It’s Hump Day and it was a wild night. We had a few adult beverages and then had a massive thunderstorm at 3am which had us cleaning up water, but I made it and we did the show. I needed that Light Roast Ethiopian Peruvian Blend to get me going. I talked about a few questions I have about a business I saw, another Little Armored One encounter and Why do some people just rub you the wrong way? I lead off with The Perfect Cup Question “What is your weirdest habit?” and follow it up with LOTS of History prepared by Pip over at Ducktioncups.
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July 12th
Happy Camel day, humans & don’t forget to do something.
I don’t recall you were suppose to do, but I assume you remembered it.
Here’s LOTS of history, now if you’ll excuse me, I’d like to (wanders off)…..
- 1862 – The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
There are three distinct variants of the medal: one for the Army, awarded to soldiers, one for the Naval Service, awarded to sailors, marines, and coast guardsmen, and one for the Air and Space Forces, awarded to airmen and guardians
Pip’s notes – The original upside-down star was designated as the non-combat version and a new pattern of the medal pendant, in cross form, was designed by the Tiffany Company in 1919.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor
- 1493 – Hartmann Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published
The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated encyclopedia consisting of world historical accounts, as well as accounts told through biblical paraphrase.
atin scholars refer to it as the Liber Chronicarum (Book of Chronicles) as this phrase appears in the index introduction of the Latin edition.
Pip’s notes – huh? Does it have pictures? (coughs)
(Pip goes into daydreams, after hearing ‘Chronicles’)
… And then this talking Lion comes outta nowhere, and starts talking in english to the three kids… coughs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Chronicle
- 1962 – The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London’s Marquee Club.
According to Richards, Jones named the band during a phone call to Jazz News. When asked by a journalist for the band’s name, Jones saw a Muddy Waters LP lying on the floor; one of the tracks was “Rollin’ Stone”.
Pip’s notes – A dude can assume everyone has at least 1 Rollin’ Stones song that they don’t mind. I just can’t think of the one I’m thinking of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones
- 1973 – A fire destroys the entire sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
The National Personnel Records Center fire of 1973, also known as the 1973 National Archives fire, was a fire that occurred at the Military Personnel Records Center in the St. Louis suburb of Overland, Missouri, from July 12–16, 1973.
The fire destroyed some 16 million to 18 million official military personnel records.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Personnel_Records_Center
- 1995 – Chinese seismologists successfully predict the 1995 Myanmar–China earthquake, reducing the number of casualties to 11
Between 19 September 1994 and 12 May 1995, a cluster of earthquakes measuring 4.7 Ms or greater was detected on the Myanmar-China border region.
Seismologists also detected strange anomalies in the seismological parameters in that region.
Changes to water levels in Shidian County were also interpreted as signs of a large earthquake.
After the 6.2 ML foreshock on July 10, the Yunnan Seismological Bureau dispatched a team to the region closest to the epicenter.
A meeting was also conducted and seismologists concluded that a mainshock of magnitude of ~7.0 should strike.
An evacuation order was recommended by scientists from the Yunnan Provincial Earthquake Administration after the forecast.
Less than 30 hours after that forecast, the mainshock struck.
Pip’s nots – Possible idea for Canadian Farmstead’s Tinfoil Tuesdays – Did anyone watch the movie ‘The Core’? Scientists make an earthquake machine that targets areas by shooting a freaking laser beam, deep into the earth? Think that’s a thing? HARP & weather manipulation kinda stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Myanmar%E2%80%93China_earthquake
- 2001 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-104, carrying the Quest Joint Airlock to the International Space Station
Its primary objectives were to install the Quest Joint Airlock and help perform maintenance on the International Space Station.
It launched on 12 July 2001 at 09:04 UTC, and returned to Earth without incident after successful docking, equipment installation, and three spacewalks.
The primary purpose of the flight was to deliver and install the Quest airlock.
The Joint Airlock is 20 ft (6.1 m) long, 13 ft (4.0 m) in diameter and weighs 6.5 short tons (5.9 metric tons).
