It’s Monday Funday. Back on the mic from SW Missouri on a mountain top in the Ozarks. Sipping on a bonus bag of Brian’s Blend (C4 memberships have great perks). Today I chat about the good and bad of our last 3 travel days, the brewery we tried in central Kansas and some thoughts from the road. Leading off with The Perfect Cup Question ” What’s the most exciting thing that has happen to you this year?” followed by LOTS of History prepared by Pip from Ducktioncups.
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LOTS of History
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July 24
Haaaaaappy monday humans! Welcome to the weekday. 160 sun cycles are remaining in this solar loop that humans call 2023.
Be warned, there’s a foul plot, afoot.
(Pip checks foot)
Sorry, that’s my foot, stepped in dog poo. I’m going to clean this up, and here’s LOTS of History
- 1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”.
The agricultural methods farmers favored during this period created the conditions for large-scale erosion under certain environmental conditions.
The widespread conversion of the land by deep plowing and other soil preparation methods to enable agriculture eliminated the native grasses that held the soil in place and helped retain moisture during dry periods.
Pip’s notes – man, I’ve lost a coffee cup, lost a phone, but I’ve never lost a city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machu_Picchu
- 1935 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee.
The drought came in three waves: 1934, 1936, and 1939–1940, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as long as eight years.
Pip’s notes – The agricultural methods farmers favored during this period created the conditions for large-scale erosion under certain environmental conditions.
The widespread conversion of the land by deep plowing and other soil preparation methods to enable agriculture eliminated the native grasses that held the soil in place and helped retain moisture during dry periods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
- 1966 – Michael Pelkey, along with Brian Schubert make the first BASE jump from El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park.
Both came out with broken bones.
BASE jumping has now been banned from the El Cap area in Yosemite National Park….
Pip’s notes – …..Bbbbuuuut not banned for long. There’s vague talk about filming jumps in 1978 and after….
Carl Boenish was an important catalyst behind modern BASE jumping, and in 1978 he filmed jumps from El Capitan, made using ram-air parachutes and the freefall tracking technique.
While BASE jumps had been made prior to that time, the El Capitan activity was the effective birth of what is now called BASE jumping.
Pip’s side notes – BASE jumping is widely believed to have started by a dude named Fausto Veranzio, who was a polymath and bishop from… uh.. from….
(((Pip deletes a strange city name that has odd letters)))
What is now present day Italy. A seriously ill 65 year old jumped out of a 323 ft tall building to test the 1st parachute..
Pip’s notes – After a Google-fu sesson, that’ll be a story for January 27th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping
- 1980 – The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men’s 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
The United States, the winner of all previous editions of this event, was boycotting the games in response to the Soviet–Afghan War.
Pip’s notes – There’s some form of irony here, just not sure where. (sips coffee)
moving on…
- 1987 – Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan’s highest peak.
an American mountaineer, dietitian and vegetarianism activist.
Affectionately known as “Grandma Whitney” she successfully scaled 14,505-foot (4,421 m) Mount Whitney 23 times between the ages of 65 and 91.
She had climbed 97 other peaks during this period.
at the age of 91, she became the oldest woman to complete the ascent of Mount Fuji in Japan.
Crooks was sponsored by Dentsu and a photograph was taken of her at the top of the mountain.
She hiked the entire 212 mile John Muir Trail in the high Sierras, completing the hike in segments over five years
Pip’s notes – In 1990, an Act of Congress renamed Day Needle, one of the peaks in the Whitney area, to Crooks Peak in her honor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulda_Crooks
2019 – Queen’s iconic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ video reached one billion views on YouTube, a new record for one of the band’s videos.
The milestone made it the first pre-1990s video to reach one billion views on the platform. ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was also named as the most Googled song of 2018.
Happy Birthdays
- 1725 – John Newton, English sailor and priest (d. 1807)
an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist. He had previously been a captain of slave ships and an investor in the slave trade. He served as a sailor in the Royal Navy (after forced recruitment) and was himself enslaved for a time in West Africa. He is noted for being author of the hymns Amazing Grace and Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken.
Pip’s notes – In 1748, during his return voyage to England aboard the ship Greyhound, Newton had a spiritual conversion.
He awoke to find the ship caught in a severe storm off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland and about to sink. In response, Newton began praying for God’s mercy, after which the storm began to die down.
After four weeks at sea, the Greyhound made it to port in Lough Swilly (Ireland). This experience marked the beginning of his conversion to Christianity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Newton
- 1897 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author (d. 1937)
She set many records, she also was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
Pip’s notes – checks gauges… ok, wormhole-drive active…
the Ninety-Nines.. In August 1929, a small group of female pilots met informally in Cleveland, Ohio following the United States Women’s Air Derby, and that group agreed that there was a need to form an organization to support women in the burgeoning field of aviation.
On November 2, 1929, the organization was founded at Curtiss Field near Valley Stream, New York by 26 licensed female pilots for the mutual support and advancement of “Women Pilots.”
At the suggestion of Amelia Earhart, the organization’s name was taken from the number of charter members, settling on “Ninety-Nines” based on responses received by that Christmas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-Nines
the Ninety-Nines has 153 chapters and 27 regional ‘sections’ across the globe as of 2022, including a ‘virtual’ chapter, Ambassador 99s, which meets online for those who are too busy or mobile to be in one region for long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
- 1919 – Kenneth S. Kleinknecht, NASA manager (d. 2007)
Dude worked for the United States National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics as an engineer and continued at NASA to become a manager of the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo CSM, Skylab, Shuttle, and Spacelab.
