08/07 is Assyrian Martyrs Day
~~ Lamassu (Assyrian)
Assyrian Martyrs Day is not concerned with the 1915 Assyrian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. It instead relates to many massacres of Assyrians by Iraq in 1933. I have decided to just blockquote piecs of two relevant wikipedia articles on the matter which are not, sadly, in full agreement.
Yawma d-Sahdhe ('Martyrs Day')
Main article: Simele massacreA stylised Ṭabbakh (ܛܒܚ, 'August') in Syriac with the number 7 is often the symbol marking Martyrs Day.
The Simele massacre (ܦܪܡܬܐ ܕܣܡܠܐ, Pramta d-Simmele) was the first of many massacres committed by the Iraqi government during the systematic targeting of the Assyrians of northern Iraq in August 1933. The killing spree that continued among 63 Assyrian villages in the Dohuk and Nineveh districts led to the deaths of an estimated 3,000 Assyrians.[2][3]August 7 became known as Martyrs Day (ܝܘܡܐ ܕܣܗܕ̈ܐ, Yawma d-Sahdhe) or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre as it was declared by the Assyrian Universal Alliance in 1970.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_culture#Premta_d'Simele;_Martyr's_Day
The Simele massacre, also known as the Assyrian affair,[5] was committed by the Kingdom of Iraq, led by Bakr Sidqi, during a campaign systematically targeting the Assyrians in and around Simele in August 1933. An estimated 6,000 Assyrians were killed and over 100 Assyrian villages were destroyed and looted
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simele_massacre)
Today is also Purple Heart Day On this day in 1782, George Washington ordered the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It was eventually renamed the Purple Heart.
On this day in history:
1420 -- Construction started on the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore
1679 -- The brigantine Le Griffon, became the first ship to sail on the upper Great Lakes
1909 -- Alice Huyler Ramsey, became the first woman to drive a car across the continent (NY to SF)
1933 -- The Iraqi government slaughtered over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele.
1942 -- The Battle of Guadalcanal started
1944 -- IBM dedicated the first program-controlled calculator, The Harvard Mark I.
1947 -- The Kon-Tiki, smashed into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands
1955 -- Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (Sony) sold its first transistor radio
1962 -- Frances Oldham Kelsey received the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for keeping Thalidomide out of the US market
1964 -- Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, inspiring the later, similar, Iraq WMD con job
1978 -- Jimmy Carter declared a federal emergency at Love Canal
1987 – Lynne Cox became the first person to swim from the US to the Soviet Union
1990 -- American soldiers arrived in Saudi Arabia to wage the Gulf war.
1998 -- US embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya were bombed, killing about 212 people
2008 -- The War over South Ossetia's seccession began.
Some people who were born on this day:
There is less violence against labor today, but there are more legal restrictions... There has been labor protection by law but there has also been labor repression by law.
~~ Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 1962
1560 -- Elizabeth Bathory, infamous serial killer
1844 -- Auguste Michel-Levy, geologist
1890 -- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, author and activist, prominent Wobbly, founding member of the ACLU, and much more
1903 – Louis Leakey, palaeontologist and archaeologist
1904 -- Ralph Bunche, political scientist, activist and more
1910 – Freddie Slack, pianist, composer, and bandleader
1913 -- George Van Eps, guitarist
1921 -- Manitas de Plata, flamenco guitarist (gypsy flamenco)
1925 -- Felice Bryant, co-authored a lot of music for Everly Brothers, also CW
1928 – James Randi, stage magician, skeptic, debunkerf and author
1933 – Elinor Ostrom, political scientist, economist, and academic,
1933 -- Jerry Pournelle, Sci-Fi author
1935 -- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, jazz multi-instrumentalist
1942 -- Garrison Keillor, author, humorist, radio host
1942 -- B. J. Thomas, singer
1942 -- Caetano Veloso, singer, composer, activist and guitarist
1947 -- Sofia Rotaru, singer and songwriter
1961 – Carlos Vives, singer, songwriter, and actor
1962 – Alison Brown, banjo player, songwriter, and producer
1963 – Marcus Roberts, pianist and educator
1965 -- Raul Malo, singer, songwriter and guitarist (Mavericks)
1966 -- Jimmy Wales, try Wikipedia
Some people who died on this day:
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
~~ Peter Jennings
1834 -- Joseph Marie Jacquard, weaver, inventer of Jacquard Loom
1938 -- Konstantin Stanislavski, an actor with awesome technique
2004 -- Colin Bibby, ornithologist
2005 -- Peter Jennings, journalist
2009 -- Mike Seeger, folk singer
2015 -- Frances Oldham Kelsey, pharmacologist
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Assyrian Martyrs Day
Beach Party Day
National Lighthouse Day
Purple Heart Day
Today's Tunes
Alice Huyler Ramsey
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Lynne Cox
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Freddie Slack
George Van Eps on his 7 string guitar
Mantas de Plata
Felice Bryant
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
B. J. Thomas
Caetano Veloso
Sofia Rotaru
Carlos Vives
Alison Brown
Marcus Roberts
Raul Malo
Colin Bibby
Mike Seeger
Bonus:
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
Comments
Good morning...
