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History This feast may represent a Christian adaptation of the pagan feast, Cervulus, integrating it with the donkey in the nativity story.[2] In connection with the Biblical stories, the celebration was first celebrated in the 11th century, inspired by the pseudo-Augustinian "Sermo contra Judaeos" c. 6th century.In the second half of the 15th century, the feast disappeared gradually, along with the Feast of Fools, which was stamped out around the same time. It was not considered as objectionable as the Feast of Fools.[3]
Practices A girl and a child on a donkey would be led through town to the church, where the donkey would stand beside the altar during the sermon, and the congregation would "hee-haw" their responses to the priest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Ass
World History this day
1539 -- Spain annexed Cuba. 1943 -- The Japanese began their evacuation from Guadalcanal 1943 -- The Casablanca Conference began 1953 -- Tito became the first President of Yugoslavia.
US History this day
1784 -- Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris 1954 -- Hudson merged with Nash-Kelvinator to become the American Motors Corporation.
Science & Technology this day
1911 -- Amundsen's expedition made landfall on the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. 1950 -- The first flight of the earliest prototype of the MiG-17
The Arts this day
1952 -- The first broadcast of the Today show with Dave Garroway. (but is it art??)
Misc. this day 1967 -- The Human Be-In held in Golden Gate Park, started the Summer of Love.
Birthdays of Note this day
1875 -- Albert Schweitzer, physician and explorer 1886 -- Hugh Lofting, author 1896 -- John Dos Passos, nvelist, poet, and playwright 1901 -- Alfred Tarski, mathematician, logician and philosopher 1904 -- Emily Hahn, journalist, author, early feminist 1908 -- Russ Columbo, singer, violinist, and composer 1912 -- Tillie Olsen, writer and activist 1921 -- Murray Bookchin, author and political philosopher 1924 -- Carole Cook, singer and actress 1930 -- Johnny Grande, pianist, accordianist and comet 1936 -- Clarence Carter, singer and songwriter 1938 -- Jack Jones, singer and actor 1938 -- Billie Jo Spears, country singer, of course 1938 -- Allen Toussaint, singer, songwriter, pianist, producer 1943 -- Shannon Lucid, biochemist and astronaut 1948 -- T Bone Burnett, singer, songwriter, suitarist and producer 1969 -- Dave Grohl, singer, songwriter, guitarist, drummer
Deaths of Note this day
1742 -- Edmond Halley, astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist 1753 -- George Berkeley, philosopher 1874 -- Johann Philipp Reis, physicist, invented own phone 1898 -- Lewis Carroll, mathematician, logician, author and poet 1905 -- Ernst Abbe, physicist, optics wallah, worked with Zeiss 1965 -- Jeanette MacDonald, actress and singer 1977 -- Anais Nin, author 1978 -- Kurt Godel, mathematician and philosopher
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So now some music
The Human Be-In, 01-14-1967, included an assortment of free music
Blue Cheer was busy trying to invent Heavy Metal, with stuff like
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Jefferson Airplane
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Photo: Image from page 309 of "Cyclopedia of farm animals" (1922)
It's an open thread, so do your thing
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