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Post by Tamrin on May 4, 2012 9:56:52 GMT 10
Friday, 4 May Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you) 1796 - Birth of Bro. Horace Mann, US educator, author and editor (pioneered public schools) 1821 - The Grand Lodge of Illinois was instituted 1825 - Birth of Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist, humanist and Darwinist 1929 - Birth of Audrey Hepburn, Brussels-born British-American actress 1941 - Birth of George Frederick Will, American Pulitzer Prize-winning, journalist and author 1943 - Birth of Michael Palin, British comedian (Monty Python) 1970 - Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandy Scheuer, William Schroeder, students at Kent State University, killed by Ohio National Guard Col. David HackworthUS Military Officer and journalist (Died this day 2005) If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed
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Post by Tamrin on May 5, 2012 14:11:27 GMT 10
Saturday, 5 May Ethiopia: Victory Day (1941) 1813 - Birth of Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (Existentialism) 1818 - Birth of Karl Marx, German-English philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital) 1821 - Death of Napoleon I Bonaparte, Emperor of France (1799-1815) 1851 - Initiation of Bro. Andrew Johnson, 17 th US President, Greenville Lodge #119, Tennessee 1865 - Birth of Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Jane Cochran), American investigative journalist 1882 - Birth of Bro. Sir Douglas Mawson, FRS, English-born Australian Antarctic explorer 1919 - Death of L Frank Baum, American author (Wizard of Oz) [/img] Bob DylanAmerican singer-songwriter, poet, painter and activist I married Isis on the fifth day of May, but I could not hold on to her very long. So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away for the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong[/center]
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Post by Tamrin on May 6, 2012 8:35:17 GMT 10
Sunday, 6 May 1st Black Masonic Lodge, African #459 (formed by Prince Hall, Boston, 1787) 1758 - Birth of Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary and advocate 1856 - Birth of Sigmund Freud, Austrian father of psychoanalysis 1862 - Death of Henry David Thoreau, US writer and pacifist (Walden Pond) 1871 - Birth of Christian Morgenstern, German poet and author (Zarathustra’s Children) 1915 - Birth of Theodore H White, American historian and writer (Making of the President) 1915 - Birth of Orson Welles, US film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer 1937 - Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin caught fire and was destroyed within a minute Martha NussbaumAmerican Philosopher (political philosophy and ethics) (Born this day 1947) As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves
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Post by Tamrin on May 7, 2012 5:45:17 GMT 10
Monday, 7 May Commemoration of Guru Nanak Dev ji, founder of Sikhism (died this day 1539) 1711 - Birth of David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (British Empiricism) 1812 - Birth of Robert Browning, English poet (The Pied Piper) 1861 - Birth of Radindranath Tagore, Hindu poet, mystic and composer (Nobel 1913) 1892 - Birth of Archibald MacLeish, US Poet & librarian 1919 - Birth of Evita Perón, South American actress and Argentinian first lady 1941 - Death of Sir James George Frazer, FRS, Scottish anthropologist (The Golden Bough) 1943 - Birth of Peter Carey, OGG, Australian novelist (Bliss & Oscar and Lucinda) Jenny Joseph, British poet (Born this day 1932) WARNINGWhen I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells And run my stick along the public railings And make up for the sobriety of my youth. I shall go out in my slippers in the rain And pick the flowers in other people's gardens
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Post by Tamrin on May 8, 2012 6:45:27 GMT 10
Tuesday, 8 May Red Cross and Red Crescent Day (founder Henry Dunant born this day 1828) WWII: V-E Day, Victory in Europe (1945) 1794 - Death of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, French “father of modern chemistry” (identified oxygen) 1873 - Death of John Stuart Mill, British philosopher, economist, moral and political theorist 1884 - Birth of Bro. Harry Truman, 33rd US President 1891 - Death of Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian Theosophist 1895 - Birth of Edmund Wilson, American author (Patriotic Gore) 1930 - Birth of Gary Snyder, American poet, essayist, lecturer and environmental activist 1936 - Death of Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes) Rev. Bro. Miguel Hidalgo (aka Cura Hidalgo, “Priest Hidalgo”)Catholic priest, Freemason and “founder of the Mexican War of Independence” (Born this day 1753) My children: a new dispensation comes to us today. Will you receive it? Will you free yourselves? Will you recover the lands stolen three hundred years ago from your forefathers by the hated Spaniards? We must act at once… Will not you defend your religion and your rights as true patriots? Long live our Lady of Guadalupe! Death to bad government! Death to the gachupines!
