Paracultural Calendar for May 11

[jochen stremmel]

"On this day in *1927*, showbiz pioneer *Louis B Mayer* forms the *Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences*, without which we would have had no
idea that *The English Patient*, *Titanic* and *Shakespeare in Love* were
some of the finest films ever made, despite the preponderance of evidence
to the contrary."

Nice pov!

Btw, your link in the Marley paragraph doesn't work.

2015-05-12 9:32 GMT+02:00 Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:

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> On this day in *1310*, 54 members of the *Knights Templar* are burned at
> the stake as heretics in France. However, the 23rd and final "official"
> Grand Master of the Templars - *Jacques DeMolay* - survives nearly four
> more years before ultimately meeting a similar fiery fate on March 13, 1314.
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1812*, Prime Minister *Spencer Perceval* is assassinated
> by *John Bellingham* in the lobby of the House of Commons, London. He is
> the first, and so far only, British Prime Minister to be assassinated while
> serving. Historian*Andro Linklater*'s latest tome is controversially
> titled *Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die*
> <http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/05/08/review-why-spencer-perceval-had-to-die-the-assassination-of-a-british-prime-minister/>,
> painting a not-so-likable portrait of the doomed PM, whereas *this
> Telegraph UK editorial*
> <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9233091/Spencer-Perceval-deserves-better-from-posterity.html> claims
> he deserves to be remembered for more than just being assassinated.
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1916*, after nearly a year spent re-working some of the
> mathematics involved, renowned theoretical physicist and "world's smartest
> man" *Albert Einstein* presents his *Theory of General Relativity* to his
> peers. Basically, Einstein's conception of relativity is a geometric theory
> of gravitation, and it remains the current description of gravitation in
> modern physics. According to Wikipedia: "General relativity generalizes
> special relativity and *Newton*'s law of universal gravitation, providing
> a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time,
> or space-time. In particular, the curvature of spacetime is directly
> related to the energy and momentum of whatever matter and radiation are
> present. The relation is specified by the Einstein field equations, a
> system of partial differential equations." Simple, no? Of course, there are
> quite a few people who believe the whole thing is just a bunch of high
> quackery, and they opened a *web forum*
> <http://www.anti-relativity.com/forum/index.php> to air alternative views.
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1927*, showbiz pioneer *Louis B Mayer* forms the *Academy
> of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences*, without which we would have had no
> idea that *The English Patient*, *Titanic* and *Shakespeare in Love* were
> some of the finest films ever made, despite the preponderance of evidence
> to the contrary.
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1949*, the freshly-minted nation of *Israel* joins the *United
> Nations*. Eleven years later, on this day in*1960*, four Israeli *Mossad* agents
> capture fugitive Nazi technocrat *Adolf Eichmann*, one of the architects
> of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Problem". Eichmann had been living in
> Buenos Aires, Argentina, under the alias: *Ricardo Klement*. There is no
> way in Hell he was the only high-ranking Nazi to escape Europe in this way,
> as future posts here at the Useless Eater Blog will hopefully prove to you,
> beyond any reasonable factor of doubt.
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1997*, *IBM*'s chess-playing supercomputer *Deep Blue* defeats
> Russian chess champ *Garry Kasparov*in the last game of the rematch,
> becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a
> classic match format. After *SkyNet* takes over the world, this will
> probably be declared an official "Robot Holiday" or something. You just
> know those shiny metal bastards are going to relish rubbing our noses in it.
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1981*, Jamaican music pioneer and Rastafarian
> prophet/saint *Bob Marley* dies of cancer at the age of 36... or *does
> he?!*
> <http://astrid-conspiracy.blogspot.ca/2007/07/bob-marley-brain-cancer-or-murder_02.html>
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1988*, British spy *Kim Philby* dies in Moscow, where he
> "retired" after being sniffed out as a *communist double-agent*
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby> for the Soviet Union. His life
> story, at the provided link, is damn fascinating. The Rooskies even gave
> him a postage stamp! Check it out!
>
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