#the San Francisco of Chile

[publicobsessions]

[typhlonectes]

Oroperipatus tiputini: A new species of Velvet Worm from the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Velvet Worms, Onychophora, are a unique group of elongate, soft bodied, many legged Animals, given phylum status and considered to be among the closest living relatives to the Arthropods. They are currently the only known phylum of Animals known entirely from terrestrial species, both living and fossil, although they may be related to the Lobopodans, an entirely marine group known only from Early Palaeozoic fossils. The 230 living Velvet Worm species are divided into two groups, the Peripatidae, found in the tropics of Central and South America, the Antilles Islands, Gabon, India, and Southeast Asia, and the Peripatopsidae, found in Chile, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand. All South American members of the Peripatidae are placed within a single clade, the Neopatida, which is further divided into two lineages, the 'Andean' genus Oroperipatus, and the 'Caribbean' lineage, comprising all other genera. Read the paper: (https://zse.pensoft.net/article/117952/) The new species is described from five male, three female, and three juvenile specimens collected in the vacinity of the Tiputini Biodiversity Station of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Orellana Province, Ecuador, between 2001 and 2023, as well as one youngling, which one of the female specimens gave birth to in captivity. The new species is named Oroperipatus tiputini, in reference to the location where it was discovered. Adult female specimens of Oroperipatus tiputini very between 46 and 65.3 mm in length, while the adult males are smaller at 22.7 to 39.8 mm. Females have between 37 and 40 pairs of legs, while the males have between 34 and 37, although one male specimen had a different number of legs on each side, with 35 legs on the right and 36 legs on the left. The species shows considable colour variation, with one adult male being a light brown colour with a faint rhomboid pattern, two adult males and one adult female being brown with orange diamonds, and another female (the one which produced a youngling) being a plain dark orange colour. The youngling itself was yellowish with a diamond pattern. All specimens were darked on their heads and antenae, had orange or brown legs, and a distinctive white band on the head. Most specimens of Oroperipatus tiputini were found on small herbaceous Plants within old growth, closed canopy upland forests around the Tiputini Biodiversity Station. Other specimens were found in leaf litter, or on the butress roots of trees to a height of about 70 cm above the ground. One specimen was found in a Bromiliad. The Worms were more active at night.

IMAGE: Colour variation in the life of Oroperipatus tiputini. (A) Adult male paratype, ZSFQ-i8270; (B) adult male paratype, ZSFQ-i5151; (C) adult female holotype, ZSFQ-i8248, and youngling paratype, ZSFQ-17794, a few days after being born. All photographs were taken at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station. Photographs by Pedro Peñaherrera (A), (C) and Diego Cisneros-Heredia (B).

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Puya venusta

Puyas belong to the Bromeliad Family, and they mostly occur along the Andes mountain range, from Colombia in the north down to Argentina and Chile in the south. This one is Puya venusta, from north-central Chile. When not in flower, its large clumps of silvery rosettes look a lot like those of Puya coerulea, also from Chile, but its amazing flowers are distinctive. When it emerges, the inflorescence sports little pink clubs jutting out from the main flower stalk, but the WOW factor comes in when the contrasting blue or purple tubular flowers protrude from the pink bracts. Our plant was a donation from Annie's Annuals, a well-known nursery in the San Francisco Bay Area. It had been planted in one of their demonstration beds, but it became too large to keep there, so we were happy to give it a permanent home.

-Brian

[cryptid-quest]

Cryptid of the Day: Manta Man

Description: In 2013, several witnesses around Bustamante Park in Northern Chile reported seeing a winged man-like creature. Its name comes from its resemblance to a Manta Ray, though the creature is described as being over 6ft tall. One couple claimed to have seen the beast perched on top of San Francisco Church in Santa Isabel, and said it resembled a winged dog.

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

Compañeros, hermanos, amigos escuchen y regocíjense.

Europa está en caos, el imperio español se está derrumbando, Portugal continúa perdiendo influencia y Francia pelea en demasiados frentes, es hora de unir nuestras fuerzas, nuestros pueblos pelearán por la libertad, por la justicia ¡Por América!

No sólo derrotaremos a los gachupines, portugueses y franceses en el campo de batalla ¡También nos veremos mejor que ellos mientras lo hacemos!

Esta encuesta determinará quién de todas estas sensuales personas latinoamericanas será la que opacará más a los europeos, a la que más gente le encantaría tener en su cama por una noche ¡El mas grande ejemplo de exquisitez latinoamericana!

