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day of St Paul's Shipwreck, public holiday, Malta
(See
below, This Day in History, 60 CE)
"This day is celebrated as a public holiday in
Malta and Gozo. The shipwreck of St Paul is described in the Acts of
the Apostles:27,28. Publius (who Luke calls Protos meaning
leader) whose father was healed by St Paul is thought to have
been the first Bishop of Malta consecrated by St Paul before he
left Malta."
Source
The
Conversion of the Maltese Population to Catholicism
"St Paul
preached the Gospel during his three-month stay in Malta. He
converted many Maltese to Christianity during his stay, one of them
being Publius. Publius was later appointed Bishop of Malta. The
conversion of the Maltese to Christianity was quite slow. However,
it is evident that by the 3rd Century A.D., Christianity
became the accepted religion among the majority of the
population."
Source
The legend of the spring
known as Ghajn Razul, Malta
"Tradition
has it that the spring known as Ghajn Razul was the work of
Saint Paul who needed water for his shipmates after their
shipwreck on Malta. The name 'Razul' is derived from the
Phoenician language and means 'apostle' thus giving more
credibility to the Pauline connection. Of more importance is the
fact that if this was truly the work of Saint Paul it would
point to his shipwreck being in St. Paul's Bay and not at Mistra
where there was another spring."
Source
St
Paul's Grotto, Malta
There
is a legend that states that St Paul's cave on the Mediterranean
island of Malta (where he was shipwrecked)
remains the same size regardless of how many pieces of rock are
removed from the cave as souvenirs.
Source
The legend of St Paul and
the viper, Malta
"This is well known legend. It is believed
that St Paul was gathering wood to make a fire to warm himself and
the other shipwrecked people, when out of the sticks came a venomous
viper that bit him. The Maltese expected him to die of poisoning but
instead no harm happened to him. It is said that from that day
snakes and scorpions in Malta are quite harmless and non-poisonous." Source
A Pauline legend, Malta
According to a Maltese legend, when St Paul was preaching at
Burmarrad, his voice carried as far away as Gozo where the people
there flocked on the coast to hear his sermon. Source
dies Ægyptiacus
(Egyptian Day), or Unlucky Day,
Middle Ages
In the Middle Ages, and right up till the
17th
Century, British almanacs printed lists of unlucky, or 'Egyptian', days, Dies
Aegypticus. The ancient Greeks, Romans and Chinese also had
lucky and unlucky days. In Britain it was believed that on an
Egyptian day, one should not commence a journey or major project,
nor eat goose-flesh.
Feast day
of St Alexander
of Lugo
Feast day
of St Alojzije
Stepinac
Feast day
of St Amantius
Feast day
of St Andrew
Feast day
of St Aponius
Feast day
of St Austrebertha
Feast day
of St Baldegundis
Feast day
of St Clare
Agolanti of Rimini
Feast day
of St Desideratus of Clermont
Feast day of St Erluph of Scotland, bishop, martyr
at Verdun (Werden)
Feast day
of St Eusebius of Murano
Feast day
of St Hugh
of Fosse
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of St Hyacinth
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of St Irenaeus
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of St Paganus of Sicily
Feast day
of St Paul and Ninety Companions
Feast day
of St Prothadius of Besançon
Feast day
of St Salvius of Albelda
Feast day
of St Scholastica,
virgin
(Mezereon, Daphne mezereon,
is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Scholastica (c. 480 - 543) is a Catholic
saint.
Born in Italy,
she was the (twin?) sister of St Benedict
of Nursia. St Gregory
the Great in his Dialogues tells us that she was a nun
and leader of a community for women about five miles from St
Benedict's Abbey of Monte Cassino. We don't know what rule this
community followed, although it seems most likely it was the Rule
of St Benedict.
Feast day
of St Silvanus of Terracina
Feast
day of St Soteris,
or Coteris, virgin-martyr
(Silky fork moss, Mnium
heteomallum, is also
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Feast day
of St Trumwin of Whitby
Feast
day of St William of
Maleval
Feast
day of St Zoticus
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Shiwasu Matsuri, Mikado Jinja, Nango, Miyazaki
Prefecture, Japan (Jan 20 - Feb 20)
Yuki Matsuri,
or Snow Festival, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan (dates vary in early
February)
Hokkaido's largest festival. Snow images are made in the main
street, and a costume parade and skating contests are held. See February
7 for more.