It is made from steel and aluminum, and manufactured at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) by the Space Station main contractor Boeing.
Pip’s notes – Mission Specialists Michael Gernhardt and James Reilly conducted three space walks while Space Shuttle Atlantis was docked to the International Space Station.
They spent a total of 16 hours and 30 minutes outside.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-104
Happy Birthdays
- 100 BC – Julius Caesar, Roman politician and general (d. 44 BC)
Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC
Pip’s notes – At least 60 to 70 senators were party to the conspiracy, which lead to Caesar being stabbed 23 times.
60+ involved, but only 23 stabs?…I guess some dudes never get off the bench.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
- 1817 – Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (d. 1862)
A cut & paste from the wiki page –
Thoreau is sometimes referred to as an anarchist. In “Civil Disobedience”, Thoreau wrote:
“I heartily accept the motto,—’That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,—’That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. … But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.”
Pip’s notes – I don’t really understand all that, but I’ll cheers to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
- 1884 – Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American film producer, co-founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (d. 1957)
Under Mayer’s management, MGM became the film industry’s most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors, and stars in Hollywood.
Pip’s notes- I’d type out something here, but all I can think of is the Lion rawer, before the movie.
Or was that the stars that circling the mountain… anyway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- 1895 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect and engineer, designed the Montreal Biosphère (d. 1983)
an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as “Spaceship Earth”, “Dymaxion” (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), “ephemeralization”, “synergetics”, and “tensegrity”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
- 1996 – Jordan Romero, American mountaineer
an American mountain climber who was 13 years old when he reached the summit of Mount Everest.
Romero was accompanied by his father, Paul Romero, his step-mother, Karen Lundgren, and three Sherpas, Ang Pasang Sherpa, Lama Dawa Sherpa, and Lama Karma Sherpa.
The previous record for youngest to climb Everest was held by Ming Kipa of Nepal who was 15 years old when she reached the summit on May 22, 2003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Romero
Passings
- 1804 – Alexander Hamilton, American general, economist, and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755)
Pip’s notes – pew-pew!
- 1944 – Theodore Roosevelt Jr., American general and politician, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1887)
Roosevelt was educated at private academies and Harvard University; after his 1909 graduation from college, he began a successful career in business and investment banking.
Having gained pre-World War I army experience during his attendance at a Citizens’ Military Training Camp, at the start of the war he received a reserve commission as a major. He served primarily with the 1st Division, took part in several engagements including the Battle of Cantigny, and commanded the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry as a lieutenant colonel.
After the war, Roosevelt was instrumental in the forming of The American Legion.
Pip’s notes – For his political career, He served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1921–1924), Governor of Puerto Rico (1929–1932), and Governor-General of the Philippines (1932–1933).
He resumed his business endeavors in the 1930s, and was Chairman of the Board of American Express Company, and vice-president of Doubleday Books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt_Jr.
- 1996 – John Chancellor, American journalist (b. 1927)
an American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News. He is considered a pioneer in television news.
Chancellor served as anchor of the NBC Nightly News from 1970 to 1982 and continued to do editorials and commentaries for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw until 1993.
Pip’s notes – Chancellor has the distinction of creating the idea of using colors to represent the states won by presidential candidates in presidential elections.
For the 1976 presidential election Chancellor suggested to his network’s engineers that they create a large electronic map of the United States and place it in the network’s election-night news studio.
If Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate, won a state it would light up in red; if Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate, carried a state it would light up in blue.
Chancellor, when asked about the color scheme, sought to tie the British Labour’s red to the American Democrats while British Conservatives used blue as their ribbon color.
By 2000, all the traditional broadcast networks had adopted the present model, though with the colors switched; red for Republicans (as both begin with the same letter), and blue for Democrat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chancellor
- 2012 – Roger Payne, English mountaineer (b. 1956)
a British mountaineer. He was formerly general secretary of the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) and a qualified mountain guide from 1983, taking part in over 20 expeditions to the Karakoram and Himalayan ranges, including K2 and the north face of Changabang. He was an avalanche instructor and climbed in the Alps every year from 1977.
