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Post by Tamrin on Aug 31, 2010 6:27:45 GMT 10
Tuesday, 31 August Order of the Eastern Star: Festal Day (founder’s birthday, Robert Morris)1688 - John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author of "Pilgrim's Progress," dies 1811 – Birth of Théophile Gautier, French poet, novelist 1818 – Birth of Robert Morris, founder of the Order of the Eastern Star 1852 - Martyrdom of Fátimih Baraghání (Táhirih, “Pure One”), Iranian Bábí theologian 1870 – Birth of Maria Montessori, Italy, educator (Spontaneous Response) 1908 – Birth of William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright 1980 - Poland's Solidarity labor union founded Fátimih Baraghání, Táhirih, “Pure One” (Martyred this day 1852) You can kill me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women(Táhirih’s last words before being strangled with her own veil)
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 1, 2010 6:42:53 GMT 10
Wednesday, 1 September Oz: Wattle Day0069 - Traditional date of the destruction of Jerusalem 1666 - Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane. 80% of London is destroyed 1835 – Birth of William Stanley Jevons, British / Australian logician and economist 1906 - Papua placed under Australian administration 1923 - Earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 106,000 1950 – Birth of Dr. Phil McGraw, American talk show host 1951 - US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty William Stanley Jevons, British / Australian logician and economist (Born this day 1835) I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability. Perfect knowledge alone can give certainty, and in nature perfect knowledge would be infinite knowledge, which is clearly beyond our capacities. We have, therefore, to content ourselves with partial knowledge — knowledge mingled with ignorance, producing doubt
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 2, 2010 7:13:26 GMT 10
Thursday, 2 September1838 – Birth of Queen Lydia Kamekeha Liliuokalani last monarch of Hawai'i 1839 - Birth of Henry George, economist, land reformer, writer (Progress & Poverty) 1922 – Death of Henry Lawson, Australian author and poet 1937 - Baron Pierre de Coubertin, reviver of Olympics, dies at 74 1939 - PM of Australia Robert Menzies announced that Australia was at war with Germany 1945 - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WWII ends) 1973 - Death of J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, English Christian language scholar and novelist Henry Lawson, Australian author and poet (Died this day 1922) Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, and deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, and restless and lost on a road that I know
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 3, 2010 6:56:01 GMT 10
Friday, 3 September Slavic Pagan Day of Remembrance for the Pagan People of Novgorod1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, dies at 59 1752 - This day never happened, nor the next 10, as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot, thinking the govt stole 11 days of their lives 1849 – Birth of Sarah Orne Jewett, US novelist 1907 - Birth of Dr Loren Eiseley, US professor of Anthropology (Animal Secrets) 1962 - e. e. cummings, US poet, painter & author dies at 67 1967 – Death of US folk singer Woody Guthrie 1981 - The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, entered into force Sarah Orne Jewett(Born this day 1849) Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em
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Post by irishmason on Sept 4, 2010 6:17:46 GMT 10
Tamrin happy birthday brother!!!!
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 4, 2010 12:54:57 GMT 10
Many thanks.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 4, 2010 12:59:32 GMT 10
Saturday, 4 Septemberc518 - BCE - Birth of Pindar, Greek Poet 0476 - Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire deposed 1666 - St Paul's Cathedral was completely destroyed in the Great Fire of London 1768 - Birth of François Ren de Chateaubriand, France, poet, novelist, statesman 1886 - Geronimo is captured, ending last major US-Indian war 1937 - Birth of Dawn Fraser, Australia, 100m freestyle (Olympic-gold-1956, 60, 64) 1965 – Death of Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician Dawn Fraser(Born this day 1937) Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 5, 2010 9:49:57 GMT 10
Sunday, 5 September1774 - 1st Continental Congress assembles, in Philadelphia 1781 - Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis 1882 - 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC 1905 - Birth of Arthur Koestler, Hungary, writer (The Ghost in the Machine, Darkness at Noon) 1929 - Birth of Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor (The Bob Newhart Show) 1927 - Birth of Paul Volcker, former US Federal Reserve chairman 1972 - 11 Israeli athletes are slain at Munich Olympics Paul Volcker, former US Federal Reserve Chairman (Born this day 1927) I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 6, 2010 7:02:15 GMT 10
Monday, 6 September1757 - Birth of Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary 1795 - Birth of Frances Wright, Scottish-born American social activist 1860 - Birth of Jane Addams, US, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931) 1861 - Birth of William Lane, Anglo-Australian labor leader, racist and utopian socialist 1901 - Pres William McKinley, assassinated by Leon Czologosz in Buffalo, NY 1928 - Birth of Robert M Pirsig, US author, (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 1966 - Dr Verwoerd, South African PM, assassinated in assembly William Lane, Anglo-Australian labour leader, racist and utopian socialist Founder of “ New Australia” in Paraguay (Born this day 1861) When I say God, I mean… the sense of oneness, the livingness, the completeness, of that inconceivable power which working through matter called us and all the wondrous universe we see into being. That power I know and feel is supreme beyond all conceiving. Nothing is beyond its control
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 7, 2010 18:38:02 GMT 10
Tuesday, 7 September Brazil: Independence Day (1822)1191 - Battle of Arsuf: Richard the Lionheart) defeated Saladin at Arsuf 1533 - Birth of Queen Elizabeth I, England, (1558-1603) daughter of Henry VIII 1822 - Bro. Pedro I declared Brazil independent from Portugal and became its first Emperor 1860 - Birth of Grandma (Anna Maria) Moses, NY, primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket) 1871 - CJ Dennis, Australian poet (The Sentimental Bloke) 1910 - Marie Curie announced that she had isolated pure radium 1914 - Birth of James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts C.J. Dennis, Australian poet (The Sentimental Bloke) (Born this day 1871) 'Er name's Doreen... Well, spare me bloomin' days! You could er knocked me down wiv 'arf a brick! Yes, me, that kids meself I know their ways, An' 'as a name for smoogin' in our click! I just lines up 'an tips the saucy wink. But strike! The way she piled on dawg! Yer'd think A bloke was givin' back-chat to the Queen.... 'Er name's Doreen
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