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Post by Tamrin on Jul 13, 2012 6:12:25 GMT 10
Friday, 13 July Ancient Egypt: Nativity of Osiris (god of the dead) Japan - Bon festival (Buddhist festival to honour the dead) 0100 - BCE - Birth of Julius Caesar, Roman general, statesman and dictator 0678 - Death of Aisha bint Abu Bakr (“Mother of the Believers”), Muhammad’s favourite wife 1793 - Death of Bro. Jean-Paul Marat, Prussian-born French Revolutionary leader (murdered in his bath) 1859 - Birth of Sidney Webb (Baron Passfield), British Fabian and labour historian 1903 - Birth of Sir Kenneth Clark (Baron Clark), OM, CH, KCB, FBA, British art historian 1934 - Birth of Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate (Kongi's Harvest) 1944 - Birth of Ernõ Rubik, Hungarian professor, architect and inventor (Rubik's Cube) John DeeEnglish alchemist, astrologer, mathematician (Born this day 1527) There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences... Many... arts there are which beautify the mind of man; but of all none do more garnish and beautify it than those arts which are called mathematical, unto the knowledge of which no man can attain, without perfect knowledge and instruction of the principles, grounds, and Elements of Geometry
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 14, 2012 7:27:50 GMT 10
Saturday, 14 July France: Bastille Day (1789) Japan: Black Ships Day (1853) 1858 - Birth of Emmeline Pankhurst, British Fabian, advocate of women’s rights 1860 - Birth of Owen Wister, American author, The Virginian 1903 - Birth of Irving Stone, American author (The Agony and the Ecstasy) 1904 - Birth of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American, Yiddish novelist (Enemies) 1912 - Birth of "Woody" Guthrie, US folk singer (This Land Is Your Land) 1912 - Birth of Northrop Frye, CC, FRSC, Canadian educator, literary critic 1961 - Initiation of Bro. Eddie Charlton, Australian Snooker legend, in Lodge Swansea, NSW Gertrude Bell, CBEEnglish archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator ('Uncrowned Queen of Iraq') (Born this day 1868) The holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it — nor can they
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 15, 2012 7:09:06 GMT 10
Sunday, 15 July Ancient Egypt: Nativity of Seth, god of chaos and adversity Ancient Greece: Synoika, peace ceremony honouring Athena and Hestia Bohemian Grove: Cremation of Care ceremony (features an owl, a theophany of Athena) 1099 - The citizens of Jerusalem were slaughtered by the First Crusaders 1573 - Birth of Inigo Jones, English renaissance architect 1662 - Charles II grants charter to establish Royal Society in London 1796 - Birth of Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (Bulfinch's Mythology) 1911 - Birth of Bro. Edward Shackleton (Baron Shackleton), KG AC OBE PC, British explorer 1919 - Birth of Iris Murdoch, Irish novelist (Severed Head) 1930 - Birth of Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French philosopher Robert Conquest, CMGBritish historian (expert in USSR history) (Born this day 1917) There was an old bastard named Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That's a lot to have done in But where he did one in That old bastard Stalin did ten in
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 16, 2012 6:32:40 GMT 10
Monday, 16 July Ancient Egypt: Nativity of Isis Islam: Hijra (Mohammed’s flight to Medina)[/b] Muslim calendar started this day 622 Voudon: Pilgrimage to Saut D'Eau (honouring Erzulie Danto, loa of motherhood) 1054 - The 'Great Schism' between the Western and Eastern churches began 1821 - Birth of Mary Baker Eddy, US founder of Christian Science (Science & Health) 1862 - Birth of Ida B Wells, American Anti-lynching crusader 1893 - Departure for Paraguay of William Lane and hundreds of others to found a New Australia 1918 - Murders of Nicholas II, Russian tsar, his tsarina & their five children 1968 - Birth of Larry Sanger, US philosopher and co-founder of Wikipedia 1969 - Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on the Moon, launched Bro. Roald AmundsenNorwegian explorer, discovered South Pole (Born this day 1872) Adventure is just bad planning
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 17, 2012 6:14:14 GMT 10
Tuesday, 17 July Ancient Egypt: Nativity of Nepthys, goddess of death Japan: Commemoration of Amaterasu-o-mi-kami, Shinto Sun goddess 1674 - Birth of Isaac Watts, English writer, preacher and hymnist (Horae Lyrican) 1751 - Antients' Grand Lodge proclaimed 1790 - Death of Adam Smith, Scottish economist (The Wealth of Nations) 1912 - Birth of Art Linkletter (born A.G. Kelley), Canadian-born US TV personality 1917 - Birth of Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Driver), American comedian, actor, artist and pianist 1964 - Donald Campbell set the world land speed record of 648.6 kph on Lake Eyre, South Australia 1976 - East Timor was annexed and become the 27th province of Indonesia Anne HutchinsonEnglish-born American Puritan preacher (unauthorized) (Born this day 1591) As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 18, 2012 8:52:44 GMT 10
Wednesday, 18 July Ancient Rome: Lament for the Great Fire (64 CE) 1536 - The authority of the Pope was declared void in England 1811 - Birth of William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist (Vanity Fair) 1902 - Birth of Jessamyn West, American writer (The Friendly Persuasion) 1906 - Birth of S.I. Hayakawa, Canadian English professor and US Senator 1918 - Birth of Nelson Mandela, South African President (ANC) 1922 - Birth of Thomas Kuhn, US physicist and philosopher and historian of science 1937 - Birth of Hunter S Thompson, American 'gonzo' journalist and author Robert Hooke, FRS, “England’s Leonardo,”(poorly acknowledged precursor to Newton) (Born this day 1635) "I will explain," says Hooke, in a communication to the Royal Society in 1666, "a system of the world very different from any yet received. It is founded on the following positions. 1. That all the heavenly bodies have not only a gravitation of their parts to their own proper centre, but that they also mutually attract each other within their spheres of action.
