#Otd hashtag - Bluesky

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

12 minutes ago

a man in a blue shirt is saying `` live long and prosper '' . ALT: a man in a blue shirt is saying `` live long and prosper '' .

🖖 Happy #FirstContactDay 🖖

#OTD in the #StarTrek universe 5 April 2063, Earth first makes contact with an #alien species, the #Vulcans.

Will we discover life on the final frontier before 2063?

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

14 minutes ago

"True sorrow is as rare as true love."

🩸🔥 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 5 April 1974, #StephenKing's debut novel "Carrie", a moving #horror story about a bullied girl with telekinetic powers, was first published by Doubleday.

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

14 minutes ago

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☀️ #OTD in #Film #History 5 April 1951, #GeorgeStevens' classic romance A PLACE IN THE SUN, starring #MontgomeryClift, #ElizabethTaylor, and #ShelleyWinters, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

15 minutes ago

🛸 #OTD in #Film #History 5 April 1951, Christian Nyby and #HowardHawks' #scifi #horror classic THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD was first released in Ohio.

A superb film, expertly remade into another classic as #JohnCarpenter's THE THING (1982).

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

16 minutes ago

🎶 #OTD in #Music #History 5 April 1803, the first performance of Ludwig van #Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D major, Op. 36, conducted by the composer, took place in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

▶️ youtu.be/bEiYmeeV6sI

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

17 minutes ago

📚 #OTD in #History 5 April 1710, the Statute of Anne received the royal assent, establishing the #Copyright Law of the United Kingdom, which granted 14 years legal protection. The first of its kind in the world and an important day for #authors and #literature.

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

17 minutes ago

"Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door."

✒️ #SaulBellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist, and short story writer (Nobel Prize in #Literature 1976), passed away #OTD 5 April 2005.

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

18 minutes ago

"In my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night."

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/allen-...

✒ Remembering Beat Generation poet #AllenGinsberg, who passed away #OTD 5 April 1997. #Poetry

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

19 minutes ago

"When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times."

🎤 #KurtCobain left us #OTD 5 April 1994. #Nirvana

Something In The Way (Live On MTV Unplugged Unedited, 1993): ▶️ youtu.be/1YhR5UfaAzM

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Today In Nerd History

@todayinnerdhistory.bsky.social

21 minutes ago

Happy birthday Hayley Atwell, born April 5, 1982.

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. #TodayInNerdHistory #April5 #hayleyatwell #agentcarter #captainamerica #theavengers #agentsofshield #ChristopherRobin #PeggyCarter #birthday #History #News #OTD #FYP #nerd .

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Tracy Lee

@tleec.bsky.social

25 minutes ago

Layne Staley

Birth: 22 Aug 1967
Kirkland, King County, Washington, USA

#Death: 5 Apr 2002 (aged 34)
Seattle, King County, Washington, USA

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#OTD #LayneStaley #singer #songwriter #musician #AliceInChains #ManInTheBox #Facelift #Sap #Nutshell #RainWhenIDie #Sickman

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Michael Friendly

@datavisfriendly.bsky.social

1 hour ago

Venn diagram illustration of set relations for two sets: intersection, union, symmetric difference, relative and absolute complement

Cheeky plaque celebrating John Venn in Cambridge. Two overlapping circles, one labeled "Mathematician, Philosopher & Anglican priest", the other labeled "Really strong beard game", with "John Venn" in the intersection.

Venn diagram showing the components of a good visualization: Information, story, goal, visual form and their intersections. From: Information is Beautiful

B/W photo of John Venn with a long scraggly beard

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
💀 Apr 04, 1923 John Venn died in Cambridge, England 🇬🇧

1880: Developed the eponymous Venn diagrams to represent logical relationships

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Dan WHENESOTA

@whenesota.com

1 hour ago

Fun Fact: #OTD in 1975 the Fighting Saints lose to the Phoenix Roadrunners 2-1 but set a WHA and Civic Center attendance record of 17,312. www.newspapers.com/article/post...

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Michael Friendly

@datavisfriendly.bsky.social

1 hour ago

Image of Napier's bones: It is a manually operated calculating device created by John Napier for the calculation of products and quotients of numbers

Table of logarithms of angles from 0 to 89 published by Napier

Portrait of John Napier

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
💀 Apr 04, 1617 John Napier died in Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

1614: Invention of logarithms, and the first published tables of logarithms.

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Dan WHENESOTA

@whenesota.com

1 hour ago

Fun Fact: #OTD in 1973 the Fighting Saints play a one game tiebreaker against the Alberta Oilers, winning 4-2 and advancing to face the Winnipeg Jets in the first ever WHA playoffs. #ASlapShotInTime #MnWild #NHL www.newspapers.com/clip/75079282/

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Dan WHENESOTA

@whenesota.com

1 hour ago

#OTD in #Minnesota Sports History (1987) The North Stars lose to St Louis 4-1 and will be eliminated from playoff contention. This epic (first to last place) collapse started in February winning only 7 of their final 29 games. #MNWild #NHL www.newspapers.com/clip/84025319/

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@historypod.bsky.social

1 hour ago

HistoryPod The daily history podcast

#OTD 5th April 1958: Ripple Rock underwater mountain destroyed in one of the largest ever non-nuclear explosions https://youtu.be/bNjtXVzvVKo #historyteacher #sschat

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furlight

@jazzagemusic.bsky.social

1 hour ago

APRIL 5TH HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISTINGUETT!

APRIL 5TH
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#MISTINGUETT #FrenchActress #FrenchSinger #CurtBois #HerbFlemming #HarlemHamfats #RoySmeck #Uke #Ukulele #Ukelele #BanjoPlayer #SteelGuitarist #Cabaret #Chauntuese #JazzSinger #April5 #April5th #OTD #BOTD #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #78rpm #Music

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Michael Friendly

@datavisfriendly.bsky.social

1 hour ago

A line graph, titiled Plate XIV. Showing relation of height (Y axis) to weight (X axis) in English boys. Two curves are drawn, one labeled 'Laboring classes' the other 'Non laboring classes'

Cover of Bowditch's book, The Growth of Children

Photo of Henry Pickering Bowditch

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
🎂Apr 04, 1840 Henry Pickering Bowditch born in Boston, USA 🇺🇸
1877: Extensive statistical study of 24,500 children to improve school practice; early ideas of correlation and regression

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Today In Nerd History

@todayinnerdhistory.bsky.social

2 hours ago

Happy Future First Contact Day

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. #TodayInNerdHistory #April5 #startrek #firstcontactday #firstcontact #vulcan #History #Holiday #News #OTD #FYP #nerd .

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Joel Fan Music

@joelfanmusic.bsky.social

3 hours ago

Many pianists played Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess after it premiered #OTD.

Some irked him.

"I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, only for it to be played. Remember, I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!"

#weekend #goodvibes