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The Daily F Bomb, Wednesday 1/29/14

Interrogatories

What is your favorite kind of puzzle?

What would you like to say “Nevermore” to?

What was the last thing, outside of a cashier line, that you waited in line for?

The Twitter Emitter

On This Day

In 1834, President Andrew Jackson ordered the first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.

In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.

In 1861, Kansas was admitted as the 34th state.

In 1900, the American League, consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia.

In 1995, the San Francisco 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowl titles when they beat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX. (also, though it’s too late this year: Go Niners!!!)

In 1998, a bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse. The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence. Unfortunately he is idolized by the “right to life” crowd.

In 2006, ABC “World News Tonight” co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq.

In 2009, the Illinois Senate voted to remove Governor Rod Blagojevich from office.

In 2010, abortion opponent Scott Roeder was convicted of murder by a jury in Wichita, Kan., in the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller, one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the entire country.

Born on This Day

1475 – Giuliano Bugiardini, Florentine painter (d. 1554)

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1627 – Jan Siberechts, Flemish painter (d. 1703)

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1737 – Thomas Paine, English-born American patriot (d. 1809)

1767 – Anne-Louis Girodet, French painter  (d. 1824)

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1801 – Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (d. 1881)

1817 – John Callcott Horsley, English painter (d. 1903)

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1843 – William McKinley, American politician, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)

1860 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)

1866 – Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter (d. 1944)

1867 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish writer (d. 1928)

1868 – Albin Egger-Lienz, Austrian painter (d. 1926)

1872 – Sir William Rothenstein, English painter (d. 1945)

1874 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)

1880 – W. C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)

1905 – Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)

1910 – Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)

1913 – Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)

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1915 – Bill Peet, American children’s book illustrator (d.2002)

1918 – John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010)

1936 – James Jamerson, American bass guitarist (The Funk Brothers) (d. 1983)

1939 – Germaine Greer, Australian writer

1942 – Claudine Longet, French singer and dancer (also murderer)

1944 – Katharine Ross, American actress

1944 – Andrew Loog Oldham, English rock and roll producer

1945 – Tom Selleck, American actor, screenwriter, film producer, NRA member

1946 – Bettye Lavette, American soul singer-songwriter

1947 – David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep and Spice) (d. 1985)

1952 – Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)

Dedicated to the Tea Party:

1953 – Peter Baumann, German musician (Tangerine Dream)

1953 – Louie Pérez, American songwriter, percussionist and guitarist (Los Lobos and Latin Playboys)

1954 – Richard Manitoba, American singer aka Handsome Dick Manitoba (The Dictators and MC5)

1960 – Greg Louganis, American diver

1970 – Paul Ryan, American politician, failed VP candidate, maker of unworkable budgets

1975 – Sara Gilbert, American actress

1976 – Chris Castle, American singer-songwriter

1982 – Adam Lambert, American actor and singer

Died on This Day

1632 – Jan Porcellis, Flemish-born Dutch marine painter (b. 1584)

1678 – Giulio Carpioni, Venitian painter (b. 1613)

1763 – Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)

1888 – Edward Lear, English artist, illustrator, author, and poet (b. 1812)

1899 – Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839)

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1919 – Richard Bergh, Swedish painter (b. 1858)

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1923 – Elihu Vedder, painter (b. 1836)

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1933 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)

1943 – François Cachoud, French painter (b. 1866)

1956 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)

1963 – Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)

1964 – Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)

1968 – Tsuguharu Foujita, Japanese painter, active in France (b. 1886)

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1977 – Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)

1980 – Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)

1986 – Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)

1992 – Willie Dixon, blues musician and composer (b. 1915)

1998 – Joseph Alioto, American politician (b. 1916)

1999 – Lili St. Cyr, American exotic dancer/stripper (b. 1918)

2009 – John Martyn, Scottish singer and songwriter (b. 1948)

Today is

National Corn Chip Day

National Puzzle Day

Carnation Day

Free Thinkers Day (Note to teabaggers: This day is not for you. What you do does not involve thinking.)


5 comments

  1. Gee

    About an inch.

    Typo of the day:  Over at the Facebook page for an upcoming documentary, Particle Fever, one of the commenters was saying that the “Higgs bosom particle” was not a big deal.

    What is your favorite kind of puzzle?

    What would you like to say “Nevermore” to?

    What was the last thing, outside of a cashier line, that you waited in line for?

    Not a big puzzle guy.  I do the crossword, and I have done jigsaw puzzles.  Anything more complicated I don’t bother with.

    Sarah Palin.

    I guess it was the security gate at Obama’s inauguration II.

  2. Floja Roja

    I like all kinds of puzzles. I have this one made of wooden pieces that fit together a certain way, and you have to put them back that way. I’m not good at it, but it takes the mind off other things. I also like crosswords, which I like to do with people, for some reason that’s fun. Jigsaw puzzles are fun, but there is always a missing piece. Then there are word puzzles (good), number puzzles (I suck at those) and all other kinds of puzzles.

    Every day I say “nevermore” to all those freaky right wingers with their really crazy agendas, and every day they come back and taunt me some more.

    Hmmm. I think the last thing I waited in line for was a movie. It’s been a while. I don’t recall which one, but when a movie opens at my local theater, you always have to wait in line at first. Maybe it was The Hobbit (which was a bit of a disappointment)?

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