Monday Open Thread: January 14 is the Feast of the Ass

January 14 is the 14th day of the year It is also Prickle-Prickle, Chaos 14, 3184 YOLD   (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.2.15 by the Mayan Long Count Nah, not that ass. This was a most holy medieval Christian ceremony, until, of course, it wasn't. Eternal immutable truthinesses are like that I guess. At any rate, it was sort of like a tent revival call and response thing, except that it made the relationship between the hoi polloi down in the pews and their exalted superiors up in front of them really really clear in that the most holy sacerdote would do the call in latin, and the hoi polloi would bray like a mule in response. I'm not making this up either. Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ... On this day in history: 1539 – Spain annexed Cuba and and immediately set to work exterminating the Taino people who lived there. 1784 – Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris 1967 – The Human Be-In went down in San Francisco' Golden Gate Park Born this day in: 1841 – Berthe Morisot, impressionist painter 1875 – Albert Schweitzer, physician 1886 – Hugh Lofting, author 1896 – John Dos Passos, novelist, poet, and playwright 1901 – Alfred Tarski, mathematician, logician, and philosopher 1912 – Tillie Olsen, short story writer 1921 – Murray Bookchin, author and philosopher 1930 – Johnny Grande, pianist and accordian player 1932 – Don Garlits, Big Daddy 1936 – Clarence Carter, singere, songwriter, musician, and producer 1940 – Julian Bond, academic and politician 1943 – Shannon Lucid, biochemist and astronaut 1948 – T Bone Burnett, singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer 1949 – Lamar Williams, bass player 1962 – Patricia Morrison, singer, songwriter and bass player 1969 – Dave Grohl, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and drummer 1979 – Karen Elson, singer, model, songwriter, and guitarist Died this day in: 1742 – Edmond Halley, astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist 1753 – George Berkeley, philosopher and author 1867 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, painter and illustrator 1874 – Johann Philipp Reis, physicist, telephone inventor 1898 – Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll, mathematician, logician, author and poet 1905 – Ernst Abbe, physicist and engineer 1965 – Jeanette MacDonald, actor and singer 1966 – Sergei Korolev, engineer and spacecraft designer 1977 – Anaïs Nin, essayist and memoirist 1978 – Kurt Gödel, mathematician and philosopher 2011 – Georgia Carroll, singer, model and actor  

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Feast of the Ass  

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Music goes here, iirc, well,

Berthe Morisot

Johnny Grande

Don Garlits

Clarence Carter

T Bone Burnett

Lamar Williams

Patricia Morrison

Dave Grohl

Karen Elson

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Image Kissinger from LBJ Library It's an open thread, so do your thing

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