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Post by Tamrin on Jun 13, 2012 6:03:38 GMT 10
Wednesday, 13 June Celts: Feast Day of Epona, (horse goddess) 1752 - Birth of Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay), English author (Camille, Evelina) 1865 - Birth of William Butler Yeats, G.D. Fr., Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923) 1884 - Birth of Gerald Gardner (aka Scire), English occultist (reinvented or revived Wicca) 1889 - The Grand Lodge of North Dakota was instituted 1893 - Birth of Dorothy L Sayers, English novelist (9 Taylors) 1894 - Birth of Mark van Doren, US author (The Happy Critic) 1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion begins against foreigners & Christians Ben Chifley16th Prime Minister of Australia (Died this day 1951) I try to think of the labour movement, not as putting an extra sixpence into somebody's pocket, or making somebody Prime Minister or Premier, but as a movement bringing something better to the people, better standards of living, greater happiness to the mass of the people. We have a great objective — the light on the hill — which we aim to reach by working the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a help- ing hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 14, 2012 12:45:49 GMT 10
Thursday, 14 June World Blood Donor Day1811 - Birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe, US author (Uncle Tom's Cabin) 1883 - Death of Bro. Edward FitzGerald, poet and translator (Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám ) 1927 - Death of Bro. Jerome K. Jerome, British author 1928 - Birth of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Latin American revolutionary and mass murderer 1936 - Death of G. K. Chesterton, English writer 1965 - Death of Martin Buber, Austrian Jewish mystic and philosopher 1966 - The Vatican announced that its 'Index of Prohibited Books' had been abolished Max Weber, German sociologist (Died this day 1920) The Truth is the Truth(Last words)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 15, 2012 11:06:06 GMT 10
Friday, 15 June Eastern Orthodox Church: Feast Day of Augustine of Hippo (former Manichaean) 1215 - Magna Carta signed by King John at Runnymede, England 1381 - Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London 1775 - Bro. George Washington appointed Commander-in-Chief of American Army 1849 - Death of Bro. James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States 1902 - Birth of Erik H Erikson, Danish-German-American developmental psychologist 1941 - Death of Evelyn Underhill, British writer 1989 - Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth “J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs” Iconic Pop Guru (face appeared on a tortilla in Plano, Texas, this day 1963) You know how dumb the average person is? Well, by definition, half of 'em are even dumber than that
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 16, 2012 10:06:45 GMT 10
Saturday, 16 June Dublin: Bloomsday (events in James Joyce's Ulysses, 1904) 1313 - Birth of Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author, poet and misogynist 1821 - The Grand Lodge of Alabama was instituted 1824 - Founding of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) 1829 - Birth of Geronimo (Goyaa³é), Chiricahua Apache chief 1871 - Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine founded in New York 1938 - Birth of Joyce Carol Oates, US novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights) 1976 - 1976 - Student uprisings began in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day) Hammurabi the Great6th King of Babylon, law giver (Died this day 1686 BCE) The gods Anu and Enlil… named me by my name: Hammurabi, the pious prince, who venerates the gods, to make justice prevail in the land, to abolish the wicked and the evil, to prevent the strong from oppressing the weak, to rise like the sun-god Shamash over all humankind, to illuminate the land
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 17, 2012 10:10:12 GMT 10
Sunday, 17 June World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 1703 - Birth of John Wesley, English clergyman, co-founded Methodist movement 1719 - Death of Joseph Addison, English essayist 1867 - Birth of Henry Lawson, Australian poet and author 1898 - Birth of MC Escher, Dutch artist 1963 - US Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools 1967 - China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power 1982 - Death of Roberto Calvi, 'God's Banker', Vatican banker and P2 lodge member Bro. Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World)(arrived in New York this day in 1885) As Masons, we cannot appropriate to ourselves alone the lessons which this monument will teach. Not only to us, but to all men will it appealDeputy G.M., R.W. Bro. Lawrence(Dedicating the site for the statue)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 18, 2012 8:52:05 GMT 10
