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Post by Tamrin on Dec 28, 2009 8:42:48 GMT 10
28 December1706 - Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59 1859 - Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies 1882 - Birth of Arthur Eddington, England, astrophysicist/cosmologist/mathematician 1923 - [Bro.] Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91 1932 - Birth of Roy Hattersley, British journalist/Labour-parliament leader 1983 - US says they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984 1989 - Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 13 die  Roy Hattersley(Born this day 1932) Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 29, 2009 6:02:51 GMT 10
29 December1170 - Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II 1809 - Birth of Bro. Albert Pike, frontiersman, attorney, soldier, poet, writer and Freemason1815 - Saartjie Baartman, the Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris 1852 - Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants 1890 - Big Foot, Sioux Indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee 1940 - Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WWII) 1967 - Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus  M. Ill. Bro. Gen. Albert Pike, 33°(Bicentennial of birth: Born this day 1809) What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others
and the world remains and is immortal
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 30, 2009 7:57:24 GMT 10
30 December1635 - Jan Baptista Van Helmont, physician/alchemist, dies 1847 - Birth of John Peter Altgeld, German/US (Governor-IL)/pardoned Haymarket-anarchists1865 - Birth of Bro. Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907) 1869 - Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms 1879 - Birth of Sri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher/yogi (Maharshi Research Institute) 1894 - Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist (Bloomers named for her), dies at 76 1972 - President Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks  Amelia Jenks Bloomer(Died this day 1894) Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed,
yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 31, 2009 8:29:18 GMT 10
31 DecemberNew Year’s Eve 1384 - John Wycliffe English religious reformer/bible translator, dies 1564 - Willem van Orange demands freedom of conscience/religion 1687 - 1st Huguenots depart France to Cape of Good Hope 1744 - James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's motion of nutation (wobble) 1880 - Birth of George C Marshall, Uniontown PA, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953) 1924 - Edwin Hubble announces existence of distant galactic systems 1980 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian cultural philosopher, dies at 69  George C. Marshall(Born this day 1880) When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back.
Look forward to your next objective
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 1, 2010 10:30:49 GMT 10
1 JanuaryNew Year’s Day 0404 - Last gladiator competition in Rome 1766 - James III Edward, Old Pretender/king of Great Britain/Ireland, dies at 77 1854 - Birth of Sir James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough) 1863 - Birth of Pierre de Coubertin, France, baron (revived Olympic games) 1887 - Birth of Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence 1901 - Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies 1946 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god  Sir James G. Frazer(Born this day 1854) If we analyse the principles of thought on which magic is based,
they will probably be found to resolve themselves into two:
first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause;
and, second, that things which have once been in contact
with each other continue to act on each other at a distance
after the physical contact has been severed.
The former principle may be called the Law of Similarity,
the latter the Law of Contact or Contagion
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 2, 2010 6:45:26 GMT 10
2 JanuarySpain: Granada Day (1492) Japan: Shigoto Hajime-Begin Work Day [beginning of the work year] 0017 - Publius Ovidius Naso. Roman poet, dies 1492 - Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day) 1647 - Birth of Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia (1676) 1839 - 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) 1903 - President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola MI, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black 1920 - Birth of Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy) 1923 - Ku Klux Klan surprise attack on black residential area Rosewood FL, 8 killed (compensation awarded in 1995)  Nathaniel Bacon(Born this day 1647) The poverty of the country is such that all the power and sway
has got into the hands of the rich, who by extortious advantages,
having the common people in their debt, have always
curbed and oppressed them in all manner of ways
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 3, 2010 9:37:18 GMT 10
3 January0106 - BCE - Birth of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Rome, statesman/author (Academica) 1521 - Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church 1793 - Birth of Lucretia Coffin Mott, US, teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist 1870 - Birth of [Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, aka] Henry Handel Richardson, Australia, novelist 1892 - Birth of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, South Africa, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings) 1924 - British Egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun 1946 - William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason  Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardsonaka Henry Handel Richardson (Born this day 1870) The most sensitive, the most delicate of instruments is the mind of a little child
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 4, 2010 8:33:17 GMT 10
4 JanuaryScotland: Handsel MondayRoman Catholic: Memorial of Elizabeth Ann Seton, religious [1821] 1643 - Birth of Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist 1786 - Moses Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56 1821 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland 1941 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at 81 1960 - Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an automobile accident at 46 1965 - T S Eliot, poet (The Waste Land), dies in London at 76 1986 - Christopher Isherwood, British writer (Lions & Shadows), dies at 81  Christopher Isherwood(Died this day 1986) What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying,
'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.'
But by the strangest coincidence,
they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 5, 2010 9:48:46 GMT 10
5 JanuaryChristian: 12th Night, end of Christmas season (Denmark) England: Glastonbury Thorn Day 1769 - Birth of Jean Baptiste Say, French economist (Political Economics) 1895 - French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason... later declared innocent 1895 - Birth of Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest 1896 - German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays 1906 - Birth of [Dame] Kathleen Kenyon, 1st person to place date on remains of Jericho 1919 - National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party 1970 - Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87  Jean Baptiste Say(Born this day 1769 Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 6, 2010 7:05:41 GMT 10
6 January0548 - This was the last year the Church in Jerusalem observed the birth of Jesus on this date. 1412 - Birth of Joan of Arc, Domremy, martyr 1822 - Birth of Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist (Troje) 1883 - Birth of Khalil Gibran, Lebanon, mystic poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings) 1884 - Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61 1915 - Birth of Alan Watts, Kent England, writer (Book on the Taboo) 1931 - Birth of E[dgar] L[aurence] Doctorow, New York City NY, novelist (World's Fair)  E.L. Doctorow(Born this day 1931) Writing is like driving at night in the fog.
You can only see as far as your headlights,
but you can make the whole trip that way
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