Monday OT: October 21 is Trafalgar Day
October 21 is day 294 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Prickle-Prickle, The Aftermath 2, 3185 YOLD (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.6.16.15 by the Mayan Long Count
On this day in history:
On October 21, 1520, Ferdinand Magellan "discovered" the strait now known as the Straits of Magellan.
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On October 21, 1797, the "frigate" USS Constitution was launched.
On October 1805, a British Fleet of 27 ships of the line commanded by Admiral Lord Nelson defeated a combined Spanich and French fleet of 33 ships of the line commanded by Admiral Villeneuve of France at the Battle of Trafalgar. Actually, the Franco-Spanish fleet was annihilated, though a storm played a role in that too. Nelson's victory seemingly fulfilled Lord St. Vincent's Quip to the House of Lords that "I do not say the French cannot come, I only say they cannot come by sea". This particular battle is one of which one writes little, or very great amounts. I'll chose the former course, but will address Hardy's failure to anchor. Hardy was Nelson's Flag Captain and though Nelson had instructed him to anchor while he lay dying, Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood then assumed command of the combined fleet and instructed him not to. It is really that simple, orders is orders and all that. All of the speculation about the impact of that decision is speculative, duh. History has a finality to it, such that we cannot perfectly re-create the exact original conditions and then change a single detail and run the experiment again. There is only one actual test case, and in it, the British did not anchor.
On October 21, 1824, Portland Cement was patented
On October 21, 1854, Florence Nightingale was sent off to the Crimean wr with a staff of 38 nurses.
On October 21, 1867, The Medicine Lodge Treaty was signed. I don't know enough about it to speak on it.
On October 21, 1879, Thomas Edison applied for a patent of his version of an electric light bulb.
On October 21, 1940, For Whom the Bell Tolls was published
On October 21, 1967, The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organized a march on the Pentagon. %0 thousand or so marched and nobody listened or cared except those who were already peaceniks.
On October 21, 1983, The meter was re-defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. This was part of a growing push to redefine certain basic units in terms of fundamental physical constants culminating in the redefinition of the SI bse units in 2019. This (r)evolution in our measurement system also, at long last, resulted in the inclusion of the gopher mole and one of ur basic units of measurement.
On October 21, 2005, pictures of the dwarf planet later named Eris were taken and later used to document its discovery. Eris was not amused, I mean, even the ncient Greeks knew she could be touchy if disrespected. Damn. GWB's re-election soon followed, and everything since.
Born this day in:
1772 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, philosopher, and critic
1914 – Martin Gardner, mathematician, logician, and author
1917 – Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet player, composer, and bandleader
1921 – Jim Shumate, fiddler and composer
1925 – Celia Cruz, singer
1929 – Ursula K. Le Guin, author and critic
1940 – Manfred Mann, keyboardist and producer
1941 – Steve Cropper, guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor
1942 – Elvin Bishop, Pigboy Crabshaw, guitarist, singer and songwriter
1946 – Lux Interior, singer and songwriter
1946 – Lee Loughnane, singer, songwriter, and trumpet player
1950 – Leela Vernon, musician, "Queen of Brukdown", and cultural conservationist
1953 – Marc Johnson, bassist, composer, and bandleader
1955 – Fred Hersch, pianist and composer
1957 – Steve Lukather, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Died this day in:
1805 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, awesome British Admiral
1965 – Bill Black, bass player and bandleader
1969 – Jack Kerouac, novelist and poet
1980 – Hans Asperger, physician and psychologist
1984 – François Truffaut, actor, producer, director and screenwriter
2015 – Sheldon Wolin, philosopher, theorist, academic and fabulous instructor. Once held class on a picket line.
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Apple Day (UK)
Trafalgar Day (UK +??)
Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies 
Dizzy Gillespie
Jim Shumate
Celia Cruz
Manfred Mann
Steve Cropper
Elvin Bishop
Lux Interior
Lee Loughnane
Leela Vernon
Marc Johnson
Fred Hersch
Steve Lukather
Bill Black
Jack Keroac
BONUS Elvin Bishop(et al)
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Mountain lion in the fridge
The first thing that made me laugh after I got a cancer diagnosis last year was this essay by an unknown author that floats around at the cancer treatment forum boards, so I thought I'd paste it in here for everyone else to enjoy:
Good morning Rev. Thanks for the jokestory. I am lucky and
have never been there, though I did get misdiagnosed once. If they had them back in my youth, my whole environment would've been plastered with those "known to cause cancer" signs, yet here I sit. Life is weird.
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’ll share your story with my husband. He has a fair
to middling mountain lion after him. He hasn’t started treatment yet, since he’s still getting tests and a second opinion.
Take care.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Sorry to hear that
All my very best wishes to you, him, and your support network/family for the best possible outcome!
Thank you, TRJ. We are luckier than many since
we have Medicare and Tricare. That alone relieves a lot of stress. I wish everyone had Bernie’s Medicare 4 All.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Love the story. Thank you.
Thanks for the mountain lion story
Helps me to understand what my Sister went through last year when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She's cancer free now, but she still worries that the mountain lion didn't actually die when he went over the cliff.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
good foggy morning
at least it is foggy here. They are calling for a 1-2 inch rain tonight and tomorrow. That will be our first real rain in quite awhile. We did get 1/2 inch this weekend which provided a little relief and settled the dust.
