Monday OT: October 7 is National Inner Beauty Day

September 30 is day 280 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Setting Orange, Bureaucracy 61, 3185 (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.6.16.1 by the Mayan Long Count

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On this day in history:

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The equivalent of October 7 3761 BCE is purportedly the epoch reference date for or beginning of the Modern Hebrew Calendar. As a goy, I'm not remotely up to speed on such matters, and that is a largely lunar calendar that uses intercalary days and other such features to be also a quasi-solar calendar and is seemingly not the first iteration and so I'm just putting this factoid out there and stand ready to be corrected by anybody who is certain and/or really groks it.
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October 7, 1477 was the inaugural date for Uppsala University which, for reasons unbeknownst to me, had to get a permit from the Pope in order to exist. It's still there, and a good one too, so I assume that their permit is still valid.

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On October 7, 1571, was the Battle of Lepanto. This is pretty universally help to be an earth shaker even though it was fought on water. The Ottoman Empire was moving into Europe, seemingly an unstoppable juggernaut, and then their fleet got seriously clobbered by the fleet of the Holy League. The battle is often compared to Salamis in many respects, starting with the fact that both fleets were composed almost exclusively of rowed vessels, in this case galleys and galleases, though some did possess gunpowder based artillery. It was, in fact, the last major naval battle fought almost entirely with such vessels. Interestingly enough, the Holy League's fleet was largely financed by Phillip II of España, who also gave the world the magnificent Spanish Armada, which was not nearly so victorious, so to speak.

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On October 7, 1763, King George III of Britain, issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763. This proclamation prohibited all settlement in North America west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. Everything west of this line was set aside as an Indian Reserve. Generally, all land with rivers flowing into the Atlantic Ocean were set aside for the colonies and all lands with rivers flowing into the Mississippi River was reserved for the Indians. This seriously angered colonial land speculators (surprise, surprise), especially in Virginia and Pennsylvania. (and here you thought that the American Revolution was all about quartering of troops and the Stamp Act, didn't you?)

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On October 7, 1864, the USS Wachussett attacked and captured the CSS Florida in Bahia Harbor, Brazil. When some of the Confederate sailors jumped overboard, the crew of the Wachussett shot them in the water as they tried to escape. This seriously outraged the government of Brazil, who correctly asserted that it was a violation of Brazilian neutrality, so the US had a show trial in which the captain of the Wachussett was court-martialed and convicted, but the sentence was never cried out and he was later promoted for his glorious surprise attack victory over a largely unmanned ship (most of the crew being ashore) in a neutral port. Brazil also demanded that the CSS Florida be handed over to them for return to the surviving Confederate crew, but we accidently sunk it instead. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Even then, the US did whatever it damn well pleased.

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On October 7, 1870, in the midst of the Franco-Prussian War, one Léon Gambetta escaped the siege of Paris in a hot air balloon. Heh.

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On October 7, 1963, JFK signed the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Shockingly enough, it appears that the US has thus far abided by both the letter and spirit of this treaty.

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On October 7, 2001, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires, began.
Today, after 18 years of seemingly unrestricted war upon the civilian populace of Afghanistan, punctuated by sporadic successful attacks on suspected members of Al Qada, the Taliban and assorted warlords, our victorious forces continue to mercilessly pummel the sinister forces of Eastasia Eurasia. Hiya Tommy, Ivan.

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Born this day in:

1819 – Ann Eliza Smith, author and US Civil War hero
1870 – Uncle Dave Macon, singer, songwriter, banjo player, and comedian
1879 – Joe Hill, labor activist, songwriter, and poet.
1885 – Niels Bohr, physicist
1888 – Henry A. Wallace, agronomist and politician
1907 – Helen MacInnes, librarian and author
1911 – Vaughn Monroe, singer, trumpet player, and band-leader
1919 – Henriette Avram, computer scientist
1927 – Al Martino, singer and actor
1928 – Lorna Wing, (real) autism researcher
1937 – Chet Powers, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1939 – Harry Kroto, chemist
1944 – Judee Sill, singer, songwriter, and musician
1949 – Dave Hope, bass player not in Kansas anymore, Toto
1951 – John Mellencamp, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1964 – Sam Brown, singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer
1967 – Toni Braxton, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress
1968 – Thom Yorke, singer, songwriter and guitarist.
1975 – Tim Minchin, comedian, actor, and singer
1978 – Alison Balsom, trumpet player and educator

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Died this day in:

1849 – Edgar Allan Poe, short story writer and poet
1959 – Mario Lanza, tenor and actor
2012 – Wiley Reed, singer, songwriter, and pianist

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

National Frappe Day
National Inner Beauty Day

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Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies Wink

Inner Beauty

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The Bahia Incident

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Léon Gambetta

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Uncle Dave Macon

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Joe Hill

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Vaughn Monroe

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Al Martino

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Chet Powers

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Judee Sill

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Dave Hope

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John Mellencamp

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Sam Brown

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Toni Braxton

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Thom Yorke

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Tim Minchin

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Alison Balsom

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Mario Lanza

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Wiley Reed

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enhydra lutris's picture

feel I have report that on October 7, 1959 the Soviet probe Luna 3 transmitted the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. How else could I lead in to this tune:

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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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October 7 sounds like a happening day. Stay alert!

Have a inner beautiful day, everyone! Pleasantry

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

enhydra lutris's picture

@Raggedy Ann
Thanks for the heads up. Stay inner beautiful yourself and have a great day.

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@magiamma
Stay safe and have a great 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 --

Lookout's picture

your Uncle Dave cut above is one of the first songs I learned to play and sing as a teen.

Bruce Molsky spent time in B'ham where I got to know him a bit. We still see one another at festivals. Anyway he has an interesting take on the song making it another piece altogether.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8_kXp6E9Rc]

He's a great fiddler too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHupO7fJE_0 (4 min)

Thanks for the OT!

The XR actions are happening as MA shows above. Let's hope people awaken and TPTB realize they have to address the ecoside they are promoting.

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

enhydra lutris's picture

Most of the You Tube videos of Uncle Dave are on the scratchy with static side, so it was
hard to pick one. I was leaning toward keep my skillet good and greasy, but picked this one in particular for one of the lines that Molsky changed:

"Ain't no use to be that dry-
you'll be an angel bye and bye."

I got a chuckle out of one of the comments transmogrifying part of the chorus into:
"don't sheetrock the patio". Heh

Good luck and hopes of success for XR everywhere, though, so far, it seems that TPTB are more interested in suppression than education and positive action, but that was expected.

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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 --

Lookout's picture

@enhydra lutris

don't say f**k on the radio

Speaking of radio, read the xr had set up their own station in London.

Well have a good one. Off to run errands on this drizzly delightful day!

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

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

enhydra lutris's picture

@ggersh
too, but A-4 paper? That's a global standard, not US, our's is fatter, shorter and way, waaaay, way mo bettah. USA! USA! USA!

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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 --

lotlizard's picture

By the time of what was intended to be East Germany’s 40th anniversary celebration in 1989, the non-violent populist uprising which would sweep the old regime away was already spontaneously catching fire. Mikhail Gorbachev came, made his famous remark that “Life punishes those who come too late,” saw that things were going south, and on October 7, 1989, left a faltering Erich Honecker’s fizzled festivity early.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/fall-of-the-berli...

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@lotlizard
10/07 info. I thought about including the birth of the DDR, but couldn't think of anything clever to say or any music to play. I was unaware of the Gorby detail you included, which would've perked it up a bit, as it did your comment.

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