Almanac for April 26th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 26th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-26-F2F51EMNVT

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Beatles Trivia
Sunday, April 26, 1998, St. Mary’s College: I spent most of the day writing papers and working on a Sculpture project. In the evening I saw the 200th Simpsons episode, “Trash of the Titans” (production code 5F09). Bart and Homer crashed a U2 concert; best guest voices ever. The episode was dedicated to another previous guest voice, Linda McCartney.

Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Ludwig Wittgenstein

Bummer April 26th

April 26, 1865: John Wilkes Booth dies of a gunshot wound inflicted in the attempt to capture him.

April 26, 1909: Major League baseball catcher Michael “Doc” Powers dies of peritonitis. On April 12th he’d collided with the wall in Shibe Park in Philadelphia, sustaining internal injuries. His peritonitis resulted from one of three surgeries he endured in attempts to repair his injuries.

April 26, 1937: Spanish dictator Francisco Franco coordinates with Adolph Hitler to have the Luftwaffe bomb the Basque town of Guernica. Franco knew Guernica to be a stronghold of his political opponents the Republicans. Between 400 and 1,600 civilians are killed in the bombing.

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April 26, 1942: An estimated 1,500 miners lose their lives in the Benxihu (Honkeiko) Colliery in Liaoning province, China, when coal dust ignites. The Japanese, who operated the mine at the time, are believed to have sealed the mine before it was completely evacuated, needlessly adding to the death toll. Only 31 of the dead were Japanese. Most of the those killed didn’t die from the explosion, but from carbon monoxide poisoning after the Japanese shut off the ventilation system.

April 26, 1986: Lucille Ball dies of an aortic rupture at the age of 77. 

On the same day, the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, experiences a nuclear meltdown that leads to a massive fire throughout the plant. The radioactive fallout in the 19-mile radius around the plant is expected to remain too contaminated for human habitation for 20,000 years.

April 26, 2006: A van carrying nine students and a staff member from Evangelical Christian school Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, is traveling along I-69 when it collides with a tractor trailer. Five people inside the van died at the scene. A survivor of the crash is initially identified as Laura van Ryn. 

Unable to communicate and suffering from head trauma, the young woman is cared for in the hospital by Laura van Ryn’s family. Five weeks after the crash, the survivor was able to identify herself as Whitney Cerak. Laura van Ryn had been among those killed in the crash and was given a burial by Cerak’s family and buried under Cerak’s name. 

I'm a Year Older and So Are These Gorgeous Bitches (Oh How Pinteresting)

Last year for my birthday I wrote "I'm 35 and So Are These Hotties Born in 1977." I'm a year older, and - well, the people who were born in 1977 were still born in 1977.

But they're still some quite lovely humans, so please enjoy them.

Shakira:



Orlando Bloom:



My personal favorite Rachel Dawes, Ms. Maggie Gyllenhaal:



Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges:



Michael Fassbender:



Kal Penn:



Jonathan Rhys Meyers:




Wow, guys - you all look so good for our age!

(I lifted this birthday post idea from Alexandra O'Hurley. Her awesome erotic romance author website is http://www.alexandraohurley.com/. Go check her out - she's fun.)

I'm 35, and so are these 10 hotties born in 1977

Happy birthday to me! My birthday gift to you, loyal readers, is a gallery of hotness inspired by the year of my birth, 1977.

I am completely, blatantly ripping this post off from Alexandra O'Hurley and her blog Oh Alex, except Alex was born in a different year. Thanks, Alex, for the inspiration. Everybody should buy your books on Amazon or from their favorite retailer.

Fabulous Peeps Born in 1977:

10. John Mayer

Oh yeah, that body is a wonderland. He barely makes the list at #10 because he's still in the doghouse over his derogatory comments about women of color in a Playboy interview. He's one of those bros you shouldn't think is hot, but maybe you do.

9. Predrag "Peja" Stojaković

That Yugoslavia! Thing strikes again; I like big Serbian dudes and I cannot lie. Plus, you've gotta love Peja because of his deep commitment to children's charities, following the example of his mentor Vlade Divac.

Now that he's retired from the NBA, I believe he should be put out to stud; Peja makes beautiful babies.

8. Michael Fassbender

I first noticed him in Inglorious Basterds, and along with Eli Roth he inspired me to write Brad Pitt Is Not the Hottest Guy in Quentin Tarantino's Latest. The Internet nominates him to play the role of Christian Grey in 50 Shades of Grey.

A good Fassbender gallery comes from The Daily Hotness. A good Fassbender tweet is:

Saw pic labelled "Fassbender fenching." Got all excited to see him performing some filthy new sex act, before realising they meant fencing.
— Charlotte Stein (@Charlotte_Stein) April 24, 2012

7. Chris "Ludacris" Bridges

Ludacris is another guy that when you're a feminist woman, you're not supposed to like him - but damn, this guy can lay down some irresistible beats. I especially enjoy his collaborations with Missy Elliot on "Gossip Folks" and "One Minute Man."

I love him in Crash - not the David Cronenberg film of the J.G. Ballard novel, but the other movie titled Crash. He was also a guest on The Simpsons, on which he created the greatest anti-tooth decay film ever. Dirty dirty mouth, y'all!

Luda even has his own brand of cognac - how cool is that?

Also, bisexual girls like Ludacris 'cause at first we thought he was saying, "Bi chick bad, bi chick hood/Bi chick do stuff that your chick wish she could."



6. Maggie Gyllenhaal

Yeah, yeah, I know I already sung the praises of the female Gyllenhaal sib as part of The Hanukkah Hotness, but can you ever really get enough Maggie G? Maggie and lil bro Jake rank very high on the list of Things Bisexual People Like.

Here, she's modeling for AgentProvocateur.

5. Kal Penn

New Jersey-born Kalpen Suresh Modi serves his country as Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. He's smart and sexy - that's hot. The politician and sometimes academic lecturer on Asian-American studies also goes by the stage name Kal Penn, under which he is best known as Kumar Patel of the film duo Harold & Kumar.

4. Shakira

Hips don't lie.

3. Zachary Quinto

Having had a crush on Syler on Heroes (when he wasn't cutting heads off), I based Zachary in "Innocent" on him. If I would have known he was gay, I would have made it a m/m story. Feel free to send me links to your Syler/Peter Petrelli slash.

No, really. Send them to me.

2. Orlando Bloom

Legolas. Need I say more?

1. Jonathan Rhys Meyers

He's not the guy who made out with Christian Bale in Velvet Goldmine, but who cares? He was in VELVET GOLDMINE.

A good JRM gallery is at MamaKitty Reviews.