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Post by Tamrin on Aug 12, 2012 8:33:06 GMT 10
Sunday, 12 August Ancient Egypt: Aset Webenut (Festival of Lights) 1774 - Birth of Robert Southey, British Poet Laureate 1820 - Australian Social Lodge No 260 IC met for the first time (1st warranted in Australia) 1827 - Death of William Blake, visionary English poet and printmaker 1831 - Birth of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian-born Co-founder of The Theosophical Society 1881 - Birth of Bro. Cecil B. DeMille, US film director and Academy Award-winning film producer 1887 - Birth of Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist (Schrödinger’s cat) 1931 - Birth of Sir William Golding, British poet, playwright and novelist (Lord of the Flies) Cleopatra VII, last of the pharaohs (Died this day 30 BCE) Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 13, 2012 6:06:06 GMT 10
Monday, 13 August Ancient Egypt: Horns of Hathor (Isis gained the horns of Hathor) Ancient Greece: Panathenaea, in honour of goddess Athena Death of the Virgin Mary (formerly Feast Day of the Mother Goddess Diana) 1313 - Birth of Aradia di Toscano, Italian insurrectionist, teacher and witch ( Stregheria) 1818 - Birth of Lucy Stone, American abolitionist and pioneer of women's rights 1823 - Birth of Goldwin Smith, British-Canadian historian, journalist and anti-Semite 1851 - Birth of Felix Adler, US Jewish rationalist intellectual (Society for Ethical Culture) 1860 - Birth of Annie Oakley (Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses, or Mozee), US sharpshooter 1899 - Birth of Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director (Psycho, Birds) 1926 - Birth of Fidel Castro, Cuban dictator and mass murderer William Caxtonfirst English printer (Born this day 1422) He that wil wynne he muste laboure and aventure(sic)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 14, 2012 6:30:14 GMT 10
Tuesday, 14 August Ancient Egypt: Commemoration of day of peace between Horus and Set1867 - Birth of John Galsworthy, OM, English playwright and novelist (The Forsyte Saga) 1912 - Birth of Frank F. Oppenheimer, American particle physicist (brother of Robert) 1925 - Birth of Russell Baker, American newspaper columnist and author (Growing Up) 1951 – Death of William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper publisher 1956 - Death of Bertolt Brecht, German Marxist dramatist, stage director and poet 1958 - Death of Mary Ritter Beard, American historian (Woman as a Force in History) 2004 - Death of Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Prize winning Polish poet and essayist Ernest Lawrence Thayer(American poet (Casey at the Bat) (Born this day 1863) We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when, beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashings of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a damned fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with that same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke the thought aloud, 'Why don't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrades, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 15, 2012 6:36:31 GMT 10
Wednesday, 15 August Roman Catholic: Assumption of the Virgin Mary1769 - Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France (1804-13, 1814-15) 1771 - Birth of Bro. Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (Lady of Lake) 1785 - Birth of Thomas de Quincey, English author (Confessions of an English Opium-Eater) 1872 - Birth of Sri Aurobindo, Indian-Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet and mystic 1933 - Birth of Stanley Milgram, American psychologist (Milgram Experiment) 1935 - Death of Wiley Post & Will Rogers (killed in plane crash in Alaska) 1969 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm) James Keir HardieScottish socialist and labour leader (British Labour Party) (Born this day 1856) To claim for socialism that it is a class war is to do it an injustice and indefinitely postpone its triumph. Socialism offers a platform broad enough for all to stand upon. It makes war upon a system, not upon a class
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 16, 2012 6:45:02 GMT 10
Thursday, 16 August The King is DEAD! (Elvis, 1977) 1832 - Birth of Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist, physiologist and philosopher 1851 - The Grand Lodge of Oregon was instituted 1886 - Death of Ramakrishna, Bengali saint, guru of Swami Vivekananda 1888 - Birth of T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), British soldier and author 1888 - United Grand Lodge of New South Wales instituted in Sydney 1900 - Death of José Maria Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese author, critic and diplomat 1911 - Birth of E.F. Schumacher, progressive German economist Dame Mary GilmoreAustralian poet, utopian socialist (Born this day 1865) “From temptation, O Lord, deliver us,” men cry; But I have prayed, “Give me the power to feel temptation, lest I go empty to the grave”
