#unofficialdiarydates — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/116570718124202524
Happy birthday, David Byrne (b. 5/14/1952)!
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RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/116570718124202524
Happy birthday, David Byrne (b. 5/14/1952)!
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RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/116570718124202524
Happy birthday, David Byrne (b. 5/14/1952)!
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RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/116570718124202524
Happy birthday, David Byrne (b. 5/14/1952)!
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Happy birthday, Salvador Dali (b. 5/11/1904 in Figueres, Spain)!
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Have a safe & joyous Walpurgisnacht everyone! Watch out for the scary bonfires on your way to the Brocken.
It also happens to be the day that the discovery of the electron was announced (in 1897 by J.J. Thomson), which is definitely not evidence of witchcraft in particle physics.
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Happy National Garlic Day!
Personally, I consider garlic an essential food group.
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Happy Yeats Yeets Crowley Day!
On 4/19/1900, William Butler Yeats & another member barred Aleister Crowley from entering the Blythe Road (London) temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, kicking Crowley down the stairs when he persisted (according to Richard Ellman).
#UnofficialDiaryDates #WBYeats #AleisterCrowley #YeatsYeetsCrowley #BattleOfBlytheRoad
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116414218967309227
Happy birthday, Charlie Chaplain (b. 4/16/1889)!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116414218967309227
Happy birthday, Charlie Chaplain (b. 4/16/1889)!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116414218967309227
Happy birthday, Charlie Chaplain (b. 4/16/1889)!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116414218967309227
Happy birthday, Charlie Chaplain (b. 4/16/1889)!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116318200955412420
Happy birthday, Francisco de Goya (b. 3/30/1746)!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116318200955412420
Happy birthday, Francisco de Goya (b. 3/30/1746)!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116318200955412420
Happy birthday, Francisco de Goya (b. 3/30/1746)!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116318200955412420
Happy birthday, Francisco de Goya (b. 3/30/1746)!
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Happy Ever Given Day!
On 3/23/2021, the container ship Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal while traveling from Malaysia to the Netherlands, blocking maritime traffic through the canal for 6 days. The ship was finally freed 3/29/2021.
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Happy birthday to Uranus!
On 3/13/1781, William Herschel observed Uranus and correctly identified it as a planet rather than a star. If we'd only taken his suggestion to name the planet after King George III, we would have been spared centuries of schoolboy sniggers about the "discovery of your anus".
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Happy Peter Pinguid Day!
"What happened on the night of the 9th March, 1864, a day now held sacred by all Peter Pinguid Society members, is not too clear.… Attack, retaliation, both projectiles deep-sixed forever and the Pacific rolls on."
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Happy Peter Pinguid Day!
"What happened on the night of the 9th March, 1864, a day now held sacred by all Peter Pinguid Society members, is not too clear.… Attack, retaliation, both projectiles deep-sixed forever and the Pacific rolls on."
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Happy Peter Pinguid Day!
"What happened on the night of the 9th March, 1864, a day now held sacred by all Peter Pinguid Society members, is not too clear.… Attack, retaliation, both projectiles deep-sixed forever and the Pacific rolls on."
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Happy Peter Pinguid Day!
"What happened on the night of the 9th March, 1864, a day now held sacred by all Peter Pinguid Society members, is not too clear.… Attack, retaliation, both projectiles deep-sixed forever and the Pacific rolls on."
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Happy birthday (observed) to Western movable type!
Traditionally, Gutenberg published his first Bible on 2/23/1455, launching the use of movable type in Europe.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116120011295693363
Happy birthday, W.E.B. Du Bois!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116120011295693363
Happy birthday, W.E.B. Du Bois!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116120011295693363
Happy birthday, W.E.B. Du Bois!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116120011295693363
Happy birthday, W.E.B. Du Bois!
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Happy Robot Day!
Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti) premiered in a theater in Hradec Králové 1/2/1921, introducing the trope of artificial humans called "robots".
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Happy birthday to the Internet!
On this day in 1983, the ARPANET network officially switched to using the TCP/IP protocol, effectively creating the Internet. https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml
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Happy Emma Day!
Jane Austen's Emma was published, anonymously, 12/23/1815.
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Happy birthday to Grace Hopper (b. 12/9/1906)!
Among her many accomplishments & honors, maybe the most poetic is her replacement of slave-owner & white supremacist John Calhoun as the namesake of one of Yale's residential colleges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper_College
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Happy birthday to Grace Hopper (b. 12/9/1906)!
Among her many accomplishments & honors, maybe the most poetic is her replacement of slave-owner & white supremacist John Calhoun as the namesake of one of Yale's residential colleges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper_College
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Happy birthday to Grace Hopper (b. 12/9/1906)!
Among her many accomplishments & honors, maybe the most poetic is her replacement of slave-owner & white supremacist John Calhoun as the namesake of one of Yale's residential colleges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper_College
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Happy birthday to Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper (opened 8/31/1928 at Berlin’s Theater am Schiffbauerdamm)!
"Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts."
#UnofficialDiaryDates #DieDreigroschenoper #ThreepennyOpera #KurtWeill #BertoltBrecht
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Happy birthday to Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper (opened 8/31/1928 at Berlin’s Theater am Schiffbauerdamm)!
"Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts."
#UnofficialDiaryDates #DieDreigroschenoper #ThreepennyOpera #KurtWeill #BertoltBrecht
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Happy birthday to Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper (opened 8/31/1928 at Berlin’s Theater am Schiffbauerdamm)!
"Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts."
#UnofficialDiaryDates #DieDreigroschenoper #ThreepennyOpera #KurtWeill #BertoltBrecht
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Happy birthday to Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht's Die Dreigroschenoper (opened 8/31/1928 at Berlin’s Theater am Schiffbauerdamm)!
"Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts."
#UnofficialDiaryDates #DieDreigroschenoper #ThreepennyOpera #KurtWeill #BertoltBrecht
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Happy birthdays to Yves Tanguy (1900), Umberto Eco (1932), and Hayao Miyazaki (1941)!