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Post by Tamrin on Nov 18, 2011 7:15:19 GMT 10
Friday, 18 November 2011
Ancient Persia: Day of Ardvi Sura, Mother of the Stars 1797 - Birth of Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist and women's rights activist 1836 - Birth of Bro. Sir W.S. Gilbert, English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator (Gilbert & Sullivan) 1870 - Birth of Dorothy Dix (Pen-name of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) 1882 - Birth of Jacques Maritain, French philosopher 1900 - Birth of Howard Thurman, US, theologian/author (Deep River, Deep in the Hunger) 1946 - Birth of Alan Dean Foster, American science fiction author (Star Trek & Star Wars) 1962 - Death of Niels Bohr, Danish quantum physicist (1922 Nobel Prize)  George Gallup, US statistician, pollster (Born this day 1901) Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion.
When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect,
paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 19, 2011 9:45:04 GMT 10
Saturday, 19 November 2011
International Men’s Day1600 - Birth of Charles I, king of England (1625-49), executed by Parliament 1833 – Birth of Wilhelm Dilthey, German historian, psychologist and hermeneutic philosopher 1850 - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, was appointed Britain's poet laureate 1861 - Initiation of Bro. James Garfield, US President (1881), Magnolia Lodge No. 20, Ohio 1863 - Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address ("4 score & 7 years...") 1887 – Death of Emma Lazarus, US poet ("Give us your tired & poor") 1915 – Execution of Joe Hill, Swedish-American folk singer & labor leader (IWW)  Bro. Hiram Bingham IIIUS statesman and archaeologist (Machu Picchu) (Born this day 1875) In the variety of its charms and the power of its spell, I know of no
place in the world which can compare with it [Machu Picchu] . Not only
has it great snow peaks looming above the clouds more than two miles
overhead, gigantic precipices of many-colored granite rising sheer for
thousands of feet above the foaming, glistening, roaring rapids; it has
also, in striking contrast, orchids and tree ferns, the delectable beauty
of luxurious vegetation, and the mysterious witchery of the jungle
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 20, 2011 18:36:29 GMT 10
Sunday, 20 November 2011
World: Rights of the Child Day (1959) 1884 - Birth of Norman Thomas, American social reformer 1889 - Birth of Edwin Hubble, US astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift) 1908 - Birth of Alistair Cooke, English-born US journalist, television host and radio broadcaster 1910 - Death of Leo Tolstoy Russia, author (War and Peace) 1924 - Birth of Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish mathematician (proved Zipf's law) 1925 - The Freemasons and other “secret societies” were banned in Italy 1925 - Birth of Robert Kennedy, US Senator  Thomas Chatterton (aka Thomas Rowley)English poet (Born this day 1752) Happy (if mortals can be) is the man, who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:
Reason, to its possessor a sure guide, Reason, a thorn in Revelation’s side
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 21, 2011 10:16:05 GMT 10
Monday, 21 November 2011
Mayan: Day of Quetzalcoatl1694 - Birth of Bro. Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet), French philosopher 1768 - Birth of Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, German theologian and philosopher 1783 - Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight 1838 - The Grand Lodge of Arkansas was instituted 1870 - Birth of Alexander Berkman, Russian-US writer and anarchist 1927 - USA: Columbine Mine Massacre (machine gunning of unarmed, striking coal miners) 1953 - "Pitdown Man," skull discovered in 1912, proved to be a hoax  Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (Died this day 1811) Misconceptions are unavoidable now that we've eaten of the
Tree of Knowledge. But Paradise is locked and bolted, and the
cherubim stands behind us. We have to go on and make the journey
round the world to see if it is perhaps open somewhere at the back
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 22, 2011 12:25:01 GMT 10
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Ancient Greece and Rome: Festival of Artemis1718 - Death of Edward Teach (Blackbeard), English pirate 1819 - Birth of George Eliot, England, novelist (Silas Marner) 1869 - Birth of Andre Gide, France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947) 1916 - Death of Jack London, American socialist novelist 1963 - Death of C.S. Lewis, English novelist. (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) 1963 - Death of Aldous Huxley, English novelist ("Brave New World") 1963 - Assassination of John F Kennedy, 35th U.S. President
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 23, 2011 9:34:39 GMT 10
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Japan: Shinto Harvest Festival (Kinro Kansha no Hi) 1170 - BCE - The first recorded strike, stonemasons and other Egyptian tomb makers (Deir el-Medina) 1499 - Execution of Perkin Warbeck, controversial "Pretender" to the English throne 1920 - Paul Celan, Romanian German language poet, translator and essayist 1926 - Birth of Sathya Sai Baba, Indian fake fakir 1963 - Premier of Doctor Who, the world's longest-running sci-fi TV series 1976 - Death of André Malraux, French art historian and novelist (The Voices of Silence) 1990 - Death of Roald Dahl, British short story writer  Colin TurnbullScottish-born US anthropologist (The Mountain people) (Born this day 1924) My hope that we who have been civilized into such empty beliefs as the essential
beauty and goodness of humanity may discover ourselves before it is too late
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 24, 2011 10:30:40 GMT 10
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Byzantine empire: Brumalia, new wine festival in honour of Dionysus 1572 - Death of John Knox, Protestant founder of Scottish Presbyterianism 1632 - Birth of Benedict de "Baruch" Spinoza, Dutch rationalist philosopher 1713 - Birth of Laurence Sterne, Ireland, novelist and satirist ( Tristram Shandy) 1807 - Death of Bro. Joseph Brant, Native-American Chief (Mohawk Nation) 1849 - Birth of Frances Hodgson Burnett, English novelist ( The Secret Garden) 1876 - Birth of Walter Burley Griffin, Anthroposophist, US city planner ( The Secret Plan of Canberra) 1888 - Birth of Dale Carnegie, US author ( How to Win Friends & Influence People)  Yoshiko Uchida, Japanese-American writer (Born this day 1921) The secret to wisdom is curiosity
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 25, 2011 9:35:20 GMT 10
Friday, 25 November 2011
Feast day St Catherine of Alexandria, patron of philosophers (perhaps an inversion of Hypatia) 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, 2011 10:42:37 GMT 10
Saturday, 26 November 2011
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, 2011 11:40:01 GMT 10
Sunday, 27 November 2011
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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