¿Quieres nominar a alguien para tan aclamado premio? Puedes hacerlo aquí

Reglas:

1. Puedes nominar a todas las personas que quieras, el formulario no tiene un límite

2. Animamos a que manden propaganda (en inglés o español o portugués)

3. Sexy man/hombre sexy es un término sin género, todos, todas y todes son bienvenidos.

4. Serán juzgados en base de las edades que tenían durante las guerras por la independencia y los admins se esforzarán para encontrar los retratos apropiados.

Eng:

Comrades, brothers, friends listen and rejoice.

Europe is in chaos, the Spanish empire is collapsing, Portugal continues to lose influence, and France is fighting on too many fronts. It is time to join forces, our people fight for liberty and for justice. For America!

We will not only defeat the gachupines, the Portuguese and the French on the battlefield. We will also do it while looking better than them!

This contest will determine who among these sexy Latin Americans outshines the Europeans the most, who most people would invite to their bed for a night. The best example of the exquisiteness of Latin America!

Do you want to nominate someone for such an honor? Nominate them here.

Rules:

You can nominate as many people as you want. The form does not have a limit.

Propaganda is encouraged (in English or Spanish or Portuguese)

Sexyman is a gender neutral term.

They will be judged based on the age they were during the wars for independence and the admins will try their best to find appropriate portraits.

La lista hasta ahora/The existing list is here:

Virreinato de Nueva España

México:

1. Agustin de Iturbide

2. Leona Vicario

3. Juan Aldama

4. José Maria Morelos y Pavón x3

5. Vicente Guerrero x2

6. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada:

Colombia:

7. Antonio Nariño x3

8. Antonio Morales Galavís

9. Policarpa Salavarrieta x2

10. Francisco de Paula Santander x 2

Venezula:

13. Simón Bolívar x2

14. José Antonio Paez

Virreinato del Perú:

Perú

11. Manuela Sáenz de Vergara y Aizpuru

12. Micaela Bastidas

Ecuador:

15. Manuela a.k.a Manuelita Saenz x4

Bolivia:

16. Antonio José de Sucre x 2

17. María Ana Carcelén de Guevara y Larrea-Zurbano

Chile:

21. Manuel Javier Rodríguez y Erdoíza

22. José Miguel Carrera Verdugo

Virreinato del Río de la Plata:

Argentina:

18. Manuel Belgrano

19. José de San Martín x 3

20. Martín Miguel de Güemes

Uruguay:

23. Manuel Ceferino Oribe y Viana

24. Juan Antonio Lavalleja

25. José Fructuoso Rivera y Toscan

Haití:

26. Toussaint L’Ouverture

Brasil/The Empire of Brazil:

27. Joaquim Pires de Carvalho e Albuquerque

28. Maria Quitéria de Jesus x2

29. Joaquim Gonçalves Ledo

30. Maria Leopoldina

31. Pedro I

32. Hipólito José da Costa Pereira Furtado de Mendonça

33. José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva

34.Francisco Gomes da Silva

35. Domitila de Castro Canto e Melo, Marquesa de Santos

[mapsontheweb]

Cities by Impressiveness of Mountain Backdrop / Rut

by u/Gigitoe

After seeing the recent posts Cities with a better mountain backdrop than LA? ( u/odi3luck ) and This is a response to the LA mountain backdrop ( u/sam_woke ), I realized that I had the exact tools to answer a particularly niche but interesting question:

How do we quantify how impressive a city's mountain backdrop is?

To answer this question, we use rut, an indicator I developed back in the days to quantify how sharply or impressively the surroundings of a location rise above the location. (my research paper if you're interested)

Roughly speaking, rut works as follows:

The higher the mountains rise above a city, the more impressive they are, and the higher the rut.

The steeper the mountains rise above a city, the more impressive they are, and the higher the rut.

In the map shown, I measured the rut of every city with a population of over 100,000. Here's some cities in each tier and their corresponding rut values:

S tier - rut > 500 m (world-class, would visit for mountain views alone) -

Pokhara, Nepal (1358 m) | Chamonix, France (1336 m) [not on map; population too low] | Zermatt, Switzerland (904 m) [not on map] | Yosemite Valley, CA (617 m) [not on map] | Innsbruck, Austria (584 m)

A tier - rut between 200 to 500 m (impressive, but probably wouldn't visit just for mountain views)

Kathmandu, Nepal (482 m) | Almaty, Kazakhstan (478 m) | Santiago, Chile (469 m) | Provo, UT (429 m) | Tehran, Iran (349 m) | Lhasa, Tibet (325 m) | Monterrey, Mexico (268 m) | Tacoma, WA (245 m) | Kabul, Afghanistan (232 m)

B tier - rut between 100 and 200 m (mountains in close proximity, or big mountains further away)

