The smiley at the end makes me think you're joking, but I'm not 100% sure, so I'm just going to point out that Händel and Haydn were different people anyway.
The "Poor Marksman" clue went straight over my head. I had to Google it, and even then it's mentioned in the last line of his Wikipedia article. I assume he is more famous in America?
The poor marksman was in a very famous duel with a US vice president. He was not the winner. They made a musical play a couple years ago about it that played to packed theaters.
I thought the clue was very funny, but I do agree that for people who are not familiar with the person in question (or the musical, which is the reason many people are familiar with him in the first place) it might not be ideal.
Not enough mushroom shape in the Hiroshima picture. I thought it was a volcano and was thinking about what city starting with H was destroyed by Vesuvius or Krakatoa.
QM, you know there's always one in every crowd. I've seen that same image many times in documentaries and old newsreels but contrary to popular belief I wasn't around when it happened.
I didn't think he was complaining, just commenting. He was voicing the same thing I thought, and I nearly missed it because it also looked to me like a volcano. I don't remember ever seeing an actual photo before, but once I figured it out it was pretty chilling.
I failed to recognise it too. As I understand it, the Hiroshima bomb was much less powerful than the atomic bombs around these days. That would've affected the shape of the cloud. I actually like that it isn't exactly what popular culture would have you think.
the cloud was almost certainly what you expected it to look like for the first few seconds after detonation. this picture is after the superheated air has risen to...20,000 feet or so.
Why? Hejira is a totally different event, occuring around 622 C.E. when Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina (essentially from a people that oppressed him and his followers to a people that accepted him as their ruler and gave him and his followers a new home), a turning point in early Islamic History and the mark of a new age. That's why it marks the beginning of the Islamic (Hejiri) Calender. This image, on the other hand, shows the Kaaba, in Mecca, which is a symbol for the Hajj since it is the starting point of the annual pilgrimage (which mostly takes place outside of Mecca, by the way, and includes traveling to and staying in some places you may have never heard of, like Mina, Muzdalifa and most importantly, Mount Arafat.)
Yes, nicely put. But Hajj isn't an "event". It is a Holy pilgrimage, and should not be put as an "event", such as a carnival or something. It is Holy and should be referred to as a religious pilgrimage. The point is, it is not an event but a pilgrimage.
Well, yeah, but that would give the clue away. I think stating it as an event does no harm, because 'event' can mean anything and not specifically the modern Facebook-attend-this-event type of meaning. The battle of the Trench was an event, so was the conquest of Mecca. Similarly, giving Zakah every year is considered an annual event, so why not the Hajj?
I do have a point to make about the caption underneath the image, however. The Hajj didn't start in 629 C.E. It is an ancient practice that was performed by the Arab tribes from across the peninsula centuries before the time of Muhammad. You can find mention of it in Roman sources about Mecca, which I remember reading about in the Wikipedia page of Mecca. Of course, the Hajj as we know it today started after Islam, but before that pagan arabs used to go there every year, giving gifts and sacrifices to the idols that surrounded the Kaaba at that time, each tribe having their own idol, and so on. The word Hajj itself means "pilgrimage" in Arabic and doesn't specifically mean the Islamic event, although it has become synonymous with it.
Moreover, if you want to go deeper into history, even before paganism spread to Arabia, there were pilgrimages to the one god, Allah, going back to the time of Abraham, who built the Kaaba, according to both the Quran and pre-Islamic Arab tradition. The whole city of Mecca was founded from that event, along with the discovery of the Zamzam well that provided water for the tribes that settled there and allowed some of them to stay permenantly, eventually becoming the Quraysh, Muhammad's tribe.
Looking, to the world, like a man on a mission
This is a soldier with a marksman’s ability
The doctor turned around so he could have deniability
Even Aaron Burr said that Hamilton was a good shot. Come on man...he aimed his pistol at the sky!