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The Daily F Bomb, Friday 3/7/14

Interrogatories

What is your favorite cereal? Milk or no milk?

What books are you reading right now?

Who is your favorite historic (pre-20th Century) person?

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On This Day

In 1850, Senator Daniel Webster gave his three hour “Seventh of March” speech in support of the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received his patent for the telephone.

In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation occurred between New York City and London.

In 1965, State troopers and a sheriff’s posse attacked a march by 600 civil rights demonstrators in Selma, AL, in what came to be known as Bloody Sunday.

In 1975, the Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.

In 1996, three U.S. servicemen were convicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawa girl and sentenced by a Japanese court to up to seven years in prison.

In 2003, Broadway musicians began a four-day walkout.

In 2011, Charlie Sheen was fired from the sitcom “Two and a Half Men” by Warner Bros after continuous misbehavior and weeks of his angry, manic media campaign against his studio bosses.

Born on This Day

1481 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)

1671 – Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)

1693 – Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)

1752 – Jean-Louis De Marne, French painter (d. 1829)

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1786 – Michel-Martin Drölling, French painter (d. 1851)

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1802 – Edwin Henry Landseer, British painter (d. 1873)

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1817 – Alexandre Antigna, French painter (d. 1878)

1820 – Ferdinand Mallitsch, Austrian painter (d. 1900)

1841 – Carl Kronberger, Austrian genre and portrait painter (d. 1921)

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1849 – Luther Burbank, American botanist (d. 1926)

1872 – Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (d. 1944)

1885 – Milton Avery, American artist (d. 1965)

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1886 – Virginia Pearson, American silent film actress (d. 1958)

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1900 – Carel Willink, Dutch painter (d. 1983)

1902 – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)

1908 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)

1930 – Antony Armstrong-Jones, British aristocrat, Lord Snowdon, former husband of Princess Margaret

1940 – Daniel J. Travanti, American actor

1942 – Tammy Faye Bakker, American televangelist (d. 2007)

1943 – Chris White, British musician (The Zombies)

1944 – Sir Ranulph Fiennes, British soldier and explorer

1944 – Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)

1945 – Arthur Lee, American musician (Love) (d. 2006)

1946 – Matthew Fisher, British musician (Procol Harum)

1946 – Peter Wolf, American musician (The J. Geils Band)

1951 – Francis Rocco Prestia, American musician (Tower of Power) memories!

1952 – Ernie Isley, American musician (The Isley Brothers)

1958 – Rik Mayall, British actor

1964 – Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne

1970 – Rachel Weisz, British actress

1971 – Peter Sarsgaard, American actor

Died on This Day

1724 – Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)

1750 – Cornelis Troost, Dutch painter (b. 1696)

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1810 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)

1826 – Abraham van Strij the Elder, Dutch genre painter (b. 1753)

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1931 – Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter (b. 1865)

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1942 – Lucy Parsons, American anarchist, communist and labor organizer (b. 1853)

1950 – Hugo Scheiber, Hungarian painter (b. 1873)

1957 – Wyndham Lewis, British painter (b. 1882)

1975 – Francine Larrimore, French born American actress (b. 1898)

1988 – Divine, American actor (b. 1945)

1993 – Albert Crommelynck, Belgian painter of portraits and frescoes (b. 1902)

1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)

2006 – Gordon Parks, American photographer (b. 1912)

Today is

National Crown Roast of Pork Day

National Cereal Day

National Be Heard Day

World Book Day

World Maths Day

Name Tag Day


20 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    Homemade granola is my favorite cereal now. When I was little I liked the super-sweet stuff without milk (which I thought I hated) or hot cereal, then I actually learned to like less sweet stuff (corn flakes, Cheerios) with milk. Then I learned to make granola. It’s good stuff. I like oatmeal with raisins and sugar, too, but I overdo the sugar.

    I’m trying to re-read “Way of Kings” now so I can start on the next book, which was delivered to my Kindle on Monday. I’m not getting far, because all this week I’ve been getting tired early. I blame work for running out of decent coffee, they only have flavored (ack!) or decaf (double-ack!). For shame!

