April 29 is the 119th day of the Gregorian Calendar year, Prickle-Prickle, Discord 46, 3185 YOLD (discordian), And let us not forget 13.0.6.8.0 by the Mayan Long Count
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The UK Peoples' Budget was put up and passed by the UK's "liberal government" led by Lloyd George and his trusty sidekick, Winnie Churchill. It levied both material property taxes and progressive income taxes on the UK's wealthy. The land taxes and taxes on the increase in land's value when it changed hands were based on the ideas of Henry George of the US. The funds so raised were to be used to provide various social welfare benefits for the poor. Lloyd George declared that:
This is a war Budget. It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness. I cannot help hoping and believing that before this generation has passed away, we shall have advanced a great step towards that good time, when poverty, and the wretchedness and human degradation which always follows in its camp, will be as remote to the people of this country as the wolves which once infested its forests.-
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...
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On this day in history:
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1770 – James Cook arrived at and named Botany Bay, Australia 1910 – The UK Parliament passed the People's Budget, with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth. 1916 – Irish rebel leaders surrendered to British forces, ending the Easter Rising 1945 – The Dachau concentration camp was liberated by United States troops 1970 – US and South Vietnamese forces invaded Cambodia 1975 – The U.S. started evacuating U.S. citizens from Saigon. This was called Operation Frequent Flyer Wind 1992 – The Rodney King riots began
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Born this day in: 1667 – John Arbuthnot, Scottish-English physician and polymath 1854 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist, and engineer 1863 – William Randolph Hearst, archetypal yellow journalist 1878 – Friedrich Adler, artist and designer 1893 – Harold Urey, chemist and astronomer 1899 – Duke Ellington, pianist, composer, and bandleader 1922 – Toots Thielemans, guitarist and harmonica player 1931 – Lonnie Donegan, singer, songwriter, guitarist; the sking of skiffle 1933 – Rod McKuen, poet, singer and songwriter 1933 – Willie Nelson, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, hop head, and actor 1935 – Otis Rush, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1936 – April Stevens, pop singer 1943 – Duane Allen, Oakridege Boy 1945 – Hugh Hopper, bass guitarist 1947 – Tommy James, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer, first to plug a mike into a guitar amp tremolo 1968 – Carnie Wilson, singer and songwriter
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Died this day in: 1768 – Georg Brandt, chemist and mineralogist; discovered cobalt 1905 – Ignacio Cervantes, pianist and composer 1951 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher and smart-ass 1967 – J. B. Lenoir, singer, songwriter and suitarist 1993 – Mick Ronson, guitarist, songwriter and producer 1997 – Mike Royko, jurnalist and author 2008 – Albert Hofmann, chemist
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: International Dance Day (UNESCO)
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Music goes here, iirc, well,
Dance! Swan Lake! You Betcha!
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The UK Peoples Budget -
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April Stevens
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Image is "Swan lake", Ballets Russes, from the National Library of Australia
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It's an open thread, so do your thing
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