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Post by Tamrin on Aug 22, 2012 6:45:02 GMT 10
Wednesday, 22 August Catholic: Feast day of Mary’s Queenship of Heaven1851 - Gold fields discovered in Australia 1864 - Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations 1874 - Birth of Max Scheler, German philosopher (Philosophical Anthropology) 1893 - Birth of Dorothy Parker, American writer 1915 - Birth of David Dellinger, US nonviolence advocate 1920 - Birth of Ray Bradbury, American sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451) 1935 - Birth of Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize winning US author Richard III, much maligned last Plantagenet king of England (Betrayed, abandoned and died this day 1485, Battle of Bosworth Field) Treason! Treason!(Last words)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 23, 2012 6:16:50 GMT 10
Thursday, 23 August International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (1833) 1305 - Sir William Wallace, Scottish nationalist, was hung, drawn and quartered 1849 - Birth of William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic and editor 1852 - Birth of Arnold Toynbee, British historian, economist and social reformer 1869 - Birth of Edgar Lee Masters, American poet and author 1926 - Birth of Clifford James Geertz, American anthropologist (The Interpretation of Cultures) 1932 - Birth of Mark Russell, American political satirist (Real People) 1989 - Death of R.D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (The Divided Self) Willy RussellEnglish playwright (Educating Rita) (Born this day 1947) One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 24, 2012 6:07:46 GMT 10
Friday, 24 August Catholic: Celebration of Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (1572) Protestant: Lament for Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572) 1872 - Birth of Sir Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist, writer and wit (Saturday Review) 1899 - Birth of Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian author (The Book of Imaginary Beings) 1915 - Birth of James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Bradley Sheldon), American science fiction author 1922 - Birth of Howard Zinn, American Professor, historian, author, anarchist and socialist 1943 - Death of Simone Weil, French author, Christian mystic and social activist 1957 - Birth of Stephen Fry, British comedian, poet, author, playwright and actor 2004 - Death of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born US psychiatrist (Five Stages of Grief) Betty DodsonAmerican sex educator, author and artist (Born this day 1929) The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 25, 2012 6:59:21 GMT 10
Saturday, 25 August Ancient Egypt: Nativity of Horus0079 - Death of Pliny the Elder, Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher 1744 - Birth of Bro. Johann Gottfried Herder, German poet, philosopher, critic and folksong collector 1767 - Birth of Antoine Louis de Saint-Just (Archangel of Terror), French writer and revolutionary 1776 - Death of Bro. David Hume, Scottish empirical philosopher, historian, economist and essayist 1867 - Death of Michael Faraday, FRS, English scientist (electromagnetism and electrochemistry) 1900 - Death of Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) 1956 - Death of Alfred Charles Kinsey, American sex researcher, entomologist and zoologist Frederick Forsyth, CBEEnglish author and political commentator (Born this day 1938) The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 26, 2012 7:40:58 GMT 10
Sunday, 26 August US: Women's Equality Day (1973) / Susan B Anthony Day (1920) 1743 - Birth of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, French father of modern chemistry 1795 - Death of Bro. Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Italian occultist 1875 - Birth of Sir John Buchan, Scottish author (The Thirty-Nine Steps) & Canadian G.G. 1883 - Krakatoa (Indonesia) erupts with increasingly large explosions kills 36,000 1904 - Birth of Christopher Isherwood, British-born American author (Goodbye to Berlin) 1910 - Death of William James, American psychologist and philosopher 1910 - Birth of Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), Albanian-Indian nun James Franck German-born American nuclear physicist (Born this day 1882) In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor(describing nuclear warfare)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 27, 2012 6:17:52 GMT 10
