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  7. Posted

    29 December

    1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church.  The King had Becket appointed as Archbishop because the King thought Thomas Becket was his friend and would do as the King wished.  Upon becoming Archbishop, Thomas Becket committed the unforgivable sin of thinking for himself.

    1812 – USS Constitution, under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle.  If the Captain says he's going out for Java, it may not be just a coffee break.

    1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.  And what were the Cherokee promised in return?  It really doesn't matter.

    1851 – The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.  Young man, there's a place you can go (in Boston) / I said, young man, when you're short on your dough / You can stay there, and I'm sure you will find / Many ways to have a good time

    1860 – The launch of HMS Warrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete.  Almost all.  Bushnell's Turtle remained jus as effective as it ever was.

    1997 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the city's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.  This much killing sounds like a military operation.  Is General Tso still on active duty?  If not, they may need to reactivate Colonel Sanders.

    2003 – Maria Sergina, the last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.  Her last words were... a complete mystery.  No one else was left who knew what she was saying.

    2006 – UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.  Wait a minute.  Nations can actually settle their national debts?  Do you think this idea might catch on?

    2016 – US President Barack Obama retaliates against Russia for hacking American computer systems and trying to influence the 2016 presidential election by ejecting 35 Russian spies and imposing sanctions.  These sanctions would be lifted about a month later.

  9. Posted

    28 December

    169 BC – The Menorah is lit to rededicate the Holy Temple of Jerusalem after two centuries of foreign rule and religious oppression and a seven-year revolt. The Menorah burns for eight days without the sufficient fuel needed to do so, birthing the holiday Hanukkah.  Thank You Judas Maccabeus.  Oy, if he could only see us...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LslsgH3-UFU

    1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated in England.  The first coronation would be celebrated there less than a year later.  Too bad the King getting crowned would not be related to the King who had the place built.

    1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.  Can we teach other politicians how to do that?

    1849 – M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning.  He accidentally upsets a lamp containing turpentine & oil on his clothing then sees a cleaning effect.  Someone had to put the "DRY" into LAUNDRY.

    1867 – United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.  Manifest Destiny was supposed to justify expanding from Sea to Shining Sea.  What is the explanation for taking something half way across said shining sea?

    1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.  This was such a publicity stunt.  If you looked closely you could see right through it.

    1922 – Birth of Stan Lee, American publisher, producer, and actor.  Just once more, everyone.  EXCELSIOR!

    1934 – The film "Bright Eyes" premieres starring Shirley Temple and featuring the song "On the Good Ship Lollipop".  I have not yet found an online travel service that will book passage for me on that ship.

    1973 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.  Uryuoms are not listed as a protected species...

    2008 – The Detroit Lions crash in a 31-21 loss to Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field; first team in NFL history to go winless in a 16-game season.  Of all the records the Lions could have set, it had to be THIS one.

  11. Posted

    27 December

    537 – The construction of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is completed.  One of the largest buildings in the world, and largest Cathedral for almost one thousand years, its eventual pillage and conversion at the hands of Latin and Islamic conquerors was practically assured.

    1814 – Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson's make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans.  The delaying actions were so effective that Jackson's victory occurred after the war was already over.

    1831 – The HMS Beagle departs England for a survey of South America.  On board was a young Naturalist, Charles Darwin. He might get a few papers based on this trip published.

    1845 – Journalist John L. O'Sullivan, writing in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argues that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny".  It's in the newspapers so it must be true.

    1922 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.  Airplanes on boats?  The only real measure of Naval power is artillery on battleships.  This is a mere novelty.

    1927 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway.  So it's a play?  And it has singing and dancing?  But it's not an opera?  

    1929 – Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".  Because nothing will get the poorest of the peasants on the side of the revolution like humiliating and destroying the slightly wealthier peasants.

    1947 – First "Howdy Doody Show" (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC.  The beginning of American culture.

    1979 – The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.  The United States strongly objects... This will not end well.  Or should I say well, this will not end.

    1983 – Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St. Peter's Square.  How many Hail Mary's did that take?

  12. Posted

    5 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    if you're going to change a figure in that many ways, it isn't really that figure anymore.  Not a favorite.

     

    4 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    it doesn't look bad. It's just ... them being Mrs. Dunkel and Mrs. Kitsune doesn't really seem relevant.

    We need significantly more context to make the identity of the characters significant.

    ChronosCat and hkmaly reacted to this

  13. Posted

    26 December

    Boxing Day!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKQioyQDowU

    1492 – With the flagship of his fleet having run aground on a sand bank and damaged beyond repair the previous day, the first Spanish settlement in the New World, La Navidad (modern Môle-Saint-Nicolas) in Haiti, is founded by Christopher Columbus.

    1776 – American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces.  General Washington trusts you had a Merry Christmas and hopes you will be comfortable as war prisoners in the New Year.

    1790 – Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.  Because forcing the Clergy to swear loyalty to the State above the Church will certainly stop the revolutionary forces trying to destroy the Royalty...

    1792 – Trial of French King Louis XVI.  The court hears the kings defense brought by Raymond Desèze.  Ok, new plan Monsieur XVI.  Sit down and shut up.  There is obviously nothing you can do at this point to sway the forces at the head of the revolution.  And you can probably guess what the forces of the revolution will do to your head.

    1860 – The first ever inter-club English association football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England.  So instead of competing against the other players with whom we practice every day, we can put a team of our best players up against a team of the best players from other clubs?

