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Bullet Club

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Duran Duran anniversary anniversary





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#Phonepunk#

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November 1380, the event that sparked off the English Peasants Revolt AKA the Wat Tyler's Rebellion.

in 1380, England was in the brutal Hundred Years war with France, it's funding rapidly draining, an over-taxed populace already brimming with revolt. Parliament was called in November of that year to levy a new poll tax, which was three times the amount of the previous tax, and apply it to everyone regardless of income. this was the straw that broke the camel's back and resulted in the English Peasants Revolt of 1381.

this was a fascinating rebellion that included the capture of the 14-year-old King Richard II, his agreement to fundamentally reform feudalism, and the subsequent reversal of the situation once the king got back to the royal realm (where his advisers informed him he would do no such thing). in the meantime, the young king had granted the rebels official documents to aid in their mission: they broke into court houses, methodically destroyed documentation, and took vengeance on crooked tax collectors and sheriffs (the bad cops of 1380) . these were not just dirt digging peasants, these were legally aware workers, business owners, artisans, etc. taking political agency by force. this is a fascinating historical case study in practical revolution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants'_Revolt

i highly recommend the book 1381: The Year of the Peasants' Revolt by Juliet Barker.
 
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Dark Star

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420 History: The Story Behind April 20 Becoming ‘Weed Day’

It was Christmas week in Oakland, 1990 - that timeless gathering of hippies that springs up in the parking lot before every Grateful Dead concert - when a Deadhead handed out yellow flyers : “We are going to meet at 4:20 on 4/20 for 420-ing in Marin County at the Bolinas Ridge sunset spot on Mt. Tamalpais”

A 420 back story: “420 started somewhere in San Rafael, California in the late ‘70s. It started as the police code for Marijuana Smoking in Progress. After local heads heard of the police call, they started using the expression 420 when referring to herb - Let’s Go 420, dude!”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/420-history-the-story-beh_n_851136
 
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A thread for what happened on this date in the past. It could be something major, it could be something trivial.

On this day 3 years ago, Ronda Rousey had her face smashed in for the first time in UFC.



I believe Ronda has said that an elbow from Holly had her fucked from the jump early in round one. Maybe I’m imagining I heard that though. I need to rewatch the fight. That was a crazy night
 
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SLoWMoTIoN

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August 21, 1944. A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the strategically important town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive of the Battle on Normandy.
 
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SLoWMoTIoN

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1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.

1942 – Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy.

2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.
 

Ellis

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23rd August 1305

Scottish patriot William Wallace was hanged, beheaded, and quartered in London, and his body parts were later displayed in different cities. His barbaric murder came as a result of Wallace's efforts to free Scotland from the occupying English forces. The 1995 movie Braveheart was based on Wallace's life.
 
23rd August 1305

Scottish patriot William Wallace was hanged, beheaded, and quartered in London, and his body parts were later displayed in different cities. His barbaric murder came as a result of Wallace's efforts to free Scotland from the occupying English forces. The 1995 movie Braveheart was based on Wallace's life.
Thanks for spoiling the film, asshole.
hi, my name is what? My name is who? My name is CHIKACHIKACHIKA slim shady.
 
The earliest known printed reference to the United States by the nickname "Uncle Sam" occurs in the Troy Post

An incubator is used for the first time on a premature infant.

The U.S. Congress passes the Workman's Compensation Act.

ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programing Network, debuts.

James Alfred Van Allen, discovered and named the two radiation belts surrounding the Earth.
 

JSoup

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A thread for what happened on this date in the past. It could be something major, it could be something trivial.

On this day 3 years ago, Ronda Rousey had her face smashed in for the first time in UFC.



Also on that day, she became super whinny about everything.
Seriously, she was a refreshingly upbeat, not-asshole person doing what she did.
Then one spectacular loss, that everyone expected her to learn and bounce back from, and she started being a crybaby about everything.
 

