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Halcyon Days, ancient Rome
(Dec 14
- 28)
Egyptian day (dies egypticus, dies ægypticus or
dies mala), unlucky day in
Medieval Europe. ("But, notwithstanding, I will trust the Lord"
was the associated saying.)
Kasuga Wakamira (Shrine) Matsuri continues (Dec 13 -
18) at
Nara Prefecture
Advent (Nov 30 - Dec 25),
season of the coming of Jesus Christ
Feast day of
St Charles
Steeb
Alternative feast day of St
Drostan
Feast day of St Florentius (Florence, or Flann),
abbot
(Pitch pine [Red pine],
Pinus
resinosa, is
today's
plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Feast day of St Irenaeus
Feast day of St John
Discalceat
Feast day of St Julia
Feast day of St Mary di
Rosa
Feast day of St
Nino (Nina)
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Constantinople
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Iyomante Matsuri, Kutcharo,
Japan (Dec 1 - 15)
Setagaya
no Boro Ichi, Setagaya-ku,
Tokyo, Japan (Dec 15 -
16)
This bazaar dates from 1578. It has a huge range of items to
browse and buy, including antiques, second-hand goods and food.
Akiba no
Himatsuri, Akiba,
Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan (Dec 15 -
16)
Today is a Japanese fire festival with prayers for
protection against fire. Akiba Jinja is a Shinto shrine that
enshrines god of hifuse
(prevention of fire), called Hifuse, the god of fire prevention.
Various
fire festivals take place nationwide around the
New Year to prevent
possible misfortune and bad luck before entering the new season.
Domestically, as well, fire has long had spiritual significance in
the Shinto religion. Some Japanese
believe that a god of fire lives in the irori (domestic fire)
and among the traditions surrounding it was that the master of the
house sat at a designated spot.
Japanese
festivals
Japanese
calendar
The
Men's Society of Piu
In 14th-Century
London, the Men's Society of Piu held
an annual feast and song festival to promote mirth, peace, honesty,
joyousness and love.
Bill of Rights Day, USA
In honour of the ratification of the United
States Bill of Rights.
The first ten Constitutional amendments became effective on December
15, 1791.Zamenhof
Day
Celebrated in the Esperanto
movement in honour of the birthday of LL
Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto.
130 Lucius Verus
(d. 169), Roman emperor
37 CE
Nero (Tiberius Claudius Nero Domitianus Caesar) (d.
June 6, 68 CE), the fifth Roman emperor
from 54 CE to 68 CE.
Nero was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in
Anzio – great-great-grandson of
Augustus and step-brother to
Britannicus. Ahenobarbus (Nero) was the son of
Agrippina the
Younger, fourth wife of Claudius Nero Germanicus, who had adopted him just before his death. Eventually the Senate deposed Nero, who committed suicide on June 6, 68. With his death, the Julio-Claudian Dynasty
(Julius
Caesar - Claudius)
ended.
One of his tutors was Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger), who, with the praetorian prefect
Sextus Afranius Burrus became very powerful in the empire, often being the power behind Nero's throne. In
67, while travelling in Greece, Nero demanded that the Olympic Games be held in his
honour. Nero was himself a competitor, and won every single event.
He was known for his cruel and tyrannical rule.
Suetonius tells us that Nero notoriously castrated a boy,
Sporus, and
'married' him in a bizarre wedding ceremony. Thinking of Nero,
Juvenal pointed out that
"never was an ugly youth cruelly castrated in the palace of a
tyrant". Nero also had Doryphoros, a young man, become his 'husband', and raped the Vestal Virgin, Rubria. It is thought
by many that the author of
The Revelation of St John
referred to "The Beast" by the number
666 because he knew that he could be punished for
referring
in a hostile manner
to the emperor Nero as
The Beast.
"According to Suetonius, Nero's greatest ambition after becoming emperor was to sing in public. Having taken lessons, he made his debut in Naples. Though the event was well-attended, an earthquake shook the theater during the performance and much of the audience fled in fear as Nero pressed on.
