Sunday Open Thread: March 4 is Antonio Vivaldi's Birthday, also Mama Africa's
World History this day
0852 -- The first known written mention of the Croats
1493 -- Christopher Columbus safely returned to Lisbon
1461 -- Henry VI was deposed by the eventual Edward IV.
1519 -- Cortes arrived in Mexico
1804 -- Irish convicts rebelled against British authority in New South Wales.
1848 -- The Statuto Albertino (first constitution of Italy) was signed
US History this day
1681 -- Charles II gave Pennsylvania to William Penn***
1789 -- The first Congress met and put the Constitution into effect
1789 -- The Bill of Rights was drafted and proposed to Congress
1794 -- The 11th Amendment was passed by Congress.
1913 -- The Department of Labor is formed originally (allegedly) to help workers
1917 -- Jeannette Rankin became the first female member of the House
1933 -- Frances Perkins became the first female Cabinet member
*** Even though he had no legitimate rights, title or interest therein
Science & Technology this day
1675 -- John Flamsteed became England's first Royal Astronomer
1882 -- Britain's first electric trams
The Arts this day
Misc. this day
Birthdays of Note this day
1394 -- Henry the Navigator, explorer
1678 -- Antonio Vivaldi, violinist and composer
1745 -- Casimir Pulaski, general
1778 -- Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist commander
1822 -- Jules Antoine Lissajous, physicist and mathematician
1826 -- Theodore Judah, engineer
1904 -- George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist
1906 -- Avery Fisher, violinist, engineer, and founder of Fisher Electronics
1926 -- Don Rendell, sax, flute, and clarinet player
1932 -- Miriam Makeba, Mama Africa
1944 -- Bobby Womack, singer and songwriter
1947 -- Bob Lewis, Devo co-founder
1948 -- James Ellroy, writer
1950 -- Rick Perry, archetypal moronic dispshit
Deaths of Note this day
1193 -- Saladin,
1852 -- Nikolai Gogol, writer
1858 -- Matthew C. Perry, gunboat diplomat, imperialist
1915 -- William Willett, cursed wretch who founded British Summer Time
1944 -- Fannie Barrier Williams, educator and women's rights activist
1963 -- William Carlos Williams, poet and writer
OTHER
In the US it is National Grammar Day, for which Hallmark has yet to create a line of greeting cards.
So now some music
Miriam Makeba
MIRIAM MAKEBA & NINA SIMONE Thulasizwe / I Shall Be Released
And Back to Vivaldi we go
Photo: Image from page 397 of "Encyclopédie de la musique et dictionnaire du Conservatoire .." (1913)
It's an open thread, so do your thing
Comments
Good morning, el,
More:
Also, thanks for songs of Makeba, splendid listening for later...oops breakfast is burning, i'm off.
Thanks for this good spirited beginning!
Good morning, smiley7. Glad you liked it. Have a great day.
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 --
Morning EL and all
Frances Perkins? Wasn't she Secretary of Filing and Typing? Oh right...she did all the Labor.
Casimir Pulaski was a good general I guess. His skyway really sucks tho.
Have a good one all!
I want a Pony!
Good morning, Arrow. Ms. Perkins was actually a
workers' rights advocate (imagine that) and despite that handicap, she still held the position for 12 years, from 1933 to 1945, a record that still 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 --
Let's make Ronald McDonald or Bozo the Clown
the honorary civilian head of the DOD. Even Groucho would be better than the current psycho.
Good morning, QMS. BOzo or Ronald, I can see, but never
Groucho. Groucho had a very quick wit, while the current occupant and assorted predecessors were all half-wits, which seems to be a part of the job description. Besides, Groucho, being Groucho, would insist on calling by its true name, the War Department.
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 --
yeah, the Dept. of War Dept.
run by escapees from the Insane Div. of War Insanity Corp. for the profit of the bored members of the 'How Much can we Make by Destroying the World' sub-commitee. Groucho would honk his horn on that one.
Good morning all, Roger Bannister died yesterday, at home.
