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Post by Tamrin on Jul 23, 2012 5:45:12 GMT 10
Monday, 23 July Ancient Egypt: Festival of the rising of Sothis (Sirius, star of Isis) Ancient Rome: Festival of Neptune and Salacia Christian: Feast of the Three Wise Men (Magi) 0636 - Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire 1885 - Death of Ulysses S Grant, American soldier and 18th US president (1869/77) 1888 - Birth of Raymond Chandler, American novelist (The Big Sleep; Farewell My Lovely) 1892 - Birth of Ras Tafari, later H.I.M. Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74) 1893 - Birth of Karl Menninger, US psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic) 1958 - 1st 4 women named to peerage in Britain's House of Lords 1967 - 43 killed in racial rebellion in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires) Jenny Geddes (with others) (Said to have thrown a stool this day 1637 at the Dean of St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, objecting to ‘Catholic’ elements in a new prayer book, arguably setting in train events leading to the English Civil War) Deil colic the wame o’ ye, fause thief; daur ye say Mass in my lug?(Devil cause you severe pains in your abdomen, false thief: dare you say the Mass in my ear?)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 24, 2012 6:09:41 GMT 10
Tuesday, 24 July Ecuador, Venezuela: Birth of the Libertador (Bolivar Day, 1783) 1725 - Birth of John Newton, English sailor, Anglican clergyman and hymnist (Amazing Grace) 1802 - Birth of Bro. Alexandre Dumas, French author (3 Musketeers) 1878 - Birth of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, (Lord Dunsany), Anglo-Irish writer 1895 - Birth of Robert Graves, English poet and historical novelist (The White Goddess) 1899 - Birth of Dan George, OC, Native-American (Canadian) Chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation 1911 - Discovery of Machu Piccu by Bro. Hiram Bingham III (on whom “Indiana Jones” was largely based) 1916 - Birth of John D MacDonald, American crime novelist (Travis McGee series) Amelia Earhart, US aviator first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (Born this day 1898) Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 25, 2012 6:47:40 GMT 10
Wednesday, 25 July Feast Day of Saint James the Great, patron of pilgrims (Santiago de Compostela) Feast Day of Saint Christopher, patron of travellors 1471 - Death of Thomas à Kempis, German-born monk (The Imitation of Christ) 1902 - Birth of Eric Hoffer, US philosopher (& longshoreman) 1905 - Birth of Elias Canetti, Swiss Nobel Prize winning author (Auto-da-Fé) 1924 - The Australian Government introduced compulsory voting in Federal elections 1963 - USA, Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty 1972 - US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphillis experiment 1990 - April Glaspie, US ambassador to Iraq gave Saddam Hussein America's go-ahead to invade Kuwait Rosalind Franklin, British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer (DNA) (died young and posthumously honoured by the Royal Society) (Born this day 1920) You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralizing invention of man, something apart from real life, and which must be cautiously guarded and kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment. Your theories are those which you and many other people find easiest and pleasantest to believe, but, so far as I can see, they have no foundation other than they lead to a pleasant view of life... I agree that faith is essential to success in life... but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death. In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining... I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 26, 2012 7:02:35 GMT 10
Thursday, 26 July The Rolling Stones: Birthday of Mick Jagger (1943) 1603 - Bro. James VI of Scotland was crowned King James I of England 1822 - Meeting of Bro. José de San Martín and Bro. Simón Bolívar to plan the future of South America after their liberation of it from Spain and Portugal 1856 - Birth of George Bernard Shaw, Irish Fabian & dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925) 1875 - Birth of Dr Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst, founded analytic psychology 1894 - Birth of Aldous Huxley, English author (Brave New World) 1897 - Birth of Paul Gallico, American author (The Snow Goose) 1919 - Birth of James Lovelock, FRS, English environmentalist and futurologist (Gaia) Bro. Dr. Salvador AllendeChilean physician and democratically elected Marxist President (1970 - 73) (Born this day 1908) ¡Viva Chile! ¡Viva el pueblo! ¡Vivan los trabajadores!(Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers!) His last known words (in a radio broadcast on the morning of September 11, 1973)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 27, 2012 6:14:02 GMT 10
