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  1. Posted

    June 03

    1781 – Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending raid by Banastre Tarleton.  So why are the successful "Midnight Rides" of the American Revolution relegated to historical footnotes, while the less than successful ride of Paul Revere becomes the stuff of poetic legend?

    1927 – Birth of Boots Randolph, American saxophonist and composer of Yakety Sax.  No Benny Hill show or chase scene would be complete without this maestro's work.

    1943 – The original Zoot Suit Riots.  In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in Zoot Suits.   Officials try to put the blame on Axis or Communist agitators.  Certainly it couldn't be because young and underprivileged people in an overcrowded city took a stand against transient strangers in uniform who would treat the locals like criminals.

    Also, June 03 is the Feast of St Kevin, just in case you meet any talking wands worth venerating.

  2. Posted

    49 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    Back to Cranium, remember that it was hinted she was strong-armed into government work ; that probably wouldn't be necessary if she would be family.

    "Family" can be an extremely powerful strong-arm, wrapped in a velvet glove.

    I recall seeing President Obama speak at an Annapolis commencement ceremony where one of the graduating Midshipmen was John McCain IV.  This young officer probably had more than a few polite suggestions from relatives regarding his educational and career choices.

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    June 02

    455 – Vandals (the Germanic tribe, not random saboteurs) enter Rome, and for two weeks plunder the city.  Afterwards, they carry away their ill gotten gains in the appropriately named Sack of Rome.

    1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.  Today, the site of the old fort contains the southern foundation of the Mackinac Bridge,  historic reconstructions of several buildings and palisades from the original fort Michilimackinac, and a day park with a lovely view of nearby Mackinac Island.  What it does not have in any form is a Lacrosse Field.

    1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.  Through a series of mergers with the circuses of James Anthony Bailey and the Ringling Brothers, Barnum's show would continue to perform until rising costs, lower attendance, and vocal opposition to performing and working animals (particularly Elephants) would force the show's closure in 2017.  Will people even remember that the Circus was a finely honed instrument that could arrive by train or wagon on one day, have the Big Top up with two shows a day the next day, and then just as quickly break down and be on their way to the next town?  For too many, "Circus" has become an adjective describing inefficient businesses or government institutions.  And this is sad because the historic Circus was organized chaos that brought joy and thrills to entire nations, one small town at a time.  (Sorry, about the tone.  The Feld Entertainment Group, the last owners of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus, were my neighbors.  I took the demise of the Circus rather personally.)

    1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.  -... ..- - / .-- .... --- / .-. . .- .-.. .-.. -.-- / -. . . -.. ... / - --- / -.-. --- -- -- ..- -. .. -.-. .- - . / .-- .. - .... --- ..- - / .-- .. .-. . ...  But who really needs to communicate without wires?

    1910 – Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane. If he had double checked his carry-on before taking off, he wouldn't have needed to turn around before getting to his destination.

    1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.  That seems a little too well organized to be anarchy.

    1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth.  Among the earliest major international events to be televised.  The BBC broadcast the event live in the UK, and sent film via jet to Canada for the CBC.  The established CBS and NBC networks in the US had arranged for film to be sent to the US by propeller plane.  The struggling ABC network in the US arranged to use the CBC coverage, feeding the CBC's signal from Toronto through Buffalo.  Beating CBS and NBC to air in the United States at a lower cost.

    1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.  Boys, if you can't play nice, FIFA will take the ball away and go home.  Although a war might be less damaging in the long run.

    1967 – It was fifty one years ago today.  Well, 51years ago in The United States.  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is released in the United States.

    Also, June 02 is the feast of St Elmo, which does NOT involve tickling.

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    June 01

    193 – The Roman emperor Didius Julianus is assassinated... Is there any date on the calendar when a Roman Emperor was NOT attacked, arrested, assassinated, poisoned, stabbed, stoned...?

    1495 – John Cor, a Tironensian monk and possible alchemist at Lindores Abbey in Fife, Scotland, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky by order of King James IV.  The auld country would ne'er be the same.

    1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.  But how long would she have a place to wear that crown?

    1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.  Apparently the treaty wasn't so secret.  Otherwise, the English could have denied the treaty and avoided going Dutch Treat.

