But @Ulfreida was talking about kitchen class in 7th grade, if I understood her post correctly.
Of course, it was part of the Salt Fat Acid Heat lesson.
Of the 200 or so times I ingested LSD, only once was on an old school sugar cube. I didn’t start until 1984 or so.
“It’s not poison; it’s just bad acid. So only take half a tab.”
Poison you take a quarter-tab.
That was the inspiration for the song, “A Spoonful of Sugar” from Mary Poppins. Roger Sherman’s son Jeffrey tells the story of how he got the vaccine the same day as his dad and uncle Richard had a different song for the movie rejected.
Incidentally, it took me decades to realize the spoken intro to the song, “In every job that must be done…” are actually lyrics that can be sung to the same tune as the other verses.
TIL that It’s A Beautiful Day didn’t play Woodstock because of a coin flip. While Bill Graham was negotiating with the organizers over the Grateful Dead appearing, Graham insisted that they book one of two groups he managed. The organizers couldn’t decide between the two, so a coin was flipped. It’s A Beautiful Day lost. The winner went on to fame, glory and is still out there knocking them out today: Santana.
TIL about this custom VW snowbeast:
The mechanic reportedly built two of them for use around the Austrian Alps but only one has been found.
Trump is now officially the 5th person to run for a non-consecutive presidental term. Of course, of the other four, only Cleveland won. The others were Van Buren, T Roosevelt, and Hoover.
The Royal Navy has an HMS Puncher. The famous one was a destroyer in WWII. The present one is a small patrol boat. A great name.
Inspired by watching Netflix’s The Crown -
Dodi Fyed of Princess Di car crash fame is first cousin to Jamal Khashoggi of Saudi assassination fame.
Today I learned about a forgotten city in Pakistan.
From The Department Of How-In-The-Hell-Did-I-Not-Know-That??
Vincent van Gogh lived in Brixton, London.
He worked in Covent Garden as a dealer in art photography and prints. He lived in South London, first in Brixton and then in Oval.
Lest you don’t know Brixton, here’s a brief explanation: Brixton was a focus of settlement of the Windrush Generation, West Indian immigrants invited to Britain to help rebuild the “Mother Country” after the second world war. It has had some difficult times, but is justly famous these days for its vibrant afro-caribbean culture. It’s a great place to eat, drink and spend time.
Firstly, the fact that van Gogh lived there somehow seems strangely incongruous (yes, I do realize it was before the second world war); and secondly, how is it possible for me to not know? And the story gets stranger. For part of his time in London he lived at 87 Hackford Road, an address that has its own Wikipedia page because it’s a drawing by van Gogh, one discovered as recently as 1973:
In 1973, while researching an article on van Gogh, the journalist Ken Wilkie visited [Van Gogh’s landlady’s daughter] Eugenie’s granddaughter, Kathleen Maynard, at her home in Devon, England. While she was showing him photographs of the Loyers and their house, he noticed a dusty, tea- or coffee- stained drawing in the box in which the photographs were kept. Maynard recalled that her father said it had been drawn by “one of my [Maynard’s] Grandmother’s lodgers” and “it’s been up in the attic as long as I can remember”.
Wilkie recognised it as depicting the house in Hackford Road, and being potentially Van Gogh’s work. With Maynard’s blessing, he took it to Amsterdam, where Dr Hans Jaffé, an authority on the artist working at the University of Amsterdam, authenticated it.
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Mohenjo daro is far from forgotten. it’s been known since the excavation of the 1920’s and even I know about it, since it is mentioned in any discussion of the most ancient civilizations.
Ah, good to know. I was just going off of the article information.
Thanks for the cite. I never knew of the ancient city either. Also interesting is that the written language still has not been decoded.
As best as I remember, that’s basically because all the script samples are very short, too short to decode any language. Last thing I heard about it (and that may be a decade ago) is that experts dispute if it’s even a proper script or just symbolism.
I actually read the article a couple of days ago, and was surprised they were talking about Mohen-Jo-Daro.
Now obviously being from Pakistan this site and civilization was very well known to me, but even in the 30+ years I’ve been in the US, it has come up in my reading/listening/viewing many times, and I’m not particularly interested in ancient civilizations.
But maybe it’s heightened awareness on my part that I pay attention to the Indus Valley Civilization more than most.
The only person in the world verified to live to over 120 Jeanne Calment, met Van Gogh personally - she only died in 1997.
Please tell me that she met him in Brixton! Preferably at the Efra Social Club. (I spend all the time I can in Brixton).
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