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 17, 2012 7:23:05 GMT 10
Friday, 17 August Norse: The Ordeal of Odin (first day, Aug 17 - 25) 1786 - Birth of Bro. Davy Crockett, US frontiersman, adventurer and politician 1850 - Death of Bro. General José de San Martín, hero of Argentina's War of Independence 1882 - Birth of Samuel Goldwyn, US film producer, co-founder of MGM 1892 - Birth of Mae West, American actor, playwright and screenwriter 1932 - Birth of V.S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-born writer (A House for Mr. Biswas) 1950 - Death of Black Elk, Medicine Man or Holy Man of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) 1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall began Geoffrey EltonGerman-British historian (Born this day 1921) Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 18, 2012 7:20:57 GMT 10
Saturday, 18 August Feast day of St Helena, mother of Constantine the Great (found the "True Cross") 1227 - Death of Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror 1587 - Birth of Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents 1778 - Birth of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica 1920 - The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage 1925 - Birth of Brian Aldiss, OBE, English science fiction author 1961 - Construction on Berlin Wall completed 1990 - Death of B.F. Skinner, US behavioural psychologist (Operant Conditioning) Vincent BugliosiUS prosecuting attorney (Charles Manson case) (Born this day 1934) Sooner or later, all conspiracy theories, no matter how outlandish, must eventually rest on a certain set of facts. And facts can be checked
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 19, 2012 8:33:54 GMT 10
Sunday, 19 August Roman Empire: Feast day of Augustus Caesar, first deified Roman Emperor, died this day 14 CE Roma (Gypsies): Feast day of St Sarah, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France World Humanitarian Day1631 - Birth of John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England (Absalom & Achitophel) 1662 - Death of Blaise Pascal, French philosopher, writer and mathematician 1883 - Birth of Coco Chanel, French fashion designer 1902 - Birth of Ogden Nash, American poet 1921 - Birth of Gene Roddenberry, US author, producer (Star Trek) 1930 - Birth of Frank McCourt, Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author 1946 - Birth of Bill Clinton, 42nd US President, (Former Little Rock Attorney) M.W. Bro. Manuel L. QuezónFirst President of the Philippine Commonwealth (Born this day 1878) Civics and Ethics Code
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 20, 2012 6:38:53 GMT 10
Monday, 20 August Cistercian: Feast day of St Bernard of Clairvaux (Patron of Knights Templar) Voudon (Voodoo): Feast day of Yemaya, (Patron of mothers and children) 1881 - Birth of Edgar Guest, American poet 1886 - Birth of Paul Tillich, German philosophical theologian 1890 - Birth of H.P. Lovecraft, US Gothic novelist (At the Mountains of Madness) 1901 - Birth of Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet, critic and translator (Nobel 1959) 1912 - Death of William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army 1940 - Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalinist agents (dies 21/8/1940) 1951 - Birth of Greg Bear, American science fiction author Shri N.R. Narayana MurthyIndian industrialist and software engineer ( Infosys) (Born this day 1946) It doesn’t matter how bright a person is. How smart a person is. If they don’t understand the risk emanating from what they are doing, if they are not suit- ably regulated and if greed overtakes them it is inevitable that one sees dis- asters because in the end systems are much more powerful than individuals
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 21, 2012 6:07:30 GMT 10
Tuesday, 21 August New South Wales claimed by Great Britain (Capt. James Cook, 1770) 1762 - Death of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English author, traveller and medical pioneer 1831 - Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia) 1872 - Birth of Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator 1904 - Birth of Bro. William "Count" Basie, American jazz pianist 1908 - Birth of M.M. Kaye, British Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (The Far Pavilions) 1937 - Birth of Robert Stone, American novelist (Dog Soldiers) 1959 - Hawaii was admitted as the 50th US state (previously a US territory) Rev. Ivan Stang (Douglass St. Clair Smuith) US author and publisher (Church of the Sub-Genius) (Born this day 1953) If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normality surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality
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