BS: Important points in history

Subject: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Apr 14 - 01:06 PM

Febuary 7, 1964:
Americans finally noticed the existence of the British Isles.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Apr 14 - 01:15 PM

1967

Songwriters:John Lennon, John Winston / Paul MCCartney and James Paul go public and admit that they are all walrus', (goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob. 
Goo goo g'joob goo).

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: GUEST,Mrrzy on another computer
Date: 05 Apr 14 - 02:06 PM

April 18th, 1983. The first suicide carbombing of any embassy by islamic arab radicals- the US Embassy in Beirut. Killed 17 Americans including my father, and scores of Lebanese islamic arabs.

Oh, wait,that's right. Never mind. We didn't learn a bloody thing, apparently.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Apr 14 - 02:13 PM

Marijuana made illegal in the usa

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: gnu
Date: 05 Apr 14 - 02:14 PM

Marijuana made legal in the usa

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Apr 14 - 03:02 PM

Nope. It was made legal in Colorado and Washington states. I don't know about Washington, DC at this point. Ain't been reading much news lately.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Allan C.
Date: 05 Apr 14 - 03:49 PM

" I don't know about Washington, DC at this point." Nobody ever does.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Apr 14 - 05:22 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 05 Apr 14 - 05:35 PM

And I expect the pain never goes away, mrrzy. Sharing a moment of sad reflection.pete.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Jack Campin
Date: 05 Apr 14 - 07:38 PM

July 22, 1946: a terrorist bombing in the Middle East that killed four times as many people as the one that kicked the Americans out of Lebanon. But we don't talk about that one, do we.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 14 - 07:56 PM

Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban
And the Beatles' first LP.

(Philip Larkin)

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 14 - 07:57 PM

Nice one, Jack, by the way.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 05:14 AM

Neolithic tools, farming, pottery, copper, bronze, iron, cast iron, steam power,

That's enough for now

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: gnu
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 06:43 AM

The drum.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Stu
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 07:13 AM

Ivor the Engine.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 07:36 AM

""After the fall of the Roman empire, the loincloth disappeared in Europe. Trousers of one kind or another, which had been considered a Celtic oddity in the Ancient Mediterranean cultures, were prescribed for men.""

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 08:34 AM

1867

Sheffield Wednesday registered as a football club.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 08:41 AM

June 3 1892: Liverpool FC formed. The Dark Ages finally ended.

I note that Sheff Wed had a player called Clegg in the 1860s who was known as "the Napoleon of football". One tends to shudder.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Musket
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 10:31 AM

Clegg is a good Sheffield name.




Unless you are Sheffield MP.....

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 06:07 PM

I thought the states of Colorado and Washington actually were "in the US".

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: gnu
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 06:46 PM

Pontiac.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 06:52 PM

1969, David Bowie (David Jones) launched Major Tom into deep space. Since that time, the have been no conspiracy theories that this did not happen.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: gnu
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 07:17 PM

Ground control were all shot dead by operatives unknown. The You Tube vid of this tragedy has been skillfully removed. We will never know.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 01:18 AM

1967 David Bowie launched the laughing gnome.

Gnomes have been mainstream members of society ever since and some have reached the giddy heights (3'6) of Co Messiah Emeritus with Gnomish Attributes.

( see various religious threads passim)

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 01:02 PM

The death of Walt Kelly in 1973, depriving us of one of the best mirrors of (American) society ever.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 06:57 PM

The death of Mickey Rooney,

What a lifetime of talent one of the last of the true great film entertainers and an end of an era. In my lifetime from childhood on wards it seemed that Mickey Rooney had always been around not only from the Andy Hardy musicals with Judy Garland and International Velvet with Elizabeth Taylor, but appearances in films in his older years. As far as I was concerned he was always the everlasting energetic little Mickey Rooney, that's how I saw him despite his 93 years! Surprisingly my sons reaction was also one of shock such was the impact of his talent and persona on them, they hadn't bargained for the fact that he could possibly go one day as unrealistic as it may seem but he had such an enduring quality as well as a great talent. He will be missed.

Thanks for all the entertainment, RIP Mickey.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 08:47 PM

1618. When Jan van Helmont discovered alchemy actually worked, and went on to discover scientific investigation. And the scientists have the chutzpah to mock religion? Oy veh!