After retiring from NASA, he worked for Lockheed Martin for 9 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_S._Kleinknecht
- 1942 – Chris Sarandon, American actor
an American actor well known for playing a variety of iconic characters, including Jerry Dandrige in Fright Night (1985), Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride (1987), Detective Mike Norris in Child’s Play (1988), and Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Leon Shermer in Dog Day Afternoon (1975).
Pip’s notes – fucking Princess Bride… Best all around movie, ever.
It’s ok if you Doubt me, most people don’t know they’re wrong.
Pip’s side notes – Hey, Pip… the movie Heat. You are doubted.
Pip’s retort – A Florida dude yields back his “best” claim, and respects the movie “Heat” and will shut his mouth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Sarandon
- 1963 – Karl Malone, American basketball player and coach
He was a two-time NBA Most Valuable Player, a 14-time NBA All-Star, and an 11-time member of the All-NBA first team. His 36,928 career points scored rank third all-time in NBA history behind LeBron James and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and he holds the records for most free throws made and attempted, and most regular season games started, in addition to being tied for the second-most first-team All-NBA selections with Kobe Bryant and behind LeBron James.
Pip’s notes – Gooo sportsballll!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Malone
Passings
- 1862 – Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and politician, eighth President of the United States (b. 1782)
an American lawyer, diplomat, and statesman of New York Dutch descent who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841
Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, New York, where most residents were of Dutch descent and spoke Dutch as their primary language.
He was the first president to have been born after the American Revolution, in which his father served as a patriot. He is the only president to have spoken English as a second language. (..yet)
Pip’s notes – Van Buren, at 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) tall, was small in stature, and affectionately nicknamed “Little Van”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren
- 1970 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman, philanthropist, and civil servant (b. 1897)
a businessman and civil servant of Kanpur, India. He was knighted by Pope Paul VI in 1965 for his work for the Christian community in India.
Pip’s notes – Wait, I thought the pope blesses people, and “royalty” (coughs) does the knighting… legacy controllers be weird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_de_Noronha
- 2012 – Robert Ledley, American physiologist and physicist, invented the CT scanner (b. 1926)
A professor of physiology and biophysics and professor of radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, pioneered the use of electronic digital computers in biology and medicine.
In 1960 he established the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF), a non-profit research organization dedicated to promoting the use of computers and electronic equipment in biomedical research.
Pip’s notes – Ledley also carried out work related to computer design. In 1970, when Moore’s Law was still a relatively new idea, and when the most powerful computers had 1,000 to 2,000 logic gates, Ledley wrote a paper titled “Realization of a Billion-Gate Computer” in which he speculated on the capabilities of a transistorized computer that had 1,000,000,000 logic gates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ledley
- 2013 – Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport (b. 1921)
an international peace activist best known for renouncing his American citizenship and interrupting the United Nations in 1948 to advocate for world government as a way to end nationalistic wars.
Davis founded the International Registry of World Citizens in Paris in January 1949, which registered over 750,000 individuals. On September 4, 1953, Davis formed an organisation, the World Government of World Citizens, with the stated aim of furthering fundamental human rights.
He additionally formed the World Service Authority in 1954 as the government’s executive and administrative agency, which issues its own fantasy passports – along with fantasy birth and other certificates – to customers. Davis first used his World Passport on a trip to India in 1956, and was allegedly admitted into some countries using it.
Pip’s notes – In 2012, Davis sent WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a World Passport. Only weeks before he died, Davis sent a World Passport to whistleblower Edward Snowden in Moscow in care of the Russian authorities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Davis
- 2015 – Peg Lynch, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1916)
an American writer, actress, and sitcom creator. The BBC dubbed her, “the woman who invented sitcom”
She created, wrote, starred in, and owned her own sitcom and she retained that ownership throughout her life.
It was at KATE Radio that Lynch first introduced the husband and wife characters of Ethel and Albert, born as a three-minute “filler” sketch in her woman’s show.
The sketch was successful and adapted to sell products on the show. Lynch played Ethel and a station announcer played Albert.
After four months at KATE, Lynch moved to WCHV in Charlottesville, Virginia, and then on to WTBO in Cumberland, Maryland, in 1941, continuing to develop Ethel and Albert as she went, expanding it at WTBO into a five-times-per-week, 15-minute evening feature. Willis Conover played Albert.
Pip’s notes – She wrote over 11,000 scripts for radio and television.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_Lynch
- 2020 – Regis Philbin, American actor and television host (b. 1931)
an American television presenter, talk show host, game show host, comedian, actor, and singer.
Once called “the hardest working man in show business”, he held the Guinness World Record for the most hours spent on U.S. television (surpassing previous record holder Hugh Downs)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regis_Philbin
Holidays
- Carnival of Awussu (Tunisia)
- Children’s Day (Vanuatu)
- Pioneer Day (Utah)
- Police Day (Poland)
- Simón Bolívar Day (Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia)
- Navy Day (Venezuela)
This has been Pip with ducktion cups, letting you know that, yes, I short changed the history segment a bit. Been working on recording content on installing some new accessories on Mom’s Wrangler.
Both for Ducktion Cups and for ‘One Door Off’, one of my Youtube channels for automotive stuff.
I have no idea when it’ll be posted, if ever.
Now, if y’all would excuse me, now that my shoes are clean, I’ll be working on mom’s Jeep, I’m off to record me installing new stuff into Mom’s Wrangler.
I have dubbed it “Bucktooth”. Sooner or later, I’ll make a story about that.
…Well, no need, really. I painted the front tow hooks white. Looked like two teeth sticking out…
Anyway, enough babble, we all have stuff to listen to, back to Brian for… uh.. stuff and things.