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Post by Tamrin on Jan 13, 2011 5:25:51 GMT 10
Thursday, 13 January
Old New Year: Orthodox New Year’s Day under the Julian calendar (Gregorian 13/14 January) 1599 - Death of Edmund Spenser, English poet (Faerie Queene) 1691 - Death of George Fox, English founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) 1818 - The Grand Lodge of Indiana was instituted 1830 - Great Fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves 1866 / 1877 - Birth of George Gurdjieff, Greek-Armenian-Russian mystic 1926 - Birth of Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American feminist author 1941 - Death of James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet (Ulysses)  Antoinette BourignonFlemish mystic, French religious fanatic (Born this day 1616) I am pure nothing; but God is everything in me.
He teaches me, he works, he speaks in me,
without nature contributing more than the mere tool,
as a brush contributes to the art of a beautiful painting
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 14, 2011 12:02:00 GMT 10
Friday, 14 January
Old England: Feast of the Ass (commemorates the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt) 1875 - Birth of Albert Schweitzer, French doctor, humanitarian, organist (Nobel 1952) 1882 - Bro. Maria Deraismes (LDH founder) was initiated into Lodge Les Libres Penseurs (“free thinkers”), GOdFrance 1896 - John Dos Passos, US novelist and artist 1898 – Death of Charles L. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), English author, mathematician, logician 1925 – Birth of Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor and film director 1940 - Birth of Julian Bond, US civil rights leader 1994 – Death of Federica Montseny, Spanish anarchist minister of Health (1936)  Martin Niemöller(Born this day 1892) In Germany they came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 15, 2011 11:18:06 GMT 10
Saturday, 15 January
Martin Luther King’s Birthday (1929) 1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church 1622 - Baptism of Jean-Baptiste Molière, French dramatist (Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope) 1809 - Birth of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French politician (libertarian socialist) 1842 – Birth of Mary MacKillop, Australia’s first native-born Catholic Saint 1908 – Birth of Edward Teller, Hungarian-American nuclear physicist 1915 - Duke Kahanamoku, from Hawaii, first performed surfboard riding in Australia 1929 – Birth of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader  Karl Liebknecht & Rosa LuxembourgGerman Communists (Both murdered this day 1919) The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I — K.L. Those who do not move, do not notice their chains — R.L.
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 16, 2011 13:35:31 GMT 10
Sunday, 16 January
Ancient Rome: Feast of Concordia (goddess of agreement and understanding) 1759 - British Museum opens in London 1794 – Death of Bro. Edward Gibbon, British historian (Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire) 1874 - Birth of Bro. Robert Service, British-born Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee) 1893 - American sugar planters overthrew the government of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii 1920 - The Council of the League of Nations had its first meeting, in Paris 1928 – Birth of William Kennedy, American writer and journalist 1933 - Birth of Susan Sontag, US writer  Franz BrentanoGerman philosopher and psychologist (Born this day 1838) An unconscious consciousness is no more a
contradiction in terms than an unseen case of seeing
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 17, 2011 5:42:43 GMT 10
Monday, 17 January
U.S.A.: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (third Monday in January) 1562 - Edict of St Germain recognizes the Huguenots in France 1706 - Birth of Benjamin Franklin, FRS, US statesman, wit and inventor 1865 - The Grand Lodge of Nevada was instituted 1872 - The Grand Lodge of Utah was instituted 1899 - Birth of Robert Maynard Hutchins, US educator and civil libertarian 1942 – Birth of Muhammad Ali, American boxer and conscientious objector, (born Cassius Clay) 1964 – Death of Terence Hanbury (T.H.) White, novelist (The Once and Future King)  Charles Brockden Brown"father of the American novel" (Wieland) (Born this day 1771) Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes
the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind
from all those paths which lead to usefulness and honor
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 18, 2011 6:14:40 GMT 10
Tuesday, 18 January
Ancient Greece: Theogamia (women’s festival for the goddess Hêra) 1689 - Birth of Charles de Montesquieu, French philosopher and writer (Lettres Persanes) 1782 – Birth of Daniel Webster, US statesman 1882 – Birth of A.A. Milne, English author of Christopher Robin books 1908 - Birth of Jacob Bronowski, British mathematician and cultural historian 1932 – Birth of Robert Anton Wilson, US polymath, philosopher and author 1936 – Death of Bro. Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907) 1966 – Death of Kathleen Norris, US poet and essayist  Austin DobsonEnglish poet, critic and essayist (Born this day 1840) Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 19, 2011 5:38:56 GMT 10
Wednesday, 19 January
Ethiopia: Timkat festival, procession of Tabots ("Arks of the Covenant") 0570 - Birth of Mohammed, Islamic prophet (Koran) 1200 - Birth of Dôgen Zenji, Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher (Soto school of Zen) 1729 – Death of William Congreve, English playwright and poet 1809 – Birth of Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet, editor and literary critic 1887 – Birth of Alexander Woolcott, American critic and commentator 1990 - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru, dies at 58 1997 – Death of James Dickey, American poet and novelist  Patricia HighsmithAmerican novelist and short-story writer (Born this day 1921) Neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 20, 2011 6:04:19 GMT 10
Thursday, 20 January
Commemoration of Miles Coverdale, Bible translator 1569 – Death of Miles Coverdale, English bible translator Great bible 1807 - Napoleon convenes the great Sanhedrin, Paris 1866 - Birth of Richard Le Gallienne, English writer (Maker of Gainborg) 1891 – Death of H.R.H. Bro. David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii 1896 – Birth of George Burns, American comedian 1900 – Death of John Ruskin, English writer, critic and commentator 1907 – Death of Death of Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist (Periodic table)  King George V, of Great Britain (Died this day 1936) Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions?
I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions
like that I would be a revolutionary myself
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 21, 2011 5:06:39 GMT 10
Friday, 21 January
Death of tyrants: Louis XVI (1793) & Lenin (1924)1790 - Bro. Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin demonstrated his invention, the guillotine,* for the first time 1793 - Death of Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), *guillotined by revolutionaries at 38 1799 - Bro. Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced 1813 - Birth of John C Frémont, US explorer, pathfinder, map maker and Governor (Arizona) 1870 - Death of Alexander Herzen, Russian anarchist 1924 - Death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian revolutionary, pseudo-communist and mass murderer 1950 - Death of George Orwell (aka, Eric Arthur Blair), English author (Animal Farm, 1984)  John BatmanAustralian grazier, businessman and explorer (Born this day 1801) This will be the place for a village(i.e., Batmania, aka Melbourne)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 22, 2011 8:33:25 GMT 10
Saturday, 22 January
Passing of Queen Victoria (1901) 1561 - Birth of Francis Bacon, English statesman and essayist (Novum Organum) 1645 – Birth of William Kidd (Captain Kidd), Scottish privateer/pirate 1729 - Birth of Bro. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Germany, critic/dramatist 1788 - Birth of Bro. Lord Byron, English romantic poet (Don Juan) 1814 - 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, New York City NY 1858 - Birth of Beatrice Potter Webb, English economist, Fabian and labour historian 1891 - Birth of Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher and political theorist  Alfred OrageBritish intellectual (Gurdjieff school) (Born this day 1873) To be aware that we are asleep is to be on the point of waking;
and to be aware that we are only partially awake is the first
condition of becoming and making ourselves more fully awake
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