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    Afro-Man: Hunter Got High
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    Afro-Man: Hunter Got High
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  • Birthday of Thomas Edison born #otd 1847
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    #otd in 1968 Apollo 8 circled the moon. The first time humans had traveled there. Bill Anders took this picture, one of the most iconic photographs ever. Called Earthrise.
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    For Beethoven's birthday, born #otd 1770. All from the 1950s....
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    #otd 1948, President Truman's executive order desegregating the armed forces. IMO Truman ranks very high as a president.
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    Happy Birthday to Paul Krassner! Born #otd 1932. One of the Chicago 7, he also founded a satirical magazine called The Realist which had this depiction of Disney characters doing some very non-Disneylike things… Krassner wrote a biting piece about...  more
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    Happy Birthday to Auturo Toscanini born #otd 1867. Quite possibly the most important conductor of the 20th century. Premiered operas by Verdi and Puccini and conducted the premire of Respighi’s Pines of Rome in his first appearance with the New...  more
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    Today is the birthday of Hamish MacCunn, born #otd 1868. This concert overture In the Land of the Mountain and the Flood is a favorite of mine. While it is very Scottish, I can also hear a kind of Western feel about it. Listen to it here...  more
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    Happy Birthday to Johann Sebastian Bach born #otd 1685. Here is a video of his Toccata and Fugue in d minor https://youtu.be/Nnuq9PXbywA
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    Interesting because of just having to change the clocks forward, #otd 1884 was the introduction of time zones across the United States. This was not by a governmental action, it was by the railroad companies to make things easier. Imagine traveling from...  more
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    One of the most iconic images from WWII, the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima, now known as Iōtō. This occurred #otd 1945. Three of the men would be killed in action days later. One of them, a Native American named Ira Hayes would be memorialized in a...  more
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      49ers.deep This Pulitzer prize photo taken by Joe Rosenthal was actually the second time the USA flag was raised that day. The first flag up was much smaller, and was switched to a bigger flag by Marines before this picture was taken.
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    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6vjyhi. #otd in 1816 the opera The Barber of Seville by Rossini premiered. Couldn’t resist posting this ‘take’ of the opera…..
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      The Watson Experiment Wuv dat wabbit
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    #otd in 1878, Thomas Edison patented the phonograph. He drew a sketch and a assistant had made the first one in 1877.
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      MasturBakeTheater I love your posts💚💨
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    Happy Birthday to one Claude William Dunkenfield born #otd 1880. A fabulous juggler and vaudeville performer, W.C. Fields had been around the world twice by the time he was 25. Was featured in the Ziegfeld Follies starting in 1915. His radio appearances...  more
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      MasturBakeTheater Dunkenfield.... what a last name✨️💨
      • January 29, 2023
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    Happy Birthday to Albert Hoffmann the discoverer of LSD, born #otd in 1906
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    https://youtu.be/KVRa1HCNAuk For the 252nd birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven born #otd 1770. This performance of the Ninth Symphony in Amsterdam is wonderful. One of the greatest artistic creations of anything, to me more than just a piece of music. It...  more
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    #otd in 1877, Thomas Edison unveils his new invention the phonograph. While there had been other ways of recording sounds, a Frenchman Edouard-Leon de Martinville, did a recording on paper in 1860. But Edison’s machine took off and shortly afterwards...  more
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    • NobeNug (OFM)
      MasturBakeTheater I really like your posts, information I never knew that I never knew💚💨
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    Remembering Walter Cronkite on his birthday, both #otd 1916. Picture from c1965. I was a kid when I first saw him and watched until his last broadcast in March 1981. His pioneering work in television (Cronkite first covered the political conventions in...  more
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      Randywalker Reporters, they don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
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    For Franz Liszt's birthday, born #otd 1811. These organ works work especially for the Halloween season...
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    "Today is the birthday of Aldous Huxley born #otd 1894. Most famous for Brave New World that came out in 1932. Also wrote Doors of Perception about mescaline. The rock groupThe Doors took their name from the title. As he lay dying, was administered...  more
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      MasturBakeTheater ✨️✨️✨️
      • July 27, 2022
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      The Watson Experiment
      • July 27, 2022
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    Celebrating the one and only Mel Blanc! Born #otd 1908. Started his radio career here in Portland Oregon on KGW on a program called 'Hoot Owls' in the late 1920s. He had a near fatal car accident in 1961. For a year he did the voice of Barney...  more
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    Happy Birthday to the one and only Wavy Gravy! Born #otd 1936. I've had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times and have a signed book by him. Definitely one of the most interesting people I've met....
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      Syntaxghost (OFM) I met him also 1999, at a Greek restaurant in Chicago, that guys trip never stopped. View 1 Reply
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      Syntaxghost (OFM) Me too, I love the Greek peoples. Always welcoming and great to do business with.
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    Happy Bicycle Day everyone! #otd Albert Hoffmann deliberately took some LSD and went home on his bike in 1943. His experience has been noted as Bicycle Day in recent years.
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    Today is the birthday of Thomas Jefferson born #otd 1743. Jefferson considered his founding of the University of Virginia, writing the Declaration of Independence and the law providing the separation of church and state in Virginia his main...  more
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      MasturBakeTheater I like that your fascination includes his flaws🥰😂
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      The Watson Experiment Great Men are capable of doing and practicing bad behavior. Most men are puppets to the times they live.
      • April 13, 2022
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    Today is the 88th birthday of Jane Goodall, born #otd 1934. Her groundbreaking work with primates has given us so much to understand about ourselves as well. She IMO is one of the planets inspirations.
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    Happy Birthday to Jack Benny! Born #otd 1894.
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    Galileo born #otd 1564. Had the great fortune of seeing his telescope in Florence a few years ago. One of the founders of modern scientific exploration
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    Happy Birthday to Bob Marley born #otd 1945. Whenever there is one of those ‘who would you see if you could?’, my answer is Bob Marley no question.
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    https://youtu.be/WLdJz6WrMC0 #otd in 1816 Rossini’s Barber of Seville premiered. Here is the overture…..
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    From the Schwetzinger Festspiele 1988 Conductor: Gabriele Ferro
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    https://youtu.be/9ORsinmqm0M #otd in 1808 was a remarkable concert. Ludwig van Beethoven put on a concert of his own works. There were a couple of other pieces, but the major items was the Fourth Piano Concerto, the Choral Fantasy (presaging the Ninth...  more
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    Bernard Haitink and Berlin Philharmonic perform Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major op. 68, the “Pastoral," at the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, 2015. Beethoven composed his 6th Symphony about nature in 1807 and 1808. The Symphony No. 6 in F m...
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    https://youtu.be/dr2mcEtCxnY For Beethoven’s birthday born #otd 1770. This performance from April 1948 in NBC’s Studio 8H (now the home of SNL) is interesting in that the studio was the same from the initial broadcasts of the NBC Symphony in...  more
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    Telecast live on April 3, 1948 over the NBC Television and Radio Networks. NBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Featuring the Robert Shaw Chorale, Anne McKnight: soprano; Jane Hobson: contralto; Irwin Dillon: tenor; and Norman Scott: bass. The ...
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    Happy Birthday to Mark Twain!! Born #otd 1835. A few quotes….

