#OnThisDay in 1903, the first Korean immigrants to the United States arrived in Hawaii; Happy #KoreanAmericanDay to Korean Americans everywhere~! #한국 #조선 #한인 #대한민국 #입양아 #입양인

"Das grauenhafte Leben der Bordell Jungen im alten Rom": "Dieses Video beleuchtet das oft übersehene Leben männlicher Prostituierter im Römischen Reich und zeigt, wie Recht, Wirtschaft und gesellschaftliche Ansichten ihren Alltag prägte": www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwnB...

#OnThisDay in 1842, Dr. William Brydon reached a British sentry post in Jalalabad — the sole survivor of a massacre of 4,500 soldiers & 12,000 camp followers — the biggest disaster in Britain's imperial adventure in #Afghanistan; lessons of #history...? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

#PatrickDempsey was born in Maine #OnThisDay in 1966, best known for his role on "Grey's Anatomy" (a.k.a., #DoctorMcDreamy); but what I liked him best in was the 2007 film "Enchanted" with Amy Adams; happy birthday, #DrMcDreamy~! www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZF... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick...

Mark Antony (83 BCE), Benedict Arnold (1741), Henri Fanti-Latour (1836), Berthe Morisot (1841), Jean de Reszke (1850), Albert Schweitzer (1875), #MartinNiemöller (1892), Cecil Beaton (1904), Joseph Losey (1909), Giulio Andreotti (1919), Yukio Mishima (1925) & Julian Bond (1942) were born #OnThisDay

I took this shot of George Washington's pew in St. Paul's Church on Broadway in lower Manhattan 11 years ago yesterday (1.12.15); the last time I visited the chapel, it had been removed; I certainly hope this important historical artifact has been carefully preserved elsewhere in the building~!

I took this shot of the moon enveloped in mysterious clouds nine years ago yesterday (1.12.17) & thought of the line "la dea della luna" ("Bimba dagli occhi") from Puccini's "Madama Butterfly": www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TUt... www.opera-arias.com/puccini/mada... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madama_...

#RenatoBruson was born in Italy #OnThisDay in 1936; he became one of the leading baritones of his day, including the leading #Rigoletto & #Falstaff of the age; here he is singing Sir John in Giuseppe Verdi's last & greatest #opera: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn57... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_...

#Byzantine Emperor #Justinian put down the #NikaRevolt to preserve his rule, killing over 30,000; historians generally regard Justinian as the greatest & most successful of the Byzantine emperors but he was a mixed bag at best... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_ri...

I wrote this autobiographical essay some years ago & #KoreanAmericanDay seemed the ideal occasion to re-post it along with a photo of me with a Korean flag (4.16.18); happy Korean American Day to all~! #한국 #조선 #한인 #대한민국 #입양아 #입양인 paulinepark.com/2019/06/17/t...

#XiJinping is waging #cyberwarfare against #Taiwan through a campaign of on-line disinformation & manipulation in order to undermine the independent democracy & pave the way for #China's invasion of an island which has never been part of the #PRC... www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...

#DonaldTrump's prosecution of #JeromePowell is a flagrant abuse of power & an attack on the statutory independence of the #FederalReserve; one doesn't have to be a fan of either Powell or the Fed to oppose this baseless prosecution of the Fed chair...

#ICE's murder of #ReneeGood has sparked protests across the country, from Minneapolis, to NYC, to LA to Bloomington — in downstate Illinois — as reported by the Pantagraph (1.13.26)

#JohnnyCash performed at Folsom Prison #OnThisDay in 1968, reviving & redefining his career by showing his concern for the forgotten; Joaquin Phoenix recreated the scene in "Walk the Line"; here's audio of the Folsom Prison Blues: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZR... www.history.com/this-day-in-...

103 #Koreans arrived in #Hawaii #OnThisDay in 1903 — the first group of Korean #immigrants to arrive in the United States; could they have anticipated the anti-Asian hate they'd face or that would still be directed against their descendants...? #한국 #조선 www.history.com/this-day-in-...

#OnThisDay in 1129, Pope Honorius II granted papal sanction to the Knights Templar, declaring it an army of God; the Templars committed what today would be called war crimes during the Crusades in Palestine — creating a model for #ApartheidIsrael's ethnic cleansing... www.history.com/this-day-in-...

