Scientists predicted it would die out on its own
Analysts decreed that its affects were overblown
Skeptics conjured theories to account for the unknown
But it's been around a while, It'll be here when they're gone
Sometimes It's a window
Sometimes it's a wall
Sometimes it's a place where people shatter when they fall
Sometimes it's a River
Sometimes it's a flood
Sometimes it's a place where people drown and come back up
Scholars wrote it off as just an odd coincidence
Weathermen were puzzled by the nature of events
Philosophers were driven to an incoherent tangle
Spin doctors and hockers couldn't seem to find anangle
Everything depends on how you answer when you get that call
Will it be your window or will it be your wall
1942 Stephen Hawking, English physicist and mathematician, was born 1889 US inventor Herman Hollerith patented his tabulator, the first device for data processing his firm would later become one of IBM's founding companies 1642 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, died 1825 Eli Whitney, US inventor of the cotton gin, died 1886 The Severn Railway Tunnel - Britain's longest - was opened
