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Post by Tamrin on Oct 21, 2012 6:50:06 GMT 10
Sunday, 21 October Old British Empire: Trafalgar Day (1805) 1772 - Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet ( Rime of the Ancient Mariner) 1790 - Birth of Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer, poet ( The stone-mason of Saint Point) 1805 - Death of Bro. Admiral Horatio Nelson, Battle of Trafalgar 1833 - Birth of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite & Peace Prizes 1914 - Birth of Martin Gardner, Scientific American math and puzzles columnist 1929 - Birth of Ursula K Le Guin, American science fiction author ( The Left Hand of Darkness) 1969 - Death of Jack Kerouac, US Beat poet ( The Dharma Bums) Judge Judy SheindlinAmerican judge, television host (Born this day 1942) If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 22, 2012 4:22:26 GMT 10
Monday, 22 October International Stuttering Awareness Day0741 - Death of French leader Charles Martel, Frankish leader, vanquished Saracens 1811 - Birth of Bro. Franz von List, Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer 1834 - Creation in London of the South Australian Lodge of Friendship No. 613 (first in S.A.) 1844 - Birth of Sarah Bernhardt, French stage actress 1919 - Birth of Doris Lessing, Persian-born British novelist (Golden Notebook) 1920 - Birth of Timothy Leary, US academic (Harvard professor), acid head 1936 - Birth of Bobby Seale, US civil rights activist John ReedUS radical journalist, poet and communist activist (Born this day 1887) In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 23, 2012 5:07:01 GMT 10
Tuesday, 23 October Chemistry: Mole Day (6:02am to 6:02pm, 6.02×1023 is the number of molecules in a mole) 4004 - BCE - Date of Creation (9am), according to Irish Archbishop James Ussher (1581 - 1656) 1295 - The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France against England is signed in Paris 1641 - Irish Rebellion, thousands of Protestant settlers massacred by Irish nationalists 1813 - Birth of Ludwig Leichhardt, Prussian-born Australian explorer and naturalist 1872 - Death of Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier, French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist and critic 1927 - Birth of Leszek Kotakowski, Polish philosopher and historian of ideas 1942 – Birth of Dame Anita Roddick, British businesswoman and human rights activist Prof. Michael Eric DysonAmerican academic, author, and radio host (Born this day 1958) Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth — even if they decide to help the less fortunate — while others are short- changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 24, 2012 5:14:05 GMT 10
Wednesday, 24 October Mesopotamia: Commemoration of Lilith United Nations Day (UN Charter became effective this day in 1945) 1632 - Birth of Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (first to see bacteria, 1657) 1868 - Birth of Bro. Alexandra David-Néel, first foreign woman explorer of Tibet 1929 - 'Black Thursday' crash of the New York Stock Exchange 1932 - Birth of Stephen R. Covey, US author (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People) 1970 - Election of Bro. Salvador Allende Gossens as president of Chile 1991 - Death of Gene Roddenberry, US scriptwriter, Star Trek creator 2005 - Death of OES Sister Rosa Parks, African-American civil rights activist Tycho BraheDanish astronomer, alchemist (Died this day 1601) With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherlandSimilar to this is the following statement by Bro. Alexandra David-Néel (born this day 1868): If "heaven is the Lord's," the earth is the inheritance of man, and that consequently any honest traveler has the right to walk as he chooses, all over that globe which is his
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 25, 2012 4:59:32 GMT 10
Thursday, 25 October St Crispin's Day (Battle of Agincourt, 1415) 1400 - Death of Geoffrey Chaucer, English author (The Canterbury Tales) 1616 - Dutch sea captain Dirk Hartog landed in Australia (more than 150 years before Cook) 1800 - Birth of Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, English poet, abolitionist, historian 1806 - Birth of Max Stirner (born Johann Kaspar Schmidt), "high brow" German philosopher 1881 - Birth of Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (3 Dancers, Guernica) 1913 - Birth of Norman O Brown, American philosopher (Love's Body) 1941 - Birth of Anne Tyler, American novelist (The Accidental Tourist) Bro. Admiral Richard E ByrdUS polar explorer (dropped masonic flags on both poles) (Born this day 1888) Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 26, 2012 4:50:35 GMT 10
