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Time Line
How to use the space-time conveyor. When a person, place or thing is "born"
and when they "die" are the only two absolute time pointes in any existance.
(As far as existEnce is concern, please refer to the philosophy index)
As such, only those entries are linked to text pages. Have a hunt around a
bit, Glenn. If you need assistence in any era, a -[library assistant]- will be
only too happy to assist you. Enjoy; Pizo.
Note: Prior to 543M years ago, the entire
geological structure is lumbed into:
Precambrian or protozoic (before life) era.
At this point, there is NO evidence that
even telemarketers existed at this time.
510M yrAgo
The Cambrian Period: 543 to 490 mya (started on a Tuesday)
Life: First invertabrates (sea) and of course: Tilobites!
510_000_000bce: Priapula: DeepSea worms] (ancestors?)
490M yrAgo
The Ordovician Period: 490 - 443
Life: Age of the Trilobites; first fish enter stage right.
443M yrAgo
The Silurian Period: 443 to 417
Life: LungFishes and the first "one small step for a fish,
one giant leap for land-kind!"
Coral reefs!
417M yrAgo
The Devonian Period: 417 - 354
Life: First amphibians (they can swim and walk!)
Land snails (moluscs put their one foot forward)
Age of the Brachiopods! (proto-star fish)
Primitive Land Plants - who you callin' primitive! ?
354M yrAgo
The Carboniferous Period: 354 - 290
Pennsylvanian 323 - 290 (proto Quakers)
Mississippian 354 - 323
Life: Primitive Ammonites
Primitive insects (large though)
Seed ferns
Primitive conifers
248M yrAgo
The Triassic Period: 248 - 206
Life: First dinosaurs (reptiles)
Modern insects enjoy the new jazz; smaller,
easier to eat.
New improved fish
Bigger is better philosophy rampant.
Conifers take centre stage
206M yrAgo
The Jurassic Period: 206 - 144
Life: Age of Reptiles
First birds
First mammals (small, un-obtrusive, cute)
144M yrAgo
The Cretacious Period: 144 - 65
Life: Flowering plants flower onto the set.
Dinosaurs take up cigarette smoking
and thus end their dominance.
(This is refered to as the
"Far Side Theory of Dinosaur Extinction").
And then came: THE DINOSAUR KILLER FROM SPAAAACE!!!
(now showing in new, improved
Irradium-vision!!!
(formerlly named Irridium vision;
but then was sued for copyRight infringement)
65M yrAgo
The "Tertiary Geological Age" Period: 65 - 1.8
Life: Finally "rid" of the "Dinosaur problem",
mammals, insects, birds take off.
Plants recover, and go crazy.
Tertiary: Paleocene: 65 - 54.8
54.8M yrAgo
The Eocene epoch of the Tertiary Period: 54.8 - 33.7
Life:
33.7M yrAgo
The Oligocene epoch of the Tertiary Period: 33.7 - 23.8
Life:
33.7M yrAgo
The Miocene epoch of the Tertiary Period: 23.8 - 5.3
Life:
5.3M yrAgo
The Pliocene epoch of the Tertiary Period:
Life:
4_000_000yago
"Four million years ago,
in Africa did we all stand".
-- first humans...
Original Lucy declines v. lucrative offer from Hollywood,
instead contemplates the motion of certain bright lights
in the night sky and the concept that certain sounds
have rather a "musical" appeal. Notices that leaves
in a tree look significantly LESS GREEN when the sun
light is shine-ing through them, than when it is reflected
off of them. Wonders if the tribes will EVER stop waging
war based on teritorial disputes? The rest is (as we say
in the biz), history.
Later she decides and then knows that it the right time
to act, sez to her kids and husband, "Come on; we're outta here!".
3_000_000yago
Speculation #202-1613g
Movement and sound are combined in a proto-dance which
quickly catches on. Whistling mainly used to imitate the wind.
Flute invented on a Thrusday, by Prisicilla Ogg while trying
to blow a bug out of a hollow twig. Z'rig Ogg (no relation)
invents mutli-toned drum when kicking a log that fell on
his great toe. First open-air concert features the Urg Sisters
trio, as well as "Moon Chant #7" by Oog K'Ffooa. First standing
ovation, following early stand-up comedy act by R'oos M'oos
rendering a particularly well done impersonation of Grandpa
Dweezle waking up in the morning.
