Nowadays Olive Can't Even Write

Hey there! Welcome to my first countercultural history highlight post! This marks the beginning of a new series of content I will be releasing every other week on Wednesdays. As today is my promised day of return, however, this one is the exception to that rule. Thanks for your patience through all of these updates and I hope you'll stick around! Ah, the Summer of Love. Most of us have heard of it, but many aren't sure of the specifics. Kicking off our first countercultural history highlight with the anniversary of this historical phenomenon's start, let's get into it! Fantasy Fair & Magic Mountain Festival, June 1967, via realsanfranciscotours One of the biggest myths surrounding the Summer of Love is the year. Commonly thought to have taken place in 1969 due to the year's significant contributions to 60s and early 70s counterculture, as well as an unofficial form of the historic get-together that was staged that year. The real deal actually took place in 1967 ...

On April 12, 1990, the Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (located at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts) announced that it would be naming Asteroids 4147, 4148, 4149, and 4150 to Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr respectively. All four of them are between 5 and 10 diameters, and were discovered in 1983 and 1984 by Brian A. Skiff and Dr. Edward L.G. Bowell. Both worked in the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona at the time. Credit: Apple Corps Ltd. "My colleague and I have been fans of the Beatles for 25 years or so, ever since their early days. We thought this would be an unusual distinction for them." Bowell says. He then goes on to add, "It is customary to name asteroids after distinguished scientists or Greek and Roman goddesses, but times are changing, and we think it is a fun thing to honor some other people we like and who we think have done nice things in the world." The two astronomers had discovered a...