names from the divine Jane’s novels. Somehow I couldn’t quite see myself as Darcy, so I became Bingley, and have used it or Bingley Austen for my online activities ever since.
Ah, I figured as much when you got a reference to Anne Elliot earlier.
I am also a fan of Jane Austen’s; I’ve read all of her six major (translation: finished) novels, some of them five or six times.
You’re so good with finding links that you probably have this already, but here’s a site that might interest you:
www.jasna.org
That’s the Jane Austen Society of North America, but they have articles and things like that, which you can enjoy regardless of where you are. (Indonesia, wasn’t it?)
Enjoy!
Keesa
Thanks for that, Keesa. Here’s one for you, The Republic of Pemberley: http://www.pemberley.com/index.html<br />
Happy yesterbirthday, bingley. I watched only a couple of the movies based on Jane Austen novels. Usually movies miss much of the original work and I have read none of the novels, but I liked Emma acted by Gwyneth Paltrow.
What you miss most in the films is Jane Austen’s voice – her little asides as she tells the story. You’re reading along going with the story and she suddenly pulls you up short – I can’t believe she just said that. It’s difficult to give examples, because they usually depend on your having read the previous couple of pages.