|
|
Post by Tamrin on Mar 17, 2012 8:21:42 GMT 10
Saturday, 17 March
St Patrick's Day0180 - Death of Roman Emperor Antonius Marcus Aurelius 0461 - Death of St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland 1680 - Death of François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, French author 1848 - The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Washington DC was instituted. 1856 - The Grand Lodge of Kansas was instituted 1942 - Bro. General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander 1948 - Birth of William Gibson, American-Canadian Sci-fi author (Neuromancer)  Margaret BondfieldBritish Labour leader (1st woman cabinet member) (Born this day 1873) Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the
enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately
to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ
with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self
there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value
|
|
|
|
Post by Tamrin on Mar 18, 2012 10:30:21 GMT 10
Sunday, 18 March
Ireland: Sheelah's Day (Sheelah-Na-Gig, Goddess of Fertility) 1314 - Execution of Jacques De Molay, the last Grand Master of Order of Knights Templar 1768 - Death of Laurence Sterne, writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy) 1893 - Birth of Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth) 1901 - Birth of Bro. Manly P Hall, US mystic and author (Secret Teachings of All Ages) 1902 - The Tall Cedars of Lebanon was incorporated in Trenton, New Jersey 1919 - Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City 1980 - Death of Erich Fromm, German-American psychoanalyst, dies at 79  Jacques De MolayLast Grand Master of the Knights Templar (Treacherously executed this day 1314) Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us — God will avenge us
|
|
|
|
Post by Tamrin on Mar 19, 2012 5:47:24 GMT 10
Monday, 19 March
Roman Empire: Festival of Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom 1721 - Baptism of Tobias Smollett, Scottish poet and author 1813 - Birth of Dr. David Livingstone, Scottish medical missionary and explorer 1821 - Birth of Bro. Sir Richard Burton, British explorer, translator, writer and soldier 1848 - Birth of Bro. Wyatt Earp, American Marshall, fought in Gunfight at the OK Corral 1860 - Birth of Bro. William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, presidential candidate 1928 - Birth of Hans Küng, Swiss Catholic priest, theologian and author 1933 - Birth of Philip Roth, American novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)  Edgar Rice BurroughsAmerican sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes) (Died this day 1950) I am Tarzan, King of the Apes, mighty hunter, mighty fighter.
In all the jungle there is none so great
|
|
|
|
Post by Tamrin on Mar 20, 2012 5:46:17 GMT 10
Tuesday, 20 March
Scandinavia: Festival of Iduna, Norse goddess of spring International Earth Day (Equinox) 0043 - BCE - Birth of Ovid, Roman poet 1727 - Death of Sir Issac Newton, FRS, English physicist (“last of the magicians”) 1828 - Birth of Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright 1872 - Death of Bro. William Wentworth, Australian explorer, poet, journalist & politician 1904 - Birth of B.F. Skinner, US psychologist, Behaviorism pioneer (Skinner box) 1962 - Death of C Wright Mills, US sociologist (Power Elite) 1964 – Death of Brendan Behan, Irish writer and poet  F.W. TaylorUS mechanical engineer, “father of scientific management” (Born this day 1856) Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote
a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can
work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace
|
|
|
|
Post by Tamrin on Mar 21, 2012 5:15:48 GMT 10
Wednesday, 21 March
World: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination1763 - Birth of Jean Paul, German poet and humorist 1806 - Birth of Bro. Benito Pablo Juárez, President of México (1858-72) 1816 - Birth of Charlotte Bronte, English novelist and poet 1843 - Death of Robert Southey, English Poet Laureate 1889 - The remaining dissenting lodges in Victoria, Australia joined its Grand Lodge, forming the United Grand Lodge of Victoria in Melbourne with 137 lodges and 7,000 members 1905 - Birth of Phyllis McGinley, US poet and author 1923 - Birth of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (Nirmala Srivastava), founder of Sahaja Yoga  Thomas CranmerArchbishop of Canterbury (Burned at the stake this day 1556) And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's
enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine
|
|
|
|
Post by Tamrin on Mar 22, 2012 5:27:44 GMT 10
Thursday, 22 March
UN: World Day for Water1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book 1832 - Death of Bro. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer 1852 - Birth of Francis Bourdillon, English poet and translator 1896 - Death of Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and novelist (Tom Brown’s School Days) 1908 - Birth of Louis L'Amour, American author (Westerns) 1972 - US Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (ERA not yet ratified) 1974 - Initiation of Bro. Sir William McMahon, Australian PM, Lodge University of Sydney  Constantine the GreatEmperor of Rome (Died this day 0337) In hoc signo vinces(In this sign you will conquer)
