# ago today (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 11 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ago today. Page: Feed: --- ## [“Into a Black Hole”](https://nocope.substack.com/p/into-a-black-hole) _2026-08-20 · AMRX Mark II · NO COPE_ An assassination plot in Hawaii: myth or suppressed reality? ## [BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Saturday, August 19, 1826](https://unheardbeethoven.org/beethoven-200-years-ago-today-saturday-august-19-1826/) _2026-08-19 · beethoven admin · The Unheard Blog – The Unheard Beethoven_ Beethoven writes a letter, rather informally, to someone he knows well, probably today. “You see what is happening here, so if you would ask there whether they would expect us today at 5 o’clock in the afternoon, as I cannot appear without an escort, and you yourself are informed of … ## [Sell-ebrity](https://nocope.substack.com/p/sell-ebrity) _2026-08-19 · AMRX Mark II · NO COPE_ Do endorsements work? ## [BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Friday, August 18, 1826](https://unheardbeethoven.org/beethoven-200-years-ago-today-friday-august-18-1826/) _2026-08-18 · beethoven admin · The Unheard Blog – The Unheard Beethoven_ Given the conversation book comments later today, there is an undated note from Beethoven to unpaid assistant Karl Holz that may date from early this morning. Beethoven writes to Holz inviting him to mid-day dinner. “For Herr v. Holz. Due to a special coincidence, I ask you, when you get … ## [Kto, Not Chto](https://nocope.substack.com/p/kto-not-chto) _2026-08-18 · AMRX Mark II · NO COPE_ Homocentricity wins over ideology ## [BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Thursday, August 17, 1826 (approximately)](https://unheardbeethoven.org/beethoven-200-years-ago-today-thursday-august-17-1826-approximately/) _2026-08-17 · beethoven admin · The Unheard Blog – The Unheard Beethoven_ Most likely either yesterday or today, Beethoven has an unidentified visitor from Leipzig. Beethoven asks if he is a musician. The visitor once intended to be educated in music, but circumstances prohibited it. He offers to be of use. “If your honor perhaps has any orders to be issued in … ## [Darkness and Ruins](https://nocope.substack.com/p/darkness-and-ruins) _2026-08-17 · AMRX Mark II · NO COPE_ The aftermath of Tropical Storm Lala ## [BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Wednesday, August 16, 1826](https://unheardbeethoven.org/beethoven-200-years-ago-today-wednesday-august-16-1826/) _2026-08-16 · beethoven admin · The Unheard Blog – The Unheard Beethoven_ Beethoven makes a note in the conversation book, and unusually, dates it with today’s date: This comment suggests that despite the popular impression, even at this late date he still had some residual hearing that allowed him to use an ear trumpet to hear a little bit. Conversation Book 118, … ## ["No One Knows Your Loneliness"](https://nocope.substack.com/p/no-one-knows-your-loneliness) _2026-08-16 · AMRX Mark II · NO COPE_ The fortieth anniversary of the end of the Area 88 anime trilogy ## [BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Tuesday, August 15, 1826](https://unheardbeethoven.org/beethoven-200-years-ago-today-tuesday-august-15-1826/) _2026-08-15 · beethoven admin · The Unheard Blog – The Unheard Beethoven_ Beethoven starts a shopping list: Former unpaid assistant Anton Schindler comes to call. Schindler always liked creating rifts between Beethoven and his family members, and he has plenty to say about Nephew Karl: “Some gentlemen from the Polytechnic Institute have assured me that they have warned him several times that … ## [From any door to your door (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Nm7h99oVgUYU) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Book rides, errands, deliveries, groceries and home help in one app ## [Why Was My Mongolian Textbook So Indian?](https://nocope.substack.com/p/why-was-my-mongolian-textbook-so) _2026-08-15 · AMRX Mark II · NO COPE_ Even though Mongolia doesn't border India ## [BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Monday, August 14, 1826](https://unheardbeethoven.org/beethoven-200-years-ago-today-monday-august-14-1826/) _2026-08-14 · beethoven admin · The Unheard Blog – The Unheard Beethoven_ Unpaid assistant Karl Holz takes Beethoven’s receipt for the first installment payment, 40 ducats, for the quartet