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What is your favorite museum? What makes it your favorite?

What are some of the best traveling museum exhibits you’ve seen?

What is your favorite cold cereal? How do you eat it? (Milk, sugar, out of the box?)

What is your favorite kind of pickle? Do you like other pickled veggies? have you ever made your own?

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On This Day

In 1889, inspired by Jules Verne’s successful novel, Around the World in 80 Days, investigative journalist Nellie Bly got her editor to sponsor her attempt to travel around the world in fewer than 80 days. She succeed admirably, finishing in seventy-two days, beating another woman journalist from a competing paper who attempted the journey at the same time, but in the opposite direction.

In 1910, pilot Eugene Ely performed the first airplane take-off from the deck of a ship, using a makeshift platform constructed for the purpose. The ship was the USS Birmingham, and he was flying a Curtiss pusher. He later performed the first successful shipboard landing, as well.

In 1969, NASA launched Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the Moon.

In 1973, a royal wedding hogged the headlines again as Princess Anne married Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey.

In 1991, American and British authorities announced they were indicting two Libyan intelligence officers suspected in the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.

Born on This Day

1719 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s father (d. 1787)

1740 – Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven’s father and first teacher (d. 1792)

1829 – Hendrik Dirk Kruseman van Elten, Dutch landscape painter (d. 1904)

1840 – Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)

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1852 – Antonio Mancini, Italian painter (d.1930)

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1863 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist who invented Bakelite, a favorite material of mine. (d. 1944)

1878 – Julie Manet, French painter, daughter of Berthe Morisot and niece of Edouard Manet  (her father was his brother, Eugene). (d. 1966)

1883 – Louis Marcoussis, Polish-French cubist painter (d. 1941)

1885 – Sonia Delaunay, Ukranian-born French painter, wife of Robert Delaunay (d. 1979)

1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India (d. 1964)

1895 – Louise Huff, American actress (d. 1973)

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1896 – Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)

1899 – Francois Barraud, painter (d. 1934)

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1900 – Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)

1904 – Dick Powell, American actor (d. 1963)

1906 – Louise Brooks, American actress, dancer, movie historian and style icon (d. 1985)

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1908 – Joseph McCarthy, American witchfinder general politician, recently reincarnated as Ted Cruz. (d. 1957)

1912 – Barbara Hutton, American socialite (d. 1979)

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1919 – Veronica Lake, American actress with the famous hair (d. 1973)

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1936 – Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (d. 2006) (Do the Freddie!)

1936 – Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 1990)

1947 – P. J. O’Rourke, American writer

1947 – Buckwheat Zydeco, American zydeco musician

1948 – Charles, Prince of Wales

1954 – Condoleezza Rice, American educator, diplomat and 66th United States Secretary of State

1954 – Anson Funderburgh, blues guitar player and band leader

1959 – Paul McGann, British actor

1967 – Nina Gordon, American singer-songwriter (Veruca Salt)

1970 – Brendan Benson, American musician (The Raconteurs)

Died on This Day

1263 – Alexander Nevsky, Russian saint (b. 1220)

1540 – Rosso Fiorentino, Italian painter (b. 1495)

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1625 – Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1574)

1687 – Nell Gwynne, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650)

1691 – Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)

1734 – Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1649)

1797 – Januarius Zick, German painter (b. 1730)

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1852 – Pavel Fedotov, Russian painter (b. 1815)

1857 – Cornelis Kruseman, Dutch painter (b. 1797)

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1884 – Frederick William Hulme, English landscape painter (b. 1816)

1908 – Lorenzo Delleani, Italian painter (b. 1840)

1915 – Booker T. Washington, American educator and activist (b. 1856)

1951 – Frank Weston Benson, American Impressionist painter, etcher, and teacher (b. 1862)

1974 – Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (b. 1904)

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1995 – Jack Finney, American author (b. 1911)

2002 – Eddie Bracken, American film actor (b. 1915)

2003 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962)

Today is

Educational Support Personnel Day

National Guacamole Day

National Pickle Day

Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day

Operating Room Nurse Day

World Diabetes Day

International Girls Day

National American Teddy Bear Day


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  1. Floja Roja

    My favorite museum? Hmmm. No idea. I really can’t think of any I’ve been to that I didn’t like. I like the Palace of the Legion of Honor in SF for the setting (and the exhibits, that goes without saying) and the new(ish) Getty Museum is wonderful. I loved MOMA in New York, and the Metropolitan. And the Whitney. And the Cooper-Hewitt. LACMA is pretty good (and I will, starting maybe today, be working across the street from it, so I guess I need to renew my membership), as is MOCA.

