armadillosoftBuffleheads flying over Mavericks
https://www.flickr.com/photos/armadillosoft/48118774322/in/album-72157709227713212/
#OTD 4/14/19 #birds #birding #birdsOfMastodon #actionShot (fuzzy) #aBirdAday (or more)
Working Class History#OtD 14 Apr 1901 Valeriano Orobón Fernández, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and lyricist of the revolutionary anthem "A las Barricadas", was born. Active in the CNT, he died of tuberculosis at the age of 31, mere weeks before the Spanish Revolution began https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8536/valeriano-orob%C3%B3n-fern%C3%A1ndez-born
Bauer Winter 
Aus Anlass seines heutigen Geburtstages – Ernst Christian Hesse:
„E. C. Hesse: Duo for Flute and Viola da gamba in D major
Ernst Christian Hesse (1676-1762)
Three movements from 'Sonata a un Flauto traversa e Continuo del signe'
0:08 Gigue
1:53 Grave
4:43 Hornpipe
-Performed by AYAME Ensemble Baroque
Maya NOZAKI: Baroque Flute
Asami ORIHARA: Viola da gamba“
#Klassik
#Barock
#classicalmusic
#OTD
https://fediserve.de/preview.php?v=Gdnvx9IArS0
„E. C. Hesse: Duo for Flute and Viola da gamba in D major
Ernst Christian Hesse (1676-1762)
Three movements from 'Sonata a un Flauto traversa e Continuo del signe'
0:08 Gigue
1:53 Grave
4:43 Hornpipe
-Performed by AYAME Ensemble Baroque
Maya NOZAKI: Baroque Flute
Asami ORIHARA: Viola da gamba“
#Klassik
#Barock
#classicalmusic
#OTD
https://fediserve.de/preview.php?v=Gdnvx9IArS0
#OtD 14 Apr 1931 radical workers attacked the women's prison on Carrer Amalia, Barcelona, freeing the prisoners therein. Anarchist Maria Rius was one of the women involved in the assault, who had previously been jailed for planning jailbreaks https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8538/barcelona-women's-prison-jailbreak
Chris BondRecorded #OnThisDay 45 years ago:
Killing Joke - Peel Session 1981
The complete session recorded by Killing Joke for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 on 14 April 1981 and first broadcast on 27 April 1981.
Tracklist:
1. Tension (0:07)
2. Butcher (3:41)
3. The Fall of Because (8:17)
https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2012/05/killing-joke-peel-session-1981.html
Daniel PomarèdeAnother ARTEMIS: Antimatter Research Through the Earth-Moon Ion Spectrometer
OTD in 1999 at École polytechnique, I defended my PhD thesis, on the search for antimatter in high energy cosmic rays, as a potential signature of cosmological antimatter.
https://inis.iaea.org/records/0q7zw-re957
#Cosmology #antimatter #physics #Eart #Moon #ARTEMIS #PhD #science #astrodon #OTD
On this day 45 years ago: touchdown of the first Space Shuttle Mission
April 14, 1981, Columbia (STS-1) lands on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California to successfully complete a stay in space of more than two days.
#SpaceShuttle #STS1 #Columbia #space #science #history #HistoryOfScience #NASA #OTD #astrodon
#OtD 14 Apr 1913 700k workers in Belgium went on strike for universal male suffrage. It brought industry to a standstill and forced parliament to reconvene. Suffrage was granted only after WW1, but the strike was a victory for the workers' movement https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8018/belgian-general-strike
The Public Domain Review#OnThisDay in 1912, at 11:40 p.m., RMS Titanic collides with an iceberg and begins to sink. Richard Howells, in his essay “The Unsinkable Myth”, explores the various legends which surround the sinking of arguably the world’s most famous ship: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-unsinkable-myth #OTD
Raurquiz