10/05 Open Thread - World Teachers' Day
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~~ Raphael - School of Athens
“When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle - we used to call him Tortoise -"
"Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?" Alice asked.
"We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily: "really you are very dull!”Lewis Carroll
On this day in history:
1143 – King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognised Portugal as a Kingdom. (but see 1910)
1607 – The Pope's assassins tried to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.
1665 – The University of Kiel was founded.
1789 – The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminated royal authority.
1857 – The city of Anaheim was founded even though neither Disney nor Gene Autry was born yet.
1877 – The Nez Perce War ended. The wrong side won.
1910 – The Portuguese monarchy was overthrown and a republic was declared.
1911 – The Kowloon–Canton Railway began service.
1944 – The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchised women.
1947 – President Truman made the first televised Oval Office address.
1966 – A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station had a partial meltdown.
1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) was founded.
1986 – Mordechai Vanunu revealed Israel's secret nuclear weapons.
1988 – A Chilean opposition coalition defeated Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
2000 – Mass demonstrations in Serbia forced the resignation of Slobodan Miloševic.
Some people who were born on this day:
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
Alternatively
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
~~ Denis Diderot
1713 – Denis Diderot, philosopher and critic
1715 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Physiocratic economist and educator
1728 – Chevalier d'Éon, diplomat, soldier, and spy , Go Read About ...
1781 – Bernard Bolzano, mathematician and philosopher
1795 – Alexander Keith, brewer and politician
1817 – Catherine Cooper Hopley, author and naturalist
1824 – Henry Chadwick, historian and author(
1858 – Helen Churchill Candee, journalist and author
1879 – Francis Peyton Rous, pathologist and virologist
1882 – Robert H. Goddard, physicist, engineer, and academic
1887 – René Cassin, judge and academic,
1892 – Remington Kellogg, zoologist and paleontologist
1899 – Elda Anderson, physicist and health researcher
1900 – Bing Xin, author and poet, known for her contributions to children's literature
1902 – Ray Kroc, invented modern US "culture"
1903 – M. King Hubbert, geophysicist and academic
1907 – Mrs. Miller, novelty singer
1911 – Pierre Dansereau, ecologist and academic
1923 – Philip Berrigan, priest, activist, and hero
1923 – Stig Dagerman, journalist and author
1928 – Louise Fitzhugh, author and illustrator
1932 – Michael John Rogers, ornithologist
1933 – Billy Lee Riley, rockabilly musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer
1936 – Václav Havel, poet, playwright, and politician,
1937 – Carlo Mastrangelo, doo-wop singer
1938 – Johnny Duncan, country singer
1941 – Roy Book Binder, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1942 – Billy Scott, singer and songwriter
1942 – Richard Street, singer, songwriter
1943 – Steve Miller, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1945 – Brian Connolly, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1945 – Geoff Leigh, saxophonist and flute player
1947 – Brian Johnson, singer and songwriter
1948 – Carter Cornelius, singer
1948 – Russell Mael, vocalist
1948 – Tawl Ross, guitarist
1949 – B. W. Stevenson, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1949 – Yashiki Takajin, singer and television host
1950 – "Fast" Eddie Clarke, rock guitarist
1951 – Bob Geldof, singer, songwriter, and actor
1952 – Harold Faltermeyer, keyboard player, composer, and producer
1955 – Jean-Jacques Lafon, singer and songwriter
1957 – Lee Thompson, singer, songwriter, and saxophonist
1958 – Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author
1959 – Maya Lin, architect and sculptor
1959 – Kelly Joe Phelps, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1961 – Pato Banton, singer and songwriter
1961 – David Bryson, singer, guitarist, and songwriter
1961 – Sharon Cheslow, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1964 – Dave Dederer, guitarist and singer
1966 – Sean M. Carroll, physicist, cosmologist, and academic
1970 – Audie Pitre, singer and bass player
1970 – Tord Gustavsen, pianist and composer
1978 – James Valentine, guitarist
1978 – Steinar Nickelsen, organist and composer
1980 – Paul Thomas, bass player
Some people who died on this day:
The remembrance of the past is the teacher of the future
~~ Kaibara Ekken
1714 – Kaibara Ekken, botanist and philosopher
1740 – Jean-Philippe Baratier, astronomer and scholar
1777 – Johann Andreas Segner, mathematician, physicist, and physician
1813 – Tecumseh, tribal leader
1880 – Jacques Offenbach, cellist and composer
1940 – Silvestre Revueltas, violinist, composer, and conductor
1942 – Dorothea Klumpke, astronomer
1943 – Leon Roppolo, clarinet player and composer
1985 – Karl Menger, mathematician from the Vienna Circle
1986 – James H. Wilkinson, mathematician and computer scientist
1992 – Eddie Kendricks, singer and songwriter
1996 – Seymour Cray, American engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc
2009 – Mike Alexander, English singer-songwriter and bass player
2010 – Steve Lee, singer and songwriter
2011 – Bert Jansch, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
2011 – Fred Shuttlesworth, activist, co-founded the SCLC
2013 – Ruth R. Benerito, chemist and academic
2015 – Grace Lee Boggs, philosopher, author, and activist
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
World Teachers' Day
Apple Betty Day
Do Something Nice Day (is that even legal today>)
National Story Telling Day (Isn't every day, with our media, govt., press, and "historians" all telling us tall tales?)