Friday, 27 July Feast Day of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (Saints Maximian, Malchus, Martinian, Dionysius, John, Serapion, and Constantine) 1818 - The Grand Lodge of Mississippi was instituted 1841 - Death of Mikhail Lermontov ('the poet of the Caucasus'), Russian novelist 1844 - Death of John Dalton, FRS, British chemist and physicist (Atomic Theory) 1870 - Birth of Hilaire Belloc, Anglo-French author (Path to Rome) 1916 - Birth of Elizabeth Hardwick, American novelist (The Simple Truth) 1946 - Death of Gertrude Stein, American writer (The Making of Americans) 1953 - Armistice signed ending Korean War Sir E.A. Wallis BudgeEnglish Egyptologist, Orientalist and philologist (Born this day 1857) As a result of their studies of Egyptian texts, many of the earlier Egyptologists, e.g. Champollion-Figeac, de Rouge, Pierret and Brugsch, came to the conclusion that the dwellers in the Nile Valley, from the earliest times, believed in the existence of one God, nameless, incomprehensible, and eternal
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 28, 2012 5:16:29 GMT 10
Saturday, 28 July Canada: Commemoration of "the Great Upheaval" (deportation of the Acadians) 1540 - Execution of Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister 1655 - Death of Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist, novelist and duelist 1794 - Execution of Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary 1804 - Birth of Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher and anthropologist 1866 - Birth of Beatrix Potter, English children's author (Peter Rabbit) 1902 - Birth of Prof. Sir Karl Popper, CH FRS FBA, Austro-British philosopher of science 1926 - Initiation of Bro. Sir John McEwen, Australian PM, in Lauderdale Lodge, Vic. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (née Bouvier)Former US First Lady (Born this day 1929) One man can make a difference and every man should try
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 29, 2012 2:17:26 GMT 10
Sunday, 29 July Scouting movement: First Scout Camp (Brownsea Island, England, 1907) 1805 - Birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, French statesman and writer (Democracy in America) 1833 - Death of William Wilberforce, British politician and campaigner against slavery 1869 - Birth of Booth Tarkington, Pulitzer Prize-winning author 1878 - Birth of Don Marquis, US humorist & author 1890 - Death of Vincent van Gogh, Dutch-born Post-Impressionist painter 1905 - Birth of Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General (1953 – 1961) 1974 - Death of Cass Elliot (Mama Cass, American musician (The Mamas and the Papas) Sir Robert Baden-Powell(Founded the Scouting movement this day 1907 with the first Scout camp at Brownsea Island) Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 30, 2012 6:02:52 GMT 10
Monday, 30 July Vanuatu: Independence Day (1980, from Britain and France — formerly the New Hebrides) 1733 - St. John’s Lodge, first duly constituted American Masonic opens in Boston, Massachusetts 1818 - Birth of Emily Brontë, English poet and novelist (Wuthering Heights) 1857 - Birth of Thorstein Veblen, US sociologist and economist 1881 - Birth of General Smedley Butler, US soldier, peace activist and author (War is a Racket) 1909 - Birth of C. Northcote Parkinson, British naval historian and author (Parkinson’s Law) 1930 - Birth of Thomas Sowell, US economist 1938 - Award to Henry Ford of the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 31, 2012 7:19:08 GMT 10
Tuesday, 31 July Ásatrú (Norse tradition): Feast day of Loki and Sigyn1599 - Oldest Minutes of a surviving Lodge (Lodge of Edinburgh, Scotland) 1886 - Death of Bro. Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher 1912 - Birth of Milton Friedman, US economist (Monetarism, Nobel 1976) 1919 - Birth of Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (If This is a Man) 1921 - Birth of Bro. Whitney M Young Jr, US civil rights leader (Urban League) 1921 - Birth of Peter Benenson, British lawyer and Human Rights activist (Amnesty International) 1965 - Birth of J.K. Rowling, OBE, British novelist (Harry Potter) Irv KupcinetUS syndicated newspaper columnist (Chicago Sun-Times) (Born this day 1912) What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 1, 2012 6:52:40 GMT 10
Wednesday, 1 August Wicca: Lammas Day Southern Hemisphere: Horses’ Birthday0030 - BC - Death of Mark Antony, Roman politician and general 1744 - Birth of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French naturalist and pre-Darwinian evolutionist 1819 - Birth of Herman Melville, American author (Moby Dick) 1834 - Slavery was abolished in the British Empire (Slavery Abolition Act) 1866 - Death of John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation 1930 - Birth of Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist 1948 - Birth of David Gemmell, British author Robert Morrison, FRSfirst British Protestant missionary to reach China (Died this day 1834) To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty
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