What makes it a date among dates they do cry?
Well that depends on what you know I reply!
It all sounds like a smug sort of conviction
The doubters seemed determined to clamour,
Well canal builder De Lesseps was sentenced for fraud
And Asparagus first came under the hammer.
They find that poor fare for a date we might laud!
So allow me to add weight to the argument.
The first forestry school incorporated in Kent, Ohio
Start of military service conscription in Great Britain,
Soviet airline Aeroflot ready for service in Moscow
Minus 46 Celsius recorded in Vanderbilt, Michigan.
You’re not winning our hearts or our minds
The doubters are often too swift to declare,
Although I my enthusiasm is not easily sidelined
For in learning I shall never despair.
But believe me this is my ultimate roll of the February the ninth dice,
Napoleon convened the Jewish Grand Sanhedrin as part of a legal design
Whose conclusive deliberations led to articles issued totalling nine.
Which much like Wyoming in nineteen thirty and three eventually turned into ice.
A.McTiernan
