PCC(E) is setting sail, so we are still on reduced service.
Meanwhile, in Dobrzyn, Hili is contemplating the Second Law of Thermodynamics:
A: Entropy.
Hili: And that’s a reason to eat something.
Ja: Entropia.
Hili: I to jest powód, żeby coś zjeść.
28 April 1937 | A Czech Jewish girl, Věra Schlesingerová, was born.
Deported to #Auschwitz on 19 October 1944 from #Theresienstadt Ghetto. She was murdered in a gas chamber. pic.twitter.com/DmOl98xLhN
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) April 28, 2022
My daily Teams picture comes from this event:
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
Astonishingly, many of my coworkers had never heard of the Mutiny on the Bounty.
Also, I note apropos one of my favourite bands
1973 – The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
Time for another remake. The Mel Gibson one was too long ago.
I think it was DSOTM in particular that was the real big break for Pink Floyd. Although I do enjoy pretty much all of their earlier albums.
Meanwhile there was a similar British group called Hawkwind who did not quite make it to those stellar heights, but wow, they had some great and interesting things. My favorite album of theirs is Warriors on the Edge of Time, which I believed can be played on YouTube. It must be played at “11” without distractions.
It’s been many years since I’ve heard it, but I remember enjoying Hawkwind’s singer Robert Lockhart’s solo album Captain Lockheed and
Starfighters (a concept album about the ill-fated “Widowmaker” , featuring Arthur Brown as a gremlin): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Lockheed_and_the_Starfighters
On this day:
1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for Pitcairn Island.
1869 – Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
1945 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.
1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
1948 – Igor Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.
1967 – Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
1973 – The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
Births:
1765 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (d. 1834)
1912 – Odette Hallowes, French soldier and spy (d. 1995)
1926 – Harper Lee, American novelist (d. 2016)
1948 – Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1950 – Jay Leno, American comedian, talk show host, and producer
1974 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress and producer
Those who gave up the ghost:
1883 – John Russell, English hunter and dog breeder (b. 1795)
1945 – Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1883)
1999 – Alf Ramsey, English footballer and manager (b. 1920)
And Gavrilo Princip, who gave it up in 1918.
Now *there’s* a guy with a heck of a legacy!
ICYMI the Department of Homeland Security has set up a “disinformation governance board”, which doesn’t seem to be getting much attention in the US press. The proposed head is just the person to manage creating misinformation, having previously observed that “the ‘free speech vs. censorship’ framing is a false dichotomy.” Welcome, Ministry of Propaganda.
Sure, because sending out messages in Spanish that coyotes (the human trafficker type) are lying to Mexicans, and will as often as not simply steal their money and leave them in the desert if not kill them outright (rather than get them to relatives in the US like they promise), has somehow morphed in the right-wing mind into some paranoid attack on conservativism.
You should want those messages to go out; it has the goal of reducing illegal immigration without having to separate any 3-year-olds from their parents or lock people in cages.
Bizarre, but true:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-61097386