Payne was killed aged 55 with eight other climbers by an avalanche whilst traversing Mont Maudit, on the Mont Blanc massif, near Chamonix in the French Alps on 12 July 2012.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Payne_(mountaineer)
- 2013 – Alan Whicker, Egyptian-English journalist (b. 1925)
a British journalist and television presenter and broadcaster. His career spanned almost 60 years, during which time he presented the documentary television programme Whicker’s World for over 30 years. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005 for services to broadcasting.
Pip’s ntoes – During the Second World War he was commissioned as an officer in the Devonshire Regiment of the British Army. He then joined the British Army’s Army Film and Photographic Unit in Italy in 1943
Elsewhere in Whicker’s War he revealed that he was one of the first in the Allied forces to enter Milan and that he took into custody an SS general and staff who were guarding the SS’s paymaster’s payroll money used to pay the SS troops, along with large amounts of cash in various foreign currencies, all contained within a large trunk. Whicker later handed over the SS men and the trunk of cash to the commander of an advancing US armoured column.
Whicker also shot footage of the body of Benito Mussolini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Whicker
- 2020 – Kelly Preston, American actress and model (b. 1962)
Her first prominent film roles came in 1985—first as Marilyn McCauley in the romantic teen flick comedy Mischief; then as the beautiful but shallow Deborah Ann Fimple in another teen romantic comedy, Secret Admirer.
Her other roles included SpaceCamp (1986),
Twins (1988) with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito,
Avery Bishop in Jerry Maguire (1996) with Tom Cruise,
Jane Aubrey in For Love of the Game with Kevin Costner and Kate Newell,
and in Holy Man (1998) with Eddie Murphy and Jeff Goldblum.
In 1997, she starred in Nothing to Lose, which co-starred Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence.
She also starred in the movie Jack Frost (1998).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Preston
Holidays & Observances
If you have any leftover fireworks, we have 2 Independence days, today-
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Kiribati from the United Kingdom in 1979.
he area now called Kiribati, mainly the 16 Gilbert Islands, has been inhabited by Austronesian peoples speaking the same Oceanic language, from north to south, including the southernmost Nui, since sometime between 3000 BCE and 1300 CE.
The area was not completely isolated; later, voyagers from Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji introduced some Polynesian and Melanesian cultural aspects, respectively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of São Tomé and Príncipe from Portugal in 1975.
The islands were uninhabited until their discovery in 1470 by Portuguese explorers João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar.
Gradually colonized and settled throughout the 16th century, they collectively served as a vital commercial and trade centre for the Atlantic slave trade.
The rich volcanic soil and proximity to the equator made São Tomé and Príncipe ideal for sugar cultivation, followed later by cash crops such as coffee and cocoa; the lucrative plantation economy was heavily dependent upon African slaves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe
- The second day of Naadam (Mongolia)
Alongside the Danshig Naadam, the biggest festival is the National Naadam Festival, which is held in the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar, during the National Holiday from 11 to 13 July, in the National Sports Stadium.
It begins with an elaborate introduction ceremony featuring dancers, athletes, horse riders, and musicians. After the ceremony, the competitions begin. The competitions are mainly horseback riding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naadam
- The Twelfth, also known as Orangemen’s Day (Northern Ireland, Scotland, Newfoundland and Labrador)
On and around the Twelfth, large parades are held by the Orange Order and Ulster loyalist marching bands, streets are bedecked with British flags and bunting, and large towering bonfires are lit in loyalist neighbourhoods.
Today the Twelfth is mainly celebrated in Northern Ireland, where it is a public holiday, but smaller celebrations are held in other countries where Orange lodges have been set up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelfth
(wanders back)
It’s done. and there’s ducks everywhere…. we’re gonna need a cleaner.
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Cheers and go make Wednesday groan. Or moan.. Or anything that rhymes with such.