Today, I Am Lanthanum.

Lanthanum is a soft, (well I could use a few hours in the gym) ductile, (yes, I do get bent out of shape under extreme stress) and malleable (not so much, no) silvery-white metal, that burns easily when ignited, (no, you don't want to see that) and is used in the manufacture of expensive camera lenses because it gives glass refractive properties (funny, that's my job too: helping others focus).

Source, A Belated Happy Birthday to You, Oliver!

I DIDN'T DO IT! HONEST!

119,706 People

Natural disasters in 19**

    * 19** Murray River flood
    * Hudsonville-Standale Tornado of April 19**

People who died on August 19 (various years)

    * 1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
    * 1979 - Dorsey Burnette, American singer
    * 1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor
    * 1936 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish author
    * 1889 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer
    * 1883 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman
    * 1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor
    * 1753 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect
    * 1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
    * 1580 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect
    * 1493 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor
    * 1297 - Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop
    * 1284 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England
    * 1245 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence
    * 1186 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany
    * 14 - Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)

Via. The Death Report.

JUST BECAUSE I LOVE YELLOW FLOWERS

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NOW, WHAT AM I FORGETTING? Oh . .

Some Other
August 19 Birthdays

* 1989 Lil' Romeo (rapper, hip hop)
* 1969 Matthew Perry (actor)
* 1956 Adam Arkin (actor)
* 1952 Jonathan Frakes (actor, director)
* 1946 Bill Clinton (42nd US President)
* 1939 Ginger (Peter) Baker (musician, Cream)
* 1921 Gene Roddenberry (creator, producer, writer, Star Trek anyone?)
* 1919 Malcolm Forbes, Sr (publishing magnate)
* 1915 Ring Lardner, Jr (American journalist and screenwriter,
who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the
Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s.)
* 1902 Ogden Nash (writer best known for surprising, pun-like
rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect)
* 1883 Coco (Gabrielle) Chanel (fashion designer; perfume creator)
* 1871 Orville Wright (aviator)

The company's not bad here!