Salt Lake City, UT (180 m) | Reno, NV (151 m) | Tucson, AZ (141 m) | Seattle, WA (137 m) | Vancouver, Canada (136 m) | Los Angeles, CA (117 m) | Milan, Italy (100 m)

C tier (glorified hills nearby, or distant mountains, or very distant big mountains) - rut between 25 and 100 m

Denver, CO (99 m; if only it had one more meter) | Tokyo, Japan (94 m) | Hong Kong (75 m) | Seoul, Korea (56 m) | Rome, Italy (48 m) | Knoxville, TN (39 m) | Beijing, China (37 m) | Sacramento, CA (30 m)

D tier (hills nearby, or glorified hills in the distance, or very distant mountains) - rut between 10 and 25 m

Istanbul, Turkey (24 m) | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (23 m) | San Francisco, CA (22 m) | Quebec, Canada (17 m) | Mumbai, India (15 m) | Brisbane, Australia (12 m) | Pittsburgh, PA (10 m)

F tier (flat tier) - rut between 0 and 10 m

Syracuse, NY (7.4 m) | Birmingham, AL (5.2 m) | Dubai, UAE (5.0 m) | Columbus, OH (3.2 m) | Washington, DC (2.6 m) | Shanghai, China (2.4) | Paris, France (2.1 m) | London, UK (1.6 m) | New York City (0.7 m) | Chicago, IL (0.4 m)

So to answer the question, what cities have a better mountain backdrop than Los Angeles? Quite a lot... quite a lot.

Here's the data spreadsheet that was used to generate this map!

Edits: switched Vancouver to downtown measurement, added more cities, switched to steepness explanation instead of proximity explanation.

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Note: rut measurements only consider rise above surroundings (relative height differences and steepness). They do not consider absolute elevation, nor the "aesthetics" of a mountain, nor visibility (or lack thereof) due to weather or smog.

This visualization was made possible with Google Earth Engine, MERIT DEM, and GeoNames.

If you like rut, you'll probably like its older brother jut even more. Jut is an indicator of  how impressive, spectacular, or badass a mountain is—considering both its height above surroundings and steepness. If you want to find the most impressive mountains near you or worldwide, you may find the link above to be useful.

Let us know if you have any questions or comments—I'm happy to address them!

[sofea-00]

Por si no sabias: 🔥 Islas canarias esta ardiendo 🔥 California esta ardiendo 🔥 Oregon esta ardiendo 🔥 Washington esta ardiendo 🔥 Columbia esta ardiendo 🔥 Alberta esta ardiendo 🔥 Montana esta ardiendo 🔥 Nueva Escocia esta ardiendo 🔥 Grecia esta ardiendo 🔥 Brasil esta ardiendo 🔥 Portugal esta ardiendo 🔥 Algeria esta ardiendo 🔥 Siberia esta ardiendo ⛈Texas esta bajo el agua ⛈ India, Pakistán y Nepal con Monzones masivos están bajo el agua ⛈ Sierra Leona y Nigeria con inundaciones masivas bajo el agua 🌞Italia, Francia, España, Suiza, Hungría, Polonia, Romania, Bosnia, Croacia, y Serbia son atacadas por una onda de calor impresionante 🌞El sur de California bajo infernal onda de calor 🌞Usualmente en Agosto, la ciudad de San Francisco llegaba a récords de 106 grados, cuando ahora llega a 115 grados Fahrenheit . Mientras Carolina del Norte se sigue cocinando también en un infierno ((🌎)) El volcán de Yellowstone registra 2,300 movimientos desde Junio ((🌎)) Temblor de 5.3 golpea Idaho ((🌎)) Terremoto de Japón 6.1 con Alerta de Tsunami ((🌎)) Temblor de México de 8.2 con alerta de Tsunami ((🌎)) Temblor en México de 7.1 ((🌎)) Temblor en Chile de 5.0 🌊Huracanes Harvey, Irma (los mas grandes de la historia jamás registrados), José y Katia están barriendo el Atlántico Para finalizar una llamarada solar nivel X10 C.M.E . La mas alta jamás registrada ¿Todavía crees que nada esta sucediendo?

[aneyforst]

Okay. I've been carried away by my headcanons about the families of the original «Mystery Ink» lately. I'll start with the basics.

Brad Chiles: I think he’s from a large family. He has two elder brothers and a younger sister. His father had a car repair shop where Brad worked in his spare time from solving secrets - this part-time job had a good effect on his ability to make traps — with his brothers. And also Brad’s mother was a nurse in the city hospital.

