Kylie Minogue

11
Sep
2024

Whoa! It’s WEDNESDAY already!!

Today is Ethiopian New Year, a public holiday in Ethiopia. Known in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia as Enkutatash, this holiday marks 1 Meskerem, the first day in the Ethiopian calendar.

The Ethiopian calendar is a solar calendar based on the Egyptian and Julian calendars and was brought to Ethiopia by missionaries. The year consists of 12 months of 30 days and a thirteenth month of five or six timekeeping days. Pagume, the 13th month in the Ethiopian calendar, comes from the Greek word epagomene, which means ‘days forgotten when a year is calculated’.

Enkutatash means the ‘gift of jewels’. It is said to refer to the Queen of Sheba returning from her visit to King Solomon in Jerusalem in 980 BC. On the Queen’s arrival back in Ethiopia, her chiefs welcomed her by filling her treasury with jewels (‘enku’). It may also refer to the countryside, as this time of year coincides with the end of the rainy season meaning the landscape is covered with Adey Abeba, whose bright yellow flowers appear almost in celebration of the impending harvest.

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Here’s a fun video from Kylie Minogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POWsFzSFLCE

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24
Aug
2023

THOR’S DAY

Today is Flag Day in Liberia. It marks the 176th anniversary of the adoption of the Liberian flag in 1847. In July 1847, the Liberian Declaration of Independence was adopted, announcing the independence of Liberia from the United States. Just over a month later, the national flag of Liberia was adopted. The National Flag was designed and produced by a committee of seven ladies led by Mrs Susannah Lewis. These seven women were born in America.

The flag consists of six red stripes and five alternating white stripes, totaling eleven stripes with each representing one of the eleven Signers of the Declaration of Independence of Liberia. The blue field in the upper left corner of a rectangular form with a single white star in the centre of the blue field. The single star represents the freedom that formed the basis of Liberia and should shine forth across the rest of Africa – as Liberia was the only independent state on the continent of Africa at that time.

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Today is the birthday, in 1941, of Ernest Wright from Little Anthony and the Imperials who had the 1958 US No.4 single ‘Tears On My Pillow’, which was The Imperials’ first million-seller. The song has been extensively covered, including a No.1 in the UK Singles Chart version by Kylie Minogue in January 1990. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxjQ3M_v7xc

https://www.youtube.com/embed/4wn0Iah33Fs?si=R8dCB9Fep-tPuD3_

Posted by Tom in eighties music, Humor, Music, sixties and seventies