I just found out in a birthday book that one of my friends brought back for me that my birhtday falls 500 years to the day of a very famous person. I will tell you the day, and let you all guess. March 4, 1975.
HUGS!
Sqrl
Gasoline: As an accompaniement to cereal it made a refreshing change. Glen Baxter
Christopher Columbus.
Next.
Henry VIII?
“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.”
“Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?”
As an additional note, the U.S. Constitution officially went into effect on March 4, 1789.
Dopeler effect:
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
ChiefScott - That would have made Christopher
Columbus 17 when he discovered the New World.
March 4, 1975 is 500 years to the day after March 4, 1475. 1492 - 1475 = 17.
Good guesses everybody. I like hearing extra birthday trivia. Is Chris Columbus a pisces, let alone born on my birthday? (I took legal possession of it after I was born ;))
I will give another hint. He was from Italy.
HUGS!
Sqrl
Gasoline: As an accompaniement to cereal it made a refreshing change. Glen Baxter
Michaelangelo?
Leonardo da Vinci?
Sex appeal – Give generously
Make that Michelangelo
Sigh.
Sex appeal – Give generously
WOOHOO! MoosieGirl guessed it right. Michelangelo he is. Talk about an ego boost. To make things even better for me, he was gay. Trust me about there not being a lot of positive (not in the HIV sense) gay role models.
MoosieGirl has won a lifetime subscription to http://users.bart.nl/~sante/enginvek.html otherwise known as the coolest thing on the web. 
(Well, for as long as the site is actually free.)
HUGS!
Sqrl
Gasoline: As an accompaniement to cereal it made a refreshing change. Glen Baxter
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Awwwwww, thank you.
Wow Sqrl, you certainly are in good company. 
Kinda explains « The Creation of Adam » now, don’t it?
Okay, more birthday trivia for March 4.
On this date in 1681 the colony of Pennsylvania was given to William Penn by King Charles II of England to serve as a place where Quakers and others could enjoy freedom of worship.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt told radio listeners across the United States on this date in 1933. Those famous words were part of his first inaugural address.
And more birthdays.
Dopeler effect:
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
When is Cecil’s birthday?
February 29th. He’ll be twenty-four next year.
(Meant to type “fourteen.” Sorry, Mister Adams, sir.)
Michelangelo was gay? This is a new one to me. I’ve heard that Leonardo was bi, but not that Michelangelo was gay. Could you please cite me this SqrlCub?
>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<
—The dragon observes
Well, without having any sort of “Gay Guys in History” reference book handy, I’d have to say that David is a pretty good tip-off…
“ChrisCTP-…the sweetheart of the SDMB…” --Diane
Chris’ Homepage: Domestic Bliss
Narile:
http://www.gayheroes.com/mich.htm
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/REN/MICHEL.HTM
(look for Tommaso)
http://www.law.harvard.edu/Studorgs/lambda/lamexgay.html
http://youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/Resources/OrganizingResources/history.html
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/9912/MiguelAngel.html
http://www.queer.org.au/listarchive/announce/199811/msg00296.html
http://www.newtownwriters.org/otr95/the-gay-top-ten.htm
http://www.catscloset.com/ucs/gay.html
http://users.cybercity.dk/~dko12530/queerhis.htm
Even homophobes admit to Michelangelo’s homosexuality. http://www.bible.ca/s-homo-vaccine.htm
Ward, Merrill. Gay Threads in the Fabric of Western Culture: Dramatized Biographies of Twelve Famous Gay Men
Love sonnets and madrigals to Tommaso de’Cavalieri / Michelangelo ;translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Michael Sullivan.
London : P. Owen, 1997.
Fund = English Firm
WILLIS LIBRARY.
PQ4615.B6 A268 1997. 850
(from amazon.com)Gay and Lesbian Poetry : An Anthropology from Sappho to Michelangelo (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol 1874)
James J. Wilhelm(Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1995
Our Price: $30.00 (Special Order)
Tom Cowan, (1996), “Gay Men and Women Who Enriched the World”, second edition, Los Angeles: Alyson Publications, 296 pages, ISBN 1-55583-391-8.
Giorgio Lise, L’Altro Michelangelo (Milan, 1981)
Sydney Geist, “Related Motifs in Michelangelo, Donatello, and Caravaggio,” Source 6 (1987): 8-11
__________, Michelangelo und Tommaso dei Cavalieri (Amsterdam, 1979)
The list is seemingly endless.
HUGS!
Sqrl
Gasoline: As an accompaniement to cereal it made a refreshing change. Glen Baxter
SqrlCub, Thanks for the cites, will look into it.
ChrisCTP, Sorry, but I would not consider David to be a tip off of anysort really. An ideal form of a man can be seen similarly for both a hetro and homo sexually oriented male. In example, I find David to be an excellent figure study, and a masterpiece of work, and yes I see its sensuality even though I am quite hetroly oriented. I can see anyone trying to create an ideal sensual male to use that as the archtype.
>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<
—The dragon observes