03/06 - The Periodic Table of the Elements
~~ Periodic Table by Mrs Pugliano (CC BY-SA 2.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode
On March 6, 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society. The periodic table is a graphic representation of groupings of chemical elements sharing similar properties. It had a revolutionary impact on both chemistry and physics.
Also on March 6, in 1912 the Italians allegedly became the first to use "airships" (not balloons) in war, dropping bombs on Turkish troops from Dirigibles. Dirigibles differ from mere balloons in that they are self powered and can be steered, while a balloon, unless tethered and hence stationary, simply drifts with the wind, contrary to certain recent allegations. Tethered balloons had been used for observations well before that date, but they aren't considered to be "airships".
Today is the Day of the Righteous in Europe
The European Day of the Righteous was established on 6 March to commemorate all those who stood up against totalitarianisms and crimes against humanity, who fought for life and dignity of other people. The term "righteous" is in this case understood in a broader meaning, not limited only to those who risked their lives helping Jews during the Holocaust. The day was established by the European Parliament in 2012.
https://enrs.eu/news/european-day-of-the-righteous#:~:text=The%20Europea....
Today is also Dentist's Day and Dress Day, so by all means, floss, brush and dress today.
On this day in history:
0632 -- The prophet Muhammad gave his Farewell Sermon
1454 – The Prussian Confederation pledged allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland to fight the Teutonic Knights
1521 -- Magellan reached Guam.
1665 – The first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
1820 -- The Missouri Compromise was signed
1836 -- The Alamo fell, but Texas and slavery survived all the same
1857 -- The Supremes decided Dred Scott v. Sandford
1869 -- Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table
1912 – Italian forces become the first to use airships in war using two dirigibles to bomb Turkish troops.
1946 -- France recognized Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1951 -- The Rosenberg trial began
1953 -- Georgy Malenkov succeeded Stalin
1957 -- Ghana became the first Sub-Saharan nation to get free of Britain
1964 -- Elijah Muhammad officially gave Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1975 -- The first airing of the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on national TV
1975 -- Iran and Iraq announced a settlement of their border dispute.
1981 -- Walter Cronkite signed off
Some people who were born on this day:
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
~~ Gabriel García Márquez
1459 -- Jakob Fugger, Fugger the Rich, merchant, banker, boss of Europe
1475 -- Michelangelo, painter and sculptor
1619 -- Cyrano de Bergerac, nosy author and playwright
1779 -- Antoine-Henri Jomini, general & military theorist
1785 -- Karol Kurpinski, composer and conductor
1787 -- Joseph von Fraunhofer, physicist and astronomer noted for his lines
1806 -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet and translator
1834 -- George du Maurier, author and illustrator
1849 -- Georg Luger, gun designer
1872 -- Ben Harney, pianist and composer
1885 -- Ring Lardner, journalist and author
1893 -- Furry Lewis, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1905 – Bob Wills, musician, songwriter, and bandleader
1913 – Ella Logan, singer and actress
1917 -- Will Eisner, illustrator and publisher
1923 -- Wes Montgomery, guitarist and songwriter
1926 -- Alan Greenspan, idealogue, national disaster
1927 -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, journalist and author
1934 -- Red Simpson, singer & songwriter
1936 -- Sylvia Robinson, singer and producer, mother of hip-hop, founded Sugarhill Records
1937 -- Valentina Tereshkova, pilot, and astronaut, first woman to fly in space
1939 -- Adam Osborne, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation
1941 -- Peter Brotzmann, free jazz saxophonist and clarinet player
1944 -- Mary Wilson, singer
1946 -- David Gilmour, singer, songwriter and guitarist, Pink Floyd
1947 -- Kiki Dee, singer & songwriter
Some people who died on this day:
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
~~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1888 -- Louisa May Alcott, author
1895 -- Camilla Collett, author & activist
1899 -- Ka'iulani of Hawaii, victim of US imperialism
1932 -- John Philip Sousa, conductor and composer, invented sousaphone & wrote Monty Python Theme Song
1935 -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., jurist
1939 -- Ferdinand von Lindemann, mathematician
1941 -- Gutzon Borglum, designed Mount Rushmore
1965 -- Margaret Dumont, the fifth Marx Brother
1967 -- Nelson Eddy, actor and singer
1973 -- Pearl S. Buck, author
1982 -- Ayn Rand, author
1986 -- Georgia O'Keeffe, painter
1994 -- Melina Mercouri, actress and politician
2005 -- Hans Bethe, physicist
2006 -- Anne Braden, journalist and activist
2016 -- Nancy Reagan, mediocre actress
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
European Day of the Righteous
National Dress Day
National Dentist's Day
National Frozen Food Day
National Oreo Cookie Day
National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day
Today's Tunes
Karol Kurpinski
Ben Harney
Furry Lewis
Bob Wills
Wes Montgomery
Red Simpson
Sylvia Robinson
Peter Brotzmann
Mary Wilson
David Gilmour
Kiki Dee
And, of course, with you know who ---------------------
John Philip Sousa
Nelson Eddy
And, of course, with you know who ---------------------
Bonus:
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
open thread, Periodic Table, Missouri Compromise, Dred Scott, Michaelangelo, Cyrano de Bergerac, Furry Lewis, Bob Wills, Sylvia Robinson, Kiki Dee
Comments
And, of course
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 --
I've got a buddy that sings that one...
tune from the pirates of penzance if I'm not mistaken.
