#OnThisDay, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world's highest mountain.
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Recorded #OnThisDay 54 years ago:
David Bowie and The Spiders From Mars - Peel Session 1972
The complete session recorded by David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars on 16 May 1972 for John Peel on the Top Gear show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 23rd of that month.
Tracklist:
1. White Light/White Heat (0:07)
2. Moonage Daydream (3:54)
3. Hang On To Yourself (8:52)
4. Suffragette City (11:42)
5. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust (15:09)
https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2016/01/david-bowie-and-spiders-from-mars-peel.html
"Everything you see in me is not mine, it's yours. Mine is what I see in you."
Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898 - September 25, 1970)
#reading #books #quotes
#bookstodon #today #onthisday @bookstodon #literature #book #readingcommunity #bookstagram #BookTok #bookish
JUNE 21, 1964: THREE CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS MURDERED IN MISSISSIPPI
James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman were tortured and murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/chaney-goodman-schwerner-murdered/
Today is Dracula Day.
Some monsters never die 🧛♀️
Bram Stoker gave the world more than a vampire. He created a shadow that still follows us through books, films, dreams, and nightmares.
#DraculaDay #Dracula #BramStoker #Stoker #books #vampire #literature #reading #today #onthisday #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #BookTok #readers #novel #horror #horrorbooks #bookstagram
Ian Fleming (May 28, 1908 — August 12, 1964) didn’t invent James Bond out of nowhere. During World War II, he worked in British Naval Intelligence and saw from the inside how real secret operations were planned.
#IanFleming #JamesBond #books #reading #writers #author #readers #today #onthisday #BookTok #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #bookstagram #literature #spyware #intelligence #book
Today is the birthday of the Marquis de Sade (June 2, 1740 - December 2, 1814) - a gifted writer and a monster. His name became a word for taking pleasure in another person’s suffering: #sadism.
In his #books we see how intellect, power, and desire can become a philosophy of #violence.
#onthisday #today #reading #literature #fiction #author #writer #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #BookTok #MarquisdeSade #Sade #perversion #sadistic
Today is Thomas Mann’s #birthday.
His novel Doctor Faustus feels strikingly modern: it is not just a novel about the past. It is a warning.
Mann shows how a gifted person — and even an entire country — can be seduced by evil and lose their soul.
#ThomasMann #books #DoctorFaustus #reading @bookstodon #bookstodon #today #onthisday #Mann #Faustus #novel #book #booksky #BookTok #bookstagram #readingcommunity
#OnThisDay #June6th1944 #DDay #Normandy #Allies #WWII
Remembering those who answered the call and fought and sacrificed their lives for a better world 🌍 #82ndAnniversary
#SixthOfJune 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇫🇷
#OnThisDay in 1946, H. G. Wells passed away, leaving the future (about which he wrote so much) to others. Peter J. Bowler explores Wells' ideas of progress and how for him the notion of a better future was riddled with complexities. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/h-g-wells-and-the-uncertainties-of-progress #otd
#OnThisDay
Remember this controversy? Glad they patched out
Edwin Morgan died #OnThisDay, 19 August, 2010. “Riddle”, the final poem of Morgan’s final collection, 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴 (Mariscat, 2010), is a translation of one of the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book riddles, itself a translation of a Latin original by the poet Aldhelm (c639–709 CE)
#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #translation #riddle #AngloSaxon #medieval
Recorded #OnThisDay 36 years ago:
Nirvana - Peel Session 1990
The complete session recorded by Nirvana on 21 October 1990 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on 3 November 1990.
Tracklist:
1. Son Of A Gun (0:07)
2. Molly's Lips (2:53)
3. D7 (4:44)
4. Turnaround (8:31)
“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
AUG. 2, 1924: JAMES BALDWIN BORN
James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York.