07/25 - Robert Burns Night is in January, oops
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~~ Robert Burns
Born Julyanuary 25, 1759, Robert Burns, poet and songwriter. Widely considered to be Scotland's national poet and his "Scots Wha Hae" was for a long time deemed to be the equivalent of a Scots' national anthem, his poetry and songs are generally well known world wide, starting with auld land syne. So, happy haggis to all ye scots and other celebrants.
It is also National Hot Fudge Sundae Day and National Wine and Cheese Day in the US. That's in lieu of Haggis, ya know, for the all the rest of us.
On this day in history:
0041 - The Roman Senate accepted Claudius as Emperor.
1139 – The Almoravids, led by Ali ibn Yusuf, were defeated by Prince Afonso Henriques who was proclaimed King of Portugal.
1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar founded the city of Santiago de Cali.
1538 – The city of Guayaquil was founded by Francisco de Orellana.
1567 – Don Diego de Losada founded the city of Caracas.
1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, was deliberately driven ashore at Bermuda to prevent its sinking during a storm; the survivors went on to found a new colony there.
1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his Symphony No. 40 in G minor
1791 - The British Parliament passed the Constitutional Act of 1791 splitting the Province of Quebec into Upper Canada down along the top of the Great Lakes and Lower Canada stretching on up into the Arctic. Don't ask me.
1824 – Costa Rica annexed Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph was successfully demonstrated in London.
1861 – The United States Congress passed the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the Civil War was being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
1890 - Nellie Bly completed her 72 day trip around the world
1897 – Jack London embarked on a sailing trip to take part in the Klondike's gold rush, from which he wrote his first successful stories.
1909 – Louis Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell called Thomas Watson in S.F. from NY, starting transcontinental phone service.
1945 - The Battle of the Bulge ended.
1946 - The UMW rejoined the AFL.
1965 – Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival
1971 - Charles Manson and three others were found guilty of the Tate-LaBianca murders.
1971 - Idi Amin deposed Milton Obote in a coup and became president of Uganda.
1993 – Israel launched a massive attack against Lebanon
1996 - Billy Bailey was the last person executed by hanging in the USA so far.
2011 - The Egyptian revolution started
Some people who were born on this day:
“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.”
~~ Robert Burns
1627 - Robert Boyle, chemist and physicist.
1657 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer
1736 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, mathematician and astronomer.
1759 - Robert Burns, poet and songwriter. Can't have Hogmany without "Auld Lang Syne" and who can forget "Scots Wha Hae"
1796 - William MacGillivray, ornithologist and biologist. See MacGillivray's Warbler.
1806 – Maria Weston Chapman, abolitionist
1844 – Thomas Eakins, painter, sculptor, and photographer
1847 – Paul Langerhans, pathologist, physiologist and biologist
1870 – Maxfield Parrish, painter and illustrator
1874 - W. Somerset Maugham, playwright, novelist, and short story writer.
1882 - Virginia Woolf, an author, critic and utterly terrifying woman. .
1883 – Alfredo Casella, pianist, composer, and conductor
1899 - Sleepy John Estes, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1902 – Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author
1906 – Johnny Hodges, saxophonist and clarinet player
1915 - Ewan MacColl, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor
1921 – Adolph Herseth, soldier and trumpet player
1925 – Benny Benjamin, R&B drummer
1927 - Antônio Carlos Jobim, composer, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, arranger and singer.
1929 - Benny Golson, saxophonist and composer
1930 – Annie Ross, singer and actress
1934 – Don Ellis, trumpet player and composer
1938 - Etta James, singer and songwriter (born Jamesetta Hawkins)
1941 – Emmett Till, lynching victim
1942 – Bruce Woodley, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1946 – José Areas, drummer
1946 – Rita Marley, singer
1948 – Steve Goodman, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1950 – Mark Clarke, singer, songwriter, and bass player
1951 – Verdine White, bass player and producer
1954 – Ken Greer, guitarist, keyboard player, and producer
1981 - Alicia Keys , singer, songwriter, pianist, and actress
Some people who died on this day:
Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.
~~ Al Capone
0477 - Genseric, king of the Vandals. Caputured Rome and Carthage.
1947 - Al Capone, liquor distributor who sent killer Valentines.
