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21st August
On This Date: the three-and-a-half month long Siege of Buda comes to an end as Suleman the Magnificent leads his troops into the city (1541); Gustav III of Sweden ends the Age of Liberty in his country - 54 years of Parilamentary Rule - by imposing a new Constitution in which he names himself sole authority (1772); the beginning of the 12-year-long Haitian Revolution against French rule is sparked when slaves in Saint Dominigue hold a forbidden Voodoo ceremony, and then turn on the French slave owners (1791); Wellington's forces defeat those of the French at the Battle of Vimeiro; the turning point in the Peninsula War (1808); a two-day, and eventually unsuccessful, slave rebellion led by Nat Turner begins in Southampton County, Virginia (1831); 600 American teachers arrive in the Philippines [newly annexed after the Spanish-American War of 3 years earlier] to expand the public education system and establish English as the language of instruction (1901); an Italian former employee of the Louvre steals the Mona Lisa, wrapping it in his employee's smock and carrying it out of the main entrance under his arms - and the eyes of his former colleagues (1911 - the painting isn't restored to the museum for another 2 years); the Second Battle of the Somme begins (1918); the Dumbarton Oaks Conference begins, establishing the successor of the League of Nations in maintaining international peace and security - and learning from the failure of the league (1944); nuclear physicist Harry Daghlian becomes the first fatality of severe radiation poisoning caused by a criticality accident when he drops a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium core at the los Alamos Laboratory (1945); Hawaii becomes the 50th Stae of the USA (1959); recording sessions end at Columbia Studios, New York, on Miles Davis' double album, Bitches Brew (1969); Mary Joy Langdon becomes Britain's first female member of a Fire Brigade in Battle, east Sussex (1976 - the height of the Ladybird Summer drought, when emergency part-time assistants had been called for: she remains with the Brigade until 1983, when she bcomes a nun); Herman & Fierstein's La Cage aux Folles opens at the Palace Theatre on Broadway (1983); Iannis Xenakis' opera Oreseia is premiered in Gibellina, Sicily, conducted by Michel Tabachnik and Dominique Debart (1987); three men, one of them a veteran [he's 22] of the Afghan War, who were part of the mass protests against the attempted hard-line Communist coup in Moscow are killed - their deaths shock all sides, and the Army decides to withdraw from the city, and the coup is defeated - on hearing this news, Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union (1991); Ghouta, near Damascus, is struck by rockets loaded with Sarin gas, killing at least 350 people - and possibly as many as 1,729 (2013 - the area is controlled by forces opposed to Syrian President Assad and his Russian backers, who claim that the rebels have inflicted the attack on themselves); the last regular chiming of Big Ben before a four-year period of repair & maintenance (2017).
Birthdays Today include: William Murdoch (1754); Nathaniel Everett Green (1823); Aubrey Beardsley (1872); Lili Boulanger (1893); Count Basie (1904); Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909); Tommy Reilly (1919); Albert Irvin (1922); Art & Addison Farmer (1928); Janet Baker & Barry Norman (1933); Peter Weir (1944); Joe Strummer (1952); Usain Bolt (1986); Hayden Panettiere (1989).
Final Days for: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1762); Leon Trotsky (1940); Constant Lambert (1951); Tatiana Troyanos (1993 - her final recital on the last day of her life for her fellow patients at a cancer hospice, one of whom said that "it was the first time in 3 years that I was able to forget my pain"); Robert Moog (2005).
... and the Radio 3 Schedules for the Morning of Tuesday, 21st August, 1979 were:
Overture: Ireland A London Overture; Fauré Ballade Op19; Maggie Teyte singing songs by Debussy & Ravel; Haydn "Trauer" Symph; Williams Sea Sketches; Salzedo Chanson dans la Nuit; Chaminade Flute Concertino; Tchaikovsky/Pletnev Nutcracker Suite; Sibelius Humoresque #5.
This Week's Composer: Handel (Trio Sonata in F Op 5 #6; The Ways of Zion Do Mourn)
Northern Sinfonia Wind Ensemble : Schmitt Lied & Scherzo; Saint-Saens/Taffanel Album Leaf; Parry Nonet in Bb
Cello & Piano: Markus Stocker & Ian Brown - Mendelssohn Sonata in D, Op 58; Paganini Variations on a theme from Moses by Rossini (on one string); Dvorak Waldesruhe, Op 68 #5.
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... she was one amazing lady. I have always relished her (attributed) Famous Last Words - ones I shd like to have at hand for my last breath -Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
"It Has All Been Most Interesting... "
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... from wiki - "By 1710, Lady Mary had two possible suitors to choose from: Edward Wortley Montagu and Clotworthy Skeffington."
If you had to choose a husband with regard to his name, which wd you choose? ...
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Happy birthday to Aubrey Beardsley - creator of my avatar pic with Isolde swallowng the love potion.Comment
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It's my birthday too today and I'll be celebrating as usual with curried king prawns.Comment
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Happy BirthdayOriginally posted by LezLee View Post
Today, we went here
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.Originally posted by LezLee View Post
... buon compleanno!
(here it's a spelt*, chorizo, sweet potato, red onion, and spinach tray-bake. With a cheapo Chilean carménère. ... )
* actually no spelt in the house, so we're improvising with pearl barley.
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Thanks folks!
That 'spelt' sounds good, I prefer barley anyway. I don't eat meat these days but some nice veggie sausage would be good.
