Birthday

And so, it was on this day 45 years ago, that Rebecca Mary Armstrong was born in a maternity hospital in Tunbridge Wells, England.

Not much is known about Armstrong's early years. Reportedly she didn't learn to walk until she was two years old, causing her maternal grandmother, Doris, to exclaim, "There's something wrong with that child." She was, however, an early talker, able to conduct articulate and rigorous debate well before the age of two. And, anyway, why walk when you can ask people to do stuff for you.

15 years later, Mount St Helens erupted.