2_000_000yago
On a particular thursdae, the intransitive verb was born.
However, details as to its origin (while sketchy at best)
indicate that a certain duck might have ducked into the
water from the air thus leading a child/poet to remark
"Duck here, there; then, there-there"
Most pataphysical art historians usually mark this event
as the birth of the concept of "fore-ground/back-ground"
which wouldn't be realised in photography until some
1_997_341 years later - and oddly enough it was *also*
on a thursdae. The flash bulb would come much later and
almost certainly was *not* invented on a thursdae.
Sugested musical listening "Collage ala Bach" by Arvo pArt.
1.8M yrAgo
The Quaternary (4th Geological Age) begins
The Pleistocene epoch of the Quaternary Period: 1.8 - 10_000bce
(give or take)
Life:
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Native American music based on 5-tone scale, using
two octives. {Schoenberg} won't be born for some 23_126 years yet.
!!ERROR!! ^^^^^^
(this number is not correct!
-- well, it's not meant to be to scale ;)
20_000yago
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The Holocene epoch of the Quaternary Period: 10_000 to present
Life:
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(now in Turkey)
585: Thales predicts solar eclipse during war between the Medes and the
Lydians. (possibly appocryphal)
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79.08.24: Mount Vesuvius errupts in Italy burying Pompeii and Herculaneum
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c.350: Aetius publishes his 300 sylogisms
on why Jesus could not be of the same "substance" as god. In 359,
the Council of Selucia condemns him and Emperor Constantius exiled
him to the wilderness of northeast Asia Minor. [Ref; Ency Brit, Vol 1, p.125]
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1742.01.26: Ludwig (Johann Frederich) Sievers (1742-1806) born in Hanover.
1746.09.26: Ludwig Ernst Gerber (1746-1819) born in Sondershausen.
1766": John Dalton born in
Science began to make sense... [The Paris Project]
1782: Ludwig Sievers publishes three harpsicord sonatas, Opus 1. (40 years old)
all of his other "sacred pieces" have been lost; refered to by
1770.12.17: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is born in Bonn.
1775: Ernst Ludwig Gerber succeeds his father as court organist in the court
of Prince Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.
1791.03.06: Beethoven composes music for a "Ritterballet"
(ballet in old style German costume).
It is produced by by the tallented and powerful friend Count
Ferdinand Waldstein. Some how, B's name is left off as the
composer of the music. The 20yo B, is not discouraged, much
productive work occurs as part of his involviment with the
work at Mergentheim. A good time is had by all under the
leadership of B., serving as "Grand Master of the
Teutonic Order".
1792
1792: Victor Cousin born in ??city??
-- "Art for art's sake"
1793: Nikolai I. Lobachevsky born in ??city??
ce1800
1800.04.02: Beethoven's Symphony #1, in C performed.
1801: Beethoven's increasing deafness becomes more apparent and can no
longer be dismissed by him as being temporary due to chronic ill health.
The muses weep, and teers roll down an old poet's cheeks whle listinging to
Shostakovich's fifth sympony.
1803.04.05: Beethoven's Symphony #2, in D performed.
1803.05.25: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) is born in Boston, MA.
1803.12.11: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869 born.
1805: John Dalton proposes his theory of
ATOMS and "their atomic masses". Science began to make sense... [The Paris Project]
1805: Hans Christian Anderson born, Odense, Denmark.
1805.04.07: Beethoven's Symphony #3, in E-flat performed.
1806.06.28: Ludwig (Johann Frederich) Sievers (1742-1806) dies in Magdeburg.
1807.03: Beethoven's Symphony #4, in B-flat performed.
1810.03.04: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) born in Zelazowa Wola.
1812-1814: Ernst Ludwig Gerber publishes his massive, 4-volume work
"tonkUnstler-lexikon". Possibly the most extensive reference
work on music and musical history of the time, included contributions by
J.F. Reichardt (1892), E.F.F. Chladni (1795), and much-expanded
from the original work by J.G. Walther (Leipzig, 1732). The work
exists somewhere (or at least copies of it), the original MS's
have become "collectible", last sold at auction in 1956 as
"Catalog Entry #54". C'est la vie.
