Count on it being April somewhere like . . . Paris . . .
It’s Moon day and the heat hammer is pounding my Okie-land and a stuffed mailbox . . .
In1942, Walt Disney's animated film Bambi had its theatrical release on this day in the United States.
The new Globe Theatre opened on this day in 1997 England.
Today in 1989, Voyager 2 began a flyby of planet Neptune.
On this day in 1968 Soviet forces invaded Czechoslovakia crushing “the Prague Spring” because of the country’s experiments with a more liberal government. The event became the motif and background for Milan Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being, and subsquent motion picture (1988) – a superb adaptation by Kundera and Phillip Kaufman, who directed, with lead actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin. Awards and nominations too numerous to list here.
It's Peter Weir's birthday today. The film director is among the leaders of Australian New Wave cinema and internationally recognized for Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli; and Academy Award nominee for Dead Poets Society, Master and Commander; and is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Academy.
It's also the 119th anniversary of “Count” Basie's birth. The band leader and composer was born on this day in 1904 Red Bank, New Jersey.
It’s always “April in Paris”
octopi, octopodes, or octopuses
It's Satyr's day, and quite appropriately . . .
It is the birthday of William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton. The 42nd President (1993-2001) of the United States and the first president from the Baby Boomer generation was born on this day in 1946 Hope, Arkansas. Not quite, but almost next door.
Today In 1940 the air war was reaching its peak in the skies over London during The Battle of Britain
Global politics has changed since Bill was President. The crises of the past seven years have resulted in demonstrations that nations cannot go it alone. – Heather Cox Richardson
It's the 121st anniversary of Ogden Nash's birth. The humor poet was born in 1902 Rye, New York.
Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes) was born on this day in 1930 Brooklyn, New York.
And, on this date in 1829, French painter and physicist Louis Daguerre presented his photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences. Remember Louis the next time you see a selfie . . . or take one.
The Octopus
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me Us– Ogden Nash
Rain makers
In Freya's mailbox today . . .
The Woodstock Festival ended today after three days in 1969 Bethel (that name seems to follow me around), New York.
Women's protected right to vote was placed into the Constitution by the 19th amendment, ratified on this date in 1920 by one vote in the Tennessee legislature.
It's Robert Redford's birthday. He was born on this day in 1936 Santa Monica, California,
Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch was organized, according to lore, on this date in 1896 at Brown's Hole: an isolated mountain valley along the Green River in Moffat County, Colorado and Daggett County, Utah
Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
. . .'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain
By complainin'
Because I'm free
Nothing's worryin' me– Hal David and Burt Bacharach