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Post by Tamrin on Oct 30, 2011 9:14:30 GMT 10
Sunday, 30 October
Crusades Ended[/color] (eighth and last crusade finished, 1270) 1501 - Banquet of Chestnuts (Papal orgy, Don Cesare Borgia) 1735 - Birth of John Adams, American revolutionary leader and second US President 1751 - Birth of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright (School for Scandal) 1821 - Birth of Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Russian novelist & short-story writer 1871 - Birth of Paul Valéry, French poet, essayist and critic (La Jeune) 1885 - Birth of Ezra Pound, American poet (Cantos) 1937 - Masonic initiation of Bro. Lyndon B. Johnson, US President (1963 – 1969)  Bro. Orson Welles(Panicked much of the US this day 1938 by broadcasting “War of the Worlds”) I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 31, 2011 16:13:52 GMT 10
Monday, 31 October
Halloween1517 – Martin Luther posted 95 theses on Wittenberg church — Protestant Reformation began 1795 - Birth of John Keats, London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn) 1860 - Birth of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts in USA 1920 - Birth of Richard Stanley “Dick” Dick Francis, CBE, British jockey and crime novelist 1926 - Death of Bro. Harry Houdini (b. Erich Weiss), American magician and escapologist 1987 - Death of Joseph Campbell, US mythologist (Mythic Image) 2008 - Death of Studs Terkel, American activist and progressive journalist  Catherine Helen SpenceScottish-born Australian journalist, social and political reformer, pioneer feminist and author (Born this day 1825) As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in
an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland,
but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 1, 2011 6:33:45 GMT 10
Tuesday, 1 November
Celtic: Samhain, beginning of year & most important holiday Christian: Solemnity of All Saints' Day
Australia: Melbourne Cup Day (first Tuesday in November) 0079 - Pompeii buried by Mt Vesuvius 1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited 1871 - Birth of Stephen Crane, American author (Red Badge of Courage) 1893 - Birth of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anderson_(philosopher) ] John Anderson[/url], Scottish-born Australian philosopher ( Australian Realism) (I studied the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis under his son A.J. ‘Sandy’ Anderson) 1922 - Ottoman Empire abolished 1922 - The cornerstone of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial, in Alexandria, Virginia, was laid in a Masonic ceremony 2008 – Death of Jacques Piccard, Swiss ocean explorer  Étienne de La BoétieFrench judge and author (The Politics of Obedience) (Born this day 1530) That which controls you has only two eyes, has only two hands, has only
one body and but one thing which the least of men in all the cities has, but
more than you all, it is the advantage which you give him to destroy you
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 2, 2011 12:43:32 GMT 10
Wednesday, 2 November
Catholic: All Souls Day1734 - Birth of Bro. Daniel Boone, American frontiersman and explorer 1755 - Birth of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France 1795 - Birth of Bro. James Knox Polk, 11th US President 1865 - Birth of Bro. Warren G Harding, 29th US President 1930 - Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solomonic Dynasty 1950 - Death of George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Fabian 1961 - Death of James Thurber, US humorist (The Male Animal)  George BooleEnglish philosopher and mathematician (Boolean logic, foundation of computer science) (Born this day 1815) Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is per-
haps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 3, 2011 6:32:22 GMT 10
Thursday, 3 November
Feast day of St Martin de Porres, patron of interracial understanding (died this day 1639) 0039 - Birth of Lucan, Cordova, Spain, Latin poet (Bellum Civile) 1793 - Execution of Olympe de Gouges, French playwright, journalist and feminist 1794 - Birth of William Cullen Bryant, US poet and journalist 1874 - Birth of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian novelist 1901 - Birth of Andre Malraux, France, novelist and art historian (L'Espoir) 1920 - Birth of Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly, Kath Walker), MBE, Australian poet 1952 - Birth of Roseanne Barr, American comic actress  Wilhelm ReichAustrian-born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst criminal pseudo-scientist (Orgone Institute) (Died this day 1957) The Rockerfellows [sic] are against me. [Delusion of grandiosity] The airplanes flying over prison are sent by the Air Force to encourage me[Ideas of reference and grandiosity]
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 4, 2011 6:35:43 GMT 10
Friday, 4 November