Sounkyo Ice Festival, Sounkyo Onsen (spa), Hokkaido,
Japan (Jan
29 - Mar
5)
World Marriage
Day
National
Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe to commemorate Italian Istrian
and Dalmatian
exiles and Foiba
massacres, Italy
1775 Charles
Lamb (d.
December
27, 1834),
English
essayist
and critic, best-known for his series of miscellaneous 'Essays of
Elia', but also among the greatest of English
letter writers, and a perceptive literary critic
1824 Samuel Plimsoll
(d. June 3, 1898),
inventor of the Plimsoll line for ships
 1862
William
Patrick Crick (Paddy Crick; d.
August 23, 1908), a 'wild man of
Sydney', a colourful,
hard-drinking solicitor, politician and newspaperman of Sydney, Australia. Crick
was a founder (with William Nicholas Willis and
Adolphus George
Taylor)
of Truth, a scurrilous but popular journal (first issue,
mid-August, 1890).
A Member of the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1889 and Cabinet Minister from
1899 - 1904, Crick was
expelled and found guilty of corruption while Minister for Lands. He
resigned to avoid expulsion from Parliament in 1906 (the NSW
Parliament website records an earlier expulsion,
on November
13, 1890, re-elected December 6, 1890).
In 1893 he was knocked down in a fight by John
Haynes, another
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly.
Crick was a past master of what might be
called 'larrikin
politics' at a time when New South Wales politicians were not known
for mincing words. In September, 1890, when Truth was just a
month old, he published an attack on Sir Henry Parkes,
the State Premier, under the following heads:
CRICK ON PARKES
"Definition of a Scoundrel"
"Rifled Pursers and Ruined Reputations"
"Open and Underground Adultery"
"Cold-blooded Human Shark"
"Seventy Years of Sin"
"Attributes of Snakes and Monkeys"
"Crick Gets Show of Hands"
His words, from a speech, read, in part:
"Like that foul fiend of our race – the abortionist ... this
mental Mokanna exuded his most malignant maledictions to stifle my
political birth ... Impervious as was Parkes to shame, I found
means to pierce the adamantine crust of
Seventy Years of Sin
This Impersonation of Humbug
apes the cunning of the monkey and the
manner of the boa-constrictor."
The use of alliteration and invective was a
hallmark of Truth, perhaps best exemplified by its Associate
Editor at that time, and later Editor, fellow NSW larrikin
politician John
Norton (1858 - 1916), who, unsurprisingly, ended up in litigation
against Crick and his mortal enemy. It was often uncertain who actually owned Truth;
ownership was shifted around from person to person according to the
legal suits filed against it.
At a debating society debate, Crick once
threw a glass of water over the chairman, Justice William
Windeyer.
While Postmaster-General, Crick corruptly
prevented Louisa
Lawson (mother of Australia's national writer Henry
Lawson) from gaining royalties due to her for her invention of a
mail-bag fastener being used by the Post Office.
Crick
suffered from
cirrhosis of the liver and died of
hematemesis at the Sydney suburb of
Randwick, leaving an estate of
approximately £10,000.
