Odd fact...

According to a pair of stories in this week's TIME Magazine:

-- The Peace Symbol turns 50 on April 4, 2008. It was invented by an Englishman for an anti-nuke rally, and the symbol melds the semaphore signals for "N" and "D" as in "Nuclear Disarmament."

-- April 4, 2008 is also the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King.

I'm sure that the irony of this coincidence has been noted often before, but it was news to me.