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Monday OT: Dec 30 is Bo Diddley's Birthday

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 12/30/2019 - 5:00am

December 30 is day 364 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Prickle-Prickle, The Aftermath 72, 3185 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.2.5 by the Mayan Long Count

Moses Williams playing the diddley bow at the 1978 Florida Folk Festival

Sunday Open Thread: January 21st is National Hugging Day

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sun, 01/21/2018 - 5:00am

World History this day

1793 -- Louis XVI of France was guillotined
1925 -- Albania declared itself to be a republic.
1968 -- A B-52 crashed near Thule, contaminated the area with busted nukes and lost one nuke completely
2000 -- President Jamil Mahuad of Ecuador was deposed
2017 -- Over 400 US cities and 160+ countries hold a women's march,