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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:12:52 -0700
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 7/28 MARCEL DUCHAMP


Daily Bleed, full blooded:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/today.htm

Excerpts:

JULY 28
MARCEL DUCHAMP
 Fastidious avant-garde idea man. Gave up art for chess. e1-e4.


US: NATIONAL MOONEY DAY

Virgin Islands: HURRICANE SUPPLICATION DAY.

1750 -- Warrant?: Composer J. S. Bach dies. Beatles release "Get Bach".

1794 -- Basket Case?: French Reign of Terror architect
                     Robespierre faces the guillotine himself.

1868 -- 14th Amendment, giving equal rights to all non-Indian men,
        becomes part of the U.S. Constitution.

1869 -- Last Rites?: Women shoemakers in Lynn, Massachussetts demand
        equal pay.

        1887 -- Dada post-artist Marcel Duchamp lives, Blaineville,
        France.

1909 -- Novelist & poet Malcolm Lowry lives

1915 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Wilson
sends Marines to Haiti, where Haitians are in revolt against the
US-backed regime. Marines take benevolent control of the
benevolent government & massive benevolent repression of grass
roots organizations follows.

1932 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Herbie Hoover
        forcibly evicts bonus marchers from their encampment. Two killed
when
        U.S. Army attacks encampment of 20,000 World War I veterans

1943 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President FDR announces
end of coffee rationing in US, effectively quelling the "Starbucks
Riots".

1958 -- Billboard reports on a claim from the Esso Research Center:

        "...tuning in rock & roll music on a car radio can cost a
motorist money,"
        because the rhythm can cause a driver to unconsciously jiggle
the gas
        pedal, thus wasting fuel.

1981 -- American astrologist Nancy Reagan -- giddy to be in London
               for the Royal Wedding -- announces, "I'm off to see the
King &
        Queen," -- though there hasn't been a King of England in 27
years. British
        press detests her on sight. Writes one paper of the First Lady's
propensity
        for toppling over,

                            "Maybe she'll fall again & break her hair."

1986 --
                                     "Uh-oh!"



WAR

            n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most
            menacing political condition is a period of
            international amity....


   

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