Sunday Open Thread: April 22 is Earth Day
Today's date is also Boomtime, Discord 39, 3184 YOLD
(for you Discordians out there)
World History this day
1500 -- Cabral landed in Brazil and claimed it for Portugal
1519 -- Cortes set up a settlement at Veracruz
1529 -- The Treaty of Zaragoza split the Eastern Hemisphere between Spain and Portugal
1622 -- The East India Company took Ormuz from Portugal
1930 -- The London Naval Treaty was signed
1945 -- Hitler admits defeat in his bunker.
1970 -- The first Earth Day was celebrated.
2016 -- The Paris Agreement was signed,
US History this day
1864 -- The Coinage Act of 1864 added "In God We Trust" to US coinage
1889 -- The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889
1954 -- Live TV coverage of the Army--McCarthy hearings started
Science & Technology this day
The Arts this day
Misc. this day
Birthdays of Note this day
1707 -- Henry Fielding, novelist and playwright
1724 -- Immanuel Kant, can too! (philosopher)
1766 -- Germaine de Stael, philosopher and author
1870 -- Vladimir Lenin, lawyer
1891 -- Nicola Sacco, anarchist, victim of US injustice system.
1899 -- Vladimir Nabokov, author
1904 -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist
1916 -- Yehudi Menuhin, violinist
1922 -- Charles Mingus, bassist, composer, and bandleader
1927 -- Laurel Aitken, godfather of ska
1935 -- Paul Chambers, bassist and composer
1936 -- Glen Campbell, singer, songwriter, and guitarist,
1939 -- Mel Carter, singer
1944 -- Joshua Rifkin, conductor, pianist, and musicologist
1950 -- Peter Frampton, singer, songwriter, and guitarist,
Deaths of Note this day
1778 -- James Hargreaves, inventor
1806 -- Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, the guy who lost at Trafalgar
1983 -- Earl Hines, pianist and bandleader
1984 -- Ansel Adams, photogarpher
1994 -- Richard Nixon, red baiter, Jane Wyman's ex, Pinochet supporter
1996 -- Erma Bombeck, journalist and author
2011 -- Hazel Dickens, singer, songwriter, activist. bassist, and guitarist
2013 -- Richie Havens, singer, songwriter and guitarist
So now some music
Yehudi Menuhin
Charles Mingus
Laurel Aitken
Paul Chambers
Glen Campbell
Mel Carter
Joshua Rifkin
Peter Frampton
Earl Hines
Hazel Dickens
Richie Havens
Photo: earth by Jerry Littlemore
It's an open thread, so do your thing
It is seriously unlikely that I will be here to interact when this posts. Should I fail to respond to comments, please just assume that I am out somewhere under an open sky with no signal and no regrets as to that state of affairs. Either that, or I am in some tasting room studiously focusing upon my researches. In any event, everybody have a great day.
Comments
hello friends
The Earth from the late 60's in your famous Apollo picture, is used and reused.
I like this 1990 view from the Galileo craft flyby of Earth (2 min)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjAdXFFijfE]
There have not been many missions that allow us the see the entire planet Earth.
Hope you all have a good Earth Day!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, Lookout. Thanks for the vid. Starting to break
camp for yet another travel day.Have a great erth day.
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 your trip is going well
rainy here this AM. April showers bring May flowers. Have a good one!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Earth day is every day
peace
Like every day... just another rotation
and every year a revolution. If only those revolutions improved the conditions.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Morning, el, have a safe and pleasurable travel day.
Couldn't let this pass
Afternoon EL and all
This MUST be in the videos today.
One of the great moments in music history:
I want a Pony!