Friday, 26 October Ancient Egypt: Moon Festival of Hathor International: Intersex Awareness Day1764 - Death of Bro. William Hogarth, famous English painter and engraver (Night) 1879 - Birth of Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (president of first Soviet) 1890 - Death of Bro. Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (The Adventures of Pinocchio) 1902 - Death of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist 1957 - Death of Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher 1959 - Birth of Dr. Paul Farmer, American professor of Medical Anthropology 1979 - The World Health Organisation announced the eradication of smallpox Bro. Georges Danton, French revolutionary (Born this day 1759) In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 27, 2012 5:50:04 GMT 10
Saturday, 27 October Coptic: Feast Day of St Frumentius, Apostle of Ethiopia (d. c.383) UN: Universal Children’s Day0939 - Death of King Athelstan I of England ( York Legend, 926) 1728 - Birth of James Cook, English captain, explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands & claimed Australia 1858 - Birth of Bro. Theodore Roosevelt, (R) 26th US President (Nobel 1906) 1914 - Birth of Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (Child's Christmas in Wales) 1932 - Birth of Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (The Bell Jar) 1939 - Birth of John Cleese, English comedian and actor (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers) 1950 - Birth of Fran Lebowitz, American writer (Metropolitan Life and Social Studies) Nawal El SaadawiEgyptian feminist writer, activist and physician (Born this day 1931) They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 28, 2012 6:36:04 GMT 10
Sunday, 28 October Ancient Egypt: First day of Isia festival, commemorating the search of Isis for Osiris Phoenicia: Feast of Baal (Ba'al; Haddad) 0312 - Roman Emperor Constantine wins the battle at Milvian Bridge (In hoc signo vinces) 1466 - Birth of Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar and author (In Praise of Folly) 1585 - Birth of Cornelius Jansen, theologian ( Jansenism) 1704 - Death of John Locke, English empirical philosopher 1903 - Birth of Evelyn Waugh, London, author (Brideshead Revisited) 1914 - Birth of Dr Jonas Salk, US medical researcher, made polio a fear of the past 1955 - Birth of Bill Gates, software tycoon, co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft Liberty Enlightening the World (Statue of Liberty)Dedicated this day 1886) The Virgin is consecrated to Isis, just as Leo is consecrated to her husband Osiris ... The sphinx, composed of a Lion and a Virgin, was used as a symbol to designate the overflowing Nile ... they put a wheat-ear in the hand of a virgin, to express the idea of the months, perhaps because the sign of Virgin was called by the Orientals, Sounbouleh or Schibbolet, that is to say, epi or wheat ear Brother Joseph Jerome de Lalandefounder of Lodge Des Neuf Soers (Nine Sisters), Paris; Astronomie par M. de la Lande, 1731 (Today is the Isia, for Isis)
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 29, 2012 7:26:09 GMT 10
Monday, 29 October Turkey: Republic Day (dissolution of the Ottoman Empire this day, 1923) 1618 - Execution of Sir Walter Raleigh, English poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer 1740 - Birth of Bro. James Boswell, Scottish biographer (Samuel Johnson) 1882 - Birth of Jean Giraudoux, French playwright (Eglantine, Provinciales) 1897 - Death of Henry George, American political economist (Georgism) 1910 - Birth of Sir A.J. Ayer, British humanist philosopher (Logical Positivism) 1948 - Birth of Frans B.M. de Waal, Dutch psychologist, primatologist and ethologist 1949 - Death of George Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian-Russian mystic Cyrus the Great, (Cyrus II of Persia, Achaemenid Emperor)(Conquered Babylon this day 539 BCE) I can never be persuaded that the soul lives on longer than it dwells in this mortal body: It too dies on separation. Remember this as my last and dying words
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 30, 2012 5:04:31 GMT 10
Tuesday, 30 October Crusades Ended[/color] (eighth and last crusade finished, 1270) 1501 - Banquet of Chestnuts (Papal orgy, Don Cesare Borgia) 1735 - Birth of John Adams, American revolutionary leader and second US President 1751 - Birth of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright (School for Scandal) 1821 - Birth of Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Russian novelist & short-story writer 1871 - Birth of Paul Valéry, French poet, essayist and critic (La Jeune) 1885 - Birth of Ezra Pound, American poet (Cantos) 1937 - Masonic initiation of Bro. Lyndon B. Johnson, US President (1963 – 1969) Bro. Orson Welles(Panicked much of the US this day 1938 by broadcasting “War of the Worlds”) I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could
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