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Property is theft. Herbert Vere
Evatt "would have been the most intellectual Prime Minister of
the 20th century, but he remains the great Premier Australia never
had." Red knights, brown bishops, bright queens Hella Hammid; visionary Ukrainian filmmaker, Maya Deren, was born on April 29, 1917 I make my pictures for what
Hollywood spends on lipstick. Revolution is not something fixed in
ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a
perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. |
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to
get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman
You
stimulate the opposition to react so that it overpowers itself, becomes
its own enemy, and you escape in the process. It's the same technique we
used in Chicago during the demonstrations. And it's true that I've studied
the technique. You have to learn to communicate. You study your
environment in this case, the electronic jungle of the United States
just the way a Latin-American revolutionary studies the back streets
of Buenos Aires or a Vietnamese studies the jungles of Indochina. You
learn your terrain and how to use it.
Abbie Hoffman
Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
Abbie Hoffman
All they seem'd to want was
for us to be gone.
Captain James Cook;
from his journal while charting the coast of Australia, April 29, 1770
This is what we do to bad little boys.
Alfred
Hitchcock's suggestion for his epitaph; he died on April 29, 1980
I'm in on a plot.
Alfred Hitchcock's actual epitaph
April 29
is
the 119th
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (120th
in leap years), with 246 days
remaining.
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Solar
alignment at Teotihuacan,
City of the Gods
The city of Teotihuacan, Mexico, settled
in the 2nd
Century BCE, was ancient when the Aztecs found its ruins.
They named it 'place of the creation of the gods'.
The entrance of a ritual cave there was aligned to a point
on the western skyline where the sun set on August 12 and
April 29. These days are separated by day counts of 260 and 105 (making
365 in all). The ancient Mesoamerican system had a 260-day ritual calendar
and a 365-day standard calendar.
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Aztec/Mexican calendar systems
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and God: The Aztecs and Cortés
Virgin of Guadalupe, or Aztec goddess?
Calendar convergence and TimeWave Zero
Teotihuacan, Mexico
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"The first great Central Mexican highland culture of the Classic period had its capital at Teotihuacan, the City of the Gods located about 50 km northeast of Mexico City. At its height about the 4th century, this was a teeming metropolis of 100,000 or more inhabitants, with a well defined class structure. The city was laid out on a grid plan, with the Avenue of the Dead forming the main north-south axis. Monumental ceremonial pyramids, including the Pyramids of the Sun, Moon, and Feathered Serpent lined the avenue. Its people had knowledge of writing and books, a bar-and-dot number system, and a 260-day sacred calendar. A society seemingly based on agriculture, obsidian mining and trade, Teotihuacan held widespread influence throughout Mesoamerica. By the 9th century, the city was abandoned. Possible causes of this collapse include famine, volcanic eruptions, and invasion by outsiders. The ASTER image covers an area of 5.1 x 9.4 km, and was acquired on March 11, 2002." Source: NASA
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St Catherine of Siena (born on March 25, 1347, in Siena, Italy, died on April 29, 1380, in Rome) was a Dominican tertiary, or lay affiliate, of the Dominican Order, and a scholastic philosopher and theologian. St Catherine, at the age of six, was a learned and devout girl who locked herself up with other children in a room where they whipped themselves (just why is not recorded). Her father, Giacomo di Benincasa, a cloth-dyer, once saw her with the Holy Spirit sitting on her head as a dove. At the age of seven she consecrated her virginity to Christ despite her family's opposition, becoming at the age of 16 a Dominican tertiary. In about 1366, St Catherine experienced what she described in her letters as a "Mystical Marriage" with Jesus, after which she began to tend the sick and serve the poor. St Catherine mortified her body, giving up meat and bread, living on herbs and water. Once, Jesus Christ came to her as a pilgrim in need of clothing because it was cold. Because she gave him clothes, Christ gave Catherine an invisible garment to protect herself from the weather. Once he came and took her heart, bringing her back his own. She showed doubters the scars. St Catherine's life was attended by miracles. Once, while she was making bread from spoiled flour, the 'queen of angels' came and made the bread good. Several times, Satan threw her into fires. She wrote letters to men and women in authority, especially begging for peace; her letters, of which some 300 remain, are considered one of the great works of early Tuscan literature. St Catherine died of a stroke at Rome in 1380, aged only 33. The very same day, her ghost appeared to Father Raymundus at Genoa. Her body was able to work miracles, or, so it is said. Pope Pius II canonized Catherine in 1461. Pope Paul VI bestowed on her, in 1970, the title of Doctor of the Church, the first woman, with St Teresa of Ávila, ever to receive this honour. In 1999, Pope John Paul II made her one of Europe's patron saints. Her body is in Rome, her head in Siena and her foot in Venice. She is shown in ecclesiastical art as a virgin and/or Doctor of the Church; with a Dominican nun's habit, lily, book, crucifix, heart, crown of thorns, stigmata, ring, dove, rose, skull, miniature church, and/or a miniature ship bearing the Papal coat of arms. Her patronage includes: against fire, bodily ills, diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA, Europe, firefighters, illness, miscarriages, nurses, people ridiculed for their piety, sexual temptation, sick people, sickness, television, and the historically Catholic American sorority, Theta Phi Alpha. She is also the patron saint of Italy, along with St Francis of Assisi. Catherine's feast day for Traditional Roman Catholics is April 30.
