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Post by Tamrin on Jan 3, 2011 6:50:32 GMT 10
Monday, 3 January
Feast day of St Geneviève[/color], virgin, patroness of Paris Ancient Rome: Festival of Pax, Goddess of Peace (Our Lady of Peace) 0106 - BCE - Birth of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman and author (Academica) 1793 - Birth of Lucretia Coffin Mott, US, teacher, minister, abolitionist and feminist 1803 - Birth of Douglas William Jerrold, English dramatist and writer 1813 - Death of Bennelong, Eora Elder (Sydney, Australia), interlocutor with British settlers 1892 - Birth of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, South African-born British writer (Lord of Rings) 1909 - Birth of Victor Borge, Danish piano-playing comedian 1946 - William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), US born Nazi propagandist, hanged in Britain for treason  Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, aka Henry Handel RichardsonAustralian author (The Getting of Wisdom) (Born this day 1870) The most sensitive, the most delicate of instruments is the mind of a little child
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 4, 2011 16:21:27 GMT 10
Tuesday, 4 January
Roman Catholic: Memorial of Elizabeth Ann Seton, US saint [1821] 1643 - Birth of Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist 1688 - European discovery of New Holland (Australia) by William Dampier, English privateer and scientific observer 1786 - Death of Moses Mendelssohn, Jewish-German philosopher (Haksalah) 1884 - Establishment of Fabian Society, London 1941 - Death of Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928) 1960 - Death of Albert Camus, French author (Stranger) 1965 - Death of T S Eliot, American-born English poet (The Waste Land)  Bro Stratton, aka General Tom Thumbfamous midget (Born this day 1838) with his wife Lavinia: Also pictured is Bro. Stratton’s Masonic apron (initiated 3 October 1862) If the husband once give way to his wife's capricious sway,
for his breeches he next day may go to whoop and holloa
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 5, 2011 5:29:27 GMT 10
Tuesday, 5 January
Twelfth Day Eve, or Epiphany Eve 1893 – Birth of Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru 1906 - Birth of Dame Kathleen Kenyon, British archaeologist (Jericho) 1921 – Birth of Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and dramatist 1922 – Death of Sir Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer 1932 – Birth of Umberto Eco, Italian philologist and writer 1943 – Death of George Washington Carver, American botanist and inventor 1970 – Death of Max Born, German-British physicist (Nobel 1954)  Jean Baptiste SayFrench economist and businessman Say’s law, la loi des debouches = "production generates its own demand” (Born this day 1769 Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 6, 2011 6:06:49 GMT 10
Thursday, 6 January
Epiphany Old Christmas Day (Twelfth day of Christmas), celebrates the Magi’s visit Beginning of Carnival, to Shrove Tuesday (aka Pancake Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras = “Fat Tuesday”) Byzantium, Greece and Egypt: Epiphany of Kore and Days of Aeon 1412 - Birth of Joan of Arc, French martyr 1878 – Birth of Carl Sandburg, American poet 1883 - Birth of Khalil Gibran, Lebanese mystic poet (The Prophet) 1884 - Death of Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk, heredity pioneer 1911 – Birth of Joey Adams, American comedian (Friars’ Club) 1915 - Birth of Alan Watts, English writer (Book on the Taboo) 1931 - Birth of E.L. Doctorow, US novelist (World's Fair)  Heinrich SchliemannGerman polyglot, archaeologist (Troy) (Born this day 1822) I have opened up a new world for archaeology
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 7, 2011 6:27:25 GMT 10
Friday, 7 January
Ethiopian Coptic Church: Ganna Christmas[/color] (blessing the children) 1610 - Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede 1618 - Francis Bacon, philosopher, became Lord Chancellor of England 1925 - Birth of Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer (My Family and Other Animals) 1936 – Birth of [url=http://www.bencropp.com.au/about_ben_cropp.htm
]Ben Cropp[/url][/b], Australian underwater film maker 1959 - US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government 1975 – AR Ammons, US writer, received Bollingen Prize for poetry (Sphere) 1990 - Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far  Millard Fillmore13th President of the United States (formerly with Anti-Masonic Party) (Born this day 1800) Let us remember that revolutions do not always
establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not
the offspring of our Revolution. They existed before
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 8, 2011 12:15:51 GMT 10
Saturday, 8 January
