on this day in 1889 e.v., the world's first jukebox made its debut at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Fransisco.
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Fri, November 24, 2006 - 9:47 PMtoday's the birthay of Margaret Anderson, editor-publisher of The Little Review, which serialized the novel Ulysses by James Joyce before it finally got published as a completed book by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. -
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Sat, November 25, 2006 - 6:01 PM& today's the birthday, in 1835 c.e., of Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate who became the philanthropist responsible for funding this country's first free public libraries. -
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Tue, November 28, 2006 - 9:31 AMtoday's the birthday of English poet, essayist, visual artist, mystic and social radical Wiliam Blake. I'M CELEBRATING! Wikipedia has an excellent article on him. -
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Tue, November 28, 2006 - 9:32 AMhollllldennnnnnn, have you ever read The Gold Bug Variations, by Richard Powers? Something tells me you would like it..... -
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Tue, November 28, 2006 - 10:10 AMthe protagonist and narrator is a reference librarian by trade, and one of the recurring themes is Today In History.
This makes the book sound dull. It's not. It's the most wonderful book in the world.
It's a blend of
love story x 2
recurring patterns
like in DNA
DNA itself
Poe and coded messages
codes like in DNA
Goldberg Variations, recurring themes, coded messages
how music can change us
how unknowable people are
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Thu, November 30, 2006 - 9:53 AMtoday's the birthday of the great Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote under the name Mark Twain. #44, The Mysterious Stranger is one of my favorite books. see:
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Thu, December 7, 2006 - 8:32 AMtoday's the birthday of linguist, political analyst & activist Noam Chomsky. cheers! see:
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Thu, December 14, 2006 - 9:43 AM1900 c.e.: Max Planck publishes his theory of quantum mechanics.
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Sun, December 17, 2006 - 11:04 AM1903: the Wright brothers fly a plane!
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Mon, December 18, 2006 - 2:48 AMand today Keith Richards was born in 1943
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Mon, December 25, 2006 - 3:17 PMtoday's the birthday of physicist Isaac Newton. a good Wikiedia article about him:
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Thu, January 4, 2007 - 9:01 AMtoday's the birthday of Louis Braille who invented the braille system of embossed dot type for blind folks, so i found something interesting:
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Thu, January 18, 2007 - 10:51 AMtoday's the birthday of physician, inventor & lexicographer Peter Mark Roget, a man of diverse accomplishments best known today for Roget's Thesaurus, one of the first reference books of its type. see:
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Thu, January 18, 2007 - 9:28 PMwe are experiencing blackouts in south africa!!!!! -
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Thu, January 18, 2007 - 10:38 PMdo you know the cause, Ally? -
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Fri, January 19, 2007 - 7:55 AMNot actually...but, aparantly its due to the fact that people, at certain times of the day, are using too much power at the same time..and we dont have enough to constitute everyone... -
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Wed, February 28, 2007 - 9:19 AM1953 c.e.: Crick, Watson and Franklin discover the structure of DNA.
1901 c.e.: chemist (etc.) Linus Pauling born.
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Sat, March 3, 2007 - 9:51 AM1959: born: Ira Glass, broadcaster, host of This American Life on National Public Radio. see:
www.thislife.org
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Sat, March 3, 2007 - 12:09 PMThey discovered the structure of DNA while trippin on LSD. No joke (very well documented). This is really an amazing day in history. There are really alot of connections. Anyone else notice this? -
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Sun, March 4, 2007 - 7:05 AMfun thread, thanks Holden
Does anyone know if there is a website that lists historical facts by dates like this?
(history buff here)
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Sun, March 4, 2007 - 8:34 AMMANY "today in history" type websites exist! i get a lot of my info from this one which i check every day:
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Sun, March 4, 2007 - 5:53 PMcool beans
thanks for the info!
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Mon, March 5, 2007 - 8:56 AMIn fact, Crick always denied, at least in public, that he had used LSD or at least that it had played any role in his work on DNA. There are people who claim that he told them in private ("off the record") that he had been using low-doses of LSD at the time and that that it did help him and Watson to come up with the structure. To hear all sides, do a google search on "crick lsd dna":
www.google.com/search
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Mon, March 5, 2007 - 4:18 PMwhoa...that's interesting...I thought you guys were joking!
I know that lots of folks did cocaine...Freud and many others, but hadn't know about Crick. Didn't one of these guys have a dream in which the saw a snake coiled and that is how they got the idea about the double helix? Or was that some other scientific discovery?
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Mon, March 5, 2007 - 8:08 PMno, Jon, you have it right...either Crick or Watson had that dream. at this distance i can't recall which of them. -
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Mon, March 5, 2007 - 9:48 PMIn the moment of joy following their discovery, they rejoiced by hopping on their bikes and pedaling to the pub for celebratory pints. This I believe came to be Known as the famous "Bicycle Ride". -
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Tue, March 6, 2007 - 4:05 AMyou guys are bringing me back to bio class...and the Krebs citric acid cycle....
for some reason, that name always pops up...and endoplasmic reticulum...
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Tue, March 13, 2007 - 8:51 AM1781: astronomer William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
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Tue, March 13, 2007 - 10:13 AMand 3 days after Keef is my birthday : ) -
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Tue, March 13, 2007 - 10:14 AMJacques Chirac President of France since 1995,
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Tue, March 13, 2007 - 12:16 PMsome history stuff:
a friend of mine runs a literary magazine. He is doing some neat stuff. He is now taking the magazine into an historical direction...when people submit poems they have to research an era of history and base the work on that.
I thought that was a neat idea.
hmmmm other history things?
Well, I was editor of my junior high school paper. I assigned all the articles and the following week, a day before we published, no one
had submitted a thing. I stayed up all night long and wrote the history of my town. It actually turned out to be pretty interesting. Union, NJ
was settled in 1666 by some folks from Connecticut. There are still a few colonial buildings around town. There is a colonial era church here at which there was some battle or skirmish. They ran out of wadding for the guns, so the pastor told them to rip up the Watts hymnals.
There was some kind of famous cry out of that, "Give 'em Watts, boys!"
But my favorite historical thing about Union, is that the main street through town, Morris Avenue, had actually been an Indian trail. I've always wondered if some of those, say, colonial era Indian trails had a really ancient history and perhaps the trail was used for hundreds
and hundreds of years prior...
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Wed, March 14, 2007 - 12:20 PMalso on this day in 1794 c.e., Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, though its true inventor remains a matter of controversy. see Wikipedia for details. -
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Sat, March 24, 2007 - 12:56 PMtoday's the birthday of Hungarian-American stage magician & stunt performer Ehrich Weisz, who performed ingenious escapes & other feats by the professional pseudonym Harry Houdini. see:
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Sat, March 24, 2007 - 1:31 PM1882: German physician Robert Koch announces the discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium. -
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Wed, April 4, 2007 - 5:58 PM1802: social reformer Dorothea Dix incarnates.
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Wed, April 4, 2007 - 6:40 PMalso my daughter was born in 1999! ok, so maybe that's not historic to anyone else, but it's a pretty big event in my household!
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Wed, April 4, 2007 - 9:21 PMToday is also the 2nd anniversary of the death of Jacob Faust, a young San Diego artist/actor/ musician who was shot to death by police during a traffic stop gone horribly wrong. I saw him perform just a week or two before it happened, and today have friends that knew him. There are a number of events happening in SD this week so that Jacob Faust is not forgotten:
jacobfaust.com/pressreleases.html
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