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 09:01 PM

1776, the Wealth of Nations. was published by Scottish philosopher Adam Smith.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 09:11 PM

Young and Smylie Candies, the manufacturers of Twizzlers candy, is one of the oldest confectionery firms in the United States. The company was established in 1845 and adopted Y&S as its trademark in 1870. The Twizzler brand was created in 1929 but didn't go mainstream until the mid-1960s when the company chaged its name to Y&S Candies. Hershey acquired the company and Twizzlers brand in 1977.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 09:11 PM

Young and Smylie Candies, the manufacturers of Twizzlers candy, is one of the oldest confectionery firms in the United States. The company was established in 1845 and adopted Y&S as its trademark in 1870. The Twizzler brand was created in 1929 but didn't go mainstream until the mid-1960s when the company chaged its name to Y&S Candies. Hershey acquired the company and Twizzlers brand in 1977.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 10:47 PM

Arabic numerals
Development of numerical zero
Euclidean geometry.
Archimedes principle (and his various inventions)
Various religious turning points: Xtianity/its schisms, Islam/its schism.
Gunpowder.
Magna Carta.
Accession of Scottish kings to the English throne.
The dropping of the great seal of England in the Thames by an ousted king.
Newton/Leibnitz on calculus.
Newton's law of gravity.
French revolution
Darwin's theory of evolution
USA
Invention of the concentration camp by England during the Boer war.
Maxwell/Faraday/wireless transmission of signals.
Saint-Victor/Becquerel/Curie - radioactivity
Internal combustion engine/motor car.
WW1
Russian revolution
The Irish revolution 1922
Female suffrage
Chinese revolution
Baird/TV
Fleming/Penicillin
Steel strung guitar.
Beauchamp/Rickenbacker invention of electric guitar.
WW2
The Pill
Leo Fender/Jim Burns/Jim Marshall
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Chernobyl
Fukushima

Oh, and from about 300BCE to date - various abolitions of slavery.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 10:47 PM

Arabic numerals
Development of numerical zero
Euclidean geometry.
Archimedes principle (and his various inventions)
Various religious turning points: Xtianity/its schisms, Islam/its schism.
Gunpowder.
Magna Carta.
Accession of Scottish kings to the English throne.
The dropping of the great seal of England in the Thames by an ousted king.
Newton/Leibnitz on calculus.
Newton's law of gravity.
French revolution
Darwin's theory of evolution
USA
Invention of the concentration camp by England during the Boer war.
Maxwell/Faraday/wireless transmission of signals.
Saint-Victor/Becquerel/Curie - radioactivity
Internal combustion engine/motor car.
WW1
Russian revolution
The Irish revolution 1922
Female suffrage
Chinese revolution
Baird/TV
Fleming/Penicillin
Steel strung guitar.
Beauchamp/Rickenbacker invention of electric guitar.
WW2
The Pill
Leo Fender/Jim Burns/Jim Marshall
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Chernobyl
Fukushima

Oh, and from about 300BCE to date - various abolitions of slavery.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 10:48 PM

I nearly forgot.
Child's Ballads
Cecil Sharp
The 1954 definition.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 01:56 AM

I'd have thought that from a list of that size, you would have found room for Wealth of Nations Bridge?

You never know, The Adam Smith Institute might offer you membership....

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 07:00 AM

June 12, 1924 the first facial tissue, Kleenex, was born.

Some 29 years later, on December 1953, Hugh Hefner published the very first Playboy magazine.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Musket
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 07:06 AM

Did Hugh redefine facial too?

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Teribus
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 07:20 AM

"Invention of the concentration camp by England during the Boer war."

Sorry Richard we cannot claim that or accept the blame for that. Both the Spanish (Cuba October 1896 - Gen. Valeriano Weyler - over 300,000 dead) and the USA (1899 in The Philippines - General Franklin Bell - ~298,000 dead) employed the use of "concentration camps" before we did. The British version arrived shortly after late in November 1900 - General Kitchener - ~26,000 Boer dead and ~14,000 native Africans {During the same time ~15,000 British & Empire Soldiers died in their camps} - But there again neither the Spanish or the US Army had any equivalent of Emily Hobhouse, or the Fawcett Commission to raise British public awareness of conditions in the camps, recommendations from the latter meant that a duty of care and protection was imposed on the British Military authorities in charge of the camps and mortality rates inside the camps were reduced to less than those in most towns in England.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 09:07 AM

The wheel is as important now as when it was invented.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Teribus
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 09:12 AM

Most important points in history as far as the "big, bad West" goes?
The emancipation of women Should of course have been done long before - overnight it doubled the workforce and doubled the brainpower looking at any problem.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 02:25 PM

Whatever it was that came before sliced bread.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Midchuck
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 02:39 PM

July 25, 1965: Bob Dylan takes the stage at the Newport Folk Festival, with a solid-body electric guitar. Playing acoustic guitar never gets anyone laid again.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 02:51 PM

scotland and sweedish turnips 

"The turnip (Brassica rapa var. rapa) was cultivated since ancient times, however the Swedish Turnip ( Brassica napus var. napobrassica) was first documented in the 17th century. The Swedish turnip is not simply a variety of turnip, but a complicated hybrid of a turnip and cabbage.
As determined experimentally by the Korean botanist Woo Jang-choon in the 1930's, as the number of chromosomes differs between these two species, in order to produce a fertile hybrid between a turnip and a cabbage the chromosome content in any fertile progeny must be doubled. So a cabbage has 18 chromosomes, the  turnip has 20, but the Swedish turnip has 38 chromosomes. This also means that the new hybrid is unable to cross breed easily with its parents.
 Thus, the Swedish turnip is a turnipy cabbage or a cabbagey turnip, combining traits from both parents. While Woo delibrately created these hybrids, it seems that the Swedish turnip was created serendipitously, prehaps no earlier then the 16th century.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 03:27 PM

1953 to 1968---Discovery of the structure ofDNA & the double helix... and all the controversy and furor about it.

