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4/10 - Sibling Day (I shit you not) [1]

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Date: 2023-04-10

Cain and Abel by Daniele Crespi

So, Sibling Day, seems fraught with peril. It would seem that sibling rivalries are as old as siblinghood itself. Whose idea was this anyway?

Of course, in my clan it was "we can will and do thump each other about but you all better back off. This, of course, promotes bigger brawls and even feuds. Guess that's what the "brotherhood of man" is all about, or we wouldn't act that way.

It's Dyngus Day in Poland and Ukraine, but you really don't want to know about it, trust me. Maybe stick with the sibling thing.

Heh.

Formally known as “The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction”, the Convention was negotiated by the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland. It opened for signature on 10 April 1972 and entered into force on 26 March 1975. The BWC supplements the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which had prohibited only the use of biological weapons.

States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention undertook “never in any circumstances to develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire or retain:

microbial or other biological agents, or toxins whatever their origin or method of production, of types and in quantities that have no justification for prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes; weapons, equipment or means of delivery designed to use such agents or toxins for hostile purposes or in armed conflict.” BWC States Parties have strived to ensure that the Convention remains relevant and effective, despite the changes in science and technology, politics and security since it entered into force.

https://www.un.org/disarmament/biological-weapons/



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On this day in history:

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0837 -- Halley's Comet made its closest approach to Earth

1606 -- The Virginia Company of London was established to colonize North America

1710 -- The Statute of Anne regulating copyright went into effect in Britain

1864 -- Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico, a Juan Guaido prototype of sorts

1866 -- The ASPCA was founded

1872 -- The first Arbor Day was held

1904 -- Aleister Crowley transcribed the third (last) chapter of The Book of the Law of Thelema.

1912 -- The Titanic sailed

1919 -- Emiliano Zapata was ambushed and killed.

1925 -- The Great Gatsby was published

1941 -- The Axis powers created the Independent State of Croatia with the fascist Ustase in power

1957 -- The Suez Canal reopened

1963 -- The Thresher sank

1970 -- Paul McCartney quit the Beatles

1972 -- 74 nations signed the Biological Weapons Convention, which the US implemented in 1989 but still didn't comply with.

1972 – Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, were accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.

1998 -- The Good Friday Agreement was reached bringing peace to Northern Ireland

2019 – Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announced the first ever image of a black hole.

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Some people who were born on this day:

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

~~ Frances Perkins

1389 -- Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence

1583 -- Hugo Grotius, philosopher and jurist

1827 – Lew Wallace, general, lawyer, politician, and author

1829 -- William Booth, founded the Starvation Army

1847 -- Joseph Pulitzer, journalist, publisher and founder of Pulitzer, Inc.

1865 -- Jack Miner, conservationist

1880 – Frances Perkins, Asociologist, academic, and politician

1903 -- Clare Turlay Newberry, author & illustrator of children's books

1910 -- Paul Sweezy, founded the Monthly Review

1917 – Robert Burns Woodward, chemist and academic,

1921 -- Sheb Wooley, singer

1924 – Kenneth Noland, painter

1927 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, biochemist and geneticist

1930 – Claude Bolling, pianist, composer, and actor

1930 -- Dolores Huerta, activist, co-founded the UFW

1934 -- David Halberstam, author

1936 -- Bobby Smith, singer & spinner

1941 -- Paul Theroux, writer

1947 -- Bunny Wailer, singer, drummer, songwriter, wailer

1949 – Eric Troyer, singer, songwriter, keyboardist and guitarist

1950 -- Eddie Hazel, guitarist

1959 -- Babyface, singer, songwriter and producer

1959 -- Brian Setzer, singer, songwriter and guitarist

1960 -- Katrina Leskanich, singer, songwriter & guitarist

1965 -- Tim Alexander, drummer and songwriter

1967 – David Rovics, singer and songwriter

1970 – Kenny Lattimore, singer and songwriter

1972 – Priit Kasesalu, computer programmer

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Some people who died on this day:

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

~~ Emiliano Zapata

1813 -- Joseph-Louis Lagrange, mathematician and astronomer, who had his points.

1823 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, philosopher and academic

1909 -- Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet

1919 -- Emiliano Zapata, general, revolutionary,

1931 -- Kahlil Gibran, poet

1947 – Charles Nordhoff, author

1938 -- King Oliver, cornet player and bandleader

1958 -- Chuck Willis, singer and songwriter

1966 -- Evelyn Waugh, writer

1981 -- Howard Thurman, author and civil rights activist

1986 – Linda Creed, singer and songwriter

1993 – Chris Hani, activist and politician

2003 -- Little Eva, singer

2007 -- Dakota Staton, singer

2012 -- Barbara Buchholz, theremin player and composer

2013 – Binod Bihari Chowdhury, activist

2013 – Olive Lewin, anthropologist, musicologist, and author

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

Dingus Day (Poland, Ukraine)

Feast of the Third Day of the Writing of the Book of the Law (Thelema)

Siblings Day (International observance)

Safety Pin Day





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Today's Tunes



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Paul McCartney

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Sheb Wooley

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Bobby Smith

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Bunny Wailer

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Eddie Hazel

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Babyface

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Brian Setzer

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Katrina Leskanich

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Tim Alexander

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David Rovics

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King Oliver

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Chuck Willis

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Little Eva

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Dakota Staton

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Barbara Buchholz

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Bonus:

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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



Open Thread, Zapata, McCartney, Dolores Huerta, King Oliver, Barbara Buchholz, Stray Cats, Purple People, Evelyn Waugh, Swineburn, Kahlil Gibran, Little Eva

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