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Post by Tamrin on Sept 20, 2011 6:58:28 GMT 10
Tuesday, 20 September
Peru: Celebration of the Sun’s birth
Germany: Start of Oktoberfest1565 - Spaniards capture Fort Caroline, Florida & massacre French Protestants (Huguenots) 1784 - The Grand Lodge of England issued a warrant to African Lodge #459 (Prince Hall) 1878 - Birth of Upton Sinclair, American author (The Jungle; Oil!) and politician 1899 - Birth of Leo Strauss, German-born US classical and political philosopher 1928 - Birth of Dr. Joyce Brothers, US psychologist and advice columnist 1934 - Birth of Sophia Loren, Neapolitan actor (Boy on a Dolphin) 1948 - Birth of George R.R. Martin, American science fiction writer  Donald Hall, US Poet Laureate (Born this day 1928) I was a fool three years ago. One is always a fool three years ago
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 21, 2011 13:28:29 GMT 10
Wednesday, 21 September
International Day of Peace 0019 - BCE- Death of Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Roman poet (Eclogues; The Aeneid) 1832 - Death of Bro. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, Scottish historical novelist, folklorist and poet 1860 - Death of Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher The World as Will and Representation) 1866 - Birth of Herbert George (H.G.) Wells, English science fiction author (War of the Worlds) 1897 - NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial 1934 - Birth of Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter 1947 - Birth of Stephen King, American horror writer [/img] Edmund Gosse, CBEnglish poet (Born this day 1849) The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiosity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else[/center]
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 22, 2011 7:08:51 GMT 10
Thursday, 22 September
NeoPagan: Ostara in the southern hemisphere / Mabon in the northern hemisphere1253 - Death of Dôgen, Japanese Zen Buddhist 1692 - Last person hanged for witchcraft in US 1694 - Birth of Bro. Lord Chesterfield, British statesman, introduced Gregorian calendar (1752) 1791 - Birth of Michael Faraday, English natural philosopher (electric motor) 1880 - Birth of Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English feminist 1931 – Birth of Fay Weldon, CBE, British author brought up in New Zealand 1949 - USSR detonates its 1st atomic bomb  R. Gordon WassonAmerican international banker, amateur mycologist, and author (Born this day 1898) Ecstasy! In common parlance ecstasy is fun. But ecstasy is not fun. Your very soul
is seized and shaken until it tingles. After all, who will choose to feel undiluted awe?
The unknowing vulgar abuse the word; we must recapture its full and terrifying sense
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 23, 2011 7:43:57 GMT 10
Friday, 23 September
Ancient Egypt: Feast of Atum
Equinox0480 - BCE - Birth of Euripides, Greek playwright (Alcestis, Medea, Electra, and The Bacchae) 1838 - Birth of Victoria Claflin Woodhull, Ohio, feminist/reformer/free love/1st female presidential candidate 1863 - Birth of Mary Church Terrell, African-American writer and civil rights activist 1869 - Birth of Edgar Lee Masters, US poet and novelist (Spoon River Anthology) 1889 - Birth of Walter Lippmann, American political journalist (Men of Destany) 1930 - Birth of Ray Charles, American singer and musician 1939 - Death of Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist (founded psychoanalysis)  Baroness Emmuska OrczyHungarian-British playwright, artist and novelist (The Scarlet Pimpernel) (Born this day 1865) We seek him here, we seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? — Is he in hell? That demmed, elusive Pimpernel
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 24, 2011 22:35:23 GMT 10
Saturday, 24 September
U.K.: Feast of the Ingathering (England, "Harvest Home" & Scotland "Kirn") 1717 - Birth of Horace Walpole, English writer (The Castle of Otranto) 1825 - Birth of Frances E.A. Harper, African-American author, abolitionist and social reformer 1896 - Birth of F Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist author (Great Gatsby) 1898 - Birth of Baron Howard Florey, FRS, Australian pathologist; purified penicillin (Nobel '45) 1936 - Birth of Jim Henson, US Muppeteer, creator of the Muppets and Sesame Street 1941 - Birth of Linda McCartney (nee Eastman, singer and animal rights activist 1991 - Death of Theodor Geisel, aka Dr Seuss, American writer and illustrator (The Cat in the Hat)  Howard HughesUS aviator, inventor, film producer, eccentric (Born this day 1905) I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 25, 2011 10:02:13 GMT 10
Sunday, 25 September
France: Fête des Sorcières (Witch Festival, Chalindrey) 1786 - The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania was instituted 1794 - Birth of Felicia Hemans, English poet 1897 - Birth of William Faulkner, American Nobel Prize-winning novelist 1930 - Birth of Shel Silverstein, American poet, songwriter, cartoonist and children's writer 1931 - Birth of Barbara Walters, American TV interviewer 1960 - Death of Emily Post, American etiquette expert 1970 - Death of Erich Maria Remarque, German author (All Quiet on the Western Front)  Billy Hughes, CH, KC7th Prime Minister of Australia (Born this day 1862) Some, indeed, came out of this inferno of war apparently unscathed; the bounding
vitality of youth for the time triumphed over the fearful shocks and strain of war.