North-east Greece / Macedonia: Gynaecocratia[/color], reversal of gender roles 1642 - Death of Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist and astronomer 1823 - Birth of Alfred Russel Wallace, British zoologist (Wallace’s Line), co-discoverer (evolution) 1844 - Establishment of the Grand Lodge of Iowa 1854 - Birth of Bro. Samuel Liddell 'MacGregor' Mathers, SRIA Magus, Golden Dawn co-founder 1935 - Birth of Elvis Presley, US rock and roll singer and guitarist 1941 - Death of Lord Robert Baden-Powell, British founder of the Scouting movement 1942 - Birth of Stephen Hawking, English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)  Marco Polo, Venetian explorer (China) (Died this day 1324) I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men
might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said
in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen,
Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco,
son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 9, 2011 8:44:43 GMT 10
Sunday, 9 January
Ancient Egypt: Festival of Isis1843 - Death of Caroline Herschel, British astronomer (1st female hon. member of the Royal Society) 1859 - Birth of Carrie Chapman Catt, American women's rights leader (League of Women Voters) 1902 - Birth of Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish author and religious leader (Opus Dei) 1908 - Birth of Simone de Beauvoir, France, author (Mandarins, The Second Sex) 1913 - Birth of Richard M Nixon, 37th US President 1941 - Birth of Joan Baez, US folk singer and human rights advocate 1947 - Death of Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-German-British sociologist (Diagnosis of Our Time)  Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleFrench science writer (Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds) (Died this day 1757) Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble
ourselves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method
is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally
to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 10, 2011 5:56:31 GMT 10
Monday, 10 January
Commemoration of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (beheaded this day 1645) 1429 - Order of the Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain 1778 - Death of Carolus Linnæus "Carl von Linné," Swedish "Father of Taxonomy" 1834 - Birth of Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton, English statesman 1880 - Masonic funeral of Norton I, “Emperor of the USA and Protector of Mexico” 1917 - Death of Bro. William F. Cody, aka Buffalo Bill, US solier, bison hunter and showman 1946 - The first General Assembly of the United Nations met in London 1984 - US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years  John Robinson Jeffers, American poet (Born this day 1887) I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different
expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication
with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole. (This is physics,
I believe, as well as religion.). The parts change and pass, or die,
people and races and rocks and stars, none of them seems to me
important in itself, but only the whole. This whole is in all its parts
so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am
compelled to love it and to think of it as divine. It seems to me that this
whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love and there is peace, free-
dom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward
toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity,
or on human imaginations and abstractions — the world of spirits
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 11, 2011 5:37:24 GMT 10
Tuesday, 11 January
Scotland: Auld New Year1672 - Isaac Newton was elected a member of the Royal Society 1755 - or 1757 - Birth of Alexander Hamilton, American politician, statesman, lawyer and soldier 1842 - Birth of William James, US psychologist and philosopher 1887 - Birth of Aldo Leopold, founder of the Wilderness Society 1903 - Birth of Alan Paton, South African author and anti-apartheid activist 1928 – Death of Thomas Hardy, English son of an operative master mason, novelist and poet 1959 - Theodore Roethke, Awarded Bollingen Prize for Poetry  Alice PaulUS feminist, ERA advocate and founder of the National Woman's Party (Born this day 1885) There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 12, 2011 5:37:24 GMT 10
Wednesday, 12 January
Anglo-Saxon: Day of Frigg (the All-Mother) 1797 - Birth of Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator and philosopher 1863 - Birth of Vivekananda, Hindu religious leader, reformer 1876 - Birth of Jack London, US writer, socialist (Call of the Wild) 1886 - Quatuor Coronati Lodge, the premier lodge of research, was consecrated in London 1920 - Birth of James Farmer, US civil rights leader 1965 – Death of Lorraine Hansberry, African-American author and playwright 1990 – Death of Laurence J Peter, author (Peter Principle)  Friedrich von SchlegelGerman poet, critic and scholar. (Born this day 1829) Virtue is reason which has become energy
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