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Interrogatories

At this writing, I am listening to people on TV talking about various kinds of addiction, which leads to these serious questions.

Have you known many drug addicts? Have you lost friends or loved ones to drugs?

How about alcohol?

Smoking?

I’ve lost loved ones to all three, I’ll bet most of you have as well.

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On This Day

In 1763, France ceded Canada to England under the Treaty of Paris, which ended the French and Indian War.

In 1840, Britain’s Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.

In 1846, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) began an exodus west from Illinois.

In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against United States intervention in Vietnam.

In 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, was ratified.

In 1989, Ron Brown was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African-American to head a major U.S. political party.

In 1998, voters in Maine repealed a gay rights law passed in 1997. The law was reinstated by popular vote in 2012.

Born on This Day

1670 – Norbert van Bloemen, Flemish painter (d. 1746)

1744 – William Cornwallis, English Royal Navy admiral (d.1819)

1755 – Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, French painter (d. 1830)

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1783 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)

1785 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1836)

1791- Francesco Hayez, Italian painter (d. 1881)

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1793 – Léon-Matthieu Cochereau, French painter (d. 1817)

1795 – Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)

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1848 – Anna Boch, Belgian painter (d. 1936)

1850 – Fyodor Vasilyev, Russian landscape painter who died way too young (d. 1873)

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1878 – Otto Eduard Pippel, German (d. 1960)

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1881 – Pauline Brunius, Swedish stage and film actress, theatre and film director (d. 1954)

1888 – Wilhelm Thöny, Austrian painter (d. 1949)

1890 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1960)

1892 – Alan Hale Sr., American actor (d. 1950)

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

1897 – Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)

1898 – Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)

1901 – Stella Adler, American actress (d. 1992)

1905 – Chick Webb (William Henry), American drummer and band leader (d. 1939)

1906 – Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (d. 1973)

1906 – Erik Rhodes, American actor (d. 1990)

1927 – Leontyne Price, American soprano

1928 – Jos De Mey, Belgian painter (d. 2007)

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1930 – E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator

1930 – Robert Wagner, American actor

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1937 – Roberta Flack, American singer

1940 – Kenny Rankin, American singer and songwriter (d. 2009)

1944 – Vernor Vinge, American novelist

1949 – Nigel Olsson, English drummer

1961 – George Stephanopoulos, American political noisemaker who I always confuse with Snuffleupagus (though the latter is cuter)

1962 – Cliff Burton, American bass player (Metallica) (d. 1986)

1964 – Glenn Beck, deranged lunatic American author, radio and TV host

1967 – Laura Dern, American actress

1979 – Daryl Palumbo, American musician (Glassjaw, Head Automatica)

1983 – Vic Fuentes, musician, lead singer of Pierce the Veil

Died on This Day

1657 – Sebastian Stosskopf, German painter (b. 1597)

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1660 – Judith Leyster, Dutch painter (b. 1609)

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1667 – Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, Spanish painter (b. 1612)

1674 – Leonaert Bramer, Dutch painter (b. 1596)

1720 – Hendrik Govaerts, Flemish painter (b. 1669)

1722 – Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682) (The Dread Pirate Roberts?)

1755 – Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)

1765 – Jean-Baptiste Deshays, French historical painter (b. 1729)

1772 – Louis Tocqué, French portrait painter (b. 1696)

1837 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)

1861 – Francis Danby, Irish-born English landscape painter  (d. 1793)

1901 – Telemaco Signorini, Italian painter (b. 1835)

1917 – John William Waterhouse, English painter (b. 1849)

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1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)

1927 – Nils Gustav Wentzel, Norwegian painter (b. 1859)

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1932 – Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)

1932 – Eugene de Blaas, Italian painter (b. 1843)

1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)

1966 – Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)

1986 – Brian Aherne, British actor (b. 1902)

1992 – Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)

2002 – Dave Van Ronk, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936)

2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)

Today is

Cream Cheese Brownie Day

Umbrella Day

Plimsoll Day

Clean Out Your Computer Day (2nd Monday of February)

This Week is

Children of Alcoholics Week

Random Acts of Kindness Week

Celebration of Love Week

Jello Week


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6 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    so you get serious questions.

    I’ve known quite a number of heroin addicts. One of them I did not know was an addict until he OD’d. He had seemed so engaged with life, had hobbies, a fiancee, etc. I learned that is not that unusual. Of course, I have known the nodding-out-in-public variety as well, which seemed to me to be more common. The guy who OD’d didn’t fit the profile, the rest did. Anyway, D. wasn’t the only one who died, there were more. Luckily, most of my heroin addict friends recovered. They had to get out of that life – a new group of friends, new hangouts. Most of them have families of their own now, I think that is the glue that holds them together. One has because a well-known drug counselor. Oh, my brother was one of those who didn’t make it, though he abused every drug he could get his hands on.

    My father was an alcoholic, and his death was related to it, though not specifically caused by it. Had he been able to quit, he would have lived a lot longer. Others I know who were killed by alcohol drove drunk (or were killed by drunk drivers) or died in fires caused by drunken carelessness, or similar situations.

    My dad had quit smoking after a family friend died of lung cancer. My mom kept smoking for another 25 years. She did get lung cancer, quite a while after she’d quit, but I have no doubt that contributed. She’s the only one I know who may have been killed by smoking. My other friend with lung cancer never smoked a day in his life.

    Cheery, huh?

    Funny, my pothead friends have been potheads their entire lives, have steady jobs and happy families, and have never felt the need to move on to harder drugs. I really think alcohol is more of a “gateway drug” than pot.

  2. JanF

       If we can’t have equal pay for women, can women start paying 77% for all goods and services?

       – Shannyn Moore (@shannynmoore) February 7, 2014

    I found a few Tweets last night. This one on the young man from Mizzou who came out as gay before the NFL Draft:

    I just hope that the team who employs Richie Incognito does not draft him. The kid deserves a chance to show what he can do on the field. I suspect that a country who lauds a rich fan in Texas calling a basketball player the n-word has a lot of evolving to do.

    Here is a great Tweet from West Virginia:

    Back after breakfast!!

  3. Gee

    Well, I can hope, eh?  Tiny bit of snow yesterday.

    Have you known many drug addicts? Have you lost friends or loved ones to drugs?

    How about alcohol?

    Smoking?

    I haven’t known many drug addicts well.  Just glancing blows.  People in college may have been on their way there, but I don’t know.

    I have known people who died fairly young from various forms of sustained hard living (drugs + alcohol).  No dramatic overdoses, just the body giving out in their forties.

    My mother’s brother and his wife were very heavy smokers, and they could have lived a lot longer.  He died at 65, of cancer of the esophagus, I think.  My father and mother, king and queen of clean living, both made 91.

  5. princesspat

    Good morning….finding a song, thinking about your questions of the day, reading the tweets and hovers…a great start to the day. Thanks Floja!

  6. princesspat

    drugs and alchol……sadly yes. My youngest brother died of a drug over dose 5 yrs ago, and my surviving brother is dying now of liver cancer, with Hepatitis C being part of the cause.

    My kids were fortunate to survive their “youthful indiscretions”. And my husband and his brothers are all meeting the challenge of enjoying alcohol while aging.

    A serious question, no easy answers, just daily diligence.  

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