"The offended emperor quickly took measures to ensure that no such misfortune would befall him again. At later performances, he had the gates locked and ordered sentries to stop people from leaving. Women gave birth in the stands. Men, tired of listening and dutifully applauding, furtively leaped over the walls. Some clever citizens even tricked the guards into letting them leave – by pretending to be ill or dead and having others take them out."
Source
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1613 La
Rochefoucauld (d. 1680), French writer 1802 János Bolyai,
Hungarian
mathematician
1817
Raffaello
Carboni (d.
October 24,
1875),
Italian
linguist, writer, traveller, composer and gold-digger, trusted
lieutenant at the
Eureka
Stockade (1854)
in
Ballarat,
Australia, in charge of the diggers who
spoke European languages. He is primarily remembered now as the
author of the main eyewitness account of events at Eureka, in The
Eureka Stockade, published a year after those events. On
November 30,
1854 he called on all miners "irrespective of nationality, religion
or colour to salute the
Southern Cross
as a refuge of all the oppressed from all countries on Earth". In Italy, he was imprisoned five times for
his patriotic and radical activities. 1832 Gustave Eiffel
(d. 1923),
civil engineer
1852 Antoine Henri Becquerel (d. 1908),
physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize
in physics 19031859 LL Zamenhof (d. April
14, 1917)
,
initiator of Esperanto 1860 Niels Ryberg
Finsen (d. 1904), Danish physician 1861
Charles
Duryea, (d. 1938) automobile
pioneer 1888 Maxwell
Anderson (d. 1959), writer 1892 J Paul Getty
(d. June 6, 1976), American oil tycoon.
In 1957, Fortune magazine
first suggested that Getty was probably the world's richest private citizen, and
thus a journalist inquired of him what the total Getty fortune would realize if
he liquidated all his assets. "I would hope to realize several billions,"
Getty said. "But, remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be."
Getty the miser, March 27, 1961
in the Book of Days More
1907 Oscar Niemeyer,
Brazilian
architect
1910 John Hammond
(d. 1987),
musician 1912 Ray
Eames (d. 1988), American designer 1912 Stan Kenton (d. 1979),
musician 1913
Muriel
Rukeyser, American poet who depicted
social and political problems. She produced 14 volumes of poetry, as
well as biography, books for juveniles, criticism, and translations
of the poetry of Octavio Paz,
Gunnar Ekelof, and others.
"Rukeyser extended the boundaries of American literature, seeing
poetry as the very essence of our everyday lives, and she broke
through the taboos of her time, writing candidly about
sexuality, motherhood, the female body, lesbian life, eroticism.
She taught at the California Labor School, Vassar College,
Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College."
Source
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1916 Buddy Cole,
(d. 1964)
pianist
1918 Jeff
Chandler (d. 1961), actor
1919
Max Yasgur (d.
February 9,
1973), owner of the
dairy farm in
Bethel,
New York at
which the
Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held in
1969
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1922 Alan
Freed (d. 1965), American
disc jockey who helped introduce rock 'n' roll
to the US and the world
1923 Freeman Dyson,
physicist
1928 Friedensreich
Hundertwasser (d. 2000), painter and
graphic artist
1932 Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist,
short-story writer and screenwriter noted for portrayals of women
and sexual candour
1933 Tim
Conway, actor, comedian
1938
Michael Bogdanov, film
director and theatre manager
1939 Cindy Birdsong,
singer (The Supremes) 1942 Dave
Clark, British pop musician, leader of the 1960s rock band Dave Clark Five
1944 Chico
Mendes, Brazilian rubber
tapper and activist for the Amazon
rainforests and fellow workers' rights. He was assassinated
on December
22, 1988.
Who Was Chico Mendes?
Earthkeeper Hero Chico Mendes
"The rubber tapper, union leader and
environmental activist Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, known as
Chico Mendes was murdered in Xapuri, Acre [Brazil]. Chico Mendes
played an important part in the foundation of the National Counsel
of the Seringueiros and the design and proposal of the extraction reserves. He organized
many of the above described empates and achieved
international support for the struggle of the seringueiros. He was
rewarded by the UNO in 1987 with the 'Global 500' award
and received another one from the Better World Society. After the
death of Chico Mendes more than 30 union, church, human rights,
political and environmental organizations banded together and
formed the Chico Mendes Committee. They requested measures to be
taken and put pressure on the authorities through national and
international public relations, so that the crime would be
punished. In 1990 the land owners Darly and Darcy Alves da Silva
were found guilty of the crime and convicted to 19 years of
prison. In 1993 they escaped from prison but were captured again
in 1996. The case of Chico Mendes drew for the first time
international attention to the problems of the seringueiros.
