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The Daily F Bomb, Tuesday 2/18/14

Interrogatories

It’s Drink Wine Day. What kind of wine will you celebrate with?

What period and place in history do you find most fascinating, and why?

Are you a joiner? Do you belong to many groups or organizations that actually engage in real-life activities?

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On This Day

In 1885, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain was published.

In 1930, Pluto was discovered in a photograph by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ.

In 1970, five of the Chicago Seven defendants were found guilty of intent to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (The convictions were later overturned.)

In 1972, the California Supreme Court struck down the state’s death penalty (temporarily).

In 1988, Anthony M. Kennedy was sworn in as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 2001, veteran FBI agent Robert Hanssen was arrested, accused of spying for Russia for more than 15 years. (Hanssen pleaded guilty and is serving life in prison without parole.)

In 2006, American Shani Davis won the men’s 1,000-meter speedskating in Turin, becoming the first black athlete to win an individual gold medal in Winter Olympic history.

In 2006, a Hamas-dominated Palestinian parliament was sworn in.

In 2010, software engineer A. Joseph Stack III crashed his single-engine plane into a building containing IRS offices in Austin, Texas, killing one person besides himself.

Born on This Day

1404 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian architect and philosopher (d. 1472)

1602 – Pieter Meulener, Dutch painter (d. 1654)

1609 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian (d. 1674)

1751 – Adolf Ulrik Wertmuller, Swedish painter (d. 1811)

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1755 – Nicolas-Didier Boguet, French landscape painter (d. 1839)

1780 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter (d. 1847)

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1815 – Henri Leys, Belgian painter (d. 1869)

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1817 – Johannes Bosboom, Dutch architectural painter (d. 1891)

1838 – Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916)

1844 – Willem Maris, Dutch landscape painter (d. 1910)

1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (d. 1933)

1853 – Charles William Wyllie, British marine painter (d. 1923)

1857 – Max Klinger, German Symbolist painter, sculptor and engraver (d. 1920)

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1859 – Sholom Aleichem, Russian Yiddish humorist (d. 1916)

1860 – Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (d. 1920)

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1862 – Albert Welti, Swiss painter (d. 1912)

1890 – Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956)

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1890 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963)

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1892 – Wendell Willkie, American politician (d. 1944)

1894 – Paul R. Wiliams, architect, and the first African-American member of the AIA. He designed many iconic building and many movie star homes (now endangered). (d.1980)

1906 – Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)

1915 – Phyllis Calvert, British actress (d. 2002)

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1919 – Jack Palance, American actor (d. 2006)

1922 – Alexander Mikhailovich Semionov, Russian painter (d. 1984)

1927 – John Warner, American politician, 61st United States Secretary of the Navy and American politician

1930 – Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist

1931 – Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel laureate

1933 – Yoko Ono, Japanese-born American singer and performance artist

1933 – Mary Ure, Scottish actress (d. 1975)

1941 – Herman Santiago, American singer and songwriter (The Teenagers)

1941 – Irma Thomas, American singer

1950 – John Hughes, American film director (d. 2009)

1952 – Randy Crawford, American jazz and R&B singer

1953 – Robbie Bachman, Canadian drummer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)

1954 – John Travolta, American actor

1964 – Matt Dillon, American actor

1964 – Paul Hanley, British musician (The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers)

1965 – Dr. Dre, American record producer and rapper (World Class Wreckin’ Cru and N.W.A)

1968 – Molly Ringwald, American actress

Died on This Day

1294 – Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215)

1455 – Fra Angelico, Italian artist (b. 1395)

1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1449)

1546 – Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)

1564 – Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor (b. 1475)

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1682 – Pierre Dupuis, French still life painter (b. 1610)

1683 – Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)

1902 –  Albert Bierstadt, German-American landscape painter (b. 1830)

1917 – Carolus-Duran, French painter (b. 1847)

1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)

1978 – Maggie McNamara, American actress (b. 1928)

1999 – Andreas Feininger, French born American photographer (b. 1906)

2001 – Balthus, Polish-born painter (b. 1908)

2001 – Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951)

2012 – Matt Lamb, American painter (b. 1932)

2013 – Kevin Ayers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Soft Machine and The Wilde Flowers) (b. 1944)

Today is

Crab-Stuffed Flounder Day

Drink Wine Day

National Battery Day

President’s Day


11 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    It’s actually Monday, just in disguise.

    For Drink Wine Day, I’d love to celebrate with my favorites, like that lovely Grenache known as Bitch, but I can’t find it anymore. Or the Brazin Zinfandel. I cleaned out the neighborhood wine shop months ago.

    All periods of history are fascinating to me, and I just regret that I don’t have time to explore it all. The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know. And life is short.

    I am not really a joiner. I will attend various events at various times, but I don’t like feeling compelled to do so. The loner in me rebels.

  2. Gee

    How’s that for a TV news-type headline?

    Well, we had about a half inch of snow last night, but the temperature will SOAR to 48 today, and over 60 by Friday.

    It’s Drink Wine Day. What kind of wine will you celebrate with?

    What period and place in history do you find most fascinating, and why?

    Are you a joiner? Do you belong to many groups or organizations that actually engage in real-life activities?

    Well, I’m not sure I’ll be drinking any tonight, but tomorrow we’re having a visitor (no, not with fava beans and a nice Chianti).  We’ve got some Chardonnay from California and a couple of Malbecs from Argentina.

    I don’t know that I’ve dug enough into the history of any particular time to know.  I’m more interested in certain writers, no matter when they lived.  But I do like the 18th and 19th centuries for the scientific discoveries and general enlightenment.

    Not a joiner, really.

  3. Exactly!!

       .@edb87 Reading internet comments is like using a mace to remove ear wax. It’s painful, it causes severe brain damage and it’s your own fault

       – Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) February 17, 2014

    Same can be said for clicking links that you KNOW will tick you off … and doing it anyway. 😉

    Excellent!!

       Murders are down in Florida, because we stopped calling it murder and started calling it “stand your ground”.

       – kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) February 18, 2014

    Here is a nice followup from her:

    THIS!!!!!!

    “God” reminds you:

  4. And I remember feeling the exact same way: “WHERE CAN I GET SOME??? NOW!!!!”.

    Is today “President’s Day”? I thought that was yesterday.

    Hovering …

    – Quite a tern of phrase: “I must say I egret what I’m heron - that these two are stork raven mad?”

    – HAHAHAHA! Did she use knives???

    – Phyllis Calvert channeling Phyllis Schlafly??

    Have a great first-work-day-of-the-week, Floja Roja!!

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