Sunday Open Thread: July 22 is Hammock Day

and it is also Pungenday, Confusion 57, 3184 YOLD

(for you Discordians out there)

World History this day

1099 – Godfrey of Bouillon was made the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.*

1209 – Massacre at Beziers, the first major "military" action of the Albigensian Genocide Crusade. **

1456 – John Hunyadi, of Hungary, defeated Mehmet II at the siege of Belgrade

1942 – The deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto began

1946 – The Irgun bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem

2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by London Metropolitan Police ***

2011 – Norway was the victim of two terror attacks by Anders Behring Breivik

* And don't you forget it!

** It's ok, it was a holy slaughter, part of the Pope's holy war to exterminate all Cathars

*** It was claimed that he 'had Mongolian eyes',

US History this day

1587 – Another batch of English colonists landed on Roanoke Island

2003 – Members of the US 101st Airborne murdered Saddam Hussein's sons and grandson

Science & Technology this day

1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific, the first recorded human to cross North America.

1894 – The Paris to Rouen motor race was held, falsely claimed to be the world's first.

1995 – The Hale-Bopp comet was discovered

The Arts this day

1598 – The Merchant of Venice was entered on the Stationers' Register

1893 – Katharine Lee Bates wrote America the Beautiful

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Misc. this day

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Birthdays of Note this day

844 – William Archibald Spooner, from whose name comes spoonerisms

1849 – Emma Lazarus, poet

1898 – Stephen Vincent Benet, poet and author

1932 - Tom Robbins, novelist

1934 - Junior Cook, saxophonist

1936 - Don Patterson, organist

1937 - Chuck Jackson, singer

1941 - Estelle Bennett, singer (ronette)

1941 - George Clinton, singer, songwriter, and producer

1943 - Bobby Sherman, singer, songwriter, and actor

1944 - Rick Davies, singer, songwriter, and keyboard player

1947 - Don Henley, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and drummer

1954 - Al Di Meola, songwriter and guitarist

Deaths of Note this day

1274 - Henry I of Navarre, Count of Champagne and Brie *

1932 - Errico Malatesta, activist

1934 - John Dillinger, businessman

1967 - Carl Sandburg, poet

2004 - Illinois Jacquet, saxophonist **

2005 - Eugene Record, singer and songwriter

* also King of Navarre, but so what?

** his solo on "Flying Home", is critically recognized as the first R&B saxophone solo.

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So now some music

Junior Cook

Don Patterson

Estelle Bennett

George Clinton

Rick Davies

Don Henley

Al Di Meola

Illinois Jacquet

Eugene Record

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Photo: Image from page 367 of "Catalogue no. 16, spring/summer / R. H. Macy & Co." (1911)

It's an open thread, so do your thing

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NOTE: after the &@**$!!(%#$ site software concatenated everything but the pics into globs, I went through and manually inserted double carriage returns where the single ones had been both in my editor and everywhere else it is posted or stashed.  We’ll see just how perverse the site software has become come Sunday. I’m not going to fix whatever further errors the site maliciously introduces. (I’m also not going back to putting everything in tables like I had to do when DK5 first rolled out.)

OK, I lied, there were only 2 reconcatenations, so I fixed them.