Parliamentary Service
| Position |
Start |
End |
Period |
Parliament |
| Member
of the NSW Legislative Assembly |
16/2/1889 |
6/8/1906 |
17
year(s) 5 month(s) 22 day(s) |
|
| Member
for West Macquarie |
16/2/1889 |
13/11/1890 |
1
year(s) 8 month(s) 29 day(s) |
14th
(1889 - 1891) |
| Member
for West Macquarie |
6/12/1890 |
6/6/1891 |
6
month(s) 1 day(s) |
14th
(1889 - 1891) |
| Member
for West Macquarie |
20/6/1891 |
25/7/1894 |
3
year(s) 1 month(s) 6 day(s) |
15th
(1891 - 1894) |
| Member
for West Macquarie |
17/7/1894 |
5/7/1895 |
11
month(s) 19 day(s) |
16th
(1894 - 1895) |
| Member
for West Macquarie |
24/7/1895 |
8/7/1898 |
2
year(s) 11 month(s) 15 day(s) |
17th
(1895 - 1898) |
| Member
for West Macquarie |
27/7/1898 |
14/9/1899 |
1
year(s) 1 month(s) 19 day(s) |
18th
(1898 - 1901) |
| Member
for West Macquarie |
23/9/1899 |
11/6/1901 |
1
year(s) 8 month(s) 20 day(s) |
18th
(1898 - 1901) |
| Member
for West Macquarie |
3/7/1901 |
16/7/1904 |
3
year(s) 14 day(s) |
19th
(1901 - 1904) |
| Member
for Blayney |
6/8/1904 |
6/8/1906 |
2
year(s) 1 day(s) |
20th
(1904 - 1907) |
| Postmaster
General |
14/9/1899 |
28/2/1901 |
1
year(s) 5 month(s) 15 day(s) |
|
| Minister
without portfolio |
1/3/1901 |
10/4/1901 |
1
month(s) 10 day(s) |
|
| Secretary
for Lands |
11/4/1901 |
14/6/1904 |
3
year(s) 2 month(s) 4 day(s) |
|
| Chairman
of Committees |
22/9/1904 |
27/6/1905 |
9
month(s) 6 day(s) |
|
Source
Qualifications, occupations and interests
"Solicitor. Educated at St Stanislaus College, Bathurst, William Crick was articled to R.J. Ryan in Dubbo in 1881, and later to T.M. Slattery and L.F. Heydon in Sydney (1884), J.A. Cahill (1885) and H. Dawson (1886). Was admitted to practice as a solicitor in November 1886 and went on to develop a lucrative Police Court practice, and for a time was in partnership with R.D. Meagher. He was a proprietor of
Truth with W.N. Lewis in 1890 but left after litigation over proprietorship with John Norton (1892-1895). In 1895 he founded the Land and Industrial Alliance with E.W. O'Sullivan. William Crick was a radical and protectionist.
Local Government Activity
"Alderman of the Sydney City Council for Belmore Ward
from 22 August 1904 until 30 November 1904. Member of the Works
Committee 1904. Member of the Health and By-Laws Committee 1904.
Personal
"Son of William Crick an English born labourer and later
farmer, and his wife, Irish born Margaret Mungovan. The family
moved from South Australia to New South Wales in 1868, with
William Senior becoming a selector at Spicer's Creek, near
Wellington. Married Mary Catherine Kelly on 30th June 1980 in
Sydney and had issue. Separated in 1892. An owner of racehorses, a
heavy gambler and drinker who was involved in many libel suits and
assault charges, William Crick was expelled from Parliament for
unruly behaviour in 1890 but was subsequently re-elected. In 1906
was accused by the Royal Commission on Lands Administration of
accepting bribes. Charges were subsequently laid but the
proceedings were dropped. Resigned from the Legislative Assembly,
but was then expelled and further struck off the roll of
solicitors in 1907."
Source
"Meanwhile, in the same part of South Randwick, there was another quite separate scheme, the brainchild of the ebullient Minister for Lands, one William Patrick Crick (April 1901-June 1904). If the labour farm was pedestrian but successful within its limited objectives, Crick's scheme was wildly ambitious and totally unsuccessful.
"He proposed to designate a large expanse of Crown land, very approximately that bordering the Long Swamp area and along what is now Anzac Parade all the way back to the Nine Ways at Kingsford. Working class families were to lease a plot and build a house. The plots were small by modem standards and were called "blocks". The scheme in southern Randwick was to be a prototype and a statute, the Blockholders Act 1901, was passed to ensure appropriate administrative support. The developments on the ground were called
'Blockholders' Leases'.
"Crick promoted the idea that 3000 settlers would take up lands; though the Lands Department identified only 497 blocks. In the years following 1901, a total of 16 leases were granted. Advances to lessees for building amounted to £381, but no building was undertaken. By 1920 not a single lease was occupied. The
'Crickville' dream, officially (and ludicrously) called 'Lilyville', faded from the scene.
