Sunday Open Thread: October 29nd is World Stroke Day
World History this day
539 BC -- Cyrus the Great entered Babylon and allowed the Jews to return to their land
0312 -- Constantine the Great entered Rome after the Battle of the Milvian Bridge
1390 -- The first trial for witchcraft in Paris was held
1665 -- Portuguese forces defeated the Kingdom of Kongo
1888 -- The Convention of Constantinople guaranteed free passage through the Suez Canal in war and peace
1922 -- King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy appointed Benito Mussolini Prime Minister.
1923 -- Turkey became a republic
1948 -- The IDF captured the Palestinian village of Safsaf then massacred 52 to 64 villagers
1956 -- Israeli forces invaded the Sinai Peninsula and pushed Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1961 -- Syria exited from the UAR
2015 -- China announced the end of its One-child policy.
US History this day
1929 -- The NYSE crashed, starting the Great Depression.
1921 -- The second "trial" of Sacco and Vanzetti
1980 -- A special C-130 for an Iran hostage rescue attempt crashed during testing
Science & Technology this day
1675 -- Leibniz maked the first use of the long s as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1969 -- The first ARPANET connection was made, but didn't include SABRE access.
1991 -- The Galileo spacecraft became the first probe to visit an asteroid.
The Arts this day
1787 -- The first performance of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni
Misc. this day
1960 -- Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay won his first pro match
Birthdays of Note this day
1740 -- James Boswell, lawyer and author
1875 -- Marie of Romania, Dorothy Parker, and vice-versa ***
1882 -- Jean Giraudoux, author and playwright
1906 -- Fredric Brown, sci-fi author
1910 -- A. J. Ayer, philosopher
1921 -- Bill Mauldin, soldier and cartoonist
1922 -- Neal Hefti, trumpet player and composer
1925 -- Zoot Sims, saxophonist and composer
1926 -- Jon Vickers, tenor (opera)
1930 -- Omara Portuondo, singer and dancer (Cuarteto d'Aida and Buena Vista Social Club)
1937 -- Sonny Osborne, bluegrass singer and banjo player
1945 -- Mick Gallagher, keyboard player and songwriter
1945 -- Melba Moore, singer, songwriter and actress
1946 -- Peter Green, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1949 -- James Williamson, guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1961 -- Randy Jackson, a Jackson
1962 -- Einar Orn Benediktsson, singer, trumpet player, and politician
1965 -- Tyler Collins, singer, songwriter and actress
1990 -- Eric Saade, singer
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
----------Dorothy Parker
Deaths of Note this day
1618 -- Walter Raleigh, comes in a can
1783 -- Jean le Rond d'Alembert, mathematician, physicist, and music theorist, wrote d'Alembert's equation
1877 -- Nathan Bedford Forrest, Southron hero, war criminal, and KKK Grand Wizard
1949 -- George Gurdjieff, monk, psychologist, and philosopher
1969 -- Pops Foster, bassist and trumpet player
1971 -- Duane Allman, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1981 -- Georges Brassens, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1987 -- Woody Herman, singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader
1995 -- Terry Southern, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter
1997 -- Anton LaVey, founded the Church of Satan
1998 -- Paul Misraki, pianist and composer
2000 -- Carlos Guastavino, pianist and composer
2003 -- Franco Corelli, tenor (opera)
So now some music
Bonus:
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Photo: Public domain, "The Cornell navy : a review" page 39 (1907)
Comments
Thank you, EL. Henry A. Wallace advocated on
behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti.
The more I learn about the man under whose name I post, the more I like him.
Like many USians, I think of Salem when I think of witches. But, of course, women all over the world have been accused of being witches. http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/witchtrial/france.html
BTW, PBS speculated that grain gone bad may have caused the Salem witch frenzy. The trials actually were held in what is now Beverly, Massachusetts, but the museum is in Salem, which gets all the tourist trade (which I suspect is just fine with the residents of Beverly. I once spent Halloween in Salem. It was both educational and fun.
