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Post by Tamrin on Oct 12, 2009 5:23:45 GMT 10
12 October1492 - Columbus arrives in the Bahamas; the real Columbus Day 1870 - Robert E Lee, General of the Confederate Army, dies at 63 1875 – Birth of Aleister Crowley, English occultist, writer, mountaineer, poet, yogi, and possible spy 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session 1972 - 46 sailors injured in race riot on aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk 1977 - Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded, smashed into cop van 2002 - A bomb destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people  Nikita KhrushchevIf you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 13, 2009 6:17:28 GMT 10
13 October0539 - BCE - The Persian armies of Cyrus the Great captured Babylon. 1601 - Tycho Brahe, greatest naked-eye observer, dies in Prague 1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House) 1843 - B'nai B'rith ("Sons of the Covenant"), founded in NY 1902 - Birth of Arna Bontemps, Louisiana, black author (100 years of negro freedom) 1925 - Birth of Margaret Thatcher, (Tory) British PM (1979-90) Iron Lady 1988 - The Bishop of Turin, Italy announced that the Shroud of Turin… did not withstand scientific testing  Arna Bontemps(Born this day 1902) How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored
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Post by maximus on Oct 13, 2009 21:24:49 GMT 10
1925 - Birth of Margaret Thatcher, (Tory) British PM (1979-90) Iron LadyGod bless Maggie Thatcher. Britian needs her type of leadership today. Would that the US had Reagan back at the helm as well. Far have we all fallen from the era of these two great leaders. You seem to be doing pretty well in OZ, Philip. I'd consider a move, but everything down there seems to be poisonous!  And it's too hot for my taste. |
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 14, 2009 6:13:48 GMT 10
14 October1066 - Battle of Hastings, in which William the Conqueror wins England 1644 - Birth of William Penn, English Quaker & founder of PA 1888 - Birth of Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (Aloe, Garden Party) 1906 - Birth of Hannah Arendt, Germany, historian (Origins of Totalitarianism) 1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide 1949 - 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition 1980 - Bob Marley's last concert  Katherine Mansfield(Born this day 1888) When we can begin to take our failures seriously,
it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 14, 2009 12:21:14 GMT 10
I'd consider a move, but everything down there seems to be poisonous! After a while you build up an immunity. However, those who become hyper-sensitive don't last long  BTW, we were the official witnesses at a citizenship ceremony of a friend from Colorado a couple of years ago. She too is part Native American. Australia is one of the few countries for which any significant number of Americans are willing to forgo their US citizenship. |
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 15, 2009 5:41:34 GMT 10
15 October0070 - BCE - Birth of Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Mantua Italy (’neid), poet 1880 - Köln [Cologne] cathedral, Germany, completed, 633 years after it begun 1908 - Birth of John Kenneth Galbraith, writer (Affluent Society-1958 Hillman Award) 1917 - Birth of Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian/author (1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson) 1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy executed by firing squad in Paris 1946 - Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison 1969 - Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war  Arthur Schlesinger Jr.(Born this day 1917) Science and technology revolutionize our lives,
but memory, tradition and myth frame our response
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 16, 2009 5:50:56 GMT 10
16 October1758 - Birth of Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary) 1793 - Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France 1849 - Birth of George Washington Williams, Penns, 1st major black historian 1854 - Birth of Oscar Wilde [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray) 1859 - John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va 1886 - Birth of David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st PM of Israel (1948-53, 55) 1962 - Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba  David Ben-Gurion(Born this day 1886) If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel.
It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us,
but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs.
There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz,
but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and
we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 17, 2009 7:08:30 GMT 10
17 October1483 - Pope Sixtus IV launched the Spanish Inquisition  1781 - Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown 1931 - Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison 1933 - Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany 1938 - Birth of Robert "Evel" Knievel, motorcycle daredevil (not as daring as “Oath” Knoth from Oz ) 1957 - French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1990 - Ralph Abernathy civil rights leader, dies  Ralph Abernathy(Died this day 1990) Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace,
your state troopers and even your national guards.
But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 18, 2009 9:54:00 GMT 10
18 October1685 - Louis XIV revoked the 1598 Edict of Nantes, which had permitted French Protestants limited religious tolerance. The Huguenot exodus which followed, drained France's industrial economy, and possibly hastened the French Revolution 1785 - Birth of Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall) 1859 - Birth of Henri Bergson, France, philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927) 1867 - US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia ($7.2 million) 1931 - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84 1962 - Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for ... determining structure of DNA 1968 - US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving "black power" salute  Thomas Love Peacock(Born this day 1785) Names are changed more readily than doctrines,
and doctrines more readily than ceremonies
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 19, 2009 5:48:14 GMT 10
19 October1781 - Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends 1862 - Birth of Auguste Lumišre, made 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumišre Factory) 1872 - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales [Holtermann Nugget] 1895 - Birth of Lewis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer 1910 - Birth of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, physicist (Nobel 1983) 1951 - Pres Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany 1983 - Maurice Bishop, prime minister of Grenada & others murdered in coup  Lewis Mumford(Born this day 1895) The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof:
this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion,
but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood
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