    1779 – Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is court-martialed for malfeasance.  The actual trial will be delayed and a verdict won't be returned for nearly a year. But this won't contribute to the frustration of a military commander who has already been passed over for promotion and is disliked by other military officers and politicians.

    1890 – The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.  Because humans can no longer count without mechanical assistance.

    1974 – The Heimlich maneuver is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.  Leaves you all chocked up just thinking about it.

    1990 – Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.  A nice gesture.  Now how about those darn Nuclear weapons?

    2001 – The first World Milk Day by order of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.  This goes especially well with National Doughnut Day, celebrated on the first Friday of June since 1938.  I think I've milked this for all it's worth.

  7. Posted

    Darnitol

    For reasons... I had the Gelett Burgess poem "Purple Cow" stuck in my head.

    Now in this greyscale comic, I am seeing the darker parts of Cow-Grace (Cow-Graze?) as purple.

    And I am posting this comment for a simple reason.  If I must have that image in my head, I will make certain that others will similarly suffer.

     

  8. Posted

    I doubt that Arthur is Mrs Dunkle's father.

    While it is possible, it would excessively strain plausibility.

    Most likely, Arthur's daughter is older than the main cast, but younger than their parents.

    I'm guessing Amanda, and I'll take my cookies now.

  10. Posted

    7 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Bless you for the Allen Funt reference!

    Staging an elaborate stunt and then subjecting the witnesses to an awkward interrogation seems like a classic Candid Camera bit.

    Although I could be wrong.  Yes, I watched a lot of episodes.  Back in the 70s, kids had to shut up and watch what their parents watched.  But I really didn't care for show or the concept.

  11. Posted

    19 hours ago, ssokolow said:

    It also didn't help that Hitler started micro-managing his generals as the war went on, and he wasn't as good at it as they were:

     

    13 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    Indeed.

    That depends on your point of view.  I would hate to think what would have happened if Herr Hitler let the Generals run the army.

  14. Posted

    5 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    So, Ellen thought about Magus having access to millions, but she didn't say anything aloud.   Does that mean she hasn't told anyone else?  Or just doesn't want to tell Arthur Arthur?  Or was she just trying to be polite not pointing out the flaw in Arthur's optimism?

    By showing us Ellen's thoughts at Arthur's comments, Dan was showing us that he hasn't forgotten about Sirleck's wealth transfer plans, the fact that magus was aware of at least some of those plans, and that Ellen's contact with Sirleck made her aware of these plans.

    Ellen already interrupted Arthur once to contact Nanase.  I'm guessing that her silence right now is largely due to politeness, and realizing that the sooner Arthur gets done talking, the sooner they can go home. After all, Arthur was the one who trained Edward.  Ellen does not want him to start pulling out the charts.

    I hope that, if Arthur does not mention Sirleck's money before he ends the briefing, Ellen will say something.

  16. Posted

    For personal reasons, I would like to mention for May 30

    1539 – Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay in Florida with the goal of finding gold.  Spoiler Alert:  He doesn't find any.  Among the provisions he brought for his crew of 620 humans were 200 pigs.  Many of these pigs would escape and become the first ancestors of the feral hogs in the United States today.  In Death Sentence, did anyone even attempt to talk to the boar in Spanish before Grace broke out the Pig Latin?

  18. Posted

    Singer Bobby Darin's first hit in 1958 was "Splish Splash".
    Less than a decade later, it embarrassed him when someone requested it when he was performing "If I Were A Carpenter".
    His style had just matured.

    Is Kevin the Wand now Arthur's "Splish Splash"?

  19. Posted

    May 29

    1660 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.  Apparently having a government that is entirely dependent upon the voters isn't all it's cracked up to be.  Better keep at least a figurehead who isn't quite as actively political.

    1733 – The right of settlers in New France to enslave natives is upheld at Quebec City.  A court set up by settlers in a city built by settlers renders a decision in the settlers favor at the expense of the indigenous population.  That is unusual.

    1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.  If you can, imagine it.  Before this time people might go days, months, years, even lifetimes without seeing or hearing the name "Coca-Cola".  How did humans ever get along until this point?