"Wut und Mut treiben im Iran Tausende auf die Straßen" (Anger and courage drive thousands onto the streets in Iran), says Der Standard of Vienna of the #IranProtests challenging the brutal, incompetent & corrupt dictatorship of the Supreme Leader & the mullahs (1.13.26)

"Behind #ICE's Murder of Queer Woman #ReneeGood: Rising #Immigrant Solidarity" with #LGBTQ activists from #Minneapolis on Out-FM (@outfm.bsky.social) on WBAI NY 99.5 FM at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13 (archived within 24hrs): outfm.org/liberation/i... wbai.org/listen-live/

Stephen Foster (1826-64) died penniless at 37 on this day in 1864; the first great American songwriter wrote songs so natural & unaffected that many think they're folk songs. Marilyn Horne sang "Beautiful Dreamer" at La Scala in 1981: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-drA... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...

#OnThisDay in 1903, the first Korean immigrants to the United States arrived in Hawaii; happy #KoreanAmericanDay to all~! 한국 조선 한국 조선 미국 한인 nationaltoday.com/korean-ameri... www.history.com/this-day-in-...

#OnThisDay in 1898, "L'Aurore" published #ÉmileZola's #Jaccuse op-ed accusing #France's president Félix Faure of conspiring to frame #AlfredDreyfus on espionage charges; Zola had to flee but was ultimately vindicated when Dreyfus was proved innocent: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%27Acc...

#DonaldTrump's prosecution of #JeromePowell is a flagrant abuse of power & an attack on the statutory independence of the #FederalReserve; one doesn't have to be a fan of either Powell or the Fed to oppose this baseless prosecution of the Fed chair...

#Chicago & #Illinois are resisting #DonaldTrump's attempted #fascist takeover of the Land of Lincoln (Chicago Sun-Times, 1.13.26)

NYC protesters denouncing the cold-blooded killing of #ReneeGood by ICE agent #JonathanRoss are on the front page of Istanbul's Daily Sabah (1.13.26)

Mount Sinai, NewYork-Presbyterian & Montefiore are enormous profit-driven corporations whose corporate overlords couldn't care less about their patients which is why 15,000 nurses have gone out on strike; it's time to strip these hospitals of their not-for-profit status~! ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

#OnThisDay in 1930, the #MickeyMouse comic strip first appeared, the plot by Walt Disney, art by Ub Iwerks & inking by Win Smith, introducing a character who would eventually become the symbol of the #Disney empire; I despise the empire but I still love Mickey~! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_...

#OrlandoBloom was born #OnThisDay in 1977; whatever else he's done, I'll always remember him as the divinely beautiful #Legolas Greenleaf in Peter Jackson's #LordOfTheRings films; long live Legolas son of Thranduil~! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte" has a scene involving a trial by fire & water: "Szenenentwurf zu Mozarts 'Zauberflöte': Feuer- und Wasserprobe" von Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Kgl. Opernhaus Berlin, 1817. Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung der Universität zu Köln; Schloss Wahn)

Henry II of Castile & León (1334), Salmon P. Chase (1808), Horatio Alger (1832), #SophieTucker [Kalish] (1884), George Gurdjieff (1887), Paul Feyerabend (1924), Renato Bruson (1936), Edmund White (1940), Patrick Dempsey (1966), Shonda Rimes (1970) & Orlando Bloom (1977) were born #OnThisDay...

#dogs #Hunde #hunder #hundar #chiens #cani #perros 개

I woke up from a dream four years ago today in which I mentioned both "Ombra mai fù" from Georg Friedrich Händel's "Serse" & the Irish folk song "Éamonn an Chnoic" (1.12.22); here's the aria & the song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRMS... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdeO... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89a...

Jews Against Genocide: "Dear #Zionist, show your moral colors by: 1. Denying this. 2. Screaming idi0tic 'excuses' with the word Hms and exclamation marks. There's a reason more and more people are seeing genocidal #ApartheidIsrael for what it is."

#JohnSingerSargent was born #OnThisDay in 1856; the greatest portrait artist of the age, he also created very different works of #art such as "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" that captured the magic of a childhood summer (1885-86) www.wikiart.org/en/john-sing... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Si...

