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Post by Tamrin on Oct 30, 2009 6:51:11 GMT 10
30 October1270 - 8th & last crusade is launched 1751 - Birth of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (School for Scandal) 1821 - Birth of Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Russian novelist & short-story writer 1871 - Birth of Paul Valéry, France, poet/essayist/critic (La Jeune) 1885 - Birth of Ezra Pound, Hailey, Idaho, poet (Cantos) 1938 - Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds" 1944 - Anne Frank (of Diary fame) is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen  Anne FrankEveryone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 31, 2009 6:03:43 GMT 10
31 OctoberUS: All Hallows Eve (you know, Halloween) Witch: Samhain, sabbat World: National UNICEF Day 1517 - Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation 1793 - Execution of the Girondins at Paris, during the Reign of Terror 1795 - Birth of John Keats, London, England, romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn) 1888 - Birth of Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Australia, polar explorer (Flying the Arctic) 1926 - [Bro.] Erich Weiss better known as magician Harry Houdini, dies in Detroit 1984 - Indira Gandhi, PM of India assassinated by 2 of her Sikh bodyguards 1987 - Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image), dies at 83  John Keats(Born this day 1795) Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles
is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 1, 2009 7:17:43 GMT 10
1 NovemberCeltic: Samhain; beginning of year & most important holiday Ang, RC, Luth: Solemnity of All Saints' Day (741) 0079 - Pompeii buried by Mt Vesuvius 1500 - Birth of Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/writer (Perseus) 1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited 1922 - Ottoman Empire abolished 1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at the Blair House 1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese PM, assassinated in a military coup 1993 - European Union comes into existence  Benvenuto Cellini(Born this day 1500) The plague had by this time almost died out, so that the survivors,
when they met together alive, rejoiced with much delight in one another's company.
This led to the formation of a club of painters, sculptors and goldsmiths, the best that were in Rome
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 2, 2009 5:36:53 GMT 10
2 NovemberIsrael: Balfour Declaration Day (1917) 1734 - Birth of Daniel Boone, frontiersman/explorer (US Hall of Fame-1915) 1755 - Birth of Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France, let them eat cake 1917 - Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine 1930 - Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty 1942 - Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (Ger) in battle of Alamein (WW II) 1947 - Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" flies for 1st (& last) time 1961 - James Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal), dies at 66  Erwin RommelDon't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 3, 2009 6:21:27 GMT 10
3 NovemberAustralia: Melbourne Cup Day 0039 - Birth of Lucan, Cordova Spain, Latin poet (Bellum Civile) 1901 - Birth of Andre Malraux, France, novelist/art historian (L'Espoir) 1926 - Annie Oakley dies 1955 - Australia takes control of the Cocos Islands 1970 - Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile 1979 - 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC 1979 - 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran)  Lucan(Born this day 39) In a state of anarchy power is the measure of right
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 4, 2009 8:57:03 GMT 10
4 November1576 - Spanish defeat Walloons & take Antwerp Belgium 1646 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a law making it a capital offense to deny that the Bible was the Word of God. 1650 - Birth of William III of Orange, king of England (1689-1702) [Glorious Revolution] 1862 - Birth of Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes) 1879 - Birth of Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory (Oklahoma), humorist 1916 - Birth of Walter Cronkite, St Joseph MO, news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81) 1922 - Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt  Eden Phillpotts(Born this day 1862) The universe is full of magical things,
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 5, 2009 5:58:02 GMT 10
5 NovemberEngland: Guy Fawkes Day 1605 - Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. 1855 - Born this day Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist [US] presidential candidate 1857 - Born this day, Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy) 1872 - Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant 1885 - Birth of Will Durant, writer/historian (Story of Civilization) 1911 - Birth of Roy Rogers, Cincinnati Ohio, cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show) 1991 - Robert Maxwell, billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at 68  Eugene V. Debs(Born this day 1855) Those who produce should have,
but we know that those who produce the most –
that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult
and most menial tasks, have the least
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 6, 2009 6:37:05 GMT 10
6 November1836 - Birth of Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Boston, theologian (Scientific Theism) 1854 - Birth of John Philip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever) 1884 - British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea 1913 - Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa 1917 – Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace 1943 - Birth of Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964 1944 - Hannah Senesh, Jewish poet, executed by Nazis in Budapest  Hannah Senesh(Murdered this day 1944) There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct.
There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world
even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright
when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 7, 2009 4:11:45 GMT 10
7 November1793 - During the French Revolution, "Christianity" was abolished on this date. Reason was deified, and as many as 2,000 churches were afterward destroyed throughout France. 1837 - Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy murdered by proslavery mob at Alton, Ill 1867 - Birth of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie, discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911) 1879 - Birth of Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist theorist, Bolshevik 1888 - Birth of Sir Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist (Nobel 1930) 1903 - Birth of Konrad Lorenz, Austria, zoologist/ethologist/writer (Nobel 1973) 1909 - Knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama  Marie Curie(Born this day 1867) Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 8, 2009 7:07:17 GMT 10
8 NovemberRC: Commemoration of Holy 4 Crowned Martyrs (Quatuor Coronatorum) 0302 - Martyrdom of the Four Crowned Martyrs (Patrons of the Craft) 1308 - Duns Scotus, the eponymous "dunce", dies 1656 - Birth of Sir Edmond Halley, 1st to calculate comet's orbit (Halley's Comet) 1895 - Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays 1897 - Birth of Dorothy Day, author (Stump the Authors) 1922 - Birth of Christiaan Barnard, South Africa, surgeon (performs 1st heart transplant) 1978 - Norman Rockwell, artist, dies in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, at 84  Dorothy Day(Born this day 1897) Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily
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