10/30 is International Orthopaedic Nurses Day
~~ Walker Training
So it is International Orthopaedic Nurses Day. They provide a valuable service and are as deserving of recognition as anybody else, but I can't think of a heck of a lot to say about them.
On this day in 1817, Simon Bolivar, established the independent government of Venezuela. There were, of course, some who felt that he should have left it up to the USA to impose a government of the USA'a their liking, but he didn't, and besides, Juan Guaidó hadn't even been born yet.
On this day in 1905, Czar Nicholas II issued the October Manifesto, nominally granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar).
On this day in 1938, Martians did or did not invade Grovers Mill, New Jersey, as was broadcast over the radio by Orson Welles.
On this day in 1918, the Ottoman Empire entered into an armistics with the "Allies". As in WWII, the "Allies" included Russia, France, England and the US, but also included Japan and Italy. As nice as that might sound, it wasn't over (and arguably still isn't). Unfortunately, the pretend diplomacy was complicated by the fact that the goal of the allies was not the end of the war and the cessation of hostilities, but the all-important divvying up of the spoils of the Conquest of the Ottoman Empire through the partitioning of said Ottoman Empire. The partitioning was based on the Sykes-Picot Agreement and similar, secret side agreements between various allies. (Keep in mind that the allies were openly colonial and colonizing powers)
One near immediate effect was that the Ottoman government refused to sign the Treaty of Sevres, which was supposed to implement all of the above, leading to the Turkish War of Independence, the fledgling version of the modern state of Turkey, now Turkiye, under President Mustafa Kemal Pasha, aka Ataturk. Sevres, as to Turkey, was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne.
Meanwhile, the rest of the empire was arbitrarily carved up into an assortment of protectorates and hoped for client states with arbitrarily imposed governments and with complete disregard for the histories, intents, desires, and opinions of the peoples victimized thereby. Though the League of Nations, which came to oversee this sorry farce, putatively believed in plebescites, not a single one was undertaken in this process and the results clearly show it. One cannot ignore the impact of WWII on the area, but a good understanding of the middle east definitely requires a serious perusal of the partition, even if only a once through reading of the wiki on the same, though I do not necessarily agree with all the information and assertions therein. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_the_Ottoman_Empire ) .The Medes, Hittites, Sumerians, Persians, Greeks, Parthians, Phoenecians, "Sea Peoples", Romans and all their predecessors and successors with all of their histories and cultures were vanquished and vanished under the almighty mapmakers' pens, and it still shows.
On this day in history:
0758 – Guangzhou was sacked by Persian and Arabian pirates.
1817 – Simon Bolivar established the independent government of Venezuela.
1831 – Nat Turner was arrested for leading a slave revolt
1888 – King Lobengula of Matabeleland granted the Rudd Concession to agents of Cecil Rhodes
1905 – Czar Nicholas II issued the October Manifesto, (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
1918 – The Ottoman Empire signed an armistice with the Allies
1938 – Orson Welles broadcast H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds over the radio (or did he?)
1941 – FDR approved $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allies
1944 – Anne and Margot Frank were deported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen
1945 – Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers
1947 – GATT was signed, setting a foundation for the subjugation of everybody to the WTO
1960 – The first successful kidney transplant
1961 – The Soviets detonated the Tsar Bomba still the biggest bomb evar
1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge was completed, reconnecting Europe and Asia there
1975 – Prince Juan Carlos took over for Franco.
2014 – Sweden officially recognized Palestine
Some people who were born on this day:
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
~~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1632 – Christopher Wren, physicist, mathematician, and architect
1735 – John Adams, lawyer and politician
1751 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, poet and playwright
1839 – Alfred Sisley, impressionist painter
1857 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, physician
1871 – Paul Valery, poet and philosopher
1881 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts, poet and author
1885 – Ezra Pound, poet
1886 – Zoe Akins, playwright, poet, and author
1897 – Agustin Lara, singer, songwriter and actor
1908 – Patsy Montana, singer, songwriter and actor
1925 – Tommy Ridgley, singer and bandleader
1930 – Clifford Brown, composer and trumpet player
1932 – Louis Malle, director and screenwriter
1934 – Frans Bruggen, flautist and conductor
1939 – Eddie Holland, singer and songwriter
1939 – Grace Slick, singer and songwriter
1944 – Ahmed Chalabi, sleazy, lying, opportunistic, sack-of-shit,***
1946 – Chris Slade, drummer
1947 – Timothy B. Schmit, bassist, singer and songwriter
1951 – Trilok Gurtu, percussionist and songwriter
1951 – Poncho Sanchez, singer and conga player
1954 – T. Graham Brown, country singer, y'all
1954 – Jeannie Kendall, 'nuther one
1958 – Olav Dale, composer, played sax & other woodwinds
1960 – Grayson Hugh, singer, songwriter, organist, composer
1968 – Ken Stringfellow, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1969 – Snow, singer
*** believed and relied upon, however, by all 17 intelligence agencies, though, seemingly, by them alone, which isn't too surprising.
