Sorry? That surname is Italian.
♲ 50+ Music - 2024-10-07 03:40:45 GMT
#OnThisDay in 1996, #LewisCapaldi, Scottish singer-songwriter ("Someone You Loved"), born in Glasgow, Scotland. ▶︎ •၊၊||၊|။||||။၊|• 0:10
#HappyBirthday #28
#onthisday
♲ 50+ Music - 2024-09-01 02:49:45 GMT
#OnThisDay in 2020, #BTS become the 1st all-Korean pop act to top the Billboard 100 singles chart with "Dynamite".
He was a smoker, so...
As a rule, I don't mourn the self-inflicted, but that was a big talent that bit the dust all the same.
♲ 50+ Music - 2024-08-31 02:04:58 GMT
#OnThisDay in 2008, #JerryReed, American country music singer ("When You're Hot, You're Hot") and actor (Bat 21; Smokey and the Bandit), died of complications from emphysema at 71. ✝
#RIP
https://mastodon.ie/@bullivant/112664842705849726 bullivant@mastodon.ie - On 23 June 2016 the UK voted narrowly to leave the EU in a vote heavily influenced by lies, misrepresentations, Russian interference and troll farms, Cambridge Analytica and dark money. Arguably, it was one of the greatest acts of self-harm ever done by a nation to itself.
https://wandering.shop/@thorncoyle/112553081213418997 thorncoyle@wandering.shop - "I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad."
Happy birthday to antifascist bisexual icon, entertainer, and truth teller, Josephine Baker, born June 3, 1906.
November 8 Birthdays
Quotes from Three Remarkable Personages Born on 8 November ...
Dorothy Day (1897) * Bram Stoker (1847) * Aaron Swartz (1986)
"I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air."
~ Bram Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912)"As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way."
~ Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980)"What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?"
~ Aaron Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013)
Happy Birthday to all Fediverse members born On This Day!
Sources:
- #art: Aaron Swartz black and white portrait by Kris Newby, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron_Swartz_Graphic.png
- #quote: Aaron Swartz, https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1202481
- #cotización: Bram Stoker, https://www.azquotes.com/author/14166-Bram_Stoker
- #quotation: Dorothy Day, https://www.azquotes.com/quote/866945
#8 #11 #20 #29 #1847 #1897 #1912 #1980 #1986 #2013 #2023 #AaronSwartz #arte #befree #bing #birthday #birhdays #BramStoker #diaspora #DorothyDay #fediverse #free #freedom #hbd #kunst #libertad #liberté #libre #novembre #noviembre #OnThisDay #quotations #quotes #viii #wikipedia #xi
Auschwitz Memorial
@auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world
10 October 1939 | A Polish Jew, Shlomo Arie Hordiner, was born in Rzeszów.
He was deported to Auschwitz from ghetto in Sosnowiec in July 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber.
Learn about fate of children in Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #OnThisDay #birthday #Sosnowiec #Rzeszow
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#OnThisDay, 4 Oct 1936, women join the Battle of Cable Street, in London's East End, protesting against a #fascist march through the area. Of the 79 people arrested, eight are women, including Blanche Edwards (pictured).
"THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
On 4 October 1936, Oswald Mosley's fascist Blackshirts attempted to march from Tower Hill, through Aldgate and Shadwell, a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood at that time.
When they arrived at Gardiner's Corner, a huge crowd (estimates vary from 20,000 to 200,000) gathered to block their path, roaring “They Shall Not Pass!” After 6,000 police failed to clear the area, the march was diverted via Cable Street.
However, three sets of barricades, including an overturned lorry, had already been set up there. Broken glass and marbles had been strewn across the street, and thousands of local people massed behind each barricade, chanting anti-fascist slogans and fighting back fiercely against the police.
Eventually the Police Commissioner instructed Mosley to march his troops west and out of the area, in a humiliating defeat. Thousands of the anti-fascist protestors gathered in Victoria Park to celebrate their victory."
https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/women-at-the-battle-of-cable-street
#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times
Vor 1 Jahr wurden Menschen, die Schutz in #Europa suchten, an der Grenze von #Nador🇲🇦 und #Melilla🇪🇸 mit tödlicher Gewalt zurück gedrängt:
⚫️ mind. 36 Menschen verloren ihr Leben
⚫️ 76 Menschen werden seitdem vermisst
#JusticiaMasacreMelilla #MelillaMassacre
via @ECCHRBerlin
#OnThisDay
June 4 is the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression: https://t.co/0oCBc6fuog
(Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, https://www.spuc.org.uk/ )
#OnThisDay, 102 years ago: the start of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma. https://t.co/ZOOUcwtjiq #OnThisDay
#OnThisDay, 5 years ago: abortion was legalized in the Republic of Ireland.
