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Post by Tamrin on Mar 18, 2009 5:26:38 GMT 10
18 March1190 - Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England 1314 - Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights [Templar], dies 39 French Knights Templars were burned at the stake. Most church history experts agree that these and other hostilities shown against the Knights Templars were caused by the greed and cunning of Philip the Fair, who sought the great wealth this medieval military religious order had amassed in the centuries following the Crusades. 1532 - English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome 1881 - [PT] Barnum & [James A] Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opens (Madison Square Garden) 1895 - 200 blacks leave Savannah GA for Liberia 1919 - Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City1940 - Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain  Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!(Said to have been declared when Louise XVI was guillotined)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 19, 2009 5:57:31 GMT 10
19 MarchRome: Feast of Minerva 1644 - 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide 1813 - Birth of David Livingstone, Scotland, explorer (found by Stanley in Africa) 1821 - Birth of Sir Richard Burton, explorer/translator (Arabian Nights) 1848 - Birth of Wyatt Earp, Monmouth IL, marshall-fought in Gunfight at the OK Corral 1927 - Bloody battles between communists & Nazis in Berlin 1945 - 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan 1987 - PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn [/url]: Minerva was an ancient Italian goddess of handicrafts and patroness of guilds
and thus was the patroness of women. As the goddess of skills, particularly
those of the hand and mind, she guided male craftsmen and warriors,
associations which connected her to the powerful Etruscan goddess Menrva.
As the virgin daughter of the supreme god Jupiter,
she became identified with the Greek goddess Athena, daughter of Zeus,
and is thus frequently portrayed with the attributes of that goddess
—an owl, helmet, shield, spear, and aegis (see the cape above and below,
wreathed in snakes and emblazoned with the head of Medusa).
Minerva was one of the trio of Capitoline deities in Rome; along with Juno [and Venus],
she shared the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill above the Roman Forum.[/center]
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 20, 2009 5:32:02 GMT 10
20 MarchEquinox (Southern Hemisphere - Autumn) 1727 - Sir Issac Newton English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84 1833 - US & Siam conclude commercial treaty 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston) 1904 - Birth of B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner, Susquehanna PA, Behaviorism pioneer (Skinner box) 1942 - General MacArthur vows, "I shall return"performances 19-- - Birth of Bro. "Maxiumus"1968 - President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money 1997 - Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 21, 2009 8:46:45 GMT 10
21 March(International Day For Elimination of Racial Discrimination) 1098 - The monastery in Citeaux, France was founded by St. Robert, a Benedictine monk and abbot of Molesme. It marked the beginning of the Roman Catholic Cistercian religious order 1349 - 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany 1556 - Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, burned at stake at 66 1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa 1943 - Assassination attempt on Hitler fails 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery AL 1975 - Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years  Claus von StauffenbergAttempted to end the madness that was Nazi Germany
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 22, 2009 9:06:15 GMT 10
22 March0337 - Constantine, Emperor of Rome, dies at 47 1457 - Guttenberg Bible became the 1st printed book 1794 - Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries 1872 - Illinois becomes 1st [US] state to require sexual equality in employment 1903 - Niagara Falls runs out of water because of a drought 1923 - Birth of Marcel Marceau, Strasbourg France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie) 1965 - US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong  Constantine, Emperor of Rome died this day 337
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 23, 2009 5:58:29 GMT 10
23 March1490 - 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published 1775 - Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" 1839 - 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post) 1901 - Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast) 1925 - Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution 1942 - US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers 1972 - Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 24, 2009 5:53:26 GMT 10
24 March1471 - Sir Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 1603 - Elizabeth I Tudor [Maiden Queen], UK queen (1558-1603), dies at 69 / Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England 1832 - Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio 1903 - Birth of Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer (Observer of Life) 1906 - "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world 1947 - John D Rockefeller Jr. donates NYC East River site to the UN 1997 - Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law  Queen Elizabeth I, died this day 1603
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 25, 2009 5:15:43 GMT 10
25 March1133 - William the Conqueror orders 1st Domesday Survey of England 1306 - Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland 1807 - British Parliament abolishes slave trade 1896 - Modern Olympics begin in Athens Greece 1943 - 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt Nazi registration 1966 - US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional 1970 - Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 26, 2009 6:13:07 GMT 10
26 March (Taiwan: Birthday of Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy) 1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies in Wien (Vienna) at 56 1902 - Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) dies at 48 1904 - Birth of Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image) 1909 - Birth of Chips Rafferty, Broken Hill Australia, actor (Desert Rats) 1910 - US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick 1945 - Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto 2233 - "Birth" of James T Kirk, science fiction captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek)  Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy(Holding a green shoot associated with a flow of water)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 27, 2009 7:14:42 GMT 10
27 March1625 - James I, Stuart king of Scotland (1567)/England (1603-25), dies at 58 / Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends to throne 1708 - English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkirk 1790 - The shoelace invented 1845 - Birth of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901) 1861 - Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars 1963 - Birth of Quentin Tarantino, director/screenwriter (Pulp Fiction) 1966 - Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
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