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Post by Tamrin on Jul 22, 2010 6:57:36 GMT 10
22 JulyRC, Ang, Luth: Memorial of St Mary Magdalen, penitent [sic]1822 - Birth of Gregor Mendel, monk/geneticist, discoverer of the laws of heredity 1844 - Birth of Rev William Archibald Spooner, London, invented "spoonerisms" 1908 – Birth of Amy Vanderbilt, American author on etiquette 1910 – Birth of Alan Moorehead, Melbourne-born Australian journalist and author 1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world 1936 – Birth of Tom Robbins, author 1983 - Dick Smith, Australian adventurer and entrepreneur makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world  Alan Moorehead(Born this day 1910) Having been forced south from Egypt to Nubia, the Kushites were eventually forced even further south, from Nubia to Ethiopia. Derek Welsby, in The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires (p.197), tells us that:A close scruitiny of what little additional literary evidence there is indicates that probably at least as late as AD 336, the Kushites were still a force to be reckoned with in the affairs of Lower Nubia. Earlier Welsby had declared (p.196), "To some extent the end of the Kushite state is now discounted altogether!" This is an important point to bear-in-mind when we read of the explorer [Bro.] James Bruce (Moorehead, pp.34/5):Outside Shendy ‘heaps of broken pedestals and pieces of obelisks’ covered with hieroglyphics were strewn in the desert. His route did not take him past the pyramids that lay nearby but he noted in his journal: ‘It is impossible to avoid risking a guess that this is the ancient city of Meroë;’ and his guess was perfectly right.
Curiously he does not mention Shendy castle but during his two weeks stay he paid court to the Sittina, the queen of the province who lived about half a mile outside the town.
She sat behind a screen when she first received Bruce but he induced her to emerge on his second visit and he beheld a tall beautiful woman of 40 with very red lips and the finest teethe and eyes he had ever seen. She was dressed in a purple stole with a magnificent gold crown on her head and her plaited hair fell below her waist; and to Bruce she seemed a living reincarnation of the legendary Queen Candace who had ruled Meroë and all the Nile north to Egypt in Pharonic times. He kissed her hand and the Queen, starting back, exclaimed that such a thing had never happened to her before.
These Rider Haggard-like effects were increased by the fact that all through this month - October 1772 - a strange light glowed in the sky. ‘The planet Venus,’ Bruce says, ‘appeared shining with undiminished light all day, in defiance of the brightest sun’ - a statement that seems hardly credible although indeed Venus did, that year, approach very close to the earth. BTW, " Sittina" is a feminine title signifying a holy companion, reminiscent of each Candace having been "God's Wife" (indeed, a living "god" in her own right).
Sources:
Alan Moorehead, 1962, The Blue Nile, Harper & Row, New York
Welsby, Derek A., 2002, The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires, The British Museum Press, London
See also: Mysteries Black Queen of Sheba? [/b][/i][/url][/quote]
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 23, 2010 7:00:34 GMT 10
23 JulyAncient Egypt: Festival of the rising of Sothis / Sirius, star of Isis
Ancient Rome: Festival of Neptune and Salacia
Christian: Feast of the Three Wise Men (Magi)
Rastafarian: Commemoration of the birth of Ras Tafari (later, Emperor Haile Selassie)0636 - Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire 1637 - Jenny Geddes, objecting to ‘Catholic’ elements in a new prayer book, threw a stool at the Dean 1888 – Birth Raymond Chandler, American novelist (The Big Sleep; Farewell My Lovely) 1892 - Birth of Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74) 1893 - Birth of Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic) 1958 - 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords 1967 - 43 killed in racial rebellion in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)  Jenny Geddes (and others) (Said to have thrown a stool this day 1637 in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh: Arguably setting in train events leading to the English Civil War) Deil colic the wame o’ ye, fause thief; daur ye say Mass in my lug?“Devil cause you severe pains in your abdomen, false thief: dare you say the Mass in my ear?”