Beach Party day sounds like fun to me. Better than Martyrs anyway.
A pleasant 70 F this morning with yard help arriving in about an hour. We should be able to get a fair amount done in the two hours they're here. Got 1.5" of rain yesterday, so it will be wet...but it's been over a week since the last rain so most soaked into the earth.
Hope everyone has a good day. Thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout, thanks for reading. Nice that
you have moderate temps for your planned labors. Will be hot, but ot too, too hot here.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Too hot
Hey, thanks for the OT Mr. Seal!
Hope you are feeling better.
Good morning and gracias compadre. I'm about as better as
I'm gonna get. Got two types of PT this week, we'll see after that. Meanwhile, it's time for my monthly infusion. Definitely getting my moneys' worth out of my med plan.
Thanks for reading and thanks for the tune.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning, El, et. al.
We have tickets to see
The Mavericks when they play in Amarillo next month.
Be glad you are not in Texas. The heat is incredible.
I should get a summer home in Alaska.
Hope you are feeling better by the day, friend.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Well, live Mavericks might help you tolerate the heat a little.
Dunno about summering in Alaska. They've got less than 18,000 miles of paved road in the entire state, anything you don't grow or make yourself comes in by barge at great expense and I doubt that the Mavericks ever perform there.
Thanks for the good wishes.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The Mavericks didn't have Alaska dates
for their 2023 tour. Why, I ask?
Yeah, you are right about expensive food. And soap. Toilet paper. Socks.
It sucks.
I do not like moose stew.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Moose stew is a thought I had never thunk, not a good one
either.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
No idea if this is accurate but the brief video is worrisome.
That could be
a bad day all around: that is altogether too close to overtopping. And the people downstream are going to be inundated by all the water they're releasing in any case. Not good at all.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Good afternoon UFS. Thanks for dropping by.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hola humphrey, thanks for the info and the video.
beaucoups scary.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Monday Monday
La da da, la da da,
Hi all, Hey EL! Hope all is well!
OtC is right, we are melting here. So far over two months of daily at near or over record highs. We are thinking about Alaska. Not sure about the bear they consume, they eat a lot of elk, and deer of course. Salmon and crab sound good though. Great birding as long as near water and coast, of which most towns are.
I wonder if Thor saw any Tuamotu Sandpiper? Always seemed quite odd to have a Pacific Islands group endemic sandpiper. Tis a rather dull job of course.
Colin Bibby was a biggy. If only the U.S. had something as effective and widely supported as the RSPB, and the BTO. BirdLife International does lots of outstanding work too. Bibby was mega-big.
Phil Ochs, Utah Phillips and Garrison Keillor are some examples of the finest Americana...
That banjo driven Here Comes the Sun is awesome, George would have loved it. Thanks for that!
Thanks for the great sounds man!
Have good ones all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Good evenig Dysto, just back from my monthly infusion,
so late response. Phil and Utah I have firsthand experience of, GK no. Glad you liked tht version of here comes the sun. My week to cook, gotta get my ass into the kitchen, somekinda primavera is in the offing because hot here too. Gotta make sure to include plenty beaucoups fresh shallots from the garden.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
104 deg today, 38% humidity
Accuweather reports 38% humidity indoors as well.
I did the sous work, turned over the actual cooking to Dear One, Chicken Alfredo, but your Primavera gives me ideas...for things for Dear One to cook in the future, of course.
Enjoy your meal, friend.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981