    Maybe I should have narrowed down that last one a bit. There are so many interesting characters that pre-date the 20th century. Artists, actors, writers, religious figures, statesmen, kings, queens, revolutionaries… The first person coming to mind right now is Mark Twain, but there are so many more.

  2. freedapeople

    What is your favorite cereal? Milk or no milk? I am also partial to either homemade or locally made granola. I have it with almond milk because regular milk doesn’t agree with me, unfortunately. We only carry raw milk at home.

    What books are you reading right now? Intuitive Self Healing by Marie Manucherhi. Recommended by one of my yoga teachers. Very interesting study of the chakras and healing.

    Who is your favorite historic (pre-20th Century) person? Today I would have to say Pythagoras. He was a renaissance man, even though he lived centuries before the renaissance. He ran a vegetarian commune, women were pretty much equal to men there (for the times), he developed music therapy and art therapy, was a spiritual teacher, and was politically active. Also, that theorem…

  3. freedapeople

    I love them and will miss them, but I know how much work they are and what a commitment of time.

  4. Gee

    On some other date (March 19), Mary Richards turned off the lights at WJM.  (1977)

    On some other date (February 28), Dr. Benjamin Franklin Pierce left Korea.  He apparently did not know that the war had been over for 30 years.  (1983)

    On some other date (May 20), Sam Malone closed Cheers, but I think he reopened the next morning.  (1993)

    None of these compare with Floja Roja’s ending of the popular diary series, The Daily F-Bomb, ON THIS DATE in 2014.

    I make light of this, perhaps, but I haven’t been this bummed since Pressed Rat and Warthog closed down their shop.

    Now, on to the interrogatories (TM):

    What is your favorite cereal? Milk or no milk?

    What books are you reading right now?

    Who is your favorite historic (pre-20th Century) person?

    Haven’t eaten cereal in ages!  Believe it or not, I used to really like Grape Nuts (whatever the hell they are), with lots of milk.

    One book at a time for me.  Right now, it’s Chinese Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian’s The Case for Literature.

    Voltaire.  (Heck, I don’t really know.  I might be forgetting somebody.)

  5. HAHAHA!!

       Conservative CPAC conference starts today. All porn is discretely billed to your room as “Reagan Tribute.”

       – pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) March 6, 2014

    That’s not even a joke. Conservative conventions are great money makers for the hotel pay-per-porn industry. I do not want to think about it.

    And now olive you alone. 🙂 Don’t be a stranger, Floja Roja!

  6. princesspat

    Two picks from trashy…..

    He says I can’t go wrong with Dusty Springfield…..

    And from Americana me, “Don’t Be  Longtime Gone”

    Thanks Floja, you always serve “The Angel’s Share”

  7. lulu57

    and kudos for all the hard work you have been doing. Think of all the free time you’ll have now, to read and watch TV and eat bon-bons! Thanks for all you have done…even if I haven’t always been around, I still love this place.

    The picture of the dogs…do you think they are looking up the rules for poker?

    What is your favorite cereal? Milk or no milk?

    Raisin Bran Crunch…with 2% milk. I don’t eat it very often, but it’s the only one I can stand.

    What books are you reading right now?

    I’m reading Monuments Men. Still. I would have been done by now, but I fall asleep about 5 minutes after I start reading. ::curses::

    Who is your favorite historic (pre-20th Century) person?

    Well, I was gonna say Mark Twain, but I also thought about Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare. There are way too many to narrow it down, though. That’s a pretty long time span ;D

  8. bubbanomics

    What is your favorite cereal? Milk or no milk?

    Crispix.  Milk in a glass (on the side…I’m the “worst kind”)

    What books are you reading right now?

    The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets.

    Synchronization and Linearity.

    Who is your favorite historic (pre-20th Century) person?

    Gadzooks. who indeed. Jebediah Springfield, I suppose.  Or Daniel Waterhouse, maybe.  Well those are fictional, so I’ll say Isaac Newton.

    The story of the f-bomb… in pictures:

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