Qatar is 16 today!!!!

Qatar is 16, this is a photo from Arctic Day at school.  He got quite warm.  Now that he is 

16, he is asking to drive everywhere.  We put new brakes, transmission flush and tires on the old van and 

it drives like new again.  He even commented on the ease of braking.

Happy Birthday QATAR!!!!!

We love you!

Birthstone, Zodiac Sign, Birth Flower, Chinese Animal for your Birth Year, Billboard top song, Day of the week and more info on your birthdate. Can you know too much about the year you were born?

Your Birthdate: April 17, 1996.  Here is what you need to know:

• You were born on a Wednesday
• 1996 was a leap year
• Sign of the Zodiac: Aries
• Birth Flower: Daisy
• Symbolization of Flower: Innocence, loyal love, gratitude
• Chinese Year of the Rat
• Birthstone: Diamond

Estimated population growth in the world in your lifetime: 1,225,365,299 people

Billboard top songs at the beginning of the year you were born:

• Pop: Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio featuring L.V.
• Hip Hop/Blues: Creep by TLC
• Country: Sold The Grundy County Auction Incident by John Michael Montgomery

Billboard top songs at the end of the year you were born:

• Pop: Macarena Bayside Boys Mix by Los del Río
• Hip Hop/Blues: You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow by Toni Braxton
• Country: My Maria by Brooks & Dunn

Academy Award nominees for Best Picture in 1996
The winner was: The English Patient

Other nominees for Best Picture were:

• Fargo
• Jerry Maguire
• Secrets & Lies
• Shine

Winner of the Nobel Peace Price in 1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo José Ramos-Horta

Time Magazine's Man of the Year for 1996: Dr. David Ho

Best Selling NonFiction Book in the U.S. in 1996: Make the Connection by Oprah Winfrey & Bob Greene

Some world leaders at the end of 1996:

• United States - President: Bill Clinton - Democrat
• Britain - Prime Minister: John Major - Conservative
• Canada - Prime Minister: Jean Chretien
• Australia - Prime Minister: John Howard - Liberal
• India - Prime Minister: HD Deve Gowda
• Mexico - President: Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León

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