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Post by Tamrin on Nov 25, 2012 6:29:14 GMT 10
Sunday, 25 November Feast day St Catherine of Alexandria, patron of philosophers (perhaps an inversion of Hypatia) Australia: White Ribbon Day (against domestic violence) 1562 - Birth of Félix Lope de Vega, Knight of Malta, Spanish playwright and poet 1748 - Death of Dr Isaac Watts, English hymnist, theologian and logician 1813 - The Articles of Union for the United Grand Lodge of England were signed 1835 - Birth of Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist 1841 - 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa 1970 - Suicide (seppuku) of Yukio Mishima, Japanese author 1990 - Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election Rev. John Flynn, OBEFounder of Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service (Born this day 1880) Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers but for powers equal to your tasks
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 26, 2012 5:14:58 GMT 10
Monday, 26 November Bahá'í Faith: Day of the Covenant1778 - Capt Cook discovers Hawaii (Sandwich Islands) 1894 - Birth of Norbert Wiener, US mathematician (discovered cybernetics) 1895 - Birth of William Griffith Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous 1909 - Birth of Eugène Ionesco, French-Romanian playwright and dramatist 1922 – Howard Carter opened Tutankhamen’s tomb 1922 - Birth of Charles M Schulz, cartoonist (Peanuts) 1929 - Initiation of Bro. Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketing legend (Lodge Tarbolton, NSW) Sarah Moore GrimkéAmerican abolitionist, attorney, judge and feminist (Born this day 1792) I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 27, 2012 5:33:07 GMT 10
Tuesday, 27 November Day of Sophia: Solomon’s wise bride (Asherah, Athena, Chokmah, Sapientia, Bride of Christ, etc.) 0008 - BCE - Death of Horace, Latin poet and satirist 1874 - Birth of Charles A. Beard, American historian (American Continentalism) 1893 - World First: Women in New Zealand voted in a national general election 1909 - Birth of James Agee, US novelist, screenwriter, journalist and poet 1940 - Birth of Bruce Lee, Chinese-American Martial arts expert, philosopher and actor 1942 - Birth of Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist, singer and songwriter 1957 - Birth of Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, American author and attorney Caroline Bouvier KennedyAmerican author and attorney (Born this day 1957) As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 28, 2012 8:23:49 GMT 10
Wednesday, 28 November Ancient Egypt: Feast of Hathor as Sekhmet1628 - Birth of John Bunyan, English cleric and author (Pilgrim's Progress) 1660 - At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decided to found what was to become known as The Royal Society 1757 - Birth of William Blake, English poet and painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience) 1820 - Birth of Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher (Marx's collaborator) 1859 - Death of Washington Irving, American author (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle) 1884 - Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, the world’s premier research lodge was warranted, London 1908 - Birth of Claude Levi-Strauss, Belgium, social anthropologist Alberto MoraviaItalian writer (Indifferent Ones) (Born this day 1907) When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 29, 2012 7:32:22 GMT 10
Thursday, 29 November UN: International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People1314 - Death of Philip IV of France ('Philip the Fair'), betrayed the Knights Templar 1484 - The Spanish Inquisitors was established under Tomás de Torquemada 1811 - Birth of Wendell Phillips, US Human Rights advocate 1832 - Birth of Louisa May Alcott, US author (Little Women) 1872 - Death of Horace Greeley, American newspaperman 1898 - Birth of C.S. Lewis, Irish scholar and author (The Chronicles of Narnia) 2001 - Death of George Harrison, MBE, British musician (Beatles) Petra KellyGerman parliamentarian and activist (German Green Party) (Born this day 1947) The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determin- ation and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth... In a world struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further development of non-violence not only as a philosophy but as a way of life, as a force on the streets, in the market squares, outside the missile bases, inside the chemical plants and inside the war industry becomes one of the most urgent priorities... The suffering people of this world must come together to take con- trol of their lives, to wrest political power from their present masters pushing them to- wards destruction. The Earth has been mistreated and only by restoring a balance, only by living with the Earth, only by emphasizing knowledge and expertise towards soft energies and soft technology for people and for life, can we overcome the patriarchal ego
