April 15 is the 105th day of the Gregorian Calendar year, Setting Orange, Discord 32, 3185 YOLD (discordian), And let us not forget 13.0.6.7.6 by the Mayan Long Count
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Today is also, among other things, Universal Day of Culture and World Art Day. Now, culture, aka culcha, is many things to many people, some of them are addressed by implication and reference by today's featured artist, Bessie Smith:
Up in Harlem every Saturday night When the highbrows get together it's just so right They all congregate at an all night hop And what they do is oo bop bee dap Oh Hannah Brown from way cross town Gets full of corn and starts breaking 'em down And at the break of day You can hear old Hannah say 'Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer Send me again, I don't care, I feel just like I wanna clown Give the piano player a drink because he's bringing me down-
Yeah, the highbrows, and those who are all so tut, tut, tut, refined and snooty, sometime, somwhere, are going to have to break down and live a little, more or less like all of us real people, so let your hair down and boogie, because:
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WE MUST MAKE "BOOGIE MUSIC" THE ESSENTIAL FACTOR IN THE LIFE OF ALL. IN PRESENTING THE SONG TO THE WORLD WE MUST THEN EXPLAIN AND JUSTIFY OUR POSITION BY FORMULATING A DEFINITION OF "BOOGIE MUSIC" IN SETTING FORTH IT'S MAIN PRINCIPLES IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ALL UNDERSTAND INSTANTLY THAT THEIR SOULS THEIR LIVES IN EVERY RELATION WITH EVERY OTHER HUMAN BEING IN EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE DEPEND ON "BOOGIE MUSIC" AND THE RIGHT COMPREHENSION AND RIGHT APPLICATION THERE OF - Alan Christie Wilson (The Blind Owl) 1968-
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...
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On this day in history: 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language was published. 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf. 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln died. 1892 – The General Electric Company was formed. 1912 – The RMS Titanic sank 1924 – Rand McNally published its first road atlas. 1936 – The Arab revolt in occupied, misnamed "Mandatory" Palestine began. 1945 – Bergen-Belsen was liberated. 1960 – Ella Baker led a conference that led to the creation of SNCC. 1989 – the Tiananmen Square protests began 1994 – The Marrakesh Agreement rcreating the WTO was adopted, further empowering corporations and corporatists. .
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Born this day in: 1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect 1707 – Leonhard Euler, mathematician and physicist 1793 – Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, astronomer 1843 – Henry James, author 1858 – Émile Durkheim, sociologist, psychologist and philosopher 1894 – Bessie Smith, singer and actor 1924 – Neville Marriner, violinist and conductor 1930 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, educator, politician, first elected female head of state
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Died this day in: 1927 – Gaston Leroux, journalist and author 1980 – Jean-Paul Sartre, philisopher 1986 – Jean Genet, novelist, poet and playwright 2000 – Edward Gorey, poest and illustrator 2001 – Joey Ramone, singer and songwriter 2002 – Damon Knight, author
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Jackie Robinson Day (United States) Tax Day, (United States, Philippines) Universal Day of Culture World Art Day
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Music goes here, iirc, well,
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Also: Extinction Rebellion US Call to Action April 15 - 22 2019more here: https://xrebellion.org/take-action-april-15-22-2019
Image is a photograph of Bessie Smith by Carl Van Vechten that has aged its way into the public domain
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It's an open thread, so do your thing
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Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com