Monday Open Thread: December 10 is International Human Rights Day

December 10 is the 345th day of the year It is also Prickle-Prickle, The Aftermath 52, 3184 YOLD   (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.1.0 by the Mayan Long Count It's 12-10 and though I've dealt with 12 several times, and 10 also, I've never yet looked at 1210 as a number or year. 1210, the year, isn't remotely illustrious, being beset by a surfeit of Crusades (in my opinion, any is too many, but they had two). There were the Livonian Crusades, an attempt at forced conversion to Catholicism (with the customary conquest, rape, pillaging and looting) of Latvia and Estonia. This appers to have been a segment of a larger and therefore even more Christian attack on all of North-eastern Europe, designated the Northern Crusades. Meanwhile, the uruly lawless brigands operating under the non de guerre brigandage of the Fourth Crusade, having sacked Constantinople and established some Crusader States in the Eastern Mediterranean, stopped off on their way home to besiege the Greek Acrocorinth for anywhere from 3 to 5 years depending upon who you ask before finally conquering it. As a number, let us just accept that 1210 is a self-descriptive number in base 4 because it consists of 4 digits and has 1 zero, 2 ones, 1 two, and zero threes. Got it? Good. Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ... On this day in history: 1684 – Edmond Halley read Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity to the Royal Society for some sort of trifecta scientifica 1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica was published 1799 – France adopted the meter as its unit of length 1884 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published. 1896 – Ubu Roi premiered and a riot broke out at the end of the performance. Excelsior! 1898 – The Treaty of Paris officially ended the Spanish–American War 1948 – The Human Rights Convention was signed by the United Nations. Woo Hoo! 1979 – Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations were suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, a US ally greatly beloved by our governments, and the organizers were arrested. 1983 – Democracy was restored in Argentina much to the chagrin of the US 1984 – United Nations General Assembly recognized the Convention against Torture. Well Yee Haw! Born this day in: 1376 – Edmund Mortimer, Mortimer, Mortimer, a rebel noble 1610 – Adriaen van Ostade, painter 1787 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, educator and founder of the American School for the Deaf 1804 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, mathematician 1805 – William Lloyd Garrison, journalist and activist, founded The Liberator 1815 – Ada Lovelace, mathematician and computer scientist 1830 – Emily Dickinson, poet 1870 – Adolf Loos, architect 1882 – Otto Neurath, sociologist and philosopher, part of the Vienna circle 1906 – Harold Adamson, lyricist 1908 – Olivier Messiaen, composer, organist and ornithologist Quartet for the End of Time: https://youtu.be/UeSVu1zbF94 1911 – Chet Huntley, journalist from the pre-stenographer era 1913 – Pannonica de Koenigswarter, composer, bebop aficionado and patron, The Jazz Baroness 1913 – Morton Gould, pianist, composer, and conductor 1913 – Ray Nance, trumpeter, violinist, and singer 1914 – Dorothy Lamour, singer, actress and sarong model 1919 – Alexander Courage, composer and conductor 1924 – Ken Albers, singer and musician 1926 – Guitar Slim, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1941 – Kyu Sakamoto, singer and actor 1948 – Jessica Cleaves, singer and songwriter 1961 – Nia Peeples, singer and actress 1974 – Meg White, drummer 1980 – Sarah Chang, violinist 1982 – D. S. Bradford, singer, songwriter, performer, vocalist, guitarist, and composer Died this day in: 1198 – Averroes, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher 1665 – Tarquinio Merula, organist, violinist, and composer 1909 – Red Cloud, Oglallah tribal chief, resister, prominent figure in Red Cloud's War. 1920 – Horace Elgin Dodge, one of the Dodge brothers 1936 – Luigi Pirandello, dramatist, novelist, and poet, wrote Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore 1967 – Otis Redding, singer, songwriter and producer 1978 – Ed Wood, director, producer, and screenwriter 1987 – Jascha Heifetz, violinist 1999 – Rick Danko, singer, songwriter, bass player, and producer 2004 – Gary Webb, journalist and author betrayed by his publisher and his country, CIA victim 2013 – Jim Hall, guitarist and composer

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Human Rights Day  

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Music goes here, iirc, well,

Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter

Morton Gould

Ray Nance

Dorothy Lamour

Guitar Slim

Kyu Sakamoto

Jessica Cleaves

Tarquina Merula

Ois Redding

Rick Danko

Jim Hall

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So, about that Baroness:

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Image is Jpeg of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights downloaded from the Internet Archive It's an open thread, so do your thing

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