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Post by Tamrin on Aug 2, 2012 6:57:16 GMT 10
Thursday, 2 August Ancient Persia: Feast of Anahita (Goddess of Love and the Moon) Ancient Greece: Feast day of Aphrodite and Eros1832 - Birth of Bro. Henry Steel Olcott, 1st president of The Theosophical Society 1834 - Birth of Bro. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty 1861 - The Grand Lodge of Colorado was instituted 1922 - Death of Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born Canadian inventor 1923 - Death of Bro. Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States 1942 - Birth of Isabel Allende, Chilean-American author 1972 - Death of Paul Goodman, US sociologist, anarchist, and public intellectual Dr. Harvey Spencer LewisAmerican “Rosicrucian” (AMORC) (Died this day 1939) I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 3, 2012 5:43:53 GMT 10
Friday, 3 August Theosophy: Order of the Star in the East dissolved (1929) 1780 - Death of Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher 1823 - Birth of Thomas Meagher, Irish rebel, escaped Australian convict, US general & governor 1856 - Birth of Alfred Deakin, barrister, journalist, theosophist and Australia’s 2 nd Prime Minister 1904 - Birth of Clifford D Simak, US science fiction author 1920 - Birth of P.D. James, British crime writer (A Taste of Death) 1924 - Birth of Leon Uris, American novelist (Exodus) 1954 - Death of Colette, French novelist (Claudine) Sir Roger CasementIrish patriot, poet, revolutionary, and nationalist (hung this day 1916) If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 4, 2012 6:37:26 GMT 10
Saturday, 4 August Romans destroy Herod’s Temple (Jerusalem, 70CE) 1792 - Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley, English romantic poet (Adonais) 1901 - Birth of Louis Armstrong, American Jazz musician & bandleader 1912 - Birth of Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish businessman, diplomat and humanitarian 1914 - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany 1960 - Birth of Tim Winton, Australian writer (Cloudstreet) 1961 - Birth of Barack Hussein Obama II, 44th President of the United States 1964 - US Civil Rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James Chaney found dead Hans Christian AndersenDanish children’s author (Died this day 1875) To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 5, 2012 6:05:25 GMT 10
Sunday, 5 August International Beer Day ( [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Beer_Day ]California, 2007[/url][/b]) 0978 - Birth of Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki), Japanese novelist and poet 1850 - Birth of Guy de Maupassant, French writer (Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse) 1876 - Birth of Mary R Beard, US historian (Woman as a Force in History) 1895 - Death of Friedrich Engels, German socialist philosopher 1930 - Birth of Neil Armstrong, US astronaut, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11) 1934 - Birth of Wendell Berry, American author, 'the Prophet of Rural America' 1962 - Death of Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Baker), American actress, singer and model Edgar A GuestEnglish-American poet (Died this day 1959) I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 6, 2012 6:28:39 GMT 10
Monday, 6 August Japan: Toro Nagashi (Hiroshima Day, 1945) 1637 - Death of Ben Jonson, British comic genius and satirist 1651 - Birth of François Fénelon, French priest and scholar 1809 - Birth of Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet laureate 1883 - Birth of Scott Nearing, US economist, sociologist, pacifist, author (The Good Life) 1916 - Birth of Richard Hofstadter, American historian 1927 - Birth of Andy Warhol, American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker 1946 - US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court To put it briefly: the evidence is quite overwhelming on this matter. The Japanese had sent an envoy (Ambassador Sato) to Moscow (still officially a neutral) to work out a negotiated surrender. An instruction from Foreign Minister Togo came in a telegram (intercepted by American intelligence, which had broken the Japanese code early in the war), saying: “Unconditional surrender is the only obstacle to peace... It is His Majesty's heart's desire to see the swift termination of the war.” The Japanese had one condition for surrender which the US refused to meet — recognizing the sanctity of the Emperor. It seemed the US was determined to drop the bomb before the Japanese could surrender — for a variety of reasons, none of them humanitarianHoward Zinn, American historian,on the 1945 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Bombing of Hiroshima lamented this day)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 7, 2012 6:39:18 GMT 10
