#26 february

[brummie-man-interests]

Amy Veness was an English film actress.

[brummie-man-interests]

Caspar Fürstenau was a German flautist and composer.

[greendayauthority]

26 February 1994

[worldwide-blackfolk]

[oediex]

Last night I ordered new headphones, because my old ones had given up. This afternoon they had already been delivered.

I ordered them from a Belgian company and I understand that I live in a small country.

But 12-hours-after-ordering delivery seems like a bit much. Surely someone in the chain of possession of my package could have gotten more sleep. Or a day off. Or attendance at their child's violin concert.

It's okay. I can wait.

[dateinthelife]

26 February 1964

George Martin makes different mono mixes of "You Can't Do That" to send to the UK and US pressing plants. I've been trying to find out why, but I haven't been able to land upon the exact search terms in my limited time spend doing frivolous sideblogs, so my best guess is that it was so both the US and UK would have a "master" to make their initial pressings and "master copies" from. But that's just a guess.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 26 February:

1797 – The Bank of Ireland suspends gold payments. 1854 – William Smith O’Brien, leader of the 1848 rebellion, is pardoned. He was convicted of sedition for his part in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, but his sentence of death was commuted to deportation to Van Diemen’s Land. In 1854, he was released on the condition of exile from Ireland, and he lived in Brussels for two years. In 1856…

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[dateinthelife]

26 February 2015

Ringo uses four tulips in this tweet about Sao Paulo. What does it mean?