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 24, 2010 9:15:10 GMT 10
24 JulyEcuador, Venezuela: Bolivar Day (1783)1704 - Britain captured Gibraltar from Spain. 1725 – Birth of John Newton, cleric, hymnist (Amazing Grace) 1783 - Birth of Bro. Simón Bolívar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule 1802 - Birth of Bro. Alexandre Dumas, Paris France, author (3 Musketeers) 1895 - Birth of Robert Graves, England, poet/historical novelist (The White Goddess) 1911 - Bro. Hiram Bingham rediscovered Machu Picchu, 'the Lost City of the Incas' 1934 – Birth of Pat Oliphant, Australian political cartoonist (most widely syndicated in the world)  Bro. Simón Bolívar(Born this day 1783) The first duty of a government is to give education to the people
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 25, 2010 8:32:19 GMT 10
25 JulyFeast Day of Saint James the Great, Patron of pilgrims (Santiago de Compostela)
Feast Day of Saint Christopher, patron of travellors1471 - Thomas à Kempis, reputed author of Imitation of Christ, died 1616 - Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies 1902 - Birth of Eric Hoffer, US philosopher (& longshoreman) 1924 - The Australian Government introduced compulsory voting in Federal elections 1934 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian chancellor assassinated by Nazis 1963 - US, Russia & England sign nuclear test ban treaty 1972 - US health officials concede blacks were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphillis experiment  Andreas Libavius(Died this day 1616) Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment
which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 26, 2010 6:10:52 GMT 10
26 July1603 - James VI of Scotland was crowned King James I of England 1822 - Meeting of Bros. José de San Martín and Simón Bolívar to plan the future of South America after its liberation from Spain and Portugal 1856 - Birth of George Bernard Shaw, Dublin Ire, Fabian & dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925) 1875 - Birth of Dr Carl Gustav Jung, Switzerland, founded analytic psychology 1894 - Birth of Aldous Huxley, England, author (Brave New World) 1908 - Birth of Bro. Salvador Allende Gossens, overthrown Chilean elected (1970-73) 1919 - Birth of James Lovelock, FRS, scientist, environmentalist and futurologist  Bro. Salvador Allende(Born this day 1908) ¡Viva Chile! ¡Viva el pueblo! ¡Vivan los trabajadores!“Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers!" His last known words (in a radio broadcast on the morning of September 11, 1973)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 27, 2010 6:21:21 GMT 10
27 July1586 - Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia 1689 - Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie (“Glorious Revolution”) 1818 - The Grand Lodge of Mississippi was instituted 1857 – Birth of Earnest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist, Orientalist and philologist 1870 - Birth of Joseph Hilaire Belloc, England, author (Path to Rome) 1946 – Death of Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874) 1953 - Armistice signed ending Korean War  Sir E.A. Wallis Budge(Born this day 1857) As a result of their studies of Egyptian texts, many of the earlier
Egyptologists, e.g. Champollion-Figeac, de Rouge, Pierret and Brugsch,
came to the conclusion that the dwellers in the Nile Valley, from the earliest
times, believed in the existence of one God, nameless, incomprehensible, and eternal
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 28, 2010 6:13:27 GMT 10
28 July1540 - Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed 1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies in Paris 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (1781), guillotined 1804 – Birth of Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher & anthropologist 1866 - Birth of Beatrix Potter, England, children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit) 1902 – Birth of Albert Namatjira, Australian artist 1902 – Birth of Karl Popper, philosopher of science  Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist (Died this day 1655) A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 29, 2010 6:58:04 GMT 10
29 July1805 - Birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America) 1833 - Death of William Wilberforce, British campaigner against slavery. 1869 – Birth of Booth Tarkington, Pulitzer Prize-winning author 1878 – Birth of Don Marquis, US humorist & author 1890 - Vincent Van Gogh dies in Auvers, France 1905 – Birth of Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General 1907 - Scouts movement founded by Sir Robert Baden-Powell  Sir Robert Baden-Powell(Founded the Scouts movement this day 1907 with the first Scout camp at Brownsea Island) Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare
himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on
any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 30, 2010 7:57:13 GMT 10
30 July1733 - Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston1818 – Birth of Emily Brontë, English poet and novelist (Wuthering Heights) 1857 – Birth of Thorstein Veblen, US sociologist and economist 1863 - Birth of Henry Ford, Dearborn Township, Mich, auto maker (Ford) 1881 – Birth of General Smedley Butler, US peace activist 1909 – Birth of C. Northcote Parkinson, British author 1930 – Birth of Thomas Sowell, US economist  General Smedley Butler, US peace activist best remembered for his book War is a Racket(Born this day 1881) I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and
during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle
man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I
was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico
and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I
helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City
Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a
dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I
helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of
Brown Brothers in 1902 - 1912. I brought light to the Dominican
Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make
Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in
1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 31, 2010 10:18:37 GMT 10
Saturday, 31 JulyÁsatrú (Norse tradition): Feast day of Loki and Sigyn 1578 - “Birth” of Shakespeare’s Juliet Capulet, ill-fated fictional lover of Romeo Montague 1599 - Oldest Minutes of a surviving Lodge:… Lodge of Edinburgh, Scotland. 1912 - Birth of Milton Friedman, economist (Nobel 1976) 1912 - Birth of Irv Kupcinet, US newspaper columnist 1921 - Birth of Whitney M Young Jr, civil rights leader, head of Urban League 1921 - Birth of Peter Benenson, British lawyer and founder of Amnesty International 1965 - Birth of JK Rowling, novelist (Harry Potter stories)  Irv Kupcinet(Born this day 1912) What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Having been forced south from Egypt to Nubia, the Kushites were eventually forced even further south, from Nubia to Ethiopia. Derek Welsby, in The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires (p.197), tells us that: