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Post by Tamrin on Jun 23, 2012 6:20:03 GMT 10
Saturday, 23 June Old Midsummer Eve (St John’s Eve) Babylon: Rites of Ishtar and Tammuz (Day one of two day festival): Syria, Judea and Greece: Rites of Astarte and Baal, Asherah and Yahweh and Aphrodite and Adonis 1763 - Birth of Empress Joséphine of France, Grand Matraisse du Loge d'Adoption Sainte-Caroline 1780 - Bro. Wolfgang Goethe, German writer, was made a Mason in Amalia Lodge in Weimar 1858 - Inquisition kidnapped Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish Italian boy, to raise as a Catholic 1876 - Birth of Irvin S Cobb, American author, humourist and columnist (Old Judge Priest) 1894 - Birth of Alfred Kinsey, American entomologist, sexologist 1912 - Birth of Alan Turing, OBE, FRS, British mathematician and cryptographer (Turing Machine) 1944 - Thomas Mann, German novelist and Nobel laureate, become a US citizen William Penn and Lenni Lenape tribe sign friendship treaty this day 1683(only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken") We are met on the path of mutual respect and fair dealing. No advantage will be taken on either side, but there shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, for even parents sometimes chide their children too severely; not brothers, for even brothers sometimes differ. Our friendship I will not liken to a chain, for that the rain might rust or a fallen tree might break. We are as if one man's body were divided into two parts. We are one flesh and one bloodWilliam Penn While the sun shines, and the river runs we will keep peace with William Penn and his childrenLenni Lenapes’ reply
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 24, 2012 8:59:51 GMT 10
Sunday, 24 June Europe: Old Midsummer's Day Babylon: Rites of Ishtar and Tammuz (Day two of two day festival): Syria, Judea and Greece: Rites of Astarte and Baal, Asherah and Yahweh and Aphrodite and Adonis Rosicrucian: Feast Day of Rosa Mundi, (Rose of the World, Great Mother) 1314 - Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England 1717 - Establishment of the Premier Grand Lodge, London 1731 - First entry in account book of St. John’s Lodge in Philadelphia, of a Lodge meeting in the colonies that became the USA 1734 - MW Bro. Benjamin Franklin installed as Grand Master of what would be known as the ‘Moderns’ Grand Lodge in Pennsylvania 1791 - The African Grand Lodge of North America was instituted in Boston (later became the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts) 1797 - The second Grand Lodge for African Americans was instituted in Philadelphia 1820 - The Grand Lodge of Maine was instituted Adam Lindsay GordonAustralian poet, jockey and politician. (Died this day 1870) Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, courage in your own
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 25, 2012 6:14:50 GMT 10
Monday, 25 June Copts: Feast day of Pontius Pilate1212 - Death of Simon de Montfort, Norman Crusader (“Kill them all, God will recognize his own” ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) ) 1852 - Birth of Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect ( Sagrada Família) 1872 - The Jesuits were expelled from Germany 1903 - Birth of George Orwell, English author (Animal Farm, 1984) 1933 - Birth of James Meredith, US civil rights activist 1961 - Birth of Ricky Gervais, English comic writer and performer (The Office) 1963 - Birth of Mike Myers, Canadian comedian (Wayne's World, Austin Powers) Bernard of Clairvaux, French Abbot (Templar Rule) (Founded Cistercian monastery at Claire Vallée, this day 1115) You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 26, 2012 5:35:36 GMT 10
Tuesday, 26 June United Nations Day in Support of Victims of Torture0363 - Death of Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor, champion of religious freedom 1725 - Grand Lodge of Ireland founded 1824 - Birth of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, FRS & PRS, British engineer and physicist 1890 - The Grand Lodge of Tasmania formed in Hobart with 19 lodges and 864 members 1892 - Birth of Pearl S Buck, American-Chinese author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938) 1911 - Birth of Edward Levi, US professor (Introduction to Legal Reasoning) 1938 - Death of James Weldon Johnson, anthologist of black culture and diplomat Richard NeustadtUS political scientist and historian (Born this day 1919) Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 27, 2012 6:44:43 GMT 10
