It’s Hump Day, time to push to the rest of the week. Sipping on some awesome Light/Medium roast Honduran today and it tastes incredible. It could have been a Tinfoil Tuesday with me chatting about the weather, distractions at the box stores and preparing for more stupid with a new side hustle. Counting down the days left, but leading with The Perfect Cup Question “If you could have a casual chat with one person, alive or deceased, who would it be and why?” followed up by LOTS of History prepared by Pip from Ducktioncups.
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LOTS of History
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August 23rd
30 BC – After the successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian executes Marcus Antonius Antyllus, the eldest son of Mark Antony, and Caesarion, the last king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt and only child of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
Pip’s notes – That all sounds like a whole lot of family drama that needs to be worked out….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_Kingdom
79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
In autumn of 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius violently spewed forth a cloud of super-heated tephra and gases to a height of 33 km (21 mi), ejecting molten rock, pulverized pumice and hot ash at 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Pip’s notes – Anyone remember the movie “Joe versus the Volcano”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79_AD
1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James’s stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
It declared elements of the American colonies in a state of “open and avowed rebellion”. It ordered officials of the empire “to use their utmost endeavours to withstand and suppress such rebellion”.
Pip’s notes – now that I thought about it, I don’t think I’ve shot a flinklock/musket firearm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_Rebellion
1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
an unrecognized proposed state located in what is today East Tennessee, United States. Franklin was created in 1784 from part of the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains that had been offered by North Carolina as a cession to Congress to help pay off debts related to the American War for Independence. It was founded with the intent of becoming the 14th state of the new United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Franklin
1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
The immediate issue was the Chinese enforcement of their ban on the opium trade by seizing private opium stocks from merchants at Canton and threatening to impose the death penalty for future offenders. Despite the opium ban, the British government supported the merchants’ demand for compensation for seized goods, and insisted on the principles of free trade and equal diplomatic recognition with China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
1904 – The automobile tire chain is patented.
Snow chains were invented in 1904 by Harry D. Weed in Canastota, New York. Weed received U.S. Patent 0,768,495 for his “Grip-Tread for Pneumatic Tires” on August 23, 1904.
Weed’s great-grandson, James Weed, said that Harry got the idea of creating chains for tires when he saw drivers wrap rope, or even vines, around their tires to increase traction on muddy or snowy roads.
Pip’s notes – (snickers in salad) his name was Weed…. wait, this Florida dude has never driven in snow… probably shouldn’t laugh too much. Don’t want that karma coming around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_chains
1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad
Pip’s notes – Anyone recall the movie “Enemy at the Gates”?
(hashtag) Run Your Bolt Gun…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
It was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.
Pip’s notes – (Dusts off old vinyal record) Dude, check it out.. rare edition of the Duck side of the Moon.. Hehe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_1
1970 – Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
a series of strikes, mass pickets, boycotts and secondary boycotts that began on August 23, 1970 and led to the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history
The strike was led by the United Farm Workers against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
The Salad Bowl strike was only in part a jurisdictional strike, for many of the actions taken during the event were not strikes. The strike led directly to the passage of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act in 1975
Pip’s notes – hehehe…. Salad Bowl strike… wait, NO strikes against the salad!
May need to consider growing my own, soon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_Bowl_strike
1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term “Stockholm syndrome”.
In the popular account, the hostages then bonded with their captors and refused to cooperate with police. However, it has also been argued that the hostages were simply distrustful of the police given the latter’s willingness to risk the hostages’ safety.
Police finally mounted a tear-gas attack five days into the crisis, and the robbers surrendered.
Pip’s notes – this was the first criminal event in Sweden to be covered by live television
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrmalmstorg_robbery
Happy Birthdays
1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
She was one of the founders and the first director of the Whitin Observatory at Wellesley College. She instructed several notable astronomers and physicists, including Annie Jump Cannon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Frances_Whiting
1883 – Jonathan M. Wainwright, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1953)
an American army general and the Commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time Japan surrendered to the United States, during World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_M.Wainwright(general)
1905 – Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist (d. 1982)
best known for creating the daily comic strip Nancy, which premiered in 1938 and features the title character who has remained in print for over 85 years.
His work is noted for its simple graphic style.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Bushmiller
1971 – Gretchen Whitmer, 49th Governor of Michigan
an American lawyer and politician serving as the 49th governor of Michigan since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006 and in the Michigan Senate from 2006 to 2015.
Pip’s notes – This is the same (expliit) human that tried to ban the selling of plant seeds during early covid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer
1978 – Kobe Bryant, American basketball player and businessman (d. 2020)
Widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Bryant won five NBA championships, was an 18-time All-Star, a 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, a 12-time member of the All-Defensive Team, the 2008 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), and a two-time NBA Finals MVP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant
1982 – Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
While attending the University of California, Berkeley, she became the first woman ever to swim the 100-meter backstroke (long course) in less than one minute—ten days before her 20th birthday in 2002. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she became the first U.S. female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympiad, and the first woman ever to win a 100-meter backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics.[2] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she earned a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.
Pip’s notes – Hellllooooooo nurse!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Coughlin
Passings
(ahem) Freeeeedodooooooommmmmmmmm
1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield, London.
Following the trial, on 23 August 1305, Wallace was taken from the hall to the Tower of London, then stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield.
He was hanged, drawn and quartered—strangled by hanging, but released while he was still alive, emasculated, eviscerated (with his bowels burned before him), beheaded, then cut into four parts.
Wallace’s head was dipped in tar and placed on a spike atop London Bridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace
1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (b. 1736)
He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb’s law, the description of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. He also did important work on friction.
The SI unit of electric charge, the coulomb, was named in his honor in 1880.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Augustin_de_Coulomb
1949 – Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)
she is best known as a survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912, and for her later work as a travel writer and explorer of southeast Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Churchill_Candee
1989 – R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (b. 1927)
a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, psychosis and schizophrenia.
Laing’s views on the causes and treatment of psychopathological phenomena were influenced by his study of existential philosophy and ran counter to the chemical and electroshock methods that had become psychiatric orthodoxy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Laing
2012 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1934)
best known for his work with The Muppets. Renowned for his wide range of characters and singing abilities, he performed Muppet characters on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, and various Muppet movies and specials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Nelson
Day of the National Flag (Ukraine)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_National_Flag_(Ukraine)
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
he date is significant because, during the night of August 22 to August 23, 1791, on the island of Saint Domingue (now known as Haiti), an uprising began which set forth events which were a major factor in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
National Day for Physicians (Iran)