Sadly, I'm on medication that precludes the consumption of alcohol but carménère was always my favourite :(Comment
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22nd August
The "Feast Day" of 13th Century French Saint Guinefort, who is a patron of babies & infants, and about whom the familiar stories of miracles occurring after his death led to his local veneration near Lyons, with babies being placed on his grave to be blessed. Never officially recognized by the Roman Catholic (or, indeed, any other Church) - because Guinefort was a dog. (His story is practically the same as the Welsh story of Gelert: Knight returns from a hunting trip - goes to see his baby son sleeping in his cot - the child's bedroom is in a mess, and the dog's mouth is drenched in blodd - Knight assumes the worst and so slaughters dog - at the noise of which, baby son starts crying, and Knight discovers corpse of wolf that faithful dog had killed protecting baby.)
Also on This Date: the Battle of Northallerton, in which Scottish King David I, entering England to assist his niece Mathilda in her struggle for the English throne against King Stephen [who was married to another of David's nieces - Christmas family gathering must have been particularly frosty] is defeated by Stephen's supporter, William d'Aumale, Duke of York (1138 the Duke is supported by the Archbishop of York, who believes that it is a Christian's duty to attack the Scots - the Duke is subsequently laden with various pendents of Saints, givibg the battle its familiar name the "Battle of the Standards"); the Battle of Bosworth Field brings an end to Richard III's life & reign [the last English monarch to die in battle], and to the Wars of the Roses and to the Plantagenet dynasties, with the beginning of the Tudors (1485); guildsmen in Frankfurt, angry that their Town Council had misappropriated taxes collected from the town's Jewish inhabitants, mount an attack - on the Jewish ghetto, destroying property, and expelling all Jews from the city (1614); tensions between the King and Parliament culminate in Charles I raising the Royal Standard of War in Nottingham, marking the beginning of the English Civil War (1642); Jacob Barsimon arrives in New Amsterdam on the ship Pear Tree - the first identified Jewish settler in America (1654); French revolutionary forces land in Kilcummin in County Mayo, Ireland, to support Irish Nationalists rebelling against British Rule (1798); the first Hundred Gunieas Cup regatta is held at the Isle of Wight between the British Royal Yacht Squadron and the New York Yacht Club (1851 - the American Yacht America wins this first competition, giving the trophy its subsequent name "The America's Cup"); the First Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field is held, and signed by 12 nations (1864 - Britain isn't among them); Japan annexes Korea (1910 - Korea remains under Japanese rule for the next 35 years); dissident Republicans ambush Micahel Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army, killing him (1922); the BBC begins regular television broadcasting from the basement of Braodcasting House (1932); the Nazi occupiers murder 164 Greek civilians from the Cretan villages of the Kedros region in reprisal at Resistance activities (1944 - having shot the villagers and burnt the bodies, the troops then loot the empty houses); the last prisoners from the Penal Colony on Devil's Island are repatriated and the colony - the last French penal colony - is shut down (1953); right-wing paramilitaries make a failed assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle following his decision to accept Algerian Independence (1962); Tippett's Triple Concerto is premiered and broadcast Live at the Proms, played by Pauk, Imai, & Kirschbaum with the LSO conducted by Colin Davis (1980); 55 people die, and 15 seriously injured when they are unable to escape from a British Airtours Boeing aircraft which catches fire on the runway of Manchester Airport (1985 - the CAA is subsequently criticized for not observing stringent Health & Safety regulations); two paintings by Edvard Munch [one of them one of his many versions of The Scream] are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Oslo (2004 - they are recovered 9 days later).
Birthdays Today include: Denis Papin (1647); Henry Maudsley (1771); Josef Strauss (1827); Alexander Mackenzie (1847); Debussy (1862); George Herriman (1880); Dorothy Parker (1893); Leni Riefenstahl (1902); Deng Xiaoping (1904); Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908);Julius & Philip Epstein (1909); David Dellinger (1915); John Lee Hooker (1917); Ray Bradbury (1920); Honor Blackman (1925); Stockhausen (1928); Annie Proulx (1935); James Corden (1978).
Final Days for: Luca Marenzio (1599); Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1806); Kate Chopin (1904); Michel Fokine (1942); William Morris (the car bloke - 1963); Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1967 - a man whose work can be used on every conceivable occasion); Jacob Bronowski (1974); Gina Bachauer (1976); Luc Ferrari (2005); Nina Bawden (2012); Toots Thielemans (2016).
... and the Radio 3 Schedules for the morning of Tuesday, 22nd August, 1989 were:
Morning Concert: Cimarosa/Holliger Concertante in G; Beethoven Andante Favori; Suppé Morning, Noon, & Night in Vienna Ovt; Mendelssohn Pno Conc #1 in g; Dvorak Czech Suite.
Composer of the Week: Liszt (transcriptions & fantasies)
Early 19th Century Guitar Music by Aguada, Sor and Giuliani, played by Nigel North.
Langham Chamber Orch cond by Frank Shipway (Bridge Suite for String Orch; Mozart Cassation #1 in G, K63.
Edinburgh International Festival Live from the Queen's Hall: Heinz Holliger & John Constable (Koechlin Chants for Cor Ang & Pno; Monody for solo Oboe d'Amore; Sonata for Oboe & Piano; Dorati 5 pieces for solo Oboe; Pasculli Concerto sopra motivi del'opera La Favorita di Donizetti [with an interval conversation between Michael Hall & Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos).Last edited by ferneyhoughgeliebte; 21-08-19, 13:20.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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... ahem. Possibly the last English king to die in battle.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
James III (of Scotland) died 11 June 1488 at the Battle of Sauchieburn.
James IV (of Scotland) died 9 September 1513 at the Battle of Flodden while attacking the English.
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Dagnabbitt!!!
I was absolutely determined NOT to write "British", and look & see what I did!!! 
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