Sunday Open Thread: April 22 is Earth Day

Today's date is also Boomtime, Discord 39, 3184 YOLD
(for you Discordians out there)

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World History this day

1500 -- Cabral landed in Brazil and claimed it for Portugal
1519 -- Cortes set up a settlement at Veracruz
1529 -- The Treaty of Zaragoza split the Eastern Hemisphere between Spain and Portugal
1622 -- The East India Company took Ormuz from Portugal
1930 -- The London Naval Treaty was signed
1945 -- Hitler admits defeat in his bunker.
1970 -- The first Earth Day was celebrated.
2016 -- The Paris Agreement was signed,

US History this day

1864 -- The Coinage Act of 1864 added "In God We Trust" to US coinage
1889 -- The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889
1954 -- Live TV coverage of the Army--McCarthy hearings started

Science & Technology this day

The Arts this day

Misc. this day

Birthdays of Note this day

1707 -- Henry Fielding, novelist and playwright
1724 -- Immanuel Kant, can too! (philosopher)
1766 -- Germaine de Stael, philosopher and author
1870 -- Vladimir Lenin, lawyer
1891 -- Nicola Sacco, anarchist, victim of US injustice system.
1899 -- Vladimir Nabokov, author
1904 -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist
1916 -- Yehudi Menuhin, violinist
1922 -- Charles Mingus, bassist, composer, and bandleader
1927 -- Laurel Aitken, godfather of ska
1935 -- Paul Chambers, bassist and composer
1936 -- Glen Campbell, singer, songwriter, and guitarist,
1939 -- Mel Carter, singer
1944 -- Joshua Rifkin, conductor, pianist, and musicologist
1950 -- Peter Frampton, singer, songwriter, and guitarist,

Deaths of Note this day

1778 -- James Hargreaves, inventor
1806 -- Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, the guy who lost at Trafalgar
1983 -- Earl Hines, pianist and bandleader
1984 -- Ansel Adams, photogarpher
1994 -- Richard Nixon, red baiter, Jane Wyman's ex, Pinochet supporter
1996 -- Erma Bombeck, journalist and author
2011 -- Hazel Dickens, singer, songwriter, activist. bassist, and guitarist
2013 -- Richie Havens, singer, songwriter and guitarist

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So now some music


Earth Day

Yehudi Menuhin

Charles Mingus

Laurel Aitken

Paul Chambers

Glen Campbell

Mel Carter

Joshua Rifkin

Peter Frampton

Earl Hines

Hazel Dickens

Richie Havens

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Photo: earth by Jerry Littlemore

It's an open thread, so do your thing

It is seriously unlikely that I will be here to interact when this posts. Should I fail to respond to comments, please just assume that I am out somewhere under an open sky with no signal and no regrets as to that state of affairs. Either that, or I am in some tasting room studiously focusing upon my researches. In any event, everybody have a great day.

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Lookout's picture

The Earth from the late 60's in your famous Apollo picture, is used and reused.

I like this 1990 view from the Galileo craft flyby of Earth (2 min)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjAdXFFijfE]

There have not been many missions that allow us the see the entire planet Earth.

Hope you all have a good Earth Day!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

enhydra lutris's picture

camp for yet another travel day.Have a great erth day.

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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 --

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@enhydra lutris

rainy here this AM. April showers bring May flowers. Have a good one!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

peace

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@eyo

and every year a revolution. If only those revolutions improved the conditions.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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Arrow's picture

Afternoon EL and all

This MUST be in the videos today.

One of the great moments in music history:

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I want a Pony!