At the time of the second season, his father retired, giving the car repair shop to his eldest son, his mother died by the time Brad and Judy returned to the Crystal Cove. Brad's second brother works as an accountant in a large company/helps his elder brother do business by working with papers, and his younger sister got a job as a kindergarten teacher.

Bonus headcanon about Brad’s family: Fred sometimes stopped by the car repair shop of his biological father's family to repair the «Mystery Machine», and his father's elder brother noticed similarities between him and Brad, but was convinced of their final kinship after Brad and Judy returned to the Crystal Cave.

Judy Reeves: Her father was a sought-after lawyer, and her mother was a housewife. She has an elder sister who was married by the time of her disappearance, and a younger twin sister.

I'll explain now. I had a headcanon about that Judy was a kind of rebel/problem child in her family and that she was often put under house arrest, from which she successfully escaped, and her sisters were role models. This may be a kind of parallel with Daphne, but, in my opinion, it's a pretty funny headcanon, starring Judy and her twin sister, who are the complete opposite of each other. But it's not about that now.

At the time of the series, her elder sister works as an accountant, and the younger one got married and became a housewife, just like their mother. Meanwhile, their parents divorced: their mother stayed in the Crystal Cove, and their father left the city.

Cassidy Williams: Her family did not originally live in the Crystal Cove. They moved there from San Francisco when Cassidy was eight. Her father was a policeman who was transferred to the Crystal Cove police station, and her mother, who previously worked on the radio, after moving got a job as a music teacher at the primary school where Cassidy began to study. She also has a sister who is 14-15 years younger than her and practically does not remember her at the time of the series.

Also at the time of the series, her father retired, her mother still works at an elementary school, and her younger sister studies in San Francisco.

Bonus headcanon about Cassidy's family: Her father taught her and her sister to shoot a gun when they've grown up enough for that (we remember episode 11 of season 2 and realise that Ricky could be afraid of Cassidy’s father because of the presence of a gun under his side).

And finally, Ricky Owens: For some reason it seems to me that he was brought up by a single mother who had to work three jobs after Ricky's father died in a car accident. Yes, you can kick me for that. Professor Pericles appeared when Ricky was about eight. His mom allowed Professor Pericles to stay so that Ricky wouldn't be lonely when she was not at home, we understand that she allowed this parrot to stay was a big mistake but now it's not about that.

But he has a few more relatives besides his mother. For example, a paternal grandfather, from whom Ricky inherited a van, which later became known as the «Enigma Machine». He also had an aunt on his mother's side living in the city near the Crystal Cove, whom he had never seen. But as a child, he was on good terms with his cousin, her daughter, who was often sent to live with them because of problems at home. She's four years older than him. With the appearance in his life of Professor Pericles and the secrets that had to be solved, they distanced themselves. At the time of his disappearance, she was studying at the Faculty of History at Darrow College.

At the time of the series, Ricky's cousin works as a history teacher in high school and moved to his mother to help her with house.

Bonus headcanons about Ricky’s family: His grandfather was allergic to birds and he was the main Rickidy shipper.

That's all. I hope you like it!

[themoongirls12]

240620 | fromm_store twitter post ��️

[#CHUU] 2024 CHUU FAN-CON [Strawberry Rush] in AMERICAS

#KKOTI, are you ready to Rush with @/chuu_atrp ?!

CHUU is coming to Americas!

Stay tuned for more information 🍓🎶

7/17 - Los Angeles, CA / The Orpheum Theatre

7/19 - San Francisco, CA / Palace of Fine Arts

7/21 - Tacoma, WA / Pantages Theater

7/24 - Phoenix, AZ / The Van Buren

7/26 - Dallas, TX / House of Blues

7/28 - New Orleans, LA / The Fillmore

7/31 - Detroit, MI / The Fillmore

8/03 - Indianapolis, IN / Egyptian Room at Old National Centre

8/05 - New York,NY / The Town Hall

8/07 - Santiago, CHILE / Teatro Cúpula

8/10 - São Paulo, BRAZIL / Studio stage

8/13 - Mexico City, MEXICO / Foro Puebla

🍓USA

🎫GA Ticket Sales

June 21, 9am (PT) / 11am (CT) / 12pm (ET)

🎟VIP PACKAGE Sales

June 24, 7pm (PT) / 9pm (CT) / 10pm (ET)

🍓LATAM Ticket Sales

- Coming soon

[rjzimmerman]

Do the recent or right-now-ongoing crazy global weather scare you? Bother you? Interest you?

I'm pulling this from various media sources, because there is so much crazy weather happening now, or that has happened within the last couple of weeks, it seems like no single media source is picking it up.

