Golly....Sister Kat really provides amazing things here...great music, great celebraties, great research... great, great, great ! I thank you, Kat ! ~ SP ~
July 28
1165 - Ibn al-Arabi ~ Muslim Mystic & Philosopher.....The philosophy is still a mystery to this day
1514 - Maximillion of Burgundy ~ Viceroy of Holland ... he enjoyed smoking a Viceroy while drinking Burgundy
1746 - Thomas Heyward ~ Signer of the Declaration of Independence
1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach ~ German Philosopher ( man is what he eats ) ..this sure true in China
1860 - Grand Duchess Anastia Mikhailovna of Russia ~
1866 - Beatrix Potter ~ English childrens writer..."Tale of Peter Rabbit"
~ Bye the Bye ~
1540 ~ King Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell was executed, the same day Henry married wife #5, Catherine Howard
1586 ~ Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
1655 ~ French dramatist and novelist Cyrano de Bergerac, the inspiration for a play by Edmond Rostand, died in Paris
1794 ~ Robespierre & 22 other leaders of "the terror" are executed to thunderous cheers....ahh, the guillotine...works like a charm
1851 ~ Total solar eclipse is captured on a dagguarreotype
1883 ~ SHAKE RATTLE ROLL in Isle of Ischia, Italy when the eruption of Volcano Epimeo goes serious and takes out 1,200 houses and completes the deal with 2,000 dead folk
1900 ~ The Hamburger is created by Louis Lassing in, of all places, Connecticut....they didn't feel right to call it a "Lassburger" .... however lore states that "The Kingsmen" band got real stoned on weed, developed intense 'munchies' and wrote "Louis, Louis"
~ It's a good day to do good ~