Tuesday, 7 August Assyrian Martyrs' Day (1933) 1876 - Birth of Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida), Dutch-born exotic dancer and convicted spy 1877 - The Grand Lodge of New Mexico was instituted 1890 - Birth of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (the ‘Rebel Girl’), American feminist and HR activist 1903 - Birth of Louis Leakey, Kenyan archaeologist and naturalist 1928 - Birth of Amazing "James" Randi, Canadian-American skeptic, debunker and magician 1938 - Birth of Dr. Helen Caldicott, Australian physician and peace activist 1942 - Birth of Garrison Keillor, American radio personality (Prairie Home Companion) Paulina Kellogg Wright DavisAmerican abolitionist, suffragette and educator (Born this day 1813) I was not happy until, I outgrew my early religious faith, and felt free to think and act from my own convictions
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 8, 2012 6:55:49 GMT 10
Wednesday, 8 August Ancient Greece: Panathenaea (Start of nine day festival honouring Pallas Athena) Catholic Australia: Feast day of Saint Mary MacKillop1880 - Birth of Bro. Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia 1884 - Birth of Sara Teasdale, US poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs") 1896 - Birth of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, US author (The Yearling) 1902 - Birth of Paul Dirac, British theoretical physicist 1931 - Birth of Sir Roger Penrose, British mathematical physicist 1963 - Britain’s Great Train Robbery 1974 - Richard Nixon resigns as US President, avoiding impeachment Francis HutchesonIrish Utilitarian philosopher (Born this day 1694 / Died this day 1746) That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 9, 2012 6:37:43 GMT 10
Thursday, 9 August International Day of the World's Indigenous People1874 - Birth of Charles Hoy Fort, American chronicler of anomalies 1896 - Birth of Jean Piaget, Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher 1899 - Birth of Pamela Lyndon Travers, Australian author (Mary Poppins) 1922 - Birth of Philip Larkin, British poet (The Whitsun Weddings; High Windows) 1949 - Birth of Jonathan Kellerman, American psychologist and mystery writer 1949 – Death of Edward Lee "Ted" Thorndike, American psychologist (Connectionism) 1962 - Death of Bro. Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss poet, painter and novelist (Siddhartha) Izaak WaltonEnglish author (The Compleat Angler) (Born this day 1593) Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element are made for wise men to contemplate, and for fools to pass by without consideration
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 10, 2012 6:28:58 GMT 10
Friday, 10 August Ireland: Gathering Day, Puck Fair ( Ireland’s oldest fair, Killorglin, County Kerry) 1270 - Emperor Yekuno Amlak restored Ethiopia’s Solomonic dynasty 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe 1792 - Mobs in Paris stormed the palace of Louis XVI 1869 - Birth of Laurence Binyon, British poet 1874 - Birth of Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st US Pres (1929-1933) 1903 - Birth of Ward Moore, American novelist (Dark Lover) 1945 - Japan agreed to unconditional surrender, ending WWII Phoolan Devi ('The Bandit Queen')Indian dacoit (armed robber) (Born this day 1963) The poor must bow down and touch the feet of the rich. The poor eat a few grains of millet while the rich feast on mangoes. The pain of hunger in the belly of the poor produces fear and submission. I tried to submit, as my father said I should, but I was unable. I was like my mother. There was too much anger in me
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 11, 2012 8:35:46 GMT 10
Saturday, 11 August Mayan New Year (3114 BCE to 2012 CE) 1833 - Birth of Bro. Robert Green Ingersoll, US Attorney General, author and agnostic 1868 - Death Thaddeus Stevens, US anti-Masonic architect of Radical Reconstruction 1897 - Birth of Enid Blyton, British children's author 1897 - Birth of Louise Bogan, American poet 1914 - Birth of José Silva, American parapsychologist 1921 - Birth of Alex Haley, US historian and novelist (Roots) 1933 - Birth of Rev. Jerry Falwell, US hate-filled bigot Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve)Scottish poet (Born this day 1892) And until that day comes every true man's place is to reject all else and be with the lowest, the poorest — in the bottom of that deepest of wells in which alone is truth; in which is truth only — truth that should shine like the sun, with a monopoly of movement, and a sound like talking to God
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