It is a bit strange thinking of him in this day and age. His "impossible" run on May 6, 1954 set a record that only lasted about a month. Yet, with all the fabulous and seemingly constant new records throughout sports, his three minutes 59.4 seconds for the mile isn't that far off of today's record of 3:43.13 set by Hicham El Guerrouj. That's a 16.77 second drop in 64 years on a time of 239.4 seconds, 7%, 0.11 percent per year.
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 --
1970: The year 'Transparency' led to outright Oligarchy
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1523&v=c4kvUxQIJlA]
And something else to consider: 50% of US firearms are owned by 3% of the population.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoJBvSCKblE]
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Good morning, Aspie. Thanks for the vids. 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 --
hi el
So today is the birthday of the farm animal. A creature more assembled, than birthed: the result of a failed Dr. Moreau-style experiment seeking to cross a man
with a steer. Appointed by The Hairball to run the department the farm animal had vowed to abolish, when he could remember it existed at all. It is hard for the farm animal to remember things, because he was born without a brain. He is like that Star Trek episode where Spock’s brain was lifted entirely out of his body; his stiff, wooden, mindless corporeal container then had to be controlled by a little box in the hands of Dr. McCoy. There is also the problem that a supermassive black hole has taken up residence in his cabeza, rendering the farm animal incapable of rational thought, even if he did have a brain in there. For whenever he attempts to form a thought, it is immediately sucked into the black hole, where it disappears, never to return. All light stops when it encounters the farm animal; his cranium is where light goes to die.
Cortes. Ugh.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjptgWBr2n8]
painless suffering
of the foolishness by others is inexplicable. Without music.
Great acoustic version of Cortez The Killer
Thanks for that. Didn't know Neil to have done this one much on acoustic.
Can listen to him play acoustic versions (but also the original versions) of his tunes all day. Still think the Live At Massey Hall '71 album is one the greatest records I've ever heard.
Remember the live version on "Live Rust"? Has that very short reggae-sounding outro near the very end, "they came dancin' across de water, mon."No doubt, it's 1979, and everyone is a little high on Marley's whole trip:
For anybody who's interested Neil's archive website has been up and running for months now, just after his gorgeous Christmastime show at the tiny Omemee Hall Theater where he grew up.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
his cranium is where light goes to die
fortunately the cerebral cortex of one is only the absence of light for that expired spirit, and it has no effect on the rest of our collective potential to stream forward.
Good morning, hecate. Thanks for the tune. Cortes(z) was
a truly horrible and despicable piece of shit. Rick Perry - meh, estupido. Perhaps maleficient, but not at all in Cortes' league.
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 --
Give him time.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
given enough rope
the boy will hang himself
One can hope.
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 full name is "Cortez the Killer"
from the album Zuma, I seem to know every word by heart. Thanks. Darn that is depressing oh well back to the uplifting electric version. lol
Neil Young - Cortez The Killer
Your brain on LSD is kind of like jazz improvisation.
LSD is 'harmonizing' for the brain — and can change your personality for years, studies find
Fascinating (spock eyebrow). I wonder how the LSD decides which brain dynamics need reorganizing, and why?
--- edited to replace with descriptive video. talk about life changing
Carlos Santana Pops LSD at WoodStock
peace
Good morning, eyo. Saw headlines for that story (LSD) but
skipped reading (been there, done that). Thanks for the precis.
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 --
'splains why you're here I guess
"been there, done that". Yes, I think I leaked something in past comments about certain trips I took, without the suitcase. It was a long time ago. The precis (thanks word of the day) was too short, I didn't want to over quote.
ding
splains a lot yet discovered :) why not
"Howl" again?
Consider the difference
twixt trip and trope. Our senses are being bombarded by precisely encoded electromagnetic waves, delivered by sonic vibrations we are scarcely aware of. While, on the other hand, a personally administered hit to the head has an intended consequence. Think the latter makes more sense.
Timothy Leary - How to Operate Your Brain
"the natural state of the brain is chaos". lol right on
Timothy Leary - How to Operate Your Brain
not finished