Through his murder, Chico Mendes became one more time
representative of the many other inhabitants of the rain forest,
who were murdered, deprived of their rights or threatened." Source
Website
and documentary on Mendes
1947
Michele Fawdon, English actress
1949 Don
Johnson, actor (Emmy nomination for
TV series
Miami Vice),
ex-husband of actress Melanie Griffith
1952 Cassandra
Harris (d. 1991), Australian actress1968 Javid Hussain,
film producer
1969 Rick
Law, illustrator, producer
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687 St
Sergius I became Pope.
1025 Death of Basil II (b. 958), Byzantine
emperor.
1072
Death of Alp
Arslan (b. 1029), Seljuk
sultan.
1263 Death of King Haakon IV of Norway
(b. 1204).
1280 "Albertus Magnus, the bishop of
Regensburg, died in 1280. He explained that the Milky Way was a conglomeration
of very distant stars; he also made an Android. He spent 20 years building this
mechanical man which looked after him and his disciple Thomas Aquinas, who was
maddened one day by the Android's talking and destroyed it with a hammer." Source
1517
The first of
seven days of visions of a fierce battle several times a day, 'seen' by many
citizens of Verdello, Italy.
A phantastic battle
Onofrio Bonnuncio wrote to Bartholomeo
de Villachiara on December 23 about the fantastic visions. First there would be
a terrible battle, then all the participants would disappear, leaving their
footprints and burnt trees and horse tracks, as well as cart tracks. It happened
on a former ground of a battle between the French and the Swiss; Pope Leo X
interpreted these as portent of war with the Turks and ordered a Crusade.
In Britain, phantom troops were seen in
Somerset in 1580, Dorset in 1678 and Leicestershire in 1707.
1654 A weather observatory in
Tuscany,
Italy, began to make daily temperature records.
1683 Izaak Walton
(b. 1593),
biographer/author (The Compleat Angler), died at
Winchester,
England, aged 90.
1702
Forty-seven ronin, formerly in the service of
Asano Naganori, assaulted the household of
Kira Yoshinaka, and killed him in
vengeance for their lord. Their display of the ideals of bushido became a national legend.
1711
Trumpeter
John
Shore invented the tuning fork.
1791
The
Virginia
state legislature became the tenth to ratify the United States
Bill of Rights, so the
Bill's ten amendments became part of the
US Constitution.
1792
Death of Joseph Martin Kraus
(b. 1756),
composer.1810 Governor
Lachlan Macquarie introduced the first building code into Australia. The
regulations required that each dwelling be constructed of brick or weatherboard,
have a shingle roof and a chimney.
1814 USA: The
Convention of New England States (Hartford
Convention, ended January 5, 1815) recommended
protection of citizens from possible military conscription (draft), Hartford,
Connecticut.
1815
Emma, by
Jane Austen,
was published, on the day before her 40th birthday. In it she notes: "One
half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
1816
Death of Charles
Stanhope, British statesman,
scientist and engineer, inventor of two calculating
machines which were forerunners of the calculator.1840
The body of
Napoleon Bonaparte was interred at Les Invalides, Paris.
1856
French aviator
Pierre Maigre attempted the first Australian ascent in a hot-air balloon in the
Sydney Domain. His failure led to the mob of spectators destroying his balloon.
These days, Australians are more remarkable for their dislike of success than
failure.
1869 Norton I, Emperor
of the United States and Protector of Mexico, left San Francisco to seek his
yearly tribute from the legislature and lobbyists. He inspected the new capitol
during the gala ball celebrating the building's inauguration.
1872
Death of Mary Anne Evans (b. 1792), wife of
Benjamin Disraeli.1875 Australia: A
bill to
allow married women to own property and manage money was defeated in the NSW
Legislative Assembly.
1882 The
Tailoresses's Union was established, Australia's first all-female union.
