Louis Daguerre's 224th birthday

[Jason Greenberg Motamedi]

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was born 224 years ago today, November 18, 1787. Google has created an icon (http://www.google.com/) (today only) in his honor.

Oddly, November 18 is also my birthday, although I am only a fifth of his age.

[Robert Tilden]

"Oddly, November 18 is also my birthday, although I am only a fifth of his age"

Don't worry, in another few hundred years you'll be half his age :-)

[Ed Kelsey]

I be he looks great.

[Vaughn]

Happy birthday to both of you!

[Once]

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Oddly, November 18 is also my birthday, although I am only a fifth of his age.

That says a lot. Doesn't it?

[Dominique Cesari]

By the way, an exhibition of used photo stuff is hold in Daguerre's birthplace on the Sunday close to the 18th of November. It's today, at Cormeilles-en-Parisis (http://www.ville-cormeilles95.fr/En-un-clic/Actualites/Bourse-Photo-Cine-2011).