    1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.  Apparently the audience was divided between very conservative and aristocratic traditional ballet fans, and "bohemian" fans of the avant-garde.  They started by yelling and throwing things at each other.  Then they did the sensible thing and started throwing things at the orchestra.  It would be several more decades before this became an educational video about the origin of life and the extinction of the Dinosaurs.

    1953 – Tenzing Norgay becomes the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, quickly followed by Edmund Hillary.  Surprisingly, there is no Starbucks there.

    1958 – First celebration of the World Digestive Health Day.  So what is your gut reaction to this?

    2001 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin, under terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act, can use a cart to ride in tournaments.  Because it wouldn't be golf if they didn't fight every little challenge to the rules and traditions.

    2018 – Google celebrates the inventor of the pH scale, Danish chemist S.P.L. Sørensen.  It wasn't the anniversary of his birth or death, so apparently smart Danes are to be celebrated whenever it is convenient.

  20. Posted

    5 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    ...this is out of continuity so she technically CAN transform people left and right, but it still feels like she overdid it.

    What if Dan is using this part of the story as an excuse to bring back EVERY character who ever appeared in EGS for a random transformation?

  21. Posted

    May 28

    585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.  A day when some humans decided that they didn't want to fight each other?  We as a species would not make a habit of this.

    1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.  Better write that declaration in pencil and keep an eraser on hand.

    1754 – French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen.  This was at some point between chopping the cherry tree and the wooden teeth.

    1843 – Death of Noah Webster, American lexicographer.  His remains are buried alphabetically in New Haven's Grove Street Cemetery.

    1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the first quintuplets to survive infancy are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne.  The Ontario government turns the girls into a tourist attraction and the following decades become a lesson on how not to treat children in multiple births and their families.

    1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.  He should have just posted it on line to a news group.

    Also, May 28 is the Feast of Saint Bernard of Menthon (or Montjoux).  A holy man who went to the dogs.

  23. Posted

    May 27

    1199 – John is crowned King of England.  Sorry Robin, but this time Richard Cœur de Lion won't come back.

    1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.  With a reliable Baltic port, Russia should no longer perceive a need to dominate European territory as a means to secure vital trade and resources.

    1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.  The overwhelming Japanese victory over the ill prepared Russian fleet creates a myth of Japanese Naval Invincibility.  The flaws in this myth will take about forty years to be fully exposed.

    1933 – Walt Disney, through United Artists, releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"  The short grossed ten times what it cost to produce.  The business people of show business demanded "More Pigs" from Disney.  When the Pigs sequels turned out to be box office disappointments, Walt Disney observed that "you can't top pigs with pigs".  Surely the studio Walt Disney founded would always remember this lesson and never be bogged down with unending sequels.

    1935 – Birth of Lee Meriwether, American model and actress, Miss America 1955.  The second of Catwoman's nine lives.

    1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic.  The project was completed ahead of schedule and over one million dollars under budget.  Yes, it can happen.

    1949 – Death of LeRoy Robert Ripley.  Believe it or not.

  24. Posted

    An important detail to remember is that there are no Villains.

    Every character who does bad things, in fiction or real life, has a reason that justifies or mitigates doing bad things.

    Granted, the validity of that reason may exist only within the mind of the bad guy.  But the reason is there.

    Knowing that reason may make a villainous person more understandable.  But sympathetic?

    Every person has some reason to do bad things.  But most of us refrain from doing those things.

    Once you have caused another person's death, injury, or loss of property, my sympathy for you will be a distant concern.

    However I will still want to know the reasons for your actions.  Are there others being compelled to do what you did?

  25. Posted

    May 26

    946 – King Edmund I of England is murdered by a thief whom he personally attacks while celebrating St Augustine's Mass Day.  As King, you CAN get away with personally beating the occasional random thief.  That does not necessarily mean you SHOULD beat any random thief.  You might want to look at hiring people to do that sort of thing for you.

    1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.  Yes, they created a country so that their colonial troops on the borders of India and Siberia didn't accidentally start shooting at each other.  Certainly that country they created wouldn't become a problem in the future.

    1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
    Speaking of soulless, bloodsucking monsters...

    1897 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.