Monday, 18 June Coptic Orthodox Church: Celebration of the Tears of Isis (overflowing of the Nile) 1037 - Death of Avicenna, Persian philosopher, encyclopaedist and physician 1815 - Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Bro. Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo 1873 - Susan B Anthony, US suffragette, fined $100 for attempting to vote 1874 - Birth of Bro. Madeleine Pelletier, French physician, feminist and socialist activist 1937 - Birth of Gail Godwin, American author 1942 - Birth of Paul McCartney, English musician, singer, songwriter and composer (Beatles) 1948 - UN Commission on Human Rights adopts the International Declaration of Human Rights E.W. ScrippsAmerican newspaper journalist, publisher and founder (Born this day 1854) The press of this country is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that it cannot be depended upon to give the great mass of the people that correct information concerning political, econom- ical, and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of people shall have, in order that they shall vote and in all ways act in the best way to protect them- selves from the brutal force and the chicanery of the ruling and employing class
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 19, 2012 6:55:12 GMT 10
Tuesday, 19 June Roman Empire: Feast day of Minerva, Goddess of Crafts and Trade Guilds 1566 - Birth of [url=http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/james_vi/james_vi.html ]Bro. King James I of England (IV of Scotland)[/url][/b] 1623 - Birth of Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and theologian (Pascal’s Wager) 1856 - Birth of Elbert Hubbard, US editor, publisher and author (Message to Garcia) 1867 - Execution of H.I.M. Bro. Maximilian, Mexican Emperor, by forces under Bro. Benito Juarez 1937 - Death of Bro. Sir JM Barrie, Scottish author and playwright (Peter Pan) 1945 - Birth of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1991) 1947 - Birth of Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Kt, Indian-British novelist and essayist (Satanic Verses) Eratosthenes of CyreneGreek mathematician, elegiac poet, athlete, geographer, astronomer, and music theorist (Estimated the circumference of the Earth this day 240 BCE) Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we know definitely that men have come to the sources of the Nile and have observed the rains there (Proclus)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 20, 2012 6:45:59 GMT 10
Wednesday, 20 June World Refugee Day June Solstice1756 - 146 British soldiers imprisoned in India (Black Hole of Calcutta) most die 1821 - The Grand Lodge of Louisiana was instituted 1837 - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV 1881 - Death of Bro. Albert Mackey, Masonic author (Mackey’s Encyclopedia) 1899 - Birth of Bro. Jean Moulin, hero of the French Resistance during WW II 1907 - Birth of Lillian Hellman, American playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes) 1909 - Birth of Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood) Bro. Audie MurphyMost decorated US combat soldier of WWII, songwriter and actor (Born this day 1924) I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did — guys who were killed
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 21, 2012 8:37:28 GMT 10
Thursday, 21 June World Humanist Day 0546 - BCE - Death of Thales of Miletus, pre-Socratic Greek philosopher 1876 - Death of Bro. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (the Alamo) 1892 - Birth of Reinhold Niebuhr, US theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man) 1905 - Birth of Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher (Nobel 1964; declined) 1912 - Birth of Mary McCarthy, American novelist (Group) 1935 - Birth of Françoise Sagan, French novelist (Bon Jour Trieste) 1953 - Birth of Benazir Bhutto, 1st female leader of a Moslem nation (Pakistan) Galileo GalileiForced by the Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican heliocentric views, this day 1633 Eppur si muove!(Yet, still, it moves!)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 22, 2012 6:27:36 GMT 10
Friday, 22 June Feast Day of Saint Alban, 1st martyr of Britain (legendary founder of British Freemasonry) 1772 - Slavery outlawed in England 1856 - Birth of Bro. Sir H. Rider Haggard, KBE, English author (King Solomon's Mine, She) 1887 - Birth of Sir Julian Huxley, FRS, English evolutionary biologist and philosopher 1898 - Birth of Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front) 1907 - Birth of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, US aviator and author (Gift from the Sea) 1936 - Birth of Kris Kristofferson, US country music singer, songwriter, actor, Rhodes scholar 1964 - Birth of Dan Brown, American author (The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol) Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)American actor and singer (Wizard of Oz) (Died this day 1969) Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else
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