    The first traveling exhibit that comes to mind is a clothing exhibit I saw at LACMA decades ago, it was clothes from centuries past that have somehow survived to this day. Amazing stuff. I saw one on Yves St. Laurent in NYC that was fun, but not as amazing. The traveling Smithsonian was really fun. So is the actual Smithsonian (can’t believe I left that one off above).

    I don’t do too much cold cereal, unless it’s homemade granola. I eat that by itself of with a little milk.

    I like dill and sweet pickles for different things. I am not one for eating a pickle on its own, it needs to be an accompaniment or part of something. Otherwise I am not really big on pickled anything. Which would explain why I’ve never tried pickling anything (except myself, which is another matter entirely).

  2. jlms qkw

    the transportation museum in dresden, germany, because my son loved it so much.  

    the orsay and the islamic cultural center in paris, oh, and the cluny.  ’cause the louvre is too fucking crowded.  

    moma.  

    shredded wheats, store brand, with a touch of sugar and milk. i stopped buying sugar cereals for my kids.  even fake sugar “whole grain bullshit” like honey nut cheerios.  

    i have no favorite pickles.  i like kimchi.  

  3. anotherdemocrat

    What is your favorite museum? What makes it your favorite?

    What are some of the best traveling museum exhibits you’ve seen?

    A museum….nothing comes to mind, though I do someday want to go to the Air & Space Museum. Can my favorite be one I’ve never been to? And not a museum per se, but man do I love the Johnson Space Center.

    Exhibits – a few years back, there were Monet & Renoir exhibits in Dallas & Fort Worth. I loved them both & had a great time going to them.

    What is your favorite cold cereal? How do you eat it? (Milk, sugar, out of the box?)

    Not exactly “cereal”, but my current breakfast is rolled oats soaked in almond milk, with berries.

    What is your favorite kind of pickle? Do you like other pickled veggies? have you ever made your own?

    I like dill pickles. Other pickled stuff is good too – okra, onions…. Dill. Not sweet.

  4. Gee

    Winter’s here, at least temporarily.

    What is your favorite museum? What makes it your favorite?

    What are some of the best traveling museum exhibits you’ve seen?

    What is your favorite cold cereal? How do you eat it? (Milk, sugar, out of the box?)

    What is your favorite kind of pickle? Do you like other pickled veggies? have you ever made your own?

    I like the National Gallery of Art, East Wing, in DC.  It’s a cool building, and the art is modern.

    You mean like when a big Van Gogh show is lodged temporarily in your local museum?  I don’t know that I’ve been to any, for fear of crowds/long lines.

    I haven’t had cold cereal in a long time.  Believe it or not, I like Grape Nuts, but it has to be soaked in milk for a while.

    I like dill pickles best, but I do like others.  Lulu makes pickles now and then.

  5. Gee

    1919 – Veronica Lake, American actress with the famous hair (d. 1973)

    Sigh.  🙂

    1947 – Buckwheat Zydeco, American zydeco musician

    With David Hidalgo and… is that Dwight Yoakam?

    1954 – Anson Funderburgh, blues guitar player and band leader

    Should I even bother to make a joke about the Fabulous Funderburghs?

  7. jlms qkw

    hands down, the Freedom Train.  this was done for the bicentennial (for our country) and the smithsonian treasures went on the road (or tracks) for the first time ever, iirc.

    we got up at 2 or 3 in the morning for the one-hour drive to des moines to stand in the rain – i was 10, my sisters were 8 and 4, and it is still, with all the events of the bicentennial, a highlight of my childhood.  my kids are undoubtedly sick of hearing me talk about it.  

    that there was life outside of rural iowa, and that i could do that someday, the freedom train made me realize that.  

    then 5 years later, i went with the united methodist church on the Capitol/Apple Tour: 8 days on a bus, williamsburg (15 hours) 3 days wdc, 3 days nyc, two enormously long drives and one brightly lit short one on our bus.  smithsonian, congress, UN, harlem, my hed asploded.  

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