    No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot — Mark Twain

    Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. — Mark Twain

    Never argue with...  more
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      Fam Worlds (Admin) Politicians and diapers is a gem quote lol
      • November 30, 2021
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    Happy Birthday to Harpo Marx born #otd 1888.
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    Today is the birthday of IMO the best thing to ever come out of Oklahoma….Will Rogers born #otd 1879.
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      DeeP (OFM) I agree
      • November 4, 2021
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    Remembering Tim Leary born #otd 1920
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    I had the great fortune to have spent a few days with him in the 80’s. What an experience! Happy Birthday to Desmond! Born #otd 1931….
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    Happy Birthday John Lennon! Born #otd 1940
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    Star Trek premiered #otd 1966
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      Syntaxghost (OFM) Shatner claimed he was once an avid hunter, he also took down an enormous nine-foot-tall Kodiak brown using only a mere bow and arrow. The pelt of the mighty ursus arctos middendorffi eventually became a rug for his home.
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      tommy I caught this version later on in reruns
      • September 9, 2021
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    #otd The Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the Revolutionary War. Notice John Adams, Ben Franklin and John Jay signed for the United States. Franklin has the distinction of signing the three major documents that helped found the United...  more
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    https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/lbj-orders-some-new-haggar-pants In honor of Lyndon Johnson’s birthday, born #otd 1908, here he is ordering pants. You have to just listen to LBJ be very particular how he wants them done….
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    Happy Birthday to Aldous Huxley, born #otd 1894. Part of a illustrious family, His grandfather was Thomas Huxley, who was working on the theory of evolution at about the same time as Darwin. His father Leonard and brother Julian were both well regarded...  more
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  • Happy Birthday Anniversary to Bing Crosby born #otd 1903. Getting a radio show starting in 1931 on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), that 15 minute program set new standards for singers. If you listen to those early recordings, Bing almost sounds...  more
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    Honoring Mark Twain who died #otd 1910. Famously said that he came in with Halley’s Comet (which was in 1835, the year of his birth) and he wished he would go out with the comet. Halley’s Comet was in 1910. Twain is playing pool in 1900 in the picture.
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      MasturBakeTheater Comet Msn💚💨
      • April 22, 2021
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    Happy Bicycle Day! #otd in 1943 Albert Hoffmann, who had worked on ergot in 1938 and then returned to it and discovered LSD on 16 April 1943, accidentally touched some acid and headed home on his bicycle. It was on the way that things got a little...  more
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      MasturBakeTheater Accidentally touched acid, oops
      • April 19, 2021
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    Today (outside of being my bday...), was the discovery #otd 1943, of LSD by Albert Hoffman. The famous bicycle ride took place on the 19th. Thank you Albert!
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      MasturBakeTheater You and I should really have a sit down NobeNug (OFM) 💚💨 View 1 Reply
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      MasturBakeTheater Happiest Birthday to You🥳
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    Thomas Jefferson #otd born in 1743. I find him endlessly fascinating due to the contradictions within him. If the only thing he had written was the Declaration of Independence (with advice from Franklin and Adam’s),he would be remembered. A true...  more
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    #otd FDR died in Warm Springs, Georgia. This photograph was taken the day before as a study for a portrait that was being painted. You can see that he is not well. Warm Springs is a lovely place and well worth a visit. His room was small in a lovely...  more
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      MasturBakeTheater ❤️❤️❤️
      • April 13, 2021
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    The Grateful Dead’s first album released #otd 1967.....
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    Happy Birthday Anniversary to Charles Darwin born #otd 1809
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      The Watson Experiment I've always been torn about how I feel about this guy and his theories.
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      Njoydasmoke13 He was bias