Have a fun, trial-free Halloween, everyone.
Good on your namesake, Henry, and thanks for the
commentary.
Europe was awash, at various times, with witchcraft trials and witch hunts. It was an on again - off again cycle over there, driven in large part by the church which would emphasize and de-emphasize it, often at the request of lesser officials and inquisitors.
Bad grain, fwiw, is often blamed for many things,and in this cse, the specific cause is alleged to be ergot poisoning. This is fairly controversial for many reasons and there has been a lot of back and forth on it. One challenge is that ergot poisoning had been happening for ages and was known and recognized. Ergotamine, derived from ergot, had even been used in medicine as far back as the 15 hundreds, but that is no assurance that the settlers in question would have known of it, nor any that some of the elders, wouldn't have exploited it to control and dominate a superstitious populace even had they known of it.
Personally, I suspect that it may have been part of the informal apothecary of midwives and other founts of female wisdom and that, if so, that may have been in play in Salem, but I suspect that we'll never know.
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 --
LA Opera crew's moto
"Life is short, opera is long"
Good morning. Thanks for the opera quotation.
I'll have to hurl that at my sis and brother-in-law, both opera aficianodos with some association with the SD Opera. Sounds like something Anna Russell might say,
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 --
World Stroke Day? Now I understand...
The planet degrades a little more every year cause it has annual strokes!
http://www.worldstrokecampaign.org/
More and more it does seem the world has stroked out. We sure are not thinking nor acting coherently. Hope you all have a clear and thoughtful day, unencumbered by the propaganda process!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, Lookout. That's an interesting
take on world stroke day. I tend to suspect, however, that our derangement isn't the effect of strokes because they damage the brain, and we haven't been using or relying upon our brain for some time now. As near as I can tell, we are driven or led by our spleen, since our leaders and those aspiring to play that role are neither cerebral nor rational, but are instead dull witted, dim witted, and obsessively splenetic.
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 --
or perhaps a little lower in the digestive tract
you know thinking like a like a tightly closed puckering string.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Humans are vertebrates, thus chordates, and thus deuterostomes.
In deuterostomes, the organ to which you allude is the first thing that develops — that’s our (= deuterostomes’) defining characteristic!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterostome
Morning, el,
A treasure trove of good music today, thank you.
Snowing up high now, expected to begin here by 3pm; first snow of the winter, not much, but always a big deal to we ski bums, the phones are ringing.
Ah, the great Dorothy:
Have a good one, el, and all.
edited to clean up my paste mistake, h/t to el
Good morning, smiley7. I do hope you re able to get some
benefit from the incipient snow.
Your Parker quote is one of my favorites and has been since my childhood. It was often my motto and outlook, and I suspect I probably used it more than once in response to those "what do you want to do with your life?" types of queries.
Note to those unfamiliar with the work: "Resume" is the title, the passage itself starts with "Razors".
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 --
oops
like my students used to say....I mashed the wrong button.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks for the opera
clips and quotes. That sent me scurrying over to find some more clips of Jon Vickers. There is one with Montserrat Caballe and Vickers doing an aria in Norma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrzvBFfqzxc
Snow sounds wonderful and I am jealous of those who are getting it, especially when they have the requisite slope along with it to slide down.
Speaking of scary halloweenish things.... The Witch is an interesting movie that features our Puritan heritage as a main character.
@randtntx Trailer for the above
Trailer for the above movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9lv3V_5HE
Can't wait to put on the santa suit and ski
around the mountain with the little ones in ski school, my favorite job ever, hoping my heath allows, coming up fast...
Thanks for the additional Vicker's music, it's a good day for music here; cooking lasagna.
@smiley7 That does sound like
That does sound like one of the most perfect jobs ever devised... skiing santa for the kiddos. Lasagna on a chilly snowy day sounds really good as well. Wishing you a good serving of enjoyment. (You're welcome for the bonus bit of Vickers.)