From Heatmap AM:

Houston’s floods – More than 400 people in and around Houston, Texas, evacuated their homes over the weekend due to flooding. At least one person, a child, was killed. In one nearby county, more than 21 inches of rain fell over five days last week. The rain has tapered off but the cleanup has just begun.

Brazil’s rain – In Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, days of intense rain caused the Guaiba River to overflow and flood more than 340 cities, including the region’s capital of Porto Alegre. At least 78 people are dead and more than 115,000 have been forced to evacuate. One climatologist calledthe catastrophe “a disastrous cocktail” of climate change and the El Niño effect. “It looks like a scene out of a war,” said Rio Grande do Sul governor Eduardo Leite. 

Chile’s fires – Fires in Chile’s Valparaiso region, fueled by an intense heat wave and enduring drought, have killed at least 51 people and burned more than 64,000 acres.

Kenya’s deluge – Flooding and landslides in Kenya from unrelenting rainfall have killed more than 200 people. It is still raining and the weather is forecast to worsen throughout the month of May.

Southeast Asia’s heat wave – A lengthy heat wave has shattered temperature records across Southeast Asia, forcing many schools to close. One weather historian called the heat wave “the most extreme event in world climatic history.” 

From the Associated Press (AP):

A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday (May 5) in the Sierra Nevada. The wet weather system had mostly moved out of the state by Sunday morning, but officials warned that roads would remain slick after around two feet (60 centimeters) of snow fell in some areas of the Sierra. “Did anyone have the snowiest day of the 2023/2024 season being in May on their winter bingo card?” the University of California, Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab asked on the social platform X. The 26.4 inches (67 centimeters) of snowfall on Sunday beat the second snowiest day of the season — March 3rd — by 2.6 inches (6.6 centimeters), according to the lab.

From Yale Climate Connections:

For the first time since the 2010s, a high-risk outlook for severe weather (level 5 of 5) has been issued for parts of the Great Plains. The outlook was put in place at 8 a.m. EDT Monday, May 6, and updated at 12:30 p.m. EDT Monday by the NOAA/National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center, as a busy few days of severe weather moved into high gear. Dozens of tornadoes could erupt by midweek, including in and near Oklahoma on Monday and across a broad swath of the mid-Mississippi and lower Ohio River valleys on Wednesday. Many of the worst tornado U.S. outbreaks of recent years have played out across the Mississippi Valley and Southeast, but multiple rounds of twisters have hammered the Plains since late April, taking at least seven lives and wreaking what will no doubt be hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.

From Wikipedia:

On 16 April 2024, heavy rains caused floods in the United Arab Emirates, affected cities of mainly Dubai and Sharjah, the northern Emirates, and different areas of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. According to the National Center for Meteorology (United Arab Emirates) , this was the country's heaviest rainfall recorded in 75 years. The floods in the Emirates were a part of the greater Persian Gulf floods.

[fyeahdprian]

DPR Ian 2022 Livestream Playlist

March - June - July - August - September - October

Did I miss any livestreams? 10 livestreams total, 9 uploaded in 2022.

March 2022

DPR Ian Instagram Live March 11, 2022

DPR Ian Instagram Live March 13, 2022

June 2022

DPR Ian Instagram Live June 15, 2022

July 2022

BALLROOM EXTRAVAGANZA (MIITO MOVIE TEASER) July 25, 2022

SERAPH | 1 SHOT | MOOD | RIBBON | OFFICIAL MIITO MOVIE (PART I) July 29, 2022

DPR Ian Instagram Live July 29, 2022

DPR Ian Instagram Live July 30, 2022

August 2022

DPR Ian Instagram Live August 21, 2022

September 2022

The Regime World Tour 2022: AMERICAS September 8, 2022: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA September 10, 2022 Orlando tour stop September 11, 2022 Hollywood, Fl September 15, 2022 Austin September 16, 2022 Houston September 17, 2022 Dallas

DPR Ian Instagram Live September 17, 2022

September 19, 2022 Atlanta September 21, 2022 Washington, DC September 23, 2022 Boston September 24, 2022 New York September 25, 2022 Toronto, Canada September 26, 2022 Montreal, Canada September 28, 2022 Chicago September 30, 2022 Minneapolis

October 2022

October 2, 2022 Calgary, Canada October 4, 2022 Vancouver, Canada October 5, 2022 Seattle October 7, 2022 San Francisco October 8, 2022 Los Angeles October 9, 2022 Las Vegas (very close to being Mito while performing so put in contact lens)

DPR Ian Instagram Live October 12, 2022 Regime Tour Mexico, getting better then changed

October 13, 2022 Mexico City October 16, 2022 Sao Paolo, Brazil October 18, 2022 Santiago, Chile

DPR Ian October 20, 2022 Instagram Live

October 21, 2022 Lima, Peru Tour

DPR Ian October 29, 2022 Instagram Live. Went live when feeling really down.

