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Post by Tamrin on Sept 1, 2012 7:56:13 GMT 10
Saturday, 1 September Oz: Wattle Day (first day of Spring) 1818 - Birth of Bro. José María Castro Madriz, first President of Costa Rica and founder of the republic 1835 - Birth of William Stanley Jevons, British-Australian logician and economist 1875 - Birth of Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (Tarzan) 1878 - Birth of J. F. C. Fuller, British Army officer and military theorist 1942 - Birth of C. J. Cherryh, American science fiction and fantasy author 1950 - Birth of Dr. Phil McGraw, American talk show host 1967 - Death of Siegfried Sassoon, English poet, author and soldier François MauriacFrench writer, Nobel laureate (Died this day 1970) One can touch a living soul through a curtain of vice and crime no matter how dense and dark: but vulgarity is an insurmountable barrier
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 2, 2012 7:51:55 GMT 10
Sunday, 2 September Ancient Greece: Festival of the Grape Vines, (in honour of Ariadne and Dionysus) Oz: Fathers’ Day 1838 - Birth of Queen Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani, last reigning monarch of Hawai'i 1839 - Birth of Henry George, US economist, land reformer, writer (Progress & Poverty) 1922 - Death of Henry Lawson, Australian author and poet 1937 - Death of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, reviver of Olympic Games 1939 - Robert Menzies, PM of Australia, announced that Australia was at war with Germany 1945 - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri 1973 - Death of J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor John HowardEnglish philanthropist and prison reformer (Born this day 1726) You can't fatten the pig on market day
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 3, 2012 5:32:15 GMT 10
Monday, 3 September Slavic Pagan Day of Remembrance for the Pagan People of Novgorod1658 - Death of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (Civil War) 1752 - This day never happened, nor the next 10, as England adopted the Gregorian Calendar 1849 - Birth of Sarah Orne Jewett, US novelist 1907 - Birth of Dr Loren Eiseley, US professor of Anthropology (Animal Secrets) 1962 - Death of e. e. cummings, US poet, painter and author 1967 - Death Woody Guthrie, US folk singer 1981 - The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, entered into force Prudence CrandallAmerican educator (racially integrated classes) (Born this day 1803) My life has been one of opposition. I never could find anyone near me to agree with me. Even my husband opposed me more than anyone. He would not let me read the books that he himself read, but I did read them. I read all sides and searched for the truth, whether it was in science, religion, or humanity
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 4, 2012 6:38:39 GMT 10
Tuesday, 4 September Eastern Orthodox: Feast Day of Moses and Aaronc518 - BCE - Birth of Pindar, Greek Poet 1768 - Birth of François René de Chateaubriand, French poet, novelist, statesman 1919 - Bro. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gathers a congress in Silvas to decide the future of Anatolia and Thrace 1926 - Birth of Ivan Illich, Austrian-born Christian anarchist, author, polymath and polemicist 1937 - Birth of Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (100m freestyle) 1965 - Death of Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician 1977 - Death E.F. Schumacher, German-British statistician and economist Antonin ArtaudFrench playwright, poet, actor and theatre director (Born this day 1896) There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 5, 2012 6:31:48 GMT 10
Wednesday, 5 September Olympics: Lament for slain Israeli athletes (eleven, Munich Olympics, 1972) 1651 - Baptism of William Dampier, English explorer, naturalist and A Pirate of Exquisite Mind1774 - 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia 1882 - 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC 1902 - Birth of Bro. Darryl F. Zanuck, Hollywood movie producer 1905 - Birth of Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born writer (The Ghost in the Machine, Darkness at Noon) 1927 - Birth of Paul Volcker, Jr., former US Federal Reserve chairman 1929 - Birth of Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor (The Bob Newhart Show) Tommaso CampanellaDominican theologian, philosopher, poet (Born this day 1568) Man lives in a double world: according to the mind he is contained by no physical space and by no walls, but at the same time he is in heaven and on earth, in Italy, in France, in America, wherever the mind's thrust penetrates and extends by understanding, seeking, mastering. But indeed according to the body he exists not, except in only so much space as is least required, held fast in prison and in chains to the extent that he is not able to be in or to go to the place attained by his intellect and will, nor to occupy more space than defined by the shape of his body; while with the mind he occupies a thousand worlds
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 6, 2012 6:07:11 GMT 10
