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Post by Tamrin on May 24, 2012 10:42:49 GMT 10
Thursday, 24 May Ptolemaic Egypt: Feast day of Hermes Trismegistus (Thrice Great Hermes) France / Roma (Gypsy): La Fete des Saintes Maries ( Three Marys of the Sea) 1543 - Death of Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (Heliocentrism) 1743 - Birth of Bro. Jean-Paul Marat, Prussian-born physician and French revolutionary 1794 - Birth of William Whewell, British philosopher (History of Inductive Science) 1879 - Death of William Lloyd Garrison, US journalist and abolitionist (Liberator) 1901 - Initiation of Bro. Sir Winston Churchill in Studholme Lodge, London 1918 - Birth of Bro. Coleman A Young, 33°, US politician and civil rights leader 1941 - Birth of Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, poet and painter Lillian Moller GilbrethAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer ("Mother' of Modern Management") (Born this day 1878) Wives and mothers are entitled to share in this freedom and fulfillment, but this happy situation can be attained only if the responsibilities of the home are shared and efficiently handled
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Post by Tamrin on May 25, 2012 6:24:56 GMT 10
Friday, 25 May Ephesus: Procession of the Statue of Artemis (goddess of the hunt) Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy: Towel Day ( commemorates Douglas Adams’ life) 1420 - Henry the Navigator was appointed governor of the Order of Christ (formerly the Knights Templar) 1787 - US Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, Bro. George Washington presiding 1803 - Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist and philosopher (Concord Hymn) 1803 - Birth of Bro. Baron Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English politician and novelist 1908 - Birth of Theodore Roethke, US poet (Words for the Wind) 1938 - Birth of Raymond Carver, American short story writer and poet 1985 - Death of Robert Nathan, US writer and poet (Portrait of Jennie) Robert Ludlum, American author (Born this day 1927) How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument
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Post by Tamrin on May 26, 2012 8:25:31 GMT 10
Saturday, 26 May Ancient Rome: Festival of Diana (First of six day festival) Australia: National Sorry Day (Stolen Generation) 1703 - Death of Samuel Pepys, English marine expert and diarist 1759 - Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, British writer 1822 - Birth of Edmond de Goncourt, French writer and critic (Académie Goncourt) 1828 - Death of Bro. John Oxley, Australian explorer (Lodge of Social and Military Virtues, IC, NSW) 1907 - Birth of Bro. John "Duke" Wayne, US actor (True Grit) 1928 - Birth of Dr Jack Kevorkian ('Doctor Death'), Armenian-American medico 1976 - Death of Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (Holzweg) Venerable Bede Translating the Gospel of John, by JD Penrose Beda Venerabilis (the Venerable Bede)English speaking church historian (Died this day 735) He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbour
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Post by Tamrin on May 27, 2012 9:21:40 GMT 10
Sunday, 27 May Lutheran: Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the church (died this day 1564) 1818 - Birth of Amelia Jenks Bloomer, American suffragette known for her pantaloons 1819 - Birth of Julia Ward Howe, US author and lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic) 1867 - Birth of Arnold Bennett, English novelist, playwright & critic (Great Babylon) 1902 - Birth of Rev. Bro. Peter Marshall, Scottish-born Chaplain to the US Senate (A Man Called Peter) 1923 - Birth of Henry Kissinger, US Nobel Peace Prize recipient & alleged war criminal 1957 - Death of M.W. Bro. Carl H. Claudy, US Masonic author and playwright 1964 - Death of Jawaharlal Nehru, Independent India's 1st Prime Minister Dominique BouhoursFrench Jesuit, grammarian and critic (Died this day 1702) I am about to — or I am going to — die. Either expression is used(Last words)
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Post by Tamrin on May 28, 2012 8:57:36 GMT 10
Monday, 28 May Ancient Greece: Purification of Pythia, priestess at Delphi (sacred to Gaia and later to Apollo) 1739 - Death of Bro. Rev. Dr. James Anderson, produced Book of Constitutions 1807 - Birth of Louis Agassiz, Swizz naturalist, geologist and teacher 1849 - Death of Anne Brontë, British author (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) 1908 - Birth of Ian Fleming, British Naval Intelligence Officer and author (James Bond) 1912 - Birth of Patrick White, Australian novelist (Happy Valley, Nobel 1973) 1937 - Death of Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist (Individual Psychology) 1944 - Birth of Rudy Giuliani, KBE, US lawyer, businessman and New York City Mayor William Pitt, the YoungerPrime Minister of Great Britain (Born this day 1759) Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins
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Post by Tamrin on May 29, 2012 6:21:27 GMT 10