As the honourable member for Reid and others have said, when the war was over,
they made haste to throw off their soldier's tunic and put on the jacket of a civilian,
thanking God they had been spared, and resolved to put all thoughts of the horrors
they had endured behind them . For three, five, or perhaps ten years they pursued
their various civilian vocations, apparently hale and strong, and then with startling
abruptness comes the end. Their strength oozes from them, their youth passes,
they are broken men. The expectation of life at the age of 24 years, which we may
assume was the average age of men of the Australian Imperial Force, is 43 1/2.
The average death rate at 35 - that is 11 years after the Armistice - is 45 per
thousand; but the men of the AIF are dying at the rate of 75 per thousand. The
war is doing its deadly work, but then again how many of them are below par?
They are still far from old but they are getting toward middle-age. Disease takes
a thousand shapes; some of the men develop Locomotor Ataxia; some tubercular
trouble but these maladies are due to one thing - a lowering of vitality. The
nervous force has been reduced until the men no longer have the power to resist
disease. Their war service has prematurely aged them. If a civilian, subjected to
a similar strain in the course of his employment, sued his employer, no doctor in
Australia would say other than that the ills from which the man was suffering
were due to that cause. The onus of proof is placed on the unfortunate ex-soldier,
although it takes the best of us, in the days of vigorous health, to prove anything
before a Court of Law or other Tribunal. These poor men, suffering the effects
of the great strain of war service, goes before a Tribunal and, because he can-
not prove what no doctor on earth can prove, or disprove, redress is denied him
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 26, 2011 6:26:13 GMT 10
Monday, 26 September
Hawaii - End of Kapu (High Chiefess Kapiolani defied Pele (volcano goddess) 1824 and lived) 1833 - Birth of Charles Bradlaugh, British freethinker, political activist and atheist 1872 - The Shrine of North America (AAONMS) was instituted in New York City 1888 - Birth of T.S. Eliot, US poet, dramatist and critic (Waste Land - Nobel 1948) 1888 - Birth of J Frank Dobie, US folklorist and newspaper columnist 1889 - Birth of Martin Heidegger, German Existentialist & Nazi sympathizer 1902 - Introduction of International Co-Freemasonry into England with the consecration of Lodge Human Duty No. 6, London. 1946 - Birth of Andrea Dworkin, American feminist author  Max EhrmannGerman-American attorney and poet (Born this day 1872) DESIDERATAGo placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace
there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on
good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and
listen to others, even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you
compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always
there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achieve-
ments as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career however
humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for
high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do
not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity
and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel
of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of
spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with
dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of
the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as
it should. Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to
be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 27, 2011 6:32:20 GMT 10
Tuesday, 27 September
Mesopotamia: Day of Willows (Festival for Belili, Astarte or Aeea) Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Churches: Meskel Festival (discovery of the "true cross") 1177 - Pope Alexander III wrote a letter to Prester John seeking an alliance 1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola 1660 - Death of St Vincent de Paul, philanthropist. 1722 - Birth of Samuel Adams, US revolutionary and rabble rouser 1906 - Birth of William Empson, British poet 1913 - Birth of Albert Ellis, US psychologist 1957 - UK began nuclear bomb test series at Maralinga, South Australia  Mata AmritanandamayiIndian religious leader (Born this day 1953) Keep a close watch on the mind! It is a clever liar that
stops you from being aware of your true nature, the SELF
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 28, 2011 6:59:29 GMT 10
Wednesday, 28 September
Ancient Egypt: Feast day of Khepera0551 - BCE - Birth of Confucius, (as celebrated in Taiwan) 1839 - Birth of Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, American educator and suffragette 1841 - Birth of Georges Clemenceau, French statesman and PM (defended Dreyfuss) 1891 - Death of Herman Melville, American novelist (Moby Dick) 1895 - Death of Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist 1918 - Death of Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher 1966 - Death of André Breton, French poet  Víctor Jara MartínezChilean singer-songwriter, theatre director, pedagogue and political activist (Born this day 1932) The cultural invasion is like a leafy tree which prevents us
from seeing our own sun, sky and stars. Therefore in order
to be able to see the sky above our heads, our task is to cut
this tree off at the roots. US imperialism understands very
well the magic of communication through music and persists
in filling our young people with all sorts of commercial tripe.
With professional expertise they have taken certain measures:
first, the commercialization of the so-called ‘protest music’;
second, the creation of ‘idols’ of protest music who obey
the same rules and suffer from the same constraints as the
other idols of the consumer music industry — they last a
little while and then disappear. Meanwhile they are useful in
neutralizing the innate spirit of rebellion of young people. The
term ‘protest song’ is no longer valid because it is ambiguous
and has been misused. I prefer the term ‘revolutionary song’
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 29, 2011 6:48:12 GMT 10
Thursday, 29 September
RC, Ang, Luth: Michaelmas (Feast of SS Michael, Gabriel, Raphael & all angels) 1511 - Birth of Michael Servetus, Spainish physician (Christianism Rostituta) 1547 - Birth of Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (Don Quixote) 1758 - Birth of Bro. Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, British naval hero at Trafalgar 1810 - Birth of Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (Cranford) 1901 - Birth of Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize-winning Italian nuclear physicist 1902 - Death of Émile François Zola, French writer 1902 - Death of William Topaz McGonagall, Britain's favorite bad poet  Charles AddamsAmerican cartoonist (Addams Family) (Died this day 1988) Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nuncAddam’s Family Motto (pseudo-Latin: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us")
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