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Post by Tamrin on Apr 9, 2014 9:16:39 GMT 10
Wednesday, 9 April
US & England: Churchill Day (Bro. Churchill made an honorary US citizen, this day 1963) 1553 - Death of François Rabelais, French author ( Gargantua/Pantagruel) 1626 - Death of Francis Bacon, English Renaissance polymath ( New Atlantis) 1898 - Birth of Bro. Paul Robeson, US singer ( Old Man River), actor and footballer 1905 - Birth of James W Fulbright, American Senator (Fulbright Scholarship) 1925 - Initiation of Bro. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian aviator, Gascoyne Lodge, WA 1929 - Birth of Prof. Fred Hollows, AC, NZ-born Australian ophthalmologist and anarcho-syndicalist 1930 - Birth of Nathaniel Branden, US psychotherapist, former Objectivist and writer  Elias LönnrotFinnish physician, linguist, philology and folklorist ( Kalevala - national epic) (Born this day 1802) Dear my kinsman, friend fraternal, you my fairest foster-brother!
Come and sing with me in concord, let us sing and say together,
Since together we have got here coming from two different quarters!
Seldom do we see each other, rarely reap the fruits of friendship,
Here within these barren borders, in these careful Northern confines
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 10, 2014 9:12:13 GMT 10
Thursday, 10 April
Salvation Army: Birthday of William Booth, founder (1829) 1778 - Birth of William Hazlitt, English essayist 1827 - Birth of Bro. Gen. Lew Wallace, US Union soldier & author ( Ben Hur) 1847 - Birth of Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-born American publisher (Pulitzer Prizes) 1867 - Birth of George William Russell, Irish nationalist, critic, poet, painter and Theosophist 1880 - Birth of Montague Summers, English author and clergyman ( The Vampire) 1966 - Death of Evelyn Waugh, British writer ( Black Mischief) 1981 - Death of Howard Thurman, US author, philosopher, theologian and civil rights leader  Juan WilliamsAmerican journalist and political analyst (Born this day 1954) The Tea Party is a fitting representation of our era of no-debate, politically correct
politics, where each political side has its own media, and opposing views are almost
never given a fair hearing. Conservatives listen only to conservatives, and liberals listen
only to liberals. People are spared the inconvenience of facts that don’t fit their beliefs
and the unpleasantness of seriously considering a point of view other than their own
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 11, 2014 10:29:32 GMT 10
Friday, 11 April
Industrial Relations: Formation of the International Labour Organisation (1919) US Human Rights: Civil Rights Act signed into force (LBJ, 1968) 1876 - Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks is organized 1908 - Birth of Leo Rosten, Polish-US writer and humourist 1926 - Death of Bro. Luther Burbank, American botanist 1941 - Birth of Ellen Goodman, American Pulitzer prize winning journalist 1968 - Birth of Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian science fiction author (Night Watch) 1987 - Death of Primo Levi, Italian chemist and writer ( Survival in Auschwitz) 2007 - Death of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., American writer ( Slaughterhouse-Five)  Marguerite de NavarreQueen of Navarre and writer ( The Tales of the Heptameron) (Born this day 1492) People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 12, 2014 7:54:26 GMT 10
Saturday, 12 April
Ancient Rome: Festival of Ceres, goddess of the plenty (first of 8 days) 0065 - CE - Death of Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman & dramatist 1777 - Birth of Henry Clay, American statesman and orator 1902 - Birth of Swami Narayanananda, Indian teacher of Vedanta philosophy 1910 - Death of William G Sumner, US sociologist ( Folkways) 1930 - Birth of Bryan Magee, British politician, broadcaster and philosophical 1945 - Death of Bro. Franklin D Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States 1988 - Death of Alan Stewart Paton, South African writer ( Cry, The Beloved Country)  Sir Alan Ayckbourn, British dramatist (Born this day 1939) The darker the subject, the more light you
must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 13, 2014 9:29:33 GMT 10
Sunday, 13 April
Ancient Rome: Festival of Libertas (goddess of liberty) US: Huguenot Day (French Treaty of Nantes, this day 1598) 1695 - Death of Jean de La Fontaine, French poet 1743 - Birth of Thomas Jefferson, third US President 1894 - Birth of Bro. Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia 1906 - Birth of Samuel Beckett, Irish writer ( Waiting for Godot) 1919 - Birth of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist (American Atheists) 1942 - Birth of Ataol Behramoğlu, Turkish poet, author, translator and columnist 1949 - Birth of Christopher Hitchens, English-American political writer  Ernst CassirerGerman-American neo-Kantian philosopher of science and of culture (Died this day 1945) No former age was ever in such a favorable position with regard to the sources of our
knowledge of human nature. Psychology, ethnology, anthropology, and history have
amassed an astonishingly rich and constantly increasing body of facts. Our technical
instruments for observation and experimentation have been immensely improved,
and our analyses have become sharper and more penetrating. We appear, nevertheless,
not yet to have found a method for the mastery and organization of this material...