World Architecture Day
Today's Tunes
Teachers' Day (heh)
Billy Lee Riley
Carlo Mastrangelo
Roy Bookbinder
Billy Scott
Richard Street
Steve Miller
Carter Cornelius
Tawl Ross
Bob Geldof
Jacques Offenbach
Eddie Kendricks
Image is public domain
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. What's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
Open Thread, teachers, Diderot, Chevalier d'Eon, Kaibara Ekken, Roy Bookbinder, Steve Miller, Jacques Offenbach
Comments
That's quite a crowd in the stadium
In Edinburg. Never heard of Bob Geldof before.
A very upbeat Scottish folk tune nevertheless.
Thanks for the OT.
Zionism is a social disease
Geldof is one
of the good ones (showing my early Gen Jones creds here...). In addition to his work with the Boomtown Rats, he was the primary organizer behind Live Aid and Farm Aid, a couple of the big UK charity festivals done in the 80s and 90s.
And he wrote this song, which really put the Boomtown Rats on the map, and is a favorite:
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Good morning UFS, thanks for the background
and the music video. Of course, the video needs a bit of background itself, wow!
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 --
That's one helluva crowd
Just for the record, I don't like Mondays either. Shoot it down.
It doesn't actually matter to me what day of the week it is as they
are all the same in a sense when you have retired. The temperament
of the worker bees tends to be a bit sour is all. Thanks for posting the
song. Didn't Petty do that one?
Zionism is a social disease
Live Aid was
a true record-breaker in many ways, and cemented Geldof as a philanthropist for the ages- as well as putting him squarely on the right side of history. More background on the tune:
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2021/08/25/the-dark-story-behind-bob-geld...
I don't think that Petty ever covered it- but I could be completely wrong on that one.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Good morning QMS. When I saw his name it rang a bell but
I honestly couldn't place it, but that crowd is something of a measure of his work, and that song is something else.
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 --
@QMS Bob Geldof was a good actor
I remember Bob Geldof as an actor as well. He was Pink in the movie The Wall. A few years before Live Aid.
@The Hindsight Times
The eyebrow-shaving scene gets me every time… He did an outstanding job in this.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Good morning, el, et al!
The Dalton Gang got their just rewards on this day in 1892.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-5/the-dalton-gang-is...
I am on my way to the office to pack up shit and empty it out. Weird "work day" at the office.
I disconnected the phone, so won't be interrupted by spammers worried about my Medicare plan.
Have a good one, friend, 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
Well, it's only work if you don't enjoy it. Good luck and
have a great day at work, The end will justify the process if not the means.
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 --
Hi EL!
Thanks for the Raphael reference. I wasn't as familiar with his art as the other two greats. I took a look at the other "rooms" paintings at the wikipedia link. They are incredible, it would probably take some time, to learn the stories behind each painting. It's amazing that he could be so prolific during such a short life.
Raphael
Raphael Rooms
There are 45 photos of the "Rooms" here at the wikipedia link:
Photos of Raphael Rooms
The status of teachers and education certainly needs to be elevated in the US. I heard a Korean American author Min Jin-lee author of a new novel Hagwon going on about this last night. A hagwon or hakwon as I have always called it is a Korean business model for education to supplement public education. The latter isn't adequate in competitive terms from an Asian perspective. These are basically after school hours tutoring for profit. Here, in the US the ongoing decline of basic education was alarming from her point of view. She emphasized that the most important teacher were the parents.
己所不欲，勿施于人。
Good morning Soryang. The Raphael "school" just
seemed like the perfect fit AND is public domain now. Glad you enjoyed your explorations of his work.
Our education system seems to have gone seriously downhill since I was a kid, but I worry that's just me being an old codger. Nonetheless, as once foreshadowed by Savio, it seems that students are now products to be spat out by an assembly line that is oriented toward producing various specific clones opf some prototypes.
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 --
I love that
part of Alice. Here's a musical adaptation of the next couple of stanzas, by one of my favorite drummers, Bill Bruford (of Yes, UK, King Crimson, and others). He put together a wonderful prog rock band with Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Berlin, and Dave Stewart (no, not that one, the other one). And one of the results of that collaboration was this tune (which also features his only vocal work ever recorded, to the best of my knowledge):
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
It is definitely one of the good bits. Thanks for the
video.
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 --
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