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Post by Tamrin on May 9, 2012 5:55:38 GMT 10
Wednesday, 9 May Ancient Rome: Lemuralia (festival of ghosts) 1265 - Birth of Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divina Commedia) 1805 - Death of Bro. Friedrich von Schiller, German poet, philosopher and playwright 1860 - Birth of Bro. Sir James Matthew Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (Peter Pan) 1873 - Birth of Howard Carter, British Egyptologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb) 1883 - Birth of José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (The Revolt of the Masses) 1920 - Birth of Richard Adams, English novelist (Watership Down) 1983 - John Paul II announced the reversal of the 1633 condemnation of Galileo Galilei Bro. John BrownMilitant US abolitionist (Harper's Ferry Raid) (Born this day 1800 In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted, the design on my part to free the slaves... That [referring to the Bible in the court room] teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them. It teaches me, further, to "remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them."... I believe that to have interfered as I have done as I have always freely admitted I have done in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit; so let it be done!
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Post by Tamrin on May 10, 2012 7:23:19 GMT 10
Thursday, 10 May Memorial Day of Blessed Damien of Moloka'i (patron of people with leprosy) 1818 - Death of Bro. Paul Revere, Huguenot and American patriot 1849 - Establishment of Provincial Grand Lodge, NSW, EC 1886 - Birth of Olaf Stapledon, British author and philosopher 1898 - Birth of Ariel Durant, American historian 1933 - Birth of Barbara Taylor Bradford, OBE, English writer (A Woman of Substance) 1967 - Birth of Jon Ronson, British journalist and author British journalist and author 1994 - Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president T.J. 'Stonewall' JacksonConfederate General (Died this day 1863) War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time
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Post by Tamrin on May 11, 2012 8:26:20 GMT 10
Friday, 11 May Rastafarian: Commemoration of Bob Marley (died this day 1981) 1865 - The Grand Lodge of West Virginia was instituted 1895 - Birth of Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian spiritual philosopher (Songs of Life) 1904 - Birth of Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist artist (Crucifixion) 1918 - Birth of Richard P Feynman, US physicist (Feynman-diagrams, 1965 Nobel Prize) 1920 - Death of William D Howells, US author (A Woman's Reason) 1933 - Birth of Louis Farrakhan, US minister (million man march) 2001 - Death of Douglas Adams, British science fiction author ("forty-two") Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae singer (Died this day 1981) Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight
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Post by Tamrin on May 12, 2012 10:19:17 GMT 10
Saturday, 12 May Ancient Rome: Ludi Martiales (festival of Mars, god of war) 1310 - Fifty-four Knights Templar were burned at the stake as heretics in France 1634 - Death of George Chapman, English dramatist and interpreter 1820 - Birth of Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC, Italian-born English nurse (Crimean War) 1907 - Birth of Katharine Hepburn, American actor (African Queen, On Golden Pond) 1932 - Dedication of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial, in Alexandria, Virginia 1937 - Birth of George Carlin, American comedian (Seven Words You Can't Say on Television) 1999 - The Grand Lodge of D.C. voted to recognize the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of D.C. Edward LearEnglish artist, illustrator, author, and poet (Complete Nonsense Book) (Born this day 1812) How pleasant to know Mr Lear!' Who has written such volumes of stuff ! Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few think him pleasant enough
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Post by Tamrin on May 13, 2012 10:17:28 GMT 10
Sunday, 13 May Ancient Anatolia: Festival of Purulliyas (slaying of the dragon Illuyankas by Teshub) 1110 - Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath 1559 - Exhumed corpse of David Jorisz burned in Basel for heresy 1840 - Birth of Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (Tartarin de Tarascon) 1907 - Birth of Daphne du Maurier, DBE, English author and playwright 1923 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Cather (One of Ours) 1981 - Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square 1989 - About 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China Bro. Sir Arthur Sullivan, MVOIrish-Italian-English composer (Gilbert and Sullivan) (Born this day 1842) One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully
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