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"Feats Don't Fail Me Now" by Little Feat released this day in 1974.
#LittleFeat #FeatsDontFailMeNow #VintageVinyl
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Cicada Courting
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#MikeLuckovich 8/8/2025
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Twang! It's Friday!
"Together Again" by Kitty Wells and Red Foley released in August 1967.
#KittyWells #TogetherAgain #RedFoley #VintageVinyl #TwangItsFriday
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August 8, 1988 first night game at Wrigley Field.
After 5,687 consecutive day games played by the Cubs at Wrigley, the lights were finally lit on August 8, 1988, for a game against the Philadelphia Phillies. However, that game was rained out after 3½ innings, and the first official night game took place the following evening against the New York Mets, whom the Cubs beat 6–4.
#Cubs #MLB
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August 6, 1890 - At Auburn Prison in New York state, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in the electric chair, developed by the Medico-Legal Society and Harold Brown, a colleague of Thomas Edison.
William Kemmler received two applications of 1,300 volts of alternating current. The first lasted for only 17 seconds because a leather belt was about to fall off one of the second-hand Westinghouse generators. Kemmler was still alive. The second jolt lasted until the smell of burning flesh filled the room, about four minutes.
As soon as his charred body stopped smoldering, Kemmler was pronounced dead.
#CapitolPunishment
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“For decades, America’s allies accepted US control of these systems, because they believed in the American commitment to a “rules-based international order.” They can’t persuade themselves of that any longer.”
#Enshittification
https://www.wired.com/story/enshittification-of-american-power/