op.131 to Franck & Co., and collects the gold ducats. He reports to Beethoven, who wants the funds in a more convenient form, Viennese florins. Holz tells him he will have the gold … ## [How Mongolian Was My Mongolian Textbook?](https://nocope.substack.com/p/how-mongolian-was-my-mongolian-textbook) _2026-08-14 · AMRX Mark II · NO COPE_ Arguably not very ## [BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sunday, August 13, 1826 (approximately)](https://unheardbeethoven.org/beethoven-200-years-ago-today-sunday-august-13-1826-approximately/) _2026-08-13 · beethoven admin · The Unheard Blog – The Unheard Beethoven_ Unpaid assistant Karl Holz visits Beethoven for dinner today; he has an appetite. Beethoven inquires into Karl’s condition at the hospital, and whether he is in contact with his mother. Holz tells him that she sent for chocolate and at another time wine for him. \[Although this comment makes it … ## [Je récuse ... !](https://nocope.substack.com/p/je-recuse) _2026-08-13 · AMRX Mark II · NO COPE_ Good luck finding an 'objective' judge in Hawaii ## [Stroh's is spoken here: The rise and fall of a Detroit icon](https://historicdetroit.substack.com/p/strohs-is-spoken-here-the-rise-and) _2026-08-12 · HistoricDetroit.org · HistoricDetroit.org_ Here's how the Detroit brewery went from being a legendary success to a legendary catastrophe ## [BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Saturday, August 12, 1826](https://unheardbeethoven.org/beethoven-200-years-ago-today-saturday-april-12-1826/) _2026-08-12 · beethoven admin · The Unheard Blog – The Unheard Beethoven_ Beethoven (or more likely, unpaid assistant Karl Holz acting on his behalf) delivers the score for the newest quartet, op.131 in C-sharp minor, to the business of Franck Co., who are acting as agents for B. Schott’s Sons publishers in Mainz. The funds in payment for the quartet, 80 ducats, … ## ["An Extraordinary Career"](https://nocope.substack.com/p/an-extraordinary-career) _2026-08-12 · AMRX Mark II · NO COPE_ Hawaii's high standards ## [BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Friday, August 11, 1826 (approximately)](https://unheardbeethoven.org/beethoven-200-years-ago-today-friday-august-11-1826-approximately/) _2026-08-11 · beethoven admin · The Unheard Blog – The Unheard Beethoven_ Unpaid assistant Karl Holz comes to visit Beethoven, around this afternoon. He reports that violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh is pleased that Beethoven has accepted his invitation to dinner. He has also invited the cloth merchant Johann Wolfmayer, who is an enthusiastic supporter of Beethoven. Wolfmayer will be very happy to be … ## [The Pac-Man Election](https://nocope.substack.com/p/the-pac-man-election) _2026-08-11 · AMRX Mark II · NO COPE_ The 2026 Hawaii primary in pie graphs ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QlCtbbmkyFwC) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [Wherein today is Zero Cool Day](https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/08/10.html) _2026-08-10 · jwz · DNA Lounge_ 38 years ago today, Zero Cool hacked all those banks across state lines. From his house. Crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history. Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988. Naturally, that means it's time for our latest installment of CYBERDELIA. Yo, ... ## [BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Thursday, August 10, 1826 (approximately)](https://unheardbeethoven.org/beethoven-200-years-ago-today-thursday-august-10-1826-approximately/) _2026-08-10 · beethoven admin · The Unheard Blog – The Unheard Beethoven_ After working on the quartet op.135 and finishing the proofreading on the latest version of the op.130 quartet, Beethoven does some financial computations. Unpaid assistant Karl Holz picks up the score of op.130 and delivers it to publisher Mathias Artaria. Later in the day, Holz comes back to see Beethoven, … ## [The Doctor and the Dancer](https://nocope.substack.com/p/the-doctor-and-the-dancer) _2026-08-10 · AMRX Mark II · NO COPE_ And other winners in Hawaii's 2026 primary election ## [July 2026 HistoricDetroit.org site update](https://historicdetroit.substack.com/p/july-2026-historicdetroitorg-site) _2026-08-06 · HistoricDetroit.org · HistoricDetroit.org_ We added 13 buildings to our offerings, as well as 658 photos from around the Motor City ## [Nine Years