Thursday, 6 September Hebrew Calendar: First Day (3761 BCE) 1729 - Birth of Moses Mendelssohn, German Jewish Enlightenment philosopher 1757 - Birth of Bro. Marquis de Lafayette, French-American revolutionary 1766 - Birth of John Dalton, FRS, British chemist, meteorologist and physicist 1860 - Birth of Jane Addams, US pacifist, social worker and feminist (Nobel 1931) 1901 - Fatal shooting of Bro. William McKinley, 25th US President (died 14 September) 1928 - Birth of Robert M Pirsig, US author, (Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 1950 - Death of William Olaf Stapledon, British philosopher and author William LaneAnglo-Australian labour leader, racist and utopian socialist Founder of “New Australia” in Paraguay (Born this day 1861) When I say God, I mean… the sense of oneness, the livingness, the completeness, of that inconceivable power which working through matter called us and all the wondrous universe we see into being. That power I know and feel is supreme beyond all conceiving. Nothing is beyond its control
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 7, 2012 6:48:52 GMT 10
Friday, 7 September Brazil: Independence Day (1822) 1533 - Birth of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1558-1603) 1815 - Birth of Bro. John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (first north to south traverse & return) 1860 - Birth of Grandma (Anna Maria) Moses, US primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket) 1887 - Birth of Edith Sitwell, DBE, English poet and critic 1900 - Birth of Taylor Caldwell, Anglo-American novelist (Captain and the Kings) 1914 - Birth of James Alfred Van Allen, American space scientist 1932 - Birth of Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, CBE, English novelist, literary critic and academic C.J. DennisAustralian poet (The Sentimental Bloke) (Born this day 1871) 'Er name's Doreen... Well, spare me bloomin' days! You could er knocked me down wiv 'arf a brick! Yes, me, that kids meself I know their ways, An' 'as a name for smoogin' in our click! I just lines up 'an tips the saucy wink. But strike! The way she piled on dawg! Yer'd think A bloke was givin' back-chat to the Queen.... 'Er name's Doreen
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 8, 2012 10:30:57 GMT 10
Saturday, 8 September International Literacy Day0070 - Jerusalem surrendered after being besieged by Titus' Roman army: Temple destroyed 1644 - Death of Francis Quarles, English prose-writer and poet (Emblems) 1656 - Death of Joseph Hall, English bishop, satirist and moralist 1924 - Birth of Grace Metalious, American author (Peyton Place) 1925 - Birth of Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor, one of the Goons 1947 - Birth of Ann Beattie, American short story writer and novelist (Love Always) 1969 - Death of Bro. Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer, spiritualist and feminist Robert FluddEnglish Paracelsian physician, astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist (Died this day 1637) I am of a distinguished noble race. My spouse is called `desire of wisdom'; my child- ren are the fruits produced by it... I have experienced and fortunately overcome the stormy sea, the steep mountains, the slippery vallies, ignorance on land, and the coarse- ness of the towns; the haughtiness and pride of the citizens, avarice, faithlessness, ignorance, foulness, almost all human inconveniences... I have found that almost every- where vanity rules and triumphs. All seems to be self-assertive misery and vanity itself
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 9, 2012 7:13:47 GMT 10
Sunday, 9 September Mauritius: Father Laval Day ( Père Jacques-Désiré Laval, the 'Apostle of the Black People') 1585 - Birth of Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIII's chief minister 1828 - Birth of Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) 1890 - Birth of Bro. Col. Harland Sanders, American restaurateur (Kentucky Fried Chicken) 1908 - Birth of Cesare Pavese, Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator 1914 - Birth of John Passmore, Australian philosopher (Man's Responsibility for Nature) 1945 - Death of Max Ehrmann , American writer, poet and attorney (Desiderata) 1976 - Death of Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist party chairman Ahmad Shah Massoud ('the Lion of Panjshir')Leader of the Northern Alliance in Afgahanistan (Assassinated this day 2001) It is our conviction and we believe that both men and women are created by the Almighty. Both have equal rights. Women can pursue an education, women can pursue a career, and women can play a role in society — just like men
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 10, 2012 6:11:19 GMT 10
Monday, 10 September Ancient Greece: Commencement of the Greater Eleusinian Mysteries & Feast day of Asclepigenia (neo-platonic philosopher and priestess of the mysteries) 1676 - Death of Gerrard Winstanley, English leader of the Diggers 1797 - Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, British writer, philosopher and feminist 1823 - Bro. Simon Bolivar, South American revolutionary, named President of Peru 1839 - Birth of Charles Sanders Peirce, US mathematician, philosopher and logician 1886 - Birth of Hilda Doolittle (aka H.D.), American poet and novelist 1941 - Birth of Stephen Jay Gould, US Paleontologist and author 2008 - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland Hannah Webster FosterAmerican novelist (The Coquette) (Born this day 1758) It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them, that we discover our fortitude
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