Tie-In Tuesday

The Centers for Disease Control, Legionnaires’ Disease and Winnie-the-Pooh

Tuesday’s occasional tie-in series stems from a segment on a syndicated talk radio program which was broadcast before the century’s turn. The show’s host, Leonard Peikoff, tied separate, often disparate, events, concepts or things together on philosophical grounds. Having acknowledged Dr. Peikoff as the master thinker, Autonomia previously debuted this feature last year on March 23 (read that tie-in here).

Today in 1882, Winnie-the-Pooh creator and author A.A. Milne was born in London. Also on this date in 1977, the Atlanta, Georgia-based U.S. government agency known as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) identified the bacterium that caused a disease outbreak during an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976.

What do these two events in history have in common?

Philadelphia’s Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, site of a Legionella pneumophila outbreak in 1976.

A few points come foremost to mind about the medical breakthrough and date in literary history. Both are unequivocally goo…