[lit-ideas] Re: What a day!
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- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:58:16 +0200
[Somehow last week I got dropped from the Lit-Ideas list. Funny how in
the Internet Age a week is an eternity and something 4 days old seems
very stale 'news' indeed. Nevertheless, I'll persevere and repost a
message that failed to appear ...]
On 16-Jul-12, at 1:46 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
On Jul 16, 2012, at 2:05 AM, cblists@xxxxxxxx wrote:
--- [I] somehow forgot to mention that today is Pinchas Zukerman's
64th ... birthday!
Also, the resignation of "Lord Greenville."
http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history
I rely initially on two radio programs for my 'today in history'
reflections: Deutschlandfunk's five-minute 'Kalenderblatt' [‘Calendar
Page'] following the 9 a.m. news and Norddeutschrundfunk's fifteen-
minute 'Zeitzeichen' [literally 'time signal'; figuratively 'sign of
the times'] at 8:15 p.m. Each program picks only one event from
history; rarely do the two programs report on the same event. (The
choice seems idiosyncratic: it can be some - to me -relatively obscure
event from medieval history, the anniversary of the death of a
American jazz musician, the commemoration of the passing of some bit
of legislation.) Then I check the English and German editions of
Wikipedia to see what else has happened on this day in history. (This
morning I used the site mentioned by David Ritchie, above.)
Today [19 July 2012] 'Kalenderblatt' passed over the sinking of the
Mary Rose, the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, the first docking of
Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts, and the birthdays of Samuel Colt, Edgar
Degas and Lizzie Borden to report on
the meeting of Beethoven and Goethe at a spa in Teplitz on this day in
1812.
Chris Bruce,
taking the waters in
Kiel, Germany
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