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The Suffolk Coroner (Mr Charton) on Tuesday held an inquest at the Green Man Inn, Mendlesham, touching the death of a child, named Maggie Alberta Wade, daughter of Henry Wade, an agricultural labourer. The first witness called was the mother, Elizabeth Wade, who stated that last Friday the deceased pulled a cup of boiling soup over herself and was badly scalded. She did not send for a doctor, but at once sent for an old woman living in the neighbourhood, whose name is Brundish, who, according to witness, is possessed of supernatural powers in the cure of burns and scalds. The old woman came at once, and said some strange words over the child, and passed her hands across the injured parts. Witness, under these circumstances, did not consider the attendance of a medical man necessary, but notwithstanding the woman's incantation, the child died in 40 hours. Witness persisted in expressing her belief in the old woman's power, and said she really was a witch. The female referred to declined to reveal the words spoken, as she said she would lose her power. Other witnesses professed their faith in the professions of the old woman. Eventually, after the Coroner had commented on the superstition exhibited, medical evidence was given to the effect that the child's life could not have been saved. Diss Express of December 16, 1893; in Knowlson, T Sharper, The Origins of Popular Superstitions and Customs, T Werner Laurie, Ltd, London, 1930
Those who do not remember the past are
condemned to repeat it. We need to devise a system in which peace
will be more rewarding than war. I have
spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway
peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves. The male
form of a female liberationist is a male liberationist — a man who
realizes the unfairness of having to work all his life to support a
wife and children so that someday his widow may live in comfort, a man
who points out that commuting to a job he doesn't like is just as
oppressive as his wife's imprisonment in a suburb … |
Arthur C Clarke, born on December 16, 1917
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We are
living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style
that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable
resources without regard for the future of our children and people all
around the world.
Margaret Mead
Be lazy,
go crazy.
Motto of Margaret Mead
Never
doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret
Mead
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation ... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.
Arthur C Clarke, British sci-fi writer, born on December 16, 1917; Exploration of Space,
1952
Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
Arthur C Clarke; 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968, 'Foreword'
Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!
Arthur C Clarke; Electronic Tutors, 1980
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
Arthur C Clarke; 1984: Spring, 1984
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C Clarke; 'Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination', in his book
Profiles of the Future,1962. This statement is often referred to as
'Clarke's First Law'.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C Clarke; 'Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination', ibid. This statement is often referred to as
'Clarke's Second Law'.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C Clarke; Profiles of the Future (revised edition
1973). The statement is often referred to as 'Clarke's Third Law'.
Hollywood is loneliness beside the
swimming pool.
Liv Ullmann, Norwegian
actress and humanitarian, born on December 16, 1939
December 16 is the 350th day
of the year in the Gregorian calendar
(351st
in leap years), with 15 days remaining.
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Liquefaction of the blood of St Januarius
The patron saint of
blood banks, Naples and volcanic eruptions,
(feast day,
September 19), Januarius (or, Gennaro),
The days on which the liquefaction takes place include his saint's day, September 19, the first Saturday in May, and on December 16, the anniversary of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1631, which, according to tradition, ended after the faithful prayed to the city's patron. Many pilgrims will today be hoping to see the miracle at the Cappella del Tesoro (Chapel of the Treasure, founded in 1608).
An anonymous traveller in 1389 was the first to document the miracle.
Diocletian had him roasted in a furnace, but he survived; he then set wild beasts on him, but they licked his feet. Then Januarius's head was severed, and a woman collected two phials of his blood. Later the ghost of Januarius directed a Neapolitan to find the severed head in a thicket. When the head and body were reunited the woman approached with the solidified blood, which re-liquefied. On the appointed days, it has done so ever since. Or, so it is said.
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