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Post by Tamrin on Dec 8, 2011 17:37:30 GMT 10
Thursday, 8 December
Ancient Egypt: Festival of Neith, creation goddess Ancient Greece: Feast of Astraea, goddess of justice R. Catholic: Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary (1854) 0065 - BCE - Birth of Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Roman writer 1708 - Birth of Bro. Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine, first Royal to become a Freemason (1731) 1858 - The Grand Lodge of Washington State was instituted 1865 - Birth of Bro. John Julius Sibelius, Finnish composer 1894 - Birth of James Thurber, American cartoonist and humorist 1903 – Death of Herbert Spencer, British engineer and philosopher 1980 - Murder of John Lennon, British musician (Beatles)  Delmore SchwartzUS poet and short story writer (Shenandoah) (Born this day 1913) Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 9, 2011 9:45:22 GMT 10
Friday, 9 December
International Anti-Corruption Day1291 - Death of Sa'di, Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden) 1608 - Birth of John Milton, London, poet and puritan (Paradise Lost) 1848 - Birth of Joel Chandler Harris, US journalist (Uncle Remus) 1869 - Noble Order of the Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia 1933 – Birth of Ashleigh Brilliant, English-American academic and cartoonist (Pot-Shots) 1964 – Death of Edith L Sitwell, English poet and author (Wheels) 1999 - The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of D.C. voted to recognize the Grand Lodge of D.C.  Natsume Sôseki, Japanese novelist (Died this day 1916) You seem to be under the impression that there is a special breed of bad humans.
There is no such thing as a stereotype bad man in this world. Under normal
conditions, everybody is more or less good, or, at least, ordinary. But tempt
them, and they may suddenly change. That is what is so frightening about men
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 10, 2011 17:46:07 GMT 10
Saturday, 10 December
Ancient Rome: Festival of Lux mundi (the “Light of the World”, goddess of liberty) International: UN Human Rights Day1815 - Birth of Countess of Lovelace, English mathematician, (“World's First Computer Programmer”) 1824 - Birth of George MacDonald, Scottish sci-fi author (Lilith, Princess & Curdie) 1830 - Birth of Emily Dickinson, American poet (Posies and Poesies) 1896 - Death of Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date 1936 - Death of Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934) 1958 - Birth of Guru Maharaj Ji (Prem Rawat), Indian mystic 1968 - Death of Thomas Merton, French-US priest and author  Averroës ibn-Rusjd, Moorish philosopher (Died this day 1198) Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 11, 2011 8:53:34 GMT 10
Sunday, 11 December
UNICEF DAY: United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (1946) 1849 - Birth of Ellen Key, Swedish author, feminist (Courageous Woman) 1882 - Birth of Bro. Fiorello LaGuardia, US Congressman & New York Mayor 1911 – Birth of Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist, 1988 Nobel laureate 1918 - Birth of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970) 1920 - Death of Olive Schreiner, South African writer and anti-war campaigner 1931 - Birth of Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh), Indian prof. of philosophy and cult leader 1939 - Birth of Tom Hayden, US social and political activist and politician  Max BornGerman physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954) (Born born [pun intended] this day 1882) Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible;
reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless.
