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Post by Tamrin on Sept 28, 2010 7:39:11 GMT 10
Tuesday, 28 September
Ancient Egypt: Feast day of Khepera0551 - BCE - Birth of Confucius, (as celebrated in Taiwan) 1066 – Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror invaded England 1841 – Birth of Georges Clemenceau, France, statesman/PM (defended Dreyfuss) 1872 – Birth of David Unaipon, indigenous Australian preacher, inventor and writer 1918 - Death of Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher. 1932 – Birth of Victor Jara, Chilean teacher, theatre director and political activist 1966 – Death of André Breton, French poet  Víctor Jara MartínezChilean singer-songwriter, theatre director, pedagogue and political activist (Born this day 1932) The cultural invasion is like a leafy tree which prevents us
from seeing our own sun, sky and stars. Therefore in order
to be able to see the sky above our heads, our task is to cut
this tree off at the roots. US imperialism understands very
well the magic of communication through music and persists
in filling our young people with all sorts of commercial tripe.
With professional expertise they have taken certain measures:
first, the commercialization of the so-called ‘protest music’;
second, the creation of ‘idols’ of protest music who obey
the same rules and suffer from the same constraints as the
other idols of the consumer music industry — they last a
little while and then disappear. Meanwhile they are useful in
neutralizing the innate spirit of rebellion of young people. The
term ‘protest song’ is no longer valid because it is ambiguous
and has been misused. I prefer the term ‘revolutionary song’
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 29, 2010 6:32:34 GMT 10
Wednesday, 29 September
RC, Ang, Luth: Michaelmas (Feast of SS Michael, Gabriel, Raphael & all angels)1511 - Birth of Michael Servetus, Spain, physician (Christianism Rostituta) 1547 - Birth of Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (Don Quixote) 1758 - Birth of Bro. Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, Britain, naval hero at Trafalgar 1895 - Death of Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist 1902 - Death of Émile François Zola, French writer 1902 - Death of William Topaz McGonagall, the world's favorite bad poet 1988 - Death of Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family)  Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family) (Died this day 1988) Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nuncAddam’s Family Motto (pseudo-Latin: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us")
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 30, 2010 6:58:20 GMT 10
Thursday, 30 September1207 - Birth of Jalâl ad-Dîn Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic 1452 - 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible 1791 - Bro. Mozart's “Masonic” opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) premiers in Vienna 1924 - Birth of Truman Capote, US short short story writer (In Cold Blood) 1928 - Birth of Elie Wiesel, holocaust survivor, author (Souls on Fire), Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986) 1946 - 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg 1949 - Bro. Gerald R. Ford, US President (1974 – 1977) was made a Mason in Malta Lodge #465, Grand Rapids, Michigan  Tamina and Tamino, initiates in Mozart's The Magic FluteOh Isis and Osiris, Favor This noble pair with Wisdom's light!
Grant them your aid in their endeavor, lead them to find the path of right!
Let them be strong against temptation, but if they fail in their probation,
do not their virtue need deny, Take them to your abode on high
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 1, 2010 6:56:00 GMT 10
Friday, 1 October
World: Vegetarian Day0331 - BCE - Alexander the Great, of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela 1847 - Birth of Bro. Annie Besant, England, Co-Mason, Fabian, Theosophist, women’s rights and Indian indepencence advocate, social reformer and freethinker 1894 - Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska 1949 - Birth of Isaac Bonewits, US Neopagan leader and author 1958 - Inauguration of NASA 1972 - Louis Leakey anthropologist, dies at 68 1979 - US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)  Isaac Bonewits(Born this day 1949) Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other
throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of
Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick
— and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn’t
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Post by maximus on Oct 1, 2010 15:24:26 GMT 10
I'll be sure to have a steak today in protest.  |
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 2, 2010 9:35:11 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 2, 2010 9:42:45 GMT 10
Saturday, 2 October
India: Gandhi Jayanti (Gandhi’s birthday)0322 – BCE – Death of Aristotle 1800 - Birth of Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion 1851 - Birth of Ferdinand Foch, French General believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I 1869 - Birth of Mohandas K Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), Porbandar Kathiawad India, activist/pacifist 1890 - Birth of Julius "Groucho" Marx, US comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life) 1917 – Birth of Rosaleen Norton, NZ-born artist, known in Australia as 'the Witch of Kings Cross' 1968 - A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City ended in the Tlatelolco Massacre Rosaleen Norton, (Born this day 1917) This figleaf morality expresses a very unhealthy attitude
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Post by maximus on Oct 2, 2010 16:21:30 GMT 10
Well then, meats on the menu all month long! ;D |
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 3, 2010 9:59:43 GMT 10
Sunday, 3 October
Tsalagi (Cherokee) Nation: Cementation and Propitiation Festival (approx. date)
Hopi Nation: Marawu (Women's fertility and sexuality rituals to assure life and healing)1605 - Birth of Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor 1790 - Birth of Kooweskoowe (John Ross), Tsalagi chief, (the ‘Moses of his people’) 1896 - Death of William Morris, British utopian socialist 1900 - Birth of Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel) 1916 - Birth of James Herriot, Scottish veterinarian, author of country vet books 1925 - Birth of Gore Vidal, writer/playwright (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln) 1981 - Irish Nationalists at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7 month hunger strike  Chief Kooweskoowe (John Ross), led his people on the 'Trail of Tears’(Born this day 1790) Here, homeless and outcasts, we are only for a short space to be permitted
to take a passing view of the houses and farms we once inhabited and
cultivated and the places in which we happily worshiped Almighty God
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 4, 2010 7:45:07 GMT 10
Monday, 4 October
Christian: Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi
United Nations: World Habitat Day
Australia: Labour Day Holiday (ACT, NSW, & SA)1181 - Birth of St. Francis of Assisi 1535 - London printer Miles Coverdale, 47, published his English version of the Bible 1880 - Birth of Damon Runyon, US writer (Guys & Dolls-based on his work) 1904 - Death of Bro. Frederic Auguste Bertholdi (Amilcar Hasenfratz), French sculptor (Statue of Liberty) 1914 – Birth of Brendan Gill, American writer (The New Yorker) 1928 - Birth of Alvin Toffler, American futurologist, author 1941 – Birth of Anne Rice, American writer (The Vampire Chronicles)  Brendan Gill(Born this day 1914) Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious
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