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 30, 2012 7:19:03 GMT 10
Friday, 30 November Death of Cleopatra VII, last of the Pharaohs, 30 BCE 0406 - BCE - Death of Euripides, Athenian tragic dramatist 1667 - Birth of Bro. Jonathan Swift, Irish-born English satirist and author 1835 - Birth of Bro. Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), US author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn) 1874 - Birth of Bro. Sir Winston Churchill, British PM (1940-45, 1951-55; Nobel 1953) 1874 - Birth of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author 1900 - Death of Bro. Oscar Wilde, Irish author 1936 - Birth of Abbie Hoffman aka Free, US Yippie, activist and author (Steal this Book) Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), US labor activist (Died this day 1930) I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 1, 2012 6:03:33 GMT 10
Saturday, 1 December Ancient Greece & Rome: Festival of Pallas Athena & Minerva1886 – Birth of Rex Stout, US crime writer (Nero Wolfe) 1893 - Birth of Ernst Toller, left-wing German playwright 1935 – Birth of Woody Allen, professional New York neurotic 1942 - Birth of John Crowley, American author (fantasy, science fiction & mainstream) 1947 - Death of Aleister Crowley, English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician 1955 - Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger 1987 - Death of James Baldwin, US novelist, playwright, poet, and social critic Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian (Born this day 1083) Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 2, 2012 18:00:24 GMT 10
Sunday, 2 December International Day for the Abolition of Slavery1814 - Death of Marquis de Sade (eponymous “sadist”), French aristocrat and writer (Justine) 1859 - Hanging of Bro. John Brown, US militant abolitionist (Harpers Ferry Raid) 1910 - Birth of Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, editor and author 1930 - Birth of Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize 1950 - Birth of Paul Watson, Canadian founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society 1995 - Death of William Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist, essayist and dramatist 2002 - Death of Ivan Illich, Austrian-born Christian anarchist, author, polymath, and polemicist Sissela BokSwedish-born American philosopher and ethicist (Born this day 1934) While all deception requires secrecy, not all secrecy is meant to deceive
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 3, 2012 5:58:34 GMT 10
Monday, 3 December Ancient Greece and Phrygia: Day of Cybele or Rhea (Great Mother) Ancient Rome: Day of Bona Dea (the good goddess) International Day of People with Disabilities1823 - Death of Bro. Giovanni Belzoni (the Great Belzoni), monk, circus strongman and Egyptologist 1842 - Birth of Ellen Swallow Richards, American industrial and environmental chemist 1857 - Birth of Joseph Conrad, Polish novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness) 1894 - Death of Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish-Samoan writer (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) 1895 - Birth of Anna Freud, Austrian-English psychoanalyst (daughter of Sigmund Freud) 1924 - Birth of Francisco Sionil José, Filipino novelist, Philippine National Artist for Literature 2000 - Death of Gwendolyn Brooks, American Pulitzer Prize winning poet ( Annie Allen) Mary Baker Eddy, US Christian Science founder (Died this day 1910) Reject hatred without hating
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 4, 2012 5:48:51 GMT 10
Tuesday, 4 December Commemoration of St Barbara, virgin-martyr (one of our Patron Saints) México: Day of the Artisans1679 - Death of Thomas Hobbes, early Enlightenment philosopher (Leviathan “Social Contract”) 1795 - Birth of Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist/historian (French Revolution) 1807 - Death of Prince Hall, Human Rights activist and Masonic leader 1835 - Birth of Samuel Butler, English satirical novelist (Erewhon; The Way of All Flesh) 1917 - Bro. Dr. Sir Earle Page, Australian PM, was made a Mason in Lodge Prince Leopold, NSW 1975 - Death of Hannah Arendt, German-US sociologist 1993 - Death of Frank Zappa, American musician Edith Cavell, English nurse (WWI) (Born this day 1865) I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone
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