07/11 - World Population Day
~~ Human Density
It's World Population Day. According to the UN, World Population Day seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues, but the narrative begins to drift at that point. They do, howevere, provide a link to a site full of data and charts and stuff: https://www.unfpa.org/data/world-population-dashboard. I dunno,, it's hard to talk about. What about all those backwards countries that force children to have children in order to satisfy the dynastic cravings of assorted persons, or various superstitions or simply the desire of some cult to conquer the globe by outbreedng all competitors. And then there are those places that try to restrict access to family planning advice and services even though they have no health care and have, at best, a somewhat mediocre profit based injury and illness treatment service. Really, I just can't go there
Difficult as it may be t discuss all that, it is harder to discuss Bowdler's Day. I mean, why does he even have a day, and shouldn't it at least be censored?
Also, and better yet, it's the anniversary of Zheng He 's first voyage:
There are much longer videos on this subject if you are interested.
On this day in history:
1405 -- Ming admiral Zheng He sailed off on his first voyage of exploration. His is a little known fantastic saga of accomplishment - read up on him.
1576 -- Martin Frobisher sighted Greenland.
1789 -- Jacques Necker was dismissed by Louis XVI sparking the Storming of the Bastille on the 14th.
1796 -- The US took possession of Detroit under the Jay Treaty.
1798 -- The US Marine Corps was re-established.
1804 -- Aaron Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton in a duel
1848 -- Waterloo railway station in London opened.
1889 -- Tijuana, Mexico, was founded.
1893 -- General Zelaya seized power in Nicaragua.
1895 -- The Lumière brothers demonstrated movie film technology to scientists.
1899 – Fiat was founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
1919 -- The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
1921 – A truce in the Irish War of Independence went into effect.
1934 -- Engelbert Zaschka flew his human-powered aircraft about 20 meters.
1940 -- The Vichy France regime was formally established.
1943 -- The allies invaded of Sicily
1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
1960 -- The State of Katanga broke away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1960 -- The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" was published
1971 – Copper mines in Chile were nationalized.
1995 -- The Srebrenica massacre was carried out killing more than 8,000 people
2006 -- The Mumbai train bombings killed 209 people
2010 -- Twin suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killed at least 74 people
2021 – Richard Branson was the first civilian to be launched into space via his Virgin Galactic spacecraft
Some people who were born on this day:
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
~~ E.B. White
0154 – Bardaisan, astrologer, scholar, and philosopher
1274 -- Robert the Bruce, king
1653 – Sarah Good, woman accused of witchcraft
1897 -- Bull Connor, Southron Police officer racist mercenary thug.
1899 -- E. B. White, author and poet
1904 – Niño Ricardo, guitarist and composer
1913 -- Cordwainer Smith, author, and academic
1929 -- Danny Flores, singer, songwriter & saxophonist
1931 – Thurston Harris, doo-wop singer
1932 – Alex Hassilev, Folk singer and musician
1935 – Frederick Hemke, saxophonist and educator
1941 -- Henry Lowther, trumpet player
1943 -- Oscar D'León, bass player
1947 – Jeff Hanna, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and drummer
1947 -- John Holt, singer and songwriter
1949 -- Liona Boyd, singer, songwriter, & guitarist
1950 -- Bonnie Pointer, singer (The Pointer Sisters)
1953 -- Peter Brown, singer, songwriter, and producer
1957 -- Peter Murphy, singer, songwriter,
1957 -- Michael Rose, singer and songwriter
1959 -- Richie Sambora, singer, songwriter, guitarist, & producer
1959 -- Suzanne Vega, singer, songwriter, guitarist, & producer
1960 -- David Baerwald, singer, songwriter (David & David)
1962 – Fumiya Fujii, music artist
1964 – Chris Cornell, musician
1965 -- Scott Shriner, singer, songwriter, & bass player
1966 – Ricky Warwick, musician
1968 -- Daniel MacMaster, singer and songwriter
1970 – Eric Owens, opera singer
1971 -- Leisha Hailey, singer, songwriter & actress
1972 – Cormac Battle, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1975 -- Nadya Suleman, Octomom (who else on World Population Day?)
1978 -- Kathleen Edwards, singer, songwriter and guitarist
Some people who died on this day:
“I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you're in; because when you improvise you're in right now. You're not in yesterday or tomorrow, you're right in the moment. Being in that moment really gives you a perspective of life that you never get at any other time as far as learning about your ego; You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.”
~~ Charlie Haden
1937 -- George Gershwin, pianist and composer
2014 – Charlie Haden, bassist and composer
2014 -- Tommy Ramone, drummer and producer
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
World Population Day (International)
Maritime Day of China (China)
Day of the Bandoneón (Argentina)
National Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Genocide of the Citizens of the Polish Republic committed by Ukrainian Nationalists (Poland)
National Day of Commemoration, held on the nearest Sunday to this date (Ireland)
Bowdler's Day
Free Slurpee Day (Participating stores of the 7-Eleven chain in North America)
Today's Tunes
Waterloo Station
Danny Flores
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Henry Lowther
Oscar D'León
John Holt
Liona Boyd
Bonnie Pointer
Peter Brown
Peter Murphy
Michael Rose
Richie Sambora
Suzanne Vega
David Baerwald
Chris Cornell
Scott Shriner
Daniel MacMaster
Leisha Hailey
Kathleen Edwards
George Gershwin
Tommy Ramone
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
open thread, World Population Day, Zheng He , EB White, Danny Flores, Bonnie Pointer, George Gershwin
Comments
E. B. White’s classic “Charlotte’s Web” translated into Chinese…
alternating with original English text, paragraph for paragraph:
https://www.doc88.com/p-66516072357432.html?r=1
Good morning lot. Thanks for reading and
for that link.
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...
So many people, so few shared resources. Water is the big one...
There are simple solutions, but little profit (and therefore will) to implement.
National Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Genocide of the Citizens of the Polish Republic committed by Ukrainian Nationalists (Poland)
Curious they are so gung ho to help Ukraine. Guess they dislike Russia more?
Well, thanks for the OT, and I hope you all have a good day!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning LO. Yes, population growth is
causing serious problems, exacerbated by perverse profit driven misallocation of scarce resources. Water scarcity and lack of good sanitation facilities are also inextricably linked, worsening that particular pair of issues.
Dunno about Poland, and about governments, very strange that they don't see history rhyming in Ukraine.
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 --
Ramzan Kadyrov brings Zelensky to Grozny
Zelensky in Grozny (Pts 1, 2 and 3 with Eng Subs) (Watch)
Good morning CB. Thanks, I think.
Haven't watched, just home from errands. Might not anyway, because Zelensky - Meh.
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 --
It's not long
Very funny. You'll enjoy it.
Yeah. Already saw the first part, thanks for
posting the whole thing.
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 --
Gavin Menzies
brings fresh evidence in his book "1421" that Zheng He traveled all the way to Venice and presented the Monarchy with a map of the Earth showing the America's.
That map is in a museum there and displayed today.
Thanks for the OT.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I was gonna
say. Nice video above, but no mention at all of the Menzies theory. And it does seem odd that Zheng would undertake so many exploratory voyages but only heading south, re-exploring the same areas mostly, and never to the east.
The map itself
is striking in that it is geographically accurate, for its time, showing a spherical representation as though it was peeled off of a globe.
Many then still thought the earth was flat.
Menzies has done some fascinating research.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Thanks for the info. I was unaware of that, but it
could be in some of the longer videos about He's voyages, There are some really long ones that would be inappropriate for the OT which I intended to simply introduce him to folks.
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 --