12/30 Open Thread - Bo Diddley's Birthday
I had considered just diving into a few of Bo's better or more famous tunes, but decided to throw in a little bit of other date determined info and artists. Very few.-**********On this day in history:-...
View Article01/06 Open Thread - National Bean Day
Humans have been cultivating beans since sometime in the 7th millenium bce (6,000 bce to 7,000 bce) and no doubt eating wild ones since before that. There are currently somewhere around 40,000...
View Article01/13 Open Thread - Gluten Free Day
Heck, if you could live on fries and wine I could even see going vegan. FWIW, it is estimated that about 2 million people in the US and 1% of the global population have celiac disease.-On this day in...
View Article01/20 Open Thread - Martin Luther King Jr. Day
YouTube Video-**********On this day in history:- 1404 - Europe's first public bank, the Taula de canvi, opened in Barcelona 1567 – Portuguese forces drove the French out of Rio de Janeiro for good.1649...
View Article01/27 Open Thread - The Official End of the Viet Nam War
Her name is Kim Phuc Phan. She survived, and after over a year in the hospital lived in continual pain and with limited mobility. The photo won a Pulitzer. It, and other photos and reporting helped to...
View Article02/03 Open Thread - The Day the Music Died
On February 3, 1959, a Beechcraft "Bonanza" airplane, tail number N3794N, carrying the pilot (Roger Peterson), Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson (The Big Bopper), crashed, killing...
View Article02/10 Open Thread - Plimsoll Day
The Plimsoll Line is a line painted on a ship's hull. It indicated the waterline corresponding to the maximum depth to which the ship should sink under maximum load, or the maximum safe draft of the...
View Article02/10 Open Thread - Plimsoll Day
The Plimsoll Line is a line painted on a ship's hull. It indicated the waterline corresponding to the maximum depth to which the ship should sink under maximum load, or the maximum safe draft of the...
View Article2/17 Open Thread - Giordano Bruno Day (Unofficial)
On this day in 1600 Giordana Bruno was burned at the stake for the unforgivable sin of thinking for himself. On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher...
View Article02/24 - The Gregorian Calendar
Today may or may not be Shrove Monday which has no fixed date because Easter has no fixed date, presumably because it didn't happen on a specific date, or happened on a roving magic date, or something...
View Article03/03 Open Thread - Second Opium War
When I was growing up one of the many cultural stereotypes floating around was that of the Chinese of a certain era wearing long pigtails and funny shoes laying around in opium dens stoned out of their...
View Article03/10 Open Thread - Harriet Tubman Day (United States of America)
Harriet Tubman's parents were enslaved people and she was, accordingly, born into slavery in 1822. She was able to escape and then made around thirteen return trips to Dixie to rescue about seventy...
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