Sunday Open Thread: May 27 is Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Bartholemy, Saint Martin)



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and it is also Boomtime, Confusion 1, 3184 YOLD
(for you Discordians out there)

World History this day
1703 -- Peter the Great founded Saint Petersburg.
1905 -- The Battle of Tsushima started
1967 -- Australia passed a constitutional referendum granting the government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.

US History this day

1907 -- The first US Bubonic plague epidemic broke out in San Francisco.
1933 -- The Federal Securities Act was signed
1962 -- The Centralia mine fire started
1965 -- US warships began shelling targets in South Vietnam.
2016 -- Barack Obama visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

Science & Technology this day

1937 -- The Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic

The Arts this day

Misc. this day

Birthdays of Note this day

1818 -- Amelia Bloomer, activits and journalist
1819 -- Julia Ward Howe, poet, activist, abolitionist, and songwriter
1836 -- Jay Gould, swindler, robber baron
1837 -- Wild Bill Hickok, gambler and gunslinger
1871 -- Georges Rouault, painter and illustrator
1894 -- Dashiell Hammett, writer
1897 -- John Cockcroft, physicist
1907 -- Rachel Carson, biologist, environmentalist, and author
1912 -- John Cheever, novelist and short story writer
1915 -- Ester Sore', singer and songwriter
1915 -- Herman Wouk, novelist
1923 -- Henry Kissinger, war criminal
1930 -- John Barth, author
1934 -- Harlan Ellison, author and screenwriter
1935 -- Ramsey Lewis, jazz pianist and composer
1939 -- Don Williams, country singer, songwriter and guitarist
1943 -- Cilla Black, singer and actress
1945 -- Bruce Cockburn, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1946 -- Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, bassist and comoser
1950 -- Dee Dee Bridgewater, singer, songwriter, and actress
1957 -- Siouxsie Sioux, singer, songwriter and musician

Deaths of Note this day

1564 -- John Calvin, religionist
1707 -- Francoise-Athenais, marquise de Montespan, royal mistress
1867 -- Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist
1910 -- Robert Koch, physician and microbiologist,
1949 -- Robert Ripley, cartoonist and publisher
1992 -- Uncle Charlie Osborne, fiddler
2011 -- Gil Scott-Heron, poet, activist, singer, songwrite,r and musician, accused of inventing rap

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So now some music


Jay Gould

Ester Sore'

Henry Kissinger

Ramsey Lewis

Don Williams

Cilla Black

Bruce Cockburn

Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Siouxsie Sioux

Gil Scott-Heron

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Photo: New York Public Library [Three women from Guadeloupe.] Digital ID: 1206544. Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis) -- Photographer

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mimi's picture

I am blessed with sunshine, a green sea of leaves being illuminated and a soft wind caressing my face.

enhydra lutris, do you often wonder how old we are? I was only 17, when the US warships started shelling the Vietnamese. How little did I know. Today I know a little itsy bit more, but it helps nothing at all. I never felt old before, lately I did.

You surround us with your art and music. And that is always a gift. Wishing you as healthy a body and spirit as is still there for us oldies. You take good care of yourself.

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enhydra lutris's picture

@mimi
dropped various hints, knowingly or not. I was almost 19 on that date, a student member of the ACLU and involved in all the turmoil at Berkeley. I think I was born old, partly thanks to a brother 4 years my senior who passed on knowledge, music, and experiences that were older than those my age were stumbling upon by themselves. By high school, I and my peers had no expectations of living very long and a determination to go out and fix what was wrong with the world (U.S.). Imagine my surprise to be in my seventies. No real surprise that our few victories in changing things were ephemeral, however, due to youthful overdoses of realism/cynicism counterbalancing our idealism. After all, we all knew that we weren't the first to try.

You too take care of yourself, and have a wonderful day.

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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 --

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@enhydra lutris
makes it all so much more real.

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and thanks for the great OT.
Just because I'm listening to this this morning. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

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@randtntx
is always good. Harper is new to me, thanks for the intro.

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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 --

@enhydra lutris Just happened to come across the new CD. Happy to oblige.

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Sorry to chime in so late...

Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1971)

I fell in love with this at first hearing, must have been about 15 when it came out, still love it. B.R. - before rap. It should be mandatory listening.

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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

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@dystopian

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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 --