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The Daily F Bomb, Monday 1/27/14

Interrogatories

What is the most exotic place you have been?

What is your least favorite animal and why?

Did you ever hidden something then forget where you hid it?

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On This Day

In 1888, the National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, D.C..

In 1951, nuclear testing began at the Nevada Test Site with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.

In 1967, astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo 1 spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Florida.

In 1967, more than 60 nations signed a treaty banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes..

In 1973, the Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.

In 1998, then First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, appearing on NBC’s Today show, said that allegations against her husband were the work of a “vast right-wing conspiracy.”

In 2006, Western Union delivered its last telegram.

In 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad tablet computer during a presentation in San Francisco.

Born on This Day

1585 – Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)

1630 – Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch painter (d. 1693)

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1645 – Michiel van Musscher, Dutch painter (d. 1705)

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1679 – Jean-François de Troy, French painter and tapestry designer (d. 1752)

1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)

1805 – Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)

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1824 – Jozef Israëls, Dutch genre painter (d. 1911)

1826 – Carlos de Haes, Spanish landscape painter (d. 1898)

1832 – Arthur Hughes, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (d. 1915)

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1832 – Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)

1841 – Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)

1850 – John Collier, English painter (d. 1934)

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1850 – Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (d. 1924)

1850 – Edward J. Smith, English captain of the RMS Titanic (d. 1912)

1874 – Harold Knight, British painter (d. 1961)

1885 – Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945)

1885 – Maeda Seison, Japanese painter (d. 1977)

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1908 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American newspaper magnate (d. 1993)

1918 – Elmore James, American blues musician (d. 1963)

1921 – Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)

1926 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)

1930 – Bobby Blue Bland, American singer (d. 2013)

1936 – Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)

1940 – James Cromwell, American actor

1942 – Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 1986)

1944 – Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd)

1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian ballet dancer

1951 – Brian Downey, Irish drummer (Thin Lizzy)

1954 – Ed Schultz, American radio and television political talk show host

1955 – John G. Roberts, American jurist and the 17th Chief Justice of the United States

1959 – Keith Olbermann, American political commentator

1961 – Gillian Gilbert, British musician (New Order and The Other Two)

1961 – Margo Timmins, Canadian singer (Cowboy Junkies)

1964 – Bridget Fonda, American actress

1965 – Alan Cumming, Scottish actor

1968 – Mike Patton, American singer-songwriter (Faith No More)

1969 – Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer

Died on This Day

1595 – Sir Francis Drake, English explorer (b. c.1540)

1651 – Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and engraving (b. 1566)

1669 – Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter and draftsman (b. 1584)

1811 – Jean-Baptiste Huet I, French Rococo animal painter and engraver (b. 1735)

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1812 – Captain John Perkins, first black commissioned officer in the Royal Navy

1836 – Ludwig Philipp Strack, German landscape painter (b. 1761)

1901 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)

1910 – Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836)

1927 – Luigi Pastega, Italian genre painter (b. 1858)

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1972 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)

1986 – Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (b. 1914)

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1993 – André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)

2004 – Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)

2007 – Tige Andrews, American actor (b. 1920)

2009 – John Updike, American novelist (b. 1932)

2010 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1933)

2010 – J. D. Salinger, American novelist (b. 1919)

2010 – Howard Zinn, American historian and activist (b. 1922)

Today is

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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12 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    The most exotic place I have been is Hawaii. My travels are sorely lacking.

    I really don’t like little monkeys. The one they “cast” as Nicole Kidman’s daemon in the film, “The Golden Compass” probably cemented that for me. I know it was supposed to be creepy. It more than succeeded for me. I can’t imagine wanting to have one as a pet.

    I once hid my brand-new watch from my larcenous brother and his friends, and I couldn’t find it for weeks. I had put it on top of the lightbulb on the lamp between my parents’ favorite chairs. I finally found it when sitting in my Dad’s chair, I turned on the lamp and noticed a strange shadow on the ceiling. And I had accused my brother of stealing it!

  2.    Massive criminal gang in New Jersey identified as the Chris Christie administration

       – The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 26, 2014

    Chris Christie is probably hoping for something, anything, to take the focus off New Jersey politics. Here is an interesting article about the state’s culture of corruption: “What’s the Matter with Jersey?”.  

    That Tweet by KagroX (“The new danger is apparently yahoos who read about “Stand Your Ground” in the papers and then hang out by their windows with scoped rifles.”) was because of this story from West Virginia:

    A man is now facing two first degree murder charges after a double shooting Saturday afternoon.

    Sheriff Tom McComas says Rodney Black, 63, called police and said he thought two men were breaking into his shed, so he shot them with a rifle.

    However, deputies say the shed was not on Black’s property and the men had the legal right to be there.

    Sheriff McComas says the land actually belonged to Garrick Hopkins [one of the men killed]. He had just purchased it and was showing his brother where he and his family were planning to build their new home in the coming weeks.

    Here is my addition to the Grammy Tweets. I have no idea who this guy is but his hat … and the Tweet about it … made me laugh out loud:

    Back later to read your hovers. Really!! 🙂

  3. Gee

    This morning, the temp was in the 40s, and some snow actually melted, but the temp is expected to plummet over the next two days.

    What is the most exotic place you have been?

    What is your least favorite animal and why?

    Did you ever hidden something then forget where you hid it?

    I don’t know if I’ve ever been anyplace exotic.  I’ve seen some exotic things in museums.  One of the Smithsonian museums had (or has?) James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room on display.  I’ve been to a couple of Gilded Age mansions, but they’re not so much exotic as ostentatious.

    On a practical level, I’m not fond of mosquitoes, since they spread so many diseases.  On an aesthetic level, hyenas are ugly.

    I don’t know that I’ve ever actually hidden anything, but I have misplaced lots of things.

  4. anotherdemocrat

    What is the most exotic place you have been?

    I’ve been everywhere, man (cue Johnny Cash song — but it’s about the U.S. — where I’ve been very few places. Singapore or Bombay (before they changed the name) — you know we actually stayed in the hotel where that terrorist attack was? My dad was the kind of person who, when he had money, liked to do things like stay at the fanciest hotel in Bombay.

    What is your least favorite animal and why?

    Do insects count?

    Did you ever hidden something then forget where you hid it?

    Yes.  

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