In Switzerland](https://crazymilk.net/blog/nine-years-in-switzerland.html) _2026-08-02 · Crazy Milk_ Nine years ago today, I moved to Switzerland (for the second time). So what has happened over the past 12 months? In short, a lot . (Previous posts after one , three , four , five , six , seven , and eight years in Switzerland.) The Past Year Last Fall shortly after I wrote the previous year's summary post , my son moved to the UK to start his first year of university and my wife and I finally… ## [Reliving my last Grateful Dead show for The Days Between. RFK Stadium, July 16, 1994. Jerry, Bobby, Phil, what a privilege.](https://peterfeld.tumblr.com/post/823784299030511617) _2026-08-01 · think locally act globally_ ## [Happy 735th, Switzerland! 🇨🇭](https://crazymilk.net/blog/happy-735th-switzerland.html) _2026-08-01 · Crazy Milk_ Happy Swiss National Day! I hiked up to Alp Sura for the view and then attended the local 1. August brunch in the village square with music provided by a five-member Swiss folk group. Tomorrow there's a concert followed by lunch (the finale of a 5-day summer fest) that I will also attend. ## [Wherein the Surveillance-Industrial Complex is asking for volunteers](https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/31.html) _2026-08-01 · jwz · DNA Lounge_ I am currently incandescent with rage about something else entirely that I'm told I can't talk about yet, so let me sublimate that instinct with this unrelated story: The SFPD "Real-Time Investigation Center" is the surveillance nightmare funded by a $9.4 million "donation" ## [Happy Signing Day!](https://patowmackpacket.substack.com/p/happy-signing-day) _2026-07-31 · Michael Auslin · THE PATOWMACK PACKET_ August 2 is the 250th anniversary of the day the engrossed Declaration was signed ## [Wherein another artifact comes to light](https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/24.html) _2026-07-24 · jwz · DNA Lounge_ Today's VHS find: Pam Doré posted a video of the first night of Club Q at DNA Lounge, back in the distant year of Two Thousand and Two. Wait, we were still using VHS in 2002? Yes. Yes we were. 2002, in case you didn't know, was 24 years ago. How dare it. The nerve. ## [Persona-led AI publishing (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/iLLpg8FoKhfT) _2026-07-24 · **Sponsored**_ Generate drafts, schedule subdomain publishing, and keep human review where needed. ## [When love turns to hate: Riot at the Belle Isle love-in](https://historicdetroit.substack.com/p/when-love-turns-to-hate-riot-at-the) _2026-07-21 · HistoricDetroit.org · HistoricDetroit.org_ In 1967, hippies took over Detroit's island park - and then the biker gang showed up ## [Wherein we're twenty-five](https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/13.html) _2026-07-13 · jwz · DNA Lounge_ Twenty-five years ago today, on July 13th 2001, was the first event at DNA Lounge under current management. I am very old and I have been leaning on this bar for a very long time. Typically we treat Nov 22 as our "real" anniversary (the club will be turning 41 this year) ... ## [Wherein we are going hard on movie nights](https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/07/05.html) _2026-07-05 · jwz · DNA Lounge_ As our "Cyberdelia" series has seen a bit of success at branching out from being only the "Hackers" party, we've decided to try and screen roughly one cult movie a month! I hope you will join us. Our bill through the rest of the year: Conan the Barbarian (this Sunday!), Evil ## [Happy Independence Day 250!](https://patowmackpacket.substack.com/p/happy-independence-day-250) _2026-07-02 · Michael Auslin · THE PATOWMACK PACKET_ Yes, it's July 2, not July 4, as John Adams knew ## [Happy Draft Day!](https://patowmackpacket.substack.com/p/happy-draft-day) _2026-06-28 · Michael Auslin · THE PATOWMACK PACKET_ A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence is coming soon ## [How a Detroit hero fought poverty, gangs and a burned-out school to save her neighborhood](https://historicdetroit.substack.com/p/how-a-detroit-hero-fought-poverty) _2026-06-27 · HistoricDetroit.org · HistoricDetroit.org_ Miss Pee Wee turns 98 next week. Here the story of this tireless champion of Chadsey-Condon. ## [Woulda, coulda, shoulda: The failed opportunity to save Cooley High School](https://historicdetroit.substack.com/p/woulda-coulda-shoulda-the-failed) _2026-06-18 · HistoricDetroit.org · HistoricDetroit.org_ Detroit's most beautiful surviving high school is falling to the wrecking ball. Here's a look at the latest inevitable, avoidable loss of our city's history. ## [Happy Independence Resolution Day!](https://patowmackpacket.substack.com/p/happy-independence-resolution-day) _2026-06-07 · Michael Auslin · THE PATOWMACK PACKET_ 250 years ago today, Richard Henry Lee proposed Independence ## [Hazen S. Pingree: Not just Detroit's best mayor, but one of the greatest in American history](https://historicdetroit.substack.com/p/hazen-s-pingree-not-just-detroits) _2026-05-30 · HistoricDetroit.org · HistoricDetroit.org_ It was 122 years ago today that Detroiters unveiled a monument to him - here's why ## [Exploding bananas, ugly fish, an arsonist's match and preserving Eastern Market](https://historicdetroit.substack.com/p/exploding-bananas-ugly-fish-an-arsonists) _2026-05-21 · HistoricDetroit.org · HistoricDetroit.org_ The story of Frontera & Son and how it helped save a beloved Detroit institution, even though it wouldn't be saved itself. ## [The People's Declaration](https://patowmackpacket.substack.com/p/the-peoples-declaration) _2026-05-17 · Michael Auslin · THE PATOWMACK PACKET_ How Americans Came Face-to-Face with the Declaration ## [The Boston "National Treasure" Party](https://patowmackpacket.substack.com/p/a-boston-declaration) _2026-05-08 · Michael Auslin · THE PATOWMACK PACKET_ A Declaration tour in the Cradle of the Revolution ## [Launch Week!](https://patowmackpacket.substack.com/p/launch-week) _2026-05-03 · Michael Auslin · THE PATOWMACK PACKET_ "National Treasure" is Now Live ## [108 years ago today, Michigan banned booze - and created one of America's deadliest crime families](https://historicdetroit.substack.com/p/108-years-ago-today-michigan-banned) _2026-05-01 · HistoricDetroit.org · HistoricDetroit.org_ The state went dry two years before the rest of the nation, but its location across the river from Canada turned Detroit into a hotbed for rum-running and the bloodshed that comes with it ## [Detroit's 'other' train station: The Union Depot](https://historicdetroit.substack.com/p/detroits-other-train-station-the) _2026-05-01 · HistoricDetroit.org · HistoricDetroit.org_ It was 55 years ago today that the venerable downtown landmark was shuttered. It fell to the wrecking ball 3 years later ## [Remembering Detroit's Tiger Stadium on its 114th birthday](https://historicdetroit.substack.com/p/remembering-detroits-tiger-stadium) _2026-04-20 · HistoricDetroit.org · HistoricDetroit.org_ The Corner was a Queen of Diamonds. The history and memories there stretch generations back and all the way to the halls of Cooperstown ## [Returning To Mountain Biking After 20 Years](https://johnsad.ventures/2026/04/20/returning-to-mountain-biking-after-20-years/) _2026-04-20 · John Conners · John's Adventures_ Long time readers of this blog may recall I spent a lot of my 20s mountain biking. Pretty much all my spare time was spent riding up hills, then riding down them again all around Yorkshire and the Lake District. Good times! But you know how it goes, people start settling down, getting married, having Read more ## [A Pilgrimage to Lausanne](https://patowmackpacket.substack.com/p/a-pilgrimage-to-lausanne) _2026-04-19 · Michael Auslin · THE PATOWMACK PACKET_ Looking at Lake Geneva through Edward Gibbon's eyes ## [Citizenship, Interrupted](https://crazymilk.net/blog/citizenship-interrupted.html) _2026-04-18 · Crazy Milk_ Naturalization in Switzerland is a lengthy and complicated process with differing requirements at the municipal, cantonal, and federal levels. First and foremost one becomes a citizen of one's community, then of one's canton, and finally of the country. As of January of this year I have lived in Switzerland for ten years total, which is a requirement for naturalization at the federal level. I had… ## [Voting in Switzerland](https://crazymilk.net/blog/voting-in-switzerland.html) _2026-04-18 · Crazy Milk_ I am not a Swiss citizen, but I have had my permanent residency for a couple years now. As such I am not allowed to vote in cantonal or federal elections. Imagine my surprise a few weeks ago after my recent move when I received a ballot to vote in local elections. The canton of Graubünden allows each municipality to decide independently whether to allow permanent residents to vote in local…