[pp.int.general] International Pirate Day

[W Tovey]

Ships have been around for something like 10,000 years. Naval pirates 
seem to have been around (and documented) since at least the 13th 
century BC. Anyway, if St Columba's day isn't appropriate, how about 
Alan Turing's birthday - although I don't think we should emphasise the 
computer aspect too much - we're not a computer movement.

-Will

On 02/05/2010 14:27, Alex wrote:
> i don't think they had ships in 597 :-)
>
> i suggest may 19 - birthday of Gary Kildall
> or july 11 - his death date.
>
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Angel Vazquez Hernandez
> <anvazher at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Sorry, I can't log in the wiki. So I must to use this list to my proposal: 9
>> june, the Saint Columba death day.
>>
>> Saint Columba was the first pirate. Read about Saint Columba in Wikipedia:
>> Saint Columba was born on 7 December 521 and died on 9 June 597, he was the
>> first person who was judged for a not authorized book copy.
>>
>> Saint Columba was a monk, a warrior (read about Battle of Cúl Dreimhne in
>> 561), a man of letters (having written several hymns and being credited with
>> having transcribed 300 books) and a mythological person (he stopped Loch
>> Ness monster, and he knew ¿king? Artorius). He is, also, the patron saint of
>> the poets and the bookbinders.
>>
>> In Middle Age european culture was in the monastic settlements founded by
>> Saint Columba descendants. He was a pirate that made Europe as we know.
>>
>>
>> 2010/5/2 Bogomil "Bogo" Shopov<bogo at piratskapartia.bg>
>>      
>>> So, there are more ideas here:
>>> http://int.piratenpartei.de/User:Bogomil/Projects/IntPPD
>>>
>>> If you don't know how to use wiki, feel free to send proposals here.
>>>
>>> Please propose a date and/or add more details. I will give a beer for
>>> every contribution :)))
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bogo
>>>        
>>
>>
>> --
>> Angel Vázquez Hernández
>> http://anvazher.nireblog.com/
>>
>> Coordinador del Comité Sectorial de Sociedad de la Información
>> PARTIDO PIRATA
>>