Sunday Open Thread: May 27 is Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Bartholemy, Saint Martin)
and it is also Boomtime, Confusion 1, 3184 YOLD
(for you Discordians out there)
World History this day
1703 -- Peter the Great founded Saint Petersburg.
1905 -- The Battle of Tsushima started
1967 -- Australia passed a constitutional referendum granting the government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
US History this day
1907 -- The first US Bubonic plague epidemic broke out in San Francisco.
1933 -- The Federal Securities Act was signed
1962 -- The Centralia mine fire started
1965 -- US warships began shelling targets in South Vietnam.
2016 -- Barack Obama visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Science & Technology this day
1937 -- The Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic
The Arts this day
Misc. this day
Birthdays of Note this day
1818 -- Amelia Bloomer, activits and journalist
1819 -- Julia Ward Howe, poet, activist, abolitionist, and songwriter
1836 -- Jay Gould, swindler, robber baron
1837 -- Wild Bill Hickok, gambler and gunslinger
1871 -- Georges Rouault, painter and illustrator
1894 -- Dashiell Hammett, writer
1897 -- John Cockcroft, physicist
1907 -- Rachel Carson, biologist, environmentalist, and author
1912 -- John Cheever, novelist and short story writer
1915 -- Ester Sore', singer and songwriter
1915 -- Herman Wouk, novelist
1923 -- Henry Kissinger, war criminal
1930 -- John Barth, author
1934 -- Harlan Ellison, author and screenwriter
1935 -- Ramsey Lewis, jazz pianist and composer
1939 -- Don Williams, country singer, songwriter and guitarist
1943 -- Cilla Black, singer and actress
1945 -- Bruce Cockburn, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1946 -- Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, bassist and comoser
1950 -- Dee Dee Bridgewater, singer, songwriter, and actress
1957 -- Siouxsie Sioux, singer, songwriter and musician
Deaths of Note this day
1564 -- John Calvin, religionist
1707 -- Francoise-Athenais, marquise de Montespan, royal mistress
1867 -- Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist
1910 -- Robert Koch, physician and microbiologist,
1949 -- Robert Ripley, cartoonist and publisher
1992 -- Uncle Charlie Osborne, fiddler
2011 -- Gil Scott-Heron, poet, activist, singer, songwrite,r and musician, accused of inventing rap
So now some music
Ester Sore'
Henry Kissinger
Ramsey Lewis
Don Williams
Cilla Black
Bruce Cockburn
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Siouxsie Sioux
Gil Scott-Heron
Photo: New York Public Library [Three women from Guadeloupe.] Digital ID: 1206544. Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis) -- Photographer
It's an open thread, so do your thing
Comments
A Good Morning on this Beautiful Sunday
I am blessed with sunshine, a green sea of leaves being illuminated and a soft wind caressing my face.
enhydra lutris, do you often wonder how old we are? I was only 17, when the US warships started shelling the Vietnamese. How little did I know. Today I know a little itsy bit more, but it helps nothing at all. I never felt old before, lately I did.
You surround us with your art and music. And that is always a gift. Wishing you as healthy a body and spirit as is still there for us oldies. You take good care of yourself.
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mimi. Yes, sometimes I do, though various persons have
dropped various hints, knowingly or not. I was almost 19 on that date, a student member of the ACLU and involved in all the turmoil at Berkeley. I think I was born old, partly thanks to a brother 4 years my senior who passed on knowledge, music, and experiences that were older than those my age were stumbling upon by themselves. By high school, I and my peers had no expectations of living very long and a determination to go out and fix what was wrong with the world (U.S.). Imagine my surprise to be in my seventies. No real surprise that our few victories in changing things were ephemeral, however, due to youthful overdoses of realism/cynicism counterbalancing our idealism. After all, we all knew that we weren't the first to try.
You too take care of yourself, and have a wonderful 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 --
thanks for talking about your own real life...
makes it all so much more real.
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Good morning all.
and thanks for the great OT.
Just because I'm listening to this this morning. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Good morning, randtntx. Thanks for the video, Musselwhite
is always good. Harper is new to me, thanks for the intro.
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 --
Harper is new to me as well.
Just happened to come across the new CD. Happy to oblige.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Sorry to chime in so late...
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1971)
I fell in love with this at first hearing, must have been about 15 when it came out, still love it. B.R. - before rap. It should be mandatory listening.
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
An excellent song/poem and a great bit of history. Thanks.
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 --