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Post by Tamrin on Sept 8, 2010 7:26:53 GMT 10
Wednesday, 8 September
International Literacy Day0070 - Jerusalem surrendered after being besieged by Titus' Roman army. 1157 - Birth of Richard I [the Lion Heart], King of England (1189-99) 1565 - Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese & Knights of St John 1637 - Death of Robert Fludd, English Rosicrucian 1886 – Birth of Siegfried Sassoon, English war poet 1925 - Birth of Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor 1969 - Death of Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, feminist  Robert Fludd(Died this day 1637) I am of a distinguished noble race. My spouse is called `desire of wisdom';
my children are the fruits produced by it... I have experienced and fortunately
overcome the stormy sea, the steep mountains, the slippery vallies, ignorance
on land, and the coarseness of the towns; the haughtiness and pride of the
citizens, avarice, faithlessness, ignorance, foulness, almost all human
inconveniences... I have found that almost everywhere vanity rules and
triumphs. All seems to be self-assertive misery and vanity itself
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 9, 2010 6:31:12 GMT 10
Thursday, 9 September1087 – Death of William I (The Conqueror), King of England, & Duke of Normandy 1513 – King James IV of Scotland died at the Battle of Flodden Field 1585 - Birth of Cardinal A Jean de Plessicide de Richelieu, Louis XIII's chief minister 1754 - Birth of William Bligh, much maligned ship's captain & NSW Governor (HMS Bounty) 1828 - Birth of Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) 1965 - Tibet is made an autonomous region of China 1976 - Death of Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist party chairman  Cardinal Richelieu(Born this day 1585) Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men,
and I will find an excuse in them to hang him
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 10, 2010 6:22:21 GMT 10
Friday, 10 September
Ancient Greece: Commencement of the Greater Eleusinian Mysteries
& Feast day of Asclepigenia (neo-platonic philosopher and priestess of the mysteries)1676 – Death of Gerrard Winstanley, leader of the Diggers 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft, British writer, philosopher, and feminist, died 1823 – Bro. Simon Bolivar, leader of the wars for independence from Spain in Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia, named president of Peru 1839 – Birth of Charles Sanders Peirce, US mathematician, philosopher and logician 1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania 1941 – Birth of Stephen Jay Gould, US Paleontologist and author 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland  Charles Sanders Peirce(Born this day 1839) The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art
which has to be acquired with difficulty
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 11, 2010 10:11:05 GMT 10
Saturday, 11 September
Coptic Orthodox Church: Enkutatash (Feast of Neyrouz, Ethiopian New Year)1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots commanded by William Wallace defeated the English 1648 - The Levellers submitted the Large Petition with 40,000 signatures to English Parliament 1700 – Birth of James Thompson, Scottish poet who wrote 'Rule, Britannia' 1885 - Birth of David Herbert "DH" Lawrence, England, writer (Lady Chatterly's Lover) 1948 - Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan dies 2000 – The Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge of D.C. and the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of D.C. signed a ceremonial ‘proclamation’ symbolizing their mutual recognition that had been voted on favourably by both Grand Lodges in 1999 2001 - The worst terrorist attack on American soil - 2819+ die as a result of hijacked airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Western Pennsylvania  Robert Service, English-born Canadian poet (Died this day 1958) Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your
energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain
ahead that wears you out — it's the grain of sand in your shoe
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 12, 2010 7:36:01 GMT 10
Sunday, 12 September
Ancient Greece: Feast day of Astraea (Star-maiden)1570 - Birth of Henry Hudson, English sea explorer and navigator (discovered Hudson River this day 1609) 1825 - Bro. Hamilton Hume, Australian explorer, was made a Mason in Leinster Marine Lodge of Australia, IC, NSW 1826 - William Morgan, who had published an exposé of Masonic secrets was taken from the jail in Canandaigua, New York, kidnapped, and possibly later murdered. This was the trigger for the Morgan Affair and the Antimasonic movement and Antimasonic Party in the United States from the 1820s through the 1840s 1880 - Birth of Henry L Mencken, Baltimore, Md, newspaperman/critic (Prejudices) 1921 - Birth of Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer 1944 - Birth of Leonard Peltier, Native American activist 1977 - Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody  Leonard Peltier, Native American activist (Born this day 1944) They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the
fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading
people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 13, 2010 6:49:31 GMT 10
Monday, 13 September1592 - Death of Michel de Montaigne, French writer and philosopher (Essays) 1857 - Birth of Milton S. Hershey, US chocolate manufacturer/philanthropist 1894 - Birth of J.B. Priestley, English writer (play: An Inspector Calls; novel: Angel Pavement) 1900 - Soldiers of the Cross premiered in Melbourne – arguably the world's first feature film 1903 - Birth of Claudette Colbert (Lily Claudette Chauchoin), French-born Hollywood actress 1916 - Birth of Roald Dahl, Welsh children’s author (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) 1938 - Birth of Judith Martin ('Miss Manners'), American writer on etiquette  Milton S. Hershey, US chocolate manufacturer/philanthropist (born this day 1857) The main object in view is to train young men
to useful trades and occupations, so that they can earn their own livelihood
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 14, 2010 6:14:11 GMT 10
Tuesday, 14 September
Switzerland: First day of the Pilgrimage of the Black Madonna
Catholic: Feast of the Holy Cross (Holy Rood Day - Exaltation of the Cross)1321 - Death of Dante Alighieri, Italian author of the Divine Comedy 1486 - Birth of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German esotericist 1804 - Birth of John Gould, 'the father of Australian ornithology' 1844 - The Grand Lodge of Michigan was instituted 1849 - Birth of Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology 1930 - Birth of Allan Bloom, conservative American academic 1934 - Birth of Kate Millett, St Paul Minn, feminist/author (Sexual Politics)  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German esotericist (Born this day 1486) Magic is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries,
containing the most profound contemplation of most secret things,
together with the nature, power, quality, substance and virtues
thereof, as also the knowledge of whole Nature, and it doth instruct
us concerning the differing and agreement of things amongst them-
selves, whence it produceth its wonderful effects, by uniting the
virtues of things through the application of them one to the other
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 15, 2010 7:16:15 GMT 10
Wednesday, 15 September
Ancient Greece: Nativity feast of Pallas Athena (goddess of Wisdom, patron of Athens)
Catholic: Feast day of our Lady of Sorrows
United Kingdom: Commemoration of the Battle of Britain1254 – Birth of Marco Polo, Venetian trader and explorer 1613 - Birth of Francois duc de la Rochefoucald, French writer (Maxims & Memoires) 1620 - Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims 1789 - Birth of James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major American novelist (Prairie) 1851 - The Grand Lodge of Oregon was instituted 1890 - Birth of Dame Agatha Christie, mystery writer (Murder on the Orient Express) 1889 – Birth of Robert Benchley, American humorist  Marco Polo, Venetian trader and explorer (Born this day 1254) I did not tell half of what I saw
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 16, 2010 7:23:03 GMT 10
Thursday, 16 September
Papua-New Guinea: National Day (1975)1498 - Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10,000 people, dies [good riddance] 1672 - Death of Anne Bradstreet, first woman poet of the American colonies 1886 - Birth of Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, and poet 1911 - Birth of Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist 1946 - Death of James J Jeans, cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe) 1975 - Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day) 1982 - Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins  Jean Arp(Born this day 1886) Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence.
Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and
distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 17, 2010 7:06:03 GMT 10
Friday, 17 September
Ancient Egypt: Festival of Sobek (crocodile god)
Christian: Feast Day of St Hildegard von Bingen1179 - Death of St Hildegard von Bingen, German abbess and composer 1743 - Birth of Bro. Marquis de Condorcet, France, enlightenment philosopher 1802 - First Masonic document issued in Australia, ( Captain Kemp’s certificate) 1883 - Birth of William Carlos Williams, US physician and poet 1902 - Birth of Bee Miles, one of Australia’s favorite ratbags (eccentrics) 1935 - Birth of Ken Kesey, American author 1980 - Solidarity labor union in Poland forms  Bee Miles(Born this day 1902) I am an atheist, a true thinker and speaker. I cannot stand or
endure the priggery, caddery, snobbery, smuggery, hypocrisy,
lies, flattery, compliments, praise, jealousy, envy, pretence,
conventional speech and behaviour upon which society is based
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