Sunday Open Thread: September 24th is National Punctuation Day !!
World History this day
0622 -- Muhammad and his followers completed their Hijra from Mecca to Medina
1674 -- The second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, an early Indian nationalist
1932 -- Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agreed to the Poona Pact
1948 -- The Honda Motor Company was founded
1996 -- The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty was signed by 71 countries
US History this day
1789 -- Congress passesd the Judiciary Act of 1789, creating the judiciary
1846 -- Zachary Taylor captured Monterrey.
1869 -- Grant crashed the gold market, causing "Black Friday"
1906 -- Roosevelt made Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
1957 -- Ike sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock to enforce desegregation.
1962 -- The 5th Circuit Court ordered Ole Miss to admit James Meredith.
Science & Technology this day
1852 -- The first airship powered by an engine flew 17 miles
2009 -- The first use of an LRAD on peaceful protestors at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh
2014 -- The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation entered Mars orbit
The Arts this day
Misc. this day
0787 -- Second Council of Nicaea, to re-establish the use of Holy Icons
1890 -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints formally renounced polygamy
2015 -- A stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia killed at least 1,100 people
Birthdays of Note this day
1501 -- Gerolamo Cardano, mathematician, physician, and astrologer
1583 -- Albrecht von Wallenstein, Bohemian general
1625 -- Johan de Witt, mathematician and politician lynched and partially eaten by a mob
1717 -- Horace Walpole, historian, author (first Gothic novel), and politician
1755 -- John Marshall, jurist, and politician who invented Judicial Review as we know it
1801 -- Mikhail Ostrogradsky, mathematician and physicist
1859 -- Julius Klengel, cellist and composer
1870 -- Georges Claude, chemist and engineer, invented Neon lights
1885 -- Artur Lemba, pianist and composer
1893 -- Blind Lemon Jefferson, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1896 -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, author
1898 -- Charlotte Moore Sitterly, astronomer
1900 -- Ham Fisher, cartoonist, invented Joe Palooka
1902 -- Ruhollah Khomeini, religionist and politician
1907 -- Ben Oakland, pianist, composer, and songwriter, wrote Java Jive
1913 -- Herb Jeffries, singer
1923 -- Fats Navarro, trumpet player and composer
1929 -- John Carter, clarinet, sax, and flute player
1931 -- Elizabeth Blackadder, painter
1931 -- Anthony Newley, singer, songwriter and actor
1933 -- Mel Taylor, drummer, mostly for the Ventures
1936 -- Jim Henson, puppeteer
1938 -- Steve Douglas, sax and flute player
1939 -- Wayne Henderson, trombonist
1941 -- Linda McCartney, photographer and activist
1942 -- Gerry Marsden, singer, songwriter, pacemaker and guitarist
1946 -- Cesar Pedroso, pianist and songwriter
1946 -- Maria Teresa Ruiz, astronomer
1952 -- Mark Sandman, singer, songwriter, guitarist and bassist
1965 -- Janet Weiss, drummer
Deaths of Note this day
1541 -- Paracelsus, physician, botanist, and chemist; the father of toxicology
1572 -- Tupac Amaru, the last Inca monarch
1646 -- Duarte Lobo, cmposer
1991 -- Theodor Seuss Geisel, author
2014 -- Christopher Hogwood, harpsichordist, conductor
2016 -- Buckwheat Zydeco, accordion player and bandleader
So now some music
Bonus:
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Comments
Morning el and all
Got to see Buckwheat a few times. Even had an acquaintance that cast his statue. I never did know him, but I was friends with D.L. Menard who recently died.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/arts/music/dl-menard-the-cajun-hank-w...
First time I met D. L. we were playing the same festival and his crowd had a big pot of crawfish étouffée cooking. Anyone who came by their camp was asked in to eat. I later had the opportunity to visit his chair factory (a metal building beside his house). He had an incredible collection of rigged up saws drills etc. designed to create his chairs. His factory later burnt. I wish I had purchased one of his platform rockers, but I do have one of his porch swings.
5 min
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf0he709d1k]
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning. Had a rough afternoon, evening and night,
so I just got up. Thanks for reading. Thanks for the tune, too.
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 --
saw buckwheat zydeco
several times during my stints in the south. fun music! a couple tunes for ya in different veins.
make peace a priority
Good morning. As ever, the more things change, the
more they stay the same. The revolution, to succeed, will be subtle and sneaky.
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 --
sneaking I am
subtle I am not. In the face kinda like, wake up! Smell the corpses. We are responsible for our country's madness. Let's change it, get the respect back that our rulers have destroyed.
Ah, I was thinking more of the point and method of the
attack(s), not bombs but gardens and fruit stands.
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 --
Oh
thanks for clarifying. sneaky
Hey, hope whatever the trouble yesterday
is moving away, el.
Wish there was a way we could have a Pandora-style station with a computer listing all the great music c99er's produce, a library of c99 music.
Thanks for the OT and feel better, soon.
Thanks. Better, but it's going to be a frantic and frenetic
week without a ton of sleep. Nothing critical.
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 --