Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Marion Moon.
(Which means that Moon is likely be his security answer for his forgotten passwords, but not for the reason you think!)
Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Marion Moon.
(Which means that Moon is likely be his security answer for his forgotten passwords, but not for the reason you think!)
Does Elizabeth the First even have a social secretary anymore?
AND I would not expect a reply.
never mind: comment deleted!
Are you by any chance Scottish?
(Supposedly the Scots don’t acknowledge the existence of the 16th century Queen Elizabeth, because she ordered the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots)
The Scots also drank to the health of the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat
TIL: the horse involved was named Sorrel. Stonewall Jackson’s horse was named Little Sorrel. Avoid a horse named Sorrel, a car painted green, diners named Mom’s and card players named Pops.
Elizabeth I was Queen of England
Both Anne and Elizabeth II are Queens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain (adding on ‘and Northern Ireland’ for Lilibet Deuce). The title “Queen of England” has not existed since 1707.
The otherwise apparently mainstream advocate for the blind, and sight and hearing challenged person herself, Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was a socialist. I think most people would find that surprising and interesting.
Here:
“…Keller was also a prolific author, writing 14 books and hundreds of speeches and essays on topics ranging from animals to Mahatma Gandhi.[1] Keller campaigned for those with disabilities, for women’s suffrage, labor rights, and world peace. In 1909 she joined the Socialist Party of America…” (Note last sentence.) Wikipedia.
As proof of her mainstream appeal, I offer the following state quarter: here. You know, she was on the Alabama state quarter. Yikes!
Also, I noticed an interesting fact as I researched this topic. I was born June 26, 1968. She died June 1st of that year. Our lives almost coïncided. Well, I was almost fully formed in the uterus, I guess. So I’d modify that statement to say our lives actually did coïncide. I find that interesting. Also as I said, my birthday is June 26th. Her birthday is June 27th 1880. That’s an interesting coïcidence too, don’t you think ?
EDIT: BTW, I have nothing against socialists at all. Quite the contrary, in fact, if anyone was wondering .EDIT 2: But I am not a socialist though, of course.
James Loewen writes about this at length in his book Lies my Teacher Told Me, which is how I first learned about it. As he explains, virtually all coverage of Keller’s life focus on her own achievement (and her teacher’s) in overcoming her personal handicaps, but completely ignore the decades of social activism that followed. Keller advocated for workplace safety (most blindness was caused by industrial accidents or by living conditions that could be ameliorated) and for programs to increase employment and reduce poverty. She was a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of the IWW. Her firs autobiography, about her re-learning to communicate, is still in print, but two later autobiographies she wrote that cover the period of her activism are virtually ignored.
The song “Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer” uses the tune from a German song called “Du spielst 'ne tolle Rolle”.
How to Piss Off People After You’re Dead
Advocating for the blind (to be able to live a full life) was a profoundly radical act in those days.
I am the grandson of a blind person and the son of a deaf person. We didn’t get where we are by people just realizing that just parking the disabled in a place where they aren’t seen and maybe providing them food and clothing, was wrong. People had to fight for their rights for generations, raise awareness and endure scorn. Heck, my mother in law still rants about the amount of resources western countries “waste” on the disabled.
I didn’t know that about Helen Keller but neither does it surprise me.
Nor is it surprising that it’s not widely known.
Being an American Socialist before WWI (or even WWII) wasn’t considered nearly as radical as it has become since the start of the Cold War.
That’s underselling it a bit. Keller was a vociferous advocate for the Soviet Union.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/works/1920s/21_11_19.htm
Maybe so! I’ve never seen a Communist party politician run for office in the US lately…has anyone here seen this?
I have, however, seen Socialist party candidates run and occasionally win, in cities like Seattle.
And it’s funny that conservative politicians will often refer to “the far left” as if it’s a viable, strong presence. Well…not that I’ve seen. If there were a lot of Socialist or even Communist candidates running and winning elections, wouldn’t that be an indication of a large “far left” voting bloc? Or are people just afraid to run under those banners, thanks to the historical stigma?
Socialism was somewhat more mainstream in the 19th century. There’s stuff that Lincoln said that would qualify as socialist today.
Try telling that to Attorney General [[A. Mitchell Palmer].
The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States. The raids particularly targeted Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants with alleged leftist ties, with particular focus on Italian anarchists and immigrant leftist labor activists. The raids and arrests occurred under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, with 3,000 arrested.
The page History of the socialist movement in the United States gives a long pre-Cold War history of socialism and the opposition to it.
Socialism was a separate thing from liberalism for most of that period. Only after WWII did it become a lazy synonym, with communist taking the forefront of true approbation. In recent years it’s become nothing but an ignorant slur, tossed in the mix with leftist, communist, radical, democrat, progressive, and even fascist. The word has lost all meaning. It’s true and only heyday was exactly in the period you’re saying it was most minimal.
Here’s a B-side by Merseybeat band The Fourmost.
It’s unremarkable save for the fact that it was produced by Paul McCartney, who also seems to have played piano on it.
But my interesting random fact is that a member of the band, who therefore presumably also appears on the record, was George Peckham. I never knew he was a musician.
Peckham, AKA Pecko, AKA Porky, plus numerous other aliases, was an English recording engineer, one of the great ones, and someone who was given to providing handwritten annotations in the run-off grooves of (vinyl) records.
If you are of a certain age and collected records (like me) it is overwhelmingly likely that you’ll own a record bearing his mark. Here’s the sort of thing to look out for:
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That is definitely a Baader-Meinhoff moment for me, as I had never heard of the band “The Fourmost” before just yesterday, when I saw the excellent and very moving documentary “Good Ol’ Freda” about Freda Kelly, the personal secretary of Brian Epstein and the Beatles AND their fanclub during their whole stint, starting as a prominent early fan at the Cavern and picked up by the band as secretary at age seventeen. The Fourmost are mentioned a few times and two of their members are interviewed, maybe including George Peckham, which I’ve also never heard about before.
Here’s the imdb link:
And here’s the Arte.tv link to the documentary (I don’t know if it’s available everywhere):
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/051596-000-A/im-vorzimmer-der-beatles/