It is Thursday, May 12, and still gray and rainy in Chicago. This is beginning to get depressing. But, like Maru, we do our best. I am going to work with no clear idea what I’ll write on the website today, but Ceiling Cat always sends me some ideas.
On this day in 1932, the son of Charles Lindbergh was found dead after a kidnapping; this caused a national furor until they caught, tried, and executed Bruno Hauptmann for the crime (I didn’t look up the name of the killer; ain’t I good?). And, in 1986, the NBC peacock logo debuted, making it the 30th anniversary today (I thought it had been around longer).
Notables born on this day (a good crop) include Edward Lear (1812), Florence Nightingale (1820), Dorothy Hodgkin (1910; one of the headlines when she won her Prize was “Oxford Housewife Wins Nobel”–look it up), Yogi Berra (1925), Burt Bacharach (1926; he turns 90 today), George Carlin (1937), and Steve Winwood (1948). Those who died on May 12 include Nelly Sachs (1970), Perry Como (2001), and Peter Gay (2015).
Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili has a First World Problem:
A: Do you want chicken or beef for dinner?Hili: I will have to think about it.
Ja: Chcesz na obiad kurczaka czy wołowinę?
Hili: Muszę się zastanowić.
Leon: I can feel the storm gathering in my bones.
Florence Nightingale (1920)? I assume died or it’s a different Florence
Born 1820, just a typo.
Yep, fixed, thanks.
Yes – I think that was in the wrong part of the list!
This film may be of interest regarding islam & Turkey & women’s rights –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36225698
The NBC peacock has been around since 1956. From Wikipedia:
Its most famous logo, the peacock, was first used in 1956 to highlight the network’s color programming. While it has been in use in one form or another for all but four years since then, the peacock did not become part of NBC’s main logo until 1979 and did not become the network’s sole logo until 1986.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_of_NBC
I remember the peacock from early childhood, and remember it changing.
There is a story that around the word, Scots have a reputation for cheerfulness. This has nothing to do with their inner state (“dour” is a good word), but to do with the fact that, around the world, they’re NOT IN SCOTLAND ANYMORE. Which always improves the weather.
That said, it’s a fine, sunny day, and I think I’m due my daily perambulation. Toodle-pip!
Here in southern Scotland we are enjoying our fourth day in succession of cloud-free skies, apart from early mist this morning. The point about Scotland being rainy is that when the sun does come out (and it happens more than tradition maintains!) it shows how high rainfall causes gloriously verdant countryside. Also, cloud-free skies here are usually a vivid blue.
Agreed. Same in Fife this week.
I know. I was writing a recommendation for some friends for where to visit to get a taste of hill walking in Scotland, and having to temper my enthusiasm for Skye with the Misty Isle’s notorious mistiness. Plus warnings about midges, of course.