|
|
|
|
Post by Tamrin on Mar 23, 2012 5:31:54 GMT 10
Friday, 23 March
UN: World Meteorological Day1749 - Birth of Bro. Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer and physicist 1842 - Death of Bro. Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), French author (Lamiel) 1852 - Birth of Ludwig Quidde, German historian and politician (Nobel Prize 1927) 1900 - Birth of Erich Seligmann Fromm, German-American psychologist and philosopher 1912 - Birth of Werner von Braun, German-American rocket scientist 1942 - Birth of Dr. Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political activist 1952 - Birth of Kim Stanley Robinson, US science fiction author (Mars trilogy)  Dominique de MenilFrench-American arts patron, human rights advocate (Born this day 1908) What should move us to action is human dignity: the
inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity
of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable
|
|
|
|
Post by Tamrin on Mar 24, 2012 6:41:56 GMT 10
Saturday, 24 March
Great Britain: Feast Day of Britannia, goddess of Albion / personification of Britain World Tuberculosis Day1603 - Death of Elizabeth I / Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England 1773 - Death of Bro. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, British statesman and man of letters 1834 - Birth of William Morris, England, designer, craftsman, poet and socialist 1882 - Death of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha) 1903 - Birth of Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer (Observer of Life) 1905 - Death of Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days) 1936 - Birth of Dr. David Suzuki, Japanese-Canadian academic and environmental activist  Bro. Harry HoudiniHungarian-born American magician and escape artist (Born this day 1874) How the early priests came into possession of these secrets [ledgermain] does not appear, and
if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public
|
|
|
|
Post by Tamrin on Mar 25, 2012 7:38:34 GMT 10
Sunday, 25 March
Christian: Feast day of the Annunciation (Lady Day) 1840 - Lodge Australia Felix No 697 EC first meets in Melbourne (later No. 1 UGLV) 1873 - Birth of Rudolf Rocker, German-born anarachist, writer, historian and social activist 1882 - The Grand Lodge of Arizona was instituted 1906 - Birth of AJP Taylor, British historian, Nuclear Disarmament campaigner 1925 - Birth of Flannery O'Connor, American novelist and essayist 1934 - Birth of Gloria Steinem, American feminist and publisher (Ms Magazine) 1939 - Birth of Prof. Toni Cade Bambara, African-American author, film-maker and social activist  Rudolf RockerGerman-born English-American anarcho-syndicalist (Born this day 1873) Every type of political power presupposes some particular form of human slavery,
for the maintenance of which it is called into being. Just as outwardly, that is, in
relation to other states the state has to create certain artificial antagonisms in order
to justify its existence, so also internally the cleavage of society into castes, ranks
and classes is an essential condition of its continuance. The development of the
Bolshevist bureaucracy in Russia under the alleged dictatorship of the proletariat
(which has never been anything but the dictatorship of a small clique over the pro-
letariat and the whole Russian people) is merely a new instance of an old historical
experience which has repeated itself countless times. This new ruling class, which
today is rapidly growing into a new aristocracy, is set apart from the great masses
of the Russian peasants and workers just as clearly as are the privileged castes and
classes in other countries from the mass of the people. And this situation becomes
still more unbearable when a despotic state denies to the lower classes the right to
complain of existing conditions, so that any protest is made at the risk of their lives
|
|
|
|
Post by Tamrin on Mar 26, 2012 5:19:55 GMT 10
Monday, 26 March
Zoroastrianism: Birthday of Zarathushtra
Taiwan: Birthday of Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy1814 - Death of Bro. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician and humanitarian (guillotine) 1827 - Death of Bro. Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist 1892 - Death of Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist and journalist 1904 - Birth of Joseph Campbell, American mythologist (Mythic Image) 1909 - Birth of Bro. Chips Rafferty, MBE, iconic Australian actor and member of Lodge Literature 1911 - Birth of Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) 1941 - Birth of Richard Dawkins, FRS, Kenyan-born British biologist (The Selfish Gene)  Louise OttoGerman writer, feminist, poet, journalist (Born this day 1819) The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...
women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves
|
|