#Phonepunk#

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Beatles breaking up is interesting. a bit dismissive to call it "petty infighting". it was a complicated situation. this is how i see it:

- Beatles go against their longtime manager Brian Epstein in 1966 to quit touring & focus on studio recording. start of the psychedelic era experimentation.
- After living in hotel rooms for three years straight they all wanted breaks from one another. John meets Yoko and starts doing heroin around this time. George goes to India and Ringo chills w Peter Sellers.
- Their manager Brian dies in 1967 of suspected suicide. Paul, who sort of ran the Sgt. Pepper sessions, is in the middle of running the group through the ill-fated Magical Mystery Tour. These four stoned as fuck musicians, it turns out, are poor career managers. Financial pressure starts to be a major concern.
- That year they try to buy the rights to their songs and are outbid. Due to constantly being outbid and outlawyered over the decades, the Beatles did not own the rights to their own songs for 50 years. Paul McCartney finally bought those rights in 2016.
- In 1968 they start Apple, thus beginning the start towards independence. It will fail (but at least it gives George Harrison the idea to do Handmade films and eventually fund The Life of Brian and Time Bandits).
- During White Album sessions Ringo quits the band, as he is well aware many people think he is a bad drummer, and he felt outclassed and unloved. He comes back a few days later but Paul tapes several drum tracks on for the album in his absence (Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence).
- Much of the White Album is taped alone, many tracks feature only 1 member.
- Mere months later, in the middle of winter, Paul has the band get together for another new album, and it will also be a concert, and a movie.
- George Harrison is skeptical of the whole thing, he storms out after being lectured by Paul how to play his guitar one day. He goes home to write "Wah Wah", one great track from a 3 LP masterwork of songs (All Things Must Pass) that the Beatles will ignore due to a creatively stifling song quota.
- John and Yoko keep doing art shows and releasing noise albums that attract undue political attention, they get busted for drugs. The US gov't starts a file on them that will haunt them across the 70's. Paul is hanging out w Eastman-Kodak heir Linda Eastman & her hipster friends in the Swinging 60's glitterati.
- There is a split in leadership choices, Paul wanting his new rich in-laws, the other Beatles wanting the former infamous Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein.
- John, Yoko, and Ringo record with Revolver cover artist and longtime German Beatle fan Klaus Voorman a series of Plastic Ono Band records. These are essentially proto-punk or krautrock style albums. This noise rock version of the Beatles performed for several years in fact before the Beatles were officially split up.
- John eventually threatens to quit after a tense business meeting. Paul coaxes him to stay, just like he did with George and Ringo.
- Paul releases his solo album, it includes a letter announcing the band breaking up. He told no other members he would be doing this. Everyone thinks it is shitty he used the breakup to promote his solo album. The other three had released already several solo albums by then.
- The end started a very public feud between John and Paul. Thus begins a decade of angry lawyers.

The sad thing about it all is, honestly, they could have kept going. The stuff they put out was quite revolutionary, and John's noise rock stuff was super ahead of it's time. The Beatles could have invented punk if they wanted. However, I think it is like any relationship, years and years of straw, and eventually one breaks the camel's back. A shame but at least we got a lot of amazing music!
 
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nikolino840

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The war is over


Badoglio Proclamation

The proclamation of the armistice of Badoglio on 8 September 1943 is the announcement of the entry into force of the armistice of Cassibile signed by the Badoglio government of the Kingdom of Italy with the Allies of the Second World War

The message, read by Marshal Pietro Badoglio (head of the government and marshal of Italy) at 19:42 at the microphone of the EIAR (Italian Broadcasting Authority) announced to the Italian population the entry into force of the armistice of Cassibile, signed with the Anglo-Americans on the 3rd of the same month

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" The Italian government, recognising the impossibility of continuing the unequal struggle against an overwhelming enemy force, in order to avoid further and graver disasters for the Nation, sought an armistice from general Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of the Anglo-American Allied forces.

The request was granted.

Consequently, all acts of hostility against the Anglo-American force by Italian forces must cease everywhere. But they may react to eventual attacks from any other source. "

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