Oct 24, 2014

On This Day - Oct. 24

1648 CE - The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War. 




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"What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise". -- Elaine Dundy

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Orientale
Composer - Enrique Granados
From - 12 Danzas Españolas

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏 Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura?, lit. "In the well of a wave off Kanagawa"), also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is an ukiyo-e woodblock print by Japanese artist Hokusai, published sometime between 1830 and 1833[1] in the late Edo period as the first print in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku sanjūrokkei?). It is Hokusai's most famous work, and one of the best recognized works of Japanese art in the world. It depicts an enormous wave threatening boats off the coast of the prefecture of Kanagawa. While sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is, as the picture's title notes, more likely to be a large rogue wave or okinami ("wave of the open sea"). As in all the prints in the series, it depicts the area around Mount Fuji under particular conditions, and the mountain itself appears in the background.
Copies of the print are in many Western collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, theNational Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne[2], and in Claude Monet's house in Giverny,France, amongst many other collections.


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Oct 23, 2014

On This Day - Oct. 23

42 BCE - Julius Caesar's assassin, Marcus Junius Brutus, commits suicide after his army is decisively defeated by the combined forces of Octavian and Mark Antony at the Battle of Philippi in Greece.  




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"It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most". --Marguerite Duras

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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a nearby galaxy, and a satellite of the Milky Way.[7] At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs (≈163,000 light-years),[2][3][4][5] the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way, with the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (~ 16 kiloparsecs) and the putative Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (~ 12.9 kiloparsecs, though its status as a galaxy is under dispute) lying closer to the center of the Milky Way. It has a mass equivalent to approximately 10 billion times the mass of the Sun (1010 solar masses), making it roughly 1/100 as massive as the Milky Way, and a diameter of about 14,000 light-years (~ 4.3 kpc).[8] The LMC is the fourth largest galaxy in the Local Group, after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way, and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33).
While the LMC is often considered an irregular type galaxy (the NASA Extragalactic Database lists the Hubble sequence type as Irr/SB(s)m), the LMC contains a very prominent bar in its center, suggesting that it may have previously been a barred spiral galaxy. The LMC's irregular appearance is possibly the result of tidal interactions with both the Milky Way and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).
It is visible as a faint "cloud" in the night sky of the southern hemisphere straddling the border between the constellations of Dorado and Mensa, and it appears from Earth more than 20 times the width of the full moon.[9]


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Oct 22, 2014

On This Day - Oct. 22

1962 CE - US President John F. Kennedy announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear warheads in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval blockade of the island. 




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Monument to mariachi in Mexico City, Mexico.




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"Suspicion always being likely to see what it suspects, the chances were many that I was creating the very thing I suffered from". --Basil King 




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Artist - Ministry




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Director - James Cox




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The East African Rift (EAR) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa. The EAR began developing around the onset of the Miocene, 22-25 million years ago.[1] In the past, it was considered to be part of a larger Great Rift Valley that extended north to Asia Minor.
The rift is a narrow zone that is a developing divergent tectonic plate boundary, in which the African Plate is in the process of splitting into two tectonic plates, called the Somali Plate and the Nubian Plate, at a rate of 6–7 mm annually.[2] As extension continues, lithospheric rupture will occur within 10 million years, the Somalian plate will break off, and a new ocean basin will form.
A series of distinct rift basins, the East African Rift System extends over thousands of kilometers.[3] The EAR consists of two main branches. The Eastern Rift Valley includes the Main Ethiopian Rift, running eastward from the Afar Triple Junction, which continues south as the Kenyan Rift Valley.[4] The Western Rift Valley includes the Albertine Rift, and farther south, the valley of Lake Malawi. To the north of the Afar Triple Junction, the rift follows one of two paths: west to the Red Sea Rift or east to the Aden Ridge in the Gulf of Aden.


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