Unless we succeed in finding a clue of Ariadne to lead us out of this labyrinth, we can
have no real insight into the general character of human culture; we shall remain lost in
a mass of disconnected and disintegrated data which seem to lack all conceptual unity
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 14, 2014 8:56:28 GMT 10
Monday, 14 April
Japan: Takayama Spring Festival (first of two days) 1126 - Birth of Averroes, Arab Spanish physician, philosopher and polymath 1865 - Fatal shooting of Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President 1889 - Birth of Arnold Toynbee, English historian ( A Study of History) 1892 - Birth of V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist ( Man Makes Himself) 1950 - Death of Ramana Marashi, Indian sage (Advaita Vedanta) 1964 - Death of Rachel L Carson, US biologist and author ( Silent Spring) 1986 - Death of Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist author ( Deuxième Sexe)  Christiaan Huygens, FRSDutch astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings) (Born this day 1629) The world is my country, science is my religion
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 15, 2014 8:47:25 GMT 10
Tuesday, 15 April
Ottoman Empire: Birth of Mimar Sinan, Suleiman the Magnificent’s principal architect 1452 - Birth of Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath 1469 - Birth of Nanak, 1st guru of the Sikhs 1707 - Birth of Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist 1858 - Birth of Émile Durkheim, French social scientist (Father of Sociology) 1868 - Birth of H.W. Percival, Barbados-born US author ( Masonry and its Symbols) 1888 - Birth of Matthew Arnold, English essayist and poet ( Dover Beach) 1980 - Death of Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher and activist  Rupert BrookeEnglish poet (war sonnets, The Soldier) (Died this day 1915) We are earth’s best, that learnt her lesson here, Life is our cry. We have
kept the faith! And when we die, all’s over that is ours; and life burns on
through other lovers, other lips, heart of my heart, heaven is now, is won!
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 16, 2014 10:44:35 GMT 10
Wednesday, 16 April
Burmese New Year, a day of jokes and foolery 1689 - Death of Aphra Behn, English novelist, playwright and spy 1844 - Birth of Anatole France, French writer ( The Wickerwork Woman), Nobel 1921 1859 - Death of Alexis de Tocqueville, French political thinker ( Democracy in America) 1884 - Establishment of the Grand Lodge of South Australia (& the Northern Territory) 1918 - Birth of Spike Milligan, KBE, Indian-British-Irish comedian, writer and poet 1953 - Birth of Peter Garrett, AM, MP, Australian politician and musician, ( Midnight Oil) 2003 - Makobo Modjadji was crowned the new Rain Queen of Balobedu Ralph EllisonAmerican writer (Invisible Man) (Died this day 1994) I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone,
fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind.
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 17, 2014 11:28:13 GMT 10
Thursday, 17 April
Commemoration of Bro. Benjamin Franklin (died this day 1790) 0485 - Death of Diadochus Proclus, Neoplatonic philosopher (successor to Hypatia) 1621 - Birth of Henry Vaughan, Welsh physician and metaphysical poet ( Silex Scintillans) 1885 - Birth of Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (aka Isak Dinesen), Danish writer 1897 - Birth of Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian Guru and philosopher (Advaita Vedanta) 1975 - Death of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and statesman 1994 - Death of Roger Wolcott Sperry, US neuropsychologist, neurobiologist (Nobel Laureate) 1996 - Death of Piet Hein, Danish mathematician, scientist, inventor and poet  Sir Leonard WoolleyBritish archaeologist ( Ur of the Chaldees) (Born this day 1880) When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes,
as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 18, 2014 12:22:42 GMT 10
Friday, 18 April
Ottoman Empire: Death of Queen Roxelana[/color], wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (Ottoman Emperors rarely wed) Good Friday1580 - Birth of Thomas Middleton, English Jacobean playwright and poet 1772 - Birth of David Ricardo, English economist ( The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation) 1817 - Birth of George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe) 1857 - Birth of Clarence S Darrow, US defense attorney at the Scopes monkey trial 1947 - Birth of Kathy Acker (Karen Alexander), American experimental writer 1955 - Death of Albert Einstein, German-American physicist (E=MC²) 1959 - Birth of Susan C. Faludi, American feminist, author and journalist (Pulitzer Prize)  Bro. Dr. Erasmus Darwin, (Co-founder of the Lunar Society) British physician and botanist, grand-father of Charles Darwin (Died this day 1802) Would it be too bold to imagine that, in the great length of time since the earth
began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history
of mankind would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have
arisen from one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality,
with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed
by irritations, sensations, volitions and associations, and thus possessing the
faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering
down these improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end!
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