November 2022

November 3, 2022 Paris November 4, 2022 Paris November 6, 2022 Amsterdam November 7, 2022 Munich November 8, 2022 Berlin November 10, 2022 Brussels November 13, 2022 London November 14, 2022 London November 16, 2022 Manchester November 25, 2022 Tokyo November 27, 2022 Taipei November 28, 2022 Taipei November 30, 2022 Manila

December 2022

December 2, 2022 Bangkok December 4, 2022 Singapore December 6, 2022 Jakarta MITO December 10, 2022 Kuala Lumpur December 13, 2022 Auckland, NZ December 15, 2022 Melbourne December 17, 2022 Sydney December 18, 2022 Sydney

[callechile]

Iglesia de San Francisco 🇨🇱 Santiago de Chile 📷 Instagram: @chamorojas

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 12.3

Holidays

Advocate's Day (India)

Alka Seltzer Day

Be a Blessing Day

Cedar Tree Day (French Republic)

Community Day (Navarra, Spain)

Day of the Secretary (Chile)

Day of the Unknown Soldier (Ukraine)

E-Discovery Day

Family & Consumer Sciences Day

Flag Day (Saba)

Flamenco Guitar Day

Heart Transplant Day

Inflatable Pig Day

Intellivision Day

International Baboon Day

International Day of Persons with Disabilities (UN)

International Day of the Basque Language

International Disabled Day (Nepal)

Jazz Day

King Tupou I Day (Tonga)

Lawyer’s Day (Russia)

Let's Hug Day

Make a Gift Day

National Doctor’s Day (Cuba)

National Dorothy Day

National Harley Day

National Heather Day

National Isaac Day

National Lisa Day

National Phenylketonuria (PKU) Awareness Day

National Pig Tail Day

National Ronald Day

National Roof-Over-Your-Head Day

Reinvigorate Your Brain by Reading Something Day

ROC the Day (Rochester)

Rocky Day (Philadelphia)

Saba Day (Saba)

San Francisco Javier (Navarra, Spain)

Takata no Inoko (Peace & Good Harvest Festival; Japan)

Telescope Day

3D Printing Day

Tinsel Day

Tree Dressing Day (UK)

Walt Disney World Day

World Coati Day

World Disable Day (India)

World Loyalty Giving Day

World No Pesticide Use Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Trappist Beer Day

National Apple Pie Day [also 5.13]

National Green Bean Casserole Day

National Ice Cream Box Day

National Peppermint Latte Day

Peppermint Bark Cheesecake Day

Roquefort Day

Independence & Related Days

Edenia (a.k.a. Imperial Union of Edenia; Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Illinois Statehood Day (#21; 1818)

1st Tuesday in December

Crypto Giving Tuesday [Tuesday after Thanksgiving]

Giving News Day [Tuesday after Thanksgiving]

Giving Tuesday [Tuesday after Thanksgiving]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Takeout Tuesday [1st Tuesday of Each Month]

Target Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tater Tot Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Throw Out Your Leftovers Day [Tuesday after Thanksgiving]

To-Do List Tuesday [1st Tuesday of Each Month]

Tranquil Tuesday [1st Tuesday of Each Month]

Travel Deal Tuesday [1st Tuesday]

Trivia Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Two For Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

World Trick Shot Day [1st Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning December 3 (1st Full Week of December)

Clerc-Gallaudet Week (thru 12.10)

Holiday Ale Festival Week (Portland, Oregon) [Begins in late Nov/early Dec] (Postponed for 2023-24)

Festivals Beginning December 3, 2024

Amarillo Farm & Ranch Show (Amarillo, Texas) [thru 12.5]

Greater Peoria Farm Show (Peoria, Illinois) [thru 12.5]

Night of the Proms (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) [thru 12.4]

Feast Days

Abbo of Auxerre (Christian; Saint)

Abraham of Alexandria, Pope (Coptic)

Adrian (a.k.a. Ethernan; Christian; Saint)

Birinus (Christian; Saint)

Bodhi Season, Day 3 (Buddhism; Secular Date) [Leading Up to 12.8] (a.k.a. ... 

