Sushi schmushi, this is too much!
5:12 PM 10/24/04
With all due respect to all those who crave raw fish wrapped in seaweed and boiled rice, this stretches into the realm of "overdone enthusiasm", in my humble opinion...
Perhaps I should send this in as an addition to G4TechTV's list of "Useless USB products"? It'll fit right in next to the light-up-duckie flash drive.
Ew.
Betcha didn't know...
12:34 PM 08/15/04
Lord Mountbatten was made Viceroy in March 1947, with a directive to transfer power to ‘responsible Indian hands’ by June 1948. The Indian Independence Act was signed by King George VI on July 18, 1947. To the surprise of all and without consulting anyone, Lord Mountbatten announced the date of Independence to be 15 August, 1947. The date remains a subject of debate. Perhaps to coincide with the anniversary of a battle won by Admiral Mountbatten on August 15th during World War II (Incidentally, World War II ended after the atomic bomb 'Little Boy' was dropped from Enola Gay, the American B-29 Bomber, at Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and another at Nagasaki three days later. Thus, if World War II ended on August 9, 1945 - how did Admiral Mountbatten win a battle during World War II on August 15th? Hey, I'm no historian - I just Google..).
But astrologers announced in India that August 15 was an inauspicious day whereas August 14 was an auspicious day! To please all, the time on August 15th of independence was moved forward to the midnight of August 14-15.
Gotta have the astrologers...
Spare me the raised brow, will ya? I may not know it all, but I do know where to look if I want to find it! Here's where I found that piece of histrivia. Also, here's a question: If August 15th was an inauspicious day, how does moving the time to midnight help? As I understand it, 12 AM is the start of a new day, not the end of the current one (spare me the philosophical conjecture and read on..). Its not as if midnight is "neither today nor tomorrow", is it? The ball drops at midnight and its a new year. So, if I'm reading this right - were a lot of people up late the night of August 14th, 1947, for no apparent reason?