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Post by Tamrin on Mar 18, 2010 9:24:51 GMT 10
18 MarchMasons: De Molay Day (1314)Ireland: Sheelah's Day (Sheelah-Na-Gig, Goddess of Fertility) 1314 - Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights Templar, dies1768 - Laurence Sterne, writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy), dies 1838 - Birth of Sir Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903) 1893 - Birth of Wilfred Owen, England, anti-war poet (Anthem for Doomed Youth) 1919 - Order of DeMolay is established in Kansas City1932 - Birth of John Updike, Shillington PA, poet/novelist (A Month of Sundays, Brazil, The Centaur, Rabbit Run) 1980 - Erich Fromm, German/US psychoanalyst, dies at 79  Randal Cremer(Born this day 1838) It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other,
but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war,
law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence
the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 19, 2010 7:03:10 GMT 10
19 March1644 - 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide 1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish writer, baptized 1813 - Birth of David Livingstone, Scotland, explorer (found by Stanley in Africa) 1821 - Birth of Sir Richard Burton, explorer/translator (Arabian Nights) 1848 - Birth of Wyatt Earp, Monmouth IL, marshall-fought in Gunfight at the OK Corral 1927 - Bloody battles between communists & Nazis in Berlin 1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74  Tobias Smollett(Baptized this day 1721) Some folk are wise, and some are otherwise
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 20, 2010 10:58:54 GMT 10
20 MarchEquinox 1727 - Sir Issac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84 1767 - Firmin Abauzit, French Huguenot/scholar, dies at 87 1856 - Birth of Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management 1904 - Birth of B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner, Susquehanna PA, Behaviorism pioneer (Skinner box) 1928 - Birth of Hans Küng, Swiss religious theologist 1962 - C Wright Mills, US sociologist (Power Elite), dies at 45 1964 - Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at 41  Frederick Winslow Taylor(Born this day 1856) Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote
a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can
work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 21, 2010 10:43:08 GMT 10
21 MarchWorld: International Day For Elimination of Racial Discrimination México: [Bro.] Benito P Juarez' Birthday (1806) 1098 - Founding of the Cistercian religious order 1349 - 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany 1556 - Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, burned at stake at 66 1768 - Birth of Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist 1806 - Birth of Bro. Benito Pablo Juárez, Oaxaca Mexico, President of México (1858-72) 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery AL 1975 - Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years  Leo Fender(Died this day 1991) Let there be bass
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 22, 2010 7:34:35 GMT 10
22 March0337 - Constantine, Emperor of Rome, dies at 47 1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book 1832 - Bro. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe writer, dies at 82 1903 - Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought 1965 - US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong 1972 - [US] Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified) 1988 - [US] Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill  Emperor Constantine(Died this day 0337) In hoc signo vinces
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 23, 2010 7:27:11 GMT 10
23 March1490 - 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published 1568 - Treaty of Longjumeau: French Huguenots go on strike 1749 - Birth of Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician/astronomer/physicist 1908 - Birth of Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate 1912 - Birth of Werner von Braun, Wirsitz Germany, rocket expert (I Aim at the Stars) 1944 - Constant Chevillon, GM Rite of Memphis-Misraïm, murdered by the Gestapo 1976 - International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratify)  Dominique de Menil(Born this day 1908) What should move us to action is human dignity: the
inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity
of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 24, 2010 13:56:38 GMT 10
24 March1603 - Elizabeth I dies / Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England 1874 - Birth of Harry Houdini [Erik Weisz], Budapest Hungary, magician/escape artist 1883 - Birth of James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic [Liberal Catholic Church] bishop 1952 - Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa 1976 - Bernard L Montgomery, British General, defeated Rommel, dies at 88 1989 - Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska 1997 - Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law  Bro. Harry Houdini(Born this day 1874) How the early priests came into possession of these secrets [ledgermain] does not appear, and
if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 25, 2010 8:25:55 GMT 10
25 MarchGreece: Independence Day (1821) 1133 - William the Conqueror orders 1st Domesday Survey of England 1807 - British Parliament abolishes slave trade 1867 - Birth of (John) Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, sculptor (Mount Rushmore) 1895 - Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1931 - Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama 1957 - Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market) 1965 - Viola Gregg Liuzzo, US civil rights activist, murdered  Gutzon Borglum(Born this day 1867) The reason for building any work of art can only be for the
purpose of fixing in some durable form a great emotion,
or a great idea, of the individual, or the people
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 26, 2010 12:03:13 GMT 10
26 MarchTaiwan: Birthday of Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy Newcastle, Australia: Show Day 1819 - Birth of Luise Otto, Germany, author/feminist 1840 - Birth of George Smith, London England, assyriologist (cuneiform (script)) 1904 - Birth of Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image) 1905 - Birth of Viktor Emil Frankl, pyschiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning) 1911 - Birth of Tennessee Williams, Columbus MS, dramatist (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) 1959 - Raymond T Chandler, US detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies at 71 1973 - Noël Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73  Luise Otto(Born this day 1819) The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...
women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 27, 2010 7:40:04 GMT 10
27 March0922 - Abu al-Mughith al-Husayn ibn Mansur, Persian mystic [Sufi], beheaded at 64 1536 - Swiss Protestants in Strassbourg and Constance signed the First Helvetic Confession 1797 - Birth of Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Moïse, Chatterton) 1844 - Birth of Adolphus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer, army general 1845 - Birth of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901) 1893 - Birth of Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia) 1966 - Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia  Mansur Al-Hallaj(Beheaded this day 922) God, Most High, is the very one who Himself affirms His unity by the tongue of
whatever of His creatures He wishes. If He Himself affirms His unity by my tongue, it
is He and His affair. Otherwise, brother, I have nothing to do with affirming God's Unity
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