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It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting
in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all
virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious
crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary
wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage,
and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. … there is no Person who has been near to me …
that has not been confirmed or improved in principle and integrity in
his views and transactions . . . it may be egotism but it is Fact. Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it
is usually Judas who writes the biography. A map of the world that does not include Utopia is
not even worth glancing at. I think I am rather more than a Socialist. I am
something of an Anarchist, I believe. Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read
history, is man's original virtue. Miró: A single line, a definition inspired by the Catalan landscape. |
Taurus |
It was early springtime that the strike was on
They moved us miners out of doors
Out from the houses that the company owned
We moved into tents at old Ludlow
I was worried bad about my children
Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge
Every once in a while a bullet would fly
Kick up gravel under my feet
We were so afraid they would kill our children
We dug us a cave that was seven foot deep
Carried our young ones and a pregnant woman
Down inside the cave to sleep
That very night you soldier waited
Until us miners were asleep
You snuck around our little tent town
Soaked our tents with your kerosene
You struck a match and the blaze it started
You pulled the triggers of your gatling guns
I made a run for the children but the fire wall stopped me
Thirteen children died from your guns
I carried my blanket to a wire fence corner
Watched the fire till the blaze died down
I helped some people grab their belongings
While your bullets killed us all around
I will never forget the looks on the faces
Of the men and women that awful day
When we stood around to preach their funerals
And lay the corpses of the dead away
We told the Colorado governor to call the President
Tell him to call off his National Guard
But the National Guard belong to the governor
So he didn't try so very hard
Our women from Trinidad they hauled some potatoes
Up to Walsenburg in a little cart
They sold their potatoes and brought some guns back
And put a gun in every hand
The state soldiers jumped us in a wire fence corner
They did not know that we had these guns
And the red neck miners mowed down them troopers
You should have seen those poor boys run
We took some cement and walled that cave up
Where you killed those thirteen children inside
I said, "God bless the Mine Workers' Union"
And then I hung my head and cried
Woody Guthrie; 'Ludlow
Massacre'; the massacre occurred on April 20, 1914
April
20 is
the 110th
day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (111th in leap years),
with 255 days remaining.
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Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpius Ophiuchus Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces
Sun enters Taurus, 2nd
sign of the zodiac
(Apr 20 - May 20)
Taurus is one of the constellations of the zodiac, the bull. It sits large and prominent in the northern winter sky, between Aries to the west and Gemini to the east; to the north lie Perseus and Auriga, to the southwest Orion, and to the southeast Eridanus and Cetus.
In Greek mythology, this corresponds with the bull-form Zeus took in order to win Europa, a Phoenician princess.
The astrological sign Taurus (April 20 - May 20) is associated with the constellation. In some cosmologies, Taurus is associated with the classical element Earth, and thus called an Earth Sign (with Virgo and Capricorn). Its polar opposite is Scorpio.In Europe, black cattle produce offspring about now, perhaps one reason for the sign of the Bull. This sign was worshipped throughout East as Apis, or a symbol of the sun, before the Greek zodiac existed.
Astrology The Real Constellations of the Zodiac Astrology: Pro Astrology: Con
Fair-day of
Tenbury Wells,
Worcestershire,
England
In Worcestershire, England, there was a saying that in that county you never hear the cuckoo before Tenbury Wells fair-day, or after Pershore fair-day, which is June 26.
Note the traditional rhyme:
In April the cuckoo shows his bill;
In May he sings all day;
In June he alters his tune;
In July away he'll fly;
In August fly he must.
Note also the folk belief: Turn your money when you hear the cuckoo, and you'll have money in your purse till he come again.
An old English
saying goes: "The cuckoo sings from St Tiburtius's Day (April 14)
to St John's day (June 24)".
See also March 21 (Old St Benedict's Day); April 14, Cuckoo Day; April 25, 'St Mark's gowk'; and April 28, Towednack (UK) Cuckoo Feast.
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On October 24, 1793 the French National Convention adopted the French Republican Calendar (French Revolutionary Calendar) retrospectively as from September 22, 1792. Napoleon Bonaparte abolished it and restored the Gregorian calendar on January 1, 1806 (the day after 10 nivôse an XIV), a little over twelve years after its introduction. However, it was used again during the brief Paris Commune in 1871 (year LXXIX). It was designed by the politician and agronomist Charles Gilbert Romme, although it is usually attributed to Fabre d'Églantine, who invented the descriptive names of the months. Instead of most days having a saint as in the Catholic Church's calendar, each day has a plant, a tool or an animal associated with it. Some enthusiasts in France still use the calendar. Each month lasted 30 days and was divided into three decades. Every day had the name of an agricultural plant, except the 5th (Quintidi) and 10th day (Decadi) of every decade, which had the name of a domestic animal (Quintidi) or an agricultural tool (Decadi).
The Sansculottides, named after the Sansculottes, amend the 360 days of the calendar so that the beginning of the next year is on the autumnal equinox. There were five Sansculottides in a common year and six in a leap year (from this derives the French name of the leap year année sextile). The Sansculottides start on September 17 or 18 and end on September 22 or 23.
Source: Wikipedia Website converts Gregorian calendar to FRC (and has desktop program) High resolution image of the calendar by Louis-Philibert Debucourt (951x1098, 486 KB) Antique Decimal Watches Criticisms and shortcomings of the FRC Julian day calculator (pop-up) Date converter for numerous calendars, including this one Calendrica, great calendar comparisonsThe Book of Days index page shows the current day's date in the French Republican Calendar
Lyrid meteor showers (Apr 15 - Apr 28, peaking Apr 22) Egyptian day (dies egypticus, dies ćgypticus or dies mala), unlucky day in Medieval Europe. ("But, notwithstanding, I will trust the Lord" was the associated saying.)
Feast day of St Agnes of
Montepulciano Feast day of St Caedwalla Feast day of St Francis Page Feast day of St Gundebert Feast day of St Harduin Feast day of St Hildegun Feast day of St Hugh of Anzy-le-Duc Feast day of St John Finch Feast day of St John of Grace-Dieu Feast day of St John Payne Feast day of St Margaret of Amelia Feast day of Blessed
Oda of Brabant Feast day of St Servilian Feast day of St Simon Rinalducci Feast day of St Sulpicius Feast day of St Theodore Trichinas Feast day of St Theotimus of Tomi
Flower Festival, Latakia, Syria Easter Rising Day, Ireland Nagasaki Takoage, or Kite-Flying Event, Nagasaki, Japan (Apr 3 - 29) Bunsui Oiran Dochu, or Courtesan (oiran) Parade, Nishkanbara, Niigita Prefecture, Japan (Apr 16 - 23)
Radunitsa, ancestors' day/day of dead, Slavic A note about the
dating of items in Wilson's Almanac (Week beginning St Thomas's Sunday (April 18 in 2004); second Monday and Tuesday after (Orthodox calendar) Easter (Great and Holy Pascha; April 11 in 2004), alternately May 1.) See also yesterday, April 19 420 Pot smoke-out
Mawlid al-Nabi,
Muhammad's
birthday,
Islam
(date varies; see 571
below) Ridván begins at sunset (Bahá'í Faith)
Festival of Matsu, Southeast Asia (2006) On the dating of items in the Almanac From Wikipedia: Matsu (Hanyu Pinyin: Māzǔ; Wade-Giles: Ma-tsu; literally 'Mother-Ancestor'; POJ: Má-chó·), mortal name Lin Moniang, is the Taoist goddess of the Sea who protects fishermen and sailors. She is extremely popular among the Taiwanese, Fujianese, Cantonese, and Vietnamese people, who have cultures strongly linked to the sea. The Matsu Islands are named after her. According to legend, Lin Moniang was born in 960 (during the early Northern Song Dynasty) as the seventh daughter of Lin Yuan on Meizhou Island, Fujian. She did not cry when she was born, and thus her given name means "Silent Girl." There are many legends about her and the sea. Although she started swimming relatively late at the age of 15, she soon became an excellent swimmer. She wore red standing on the shore to guide fishing boats home, even in the most dangerous and harsh weather. According to one legend, Lin Moniang's father and brothers were fishermen. One day, a terrible typhoon arose while they were out at sea, and the rest of her family feared that those at sea had perished. In the midst of this storm, depending on the version of the legend, she either fell into a trance while praying for the lives of her father and brothers or dreamed of her father and brothers while she was sleeping. In either the trance or the dream, her father and brothers were drowning, and she reached out to them, holding her brothers up with her hands and her father up with her mouth. However, Moniang's mother now discovered her and tried to wake her, but Moniang was in such a deep trance or dream that it seemed like she was dead. Moniang's mother, already believing the rest of their family dead, now broke down, crying, believing that Moniang had also just died. Hearing her mother's cries, in pity, Moniang gave a small cry to let her mother know she was alive, but in opening her mouth, she was forced to drop her father. Consequently, Moniang's brothers returned alive (sadly without their father) and told the other villagers that a miracle had happened and that they had somehow been held up in the water as a typhoon raged. There are at least two versions of Lin Moniang's death. In one version, she died in 987 at the age of 28, when she climbed a mountain alone and flew to heaven and became a goddess. Another version of the legend says that she died at age 16 of exhaustion after swimming far into the ocean trying to find her lost father and that her corpse later washed ashore in Nankan Island of the Matsu Islands. Her birthday-festival is on the twenty-third day of the third lunar month of the Chinese calendar. It falls in late April or early May in the Gregorian calendar.
571 Muhammad
(the date of the prophet's birth is uncertain; different
dates are given by different sources – January 19, May 2, 570,
or 571 The Book of Days covers the prophet's birthday more thoroughly at May 15, 570 CE. 702 Jafar Sadiq1633 Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654) 1745 Philippe Pinel 1808 Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1873) 1818 Heinrich Göbel 1832
Ernst von
Leyden 1871 Slavoljub
Eduard Penkala
1889 Adolf Hitler His father, Alois Hitler (1832 - 1903), was a minor customs official who had been born to unmarried parents. As a young man he used his mother's surname, Schickelgruber. In 1876, Alois took on his adoptive father's surname by having the church declare him the son of that man after his death, which was originally spelled 'Hiedler'. Hitler died on Walpurgisnacht, the German witching night, similar to Halloween. Source: Wikipedia et al The Occult Roots of Nazi Power
1889 Albert Jean Amateau 1893 Harold Lloyd
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