Funny how we define time in terms of the wars we've fought. Seems most history revolves around our conflicts. Well thanks for the stroll through time, the songs, and the OT.
Have a good one!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Wrote you a reply which wound up as a non-reply and is
down below my reply to Wally. I'll try to fix it, but that has never worked before.
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 hope you get a soaker this time. We got 1.7 inches on
Saturday. Oh, and there better not be any tornadoes!
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
MSM Blackout of Bernie's NYC Rally
Good morning Wally. Sad, ain't it, when you realize how
corrupt and sleazy today's press has become. They really make no effort to conceal how one-sided their coverage is.
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 --
Hey! Cut ‘em some slack. They’re busy covering
Duchess Megan and family. Takes our minds off democracy and fixes them firmly on monarchy where they belong. /snark
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Good morning Lookout. Foggy is nice at times, and also
reminds me to get cracking on my radiative cooling experiments before we start getting those foggy, foggy mornings. No rain here this week. low eighties today, mid eighties Tue & Wed, and High eighties on into next weekend.
Making bread today, got two loaves worth of overnight rise out in the kitchen almost ready to fold and start proofing. Two hours of proofing and 45 minutes baking and I might get the oven back off before it gets too warm. First, however, I have to be sure I'm ready at the 'puter to reserve a campsite next April because of the Cal State Parks insane reservation system. 8 am is a magic for campers out here.
As to defining time by wars, you got that right. I take it easy with these Monday columns. Most Mondays are the anniversary of multiple battles in multiple wars plus the introduction of multiple new weapons or weapon systems, plus the births of a ton of major and minor nobility, tyrants, kniggits and warriors of every ilk and more. I try to downplay it all, but it is amazing the number of really history changing battles that are out there.
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, el,
Good and varied tunes, thanks for those. A misty day in the mountains, and very colorful. Decided to change up today's schedule as sleep was laborious and i've other catching-up chores in need.
Remember well the double-decker bus of twenty minutes ride to Trafalgar Square, a trip i made often from Highgate and Muswell Hill to enjoy the fruits of central London. Taking the advise of someone, i would wander streets looking up and was rewarded with cool architecture. Sadly, during that period, the first McDonald's opened on a side-street between Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar, Colonel chicken had already invaded and the first Hard Rock cafe had just opened, i did frequent the Hard Rock because they had French's mustard and American ketchup for a taste of home. The great Greek restaurants, fish and chips and English breakfasts kept me going as most, in those days, British restaurants served bland food.
Admiral Nelson apparently enjoyed the praise of Spanish sailors who cried when learning of his death. As we know, he and his deputy, Admiral Collingwood's victory paved the way for a century or more of colonizing dominance for the English.
Nelson split his fleet in two sailing straight at the French and Spanish lines an unorthodox battle plan at the time of usual broadsiding engagements; a rendering:
Good morning smiley, thanks for the detail and for Collingswood
Collingswood's poem. Nelson's tactic was revolutionary for the time, and a great idea given the range, accuracy and rate of fire of the day's armaments, even given the slow forwrd progress of the British fleet. A lack of skill and practice on the part of the French and Spaniards also helped. Today, such a move would be suicide, and, actually, for a long time now. It is the opposite of "crossing the T", a decisive naval maneuver only successfully performed once, by the Japanese at the battle of Tsushima Strait, where they destroyed the opposing Russian fleet. In Nelson's case, the raking fire of the few enemy ships that could bring their weapons to bear on his ships was not that effective, whereas the raking fire at point blank range of successive British broadsides into the French and Spanish ships as successive Britsh ships passed through their line was devastating.
Enjoy your misty colorful day and have a great 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 --
On the matter of mist, mountains, and men at arms:
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The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Good afternoon Untimely, and thanks tons for that.
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 --
Speaking of wars, PG&E's war on the citizenry of CA
continues, more shut-downs threatened this week.
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 --
Almost real
Afternoon, gj. Thanks.
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 --
Horatio Nelson
is a distant cousin, several times over.
The Franco-Spanish Combined Fleet was such a shambles, he knew his 'particular' tactics would cause havoc, divide the two lines and create ship-on-ship actions that the smaller fleet would win.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Good evening BR, a most interesting cousin. Villaneuve had
already proved to be no match for him, at the Nile (Aboukir Bay), iirc.
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 Revolution
played havoc with the French naval officer class. By 1805, there were very few decent fleet commanders who had the experience of managing large numbers of ships for long periods of time at sea.
De Brueys was the commander at the Nile. Villeneuve a subordinate. By 1805 he was just about the only choice Napoleon had (and Napoleon had no 'feel' for sea warfare).
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
good evening el
Et al
Another busy day. Big event this Thursday for Climate Next-Steps. Lots of planning but mostly done. These people work so hard on so many different fronts. A privilege to work with them. We all get how unbelievable it all is and as unbelievable as it is, we know it is very real. And that it may not be possible to do enough, or even remotely enough, still we are trying. For me, better than not trying. Having said that it seems impossible, saving a miracle. (said the scientist, she who is well grounded in ‘reality’.) heh... (make it so)
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Science deals with facts, but we are looking at an
ethical or moral dilemma. Depending upon how one view's it, to stop trying is to either concede, acquiesce, or consent. Those are not acceptable options, regardless of any seeming futility.
Thanks for dropping in.
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 --