The mummified head of St Catherine of Siena, Italy
Runic
half-month of Lagu commences Festival of Floralia, or Floral Games in honour of Flora, Roman Empire (Apr 28 - May 3) Feast day of St Antonia Feast day of St Ava Feast day of St Daniel Feast day of St Dichu Feast day of St Emilian Feast day of St Endellion Feast day of St Fiachna of Ireland Feast day of St Hugh of
Cluny (Hugh the Great), abbot of Cluny Feast day of St Inischolus Feast day of the Martyrs of Corfu Feast day of St Paulinus of Brescia Feast day of St Peter
Verona (Peter Martyr; Peter of Verona) Message Of John Paul II on the 750th Anniversary of the martyrdom of St Peter Martyr Feast day of St Robert Bruges Feast day of St Robert
(Robert of Molesme), abbot of
Molesme Feast day of St Secundinus Feast day of St Senan Feast day of St Tertula Feast day of St Torpes of Pisa Feast day of St Tychicus Feast day of St Wilfrid the Younger Ploughing
Ceremony, Thailand, honouring the Earth and fertility Mibu Dainembutsu Kyogen, Japan (Apr 21 - 29) Cassé canarie (Broken Canary
Festival; Breaking the jugs:
deliverance of the soul from purgatory), Voudon
(Voodoo) Source Exaltation of Wine, Ribeiro
Region, Spain (Apr 28 - May 1) Minato Matsuri, or Port Festival, Nagasaki,
Japan
Holocaust
Remembrance Day
1665 James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (d. 1745), Irish statesman and soldier
Arbuthnot is best remembered for his 1712 'John Bull' pamphlets under the composite title Law is a Bottom-less Pit; or, The History of John Bull, satirizing the Whig war party and popularizing John Bull as the personal symbol of Britain. In 1705, he was appointed physician to Queen Anne. 1686 Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (d. 1742), English statesman 1727 Jean-Georges Noverre (d. 1810), French dancer and ballet master 1762 Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (d. 1833), French marshal
See also the Welcome Stranger, 1869 1863 William Randolph Hearst (d. August 14, 1951), American newspaper proprietor, subject of the Orson Welles film, Citizen Kane 1868 Charlie McKeahnie (surname pronounced 'Mer-kek-nee'; d. August 3, 1895), Australian horseman believed by some historians to be the inspiration for the poem 'The Man from Snowy River' by AB 'Banjo' Paterson. It may be that Australian poet Barcroft Boake committed suicide due to his feelings for one of McKeahnie's five sisters. 1875
Rafael
Sabatini (d. 1950),
Italian-born British novelist (The Sea Hawk;
Scaramouche) 1879 Sir Thomas Beecham (d. 1961), English conductor 1882 HN Werkman (d. 1945), Dutch artist and printer 1885 Egon Erwin Kisch (d. 1948), Czech journalist and author 1893 Harold
Urey (d. 1981) 1895 Sir
Malcolm Sargent, English conductor 1899 Duke Ellington (d. 1974) 1901 Hirohito (d. 1989) 1905 Rudolf Schwarz, Viennese-born conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra 1907 Fred Zinnemann (d. 1997) 1917 Maya Deren, Ukrainian-American avant-garde filmmaker, ethnologist, choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer 1920 Harold Shapero, composer 1929 Peter
Sculthorpe, Australian composer whose music evokes the sounds and feeling of
the Australian bushland and outback
in works such as Kakadu (1988) and Earth
Cry (1992) Big
Idea - Interview with Peter Sculthorpe (ABC Radio National) 1931 Lonnie Donegan (d. 2002) 1931 Frank Auerbach, painter 1933 Rod McKuen, poet, composer 1933 Mark Eyskens, Belgian minister and Prime Minister 1936 Zubin Mehta, Indian conductor and violinist 1942 Klaus Voormann, illustrator 1946 John Waters, director, writer 1947 Tommy James, musician 1947 Olavo de Carvalho, philosopher 1952 David Icke, controversial conspiracy writer 1954 Jerry Seinfeld, comedian, actor, writer, producer 1955 Kate Mulgrew, actress 1957 Daniel Day-Lewis, actor 1958 Michelle Pfeiffer, actress 1961 Cyndi Boste, Australian singer/songwriter
1970 Uma
Thurman, actress
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