Yes here it is...Major-General's Song from The Pirates of Penzance
Thanks for the OT and all the music. I'm late because we went to a local wildflower garden now covered in bluebells, poppies and much more. Also finished up taxes today, and had to pay...more than I thought, but what you going to do?
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Monday monday
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HI all, Hey EL!
How much do they teach the Periodic Table was a Russian today? I had a test in high school, 10th grade, in which we received a blank Periodic Table of Elements chart, and had to fill it out. That was the test. I aced it, as I loved the dang thing, was the first to turn it in, yeah I was that guy, all filled out properly. It was so fast the teacher looked up at the clock when I gave it to him. Due to some bad genes no doubt. I could never muster a small part of that now!
Spring is arriving slowly a way down south at 30N. In the last week new arrivals showing up are White-eyed Vireo, Black-chinned Hummingbird, Zone-tailed Hawk, Vermilion Flycatcher, Lark Sparrow and a local saw two male Purple Martin. These are all local breeders returning to nesting grounds, not passers-through like the Cranes or Geese overhead. Friday night in the dark thousands of White-fronted Goose passed over, about 10 minutes worth of V's, bearing due north. They take off right after dark as cooler for flying all night. A small disjunct population winters just south of me. Most of them likely leave on one or two nights when just the right days (southerlies), if you are lucky you can catch some overhead high. Our beloved Golden-cheeked Warblers will return this week.
Have a righteous day all!
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, thanks for reading and reporting. Annie has
laid another egg. My neighbor who is a birder and son of a wicked good birder says that he saw a white throated sparrow in his back yard yesterday. Not impossible, but I've never seen one here. Until I checked a range map I would've said it was a desert birtd, since I always see them in Borrego.
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 --
National Dentist Day
Happy day to all! Just happen to be in Costa Rica and am visiting my dentist here today! Hopefully just a checkup and cleaning!
Up early for some birding. Place I am staying is surrounded by palm trees as well as almond trees. As a result, every morning a cacophony of scarlet macaws and red loved parrots eating almonds.
Went in the mangrove and were rewarded with sighting of boat billed heron and fray necked wood rail. Now to clean up for dentista!
Life is what you make it, so make it something worthwhile.
This ain't no dress rehearsal!
Have fun and I hope
the dental work is routine.
Try to get a picture of a sloth!
And enjoy the coffee!
I recommend Imperial if you decide to have a beer.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning otc. I suppose that you know that sloth
is supposed to be a sin but just don't care ... Costa Rica 2012
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 --
The only sloth I saw in Costa Rica
was also hanging upside down on a tree limb!
My friends, winos, said the wine was good there.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
best wine I ever had there was from Maipo Valley in Chile.
My wife and I stayed at a place where many rooms were small cabins with small low walled patio/veranda things. We went to ours, prepared cocktails and plopped down in the patio only to notice a sloth on a palm a few yards directly in front of us, slowly ascending. We got to watch for quite a while
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 --
Sounds fabulous!
Several wino pals of mine loved the wine in Chile so much that they found special world market stores to buy it here in Texas. They are still drinking Chilean wine as preferred above all others.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
We were on a tour down there, the only Californians
the wind drinkers insisted that we be their native informants on wine. I recall one place, one of them came up to us and said get the wine from Sonoma, right? It was a Gallo, Sonoma, so we said no, go with the Chilean, sort of surprised them but they thanked us after some other guests got the Gallo and they compared.b
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 --
Routine work
Hopefully routine. She joked she never makes money off my visits. So far three sloth sightings!
Musician acqaintances have a song "fresh batch of brownies and ice cold imperial! Fun song but I tend toward strictly wino!
Life is what you make it, so make it something worthwhile.
This ain't no dress rehearsal!
Good morning and good luck, JB.
Dawn chorus in the tropical zones is generally pretty raucous anc pretty cool.
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 --
Ahh, the transuranics,
and especially those lovely actinides.
As Tom Lehrer said,
My little chunk of trinitite from Alamagordo still had a very strong emission of 59.5KeV gammas from 241Am, even all these years after the Trinity shot- no surprise, since its half-life is 242 years. Lost that in the fire, so it's now in a landfill somewhere. No problem- there'll be a lot more of it around once the boys decide to play with the toys.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
I was supposed to be a chemist some fifty years ago
but never paid attention to realize that Mendeleev was a Russian.
Shame on me.
Thanks for your OT. They are always full of surprises.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Hi mimi. There was a while back then when one
wasn't really that concerned what nationality scientists were unless they were Stalin era soviets who would twist the science in order to try to make it fit the dialectic model.
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 --