#OTD 3/21/13 #birds #birding #aBirdAday (or more) Black-bellied plover in flight (action shot so blurred)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/armadillosoft/8580292517/in/album-72177720324566274/
#OTD 3/21/13 #birds #birding #aBirdAday (or more) Black-bellied plover in flight (action shot so blurred)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/armadillosoft/8580292517/in/album-72177720324566274/
. @mcnees writes how Joseph Fourier was born #OTD in 1768.
In 1824, he published "Remarques Générales Sur Les Températures Du Globe Terrestre Et Des Espaces Planétaires" describing the greenhouse effect.
200 years of climate science.
Now can we address #ClimateChange, please?
James Ussher got his letters patent for the archbishopric of Armagh #otd 1625. This was the last church appointment made by James I.
James Ussher also died #OTD in 1656, in the Commonwealth ruled by Cromwell. He was buried at Cromwell's order in Westminster Abbey.
James Ussher #DIB https://www.dib.ie/biography/ussher-james-a8774
James Ussher: "Too Gentle a Soul"
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/01/04/james-ussher/
Salvatore "Sally Bugs" #Briguglio was murdered in Manhattan's Little Italy #OTD in 1978. A Teamsters official, Briguglio was suspected of involvement in the disappeance of Jimmy #Hoffa.
Read more:
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2019/03/sally-bugs-killed-to-ensure-silence.html
#OTD (Mar 21) in #OrganizedCrime #History: young #Lansky leaves Russia, #Capone surrenders but isn't wanted, #Costello testifies, #Valachi and associates are convicted of #narcotics smuggling, grand jury looks into #Brooklyn gunfight, #Briguglio is murdered in #Manhattan, #Bruno is murdered in #Philadelphia, #Salerno faces racketeering charge.
21.3.1938 Beginn der Sudetenkrise. Sudetendeutsche Freikorps besetzen Gebiet von Aš in der Tschechoslowakei.
21.3.1942 Eröffnung des „Owens Valley Reception Center“ in Manzanar/Californien. Erstes von zehn Internierungslagern für japanische Amerikaner während des zweiten Weltkriegs.
#OTD in 1925.
Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges (written from 1917 to 1925), to a libretto by Colette, is premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
After being offered the opportunity to write a musical work, Colette wrote the text in eight days. Several composers had proposed to Colette that she write to music, but she was only excited by the prospect of Ravel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27enfant_et_les_sortil%C3%A8ges
L'enfant et les sortilèges at the IMSLP:
https://imslp.org/wiki/L%27enfant_et_les_sortil%C3%A8ges_(Ravel,_Maurice)
March 21, 1795, Italian naturalist and mining engineer Giovanni Arduino died #OTD
Based on his research in the Dolomites and Tuscany, he proposed to subdivide Earth’s crust in 4 layers or units of rocks. His idea will eventually lead to the modern time-subdivision used in stratigraphy
#literatur #OTD #buchstodon
Heute ist #WelttagDerPoesie, ausgerufen seit 1999 von der #UNESCO. Was wäre an diesem Tag und in meinem Alter passender als ein Auszug aus dem Gedicht von #PabloNeruda mit dem Titel #DasAndereSchloss
"Nein, ich bin nicht der Feurige,
ich bestehe aus Kleidern, Rheumatismus,
zerrissenen Papieren, vergessenen Zitaten,
armseligem Höhlengekritzel auf etwas,
was einmal stolze Steine waren."
Thomas Jefferson arrived in New York City #OTD in 1790 to assume his post as Secretary of State, which he would do the next day. Learn more about his Cabinet tenure by listening to his Seat at the Table episode! #history #POTUS #Jefferson #Washington https://www.presidenciespodcast.com/satt-004-thomas-jefferson/
#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", is arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.
She is later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.
#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1944, Virginia Hall returns to Nazi-occupied France.
Previously with the British SOE, Hall returned with the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and trained 3 battalions of resistance fighters.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2 #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#Hörtipp
#OTD #20250321date
#ZeitzeichenWDR #WDR #Zeitzeichen
Rettet ein Scharlatan Johann Sebastian Bach vor der Erblindung? https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-rettet-ein-scharlatan-johann-sebastian-bach-vor-der-erblindung-100.html (@wikinaut)