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08/21/2017 was "The Great American Eclipse" [1]
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Date: 2023-08-21
Well, you saw it, or you missed it. It's not like solar eclipses, or even total eclipses are that rare, but the path of totality is geographically narrow. Naturally, they hyped the hell out of this one because tourism (money). So, thus it became THE Great AmericanEclipse for an extended period well before it happened. I'm quite certain that it must've been exeptional, so how could we possibly let it fade from memory?
Meanwhile, it is Aubrey Beardsley's birthday
An Illustration from Wilde's Salome' Lastly, it is World Senior Citizens Day, or Useless eaters Day depending upon your ideological proximity to the W.E.F. Not all of the elderly, of course, some are wealthy or somehow otherwise influential or powerful.
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On this day in history:
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1680 – Pueblo Indians captured Santa Fe from the Spanish
1791 – The Haitian Revolution began.
1831 – Nat Turner led black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion
1852 – Tlingit Indians destroyed Fort Selkirk
1888 – The first successful adding machine in the US was patented
1945 – Harry Daghlian was fatally irradiated by the Demon core at Los Alamos
1959 – Ike signed an executive order proclaiming Hawaii to be the 50th state 1963 – The Army of the Republic of Vietnam vandalized Buddhist Pagodas, arrested thousands and killed hundreds
1971 – A Liberal Party rally in Manila, was bombed, injuring several anti-Marcos political candidates
1983 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. was assassinated
R 1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupted from Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people
2017 – A solar eclipse traversed the continental United States.
Ooooh, eclipses, portents, omens, and all that; a dark star
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Some people who were born on this day:
I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.
~~ Aubrey Beardsley
1665 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, astronomer and mathematician
1754 – William Murdoch, engineer and inventor
1789 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, mathematician
1798 – Jules Michelet, historian and philosopher
1872 – Aubrey Beardsley, author and illustrator
1886 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, author and poet
1904 – Count Basie, pianist, composer and bandleader
1906 – Friz Freleng, animator and cartoonist
1909 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, mathematician and physicist
1916 – Consuelo Velázquez, pianist and songwriter
1928 – Art Farmer, played trumpet, flugelhorn and flumpet, also composer
1938 – Kenny Rogers, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1939 – James Burton, guitarist
1944 – Jackie DeShannon, singer and songwriter
1947 – Carl Giammarese, singer, songwriter, and musician
1952 – Glenn Hughes, bassist, singer and songwriter
1952 – Joe Strummer, singer, songwriter and guitarist, co-founded The Clash
1954 – Steve Smith, drummer
1973 – Sergey Brin, computer scientist, co-founder of Google
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Some people who died on this day:
If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
~~ Leon Trotsky
1614 – Elizabeth Bathory, countess, extremely prolific serial killer
1762 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, author, poet, and playwright
1836 – Claude-Louis Navier, engineer and physicist
1940 – Ernest Thayer, writer and poet, wrote "Casey at the Bat".
1940 – Leon Trotsky, died from the wound he suffered on the 20th
1947 – Ettore Bugatti, engineer
1960 – David B. Steinman, engineer who designed the Mackinac Bridge
1971 – George Jackson, activist and author
1988 – Ray Eames, architect and designer
1989 – Raul Seixas, singer and songwriter
1995 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, astrophysicist and mathematician
2005 – Robert Moog, engineer and inventor
2013 – Sid Bernstein, record producer played a big part in "the British Invasion"
2019 – Celso Piña, singer, composer, arranger, and accordionist
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Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
World Senior Citizens Day
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Today's Tunes
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Motown's First #1 Hit
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Count Basie
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Consuelo Velázquez
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Art Farmer
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James Burton
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Kenny Rogers
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Jackie DeShannon
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Carl Giammarese
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Glen Hughes
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Joe Strummer
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Steve Smith
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Raul Seixas
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who predicted the existence of black holes
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Robert Moog
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Celso Piña
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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, Robert Moog, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Santa Fe, Haitian Revolution, Aubrey Beardsley, Leon Trotsky
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