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Post by Tamrin on Sept 21, 2012 5:36:13 GMT 10
Friday, 21 September International Day of Peace 0019 - BCE- Death of Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Roman poet (Eclogues; The Aeneid) 1832 - Death of Bro. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, Scottish historical novelist, folklorist and poet 1860 - Death of Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher The World as Will and Representation) 1866 - Birth of Herbert George (H.G.) Wells, English science fiction author (War of the Worlds) 1897 - NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial 1934 - Birth of Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter 1947 - Birth of Stephen King, American horror writer (The Shining) [/img] Edmund Gosse, CBEnglish poet (Born this day 1849) The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiosity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else[/center]
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 22, 2012 6:12:50 GMT 10
Saturday, 22 September September Equinox NeoPagan: Ostara in the southern hemisphere / Mabon in the northern hemisphere1253 - Death of Dôgen, Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher 1539 - Death of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, Indian founder of Sikhism 1694 - Birth of Bro. Lord Chesterfield, British statesman, introduced Gregorian calendar (1752) 1791 - Birth of Michael Faraday, English natural philosopher (electric motor) 1880 - Birth of Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English feminist 1931 - Birth of Fay Weldon, CBE, British author brought up in New Zealand 1989 - Death of Bro. Irving Berlin, American composer and lyricist R. Gordon WassonAmerican international banker, amateur mycologist, and author (Born this day 1898) Ecstasy! In common parlance ecstasy is fun. But ecstasy is not fun. Your very soul is seized and shaken until it tingles. After all, who will choose to feel undiluted awe? The unknowing vulgar abuse the word; we must recapture its full and terrifying sense
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 23, 2012 7:27:40 GMT 10
Sunday, 23 September Ancient Egypt: Feast of Atum0480 - BCE - Birth of Euripides, Greek playwright (Alcestis, Medea, Electra, and The Bacchae) 1838 - Birth of Victoria Claflin Woodhull, Ohio, feminist/reformer/free love/1st female presidential candidate 1863 - Birth of Mary Church Terrell, African-American writer and civil rights activist 1869 - Birth of Edgar Lee Masters, US poet and novelist (Spoon River Anthology) 1889 - Birth of Walter Lippmann, American political journalist (Men of Destiny) 1930 - Birth of Ray Charles, American singer and musician 1939 - Death of Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist (founded psychoanalysis) Baroness Emmuska OrczyHungarian-British playwright, artist and novelist (The Scarlet Pimpernel) (Born this day 1865) We seek him here, we seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? — Is he in hell? That demmed, elusive Pimpernel
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 24, 2012 6:21:34 GMT 10
Monday, 24 September U.K.: Feast of the Ingathering (England, "Harvest Home" & Scotland "Kirn") 1717 - Birth of Horace Walpole, English writer (The Castle of Otranto) 1825 - Birth of Frances E.A. Harper, African-American author, abolitionist and social reformer 1896 - Birth of F Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist author (Great Gatsby) 1898 - Birth of Baron Howard Florey, FRS, Australian pathologist; purified penicillin (Nobel '45) 1936 - Birth of Jim Henson, US Muppeteer, creator of the Muppets and Sesame Street 1941 - Birth of Linda McCartney (nee Eastman, singer and animal rights activist 1991 - Death of Theodor Geisel, aka Dr Seuss, American writer and illustrator (The Cat in the Hat) Howard HughesUS aviator, inventor, film producer, eccentric (Born this day 1905) I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 25, 2012 5:51:20 GMT 10
Tuesday, 25 September France: Fête des Sorcières (Witch Festival, Chalindrey) 1786 - The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania was instituted 1794 - Birth of Felicia Hemans, English poet 1897 - Birth of William Faulkner, American Nobel Prize-winning novelist 1930 - Birth of Shel Silverstein, American poet, songwriter, cartoonist and children's writer 1931 - Birth of Barbara Walters, American TV interviewer 1960 - Death of Emily Post, American etiquette expert 1970 - Death of Erich Maria Remarque, German author (All Quiet on the Western Front) Billy Hughes, CH, KC7th Prime Minister of Australia (Born this day 1862) Some, indeed, came out of this inferno of war apparently unscathed; the bounding vitality of youth for the time triumphed over the fearful shocks and strain of war. As the honourable member for Reid and others have said, when the war was over, they made haste to throw off their soldier's tunic and put on the jacket of a civilian, thanking God they had been spared, and resolved to put all thoughts of the horrors they had endured behind them . For three, five, or perhaps ten years they pursued their various civilian vocations, apparently hale and strong, and then with startling abruptness comes the end. Their strength oozes from them, their youth passes, they are broken men. The expectation of life at the age of 24 years, which we may assume was the average age of men of the Australian Imperial Force, is 431/2. The average death rate at 35 — that is 11 years after the Armistice — is 45 per thousand; but the men of the AIF are dying at the rate of 75 per thousand. The war is doing its deadly work, but then again how many of them are below par? They are still far from old but they are getting toward