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The Daily F Bomb, Tuesday 3/4/14

Interrogatories

How far from where you grew up have you ended up? If you still live nearby, did you ever live far away?

Have you ever littered? Have you ever picked up after litterers?

Have you ever gotten revenge on anyone? Can you tell us about it?

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On This Day

In 1791, Vermont became the 14th state.

In 1794, Congress passed the 11th Amendment to the Constitution.

In 1837, the Illinois state legislature granted a city charter to Chicago.

In 1913, Woodrow Wilson took the oath of office to become the 28th president of the United States.

In 1917, Republican Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.

In 1918, the first known case of the so called Spanish Flu occurred, leading to a devastating worldwide pandemic.

In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as the 32nd president, promising that he would lead the country out of the Great Depression.

In 1933, Frances Perkins became the first female Cabinet member when she took over as Secretary of Labor.

In 1974, People Magazine was first published.

In 1997, President Bill Clinton banned the use of federal funds for human cloning.

Born on This Day

1602 – Kanō Tan’yū, Japanese painter (d. 1674)

1610 – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)

1623 – Jacob van der Does, Dutch painter (d. 1673)

1655 – Fra Vittore del Galgario, Italian painter (d. 1743)

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1710 – Aert Schouman, Dutch painter (d. 1792)

1729 – Anne d’Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (d. 1794)

1756 – Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)

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1813 – Wijnand Nuijen, Dutch landscape painter (d. 1839)

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1815 – Myrtilla Miner, American educator and abolitionist (d. 1864)

1832 – Samuel Colman, U.S. painter (d. 1920)

1856 – Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)

1887 – Violet MacMillan, American actress (d. 1953)

1888 – Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942)

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1889 – Jean-Gabriel Domergue, French painter (d. 1962)

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1889 – Pearl White, American actress (d. 1938)

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1889 – Robert William Wood, American landscape artist (d. 1979)

1895 – Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)

1897 – Lefty O’Doul, American baseball player (d. 1969)

1902 – Rachel Messerer, Russian silent film and theatre actress (d. 1993)

1903 – Dorothy Mackaill, English-born American actress (d. 1990)

1926 – Richard DeVos, American wingnut businessman

1932 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer (d. 2008)

1936 – Eric Allendale, West Indian trombonist and songwriter (The Foundations) (d. 2001)

1944 – Bobby Womack, American singer (The Valentinos and a long solo career)

1945 – Dieter Meier, Swiss singer (Yello)

1945 – Tara Browne, British socialite (d. 1966) (he’s the one in the song who “blew his mind out in a car, he didn’t notice that the lights had changed.” The Paul is Dead conspiracists think that Browne didn’t die, but took McCartney’s place in the Beatles when Paul died.)

1948 – James Ellroy, American writer

1948 – Chris Squire, English bassist

1950 – Rick Perry, American idiot politician

1951 – Pete Haycock, English guitarist and composer (Climax Blues Band and Electric Light Orchestra Part II)

1958 – Patricia Heaton, American wingnut actress

1963 – Jason Newsted, American bassist (Metallica, Voivod)

1966 – Patrick Hannan, drummer (The Sundays)

1967 – Evan Dando, American musician (The Lemonheads)

1969 – Chaz Bono, American actor and activist

1971 – Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (The Cranberries)

1972 – Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South)

1977 – Jeremiah Green, American drummer (Modest Mouse)

1979 – Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer (The Fratellis and Codeine Velvet Club)

Died on This Day

1193 – Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)

1615 – Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)

1700 – Lorenzo Pasinelli, Italian painter (b. 1629)

1762 – Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)

1766 – Jacques Aved, French portrait painter (b. 1702)

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1776 – Johann Georg Ziesenis, Danish portrait painter (b. 1716)

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1793 – Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)

1805 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)

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1875 – Gottfried Johann Pulian, German landscape painter (b. 1809)

1879 – Laszlo Paal, Hungarian landscape painter (b. 1846)

1913 – Edouard Frédéric Wilhelm Richter, French Orientalist painter (b. 1844)

1916 – Franz Marc, German artist (b. 1880)

1919 – Georges Jules Auguste Caïn, French painter (b. 1856)

1944 – René Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (b. 1879)

1948 – Antonin Artaud, French actor/director (b. 1896)

1978 – Joe Marsala, American jazz clarinetist and songwriter (b. 1907)

1979 – Mike Patto, (Michael Thomas McCarthy), English musician (Spooky Tooth, Boxer) (b. 1942)

1984 – Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)

1986 – Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band) (b. 1943)

1989 – Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)

1992 – Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (b. 1930)

1992 – Mary Osborne, American jazz electric guitarist (b. 1921)

1994 – John Candy, Canadian comedian (b. 1950)

1999 – Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908)

Today is

National Pound Cake Day

Holy Experiment Day

National Grammar Day

Hug a GI Day


10 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    I moved a mere 500 miles away, and have remained so except one interval in the 80s where I moved back to the Bay Area for 3 years. I think one should get away from the family for at least a few years, and the place you grew up, if it wasn’t a big city. It’s good for you to experience being in new surroundings and totally new people.

    I can’t litter. I just can’t. My dad was the type who would yell at someone passing on the street if he saw them litter. I do pick up plastic bags a lot. They are everywhere (less so since LA banned them in grocery and other stores) and I hate that they end up in the Pacific Garbage Patch.

    I once tried to curse a Boss from Hell. My curse was basically: May all the karma he’s earned in this lifetime come back and get him in this lifetime. Well, he suffered a bout of bladder cancer and last I heard was in jail in Orange County for income tax evasion (he’s probably out by now). He must have been worse than I thought. I’ve never done actual revenge, unless it’s silly stuff like getting back at a niece for some practical joke.

  2. bubbanomics

    How far from where you grew up have you ended up? If you still live nearby, did you ever live far away?

    pretty far.  grew up in nashville. ended up in LA.

    Have you ever littered? Have you ever picked up after litterers?

    yes. yes.

    Have you ever gotten revenge on anyone? Can you tell us about it?

    no., not really.  nothing to tell.

    What’s a Holy Experiment?   Something Creation Scientists do?  A way to test for demonic possession?  Who let Huckabee in the lab????

  3. Gee

    However…

    How far from where you grew up have you ended up? If you still live nearby, did you ever live far away?

    Have you ever littered? Have you ever picked up after litterers?

    Have you ever gotten revenge on anyone? Can you tell us about it?

    If I do happen to die before we make our planned move to California, I am only a few miles from where I grew up.  I’ve lived most of my life within 20 miles of my birthplace (Washington, DC).  I lived in California for about six months in 1975.

    As God is my witness, I have never littered.  I don’t think.  I have done a bit of picking up after others.

    No revenge, I don’t think.

  4. Gee

    I’ll have to look that one up.

    The Paul is Dead conspiracists think that Browne didn’t die, but took McCartney’s place in the Beatles when Paul died.

    Are there really still Paul is Dead conspiracists?  My, what a constructive pastime.

  5. THIS!!!!!

       You know what makes America look weak? Cowardly Republican asshats sniping at the President during foreign policy crises.

       – Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) March 4, 2014

    Argghhhhh!!! Lindsey Graham On Ukraine: ‘It Started With Benghazi’

    Lindsey Graham @GrahamBlog

    It started with Benghazi. When you kill Americans and nobody pays a price, you invite this type of aggression. #Ukraine

    Does anyone listen to this fool?????

    Ha!! Hover!!  

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