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Post by Tamrin on Nov 19, 2009 6:43:55 GMT 10
19 November1600 - Birth of Charles I, king of England (1625-49); executed by Parliament 1805 - Birth of Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat (built Suez Canal) 1863 - Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score & 7 years..." 1887 - Emma Lazarus, US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), dies in NY at 38 1903 - Carrie A. Nation attempts to address the [U.S.] Senate 1915 - Joe Hill, [U.S.] Labor leader, executed for murder [rigged charges] 1919 - US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations  Emma Lazarus(Died this day 1887) Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these,
the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 20, 2009 8:29:55 GMT 10
20 OctoberWorld: Rights of the Child Day 1541 - In Switzerland, French reformer John Calvin, 32, established a theocratic government at Geneva 1780 - Britain declares war on Holland 1889 - Birth of Edwin Hubble, astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift) 1910 - Leo Tolstoy Russia, author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82 1924 - Birth of Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician (proved Zipf's law) 1945 - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany 1959 - UN adopts the declaration of children's rights  John CalvinEvery one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 21, 2009 6:26:15 GMT 10
21 November1495 - Birth of John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan) 1624 - Jakob Bohme, German philosophical mystic, dies 1638 - A General Assembly at Glasgow abolished the episcopal form of church government 1694 - Birth of Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, thinker 1783 - Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight 1953 - "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912, proved to be a hoax 1980 - John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum  Jakob Bohme(Died this day 1624) In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures,
even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is:
And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 22, 2009 7:44:28 GMT 10
22 November1718 - Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, dies off Virginia coast 1819 - Birth of George Eliot, England, novelist (Silas Marner) 1869 - Birth of Andre Gide, France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947) 1888 - Birth of Tarzan of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel 1963 - Aldous Huxley, English novelist ("Brave New World" ), dies 1963 - C.S. Lewis, English novelist. ("The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."), dies 1963 - John F Kennedy, 35th U.S. President, shot dead in Dallas, Texas  Aldous Huxley (Died this day 1963) All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 23, 2009 7:34:49 GMT 10
23 November1859 - Birth of Billy the Kid [William H Bonney], criminal [took the rap for the Lincoln County War] 1863 - Battle of Chattanooga begins 1883 - Birth of José Clemente Orozco, Mexico, painter (Epic of Culture in New World) 1943 - Birth of Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964 1955 - British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia 1976 - André Malraux, France, novelist/art historian/public office. ("The Voices of Silence"), dies at 75 1990 - Roald Dahl, British short story writer, dies at 74  Roald Dahl(Died this day 1990) Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 24, 2009 5:47:42 GMT 10
24 November1572 - John Knox, Scottish preacher, dies [ Monstrous Regiment of Women] 1632 - Birth of Benedict de "Baruch" Spinoza, Amsterdam, rationalist philosopher 1642 - Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1713 - Birth of Laurence Sterne, Ireland, novelist/satirist ( Tristram Shandy) 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" 1876 - Birth of Walter [Burley] Griffin, [theosophist] US architect, city planner; designed Canberra, Australia [see, The Secret Plan of Canberra, by Peter Proudfoot] 1888 - Birth of Dale Carnegie, author ( How to Win Friends & Influence People)  Laurence Sterne(Born this day 1713) There have been no sects in the Christian world,
however absurd, which have not endeavoured
to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 25, 2009 7:35:05 GMT 10
25 NovemberRC: St Catherine, patron of maidens/mechanics/philosophers [perhaps based on Hypatia] 1562 - Birth of Lope Felix de Vega, Madrid Spain, dramatist/poet (Angelica, Arcadia) 1841 - 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa 1867 - Alfred Nobel invents dynamite 1939 - Birth of Martin Feldstein, economist (1977 John Bates Clark Medal) 1947 - New Zealand accedes to Statute of Westminster, becomes a dominion 1988 - Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed 1990 - Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election  Lope de Vega(Born this day 1562) Will is the pimp of appetite
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 26, 2009 9:29:59 GMT 10
26 NovemberUS: Thanksgiving Day 1778 - Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands) 1792 - Birth of Sarah Moore Grimke‚ American antislavery, women's rights advocate 1832 - Birth of Mary Edwards Walker, US, doctor/women's rights leader 1883 - Sojourner Truth, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, dies 1894 - Birth of Norbert Wiener, US, mathematician/discovered cybernetics 1922 - Birth of Charles M Schulz, cartoonist (Peanuts) 1940 - Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto  Norbert Wiener(Born this day 1894) What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments
is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 27, 2009 8:17:35 GMT 10
27 November0008 - BCE - Horace, Latin poet & satirist, dies (birth date unknown) 1095 - Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade 1857 - Birth of Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, 1932 Nobel Laureate in Medicine & Physiology 1874 - Birth of Charles A Beard, American historian (American Continentalism) 1940 - Birth of Bruce Lee, San Francisco CA, karate star/actor (Green Hornet) 1942 - Birth of Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze) 1970 - Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines  Charles A. Beard(Born this day 1874) All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 28, 2009 8:39:04 GMT 10
28 November1628 - Birth of John Bunyan, England, cleric/author (Pilgrim's Progress) 1757 - Birth of William Blake, English poet/painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience) 1820 - Birth of Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator 1881 - Birth of Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist (Beware of Pity) 1907 - Birth of Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Indifferent Ones) 1908 - Birth of Claude Levi-Strauss, Belgium, social anthropologist (Structure Anthro) 1919 - US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament  Alberto Moravia(Born this day 1907) Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition
that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than
the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation
has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future
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