Lawson
& Co: associations with Henry and Louisa Lawson
 1890 Sioux nation leader
Tatanka Iyotake (Sitting Bull; b. c. 1831), the victor over Custer at the
Battle of the Little Bighorn, was murdered at
South Dakota, USA, as he stepped
from his cabin to submit to arrest by government troops who were trying to quash
an anti-European cult. Tatanka was leader of the
Ghost Dance Movement – a
Messianic religion that preached that all Native Americans would soon be free.
Sitting Bull's grave
1904
British
statesman Joseph Chamberlain called for restrictions on immigration from Europe,
claiming that it can be held responsible for crime and disease.
1913 The world's
largest battlecruiser, HMS
Tiger, was
launched in Glasgow.
1914 The Battle of Lodz ended; Russians retreated
toward Moscow.1916
The nine-month Battle
of Verdun ended, after the deaths of more than 700,000 soldiers. The
French defeated the invading Germans.
1916 Dr Ben Reitman was arrested (not for the first time) for
distributing illegal birth control literature at one of anarchist
author/lecturer Emma
Goldman's lectures in
Rochester,
NY, USA.
See Mecca Reitman Carpenter, No
Regrets: Dr. Benjamin Reitman and the Remarkable Women Who Loved Him. A
Biographical Memoir, Southside Press,
Lexington, Mass, USA,
1996
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/hnetreview.html
Source:
The Daily Bleed
Attention
speed freaks: Only two more sleeps till Christmas
1918
The president
of Portugal,
Sidónio Pais (Sidonio Paes), was assassinated.
1920
The
League of
Nations admitted Austria and
China.
1921 "Russia: Mollie Steimer,
Jacob Abrams, Samuel Lipman, and Hyman Lachowsky arrive in Moscow after being
deported from the US as victims of the Red Scare in America. They find that
Emma Goldman
and
Alexander Berkman
have already departed for the
West, disillusioned by the turn the revolution has taken.
" On August 23, 1918 Mollie Steimer,
along with other members of her group (one of whom was beaten to death in his
cell by the cops) was arrested for distributing leaflets against the American
invasion of Russia.
" The resulting Abrams case, as it
became known, is a landmark in the repression of civil liberties, cited in all
standard histories as one of the most flagrant violations of constitutional
rights during the Red Scare hysteria."
See Marsh, Anarchist Women, Avrich, Anarchist
Portraits; Polenberg, Fighting Faiths; and the pamphlet, Sentenced
to Twenty Years Prison (New York: Political Prisoners Defense and Relief
Committee, 1919). See also the memorial volume edited by Abe Bluestein, Fighters
for Anarchism: Mollie Steimer and Senya Fleshin ([New York]: Libertarian
Publications Group, 1983).
Source:
The Daily Bleed More
1922
UK: The
BBC was
incorporated.
1923 US president, Calvin Coolidge,
released 31 WWI conscientious objectors still imprisoned five years after the
end of the war.
1927
Following the
attempted coup in Canton
the previous day, the
Chinese Nationalist government
began a crackdown on communists, and closed the
Soviet embassy in
Shanghai.
1930
Albert Einstein
urged militant pacifism and an international war resisters' fund.
1936 Author
George Orwell dispatched the manuscript of
The Road to Wigan Pier to his publishers and left for the revolution in Spain.
1939
Gone
with the Wind premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.1943 Black American
jazz singer, Fats Waller, died
in Kansas City,
Missouri.
1944 American
bandleader, Major Glenn
Miller, was lost over English Channel.
1945
General Douglas MacArthur
ordered the end of Shinto
as the state religion of Japan.1948 Alger Hiss,
former US State Department official, was indicted for perjury, after denying he
had passed secret documents to
Whittaker Chambers for a communist spy ring. His
second trial ended in conviction and five years in prison, on January
21, 1950.
1953 US
war veteran, James Kutcher, who lost both his legs in WWII, was informed his
disability was being cut of due to his membership in the
Socialist Workers Party
(SWP).
1960 The
USA announced it was backing a right-wing group in
Laos; it took power the next
day.
1960
New Zealand
mountaineer, Sir Edmund
Hillary, arrived in Chicago with the skin of a
'yeti',
or Abominable Snowman.
