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1000 Shades of Grey
Monday, March 13, 2006
 
Today's the day
According to my desk top calendar, it was on this day in 1877 that 19 year old Chester Greenwood of Farmington Maine received a patent for an "Improvement in Ear Mufflers". Chester went on to make a fortune supplying his Champion Ear Protectors to soldiers in World War I.

A mere 102 years later in a hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne I was born.

Truly a monumentous day.

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