1817: Chopin's first composition.
1817.07.12: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) born in Condord, Massachusetts.
ce1818
1818: Chopin plays first concert at the private concert in Warsaw.
1818: Victor Cousin publishes
"Cours de philosophe" -- "Art for art's sake"
1819: Herman Melvlille (1819 - 1891) born.
1819:06.30: Ernst Ludwig Gerber (1746-1819)] dies in Sondershausen.
1822.12.10: Cesar Frank (1822-1890) born.
1826: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) enters Le Sueur's
class in Composition and Reicha's class for counterpoint and
fugue at the Paris Conservatory. Later (on a Tuesday, around tea time, as I
recall ;) he will invent the "Tone Poem".
1826: Lobachevsky announces his counter-idea to
Euclid that only ONE parallel line can be drawn through a fixed
point not on that line. Pub'd 1840: Geometrical Researches on the Thoery of Parallels
(tumpet and coronet players are ecstatic!)
1827.03.26: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) dies in Vienna.
1828: Jules Verne (1828-1905) is born in ??city??
1835: Hans Christian Anderson publishes his first book
of fairy tales, Eventyr
1835.10.09: Camille Saint Saens (1835-1921) born in Paris.
1836: Elizabeth Garret Anderson born in ??city??
First British woman doctor. Established St. Mary's Dispensary for women and children in 1866.
1837: Sometime in this year, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson meet.
Frederic Chopin meets writer George Sand; later she would nurse
him back to health when he contracted tuberculosis -- by 1847, there is a
falling out between him and her.
1838: E.W. Morley (1837 - 1923) born in Newark, NJ, Terra. Would later
team up with Albert Abraham Michaelson to measure the wave nature
of light. Leading many to consider all things "relative".
See: [Relativity] (in PHYSICS)
1838.06: Henry David Thoreau (with his brother John) founds a progressive school,
which does suprisingly well (it *is* progressive after all).
Lasts 3 years until John fall ill. During a canoe trip with John along the
Concord and Merrimack rivers Henry decides that he better suited as a poet,
than an schoolmaster. He struggles through the 1840's, has hard times in
the 1850's. His brother John dies in January 1842 of lockjaw after cutting
his finger.
1840: Lobachevsky's "Geometrical Researches on the Thoery of Parallels"
is published. (tumpet and coronet players are ecstatic!)
1843.06.15: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) born in Bergen, Norway.
1844: John Dalton dies in ??city??
Science began to make sense... [The Paris Project]
1845: Throeau decides to stop mope-ing about and stops making pencils and
grinding graphite. Following up on an Harvard classmate who once
built a waterside hut, he picks a spot on Walden Pond (a glacial lake) [Src: Ency. Brit, Vol.11, p.726]
1838.10.25: Georges Bizet (1838-1875) born in Bougival
1847: After 10 years of friendship, the authoress George Sand and the composer
Frederic Chopin break up.
1848: A certain law student begins writing musical libertos in Paris.
(Jules Verne)
1849.10.17: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) dies in Paris.
In failing health, Chopin wished to return to his beloved Paris.
But, due to the outbreak of tuburculosis, everyone was carefully checked
before they could be let in. Friends, placed him, die-ing as he was, in the
back of a meat wagon and sneaked into the City of Light. His last words
were, "It is a pitty that I am die-ing; as, I have so much more music within me".
1849.05: Thoreau
1852: Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931) born, in Strenlo, Prussia.
Would team up with Morely in 1893.
[Relativity] (in PHYSICS)
1853: Hendrik Antoon Lorenz (1853-1928) born in ??city??.
See: [Relativity] (in PHYSICS)
1854: Thoreau publishes "Walden"; doctrine of transcendentalism is bourne into theworld. It
never left, it was always here.
1856: Nikolai I. Lobachevsky dies in ??city??
1862.05.06: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) dies in Condord, Massachusetts.
1863: Jules Verne writes "Five Weeks in a Balloon"; the world of law's loss
is SF's gain.