I just curried organic mushrooms, blanched organic chard & tossed it all on brown rice pasta, sprinkling za'atar on the legumes in solidarity with the G@zans freezing to death in appalling conditions created by Ap@rtheid Iṣӷȧęl in an ongoing gen@cide funded with $3.8 billion a year in US taxes...

#CharlesPerrault was born #OnThisDay in 1628, serving under Louis XIV but remembered today for his #fairytale collection, the "Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé" (1697); #GustaveDoré illustrated "Le Petit Poucet" & other contes (1862) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles... perraultdore.hypotheses.org

#OnThisDay in 1904, the #Herero uprising against German rule in #SüdwestAfrika began in response to the first #genocide of the 20th c.; tragically, #Germany is now supporting & subsidizing #ApartheidIsrael's ethnic cleansing & pursuit of genocide in Palestine... www.sahistory.org.za/article/here...

#Batman premiered on ABC #OnThisDay in 1966 & the TV series starring #AdamWest & #BurtWard ran until March 1968 — the longest-running live-action superhero series in terms of episodes until Smallville in 2011 & the campiest & most fun Batman version on TV: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_...

#AllInTheFamily premiered on CBS #OnThisDay in 1971, running until April 1979, in its nine seasons, #NormanLear's groundbreaking #TV sitcom became the most influential series in TV history, dealing with political issues no series had ever addressed... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_in_...

#GeorgFriedrichHändel's "Ottone, Re di Germania" (HWV 15) premiered in London #OnThisDay in 1723; here's Drew Minter singing the aria "Deh! non dir from #Händel's #opera with Nicholas McGegan & the Freiburger Barockorchester: youtube.com/watch?v=D38U... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottone

#JohnSingerSargent was born #OnThisDay in 1856, to become the leading portrait painter of the Gilded Age, but he actually painted more than just aristocratic ladies; this is "A Bedouin Arab" (1891) www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Jo... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Si...

#CharlesPerrault was born to a wealthy bourgeois family in Paris #OnThisDay in 1628, serving under Louis XIV's finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert but remembered today for his #fairytale collection, the "Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé" (1697) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...

Karl Spruner von Merz: Asien gegen die Mitte des fünften Jahrhunderts (Asia in the middle of the 1500s) #maps

#ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide has accelerated an unprecedented out migration of Jews from Israel leaving war criminals & poor Mizrahim behind as apartheid regime sinks deeper into #fascism: the #Zionist project as an idealistic enterprise is dead... www.972mag.com/israeli-emig...

Austria was considering new rules two years ago that would give pigs more room to move around in but what they really need is to be loved like dogs & cats; Austria & every country in the world should #BanFactoryFarms & #BanFactoryFarming~! #Schweine #griser #cochons #maiali 돼지 #Österreich

John Winthrop (1588), Charles Perrault (1628), John Singer Sargent (1856), Jack London (1876), Hermann Göring (1893), P.W. Botha (1916), Anthony Andrews (1948), Haruki Murakami (1949), Rush Limbaugh (1951), Jeff Bezos (1964) & Priyanka Gandhi (1972) were born #OnThisDay.

Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola was born in Parma #OnThisDay in 1503, becoming one of the leading figures in Mannerist art, as exemplified by #Parmigianino's autoritratto allo specchio (self-portrait in a convex mirror) (c. 1524) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmigi... www.wikiart.org/en/parmigian...

#LarryEllison has given #TonyBlair's institute almost half a billion dollars — evidence of the enormous #ocrruption behind the huge profits #ApartheidIsrael's illegal occupation of Palestine & #GazaGenocide are generating for the worst people on earth... www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

#OnThisDay in 1964, US Surgeon General Luther Terry released a groundbreaking government report announcing a definitive link between smoking & cancer; #BigTobacco knew for decades that #cigarettes killed but did everything in their power to suppress the evidence... www.history.com/this-day-in-...

14 years ago today on the first US #LGBTQ delegation tour of #Palestine , we met Abu Hussam a Palestinian who survived the ethnic cleansing of his village by #Zionist militias in the #Nakba in 1948; this is Abu Hussar in the ruins of his village of Lajun (1.11.12) 🍉 paulinepark.com/2012/04/04/p...

German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel discovered the moons of Uranus — Oberon & Titania — #OnThisDay in 1787, after having discovered the planet itself in 1781: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...