Today I shall be mainly being 76
Apart from me there's not a lot that happened on Thursday the eleventh of May in 1944
Thanks for the card.
immer
People who were born on this date in other years:
Richard Feynman 1918
"I took this stuff I got out of your [O-ring] seal and I put it in ice water, and I discovered that when you put some pressure on it for a while and then undo it it doesn't stretch back. It stays the same dimension. In other words, for a few seconds at least, and more seconds than that, there is no resilience in this particular material when it is at a temperature of 32 degrees. I believe that has some significance for our problem."
statement at hearing by Rogers Commission, 11 February 1986, Report of the PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, volume 4, p. 680; also quoted in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992) by James Gleick, p. 423
Salvador Dalí 1904
"Le Surréalisme, c'est moi."
Quote in Salvador Dali : Master of Surrealism and Modern Art (1971) by George Cevasco, p. 13
Margaret Rutherford 1892
Rare is the reference to Margaret Rutherford that doesn't characterize her as either jut-chinned, eccentric, or both. The combination of those most mundane of attributes has led some to suggest that she was made for the role of Agatha Christie's indomitable sleuth, Jane Marple, whom Rutherford portrayed in four films between 1961 and 1964
Irving Berlin 1888
"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know."
If you'd told me that this pic was Mr Bean
I wouldn't have called you a liar.
Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen 1720
Who is there that has not, in his youth, enjoyed The Surprising Travels and Adventures of Baron Munchausen in Russia, the Caspian Sea, Iceland, Turkey, &c. a slim volume—all too short, indeed—illustrated by a formidable portrait of the baron in front, with his broad-sword laid over his shoulder, and several deep gashes on his manly countenance? I presume they must be few.
and the other end of life:
Douglas Adams 2001
"A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'"
Kim Philby 1988
Naughty, naughty, naughty!
Naughty, naughty, naughty!
Bob Marley 1981
"The people who are trying to make this world worse aren't taking a day off. How can I?"
Spencer Perceval 1812
At 5:15 pm, on the evening of 11 May 1812, Perceval was on his way to attend the inquiry into the Orders in Council. As he entered the lobby of the House of Commons, a man stepped forward, drew a pistol and shot him in the chest. Perceval fell to the floor, after uttering something that was variously heard as "murder" and "oh my God". They were his last words. By the time he had been carried into an adjoining room and propped up on a table with his feet on two chairs, he was senseless, although there was still a faint pulse. When a surgeon arrived a few minutes later, the pulse had stopped, and Perceval was declared dead
William Pitt 1778
"The only way to have peace is to prepare for war"
56 football fans die in a stadium fire 1985
"The only way to have peace is to prepare for war"
Other eleventh of May stuff:
56 football fans die in a stadium fire 1985
During a match against Lincoln City, the wooden stands at Valley Parade football ground went up in flames. The exits were locked. A burning cigarette thrown into a waste bin has been determined as the probable cause of the disaster.
The musical Cats is premiered 1981
The piece sparked a musical craze around the world and catapulted the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber to stardom.
The earliest surviving dated printed book is produced in China 868
The “Diamond Sutra” is one of the most important texts in Mahayana Buddhism. The British Library in London presently houses the copy.
And now more pics; a tad boring 'cause of lockdown but :
Thursday the Seventh of May
A couple of greylags looking, as greylags are wont to do, somewhat suspicious.
More mummy duck and ducklets
(yawn)
The larger of the two turtles. Seems to be looking straight at the camera.
A less zoomed view of the turtle and (yawn) mallard and mallardlings
Mummy, or daddy I suppose, coot with her two cootlets.
She's broodily brooding a brood …
… and here from t'other side
Rugby field cherries
Alder leaf beetles doing what they do best
White and yellow and blue amidst the green
Speedwell
(not, as I thought a few years ago, forget-me-not)
Little buggy things on a buttercup
Green veined white
demonstrating its immunity to nettle rash
I can never remember the name of these strange but common flowers
Under the hedge
First clover I've noticed this year
Still basking
An addition to my back garden fauna
And another - my favourite corvid
(until a jay comes along)
Back garden buttercup
Can you guess, or do you know, what flowers these are?
Full Moon
The Full Moon of May is known as Flower Moon to signify the flowers that bloom during this month. There is a myriad of wildflowers which bloom in May in the Northern Hemisphere, where these traditional Full Moon names originated. For example, many types of anemone, wild garlic, indigo, bluebells, lupine, and violets, to name just a few. It is no wonder that the colorful displays these flowers create in nature have inspired people to name this time after them. Most noticeable hereabouts is hawthorn in the many hedgerows. Note that an alternate name for hawthorn is May.
Other names for May's brightest Moon phase are Mother's Moon, and Milk Moon, from the Old English Rimilcemona which means Month of Three Milkings, when cows were milked three times a day.
White and yellow and blue amidst the green
Speedwell
(not, as I thought a few years ago, forget-me-not)
Little buggy things on a buttercup
Green veined white
demonstrating its immunity to nettle rash
I can never remember the name of these strange but common flowers
Under the hedge
First clover I've noticed this year
Still basking
An addition to my back garden fauna
And another - my favourite corvid
(until a jay comes along)
Back garden buttercup
Can you guess, or do you know, what flowers these are?
Full Moon
The Full Moon of May is known as Flower Moon to signify the flowers that bloom during this month. There is a myriad of wildflowers which bloom in May in the Northern Hemisphere, where these traditional Full Moon names originated. For example, many types of anemone, wild garlic, indigo, bluebells, lupine, and violets, to name just a few. It is no wonder that the colorful displays these flowers create in nature have inspired people to name this time after them. Most noticeable hereabouts is hawthorn in the many hedgerows. Note that an alternate name for hawthorn is May.
Other names for May's brightest Moon phase are Mother's Moon, and Milk Moon, from the Old English Rimilcemona which means Month of Three Milkings, when cows were milked three times a day.
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