"One seeming advantage for the whole unfortunate scheme was that its main axis was to be the Little Bay Tramway - the line now represented by Anzac Parade, from Kingsford's Nine Ways to Beauchamp Road, Matraville and beyond to La Perouse. This tramway was planned to service the Little Bay Hospital and was later available for the use of the Long Bay Gaol. The planned tram route was gazetted on 3rd October 1902. Many of the Lilyville blocks were to be sited along the western side of its route, with Crick's dream that resident workers would use the tram to get to work."
Source
Norton V Crick
"The parties in Norton v Crick
were among of [sic] Cyril Pearl's Wild Men of Sydney.
Pearl's portrait of John Norton is of a remarkable, litigious,
heavy drinking, wife beating, clever, Napoleon-fixated individual.
Norton only became a member of the Legislative Assembly in 1898,
sitting as a Protectionist candidate for the seat of
Sydney-Fitzroy. From 1899 to 1910 he was an Independent member for
various electorates. Born in England, at Brighton, in 1858 he
arrived in Sydney in 1884 after a spell working as a journalist in
what was then Constantinople. Dismissed for repeated drunkenness
from the Newcastle Morning Herald, in 1891 he joined
Taylor, Crick and Willis at Truth, becoming editor in 1891
(a position he lost because of his drinking habits), and
proprietor in 1896. He claimed to have coined the word
'wowser'. He was an almost permanent fixture in the courts,
forever defending libel suits or pursuing his quest for ownership
of Truth. On his relations with Crick and Willis, Cyril
Pearl commented:
"'At times they quarrelled violently
but the freemasonary [sic] of the political freebooter always drew
them together again. They were aggressive and accomplished
demagogues who made little or no attempt to conceal their complex
villainies. But the frequent exposure of these villainies served
only to consolidate their position as public heroes.'
"Norton's dismissal from Truth
was the basis of the litigation between himself and Crick that was
to last for three years, consuming hundreds of hours of court
time. The case at issue was one of many, arising in this
instance after Norton had been awarded £700 against Crick for
malicious prosecution:
"Crick fought back with a stay of proceedings. Norton had it set aside and issued a writ for
Crick's arrest. Crick fled to Melbourne, while his counsel, BR Wise, applied for another stay and a new trial, arguing that in the case of Taylor v Barton
[sic] the Privy Council had decided that a local member of Parliament could not be arrested while Parliament was in session.
"Norton represented himself.
Crick's counsel, Bernhard Ringrose Wise, was another lawyer-politician. At 29 years of age he served as Attorney-General under Parkes (1887-88). Pursuing an independent line of inquiry in the early 1890s, he developed views on industrial matters that brought him close to the Labor Party." Source
Crick expelled from Assembly,
1890
"Note that, although expulsion vacates the seat of a Member, it does not create any disability to serve again in the House, if re-elected. For example, in 1890 W.P. Crick was expelled from the Legislative Assembly and re-elected within the month."
Source:
Expulsion of Members of the NSW Parliament
"To be smashed at all times was
considered a badge of honour in the 1890s. When a Presbyterian MP
lamented that 'Parliament contained some notorious drunken
blackguards and licentious brutes' he drew a swift response from
one William Crick, MP, who bragged that he had been 'a confirmed
boozer' since the age of 16.
"'It may be,' he bellowed, 'that the honourable member for
Newtown – a human mullet – has poured into his carcass as much
grog as would make any other man drunk. But it may be that he has
not the necessary mental structure to be affected by alcohol. But
suppose that he never did taste strong drink – and he looks
foolish enough never to have done so. What great virtue is there
in that?'
"Adolphus George Taylor [qv
– PW], member for Mudgee, was suspended by Toby Tosspot [common
nickname of Sir Edmund
Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia – PW] for
claiming that no fewer than 35 members of the House were sloshed
at one sitting. Soon afterwards he was again suspended for
drunkenly alleging that the government was voting £100,000 for
the NSW military simply to create a branch of the public service
wherein to park 'incapable loafers who had not brains enough to be
put even in the Department of Lands'.