1961 A court in
Jerusalem sentenced Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, to be hanged for his
complicity in the murder of millions of
Jews in
World War II.
1965
Gemini
program: Launch of Gemini 6A.
1966 Walt Disney (b. 1901) died
at the age of 65. In his remarkable life, he and his studios won Academy Awards for live drama, animated
and documentary films. In fact, between 1932 and 1969, there were 26 Oscars from 64 nominations, the last being awarded posthumously for
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery
Day (1968).
 Was
Walt Disney frozen for posterity?
Cryonics
is the science and practice of freezing recently deceased people, often so that
in the future they might be brought back to life by medical science, if
possible. When people discuss cryonics, or Disney, they very often mention that the famed
animator
was frozen. The story goes as far as to say that Walt's body is stored
under the Pirates of the Caribbean exhibition at Disneyland.
This, however, is almost certainly a modern
myth. Disney's own family denies that he was frozen, and insists that he was
cremated on December 17 (official records confirm this) and his ashes left at
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles
County, California.
So where did the rumour come from? Steve Bridge, President of Alcor Life
Extension Foundation, a Scottsdale,
Arizona-based nonprofit
company that researches, advocates for and performs cryonics, believes that
Disney's death
happened to be announced in the media on the same day as a new cryonics company
received publicity when it began, and possibly the two news items got conflated.
The grand imagineer was fried, not
frozen.
Snopes
says: "... there is no documentary evidence to suggest that Walt
Disney was interested in, or had even heard of, cryonics.
Documentation of Disney's alleged fascination with preserving or
extending his life through cryonics did not appear until decades
after his death, and what little information is available has
predominantly been provided by some extremely questionable sources.
"Claims about Disney's interest come primarily from two of the more
recent Disney biographies: Robert Mosley's 1986 effort, Disney's
World, and Marc Eliot's 1993 entry, Walt Disney – Hollywood's
Dark Prince. Both books have been largely discredited for
containing numerous factual errors and undocumented assertions,
rendering them rather untrustworthy as sources of reliable
background material."
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ashes memorial Disney's will
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" It
is Hollywood legend that, lying on his deathbed at St. Joseph's Hospital in
Burbank (across the street from the Disney Studios) Walt's last words were about
how shabby the studio's water tower looked. Visible from a nearby freeway,
towering above the backlot, it is adorned with the image of Disney's most
beloved creation, Mickey Mouse. In adherence with what they believed were their
founder's last wishes, studio executives have made sure the water tower was
regularly repainted since Disney died in 1966 ...
"Reports surfaced that shortly after his death, Disney Company
executive board members were shown a short film that Disney had made before his
death, where he addressed the board members by name, telling each of them what
was expected of them. The film ended with Disney saying, 'I'll be seeing
you'." Source
1968 USA: Singer
Grace Slick, performing with the
Jefferson Airplane on
The Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour, appeared in
blackface and raised a black-leather glove
in the 'black power salute' at the conclusion of Crown of Creation. The
incident was one of several that led to the TV show's cancellation the following
season.
1969 The
Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) reaffirmed its Biblically ordained exclusion of
black-skinned people from the ministry.1970 Poland: Youths
and workers torched the Gdansk Communist Party HQ and quietly watched it burn.
1970 US president,
Richard Nixon, signed the Taos Land Bill by which
48,000 acres of land were returned to the
Taos Pueblo in
New Mexico, the first
US legislation ever to return a sizable amount of federal land to the Native
Americans from whom it was borrowed.
The Nez Percé (Nimiputimt) tribe of Idaho and the
Confederated Tribe of
Colville,
Washington, won $1.1 million for the loss of
their tribal lands in the 19th Century. On June 9, 1863, the Nez
Percé
reservation in Idaho was reduced to 1/10 its original size to accommodate
white settlers and railroads. On October 5, 1877, at Eagle Creek in
the Bear Paw
Mountains, Montana, Nez Percé leader, Chief Joseph (In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat
[Thunder coming up over the land from the water]), surrendered his rifle after
months in which his starving band eluded pursuing federal troops.
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Perce culture Shop
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1970
Venera 7 (USSR) became the first
spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus).