George Washington’s Masonic Initiation (1752, Fredericksburg Virginia) 1862 - Birth of Eden Phillpotts, English novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes) 1879 - Birth of Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory (Oklahoma), humourist 1908 – Birth of Sir Józef Rotblat, Polish-born British physicist 1916 - Birth of Walter Cronkite, US news anchor (CBS) 1918 – Death of Wilfred Owen, English poet ('Anthem for Doomed Youth') 1922 - Howard Carter’s water carrier discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt 1995 – Death of Morrie Schwartz, American Sociology professor and author (Tuesdays With Morrie)  Joel Barlow, American poet, diplomat and politician Wrote first treaty between USA & another nation (Libya) (Signed this day, Triploli, 1796)  As the government of the United States of America
is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,
– as it has in itself no character of enmity against
the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,
– and as the said States never have entered into any
war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation,
it is declared by the parties that no pretext
arising from religious opinions shall ever
produce an interruption of the harmony
existing between the two countries
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 5, 2011 7:12:37 GMT 10
Saturday, 5 November
U.K.: Guy Fawkes' Night1605 - Gunpowder Plot; Guy Fawkes et al. try to blow up English Parliament 1688 - The Glorious Revolution began: William of Orange (William III) landed at Brixham 1855 - Birth of Eugene V Debs, US labor organizer, Socialist and presidential candidate 1857 - Birth of Ida Tarbell, investigative journalist 1884 - Birth of James Elroy Flecker, English writer (The Old Ships) 1885 - Birth of Will Durant, writer/historian (Story of Civilization) 1943 - Birth of Sam Shepard, Pultzer Prize-winning American author and actor  Vandana ShivaIndian philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author (Born this day 1952) I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy
— not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but dem-
ocracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you.
Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemploy-
ment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are
the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 6, 2011 15:46:45 GMT 10
Sunday, 6 November
Babylon: Commemoration of Tiamat1814 - Birth of Bro. Adolphe Sax, Belgium inventor of the saxophone 1851 - Birth of Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow-Jones & Co., Wall Street Journal) 1854 - Birth of Bro. John Philip Sousa, American March King (Stars & Stripes Forever) 1861 - Birth of Bro. James Naismith, Canadian-American inventor of basketball 1880 - Birth of Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (The Man Without Qualities) 1917 - Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace 1921 - Birth of James Jones, American author (From Here to Eternity)  Jack MichelineAmerican painter and beat poet (Born this day 1929) Good work doesn't sell well they claim. I am a rare human spirit,
the work is open, free and alive. I'm sorry if I frighten them.
Maybe they want stories with condoms on them, clean and
safe. My work is ALIVE! This animal is alive. Sad for this
unbrave world. Sad state indeed. It makes one scream...
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Post by Smithee on Nov 6, 2011 18:00:12 GMT 10
1861 - Birth of Bro. James Naismith, Canadian-American inventor of basketball I had heard that it took years before it occurred to anyone to leave the bottom out of the baskets and that previously every time someone scored a ladder was used to retrieve the ball. |
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 7, 2011 13:14:15 GMT 10
Monday, 7 November
Feast day of Blessed [url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/duns-scotus/
]John Duns Scotus[/url][/color][/b] (Doctor Subtilis), Scottish philosopher-theologian 1687 - Birth of Bro. Rev. Dr William Stukeley, FRS, English antiquarian 1837 - Murder of Elijah P Lovejoy, US preacher, abolitionist and printer 1861 - Running of the first Melbourne Cup (won by Archer) 1867 - Birth of Marie Curie, Nobel Prize winning Polish-French physicist–chemist (discovered radium) 1903 - Birth of Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist/ethologist/writer (Nobel 1973) 1913 - Death of Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist 1913 - Birth of Albert Camus, Algerian-born French existentialist philosopher and author  Hannah Szenes (Senesh), Jewish poet (Murdered this day by Nazis in Budapest, 1944) Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame.
Blessed is the flame that burns in the heart's secret places.
Blessed is the heart that knows, for honors sake, to stop its beating.
Blessed is the match, consumed in kindling flame
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