Principles: The Three Jewels

Secular: A Bodhi Day Carol

Eightfold Path: Awakened Speech

The Heart Sutra: Space

Bogatir Svatogor Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Bona Dea Festival (Roman Goddess of Good)

Cassian of Tangier (Christian; Saint)

Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (Artology)

Constantin Guys (Artology)

Copernicus (Positivist; Saint)

Cu Roi Mac Daire (Celtic Book of Days)

Daniel Seghers (Artology)

Emma (of Lesum or of Bremen; Christian; Saint)

Fairy and Goblin Taunt-and-Tease Saturnalia (Shamanism)

Feast of Cybele (Ancient Greece; Everyday Wicca)

Festival for Serket/Selket (Scorpion Goddess; Ancient Egypt)

Francis Xavier (Christian; Saint)

Gilbert Stuart (Artology)

Godzilla Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

International Say No to Selfies Day (Pastafarian)

Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleifheim (Christian; Blessed)

Joseph Conrad (Writerism)

Kate O’Brien (Writerism)

Lucius (Christian; Saint)

Max Meldrum (Artology)

Mengloth’s Day (Pagan)

Motorettes (Muppetism)

Pompaia (Procession to Zeus; Ancient Greece)

Power of Three — Musical Magic Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Sola (Christian; Saint)

Vibrator Day (Pastafarian)

William Gropper (Artology)

Zephaniah (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 337 [68 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

The BBC Television Shakespeare (UK TV Series; 1978)

The Big Shrink, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 21 & 22 1964)

Black Swan (Film; 2010)

Brown Sugar, recorded by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1969)

Bullwinkle Cleans Up or The Desperate Showers (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 236; 1963)

Camelot (Broadway Musical; 1960)

The Chanukah Song, by Adam Sandler (Song; 1994)

Concerto in F, by George Gershwin (Piano Concerto; 1925)

Confess, by Patti Page (Song; 1947) [1st Recording with Overdubbed Vocals]

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground, recorded by Blind Willie Johnson (Song; 1927)

Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Charity Song; 1984)

Elvis (Comeback TV Special; 1968)

High Note (WB LT Cartoon; 1960)

House of Flying Daggers (Film; 2004)

A Leak in the Lake or The Drain Maker (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 235; 1963)

I Love You Phillip Morris (Film; 2010)

Justify My Love, by Madonna (Music Video; 1990)

Machine Head, recorded by Deep Purple (Album; 1971)

My Generation, by The Who (Album; 1965)

The Oregon Trail (Video Game; 1971)

The Playful Pest (Phantasies Cartoon; 1943)

The Power of the Dog, by Thomas Savage (Novel; 1967)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Christmas TV Special; 1964)

Rubber Soul, by The Beatles (Album; 1965)

Spud (Film; 2010)

A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams (Play; 1947)

Symphony #1 in A, by Edward Elgar (Symphony; 1908)

A Taste of Catnip (WB MM Cartoon; 1966)

Thanks to the Saint, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1957) [Saint #33]

The Town Santa Forgot (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1993)

Unknown Soldiers, by Väinö Linna (Novel; 1954)

The Weapon Shops of Isher, by A.E. van Vogt (Novel; 1951)

Wild (Film; 2014)

You’re Sixteen, by Ringo Starr (Song; 1973)

Today’s Name Days

Emma, Franz Xaver, Jason (Austria)

Franjo, Lucije, Sofonija (Croatia)

Svatoslav (Czech Republic)

Svend (Denmark)

Leiger, Leino (Estonia)

Meri, Vellamo (Finland)

François-Xavier, Xavier (France)

Franz Xaver, Jason (Germany)

Glykerios (Greece)

Ferenc, Olívia (Hungary)

Francesco, Saverio (Italy)

Daile, Evija, Jogita, Raita (Latvia)

Atalija, Audinga, Gailintas, Ksaveras (Lithuania)

Svein, Sveinung (Norway)

Franciszek, Kasjan, Ksawery, Lucjusz, Unimir (Poland)

Gheorghe (România)

Oldrich (Slovakia)

Francisco, Javier (Spain)

Lydia (Sweden)

Javier, Malcolm, Malcom, Malik, Xavier, Xaviera (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 338 of 2024; 28 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of Week 49 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 11 (Bing-Zi), Day 3 (Xin-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 2 Kislev 5785

Islamic: 1 Jumada II 1446

J Cal: 8 Black; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 20 November 2024

Moon: 7%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 2 Bichat (13th Month) [Halley / Kepler]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 72 of 90)

Week: 1st Full Week of December

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 12 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Jumādā al-ʾŪlā (a.k.a. Jumada I) [جُمَادَىٰ ٱلْأُولَىٰ] (Islamic Calendar) [Month 5 of 12] (First of the Parched Land; Pre-Islamic Summer)

[flagwars]

Worst Flag Wars: Round 1

Welcome to the Worst Flag Wars! This tournament is the opposite of the Flag Wars. It will decide the ugliest, most horrible flag of all time. Some of these flags look so awful, it seems like a stretch to call them flags. Just for some content warnings, some of these flags are so ugly your eyes might bleed. Proceed with caution! Please don’t take this tournament seriously, we’re here to have fun and joke about ugly flag designs. Thank you for all of the support for the last tournament, and I hope everyone enjoys this one!