1864: Margaret Macdonald (modernist designer) born in ??city??
1864.04.21: Max Weber (1864-1920)(political economist) born in Erfurt, Prussia (Germany).
1864.04.23: Phil May (cartoonist/illustrator) born in Wortley, Leeds, UK
1866: Elizabeth Garret Anderson (first woman
doctor in England), establishes St. Mary's Dispensary for women and children.
1865.06.07 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (modernist designer/architect) born in Glasgow
1866.09.21: H.G. Wells born in ??city??)
sf works
1867
1867:01:20: Lew Fields (1867-1941) born in New York; meanwhile, in another part of New York
1867.08.11: Joe Weber (1867-1942) born in New York. In 1905, Weber & Fields go on Broadway.
1867: Victor Cousin dies in ??city?? "Art for art's sake"
1868: Emil Bernard (1868-1941) born in Lille.
1868: Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932) born in Vienna.
1868: James Herbert McNair (modernist designer) born in ??city??
1869 .03.18 Hector Berlioz dies in Paris.
ce1870
ce1873
1873: Frances Macdonald (modernist designer) born in ??city??
1874.09.13: Arnold Schoenberg born in Vienna.
Native American (AmerIndians) musicians' spirits
can finally rest; {after ~~ 23_126 years}
1875: Hans Christian Anderson dies,
1875.06.03: Georges Bizet (1838-1875) dies in Paris.
1879.09.14: Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) born in Corning, New York.
ce1880
Max Weber (b.1864.04.18, Bialystok, Russia; d.1961.10.04, Great Neck, NY)
1882.04.27: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) is dies in Concord, Massachusetts.
1882.04.03: Entienne-Jules Marey publishes his paper
in Comptes Rendes about his FIXED-PLATE, GEOMETRIC
CHRONO-PHOTOGRAPH MACHINE. Making a portable strobe-scope-effect
camera available for all uses. His interest phisiology continues.
1886.01.11: Aldo (Rand) Leopold born in Burlington, Iowas, Terra.
His much acclaimed re-thinking of "the hunt" and the "hunted" led to
his evolution of the concept of "Game Mangement" - nothing to do with Tetris.
1887.05.17: Ludwig Sievert (1887-1966) born in Hanover.
1888: H.G. Wells graduates from Royal College of Science (London)
in biology; begins teaching same...
1888: Mary Anderson born in ??city??, Sweden.
Labor leader.
1888.05.11: Irving Berlin (1888-1989) born in Mogilyov.
ce1890
YEARS OF DESTINY.
1890's: Emergence in the history of art of a curious little art school,
known as Pont Aven.
1890.11.08: Cesar Franck (1822-1890) dies in Paris.
1891: January:
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1891: Lobachevsky's "Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels"
is translated into English. (trumpet and coronet players are ecstatic!)
1891: Herman Melvlille (1819 - 1891) dies in ??city??.
1891.06.09: Cole Porter 1891-1964) born in Peru, INDIANNA.
1892: January:
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1892.09.04: Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) born in Marseilles.
1893: H.G. Wells quits teaching BIO at the Royal College of
Science (London) to take up his career as a NOVELIST.
1893: Michaelson & Morley fail to find "the aether"in space,
bestirs many to think about things "relaive".
[Relativity] (in PHYSICS)
1899: January:
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1899.09.26 Rufino Tamayo born in Oaxacy, Mexico)
the world may yet be saved through art! (an interior view no doubt)
ce1900
1900:03.23: At 11am (supposedly that exact time), Arthur Evans
began excavation of Knossos on the isle of Crete.
1903.08.03: Phil May (cartoonist/illustrator) dies in St. John's Wood, London, UK
1905.01.29: Barnett Newman (1905-1970) is born in New York.
2 Fortunately enough
"Weber & Fields" open their song and dance act on Broadway. Dorthy Fields
(daugther of Lew Fields born). Such are the delicate threads which tie our
world together, by; of (especially on a Thursdae).