Tuesday, 29 May Bahá'í: Commemoration of their founder Bahá'u'lláh (died this day 1892) 1736 - Birth of Patrick Henry, US revolutionary "Give me liberty or give me death" 1814 - Death of Empress Josephine de Beauharnais, Grand Maîtraisse du Loge d'Adoption Sainte-Caroline 1880 - Birth of Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Decline of the West) 1906 - Birth of T.H. White, Indian-born British novelist (The Once and Future King) 1911 - Death of Bro. Sir W.S. Gilbert, British librettist and dramatist (Gilbert and Sullivan) 1917 - Birth of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the USA 1932 - Birth of Professor Paul Ehrlich, American biologist and author (The Population Bomb) Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (born this day 1914) and Sir Edmund P. Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (reached the summit of Mount Everest this day 1953) If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame(on being persistently asked by journalists which man was the first one to step on the summit of Everest)
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Post by Tamrin on May 30, 2012 7:19:51 GMT 10
Wednesday, 30 May Commemoration of St Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, executed this day 1431 US: Memorial Day1593 - Death of Christopher Marlowe, British dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great) 1814 - Birth of Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist theorist 1835 - Birth of Alfred Austin, English poet laureate (Garden) 1868 - US Memorial Day began when women placed flowers on both Confederate & Union graves 1901 - Birth of Cornelia Otis Skinner, US writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay) 1903 - Birth of Countee Cullen, American poet (Black Christ & Other Poems) 1960 - Death of Boris Pasternak, Russian poet and novelist (Dr Zhivago) Joan of Arc(Died this day 1431) Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of ArcG.K. Chesterton(Born yesterday 1874)
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Post by Tamrin on May 31, 2012 7:10:43 GMT 10
Thursday, 31 May Ancient Rome: Ambarvalia, festival of Dea Dia (agricultural fertility rite) 1279 - BCE - Rameses II (The Great) becomes Pharaoh 1801 - Establishment of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the US, ‘mother council of the world’ 1819 - Birth of Walt Whitman, American poet (Leaves of Grass) 1838 - Birth of Bro. Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Society for Psychical Research) 1898 - Birth of Bro. Norman Vincent Peale 33°, US clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking) 1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell, First US woman doctor of medicine 1996 - Death of Timothy Leary, US psychologist, author and acid head Bro. Henry SidgwickEnglish philosopher (Society for Psychical Research) (Born this day 1838) My reasons for joining the Fraternity are partly general, for, although I do not at all know what the object of it is and am aware that the ‘Great Secret’ must be a humbug, I am still desirous of helping the mingling of classes, which I conceive Freemasonry does
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 1, 2012 8:02:14 GMT 10
Friday, 1 June International Children’s Day 1801 - Birth of Bro. Brigham Young, religious leader (Mormon church) & polygamist 1868 - Death of Bro. James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States 1878 - Birth of John Masefield, English poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads) 1907 - Birth of Frank Whittle, inventor (jet engine) 1924 - Birth of Dr William Sloane Coffin, Jr, US clergyman 1926 - Birth of Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker), US actress (Some Like It Hot) 1968 - Death of Helen Keller, US author, activist and lecturer (deaf & blind) Sojourner Truth(left New York this day 1843, beginning her career as an antislavery and women's rights activist) I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring I will step into the pool
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 2, 2012 8:08:34 GMT 10
Saturday, 2 June Italy: Commemoration of Bro. Guiseppi Garibaldi, liberator and unifier (died this day 1882) 1743 - Birth of Bro. Alessandro di Cagliostro (conflated with Giuseppe Balsamo), Italian occultist 1835 - P.T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US 1840 - Birth of Thomas Hardy, English poet and novelist (Mayor of Casterbridge) 1899 - Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings 1924 - US citizenship granted to all native Americans 1945 - Birth of Michael Leunig, Australian poet and cartoonist (Curly Flats) 1962 - Death of Vita Sackville-West, English author and poet (The Edwardians) Bro. Hristo BotevBulgarian revolutionary hero and poet (Died this day 1876) We are brothers in spirit, you and I, cherishing the same ideals, and I believe there's nothing in this world we'll have to regret, you and I. Posterity will judge — Did we good or did we evil, But for now — hand in hand — Let's move forward, our steps more sure!
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