Read our founder's reflections on the Irish abortion referendum, written in 2018: https://t.co/U2H73a2hXo
Friday 17th February 1995
The famous MG sports car brand, not seen on a volume sports car since 1980, was revived when the Rover Group unveiled the new MGF sports car which went on sale in the autumn of 1995. It was powered by a 1.8 L K-Series 16-valve engine, the basic having 118 hp (87 kW) while the more powerful VVC (variable valve control) had 143 hp (107 kW). Rover Special Projects oversaw the development of the F’s design and before finalising the styling bought-in outside contractors to determine the most appropriate mechanical configuration for the new car. Steve Harper of MGA Developments produced the initial design concept in January 1991 (inspired by the Jaguar XJR-15 and the Ferrari 250LM), before Rover’s in house design team refined the concept under the leadership of Gerry McGovern. An interesting feature of the F was its Hydragas suspension, a system employing interconnected fluid and gas displacers which provided a surprisingly compliant ride but which could be tuned to provide excellent handling characteristics. The MG F quickly shot to the top of the affordable sports car charts in Britain and remained there until the introduction of the MG TF in 2002.
Saturday 15th February 1936
The Mercedes-Benz 260D – the world’s first production diesel-powered passenger car – debuted at the Berlin Auto Show. Based on the 200 model, the 260D used a 2.6-litre 4-cylinder diesel engine mated to a Bosch mechanical injection pump. The ensemble allowed the car to produce 45hp of power at 3,200 rpm. Almost 2,000 units were built through 1940. The car initially had a 3-speed gearbox; and was upgraded with electric coil ignitors in 1938. One of the diesel powerplant’s main benefits – then as now – was reduced fuel consumption. The 260D burned 9 l/100 km (26 mpg U.S.) compared to 13 l/ 100 km (18 mpg U.S.) in the gasoline counterpart. Another bonus: at the time, diesel was half the price of gasoline, so the motorists saved a lot of cash at the pump. The SS and Gestapo made use of these vehicles for more sinister purposes – the hunting of Jews. If one saw the 260D coming, trouble was to be expected. The Mercedes 260D ultimately became associated as an infamous “Death Mobile” instead of known as the first diesel passenger car.
Friday 15th February 1935
BMW’s stylistically and technologically innovative flagship model, the 70 mph BMW 326, was launched at the 26th German International Motor Show Berlin. Available as a saloon, a two-door and four-door convertible, it was the first BMW to sport a streamlined body, a hydraulic braking system and a concealed spare wheel. The car featured a 2 litre 6 cylinder engine with two carburettors, whose power of 50 bhp was transmitted to the wheels in 1st and 2nd gear by a partially synchronised four-speed transmission with freewheel. Daimler-Benz presented the new car models 170 V (W 136) and 170 H (W 28) as well as the model 260 D (W 138), the world’s first series-produced diesel passenger car at the show.
"WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"
- 1984
Homage to English novelist George Orwell, who passed #OnThisDay in 1950.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-christmas-carol-is-published
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1843
December 19
“A Christmas Carol” is publishedOn December 19, 1843, Charles Dickens’ classic story “A Christmas Carol” is published.
Dickens was born in 1812 and attended school in Portsmouth. His father, a clerk in the navy pay office, was thrown into debtors’ prison in 1824, and 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory. The miserable treatment of children and the institution of the debtors’ jail became topics of several of Dickens’ novels.
In his late teens, Dickens became a reporter and started publishing humorous short stories when he was 21. In 1836, a collection of his stories, Sketches by Boz, later known as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, was published. The same year, he married Catherine Hogarth, with whom he would have nine children. The short sketches in his collection were originally commissioned as captions for humorous drawings by caricature artist Robert Seymour, but Dickens’ whimsical stories about the kindly Samuel Pickwick and his fellow club members soon became popular in their own right. Only 400 copies were printed of the first installment, but by the 15th episode 40,000 copies were printed. When the stories were published in book form in 1837, Dickens quickly became the most popular author of the day.
The success of the Pickwick Papers was soon reproduced with Oliver Twist (1838) and Nicholas Nickleby (1839). In 1841, Dickens published two more novels, then spent five months in the United States, where he was welcomed as a literary hero. Dickens never lost momentum as a writer, churning out major novels every year or two, often in serial form. Among his most important works are David Copperfield (1850), Great Expectations (1861), and A Tale of Two Cities (1859).
Beginning in 1850, he published his own weekly circular of fiction, poetry, and essays called Household Words. In 1858, Dickens separated from his wife and began a long affair with a young actress. He gave frequent readings, which became immensely popular. He died in 1870 at the age of 58, with his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, still unfinished.
#History #OnThisDay #Literature #Christmas #AChristmasCarol #CharlesDickens England