1971 In
Electronic News,
Intel
announced "a microprogrammable computer on a chip".
1972
Italy recognized the right to
conscientious objection to military service.
1973 The
American Psychiatric Association
declared that homosexuality is not a mental illness.
1973 On the 81st
birthday of US billionaire John
Paul Getty (see above), his grandson,
JP Getty III, was found alive
in southern Italy five months after his kidnapping by the Italian Red Brigades, a Marxist
terrorist gang. The young man's famous grandfather at first refused to pay his
huge ransom, but changed his mind when one of the boy's ears was cut off and sent to a newspaper.
The Red
Brigades have been largely inactive since Italian and French authorities
arrested many of its members in 1989.
Getty family genealogy
1974
Sydney,
Australia: Broadcasting on
the FM band (2MBS-FM) commenced, broadcasting
mainly classical and jazz.
1976 The
Argo Merchant went aground
at Nantucket Island,
Massachusetts, USA, spilling
7,700,000 gallons of oil.
1976 Samoa became a member of the UN.
1978 US President Jimmy Carter
announced that as of January 1, 1979, the United States would recognize the
communist People's Republic of China (PRC) and sever relations with Taiwan.
1983 The first
one-dollar coins were released into Australian currency.
1989
Colombian
police killed
Gonzalo
Gacha, one of the principals of the
Medellin drug cartel.
1989
In
Sofia,
Bulgaria, 50,000 anti-Communist demonstrators besieged the parliament building.
1991 A ferry in the
Red Sea, returning to
Egypt from
Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia with mainly workers and
Muslim
pilgrims on board, capsized with the loss of 476 lives. Australia's HMAS
Sydney
was in the vicinity and assisted with the rescue of some 200 survivors.
1993 In New South
Wales, Australia, public
health officials revealed that four women had become infected with the
HIV-AIDS
virus after attending the same private clinic in Sydney on the same day.
1994
Netscape Navigator
1.0 was first released.
1994 Palau became a member state of the
UN.
1995
The European Communities Court of Justice passed the Bosman ruling.1999
Anita Finch, a volunteer at the Los Angeles
Zoo, was found dead in her Southern California home after being
bitten by one of her ten poisonous pet snakes. Charlene McMorris,
manager of the mobile home park where Finch lived, said she knew that at least some of the snakes Finch kept
were illegal, but she decided against turning her in
to the authorities. "That would have killed her," she said. (AP)
Source
2000 The
School of the Americas (SOA), in
Fort Benning,
Georgia, a USA army facility that critics have labelled a school for dictators,
torturers and assassins,
closed under that name, to reopen on
January
17, 2001 as the 'Western Hemisphere Institute for Security
Cooperation'.
It is widely believed that
much of the torture and humiliation of prisoners as documented in America's
crusades in Afghanistan and the
Middle East, came from techniques taught in
School of the Americas (first tried out in
Latin America).
Graduates of the SOA include
men such as
Hugo Banzer Suárez,
Leopoldo Galtieri,
Manuel Noriega,
Efraín Ríos Montt,
Vladimiro Montesinos,
Guillermo Rodríguez,
Omar
Torrijos,
Roberto Viola,
Roberto D'Aubuisson,
Victor Escobar
and
Juan Velasco Alvarado.
School of the Americas
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2002 BBC
7, digital radio station, was launched in the UK.
Tomorrow: Annual liquefaction of a saint's
blood
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Non-Biblical proverbs
He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
A day without sunshine is like ... night.
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted then used against you.
I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.
Honk if you love peace and quiet.
Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial cost and blamed it on the cost of living.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them.
You can't have everything; where would you put it?
Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.
The things that come to those who wait are usually the things left by those who got there first.
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
I wished the buck stopped here, as I could use a few.
I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Statistics prove that 50% of all people are below average.
Madness takes its toll; please have exact change.
Sometimes I wake up grumpy; sometimes I just let her sleep.
Wikipedia
and David Brown's prodigious Daily Bleed
are both excellent resources that aid my research.
I frequently make use of their generously liberal 'fair use', 'copyleft'
and 'anti-copyright' policies, with much gratitude.
© My own copyright
policy is also liberal, but as this is my livelihood, conditions apply.
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