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Post by Tamrin on Sept 18, 2010 9:26:49 GMT 10
Saturday, 18 September
Jewish: Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)1709 - Birth of Dr Samuel Johnson, writer (Boswell's tour guide) 1793 - Washington lays cornerstone of US Capitol building 1810 - Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day) 1819 - Birth of Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, his pendulum proved Earth rotates 1830 – Death of William Hazlitt, radical English essayist and literary critic 1856 - The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Indiana was instituted 1961 - Dag Hammarskjold, UN Sect General, dies in an air crash over the Congo Dag Hammarskjold(Died this day 1961)  Everything will be all right - you know when?
When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations
as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 19, 2010 7:54:32 GMT 10
Sunday, 19 September
Ancient Egypt: Fast of Toth (god of wisdom and magic)
Ancient Greece: Commemoration of the birth of Hippocrates (father of medicine)
New Zealand: Women's Suffrage Day (1893)
Arrrh, ye lubbers, it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, arrrh!1356 - English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers 1881 - Bro. James A Garfield, US president, dies of gunshot wound 1908 - Birth of Mika Waltari, Finnish novelist (The Egyptian) 1911 - Birth of Sir William Golding, England, novelist (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983) 1919 - Birth of Mary Midgley, British philosopher 1922 - Birth of Damon Knight, science fiction writer 1928 - Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)  Damon Knight(Born this day 1922) The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to
believe that there is some group of folks who know what they're doing
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 20, 2010 7:03:58 GMT 10
Monday, 20 September
Peru: Celebration of the Sun’s birth
Germany: Start of Oktoberfest0357 - BC - Birth of Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia, emperor 1565 - Spaniards capture Fort Caroline, Florida & massacre French Protestants (Huguenots) 1784 - The Grand Lodge of England issued a warrant to African Lodge #459 1878 - Birth of Upton Sinclair, American author (The Jungle; Oil!) and politician 1928 - Birth of Dr Joyce Brothers, US psychologist and advice columnist 1934 - Birth of Sophia Loren, Italian actress 1948 - Birth of George R.R. Martin, science fiction writer  Joyce Brothers(Born this day 1928) Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 21, 2010 7:19:50 GMT 10
Tuesday, 21 September
International Day of Peace
Norway: Day of remembrance Raud the Strong, pagan martyr 0019 - BCE- Death of Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Roman poet (Eclogues; The Aeneid) 1776 - Nathan Hale spied on British for American rebels, hanged 1849 - Birth of Sir Edmund Gosse, English poet 1866 - Birth of Herbert George (H.G.) Wells, Bromley, England (War of the Worlds) 1897 - NY Sun runs famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus," editorial 1934 - Birth of Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer/songwriter 1947 - Birth of Stephen King, American horror writer  Edmund Gosse(Born this day 1849) Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 22, 2010 6:39:31 GMT 10
Wednesday, 22 September
Inuit: Festival of Sedna (sea goddess)1290 - “Birth” of Bilbo Baggins (J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit) 1692 - Last person hanged for witchcraft in US 1694 - Birth of Lord Chesterfield, letter writer, introduced Gregorian calendar (1752) 1791 - Birth of Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor 1880 – Birth of Dame Christabel Pankhurst, English feminist 1931 – Birth of Fay Weldon, British author brought up in New Zealand 1949 - USSR detonates its 1st atomic bomb  Fay Weldon(Born this day 1931) Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind:
repetitive application — practice. What you practice is what you manifest
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 23, 2010 6:37:10 GMT 10
Thursday, 23 September
Equinox0480 - BCE - Birth of Euripides, Greek playwright (Alcestis, Medea, Electra, and The Bacchae) 1838 - Birth of Victoria Claflin Woodhull, Ohio, feminist/reformer/free love/1st female presidential candidate 1857 - The Grand Lodge of Nebraska was formed 1869 - Birth of Edgar Lee Masters, poet/novelist (Spoon River Anthology) 1889 - Birth of Walter Lippmann, NYC, journalist/political writer (Men of Destany) 1930 - Birth of Ray Charles, American singer and musician 1939 - Sigmund Freud, created psychoanalysis, dies at 83  Mary Church Terrell, African American writer and civil rights activist (Born this day 1863) Please stop using the word "Negro" ... We are the only
human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of
complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit.
Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the
only name in the English language which accurately describes us
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 24, 2010 7:22:15 GMT 10
Friday, 24 September
U.K.: Feast of the Ingathering (England, "Harvest Home" & Scotland "Kirn")1541 - Phillippus Paracelsus, physician/alchemist, dies at 48 1717 - Birth of Horace Walpole, English writer (The Castle of Otranto) 1825 - Birth of Frances E.A. Harper, African-American author, abolitionist and social reformer 1896 - Birth of F Scott Fitzgerald, St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby) 1898 - Birth of Baron Florey, Australian pathologist; purified penicillin (Nobel '45) 1936 - Birth of Jim Henson, US Muppeteer, creator of the Muppets and Sesame Street 1991 - Death of Theodor Geisel, aka Dr Seuss, American writer and illustrator (The Cat in the Hat)  Jim Henson, US Muppeteer, creator of the Muppets and Sesame Street My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 25, 2010 8:06:39 GMT 10
Saturday, 25 September
France: Fête des Sorcières (Witch Festival), Chalindrey1764 – Birth of Fletcher Christian, Master's Mate (chief Bounty Mutineer) 1786 - The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania was instituted 1897 – Birth of William Faulkner, American Nobel Prize-winning novelist 1926 - Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week 1930 – Birth of Shel Silverstein, American poet, songwriter, composer, cartoonist, and children's writer 1931 – Birth of Barbara Walters, American TV interviewer 1960 - Emily Post, US etiquette expert, dies at 86  Erich Maria Remarque, German author (All Quiet on the Western Front) (Died this day 1970) A hospital alone shows what war is
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 26, 2010 12:27:07 GMT 10
Sunday, 26 September0070 - Jerusalem fell to the Roman legions under Titus 1774 - Birth of Jonathan Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), pioneer environmentalist 1872 - Birth of Max Ehrmann, German-American attorney and poet (Desiderata) 1888 - Birth of T.S. Eliot, St Louis poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land - Nobel 1948) 1888 - Birth of J Frank Dobie, Texas folklorist and newspaper columnist 1889 - Birth of Martin Heidegger, German Existentialist & Nazi sympathizer 1946 - Birth of Andrea Dworkin, American feminist author  Max Ehrmann(Born this day 1872) DESIDERATAGo placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace
there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on
good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and
listen to others, even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you
compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always
there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achieve-
ments as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career however
humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for
high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do
not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity
and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel
of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of
spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with
dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of
the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as
it should. Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to
be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 27, 2010 6:55:22 GMT 10
Monday, 27 September
Mesopotamia: Day of Willows, Mesopotamia (Festival for Belili, Astarte or Aeea)
Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Churches: Meskel Festival1177 - Pope Alexander III wrote a letter to Prester John seeking an alliance 1540 - Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola 1660 - Death of St Vincent de Paul, philanthropist. 1722 - Birth of Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser/(Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94) 1913 - Birth of Albert Ellis, US psychologist 1953 - Birth of Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian religious leader 1957 - UK began nuclear bomb test series at Maralinga, South Australia  Mata Amritanandamayi(Born this day 1953) Keep a close watch on the mind! It is a clever liar that
stops you from being aware of your true nature, the SELF
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