Happy new year 2008 to everyone!
This and the previous six posts are best read in in chronological order.
On December 4…
Smoke on the water – and over an entire city…
A few numbers: 1944: 282, 246246, 1200 → 62, 6500, 1000, 10.
What do these numbers mean, you ask?
On 4 December 1944, 282 British bombers dropped in one of the most severe air raids of World War II 246246 bombs with a total weight of about 1200 tonnes on Heilbronn – where I was born and lived for a long time –, destroying 62% of the city and killing presumably 6500 people, inluding about 1000 children under the age of 10.
And the umpteen millions of other victims of this war should not be left unmentioned…
(Numbers from Wikipedia.)
Oh, and on 4 Dec 1971, the casino in Montreux burned down during a Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention concert, inspiring Deep Purple to Smoke on the Water.
On October 16…
Head, Oscar, Captain in Paris, Dublin, Köpenick
Disney, Grass, Erhard in Burbank, Danzig, Bonn
Atoms, Karol, Tutu in China, Vatican, Nobel
1793, 1854, 1906
1923, 1927, 1963
1964, 1978, 1984
On October 14…
Trial, Hower, Rail in Paris, Texas, Japan
Bear, Roger, Overthrow in Book, London, Moscow
King, Swedes, Bing in Nobel, Germany, Heaven
1793, 1872, 1890
1926, 1927, 1964
1964, 1974, 1977
On September 21…
The invisible man visits the Hobbit in the dark tower, and Galileo has, until its end, cost (converted) many pound sterling…
(This time – kind of continued from August 13 – one sentence combines two dates of birth of authors (1866, 1947), represented by famous works, a book being published (1937), the end of a space mission (2003) and an event in economic history (1931). 
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