Happy Birthday James Coburn!
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Monday, August 31, 2020
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Hey! You Made A Movie!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxzwPOkrhjc8m4i_ahshBZQ
My cousin Carl has started up a wonderful series of Youtube broadcasts where he interviews new and up-and-coming film directors and producers.
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New podcast of readings of H.P. Lovecraft!
My old friend Ophelia is starting up a new podcast series consisting of reading from Lovecraft. Please check it out!
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Thursday, August 27, 2020
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A Rome to Tokyo flight in WWII
A fascinating footnote to the War.
(Thanks for the link, Dennis!)
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Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Bladensburg,
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/war-1812/battles/bladensburg
Perhaps the worst battle in U.S. history.
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Sunday, August 23, 2020
Today is the anniversary of the Mineral Quake of 2011 in Virginia
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Saturday, August 22, 2020
Friday, August 21, 2020
Today is the anniversary of the great NoVa Elephant Excape
From the arlington County Historical Society:
On this day in Arlington history, August 16, 1906: The Alexandria Gazette announces “Several elephants which are to be exhibited at Luna Park next week are expected to arrive via the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. They will be led through the city on their way to the resort. Luna Park, which has been a decided success from the day it opened, grows in popularity and continues to be visited by thousands.” Little do our forebears know that these four elephants—Tommie, Queenie, Annie, and Jennie--will stampede and remain at large for almost 2 weeks in Northern Virginia.
Luna Park was an amusement park that opened in 1906 at South Glebe Road and Jefferson Davis Highway. According to John Kelly of the “Washington Post,” “It featured fanciful buildings in a mishmash of styles, along with such rides as a roller coaster, a log flume and the "Old Woman's Shoe": a 30-foot boot that patrons could slide down. The Edisonia Palace displayed the latest advances in ‘mutoscopic, phonographic and electric inventions,’ while the Scenictorium featured a series of
On the morning of August. 21, the four elephants escaped. Annie was quickly caught. The others headed toward Alexandria where they smashed a barn, decimated a cornfield, and trampled a graveyard. By nightfall, Tommie had been apprehended and owner P.W. Barlow was offering a $500 reward for the capture of Queenie and Jennie. He persuaded Maj. Gordon W. Lillie to dispatch some of his men after the pair. Lillie was in town with "Pawnee Bill's Wild West and Great Far East Exhibition." When he put on his red cowboy shirt, he became Pawnee Bill.
On Sunday, August 26, a horse-mounted procession set off from Alexandria toward Baileys Crossroads, where there had been an elephant sighting. They found Jennie in a thicket and a “Wild West" performer named "Mexican Joe" lassoed her.
Queenie remained the last hold out at large. Wrote Kelly, “She was captured the next night by Barlow and his men in a pine grove 20 miles south of Alexandria. Having been chased all day by country folk wielding pitchforks, sticks, baseball bats and stones.”
1906 was Luna Park's first season. The park occupied 34 acres near the intersection of South Glebe Rd and Jefferson Davis Highway (US Route 1). A fire in April 1915 destroyed the park's signature roller coaster. The damage was extensive and it forced the park to go out of business. The structures in the park were mostly dismantled later in the year, though traces of the park were evident until as late as 1988. The site is currently occupied by the Arlington county sewage treatment facility.
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
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Today is the anniversary of the Ramones first show in 1974
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Saturday, August 15, 2020
Today is the anniversary of the Beatles playing Shea Stadium
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Friday, August 14, 2020
Happy Birthday Rocky Horror!
Premiered on this date in 1975.
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Thursday, August 13, 2020
Happy Birthday South Park!
Premiered on this date in 1997.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Happy Birthday to The Wizard of Oz! ((the film))
Premiered on this date in 1939.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Happy Birthday Solid Gold!
Premiered on this date in 1980.
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Monday, August 10, 2020
Happy Birthday Exile/Sunderland Experiment!
Premiered on this date in 2013.
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Happy Birthday Horse Feathers!
Premiered on this date in 1932.
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Sunday, August 09, 2020
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Nice article about the female horror writers of the 19th century
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Today is the anniversary of the first transatlantic cable being laid
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Vending machines for art
https://www.cpr.org/2020/08/04/these-vending-machines-in-mancos-colorado-dispense-small-paintings-instead-of-potato-chips/
A cute idea. I once was at a microbrewery outside of Burlington, VT, and they had a machine selling local poets' work.
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Monday, August 03, 2020
Today is the anniversary of the USS Nautilus travelling under the North Pole
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