Monday OT: May 4 is World Naked Gardening Day

April 27 is day 125 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Prickle-Prickle, Discord 51, 3186 YOLD (Discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.7.8.11 by the Mayan Long Count

Yes, it's World Nekkid Gardening Day and why not? One of humankind's more popular mythologies holds that the very first gardeners were buck nekkid and happily so until they felt compelled to hide themselves from some wrathful celestial peeping tom who was outraged because his plan to keep them both nekkid and iggerant unto perpetuity was ruined by some promethian spirit, portrayed as a reptile because the early proponents of this myth were deadly afraid of reptiles which they accordingly portrayed as evilness incrnate. .  

On this day in history: 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus were condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. This led to the Hussite wars, the revolt of Bohemia and Moravia, and other good stuff. 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divided the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation. This led to centuries of unmitigated evil and depravity, but, hey, what are Popes for if not evil and depravity 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrived in New Netherland (Manhattan Island) 1776 – Rhode Island became the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III, ya know, one island to another. 1886 – A bomb was (or was not) thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago,killing eight and wounding 60. The police then fired into the crowd. 1904 – The United States began construction of the Panama Canal. 1953 – Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. 1959 – The 1st Annual Grammy Awards were held. 1961 – The "Freedom Riders" began a bus trip through the South. 1961 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attained a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending to 113,740 feet. 1970 – The Ohio National Guard, opened fire on unarmed students killing four and wounding nine others. 1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, officially changed its name to "Greenpeace Foundation". 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, predictabley leading to ... 1982 – The British destroyer HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War, killing 20. 1989 – Ollie North was convicted of some crimes. Born this day in: 1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, instrument maker, invented the piano 1796 – Horace Mann, educator and politician 1825 – Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist, anatomist, and academic 1827 – John Hanning Speke, soldier and explorer, I will not Speke ill of him because he ain't here. 1852 – Alice Liddell, model; you remember Alice 1905 – Al Dexter, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1917 – Edward T. Cone, pianist and composer 1923 – Ed Cassidy, drummer 1928 – Maynard Ferguson, trumpet player and bandleader 1937 – Ron Carter, bassist and educator 1937 – Dick Dale, guitarist, singer, and songwriter 1938 – Tyrone Davis, singer 1942 – Nickolas Ashford, singer, songwriter, pianist, and producer 1950 – Darryl Hunt, bass player 1951 – Colin Bass, bass player, songwriter, and producer 1951 – Jackie Jackson, singer-songwriter and dancer 1959 – Randy Travis, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1961 – Jay Aston, singer-songwriter and dancer 1970 – Gregg Alexander, singer-songwriter and producer 1972 – Mike Dirnt, bass player and songwriter   Died this day in: 1912 – Nettie Stevens, geneticist credited with discovering sex chromosomes 1916 – Ned Daly, Irish rebel commander (Easter Rising) 1916 – Joseph Plunkett, Irish rebel and writer 1916 – Willie Pearse, Irish rebel 1987 – Paul Butterfield, singer and harmonica player 1990 – Emily Remler, guitarist 1991 – Mohammed Abdel Wahab, singer, songwriter, and mandolin player 2000 – Hendrik Casimir, physicist and academic     Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Anti-Bullying Day (United Nations) Bird Day (United States) Dave Brubeck Day International Firefighters' Day Star Wars Day (International observance) World Naked Gardening Day   Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)  Image is Garden of Eden   It's an open thread, so do your thing

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