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09/19 - Talk Like a (Disney) Pirate Day, Jenny [1]

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Date: 2022-09-19

It is the anniversary of the 1676 burning of Jamestown by its colonists in Bacon's Rebellion. Often cast as an early revolutionary rebellion against the British crown, this was really a rebellion against the local government's refusal to sanction the extirpation of all of the indigenous population of Virginia by the colonists.

It is also the anniversary of the exceedingly bizarre death of Giles Corey in 1692. He was accused of being a wizard. The standard routine was for such persons to plead one way or the other to the charge, whereupon they would be tried, convicted and hanged, with their possessions and estate passing to the local government. Mr. Corey chose not to plead which meant that they could not try him and therefore could not find him guilty, hang him and steal seize his property, which would then pass to his sons. The standard remedy for this behavior was to "press" the victim accused until he or she entered an plea and then proceed to the trial and hanging.

Pressing involved placing the victim accused naked on their back with heavy planks atop their body. Heavy stones were then piled upon said planks until the Victim accused made their plea and then it was on to the trial and hanging. Each time they paused to ask Mr. Corey to plead, however, he simply said "more weight" and so, in the fullness of time, they crushed the life out of him without a trial, allowing his estate to pass to his sons and really pissing off the savage rat-bastid christers who had tortured him to death

Aaand finally, we come to the anniversary of the death of Mary Jemison in 1833. She had been captured and adopted by the Seneca as a young girl and became fully assimilated into their culture. She went through two indigenous husbands and had seven children from them. She became known as the White Woman of the Genesee and when provided with the opportunity to "return to civilization", she contemplated the life of the average colonial woman and decided to remain an indian.

It is also the anniversary of a 2019 drone strike that killed 30 civilians in Afghanistan, but I don't see why this is at all noteworthy. That's at best a tiny fraction of the civilians killed in either Afghanistan or in drone strikes and I doubt it ia the largest civilian death toll from one of our strikes either. Sounds to me like just another day in our Greed-based War On Target peoples.

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On this day in history:

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1676 –- Jamestown was burned to the ground by the colonists during Bacon's Rebellion.

1778 -- The first US budget was passed by the Continental Congress

1796 -- George Washington's Farewell Address

1852 –- Annibale de Gasparis discovered the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte

1870 -- The Siege of Paris began

1893 -- Women won the right to vote in New Zealand, that deserves a Haka I should think

1944 -- Finland and the Soviet Union signed an armistice

1952 -- The US barred Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country

1959 -- Khrushchev was barred from visiting Disneyland

1982 -- The first documented emoticons were posted to a university BBS by Scott Fahlman

1985 -- Thomas Bowdler Tipper Gore and other political wives backed by Beachboy Mike Love and Joseph Coors formed the Parents Music Resource Center to try to effectively ban or otherwise control and restrict "bad music"

1991 –- Ötzi the Iceman was discovered in the Alps

2006 -- The Thai military staged a coup, revoked the Constitution and declared martial law

2010 -- The Deepwater Horizon leak was purportedly sealed

2019 –- A drone strike by the United States killed 30 civilian farmers in Afghanistan

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Some people who were born on this day:

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

~~ Sarah Louise Delany

1749 –- Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, mathematician and astronomer

1759 –- William Kirby, priest and entomologist

1824 –- William Sellers, engineer, inventor, and businessperson, invented USS bolt, nut and threaded rod specification

1883 –- Mabel Vernon, educator and activist

1887 –- Lovie Austin, pianist, composer, and bandleader

1888 –- James Waddell Alexander II, mathematician and topologist

1889 –- Sarah Louise Delany, physician and author

1905 –- Judith Auer, World War II resistance fighter

1894 –- Rachel Field, author and poet

1909 -- Ferdinand (Ferry) Anton Ernst Porsche, engineer and businessman

1911 -- William Golding, author, poet, playwright

1913 –- Helen Ward, singer

1918 -- Pablita Velarde, a painter from the Santa Clara Pueblo

1920 -- Roger Angell, journalist and author

1921 –- Billy Ward, singer and songwriter

1922 -- Damon Knight, author and critic

1927 -- Helen Carter, singer

1927 -- Nick Massi, singer and bass player (

1930 -- Muhal Richard Abrams, pianist, composer, and educator

1931 -- Brook Benton, singer, songwriter and actor

1932 -- Mike Royko,journalist and author

1932 -- Stefanie Zweig,journalist and author

1933 -- Gilles Archambault, journalist and author

1936 –- Martin Fay, fiddler

1940 -- Bill Medley, singer and songwriter

1940 -- Sylvia Tyson, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1940 -- Paul Williams, singer, songwriter and actor

1941 -- Cass Elliot, singer

1942 -- Freda Payne, singer and actress

1945 -- David Bromberg, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1949 -- Barry Scheck, lawyer and co-founder of the Innocence Project

1955 -- Rex Smith, actor, singer, and guitarist

1952 –- Rhys Chatham, trumpet player, guitarist, and composer

1952 –- Henry Kaiser, guitarist and composer

1952 –- Nile Rodgers, guitarist, songwriter, and producer

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Some people who died on this day:

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

~~ Will Cuppy

1692 –- Giles Corey, farmer and accused wizard pressed to death

1710 –- Ole Rømer, Dastronomer and instrument maker

1833 -- Mary Jemison, a frontierswoman captured and adopted by the Seneca who later chose to remain Seneca

1843 -- Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, a mathematician, physicist, and engineer

1935 –- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, scientist and engineer

1936 –- Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, singer and musicologist

1942 –- Condé Montrose Nast, publisher, founded Condé Nast Publications

1949 -- Will Cuppy, a brilliant author and critic

1968 -- Red Foley, singer, songwriter and actor

1973 -- Gram Parsons, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1985 –- Italo Calvino, novelist, short story writer, and journalist

2003 -- Slim Dusty, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer

2004 -- Skeeter Davis, singer & songwriter

2006 -- Danny Flores, singer, songwriter and saxophonist

2008 –- Earl Palmer, drummer

2009 -- Arthur Ferrante, pianist, half of Ferrante & Teicher, masters of elevator music

2015 –- Jackie Collins, novelist

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

International Talk Like A Pirate Day



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Today's Tunes



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Talk like A Pirate (Jenny)

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Helen Carter

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Nick Massi

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Brook Benton

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Bill Medley

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Sylvia Tyson

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Paul Williams

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Cass Elliot

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Freda Payne

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David Bromberg

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Red Foley

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Gram Parsons

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Slim Dusty

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Skeeter Davis

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Danny Flores

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Speaking of Pirates --

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I won’t be here when this posts

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Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?

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Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com





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