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Wittgenstein's Monster Sep 6, 2025

🗓️ This Day in History – September 6
1995 – Cal Ripken Jr. breaks the consecutive games record

That’s not my Tony Stark—
but he might be twice as durable.
Flexing wooden sinews
woven tight around the stock and barrel
of a 30-inch club,
ready to bounce balls straight through
the atmospheric Baltimore
that Poe
pooh-poohed in the ‘80s.

#ThisDayInHistory #CalRipkenJr #IronMan #BaltimoreLore #BaseballPoetry #AmericanMyth #September6 #PoeAndPineTar #AltHistory #SportsLit

Wittgenstein's Monster Sep 6, 2025

🗓️ This Day in History – September 6
1522 – 'Victoria' completes the first circumnavigation of the globe

Magellan just worked for BigRound—
same crew as BigVax, BigClimate, BigMoon,
and BigAnythingThatInterruptsTheseCommercials.

There’s no edge to fall off
if you never left the center.

#ThisDayInHistory #AltHistory #Magellan #FlatEarthLore #Satire #BigRound #September6 #ShitpostScholarship

Wittgenstein's Monster Sep 6, 2025

🗓️ September 6, 1901 — Presidential Plot Twist

On this day,
President Denali was assassinated by Leon the Professional.
I don’t know much about Denali.
Or Jean Reno.
But I know the Teddy Bear took over next—
and that was kinda cool.

#ThisDayInHistory #McKinley #LeonTheProfessional #TeddyBearPresident #AltHistory #September6 #WeirdHistory

Tom Sep 7, 2024

Sunflower late this afternoon.

#sunflower #YellowFlowers #gardening #BloomScrolling #flowers #florespondence #sunflowers #FourTwenty #September6 #today #MastodonOnly #CCBYNCND

Today in History Sep 6, 2024

September 6

This day in history:

2022 – Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle were the Queen's final official duties before her death two days later.
1968 – Swaziland becomes independent.
1992 – A group of hunters at the Stampede trail near Healy, Alaska came across a male corpse in abandoned bus, later identified as Christopher McCandless.
1936 – Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established.

Births:

1985 – Małgorzata Rejmer, Polish novelist
1939 – David Allan Coe, American outlaw country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 – Kevin Willis, American basketball player and fashion designer

Deaths:

2011 – Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (b. 1947)
Eliezer Halfin, Russian-Israeli wrestler (b. 1948)
1998 – Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (b. 1928)

Holidays:

Defence Day or Army Day (Pakistan)
Unification Day (Bulgaria)
Flag Day (Bonaire)

Random Article of the day:

Sheldon-Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex

The Sheldon-Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex is a management unit of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. It comprises two wildlife refuges, the Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge in Oregon and the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada, that are managed as a single unit from an office in Lakeview, Oregon.