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Happy birthday, Gioachino Rossini!

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The guy didn't get that many birthdays: only 18 during his lifetime (remembering that 1800 wasn't a leap year), so we need to acknowledge it whenever we get a chance: today is his 51st birthday. (Update: 53rd. Somehow I missed 1888 and 1988.)
 
As they said to Frederic in another context: 

Though you’ve lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays, you’re only five and a little bit over!

A most ingenous paradox. Frederic's turning 3839 today.

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  1. I’m with Stephen on this one. If he was born in 1792,  2000 was the year of his fiftieth. On a similar theme, I had a good time singing Britten’s “A New Year Carol” in January, although the words are old enough to mean a new year on 25th March.
       Nigel.

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