Anniversaries

[EnolaGaia]

On February 16, 1923, in Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archaeologist-opens-tomb-of-king-tut

 

[escargot]

On February 16, 1923, in Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archaeologist-opens-tomb-of-king-tut

When I was a child there were still people alive who'd been involved in that.

That's the ones Mummy's Curse hadn't got, of course.

 

[ramonmercado]

Richard Coles @RevRichardColes

It is the bicentenary of the death of John Keats in Rome, aged 25, from TB, for which he was bled, put on a diet of one anchovy per day, and had his laudanum confiscated, causing him to suffer agonies. “I have left no immortal work behind me,” he said.



7:25 AM · Feb 23, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

 

[escargot]

Richard Coles @RevRichardColes

It is the bicentenary of the death of John Keats in Rome, aged 25, from TB, for which he was bled, put on a diet of one anchovy per day, and had his laudanum confiscated, causing him to suffer agonies. “I have left no immortal work behind me,” he said.

7:25 AM · Feb 23, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

There was a play about Keats' death on R4 just now.

25! TB! What a terrible tragedy, for Keats and for the world.

We don't worry about it now but it was still possible up to only a couple of generations ago.

Techy's maternal grandmother died of it in the '30s, just a year older, leaving two little girls.
An aunt of mine was sternly challenged by her family in the '50s for visiting friends where there was TB in the house. It was considered squalid and dirty by then.

See now, yer smallpox, you can get a natural inoculation, but TB: you're on yer own.

 

[escargot]

Anyway, it's our anniversary tomorrow: 15 years, for which the traditional gift is crystal. These days it's more often glass.

So that's a bottle of the finest peaty single malt, then.

 

[Souleater]

Anyway, it's our anniversary tomorrow: 15 years, for which the traditional gift is crystal. These days it's more often glass.

So that's a bottle of the finest peaty single malt, then.

You could go for an Irish Whiskey

 

[Mythopoeika]

You could go for an Irish Whiskey

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'Muff Liquor'?

 

[Souleater]

'Muff Liquor'?

You can get vodka and gin too


https://shop.themuffliquorcompany.c...MIoYmjxuOA7wIVp-_tCh0MtQ5EEAQYASABEgKCqvD_BwE

 

[maximus otter]

'Muff Liquor'?

They sell it from their pub. Great place: liquor up front, poker in the rear.

maximus otter

 

[Souleater]

They sell it from their pub. Great place: liquor up front, poker in the rear.

maximus otter

I used to have this t-shirt

 

[Souleater]

Anyway, it's our anniversary tomorrow: 15 years, for which the traditional gift is crystal. These days it's more often glass.

So that's a bottle of the finest peaty single malt, then.

Happy anniversary

 

[Yithian]

Can anybody identify this anniversary?

 

[Souleater]

Can anybody identify this anniversary?

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A true classic

 

[ramonmercado]

#OnThisDay 31 March 1711 - Seven women from Island Magee, Co. Antrim are imprisoned and pilloried for 'bewitching' a woman named Mary Dunbar, who had experienced strange fits and visions. It was the last trial for witchcraft in Ireland.

https://www.facebook.com/NationalLibraryofIreland/photos/a.10150212612735038/10165284350790038

 

[ramonmercado]

April 1, 2021

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TODAY: In 1819, London’s The New Monthly Magazine publishes John Polidori's Gothic fiction The Vampyre, the first significant piece of vampire literature in English, and attributes it to Lord Byron, who partly inspired it.

 

[skinny]

Vale MLK

53 years ago, a shot rang out in a Memphis sky. Free at last, they took your life, they could not take your pride.

 

[ramonmercado]

@OnThisDayShe

In Apr 1967 Scottish virologist June Almeida published her discovery of a new virus type: coronaviruses. Almeida, who left school at 16, developed a novel diagnostic method using electron microscopy & was the first to see the measles-causing rubella virus. https://nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/04/june-almeida-discovered-coronaviruses-decades-ago-little-recognition…
https://twitter.com/OnThisDayShe/status/1381158460256088065/photo/1

 

[cycleboy2]

Sixty years ago today Yuri Gagarin made a single orbit of the Earth.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...viet-moscow-earth-united-states-b1829933.html

 

[ramonmercado]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1382959469232021506

 

[ramonmercado]

In the video below, Highland Songs of the Forty-Five, we’re sharing the original audio recordings of a series of Gaelic songs collected by archivist John Lorne Campbell from Canna.

John and his wife Margaret Fay Shaw were noted scholars of Gaelic culture and life. Published in 1933, their book brought together songs inspired by the events leading up to the Battle of Culloden, and beyond – many of which had never been written down before. They also collected recordings of the songs from Ruairidh Iain Bhàin and Annie Johnston of Barra.

The film was created by the Trust’s Canna House archivist Fiona Mackenzie, who had been due to give a talk on the book at the battlefield as part of the 2020 anniversary programme. ...

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/rare-gaelic-songs-to-mark-the-culloden-commemoration

 

[ramonmercado]

ON THIS DAY: In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was attacked by an ill-intentioned swamp rabbit that had reportedly "gone berserk."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident

 

[Souleater]

ON THIS DAY: In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was attacked by an ill-intentioned swamp rabbit that had reportedly "gone berserk."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident

 

[Souleater]

HAPPY STAR WARS DAY

 

[Swifty]

HAPPY STAR WARS DAY

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[Swifty]

Can anybody identify this anniversary?

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If The Breakfast Club was made nowadays ..

 

[Swifty]

A true classic


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You should read the Kevin Smith fan service graphic novel. Silent Bob is obsessed with John Hughes films and Jay is pissed off with hanging around the New Jersy 'hood' so Jay decides to find The Breakfast Club school without realising until too late that there is no 'Shermer' in Illinois. They end up in some random school instead. I can't do it justice here but the book's called 'Chasing Dogma' and it's magnificent.

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