7/10 - Nikola Tesla Day
~~ Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serb who emigrated to the US where he became an inventor, electrical engineer and mechanical engineer. He was a proponent of alternating current and developed an assortment of alternating current devices including the Tesla Coil and was granted nearly 300 patents. The international unit of magnetic flux density is named the Tesla in his honor.
On 07/10/2024, Paavo Nurmi won the Olympic 1,500 meter and 5,000 meter races one hour apart, setting records in both events. Somewhat prodigious for it day, it was arguably less so for Mr. Nurmi, known as the Flying Finn. He set 22 world records, held a 121 race winning streak at distances from 800 meters up and a 14 year winning streak in some other events including the 10,000 meter run. There's more if you are interested in such things
On this day in history:
1499 -- Nicolau Coelho returned to Lisbon having found the sea route to India with Vasco da Gama.
1778 - France declared war on Great Britain in support of the American Revolution
1821 -- The US took possession of Florida
1913 -- The temperature in Death Valley hit 134 F
1921 - Bloody Sunday in Balfast
1924 - Paavo Nurmi won the Olympic 1,500 and 5,000 m races an hour apart
1925 -- The Scopes Trial began
1938 - Howard Hughes began his (91 hour) record around the world flight
1940 -- The Vichy government was established
1951 -- Negotiations to end the Korean War began
1962 -- Telstar was launched
1966 -- The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., held a rally at Soldier Field
1985 -- Assassins of the French DGSE bombed and sunk the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland killing Fernando Pereira.
1991 -- Boris Yeltsin took office as President of Russia
1992 -- Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years for pissing off his former boss and the US' first known CIA president, Bush the elder. This was the first application of the Bush doctrine, according to which the US can pass extraterritorial laws and edicts governing the behavior of foreign citizens and governments within their home countries and enforce such edicts and laws by military invasions, kidnappings, and other acts of war.
1997 - Scientists reported the findings of a DNA study of a Neanderthal skeleton that supported the "Out of Africa" of evolution 72 years after Scopes
Some people who were born on this day:
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
~~ William Blackstone
1509 -- John Calvin, yet another preacher
1723 -- William Blackstone, lawyer and judge, author of The Commentaries ...
1830 -- Camille Pissarro, influential painter
1832 -- Alvan Graham Clark, astronomer and telescope maker who discovered Sirius B
1834 -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler, painter famous for his mom
1856 -- Nikola Tesla, physicist, engineer, and inventor
1871 -- Marcel Proust, writer
1875 -- Mary McLeod Bethune, activist and educator, started what became Bethune-Cookman U.
1878 -- Otto Freundlich, sculpter and painter
1891 -- Edith Quimby, medical researcher and physicist, a founder of nuclear medicine
1894 – Jimmy McHugh, composer
1895 -- Carl Orff, composer
1897 -- Legs Diamond, businessman
1902 – Kurt Alder, chemist and academic
1902 – Nicolás Guillén, poet, journalist, and activist
1903 – John Wyndham, author
1905 -- Mildred Benson, author (Nancy Drew)
1907 -- Blind Boy Fuller, Piedmont Blues guitarist and singer
1911 -- Cootie Williams, trumpet player and bandleader
1920 -- David Brinkley, journalist
1920 -- Owen Chamberlain, physicist, co-discoverer of anti-proton
1921 -- Harvey Ball, illustator and recognized creator of the smiley face
1921 -- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, activist and co-founder of the Special Olympics
1922 -- Jean Kerr, author and playwright
1930 – Janette Sherman, physician, author, researcher in occupational and environmental health
1931 -- Alice Munro, author
1933 - Jumpin' Gene Simmons, rockabilly singer and songwriter
1938 -- Lee Morgan, trumpet player and composer
1939 -- Mavis Staples, THE Mavis Staples
1943 -- Jerry Miller, guitarist, singer and songwriter
1947 -- Arlo Guthrie, singer, songwriter, guitarist, activist
1974 -- Imelda May, singer and songwriter, plays: bodhran, guitar, bass guitar and tambourine. She has a truly bodacious bodhran
Some people who died on this day:
“You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.”