Maybe the importance was the public display of how very HUMAN scientists can be.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 03:49 PM

The discovery of a life-saving treatment for diabetes at the University of Toronto in 1921 was formally acknowledged just two years later when the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to two of the team members, G. Banting and C. H. Best.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Amos
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 03:53 PM

Circa 1776: the American colonials design an experimental government conceived as a democratic republic founded on principles of equality, in theory, and freedom from authoritarian domination. Trials runs are still in progress.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 04:28 PM

In 1977 American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett issued the song Margaritaville" on the album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes. This song was written about a drink Buffett discovered at Lung's Cocina del Sur restaurant on Anderson Lane in Austin, Texas, and the first huge surge of tourists who descended on Key West, Florida around that time; he wrote most of the song that night in Austin and finished it while spending time in Key West. In the United States "Margaritaville" reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and went to #1 on the Easy Listening chart,[also peaking at #13 on the Hot Country Songs chart. Still popular, it remains Buffett's highest charting solo single."

"The plant tequila is derived from could play a role in fighting obesity, and it doesn't involve getting people so drunk they forget to eat, researchers say. Natural sugars found in agave appear to protect mice against obesity and type 2 diabetes."


tequila plant 

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Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: GUEST, Janie
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 05:25 PM

1936 US Court of Appeals, 2nd. cir. upheld Mary Sanger in The United States vs. One Package of Japanese Pessaries, thus making it legal for contraceptives to be imported, as long as they were sent by a doctor. Lemon sales tanked.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 05:47 PM

The creation of the holiday camp? Debatable - but it did enable families to get away for their annual holiday up until air travel became more popular for more exotic locations.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 06:16 PM

On this day in 1944, Russian forces led by Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin attack the German army in an attempt to win back Crimea, in the southern Ukraine, occupied by the Axis power. The attack would result in the breaking of German defensive lines in just four days, eventually sending the Germans retreating.

Crimea was the territorial plaything of many great powers, from the Ottoman Turks to the Russia of Ivan III. It had declared its independence in 1918 but was occupied again by Germany in 1941. It was "liberated" by the Russians, only to find itself trapped within the greater Soviet Union. It declared itselc an independent republic in the 1990's.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 06:17 PM

On this day,f Buddhists celebrate the commemoration of the birth of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, thought to have lived in India from 563 B.C. to 483 B.C. Actually, the Buddhist tradition that celebrates his birthday on April 8 originally placed his birth in the 11th century B.C., and it was not until the modern era that scholars determined that he was more likely born in the sixth century B.C., and possibly in May rather than April.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Janie
Date: 08 Apr 14 - 07:12 PM

April 8, 2014. Mars opposition, i.e. Mars, Earth and Sun line up just right for Mars to really "shine." (Thru a good part of April, btw.)   Directly opposite the Sun relative to Earth's orbit. (Cloudy here, but will hopefully be clear when Mars is near the moon for the total lunar eclipse of full moon (blood moon) on April 15.


http://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20140408_13_100

Blood Moon.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Teribus
Date: 09 Apr 14 - 08:37 AM

"Circa 1776: the American colonials design an experimental government conceived as a democratic republic founded on principles of equality, in theory, and freedom from authoritarian domination" - Amos

Unless of course you were Black.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Apr 14 - 08:51 AM

"Unless of course you were Black."

Or, a Native American.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Acorn4
Date: 09 Apr 14 - 09:17 AM

Don't know the exact date, but the day that a young Napoleon Bonaparte decided not to apply for a commission in the British navy.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Amos
Date: 09 Apr 14 - 09:54 AM

Teribus: That's why I inserted "in theory", which you ignored.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Apr 14 - 11:09 AM

Teribus - there is a first for everything. Thank you for your post about concentration camps.

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Ed T
Date: 09 Apr 14 - 12:08 PM

"Skinner's Raisin Bran" was the first brand on the market, introduced in the United States in 1936 and trademarked. In 1942 Kelloggs began to produce a similar named product. A court resulted over the use of the term in 1944. The courts ruled that the name "Raisin-BRAN" could not be used as a trade-mark, because: "A name which is merely descriptive of the ingredients, qualities or characteristics of an article of trade cannot be appropriated as a trademark and the exclusive use of it afforded legal protection. The use of a similar name by another to truthfully describe his own product does not constitute a legal or moral wrong, even if its effect be to cause the public to mistake the origin or ownership of the product."

Subject: RE: BS: Important points in history
From: Teribus
Date: 10 Apr 14 - 06:26 AM

"equality" you qualified Amos, "authoritarian domination" you did not.