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Post by Tamrin on Aug 13, 2009 6:47:22 GMT 10
13 August1422 – Birth of William Caxton, 1st English printer (Histories of Troy) 1521 - Spanish conquerors captured Mexico City from Aztecs 1818 – Birth of Lucy Stone, pioneered women's rights 1860 – Birth of Annie Oakley, Drake Ohio, frontierswoman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West) 1899 – Birth of Alfred Hitchcock, London, director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window) 1945 - 35 Jews sacrifice their lives to blow up Nazi rubber plant in Silesia 1961 - Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)  Alfred Hitchock(Born this day 1899) In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 14, 2009 6:55:48 GMT 10
14 August1248 - Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun (completed this day 1880) 1935 – [US] Social Security Act became law 1945 - V-J Day; Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II 1951 - William Randolph Hearst newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills 1958 - Mary Ritter Beard American historian, dies at 82 1969 - British troops intervenes militarily in Northern Ireland 1973 - US bombs Cambodia  Mary Ritter Beard(Died this day 1958) The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men
must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind
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Post by maximus on Aug 14, 2009 7:03:01 GMT 10
Ah, yes. Our government run ponzi scheme. It's broke, you know. I'll likely never see a penny.
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 14, 2009 22:19:09 GMT 10
Ah, yes. Our government run ponzi scheme. It's broke, you know. I'll likely never see a penny. As Will Rogers once said: Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing,
and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even |
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 15, 2009 8:49:57 GMT 10
15 August1057 - Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan 1096 - The armies of the First Crusade set out from Europe 1620 - Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims 1769 - Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15) 1771 - Birth of Sir Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake) 1935 - Wiley Post & Will Rogers killed in plane crash in Alaska 1969 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)  Sir Walter Scott(Born this day 1771) The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other.
We cannot exist without mutual help.
All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men;
and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 16, 2009 8:54:16 GMT 10
16 August1819 - Manchester Massacre; English police charge unemployed demonstrators 1863 - [US] Emancipation Proclamation signed 1896 - Gold discovered in the Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala 1897 - Birth of Robert Ringling, circus master 1930 - Birth of Ted Hughes, England, poet laureate (1984- ) 1934 - US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915) 1934 - US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (1922 m) in Bathysphere  William Beebe (left) and Otis Barton standing next to the Bathysphere I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest
a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 17, 2009 6:00:05 GMT 10
17 August1786 - Birth of Davy Crockett, US, frontiersman/adventurer/politician 1887 - Birth of Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks 1892 - Birth of Mae West, Bkln, actress (Go up & see her sometime) 1950 - Indonesia gains independence from the Netherlands 1961 - Building of the Berlin Wall begins 1982 - South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist [serial killer] Joseph Paul Franklin 1988 - Franklin D Roosevelt Jr (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday  Davy Crockett(Born this day 1786) I have always supported measures and principles and not men
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 18, 2009 6:46:54 GMT 10
18 August1227 - Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, died 1587 - Birth of Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents 1778 - Birth of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen, 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica 1958 - TV game show scandal investigation starts 1920 - Tennessee ratifies 19th Amendment, guarantees women voting right 1961 - Construction on Berlin Wall completed 1990 - B.F. Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies from Leukemia at 86
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 19, 2009 6:44:51 GMT 10
19 August1099 - Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon 1631 – Birth of John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England (Absalom & Achitophel) 1646 – Birth of John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England 1871 – Birth of Orville Wright, aviator 1891 - William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum 1934 - Plebiscite in Germany approved sole executive power to Adolph Hitler 1946 – Birth of Bill Clinton, 42nd US President. (Former Little Rock Attorney)  Bill Clinton(Born this day 1946) Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance,
everybody has a responsible role to play
and we all do better when we work together
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 20, 2009 6:57:14 GMT 10
20 August1886 - Birth of Paul Tillich, German philosophical theologian. Tillich advocated "myth" as a signpost, participating in the reality to which it points. 1890 – Birth of H.P. Lovecraft, US, Gothic novelist (At the Mountains of Madness) 1901 – Birth of Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959) 1913 - 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pegoud, France) 1940 - Leon Trotsky, assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin agents, dies 8/21 1955 - Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria 1985 - Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle  Salvatore Quasimodo(Born this day 1901) Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power,
has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral
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