On this day in...
1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
Happy Birthday to...
Simon Vouet
Cassandra Austen
Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon
Kenny Clarke
Vic Mizzy
Joan Baez
Scott Walker
Jimmy Page
Bill Cowsill
Eric Erlandson
(I'm cherry-picking Wikipedia mainly.)Looking at events and birthdays of people in history that pertain to art, music, literature, film, poetry, psychology, "magic", creative technologies, space travel, philosophies, "illumination", cosmic consciousness. With as little focus on war as possible. There will be exceptions owing to my own personal interest in a specific topic. Feel free to leave comments or suggestions. This is a work in progress.
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
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January 19
On This Day in... 1920 - The American Civil Liberties Union was founded 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. 1986 –...
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On this day in... 1879 – In Mozart Gardens Brooklyn Ada Anderson completed a great feat of pedestrianism - 2700 quarter miles in 2700 quart...
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On this day: 1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France. 1920 - ...
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Happy Birthday to... Baldassare Verazzi Gustave Doré Kahlil Gibran "...For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he ...
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