At 07:57 PM 12/19/2003 +1300, you wrote:
>The Nando Times: Today In HistoryDecember 19th -
>
>    The Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, begins at sunset today.
>
>(About now in New Zealand. Sometime in the next 24 hours from now for you,
depending on where you are on earth.)
>Also, fwiw,  about 6 hours before my birthday officially begins.

Not only that but sometime today, the European mission to Mars will reach
the red planet and go into orbit.  Landing scheduled late next week.
Assuming they get landing permission from Martian authorities...

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