2. That all bodies having a simple motion, will continue to move in a straight line, unless continually deflected from it by some extraneous force, causing them to describe a circle, an ellipse, or some other curve.
3. That this attraction is so much the greater as the bodies are nearer.”
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 19, 2012 6:11:38 GMT 10
Thursday, 19 July Ancient Egypt: Opet Festival (marriage of Isis and Osiris) Ancient Greece & Rome: Adonia Festival (marriage of Adonis and Aphrodite) 1374 - Death of Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), Italian scholar, poet and humanist 1799 - The Rosetta Stone was found near Alexandria, Egypt 1834 - Birth of Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter (Bouquet) 1850 - Death of Margaret Fuller, American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate 1865 - Birth of Bro. Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon, co-founded Mayo Clinic 1873 - William Gosse, became the first European to discover Uluru (he named it Ayres Rock) 1898 - Birth of Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher, “Father of the New Left” Bro. Archibald J. CroninScottish physician and novelist (The Keys of the Kingdom) (Born this day 1896) Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 20, 2012 5:59:01 GMT 10
Friday, 20 July Nativity of Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), Italian scholar, poet and humanist (1304) 1915 - Bro. Arthur Fadden, Australian PM (1941), was made a Mason in Caledonia Lodge, SC, Qld. 1919 - Birth of Sir Edmund Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE, New Zealand Bee Keeper and mountineer 1924 - Birth of Thomas Berger, American novelist (Arthur Rex, Little Big Man) 1925 - Birth of Frantz Fanon, Martinique-born Algerian psychiatrist and author 1933 - Birth of Cormac McCarthy, American novelist and playwright (The Stonemason) 1947 - Birth of Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist, singer (Black Magic Woman) 1973 - Death of Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial arts expert (Kung Fu) and actor Gregor MendelCzech-German Augustinian friar and pioneer geneticist (Born this day 1822) That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish any- one who is acquainted with the extent of the task and who can appreciate the difficulties with which experiments of this kind have to contend
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 21, 2012 8:03:40 GMT 10
Saturday, 21 July Ancient Greece: Commemoration of Damo of Croton, daughter of Pythagoras and heir to his secrets 1758 - The Grand Lodge of Scotland granted a charter to Fredericksburg Lodge in Virginia, the lodge that had conferred the Masonic degrees on George Washington in 1752 and 1753 1796 - Death of Bro. Robert Burns, Scotland’s National Poet 1875 - The Grand Lodge of South Dakota was formed 1899 - Death of Bro. Robert G Ingersoll, US soldier, statesman, orator and freethinker 1899 - Birth of Ernest Hemingway, US author and journalist (The Old Man and the Sea) 1911 - Birth of Marshall McLuhan, Canadian academic and author (The Medium is the Massage) 1947 - Birth of Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam, English musician (Peace Train, Father & Son)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 22, 2012 6:45:23 GMT 10
Sunday, 22 July Memorial of St Mary Magdalene Pi Approximation Day (22/7) 1844 - Birth of Rev William Archibald Spooner, Oxford Don ("spoonerisms") 1849 - Birth of Emma Lazarus, American poet (The New Colossus) 1898 - Birth of Stephen Vincent Benét, American author and poet (John Brown’s Body) 1908 - Birth of Amy Vanderbilt, American author on etiquette 1916 - Death of James Whitcomb Riley, US author and poet (as in 'the life of Riley') 1933 - Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world 1983 - Dick Smith, Australian adventurer makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world Alan MooreheadAustralian journalist and author (The Blue Nile) (Born this day 1910)
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