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Post by Tamrin on Nov 24, 2010 5:51:50 GMT 10
Wednesday, 24 November
Byzantine empire: Brumalia, new wine festival in honour of Dionysus1632 - Birth of Benedict de "Baruch" Spinoza, Dutch rationalist philosopher 1642 - Abel Janzoon Tasman, Dutch seafarer,discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1713 - Birth of Laurence Sterne, Ireland, novelist/satirist (Tristram Shandy) 1849 - Birth of Frances Hodgson Burnett, English novelist (The Secret Garden) 1859 - Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" 1876 - Birth of Walter Burley Griffin, Anthroposophist, US city planner (Canberra, Australia) [see, The Secret Plan of Canberra, by Peter Proudfoot] 1888 - Birth of Dale Carnegie, US author (How to Win Friends & Influence People)  Yoshiko Uchida, Japanese-American writer (Born this day 1921) The secret to wisdom is curiosity
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 25, 2010 6:13:15 GMT 10
Thursday, 25 November
RC: Feast day St Catherine of Alexandria, patron of philosophers
[perhaps perversely based on Hypatia]
US: Thanksgiving Day2348 - BCE - Noah’s flood began, according to Bishop Usher’s chronology 1813 - The Articles of Union for the United Grand Lodge of England were signed 1835 - Birth of Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist 1841 - 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa 1867 - Alfred Nobel invents dynamite 1880 - Birth of (Rev.) John Flynn, founder of Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service 1990 - Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election  Ba Jin (org. Li Feigan), Chinese anarchist & novelist (Born this day 1904) You have your thoughts and I have mine.
This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me(Shouted out at the end of a televised public humiliation in the People's Stadium of Shanghai)
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 26, 2010 5:16:49 GMT 10
Friday, 26 November
Bahá'í Faith: Day of the Covenant1778 - Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands) 1894 - Birth of Norbert Wiener, US mathematician / discovered cybernetics 1895 - Birth of William Griffith Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous 1909 - Birth of Eugène Ionesco, French-Romanian playwright and dramatist (Theatre of the Absurd) 1922 – Howard Carter opens Tutankhamen’s tomb 1922 - Birth of Charles M Schulz, cartoonist (Peanuts) 1940 - Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto  Sarah Moore GrimkéAmerican abolitionist, attorney, judge and feminist (Born this day 1792) I ask no favors for my sex... All I ask of our brethren
is that they will take their feet from off our necks
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 27, 2010 8:19:27 GMT 10
Saturday, 27 November
Day of Sophia: Solomon’s wise bride (Asherah, Athena, Chokmah, Sapientia, Bride of Christ, etc.)0008 - BCE – Death of Horace, Latin poet & satirist 1095 - Pope Urban II advocated 1st Crusade 1680 - Death of Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (owned Voynich Manuscript) 1874 – Birth of Charles A. Beard, American historian (American Continentalism) 1893 - Women in New Zealand voted for the first time in a national general election anywhere in the world 1909 - Birth of James Agee, US novelist, screenwriter, journalist and poet 1940 - Birth of Bruce Lee, San Francisco CA, karate star/actor (Green Hornet)  Charles A. Beard, American historian (American Continentalism) (Born this day 1874) All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 28, 2010 7:46:56 GMT 10
Sunday, 28 November
Ancient Egypt: Feast of Hathor as Sekhmet1628 - Birth of John Bunyan, English cleric/author (Pilgrim's Progress) 1660 - At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decided to found what was to become known as the Royal Society 1757 - Birth of William Blake, English poet/painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience) 1820 - Birth of Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher (Marx's collaborator) 1859 - Death of Washington Irving, American author 1884 - Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, the world’s premier research lodge was warranted, London 1908 - Birth of Claude Levi-Strauss, Belgium, social anthropologist  Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Indifferent Ones) (Born this day 1907) When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you
end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 29, 2010 4:00:20 GMT 10
Monday, 29 November
UN: International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People1314 - Death of Philip IV of France ('Philip the Fair') — good riddance! 1484 - The Convention of Spanish Inquisitors was held, and the Constitution of the Holy Office written, under the leadership of Tomás de Torquemada 1781 - The slave ship the Zong dumped living cargo into the sea in order to claim insurance 1803 - Birth of Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (color shift) 1811 - Birth of Wendell Phillips, advocate: women's suffrage/antislavery/prison reform 1832 - Birth of Louisa May Alcott, US author (Little Women) 2001 - Death of George Harrison (Beatles)  CS Lewis, Irish scholar and writer (Born this day 1898 - Died 22 November 1963) There seems no plan because it is all plan, no centre because it is all centre
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Post by Tamrin on Nov 30, 2010 12:24:30 GMT 10
Tuesday, 30 November0406 - BCE - Death of Euripides, Athenian tragic dramatist 0030 - BCE – Death of Cleopatra VII, last of the Pharaohs 1835 - Birth of Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain], author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn) 1874 - Birth of Sir Winston Churchill, (C) British PM (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953) 1874 - Birth of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author 1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris 1936 - Birth of Abbie Hoffman aka Free, Yippie/activist/author (Steal this Book)  Mary Harris Jones ( Mother Jones), US labor activist (Died this day 1930) I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
I will tell the truth wherever I please
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 1, 2010 16:15:14 GMT 10
Wednesday, 1 December
Ancient Greece & Rome: Festival of Pallas Athena & Minerva1167 - Northern Italian towns formed the Lombardi League 1886 – Birth of Rex Stout, US crime writer 1893 - Birth of Ernst Toller, Polish author 1935 – Birth of Woody Allen, professional New York neurotic 1955 – Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger 1987 – Death of James Baldwin, US author 1988 - Benazir Bhutto became the first woman elected to govern a Muslim nation (Pakistan)  Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian (Born this day 1083) Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood
all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 2, 2010 6:15:37 GMT 10
Thursday, 2 December1547 - Death of Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror 1552 - Death of St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary. 1814 - Death of Marquis de Sade, eponymous sadist, writer 1859 - Hanging of John Brown, US abolitionist 1929 - 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien 1988 - UN votes 151-2 (Israel & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Britain abstains 1995 - Death of William Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist essayist/dramatist  Francis Xavier, Jesuit Missionary to Asia (Died this day 1552) Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 3, 2010 5:25:58 GMT 10
Friday, 3 December
Ancient Greece and Phrygia: Day of Cybele or Rhea (Great Mother)
Ancient Rome: Day of Bona Dea (the good goddess)
International Day of People with Disabilities1854 – Eureka Stockade: Australia’s brief but significant gold fields rebellion 1857 - Birth of Joseph Conrad, Polish novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness) 1894 – Death of Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish / Samoan writer (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) 1895 - Birth of Anna Freud, Austrian/English psychoanalyst/daughter of Sigmund Freud 1910 - Death of Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science founder 1984 – 3,800 die from poison gas emission in Bhopal, India (many thousands of more later) 1997 - Representatives from 121 countries signed a treaty prohibiting landmines  Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science founder (Died this day 1910) Reject hatred without hating
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