Mastodon Feed
Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:
Today in Labor History October 11, 1944: The Soviet Union annexed the Tuvan People's Republic, which had been an independent socialist republic for the previous 23 years. “Tuva or Bust,” (1991) is a book by Ralph Leighton about his attempt to travel to Tuva with his friend, physicist Richard Feynman. They became intrigued with getting to the remote destination in the middle of Central Asia and spent a decade trying to do it. Feynman died of cancer shortly before their visas finally arrived. The bumper sticker “Tuva or Bust” was featured in the film “Genghis Blues,” about San Francisco blues singer Paul Pena’s trip to Tuva to perform in their national Throat Singing competition. Pena was a blind rock and blues musician from San Francisco who taught himself Tuvan throat singing by listening to it on shortwave radio. Feynman made major contributions to the fields of Quantum Mechanics and superfluidity and won the Nobel Prize in 1965.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-%5FxlbCq0WTw
#workingclass #LaborHistory #soviet #communism #ussr #tuva #richardfeynman #physics #nobelprize #blues #paulpena #socialism #books #writer #author @bookstadon