Relativity (in PHYSICS)
1905-1910: Meanwhile, Max Weber (the political economist) is defending his
work "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"; ie, essentially
the idea that the religious pre-destination jingoism goes hand-in-hand with the
triumphs of captialism, colonialism, etc. This culiminates in his 1916 work
"Religious Rejections of the World and Their Directions", which analyses the
conflicts between the erotic, the ascetic, and the mystical aspects of religion.
1905: Jules Verne (1828-1905) dies in ??city??
1907: January:
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1907: Physicists Michaelson and Moreley reeeive the Nobel prise in physics.
See: [Relativity] (in PHYSICS)
1907.10.04: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) dies in Bergen, Norway.
ce1908
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1908.12.16: Remedios Varo (the bird lady of surRealism) born in Anglès, Girona, Spain.
ce1910
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1912. Darius Milhaud meets Paul Claudel (poet, playwright, fervent Roman
Catholic). M. sez "the greatest stroke of luck in my life".
1913: Construvist Movement breaks out mainly in Russia.
1914. "THE" Great War (WWI) begins. Hell, handbasket, earth, all in the mix.
Munitions factory owners speed ahead.
1915. Darius Milhaud, is unable to join war effort due to medical reasons,
assists Belgian refuges. His friend Leo Latil is killed at "the front".
1917: Gustav Meyrink published "The Golum" (novel).
1917: Paul Claudel is appointed minister from France to Brazil, invites
Darius Milhaud to go along as "attache". Universe is happy despite
the seemingly endless carnage in "The War to End All Wars".
While in Brazil, he organises concerts to benefit the Red Cross.
1917: Gustav Meyrink joins the staff
of the influential German gazette: "Simpliicissimus".
1917: Elizabeth Garret Anderson dies in ??city??
First British woman doctor; established the St. Mary's Dispersary for woma and children in 1866.
1918.11.23: Darius Milhaud leaves Brazil, winding his way through the
West Indies, and some town called "New York" (odd name).
1919: Mary Anderson becomes the head of
the Women's Burea of the USA government. Retires in 1944.
1919.02.14: Darius Milhaud arrives back in Paris. Somwhere in the previous
2 years, during the period of the "Bar Gaya" ??, he pens a
catchy little tune "Le boeuf sur le toit" (the bull on the roof).
ce1920
1920.06.14: Max Weber (1864-1920) (political economist) dies in Munich.
[Ency. Brit] "From 1916 thru 1918 he argued powerfully against
Germany's annex-ation-ist war goals and in favor of a strengthened parliament.
He stood bravely for sobriety in politics and scholarship against the apocolyptic
mood of right-wing students in the months following Germany's defeat. After,
assisting in the drafting of the new constitution and in the founding of the
German Democratic Party, Max Weber died of a lung infection in 1920. --42--
1920.12.06: Dave Brubeck (1920-) born in Concord, CA.
1921: Frances Macdonald (modernist designer) dies in ??city??
1921.12.16: Camille Saint Saens (1835-1921) dies in Algiers.
1922: Ludwig Sievert designs stage for Hindemith's "Sancta Susanna".
1922.04.22: Charles Mingus (1922-1979) Charles Mingus born in Nogales, AZ.
1923: Frenand Leger designs set for Darius Milhaud's
ballet "La creation du monde" (creation of the earth; Milhaud, influenced by
HARLEM JAZZ; Leger influence by VISUAL PHEOMENON OF DIMENSION THREE.
1924: Ludwig Sievert designs stage for Krenek's "Der Sprung Über den Schatten".
1928: Hendrik Antoon Lorenz (1853-1928) dies in ??city??.
See: [Relativity] (in PHYSICS)
1928.12.10 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (modernist designer/architect) dies in London
ce1930
c.1930: Barnett Newman destroys most all of his realistic work.
1931.02.18: Toni Morrison (writer, playwrite, feminist) born in Lorain, Ohio.
1931: Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931) dies in ??city??.
See: [Relativity] (in PHYSICS)
1932: Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932) dies.
1933: Margaret Macdonald
(modernist designer) dies in ??city??
1933: Aldo (Rand) Leopold publishes his primary
text on field ecology: "Game Mangement"
1937: Ludwig Sievert designs the set for Orff's "Carmina Burana".
c.1939-40: Barnett Newman stops working; declaring that the
world's historical crisis meant that
traditional ways of working were in-effective.
