July 29 is day 210 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Setting Orange, Confusion 64, 3185 YOLD (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.6.12.11 by the Mayan Long Count

We know the exact date on which Pakal took the throne because of the fabulous Mayan Calendar, just sayin'. Of course, ab intio, it was based on the intersectionalities of the movements of the planets, whereas our Calendar was based on random shit and especially not the movement of planets, because they didn't, ya know.

The Spanish Armada only lost 5 ships at Gravelines, but the British pounded the Spanish with cannon fire for long hours, weakening the ships, crews, and hulls sufficiently that a subsequent storm and some sloppy navigation pretty much destroyed it. The great Spanish Admiral who kicked mucho ass at Lepanto having bought the farm, some two-bit generalissio, the Duke of Medina-Sidona, who knew nothing of ships, sailing and the sea, was put in charge.

Fresnel's paper was a masterwork that explained and clarified much and, in the process, destroyed the then last remaining argument against the wave theory of light, which was adopted as a result. Of course, we don't ascribe to the wave theory of light, as such, today, but such is life.

Berkowitz, the "son-of-Sam killer" tried to get off on an insanity plea, claiming that he heard voices telling him to do this stuff. It didn't work. (After all, Reagan heard voices too, and they told him what to do, and he did what he was told, and yet he clearly wasn't even remotely crazy, now was he. Well, maybe just a little batshit psycho, but, all the same ....

Throughout history the goddess Eris has been scorned, ignored, related to the second string and treated as a minor deity. This pisses her off and is why everything mankind touches turns to shit. Just ask the Erisians and Discordians. She needs a major temple, pronto.

Playing with new HTML, wonder how it will work? Tune in today and see. So whatthehell didja do with < center > whatever </center> Johnny?

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...

On this day in history:

0615 – Pakal became ruler of Palenque when 12 years old
1588 – The Battle of Gravelines, the British shelled the Spanish Armada
1818 – Augustin Fresnel submitted his Memoir on the Diffraction of Light
1851 – Annibale de Gasparis discovered asteroid 15 Eunomia
1932 – Troops in Washington, D.C.dispersed the remnants of the Bonus Army
1976 – Son-of-Sam (David Berkowitz) committed his first murder
2005 – Astronomers announced the discovery of the dwarf planet Eris

Born this day in:

1805 – Alexis de Tocqueville, historian and philosopher
1869 – Booth Tarkington, author
1898 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist
1914 – Irwin Corey, actor, comedian, and activisst
1933 – Randy Sparks, folkie, singer, songwriter, and musician
1938 – Peter Jennings, journalist and author
1946 – Neal Doughty, keyboardeist, songwriter, and producer
1953 – Geddy Lee, singer, songwriter, keyboardist, and bassist
1954 – Patti Scialfa, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

Died this day in:

1890 – Vincent van Gogh, painter and illustrator who took Marc Anthony's speech too seriously
1974 – Cass Elliot, singer
1976 – Mickey Cohen, businessman, politician, Christian friend of the Irgun
1979 – Herbert Marcuse, sociologist and philosopher, ex-OSS new leftist
1995 – Les Elgart, trumpet player and bandleader
2014 – Giorgio Gaslini, pianist and composer
2014 – Idris Muhammad, drummer and composr

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

International Tiger Day

Music goes here, iirc, well,

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