    1861 – American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.  Don't even try out bully Britain on matters of diplomacy.

    1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.  Four women working on a Naval vessel and it didn't sink immediately?  We may need to rethink long established Naval doctrine.

    1871 – Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years.  No worries, they will eventually bring us that infernal nonsense, "Pinafore".

    1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.  Too bad it took them longer to realize the need to keep radioactive materials isolated.

    1919 – The contract for Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.  The "superstition" seems to suggest that if you give up the rights to the best player in the game, you deserve to lose.

    1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.  Although some states would insist on observing the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving for some time afterward.  Texas in 1956 would be the last state to observe Thanksgiving on a date different than the rest of the US government.

    1963 – The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.  Human civilization has come to an end.

    Also, 26 December is the Feast of St Stephen.  The date which in 1853, English hymnwriter John Mason Neale would set an apocryphal tale about a Bohemian Duke to a 13th century Nordic Spring-Carol, "Tempus Adest Floridum" ("The time is near for flowering").  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv8PgukSLX0  Like St Stephen, Neale may have been stoned.

  18. Posted

    Pretty good.

    But you missed some important events over the last two days.

    On ‎12‎/‎23‎/‎2018 at 0:56 PM, Illjwamh said:

    On December 23 in History:

    1966 - A displaced Pharaoh reestablishes his royal presence in rural Michigan.  He would later relocate to Florida where the Manatees greet his reign with respectful indifference.

    10 minutes ago, Illjwamh said:

    On Christmas Eve in History:

    1818 - A flood had damaged the organ of the St. Nikola parish church in Oberndorf bei Salzburg in Austria.  Father Joseph Mohr, a young priest, gave a poem he wrote to a local schoolmaster and organist, Franz Xaver Gruber.  Mohr asked Herr Gruber to arrange it for guitar...  OK, if you aren't already familiar with this story you probably aren't interested in Christmas Music in general.  This particular tale is told only slightly less often than the one about what happened when Quirinius was governor of Syria.  Suffice to say that "Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht" (in English "Silent Night") was performed publicly for the first time two hundred years ago today.

  20. Posted

    22 December

    1807 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.  France and Britain are fighting.  Again.  So to make sure the US doesn't look like we are taking sides, Jefferson declares that we won't trade with anyone.  This will certainly hurt France and Britain far more than it hurts America.

    1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano).  The only thing missing was Lucy fawning over Schroder at his toy piano and Chuck Berry  performing Roll Over Beethoven.

    1891 – Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.  I KNEW those Asteroids were taking pictures of us.  And they tried to tell me only humans could use photography.

    1910 – US postal savings stamps 1st issued.  That's right, the big banks effectively refused to accommodate small savers and investors, so individuals putting away money a little at a time had to deal with very small banks, or the Post Office.  And a lot of Americans preferred the Post Office.

    1932 – "The Mummy" directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff is released in the US - 1st Mummy horror film.  A cinematic masterpiece and a perennial family favourite.

    1942 – World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio

    1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"  A speech that will live forever in the history of American rhetoric.  Right along side Lincoln at Gettysburg, FDR's "Fear Itself",  and Clinton's "It depends on what your definition of 'Is' is."

    1958 – "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1.  So is this what happens when you give a songwriting comedian a variable speed tape player?

  23. Posted

    21 December

    1582 - Ever get so frustrated with Christmas that you want to skip it?  Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is Jan 1 1583

    1849 - First US skating club formed in Philadelphia.  The club used against Nancy Kerrigan was in Detroit.

    1866 - Fetterman Massacre: Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians kill all 81 US Army soldiers in the worst military disaster ever suffered by the U.S. Army on the Great Plains.  Never heard of this battle?  Well, about ten years later, a bigger "worst military disaster" would be led by George Armstrong Custer.

    1872 - According to Jules Verne, this is when Phileas Fogg completed his round the world trip in 80 days, in "Around the World in Eighty Days".

    1891 - First game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts.  No dribbling, dunking, three-pointers, shot clock, or players of color.

    1913 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.  Thirty two clues leading to a world wide obsession.

    1914 – First feature-length silent film comedy "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin.  Comedy in movies?  This will never catch on.

    1933 – Fox Films signs Shirley Temple aged 5, to a studio contract.  Pretty girls in movies?  This will never catch on.

    1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.  Animation in movies?  This will never catch on.

    1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.  Bear in mind that the most famous image of the mission, Earthrise, was an illusion.  A result of the spacecraft being in motion around the Moon.  From the Lunar surface, the Earth appears to remain at the same point in the sky at all times.

    1970 – Elvis Presley meets US President Richard Nixon in the White House - the image of this meeting is the most requested photo from the entire National Archives.  Prominent figures of the 50s who faded somewhat but came back in the 60s only to become national embarrassments in the 70s.

    21 December is normally the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
    It is the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, south of the Arctic Circle.
    It is the traditional feast day of St Thomas The Apostle, aka Thomas the Doubter.
    Combining the long night with the remembrance of the Apostle who doubted the Resurrection, some Christian congregations observe the night of 21 December as "Blue Christmas".  A service, not for the departed, but for those who have lost someone in the previous year.

  24. Posted

    13 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    ...brought the dog to the carpet shop so she could match the fur color, so it wouldn't show up as badly as, say, black fur on a white carpet would.  (They said someone does that about once a month

    Only once per month?
    I had not thought about that.  But now that I have read it, it seems so obvious.