1966 – Frank O'Hara, poet and critic
1984 – Big Mama Thornton, singer, songwriter, musician
2005 – Albert Mangelsdorff, trombonist
2020 – Peter Green, blues rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and founder of Fleetwood Mac
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Burns night, celebrated by Scots and Scotsland
National Police Day in Egypt
National Voters' Day in India
Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)
Puerto Rico Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)
National Hot Fudge Sundae Day
National Wine and Cheese Day
Today's Tunes
Egyptian Revolution
Alfredo Casella
Sleepy John Estes
Johnny Hodges
Ewan MacColl
Adolph Herseth
Benny Benjamin
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Desafinado (Stan Getz on sax)
Benny Golson
Art Farmer & Benny Golson Jazztet - I Remember Clifford
Annie Ross
Don Ellis
Etta James
Emmett Till
Rita Marley
Steve Goodman
Alicia Keys
Big Mama Willie Mae Thornton
Peter Green
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
EDIT: Desperately attempted to correct for the fact that Burns was born January 25, and not July 25 as per the original of this column, edited headline and other Burns related info.
Comments
And now for something completely different…
The Egg (video by Andy Weir)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1VN5zICGeU]
— discovered via Josh Mitteldorf’s Daily Inspiration blog:
What our lives are for
Good morning Lotl - quite a film.
At least the Burns night and burns birthday portion of this column is misdated. Accordingly, the whole is pretty much not to be trusted as to the dates involved. Just FWIW. Hope you aren't too adversely affected by all the current grief impacting Europe.
be well and 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 --
Good morning
I like Robbie Burns poetry and music.
A Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns
O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.
So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my luve,
Though it were ten thousand mile.
Burns was a tenant farmer. However, toward the end of his life he became an excise collector in Dumfries, where he died in 1796; throughout his life he was also a practicing poet.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-burns
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN9FghOlPg4]
When Robert Burns sent this song to Mrs Dunlop he commented "There is a small river, Afton, that falls into the Nith, near New Cumnock, which has some charming, wild, romantic scenery on its banks."
Thanks for the OT. Have a good one. I'm off to bush hog this AM.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout, thanks for reading.
Burns' birthday and Burns Night are January 25th. Since much of this is copypasta from a really ld column, I should check to see how much of the rest of it is wrong, or just ignore that and make a note to beware both dates in the future. Thanks for the great poem and music all the same.
be well and 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 --
Howdy folks
Thank you Mr. Enhydra for some fine music today.
Can't quite wrap my taste bud imagery around Haggis
but Burns was my Scottish grandmothers favorite poet.
She could quote his works by memory, always with the barróg!
UPDATE - post is wrong as originally written -
Burns birthday and Burns night are both January 25, not July 25.
be well and 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 --
Good morning QMS. I wrote you a nice(?) reply
but somehow failed to post it, all part of the day I seem to be having.
Burns was born on January 25 and Burns Night is January 25 and I am something of an idiot. FWIW, I've never tried haggis and suspect I never will. If I feel like sausage I'll go with salami, kielbasa or bratwurest, thank you. Hot links, Linguisa and chorizo work too.
Don't know how much, so of the rest is misdated, so this is one for the dustbin, I'm afraid.
be well and 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 all,
Hi EL! Hope all are well!
I loved The Call of the Wild (Jack London) as a kid.
Wow, Big Mama Thornton and Peter Green departed the same day...
My favorite Scotsman song
Late July and we are seeing breeding bird departures. Almost all the adult male Black-chinned Hummingbird are gone, only females and immatures (young of the year) remain. This past weekend the bulk of Brown-headed Cowbird left (good riddance). Then due to drought and no bugs, in the last week or two most of the Purple Martin, Barn Swallow, and Chimney Swift have departed, not re-nesting.
That eastern patch/front of the Yosemite fire is getting uncomfortably close to my beloved Chiquito Creek.
Hope is all well out there!
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
Hola Dysto, sorry to hear about the
swallows, martins and swifts. I have no idea what's up around here it's been so long since I've really been out and about and our yard is special habitat so one can't base anything on it.
My quick look map still shows the fire well west of HWY 41, and I tend to suspect that they'll stop it there if not before.
be well and 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 --
Celebrating 2 Burns Days
in 1 year is a good year!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Well, that's an uplifting take on things. Thanks.
What I'll never know is what i spliced into what and from where. Ah well, new techniques and methods birth new and at times very interesting things.
be well and 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 --
Meant to tell you about my morning coffee
porch viewing, EL.
I saw either one skink twice, or two skinks. I will never know.
Then, a tree frog sat at my feet for at least one full cup of java. Then, a cardinal slammed into my living room window, and sat still for 20 minutes before he could fly away.
It's the little things...
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
That's one heck of a cuppa. I can't recall
the last time I did morning coffee outside, but that's probably just as well. We have a thriving population of alligator lizards, but no skinks. No cardinals either, but a large mixed flock of assorted small fry depending upon which yard plus a family of scrubbies, a lot of mourning doves and house finches. They either panic when I move about or are oblivious, depending upon species.
be well and 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 --