"He wasn't expelled for being drunk but for 'persistently and
wilfully obstructing the business of the House'.
"Fisticuffs in and around the chamber were commonplace, and
the source of a great deal of public amusement. But it was Norton
[John
Norton – PW], member for Fitzroy – a
blackmailing drunkard who made a fortune raking muck in his Truth
newspaper – who best embodied the spirit, and the
spirits, of the time.
"Having occupied his seat in the House for only three weeks,
in a state of near-constant intoxication, he capped off the last
evening of the session by relieving himself on the floor of the
Legislative Assembly.
"This was considered a bit much even in those days –
he was dragged screaming from the House, smashing a glass door on
the way out, but the self-appointed 'champion of the people'
suffered no electoral harm. He was easily re-elected at the
general election soon after." Source
"When Mr. Hindle, the member for Newtown, told the worshippers of the Primitive Methodist Church that
'Parliament contained some notorious drunken blackguards and licentious
brutes,' Crick, who boasted that he was 'a confirmed boozer' at 16, considered it necessary to uphold the honour of the drunks and the lechers from the floor of the House:
"'It may be,' he said, 'that the honourable member for
Newtown – a human mullet – has poured into his carcass as much grog as would make any other man drunk. But it may be that he has not the necessary mental structure to be affected by alcohol. But suppose that he never did taste strong drink. And he looks foolish enough never to have done so
[laughter]. What great virtue is there in that ? I have a horse in my stable that has never taken any intoxicating liquors. I have also a pet dog that has never drunk any whisky. But I do not know that he could come out and bark at
Gladstone or
Disraeli or Sir
Henry Parkes or Sir
George Dibbs because he has never tasted strong
liquor.' [hear hear]. And as for Mr. Hindle's mention of licentious brutes
'If he has not sinned in that particular direction,' Mr. Crick told his fellow legislators,
'it may be no fault of his. There are certain people connected with the harem of the Sultan of Turkey who could not sin in that
direction.'"
Cyril
Pearl, Wild Men of Sydney, Universal Books, Melbourne, 1958
"Patrick Crick, like Edward
Kelly, went down fighting. He was struck off the roll of attorneys, the Full Court deciding by an overwhelming majority, that he had been rightly condemned by Mr. Justice Owen. Crick then took out a writ against the Sergeant-at-Arms who had removed him from Parliament, claiming £2,000 damages. The case reached the Privy Council which held that, in the circumstances, the House was justified in its action.
"A month after the Privy Council delivered this judgment, Crick was dead. Even his implacable enemy, John Haynes, surrendered to the general mood of
'De mortuis nihil ...' 'There was general regret,' said the
Newsletter, 'at Mr. Crick's death, for whatever his political shortcomings, he was popular in his personal liberality and his hilarious nature. The one great thing that is claimed for him is that in the land troubles he had certain big politicians in the palm of his hand . . . and remained silent."
"The 'big politicians' may have been among the many Members of Parliament, including two Ministers, who attended his funeral. The church and the law were also well represented. Crick left £10,000.
From London, recovering from a great drinking bout, Norton wrote to E. W. O'Sullivan:
'The death of Crick gave me a great shock because in spite of our Truth and law fights, I always admired him, and liked him personally. He was a bright and brilliant mind, much more solid and stable than
A. G. Taylor. . . But now the stormy petrel of New South Wales politics sleeps peacefully upon the placid breast of the kind mother of us
all—Death.'
"Willis, after flirting with politics again, but unsuccessfully, went to England and became a publisher of cheap pornography. As the
'Anglo-Eastern Publishing Company,' he decorated the bookstalls with a series of gaily-jacketed books on prostitution, and gilded
vice—Should Girls be Told, Why Girls Go Wrong, White Slaves in a Piccadilly
Flat. One, Western Men with Eastern Morals, was removed from the Mitchell Library, Sydney, by order of H.M. Customs Department, that well-known academy of
literary criticism."