Wednesday, 27 June Feast day of St Cyril of Alexandria, Doctor of the Church (inciter of Hypatia’s murder ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) ) 1791 - The Grand Lodge of Rhode Island was instituted 1829 - Death of Bro. James Smithson, his will established the Smithsonian Institute 1833 - Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females 1844 - Murders of Bros. Joseph & Hyrum Smith, US Mormon founders 1869 - Birth of Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born US anarchist and publisher (Mother Earth) 1872 - Birth of Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and author (Majors & Minors) 1880 - Birth of Helen Keller, American blind-deaf scholar, author and lecturer Bro. Joseph Smith, Jr.US Mormon founder (Murdered this day, with his brother Hyrum, 1844) It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 28, 2012 7:12:38 GMT 10
Thursday, 28 June Ancient Greece: Natal Day of Hemera, goddess of dawn and daylight 1712 - Birth of Jean Jacques Rousseau, French social contractor (Confessions) 1867 - Birth of Luigi Pirandello, Italian novelist and dramatist (Six Characters in Search of an Author) 1873 - Birth of Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, sociologist and biologist (Nobel 1912) 1901 - Initiation of Bro. Warren G. Harding, US President (1921 - 1923), in Marion Lodge #70, Ohio 1926 - Birth of Mel Brooks, US comedian and director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs) 1914 - Start of WWI, Archduke Ferdinand shot / 1919 - End of WWI, Treaty of Versailles signed 1975 - Death of Rod Serling, US creator of TV's Twilight Zone Eric Ambler, OBEBritish author (Epitaph for a Spy) (Born this day 1909) Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 29, 2012 6:11:17 GMT 10
Friday, 29 June Anniversary of The Quarry Masonic Forum (launched 2008) 1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burns down 1852 - Death of Bro. Henry Clay, US statesman, “the Great Compromiser” 1861 - Death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (Prometheus Bound) 1863 - Birth of James Harvey Robinson, American historian (Ordeal of Civilization) 1900 - Birth of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French aviator and writer (The Little Prince) 1930 - Birth of Oriana Fallaci, Italian interviewer, journalist and writer (Interview with History) 1964 - US Civil Rights Act passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate Kwame Ture, (born Stokely Carmichael)American civil rights activist (Born this day 1941) The power to define is the most important power we have. He is master who can define
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 30, 2012 7:36:44 GMT 10
Saturday, 30 June End of Fiscal Year 1685 - Birth of John Gay, English poet and playwright (Beggars' Opera) 1861 - Lambing Flat Massacre, Australian anti-Chinese riot 1911 - Birth of Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet and essayist (1980 Nobel Prize) 1917 - Birth of Lena Horne, American entertainer and Civil Rights activist 1934 - "Night of the Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party 1974 - Mrs. Alberta Williams King, (M.L.King Jr.'s mother) murdered in church 1984 - Death of Lillian Florence Hellman, American playwright (The Children's Hour) Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Born this day 1803) If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 1, 2012 3:51:14 GMT 10
Sunday, 1 July Start of Fiscal Year1646 - Birth of G.W. Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (postulated monads) 1804 – Birth of George Sand (Baroness Dudevant), French novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro) 1885 - Birth of Dorothea Mackellar, OBE, Australian poet (My Country) 1942 - Sinking of the Montevideo Maru by the USS Sturgeon (Australia's worst maritime disaster) 1964 – Death of Bro. Roscoe Pound, US Masonic scholar and Dean of the Harvard Law School 1983 – Death of R. Buckminster Fuller, US inventor, engineer and philosopher 1989 - The Grand Lodge of Hawaii was instituted Allan PinkertonScottish-American detective and spy (Pinkerton National Detective Agency) (Died this day 1884) Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonour and punishment will be the portion of those who sin
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 2, 2012 7:37:32 GMT 10
Monday, 2 July The Salvation Army: Founded this day, 1865 by William Booth 1877 - Birth of Bro. Hermann Hesse, Swizz novelist and poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946) 1881 - Fatal shooting of Bro. James Garfield, 20 th US President (died 19 September) 1883 - After several failed attempts, a Grand Lodge of Victoria is established 1908 - Birth of Bro. Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice 1925 - Birth of Bro. Medgar Evers, US civil rights activist 1937 - Disappearance of Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan, pioneer US aviators, over the Pacific 1961 - Suicide of Ernest Hemingway, American journalist & author (The Old Man and the Sea) Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame)French physician and astrologer (Died this day 1566) Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand, not the least thing, everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen(El Talisman de Los Sueos)
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