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Post by Tamrin on Nov 9, 2009 6:36:06 GMT 10
9 November1802 - Birth of Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist 1818 - Birth of Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons) 1841 - Birth of M.W. Bro. Edward VII, king of England (1901-10) 1898 - Birth of Paul Robeson actor/singer/football star (King Solomon's Mines) 1934 - Birth of Carl Sagan, NYC, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain) 1938 - "Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night), Nazi stormtroopers attacked Jews 1953 - Dylan Thomas author-poet, dies in NY at 39  Elijah P Lovejoy(Born this day 1802) I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write,
and to publish whatever I please on any subject
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 10, 2009 7:33:12 GMT 10
10 November1483 - Birth of Martin Luther, Eisleben, Germany, founded Protestantism 1697 - Birth of William Hogarth England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress) 1759 - Birth of Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy) 1871 - Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa 1917 - 41 suffragists are arrested in front of the White House 1938 - Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey, dies 1960 – [US] Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill  Friedrich von Schiller(Born this day 1759) Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 11, 2009 7:04:45 GMT 10
11 NovemberArmistice Day 1620 - 41 pilgrims land in Massachusetts, sign Mayflower Compact (just & equal laws) 1831 - Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA 1885 - Birth of George S Patton, general "Old Blood & Guts" 1918 - Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front) 1925 - Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays 1975 - Australian PM [Gough Whitlam] removed by crown (1st elected PM removed in 200 years) 1992 - General Synod votes for Ordination of women in the UK  Gough Whitlam(1975 photo shows him handing land title to Vincent Lingiari, on behalf of the Gurindji people) The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post,
whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 12, 2009 5:50:04 GMT 10
12 NovemberWorld: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day (1815) 1035 - Canute "The Great", King of the Danes (1016-1035), dies at 41 1651 - Birth of Juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primer Sueno) 1815 - Birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, suffragist (80 Years & More) 1817 - Birth of Bahá'u'lláh (Mirza Husayn Ali), founded Bahá'ís faith 1840 - Birth of Auguste Rodin, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker) 1927 - Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator 1933 - Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany Bahá'u'lláh(Born this day 1817)  It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country,
but rather for him who loveth the whole world.
The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 13, 2009 9:18:10 GMT 10
13 November0354 - Birth of St Augustine of Hippo, Numidia, Algeria, [Manichean]convert/Christian philosopher 1460 - Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal, [G.M. of Knights of Christ (succeeded K.T.)] dies at 66 1831 - Birth of James Maxwell, Edinburgh Scot, physicist (Treatise on Electricity) 1839 - 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY 1850 - Birth of Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, author (Treasure Island) 1956 – [US] Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses 1974 - Karen Silkwood, [unionist] killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances  St Augustine of Hippo(Born this day 354) Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 14, 2009 6:40:17 GMT 10
14 November1797 - Birth of Sir Charles Lyell, Scotland, geologist (Principles of Geology) 1840 – Birth of Claude Monet, France, impressionist (Water Lilies) 1889 - Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Indian PM (1947-64) 1909 - Birth of Joseph R McCarthy, (Sen-R-WI), anti-communist lunatic 1915 - Booker T Washington, educator/organizer, dies at 59 in Tuskegee AL 1948 - Birth of Prince Charles, Britain, Prince of Wales [OGG] 1990 - Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at 87  Booker T. Washington(Died this day 1915) I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 15, 2009 7:25:06 GMT 10
15 November1280 - Albertus Magnus, German scholar, dies at 87 1630 - Johann Kepler German astronomer, dies at 58 1881 - Birth of Franklin P Adams, Chicago IL, columnist (Information Please) 1891 - Birth of Erwin Rommel, German field marshall (WW II-African campaign) 1897 - John Mercer Langston, [abolitionist & educator] dies at 67 1939 - Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews 1978 - Margaret Mead anthropologist, dies in NY at 76  Albertus Magnus(Died this day 1280) Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others
have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 16, 2009 7:47:48 GMT 10
16 November1532 - Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca 1894 - 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan [prelude to the genocide] 1925 - American Association for the Advancement of Atheism formed in NY 1930 - Birth of Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (Christmas in Biafra) 1933 - Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR 1935 - Birth of Elizabeth Drew, journalist (Politics & Money: The Road to Corruption) 1988 - Benazir Bhutto wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years  Chinua Achebe(Born this day 1930) The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all
this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 17, 2009 6:50:59 GMT 10
17 November0003 - BC - According to Clement of Alexandria, Jesus Christ was born on this date 1790 - Birth of August Ferdinand Mobius, mathematician, inventor (Mobius strip) 1875 - American Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Col Olcott 1887 - Birth of Bernard L Montgomery, British general (WW II-African campaign) 1913 - Panama Canal opens 1917 - Auguste Rodin, sculptor, dies in Meudon, France 1988 - Sheilah Graham, gossip columnist, dies of heart failure at 84  Sheilah Graham(Died this day 1988) You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough.
You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts
through the skin and joins the energy that created the world
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 18, 2009 7:16:09 GMT 10
18 November1497 - Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope 1832 - Birth of Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold, Sweden, Arctic explorer 1900 - Birth of Howard Thurman, theologian/author (Deep River, Deep in the Hunger) 1901 - Birth of George Gallup, Jefferson Iowa, public opinion pollster (Gallup Poll) 1928 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie" 1962 - Niels Bohr, physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1922, dies at 77 1978 - Leo J Ryan (Rep-Cal) & 4 killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 912 member  George Gallup(Born this day 1901) Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion.
When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect,
paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense
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