Here are the brackets for the first round!

Round 1:

Group A:

1. Rejected EU Barcode vs. Nitro, West Virginia

2. Chapadão do Céu, Brazil vs. Camarillo, California

3. Geneseo, Kansas vs. Montpelier, Vermont (2000-2017)

4. Every Liberia County Flag vs. Every Seal on a Bedsheet State Flag

5. Bienville Parish, Louisiana vs. Pristina, Kosovo

6. Brown County, Nebraska vs. Kuna, Idaho 

7. Ranger, Texas vs. Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1962-2021)

8. Pawtucket, Rhode Island vs. Simi Valley, California

Group B:

9. Little Havana, Florida vs. Seymour, Missouri

10. Provo, Utah (1989-2015) vs. Mesquite, Nevada

11. Tampa, Florida vs. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

12. Elko, Nevada vs. Lethbridge, Alberta

13. Candamo, Spain vs. Detroit, Michigan

14. Pinecrest, Florida vs. San Francisco, California

15. Thatcher, Arizona vs. Clifton, Arizona

16. Pocatello, Idaho (2001-2017) vs. Coquimbo Region, Chile

[lboogie1906]

Mary Lovelace O’Neal (February 10, 1942) is an artist and arts educator. Her work is focused on abstract mixed media and minimalism. She is a Professor Emeritus, at UC Berkeley, and retired from teaching in 2006. Her art has been exhibited throughout North America and internationally, with group and solo shows in Italy, France, Chile, Senegal, and Nigeria. She lives and works in Oakland and maintains a studio in Chile.

She attended Howard University and studied with David Driskell, Lois Mailou Jones, and James A. Porter, receiving her BFA. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine during the summer. During her time at Howard University, she became active in the Civil Rights Movement and was mentored by many influential leaders in the movement, including Stokely Carmichael, Jacob Lawrence, and his wife, painter Gwendolyn Lawrence. She worked at the Free Southern Theater with one of the theatre founders, her first husband John O’Neal.

She continued her fine arts education at Columbia University, studying with Aja Junger, Stephen Greene, Leon Golden, and Andra Rat. While at Columbia, she became involved in the Black Art Movement in New York City, which further influenced her work. She received her MFA from Columbia University.

She started teaching full-time at UC Berkeley in 1978. In 1985 she became the first African American artist to receive tenure in the department of art and was appointed in 1999 as the Chair of the Department of Art Practice until her retirement in 2006. She has taught at several institutions in the US including the University of Texas at Austin, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the California College of Arts and Crafts. She has taught internationally at Jorge Tadeo Lozano. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

Long-overdue Updated List for Latin American Independence Sexyman Nominations: If you want to nominate, the form is here

Virreinato de Nueva España Mexico:

Agustin de Iturbide

Leona Vicario

Juan Aldama

José Maria Morelos y Pavón x3

Vicente Guerrero x2

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Ignacio Allende Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada: Colombia:

Antonio Nariño x3

Antonio Morales Galavís

Policarpa Salavarrieta x2

Francisco de Paula Santander x 2 Venezula:

Simón Bolívar x2

José Antonio Paez Virreinato del Perú: Peru

Manuela Sáenz de Vergara y Aizpuru

Micaela Bastidas

Mariano Melgar Ecuador:

Manuela a.k.a Manuelita Saenz x4 Bolivia:

Antonio José de Sucre x 2

María Ana Carcelén de Guevara y Larrea-Zurbano

Juana Azurduy Chile:

Manuel Javier Rodríguez y Erdoíza

José Miguel Carrera Verdugo

Bernardo O'Higgins Virreinato del Río de la Plata: Argentina:

Manuel Belgrano

José de San Martín x 3

Martín Miguel de Güemes

Juan Bautista Cabral

Mariquita Sánchez de Thompson

Bernardo de Monteagudo

Mariano Necochea Uruguay:

Manuel Ceferino Oribe y Viana

Juan Antonio Lavalleja

José Fructuoso Rivera y Toscan Haiti:

Toussaint L’Ouverture Brazil/Empire of Brazil:

Joaquim Pires de Carvalho e Albuquerque

Maria Quitéria de Jesus x2

Joaquim Gonçalves Ledo

Maria Leopoldina

Pedro I

Hipólito José da Costa Pereira Furtado de Mendonça

José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva

Francisco Gomes da Silva

Domitila de Castro Canto e Melo, Marquesa de Santos