Even the possible can be senseless
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 12, 2011 17:17:51 GMT 10
Monday, 12 December
World: National Ding-a-ling Day
Mexico: Memorial of Dark Virgin of Guadalupe1204 - Death of Maimonides (Moses Ben Maimon), Jewish philosopher, Talmudic scholar 1731 - Birth of Erasmus Darwin, English physician, scientist and poet 1787 - The Grand lodge of North Carolina was instituted 1805 - Birth of William Lloyd Garrison, US abolitionist publisher (The Liberator) 1821 - Birth of Bro. Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (Madame Bovary) 1851 - Death of Bro. Joel Roberts Poinsett, American physician, statesman and botanist (Poinsettia) 1929 - Birth of John Osborne, British dramatist (Look Back in Anger)  Richard BaxterEnglish Puritan church leader, poet and theologian (Born this day 1615) Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 13, 2011 9:16:22 GMT 10
Tuesday, 13 December
Ancient Rome: Festival of Tellus, archaic Earth goddess (equivalent to Greek Gaia) Sweden: Lucia Day, memorial of St Lucy, virgin & martyr 1585 - Birth of William Drummond, of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (The Cypresse Grove) 1784 - Death of Samuel Johnson, English author, poet and lexicographer 1797 - Birth of Heinrich Heine, German journalist and essayist 1902 - Birth of Talcott Parsons, American sociologist (Action Theory) 1906 - Birth of Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE, Afrikaner soldier, explorer and conservationist 1924 - Death of Samuel Gompers, Union organizer (American Federation of Labor) 1990 - Death of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and dramatist  Ella Josephine BakerAfrican-American Civil Rights activist (Born this day 1903 / Died this day 1986) Give light and people will find the way
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 14, 2011 19:56:08 GMT 10
Wednesday, 14 December
Ancient Rome: Beginning of Halcyon Days (14 days) 1546 - Birth of Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist 1784 - Initiation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Lodge "Zur Wohltätigkeit" 1799 - Death of Bro. George Washington, 1st President USA (1789-97) 1873 - Death of J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist and paleo-biologist 1897 - Birth of Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (Presidential nominee) 1974 - Death of Walter Lippmann, US journalist (One of Dynasty) 1989 - Death of Andrei D Sakharov, Soviet Physicist/Dissident/1975 Nobel peace prize winner  St. John of the CrossSpanish mystic (Discalced Carmelites) (Died this day 1591) The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in
it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong
wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not,
if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 15, 2011 20:12:19 GMT 10
Thursday, 15 December
Ancient Rome: Consualia, commemorating Consus — god of the harvest & Festival of Fortuna — goddess of happy journeys and prosperous returns 1793 - Birth of Henry Charles Carey, US economist (Principles of Political Economy) 1832 - Birth of Bro. Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (Eiffel tower & Statue of Liberty’s frame) 1874 - The Grand Lodge of Wyoming was instituted 1888 - Birth of Maxwell Anderson, American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist 1890 - Murder of Tatanka Yotanka (Chief Sitting Bull) Sioux holy man 1906 - Birth of Betty Smith, German-US novelist (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) 1932 - Birth of Edna O'Brien, Irish-American novelist, short-story writer and screenwriter  Bro. Glenn MillerUS musician and Big Band leader (Swing) (Went “missing in action” this day 1944) A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 16, 2011 8:05:44 GMT 10
Friday, 16 December
Ancient Rome: Feast Day of Sapienta (or Sophia) – goddess of wisdom South Africa: Day of Reconciliation (1994) – Formerly, Afrikaner Day of the Covenant 1770 - Birth of Bro. Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Ode to Joy) 1775 - Birth of Jane Austen, English novelist (Pride & Prejudice) 1786 - The Grand Lodge of Georgia was instituted 1863 - Birth of George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, poet and humanist (Last Puritan) 1901 – Birth of Margaret Mead, American anthropologist 1903 - Women voted for the first time in Australian general elections 1917 - Birth of Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction author  Liv UllmannNorwegian actress and humanitarian (Born this day 1939) I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others
have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be
missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 17, 2011 13:01:24 GMT 10
Saturday, 17 December
Ancient Rome: Saturnalia / Medieval Britain: Feast of Misrule
Venezuela: Bolivar Day (1830) 1273 - Death of Rumi (Jalâl ad-Dîn Muhammad Balkhî), Persian poet and Sufi mystic 1493 - Birth of Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician and alchemist (Liber paramixum) 1796 – Birth of Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist 1807 - Birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, US abolitionist poet (Snow-bound) 1867 - The Grand Lodge of Idaho was instituted 1907 - Death of Lord Kelvin of Largs (William Thomson), British physicist 1967 - Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (1966-67), drowns at 59  Bro. Simon Bolivar, "The Liberator" South American military and political leader (Died this day 1830) We have ploughed the sea(Referring to the evils of old regimes reappearing after revolutions)
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