Some people who died on this day:
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
~~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1626 – Willebrord Snell, astronomer and mathematician
1910 – Henry Dunant, founded the Red Cross
1919 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet
2007 – Robert Goulet, actor and singer
2013 – Frank Wess, saxophonist and flautist
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
International Orthopaedic Nurses Day
Today's Tunes
War of The Worlds
Agustin Lara
Patsy Montana
Tommy Ridgley
Clifford Brown
Frans Bruggen
Eddie Holland
Grace Slick
Chris Slade
Timothy B. Schmit
Trilok Gurtu
Poncho Sanchez
T. Graham Brown
Jeannie Kendall
Olav Dale
Ken Stringfellow
Snow
Clifford Brown
Jazz Baltica: Trilok Gurtu
Poncho Sanchez
Grace Slick
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, Nat Turner, Jackie Robinson, Orson Wells, GATT, Paul Valery, Trilok Gurtu, Anne and Margot Frank, Bolivar, Pablo Sanchez, Grace Slick, Clifford Brown
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My mother told me she had worked part time in the Brooklyn Dodger's general managers office as a receptionist and knew Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese and thought very highly of them. This was sometime in the mid to late 40s. She encountered a lot of the players there, but these were the two people whom she liked and specifically mentioned that I remember.
Unfortunately she died shortly before the movie 42 was released. I know she would have loved it, even if there are some inaccuracies in the film. What surprised me about the film was that the baseball field used for dodger spring training was in Daytona Beach. I recognized the scenes in the movie there right away because I had worked on City Island for a year or so. So no surprise it's called Jackie Robinson Stadium. This is from Wikipedia about how the training field in Sanford wouldn't let Robinson play there. Sanford was an old plantation town on the St. John's River.
Jackie Robinson Ballpark
Jacksonville was(is) racist as hell also. Lived there too. Beautiful area but...
My late uncle was also a dedicated Dodger fan from the Brooklyn Dodgers' days and moved to Vero Beach just so he could watch their spring training there.
EL thanks for the OT and reminding me about Jackie Robinson. Been enjoying your music selection this am.
語必忠信 行必正直
Good morning soryang. My pleasure. I wasn't born until 46
and only knew about Robinson through Baseball Digest and stuff, but did become a Dodgers fan. I didn't get into baseball until my early teens and the San Diego Padres were still Triple A (Cincy farm club) and we could get Doggett and Scully on radio from LA. At first they played in the Coliseum with a really weird configuration and wacky stuff like Wally Moon's "moon shot", but by High School they had Drysdale, Koufax, Podres and a flock of speedy base runners, beating everyboey and their brother one-nothing or two-one until they got Frank Howard.
Glad you're enjoying the tunes.
Be well and have a good one
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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 --
I lost count
of the nurses I have known who have permanently injured themselves by lifting or moving a patient.
Kudos to them.
Have a great day, everyone!
Thanks for the OT, friend.
"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 know what you mean, I spend a lot of
time at a local hospital (monthly infusions and more) and see a lot of really small nurses and a lot of really huge patients.
thanks for reading and dropping by
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 --
Hope there are
no Nurse Ratchets around!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Supposed to be a reply but wasn't so I'll just add more Grace
(sort of)
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 --
Suddenly decolonization got real and the funniest thing happened
A lot of people who had made a career of talking about oppression and decolonization immediately went “No, not like that! We only meant figuratively!”
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/decolonizing-palestine-in-the-time-of-aca...
Good afternoon lotl, thanks for the link. Funny the way those
things go.
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 --