He begins his: Quest for the Proper Aesthetic
into the 1940's begins writing "a lot". Chaos
is the wellspring of human creativity, and
beauty is irrelevant in the times of such horror.
He resurrected the venerable concept of the
Sublime for a metaphysical "art which through
symbols, will catch the basic truth of life
which is its sense of tragedy".
["The Plasmic Image", c.1943-1945 ]
[source: Art dictionary, Vol.23, p.26; tips towel to Jane Turner and co...
ce1940
1940: Dave Brubeck octet founded; including, Bill Smith (clarinett)
1940: Darius Milhaud forced to flee France. In mid journey he receives
a RADIO TELEGRAM from Mills College, Oakland, CA to teach.
1941: Cole Porter writes music for "Let's Face It"; libretto by siblings
Dorthy & Herbert Weber; ref: [Weber & Fields, act]
1941: Bernard Emil (1868-1941) dies in Paris.
1942: Mingus plays with Kid Ory in Barney Bigard's Ensemble.
1943: Mingus tours with Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong.
1944: Mary Anderson retires as head of
the Women's Burea of the USA government. She is replaced by Frieda S. Miller.
ce1945.08.06
On the morning of August 6th, 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on
the Japanese city of Hiroshima 8:15 local time. As if this wasn't
convincing enough, the scond atomic bomb was dropped on the
Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9th. Later that day, Emperor
Hirohito called together the "Voice of the Sacred Crane" (the
emperor's command). He urged the council to accept the conditions
of surrender (from the Potsdam Conference, held on July 26th,
by Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin). Even still fanatic milaritsts
contemplated an coup-d'tats. ?sp?
In 1934, while waiting for a traffic light to change at an intersection in
London, near St. Barthalomew's Hospital Leo Szilard (sill-ard) had the
idea that if you bombarded atoms with neutrons (which was already
known), and that if TWO neutrons were produced, that this could
cascade into a CHAIN REACTION causing a tremendous release of
energey, per Einstein's equation E=mc2. To keep this idea
secret he, patented it, and assigned the patent to the British Navy.
Later, after coming to America, he met with Einstein and fellow Hungarian
refugee ?name? and they drafted a letter to FDR to begin research
to build an atomic bomb. They felt certain that Hitler was capable
of developing the bomb as well. After the surrender of Europe,
Szilard frantically tried to stop the decision to drop the bomb on a
Japanese city -- fearing, among other things, racism. As his life-long
friend and fellow scientist, Jakob Brownowski put it, "One memorandum
to President Roosevelt only failed because FDR died during the
days that Szilard was transmitting it to him. Always Szilard wanted
the bomg tested openly before the Japanese and an international
audience so that the Japanese should know its power and surrender,
before people died. As you know, Szilard failed, and with him
the community of scientists failed. He did what a man of integrity could
do. He gave up physics and turned to biology - that is how he came to
the Salk Institute -- and he persuaded others too.... Szilard replied
"it is not the tragedy of scientists; it is the tragedy of mankind".
[J. Bronowski, "The Ascent of Man", P. 370] (Bronowski aka "Bruno").
Jacob Bronowski (philo)
1946: Dave Brubeck studies compostion with Darius Milhaud.
Irving Berlin write music for "Annie Get your gun"; libretto by siblings
Dorthy & Herbert Weber; ref: [Weber & Fields, act]
1946.08.13: H.G. Wells dies in ??city??)
B.F. Skinner (behaviorist; in "teaching")
Frank Johnson
19xx. Frank Gehry
1947-1948: Charles Mingus tours with Lionel Hampton.
1948.04.21: Aldo (Rand) Leopold dies in Sauk, County, Wisconsin, Terra.
died tragically (heroically) while fighting a grass fire on his farm.
To the end, he would prefer to watch wild gueese flying to
watching television. There's just no figuring about some people.
1949: Dave Brubeck trio founded.e
ce1950
1950-1951: Mingus gains national attention while touring
with RedNorvo's trio (with Tal Farlow). Settles in a
town called "New York" working with Duke Ellinton,
Stan Getz, Art Tatum, and Bud Powell.