December 1, 2002

• Milestones in Catholic History

  
  

  From Dr. Mac’s Cultural Calendar:

  
  

  
  
  • On this day in 1929, Bingo was invented
      by Edwin S. Lowe.

  The wording of this masterpiece of ecclesiastical history, apparently written by a Protestant (though not very Protestant), leaves something to be desired. See Bingo History for more details.
  
  Shamrock Bingo Angel
  “It never hurts to have an Irish angel on your team! This adorable red-headed fabric cherub, complete with sparkling golden wings and a shamrock necklace, just may be someone’s lucky charm.”
  

  For a Jewish approach to this milestone of theology, see my note commemorating the death, on Christmas Day, 2000, of one of the twentieth century’s great Scrooge figures, Willard van Orman Quine:

  
  

  
  

  On Linguistic Creation.
  

  As that note observes, we may imagine Quine to have escaped the torments of Hell.  For some further adventures, see my note Quine in Purgatory. 

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