~~ Emperor Hadrian
0138 -- Hadrian, Roman emperor, walled off the Scots
1851 -- Louis Daguerre, photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype
1941 -- Jelly Roll Morton, pianist and bandleader
1954 -- Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafia leader
1979 -- Arthur Fiedler, conductor
1987 -- John Hammond, record producer and activist, the people he "discovered", produced or promoted will boggle your mind
1989 -- Mel Blanc, voice of nearly all but Fudd
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Nikola Tesla Day
Today's Tunes
MUSICAL TESLA COILS !!
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Scopes
Tellstar
Noreiga
Jimmy McHugh
Carl Orff (sort of)
Blind Boy Fuller
Cootie Williams
Jumpin' Gene Simmons
Lee Morgan
Mavis Staples
Jerry Miller
Arlo Guthrie
Imedla May
Jelly Roll Morton
Arthur Fiedler
John Hammond -
Mel Blanc
Bonus:
Blind Boy Fuller
Mavis Staples
Another side of Imelda May:
What an Ornament sounds like:
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
Comments
Good morning...
Just a drive by comment. Yard help arriving soon. So a quick thanks for the OT.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning LO, thanks for the drive by. The OT
is my pleasure. Good luck with the yard work.
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 --
Alternate version of the Fugs song
"the Democratic Party is not 'left'." -- Sabrina Salvati
Good morning Cass. Thanks for reading and especially
for that version of CIA Man. I actually like it better than the one I used.
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 --
Nikola Tesla
is my spirit animal...
Below picture is from his lab in Colorado Springs. I know that it is a double exposure *now*, but as a child this might well have been the image that made me decide to go into electrical engineering. Left a mark, it did.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Good morning UFS. Picture didn't display, but
likely something on this end, internet has been freaky for a couple of days now. EE was a good choice. Considered it as a hobby for a while but didn't have sufficient dinero to even think seriously about it.
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 --
Nerdwerk
been beddy beddy good to me. Even after nearly going bankrupt in the last down-cycle, we've been able to sort of claw our way back to near-solvency. This is in no small part due to the marketability of nerdhood, at least right up until here lately. I'm in my final gig now, because nobody hires old engineers anymore. But I can still keep a roof over our heads for the time being, despite all odds.
Thanks for the memories, Nikola: J.P. Morgan really gave you the shaft...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Here is the image.
Thanks!
The weird thing is that I can see it. Must be some strange net thing...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Cool, thanks. I've seen a variant (or more) of that.
Definitely shows confidence in one's work.
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 --
Always informative. Simplicius has a New sitrep up.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/azov-commanders-return-6th-column
Thanks humphry. Most of the vids aren't working for me
but I get the text.
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 --
Monday Monday
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Hi all Hey EL! Hope all is good!
The Scopes Trial? Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!
I have never understood how the Bush Doctrine stood up as legal, internationally. It has been abused to no end ever since it started. When I was growing up in the 1960's, it was "we don't want to be the world's police". Turns out we were just kiddin', we did, and act as such, unilaterally. And will arrest, invade, sanction, or coup anyone that disagrees or doesn't do what we tell them to. Just like how we have a drug war here, and make sure opium flows from Afghanistan over there, and that cocaine is getting through Central America fine. It's just taxpayer money anyway... Not like there is anything we need.
That Jerry Miller is great! Thanks for that! Moby Grape! Screwed by their manager.
Hurricane by Bob Dylan was love at first hear for me. For some reason I think it is one of the best songs ever.
Long live the Fugs!
be well 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
Good evening Dysto, thanks for reading. The Bush
Doctrine has no precedent or legitimacy, but other states seem unwilling to confront US over it. It is the power of being known to be sociopaths who respect nothing but power and force.
We just had another clutch of chickadees fledge, fwiw,
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 evening, El.
We returned home from the zydeco party of yesterday, the best description of the event, did some grocery shopping, and it is back to the daily grind, starting in the morning.
In my youth, blue birds were common. Now, very rare. I have spotted 3 fledglings at the bird bath today.
Take care, and thanks for the ot.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning otc, thanks for reading. Zydeco party
conjures up cool images. Sorry about bluebirds getting scrce, but, then gain, tons of birds are these days. We usually get a couple in our court, earlier in the year, and this year they were in our backyard, we have the best habitat, I guess.
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 --