Monday, 27 August Ancient Greece: Feast Day of Pan1770 - Birth of Georg Wilhelm F Hegel, philosopher (German Idealism / Dialectic) 1865 - Birth of James Henry Breasted, US Egyptologist (archeologist and historian) 1871 - Birth of Theodore Dreiser, US novelist and journalist (An American Tragedy) 1908 - Birth of Bro. Lyndon B Johnson, EA, 36th President of the United States 1932 - Birth of Antonia Fraser, DBE, Anglo-Irish author and historian 1963 - Death of W.E.B. Du Bois, US civil rights activist, sociologist and historian 1969 - Death of Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, DBE, British novelist (Mother and Son) Félix Lope de Vega y CarpioSpanish playwright and poet (Died this day 1635) To turn your face from clear proofs of deceit, To drink poison as if it were a soothing liquor, To disregard gain and delight in being injured. To believe that heaven can lie contained in hell; To devote your life and soul to being disillusioned; This is love; whoever has tasted it, knows
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 28, 2012 6:09:57 GMT 10
Tuesday, 28 August Ancient Egypt: Feast day of Nepthys Hong Kong: Festival of Hungry Ghosts0430 - Death of St Augustine of Hippo, lapsed Manichean, misogynistic Church Father 1749 - Birth of Bro. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German social philosopher 1903 - Birth of Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American child psychologist 1913 - Birth of Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist, playwright and journalist 1916 - Birth of C Wright Mills, US sociologist, writer (The Power Elite) 1924 - Birth of Janet Frame, New Zealand author of novels, short fiction, and poetry 1952 - Birth of Rita Dove, US Poet Laureate poet and Pulitzer Prize winning author Emmett Till(14 year old tortured to death this day 1955 for having whistled at a white woman) I wanted the world to see what they did to my babyMamie Carthan Till, explaining why she wanted her son’s casket left open at his funeral (his murderers were quickly acquitted by a white jury and later bragged of the killing)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 29, 2012 6:35:05 GMT 10
Wednesday, 29 August Ancient Egypt: Nativity of Hathor Christian: Feast day of the Decollation of St John the Baptist (c.30 CE) 1632 - Birth of John Locke, English empirical philosopher 1809 - Birth of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and author (Old Ironsides) 1844 - Birth of Edward Carpenter, English Fabian, poet, philosopher and gay activist 1862 - Birth of Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium Symbolist poet, Nobel 1911 (The Great Secret) 1877 - Death of Brigham Young, Mormon leader (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) 1916 - Birth of Ingrid Bergman, Swedish-born Hollywood actress 1990 - Death of Bro. Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian author and mystic (The Secret Teachings of All Ages) Atahualpa, last Inca Emperor of Peru (Murdered by Spanish conquistadors this day 1533) Your emperor may be a great prince; I do not doubt it, seeing that he has sent his subjects so far across the waters; and I am willing to treat him as a brother. As for your pope of whom you speak, he must be mad to speak of giving away countries that do not belong to him. As for my faith, I will not change it. Your own God, as you tell me, was put to death by the very men He created. But my God still looks down on His children(On hearing Pope Alexander VI had declared Peru to be a possession of Spain)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 30, 2012 6:56:44 GMT 10
Thursday, 30 August International Day of the Disappeared0030 - BCE - Death of Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh of Egypt (30 BCE) 1797 - Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein) 1912 - Birth of Nancy Wake (White Mouse), N.Z.-born Australian World War II heroine 1930 - Birth of Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur and philanthropist 1943 - Birth of Robert Crumb, American 'underground' cartoonist 1944 - Birth of Molly Ivins, American author, newspaper columnist and political commentator 2005 - New Orleans' canal breached by Hurricane Katrina, resulting in flooding and destruction Ernest Lord RutherfordBritish-New Zealand physicist; discovered atomic nucleus (Born this day 1871) The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 31, 2012 6:27:54 GMT 10
Friday, 31 August Order of the Eastern Star: Festal Day (founder’s birthday, Bro. Robert Morris) 1688 - Death of John Bunyan, English preacher, novelist and author of "Pilgrim's Progress" 1811 - Birth of Théophile Gautier, French poet, novelist 1818 - Birth of Bro. Robert Morris, US founder of the Order of the Eastern Star 1844 - Birth of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, American spiritualist author 1870 - Birth of Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator (Spontaneous Response) 1908 - Birth of William Saroyan, Armenian-American novelist and playwright 1997 - Death of Diana, Princess of Wales Fátimih Baraghání, Táhirih, “Pure One”Iranian Bábí theologian (Martyred this day 1852) You can kill me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women(Táhirih’s last words before being strangled with her own veil)
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