It’s Tuesday, you can eat the taco but I will take the tin foil. I have Silver Bullet Blend in my cup and it is tasting extra good this morning. Kyle The Backwoods Butcher has submitted another Tinfoil Tuesday segment, let me know what you think. After Tinfoil Tuesday I talk about my website issues and how I resolved them, and some realizations about my comfrey book project. Leading off with The Perfect Cup Question “What is one book, movie, show, or song that you would recommend to others and why?” followed by LOTS of History prepared by Pip from Ducktioncups.
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LOTS of History
Prepared by Pip over at Ducktioncups.com If you like the history segment SHOW THEM SOME LOVE Website FB TikTok
August 15th
Happy Post-Monday, humans. Down here, Yesterday’s lunch was great, but booooy, is Pip kicking himself for not tossing out the idea to the catering manager…
“Jeeps, Ducks & Doughnuts” car meet-up… doah! Another penciled down idea for later…
Anyway…
This Florida dude tried to keep LOTS of history a little short, for tinfoil tues.
(Pip scrools down) kinda short.. ish… anyway, have a few nugs for your Tuesday and maybe the Thatcher does fall far from the tree… (Birthdays reference)
soo…. lots of history…
- 1519 – Panama City, Panama is founded.
Founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Dávila. The city was the starting point for expeditions that conquered the Inca Empire in Peru.
It was a stopover point on one of the most important trade routes in the American continent, leading to the fairs of Nombre de Dios and Portobelo, through which passed most of the gold and silver that Spain mined from the Americas.
Pip’s notes – ooooooh, the guns n’ roses song is Paradise City, why was I thinking it was Panama City… waaay off.
Anyway…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_City
- 1824 – The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states.
a French aristocrat, freemason, and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War.
Pip’s cut & paste – In September 1775, when Lafayette turned 18, he returned to Paris and received the captaincy in the Dragoons he had been promised as a wedding present. In December, his first child, Henriette, was born. During these months, Lafayette became convinced that the American Revolution reflected his own beliefs,[19] saying “My heart was dedicated.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette
- 1914 – World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
elements of the Serbian 1st Combined Division encountered outposts set up by the invading Austro-Hungarian army on the slopes of Cer Mountain and fighting erupted.
The Austro-Hungarian positions were lightly held, and their defenders were driven back away from the mountain. By midnight, fierce clashes between the Austro-Hungarians and the Serbs were underway and chaos ensued in the darkness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cer
- 1915 – A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol (Benzenol) from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
Pio’s notes – wait, what?..
At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, most phenol used by American manufacturers was imported from the United Kingdom.
A major precursor compound in organic chemistry, phenol was used to make both the salicylic acid used to make aspirin, and the high explosive picric acid (trinitrophenol).
It was also a primary component for Thomas Edison’s “Diamond Disc” phonograph records, which were made from glue-bound wood flour or ceramic coated in a layer of an early phenol-based plastic (unlike other disc records of the time, which were made from shellac)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Phenol_Plot
- 1969 – The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in Bethel, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
The festival has become widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history as well as a defining event for the counterculture generation.
Pip’s notes – scrolls…. hmm… scrolls…… oh really…
On the morning of Sunday, August 17, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller called festival organizer John P. Roberts and told him that he was thinking of ordering 10,000 National Guard troops to the festival, but Roberts persuaded him not to. Sullivan County declared a state of emergency.[36] During the festival, personnel from nearby Stewart Air Force Base helped ensure order and air-lifted performers in and out of the concert site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock
- 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
At the time, the U.S. also had an unemployment rate of 6.1% (August 1971) and an inflation rate of 5.84% (1971)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
- 1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the “Wow! signal” from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
Pip’s notes – Becase Aliens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
Happy Birthdays
- 1769 – Napoleon Bonaparte, French general and emperor (d. 1821
Napoleon was born on the island of Corsica to a native family descending from Italian nobility.
He supported the French Revolution in 1789 while serving in the French army, and tried to spread its ideals to his native Corsica
Pip’s notes – So this dude wasn’t as short as the Sunday morning cartoons had suggested. His personal body guards were taller than the average human.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon
- 1892 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
a French physicist and aristocrat who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory.
In his 1924 PhD thesis, he postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties.
This concept is known as the de Broglie hypothesis, an example of wave–particle duality, and forms a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Broglie
- 1932 – Robert L. Forward, American physicist and engineer (d. 2002)
an American physicist and science fiction writer. His literary work was noted for its scientific credibility and use of ideas developed from his career as an aerospace engineer. He also made important contributions to gravitational wave detection research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Forward
- 1953 – Carol Thatcher, English journalist and author
- 1953 – Mark Thatcher, English businessman
Carol is an English journalist, author and media personality. She is the daughter of Margaret Thatcher, the British prime minister from 1979 to 1990, and Denis Thatcher.
Mark is the son of Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, and Sir Denis Thatcher; his sister is Carol Thatcher.
In 2005, he was convicted and given a four-year suspended prison sentence and fined in South Africa for funding the 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d’état attempt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Thatcher
- 1968 – Debra Messing, American actress
She achieved her breakthrough role as Grace Adler, an interior designer, on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debra_Messing
- 1974 – Natasha Henstridge, Canadian model and actress
In 1995, she came to prominence with her debut role in the science-fiction horror film Species, followed by performances in Species II and Species III.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Henstridge
Passings
- 1935 – Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
a famed American aviator during the interwar period and the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high-altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiley_Post
aaaaaand
- 1935 – Will Rogers, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films (50 silent films and 21 “talkies”),[3] and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rogers
passing of the 2 dudes –
About 20 miles southwest of Point Barrow, having difficulty figuring their position due to bad weather, they landed in a lagoon to ask directions. On takeoff, the engine failed at low altitude, and the aircraft plunged into the lagoon, shearing off the right wing, and ended up inverted in the shallow water of the lagoon. Both men died instantly. Rogers was buried August 21, 1935, in Forest Lawn Park in Glendale, California;[39] it was a temporary interment. He was reinterred at the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma.
- 2000 – Lancelot Ware, English barrister and biochemist, co-founder of Mensa (b. 1915)
s an English barrister and biochemist. He co-founded Mensa, the international society for intellectually gifted people, with the Australian barrister Roland Berrill in 1946. It was originally called the “High IQ Club”
Pip’s notes – (puts lighter down) hahahaaha…. “High-Q”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot_Ware
- 2012 – Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)
an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973).
Pip’s notes – I had to check on that name… Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison_(writer)
- 2020 – Robert Trump, American real-estate developer, business executive (b. 1948)
an American businessman and investor. He was the younger brother of former U.S. President Donald Trump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Trump
Armed Forces Day (Poland)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Day_(Poland)
……. uh….. How’s you Korean?….
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Korea from Japan in 1945:
Gwangbokjeol, “Independence Day” (South Korea)
Jogukhaebangui nal, “Fatherland Liberation Day” (North Korea)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of India from the United Kingdom in 1947.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Republic of the Congo from France in 1960.
National Day (Liechtenstein)
Cheers & happy Tuesday, humans. This has been Pip with Ducktion Cups, reminding you to Duck’em if you got’em…. and GSD.