middle-age. Disease takes a thousand shapes; some of the men develop Locomotor Ataxia; some tubercular trouble but these maladies are due to one thing — a lowering of vitality. The nervous force has been reduced until the men no longer have the power to resist disease. Their war service has prematurely aged them. If a civilian, subjected to a similar strain in the course of his employment, sued his employer, no doctor in Australia would say other than that the ills from which the man was suffering were due to that cause. The onus of proof is placed on the unfortunate ex-soldier, although it takes the best of us, in the days of vigorous health, to prove anything before a Court of Law or other Tribunal. These poor men, suffering the effects of the great strain of war service, goes before a Tribunal and, because he cannot prove what no doctor on earth can prove, or disprove, redress is denied him
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 26, 2012 7:09:14 GMT 10
Wednesday, 26 September Hawaii - End of Kapu (High Chiefess Kapiolani defied Pele (volcano goddess) 1824 and lived) 1833 - Birth of Charles Bradlaugh, British freethinker, political activist and atheist 1872 - The Shrine of North America (AAONMS) was instituted in New York City 1888 - Birth of T.S. Eliot, US poet, dramatist and critic (Waste Land - Nobel 1948) 1888 - Birth of J Frank Dobie, US folklorist and newspaper columnist 1889 - Birth of Martin Heidegger, German Existentialist & Nazi sympathizer 1902 - Introduction of International Co-Freemasonry into England with the consecration of Lodge Human Duty No. 6, London. 1946 - Birth of Andrea Dworkin, American feminist author Max EhrmannGerman-American attorney and poet (Born this day 1872) DESIDERATAGo placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achieve- ments as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 27, 2012 6:32:04 GMT 10
Thursday, 27 September Mesopotamia: Day of Willows (Festival for Belili, Astarte or Aeea) Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Churches: Meskel Festival (discovery of the "true cross") 1177 - Pope Alexander III wrote a letter to Prester John seeking an alliance 1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola 1660 - Death of St Vincent de Paul, philanthropist. 1722 - Birth of Samuel Adams, US revolutionary and rabble rouser 1906 - Birth of William Empson, British poet 1913 - Birth of Albert Ellis, US psychologist 1957 - UK began nuclear bomb test series at Maralinga, South Australia Mata AmritanandamayiIndian religious leader (Born this day 1953) Keep a close watch on the mind! It is a clever liar that stops you from being aware of your true nature, the SELF
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 28, 2012 5:55:44 GMT 10
Friday, 28 September Ancient Egypt: Feast day of Khepera0551 - BCE - Birth of Confucius, (as celebrated in Taiwan) 1839 - Birth of Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, American educator and suffragette 1841 - Birth of Georges Clemenceau, French statesman and PM (defended Dreyfuss) 1891 - Death of Herman Melville, American novelist (Moby Dick) 1895 - Death of Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist 1918 - Death of Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher 1966 - Death of André Breton, French poet David Unaipon (David Ngunaitponi)Australian Aboriginal of the Ngarrindjeri people, a preacher, inventor and writer (Born this day 1872) As a full blooded member of my race, I think I claim to be the first — but I hope, not the last — to produce an enduring record of our customs, belief and imagining
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 29, 2012 7:19:02 GMT 10
Saturday, 29 September RC, Ang, Luth: Michaelmas (Feast of SS Michael, Gabriel, Raphael & all angels) 1511 - Birth of Michael Servetus, Spainish physician (Christianism Rostituta) 1547 - Birth of Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (Don Quixote) 1758 - Birth of Bro. Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, British naval hero at Trafalgar 1810 - Birth of Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (Cranford) 1901 - Birth of Bro. Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize-winning Italian nuclear physicist 1902 - Death of Émile François Zola, French writer 1902 - Death of William Topaz McGonagall, Britain's favorite bad poet Charles AddamsAmerican cartoonist (Addams Family) (Died this day 1988) Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc(Addam’s Family Motto) — pseudo-Latin: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us"
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 30, 2012 9:22:03 GMT 10
Sunday, 30 September International Translation Day (date in honour of St. Jerome) 0420 - Death of Saint Jerome, Doctor of the Church, Roman translator of the Vulgate Bible 1207 - Birth of Jalâl ad-Dîn Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic 1452 - 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible 1924 - Birth of Truman Capote, American short short story writer (In Cold Blood) 1928 - Birth of Elie Wiesel, holocaust survivor, author (Souls on Fire), Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986) 1946 - 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg 1949 - Initiation of Bro. Gerald R. Ford, US President, Malta Lodge #465, Grand Rapids, Michigan Tamina and TaminoInitiates in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) (premiered this day 1791) Oh Isis and Osiris, Favor This noble pair with Wisdom's light! Grant them your aid in their endeavor, lead them to find the path of right! Let them be strong against temptation, but if they fail in their probation, do not their virtue need deny, Take them to your abode on high
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