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Post by Tamrin on Dec 9, 2009 8:17:26 GMT 10
9 DecemberJewish: Hanukkah-Festival of Lights 1315 - Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society) 1569 - Birth of Martinus de Porres, Peru, saint (patron of social justice) 1608 - Birth of John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost) 1848 - Birth of Joel Chandler Harris, US journalist (created Uncle Remus stories) 1869 - Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia 1964 - Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77 1983 - [US] Attorney General Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because the food is free and that's easier than paying for it"  Saint Martin de Porres(Born this day 1569) Compassion my dear brother is preferable to cleanliness.
Reflect that with a little soap I can easily clean my bed covers
but even with a torrent of tears I would never wash from my soul
the stain that my harshness toward the unfortunate would create
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 10, 2009 7:25:53 GMT 10
10 DecemberStockholm, Sweden: Nobel Prize presentation Day (1896) World: World Freedom Day 1198 - Averroës ibn-Rusjd, Moorish philosopher, dies 1815 - Birth of Ada Byron (Lovelace), London England, considered the first computer programmer 1824 - Birth of George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author (Lilith, Princess & Curdie) 1830 - Birth of Emily Dickinson, Amherst MA, poet (Collected Poems) 1896 - Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63 1936 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69 1968 - Thomas Merton, French/US priest/writer (7 Story Mountain), dies at 53  Alfred Nobel(Died this day 1896) I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea,
but I am skeptical as to its results
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 11, 2009 7:27:58 GMT 10
11 December1849 - Birth of Ellen Key, Swedendish theory/author/feminist (Courageous Woman) 1882 - Birth of Max Born, Germany, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954) 1901 - Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Newfoundland 1903 - British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet 1917 - 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot1918 - Birth of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970) 1931 - British Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfoundland  Ellen Key(Born this day 1849) The emancipation of women is practically the greatest
egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most
intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 12, 2009 9:14:15 GMT 10
12 DecemberWorld: National Ding-a-ling Day Memorial of Dark Virgin of Guadalupe, patron of México 1098 - 1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria 1204 - Maimonides [Moses Ben Maimon], Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69 1805 - Birth of William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator) 1821 - Birth of Gustave Flaubert, Rouen Normandy France, novelist (Madame Bovary) 1920 - Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75 1925 - Birth of Cora Lee Johnson, social activist for rural poor 1961 - Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Albany GA  Olive Schreiner(Died this day 1920 Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous,
and the inside that is solemn
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 13, 2009 8:04:18 GMT 10
13 DecemberMemorial of St Lucy, virgin & martyr (St Lucia Day in Sweden) 1724 - Birth of Aepinus [Franz Hoch], German physician/physicist 1774 - 1st incident of the Revolution-400 attack Fort William & Mary, New Hampshire 1810 - Birth of Clark Mills, US, sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty) 1894 - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68 1903 - Wright Brothers make 1st flight at Kittyhawk 1906 - Birth of Laurens Jan van der Post soldier/explorer/conservationist 1924 - Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74  Aepinus(Born this day 1724) The belief that all things are created solely for the utility of man has stained with
many errors that most noble part of physics which deals with the ends of things
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 14, 2009 7:43:25 GMT 10
14 December1503 - Birth of Nostradamus [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist/prophet 1546 - Birth of Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose) 1799 - George Washington, 1st President USA (1789-97), dies at Mount Vernon VA, at 67 1873 - J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies 1911 - South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen 1974 - Walter Lippmann, US journalist (One of Dynasty), dies at 85 1989 - Andrei D Sakharov, Soviet Physicist/Dissident/1975 Nobel peace prize winner, dies in Moscow at 68  Louis Agassiz(Died this day 1873) Every scientific truth goes through three states:
first, people say it conflicts with the Bible;
next, they say it has been discovered before;
lastly, they say they always believed it
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 15, 2009 8:53:23 GMT 10
15 December1488 - Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope 1793 - Birth of Henry Charles Carey, Philadelphia PA, economist (Principles of Poli Economy) 1832 - Birth of Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (Eiffel tower [& Statue of Liberty’s inner support]) 1859 - Birth of Ludwik L Zamenhof [aka Dr. Esperanto] Russia/Poland, physician/linguist (Esperanto) 1890 - Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US Army 1906 - Birth of Betty Smith, novelist (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) 1966 - Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation [widow, Lillian, died this day 1977]  Bro. Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel(Born this day 1832) Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us
or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures?
Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping
with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction,
a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 16, 2009 8:52:28 GMT 10
16 December1653 - Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England, Scotland & Ireland 1770 - Birth of [Bro.] Ludwig van Beethoven, Bonn Germany, composer (Ode to Joy) 1773 - Big tea party in Boston harbor-Indians welcome (Boston Tea Party) 1775 - Birth of Jane Austen, England, novelist (Pride & Prejudice) 1863 - Birth of George Santayana, Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan) 1899 - Birth of Sir Noel Coward, playwright (In Which We Serve-1942 Academy Award) 1917 - Birth of Arthur C[harles] Clarke, England, sci-fi author (2001, 2010, Childhood's End)  Oliver Cromwell(as Lord Protector) Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 17, 2009 8:26:15 GMT 10
17 DecemberUS: Pan American Aviation Day/Wright Brothers Day (1903) Venezuela: Bolivar Day (1830) 1493 - Birth of Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist (Liber paramixum) 1807 - Birth of John Greenleaf Whittier, US, poet (Snow-bound) 1830 - [Bro.] Simon Bolivar, President of Colombia, dies at 47 in Colombia 1929 - Birth of William Safire, political columnist (New York Times)/speech writer (Nixon) 1903 - At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright) 1907 - Lord Kelvin of Largs [William Thomson], British physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83 1967 - Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (1966-67), drowns at 59  William Safire(Born this day 1929) The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 18, 2009 7:51:10 GMT 10
18 DecemberWorld: Underdog Day 1621 - English parliament accept unanimously, Protestantism 1803 - Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59 1829 - Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, [much misunderstood] French nature investigator, dies at about 85 1844 - Birth of Lujo Brentano, German economist [introduction to Toulmin Smith’s English Gilds] 1870 - Birth of D T Suzuki, Kanazawa Japan, Zen Buddhist scholar [Zen in the Art of Archery] 1892 - Birth of Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88 1946 - Birth of Stephen (Steve) Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist  Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki(Born this day 1870) The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn
how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal,
the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede
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