Pearl, 1958
Paddy Crick, Richard
Meagher, Justice
Sir William Windeyer and the Lemon
Syrup Case
Crick and the Arthur
Coningham divorce case Other
Crick cases
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Lawson
& Co: associations with Henry and Louisa Lawson
More
in the Lawson Chronology
 1890
Boris Pasternak (d. May 30, 1960),
Russian poet whose
novel Doctor Zhivago helped win him the Nobel Prize in Literature in
1958
but aroused so much opposition in the Soviet Union that he declined
the honour. He died in 1960, quite possibly starved to death
because of having been banned by the state from working.
Did the Communists starve the
Nobel-laureate author of Dr Zhivago?
Boris Pasternak,
Russian winner of the 1958 Nobel
Prize for Literature, in the years leading up to his death on
May 30, 1968, suffered appalling persecution by his own government.
He had won the Nobel Prize, but, like Alexander Solzhenitsyn after
him, was told that if he left the USSR to attend the awards ceremony
he would not be permitted to return. He was even expelled from the
union of Soviet writers.
Evidence that
the Communist regime of the Soviet Union might have wilfully starved
Boris Pasternak to death emerged in a book, Moscow:
Under the Skin, written by an Italian journalist,
Viro Roberti.
Roberti
interviewed the great author of Dr
Zhivago several
times during the ordeal. On March 15, 1960, Roberti met Pasternak,
who was emaciated and sickly looking. The novelist told the
interviewer, "I have been expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers
so that I shall starve. No one publishes my poetry or my
translations anymore, which was my daily bread. The first payments
from my editor have been confiscated by order of the authorities …"
Pasternak died
ten weeks later, on May 30, 1960. The monopoly State, it seems, had
exercised the full logic of its power, disallowing a genius, who had
been but mildly critical of communism in Dr Zhivago, the right even to
eat.
"In a February 21, 1966 newsletter, I wrote,
"Communism may be defined as government by potential
starvation. I have frequently tried to illustrate this power by
the case of Boris Pasternak … I have repeatedly raised the
question of whether he starved to death … I have never stated
that the communists did starve him to death but have insisted
that their system gave them the power to starve him and have
questioned whether they did so. The same power controls all
employment, all banks, all stores, all law courts, and all
communications. The plight of an individual who falls foul of
this power is obvious. Once dismissed from his job, he cannot
secure another; if he has savings in the bank, he cannot
withdraw them; he has no prospect of legal redress; he cannot
sell his possessions; and he has no free press to publicize his
condition. He retains the freedom to starve."
"There is now evidence from his own statements
that Pasternak himself was vitally concerned with this
possibility. This evidence is presented in a book, Moscow
Under the Skin, written by an Italian journalist, Viro Roberti, who
interviewed Pasternak several times during his ordeal."
Schwarz, Dr Fred, The
Three Faces of Revolution, Prospect House, Washington, USA,
1972, pp 43-48
"Suddenly (Pasternak's) eyes lit up and in a
harsh voice he exclaimed: `They have taken away this money in the
hope that I will go down on my knees and disown my novel and my
poetry. But nothing will ever make me yield . . . I yield only to
death!'
"Two days later the same friend, whose name I cannot
reveal, came to see me at the Central Telegraph Office and told me
that Boris Pasternak was 'gol kak sokol' (hungry as a hawk),
extremely poor and had to borrow money to exist. 'All his works have
been ostracised. Boris Leonidovich is unaware that his brother
Alexander helps him and seeks help for him from his friends. If he
knew this he would rather starve to death. He is also very ill!'"
Viro, Roberti,
Moscow:
Under the Skin
(Geoffrey Bles,
London, 1961), pp. 212-216
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1892
Alan Hale, Sr
(Rufus Alan MacKahan; d.
January 22,
1950),
American actor (The
Adventures of Robin Hood;
It
Happened One Night)
1893 Jimmy Durante (Schnozzola; d. January 29,
1980), American actor, singer,
pianist, comedian, vaudevillean whose career in every
major entertainment performance medium spanned more than six
decades (Ziegfeld
Follies;
The Man Who Came to Dinner;
It
Happened in Brooklyn;
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; The Jimmy Durante Show). His signature expression:
"Good night Mrs Calabash,
wherever you are".
1894 Harold Macmillan (d. |
reetings from Australia.
How it works
Return of the Sun, Andrieux,
France
