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Post by Tamrin on Feb 16, 2010 5:51:24 GMT 10
16 February0600 - Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze 1497 - Birth of Philipp Melanchthon, Germany, Protestant reformer (Augsburgse Confessie) 1519 - Birth of Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French Admiral 1838 - Birth of Henry Adams, Boston MA, US historian, writer (Education of Henry Adams) 1880 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers founded, New York NY 1923 - Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen 1992 - Angela Carter, British novelist (Magic Toyshop), dies of cancer at 51  Philipp MelanchthonIn essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 17, 2010 5:35:39 GMT 10
17 February1600 - Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory & plurality of worlds, burned at stake by the Inquisition in Rome 1673 - Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] French playwright (Learned Lady), dies in Paris at 51 1864 - Birth of Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, New South Wales Australia, poet (Waltzing Matilda) 1907 - Henry Steel Olcott, US co-founder (Theosophist Society-Madras), dies at 74 1908 - Geronimo, Apache chief, dies at about 79 1934 - Birth of Barry Humphries, Australia TV host (Dame Edna Everage) 1986 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Kingdom Happiness), dies at 90  Barry Humphries(Born this day 1934) Hello possums!
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 18, 2010 6:00:31 GMT 10
18 February1546 - Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62 1559 - Birth of Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian 1688 - Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown PA 1836 - Birth of Swami Ramakrishna [Gadadhar Chatterji], Indian mystic/Hindu leader 1925 - James Lane Allen, US writer (Choir Invisible), dies at 75 1931 - Birth of Toni Morrison, Ohio, novelist (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon) 1967 - Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies at 62  Isaac Casaubon(Born this day 1559) It mightily affects me to see how many there were in the earliest times
of the Church, who considered it as a capital exploit to lend to heavenly
truth the help of their own inventions, in order that the new doctrine
might be more readily received by the wise among the Gentiles.
These officious lies, they were wont to say, were devised for a good end
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 19, 2010 5:10:29 GMT 10
19 February0356 - Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples 1473 - Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus, Torún, Poland, astronomer (heliocentrism) 1568 - Miles Coverdale, translator (1st complete English Bible), dies at 80 1864 - Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington DC (12 members) 1915 - Gopal Krishna Gokhale, India's social reformer/politician, dies 1916 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist/philosopher/psychologist, dies at 78 1942 - About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin  Ernst Mach(Died this day 1916) The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is
forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical
necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 20, 2010 9:20:50 GMT 10
20 February1805 - Birth of Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer 1809 - [US] Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state 1860 - Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69 1895 - Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 78 1896 - Birth of Henri de Lubac, French theologist/anti-fascist 1920 - Robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63 1960 - Leonard Woolley, British archaeologist, dies  Henri de Lubac(Born this day 1896) Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 21, 2010 7:38:48 GMT 10
21 FebruaryWorld : Brotherhood Day 1677 - [Benedictus] Baruch Spinoza, philosopher, dies at 44 1795 - Freedom of worship established in France under constitution 1801 - Birth of John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/churchman/author (Dream of Gerontius) 1903 - Birth of Anaïs Nin, Paris, novelist (Winter of Artifice, House of Incense) 1907 - Birth of Wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948) 1910 - Birth of Douglas R S Bader, British pilot (WWII) 1965 - Malcolm X [Little], black Moslem leader, assassinated in New York NY at 39  Sir Douglas Bader(Born this day 1910) Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that.
That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches
or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all
the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never
let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 22, 2010 8:11:50 GMT 10
22 February1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 61 1732 - Birth of George Washington, Virginia, Father figure, 1st American President (1789-97) 1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany, dies 1857 - Birth of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides) 1875 - Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77 1889 - Birth of Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain) 1987 - Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies from complications following gall bladder surgery at 58  Robin G Collingwood(Born this day 1889) A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science
and becomes a master in that science when he has
learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 23, 2010 6:59:19 GMT 10
23 FebruaryUS: Iwo Jima Day (1945) 1455 - Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, the Bible (estimated date) 1633 - Birth of Samuel Pepys, London England, navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs) 1836 - Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed 1879 - Birth of Norman Lindsay, Creswick Victoria, Australia, artist/novelist 1884 - Tambo Tambo, Australian aboriginal/US circus attraction, dies at 23 1898 - In France, Emile Zola is imprisoned for writing his "J'accuse" letter 1905 - Rotary Club International established by 4 men in Chicago  Norman Lindsay(Born this day 1879)  The Crucified Venus(N. Lindsay, 1912)
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 24, 2010 5:58:51 GMT 10
24 February0303 - 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued 1552 - Privileges of the Hanseatic League in England are abrogated 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar 1786 - Birth of Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales) 1928 - Birth of Michael Harrington, St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century) 1944 - Argentina coup by Juan Peron, minister of war 1983 - Tennessee Williams, US playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71  Michael Harrington(Born this day 1928) People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races
ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in society
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 25, 2010 7:29:26 GMT 10
25 February1570 - Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance 1723 - Bro. Sir Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90 1778 - Birth of Bro. José Francisco de San Martín, liberated Argentina, Chile & Perú 1906 - Birth of Howard Zahniser, Father of the US Wilderness Act 1910 - Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies 1913 - 16th US Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax 1919 - League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty  Howard Zahniser(Born this day 1906) It is not long since man thought of himself as the center of the universe,
thought even of the Sun - the very source of all our life - as a light by day
revolving about the Earth. As our new understanding has come - through
science - science also has brought us many other new and wonderful
discoveries, and the new knowledge of what we are has been overlooked by
many of us in our eagerness for the new knowledge of what we can do.
We have become as proud over what we can do as ever our ancestors could
have been over themselves as the center of the universe. We deeply need
the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great
community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a
wilderness experience. Without the gagets, the inventions, the contrivances
whereby men have seemed to establish among themselves an independence
of nature, without these distractions, to know the wilderness is to know a
profound humility, to recognize one’s littleness, to sense dependence and
interdependence, indebtedness, and responsibility. Perhaps, indeed, this is the
distinctive ministration of wilderness to modern man, the characteristic effect of
an area which we most deeply need to provide for in our preservation programs
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