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Mistletoe is, however, seldom found on a hard-oak, and when it is discovered it is gathered with great ceremony, and particularly on the
6th day of the moon (which for those tribes [Druids] constitutes the beginning of the months and the years) and after every thirty years of a generation, because it is then rising in strength and not one half its full size.
St Dorothea gives the most snow. When Queen Anne of great renown |
Marlowe |
God is always on the side of the big battalions.
Napoleon Bonaparte used and gained credit for the phrase, which was earlier (February 6, 1770) used by
French author Voltaire in his
Epitre a M. le Riche. Roman historian Tacitus (Hist. IV, 17) originated the phrase
The male convicts unleashed frustrations built up in the twelve months they had been chained below decks, broke loose from their temporary gaolyard and into the women's camps.
Governor Arthur Phillip's journal, Sydney, Australia, February 6, 1788
Vienna: a raddled old city where one is surfeited with the music of Brahms and Puccini, with officers with women's bosoms and women with officers' chests.
French composer Claude Debussy wrote this in his diary this day, 1911
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the USA, born on February 6, 1911
In the 38th chapter of Ezekiel, it says that
the land of Israel will come under attack by the armies of the ungodly
nations, and it says that Libya will be among them. Do you understand
the significance of that? Libya has now gone Communist, and that's a
sign that the day of Armageddon isn't far off.
Biblical scholars have been saying for generations that Gog must be
Russia. What other powerful nation is to the north of Israel? None. But
it didn't seem to make sense before the Russian revolution, when Russia
was a Christian country. Now it does, now that Russia has become
communistic and atheistic, now that Russia has set itself against God.
Now it fits the description of Gog perfectly.
For the first time ever, everything is in place for the battle of
Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ. It can't be too long now.
Ezekiel says that fire and brimstone will be rained upon the enemies of
God's people. That must mean that they will be destroyed by nuclear
weapons.
Ronald Reagan; at a 1971 banquet for California state senator James
Mills
Surround yourself with the best people you can find,
delegate authority, and don't interfere.
Ronald Reagan; Fortune magazine, September, 1986
Approximately 80 per cent of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan
Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts treat them. I believe this could happen under the ERA.
Ronald Reagan
If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement [on the question of silencing campus radicals, 1970].
Ronald Reagan
If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
Ronald Reagan
It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
Ronald Reagan
The United States has much to offer the third world war [in a speech on what the U.S. had to offer the Third World. He repeated this error nine times in the same speech.]
Ronald Reagan
Well, I learned a lot ... You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries. [Speech following his tour of South America.]
Ronald Reagan
You know, your nose looks just like Danny Thomas's [to the Lebanese Foreign Minister, during a briefing on
a Middle Eastern conflict].
Ronald Reagan
My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. [Before he was going to make a radio broadcast, unaware that the mike was on.]
Ronald Reagan
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
There is today in the United States as much forest as there was when Washington was at Valley Forge.
Ronald Reagan
A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
Ronald Reagan
In spite of the wildly speculative and false stories
of arms for hostages and alleged ransom payments, we did not – repeat did not –
trade weapons or anything else for hostages; nor will we.
Ronald Reagan
A few months ago I told the American people I did
not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me
that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.
Ronald Reagan
We should declare war on North Vietnam ... It's
silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of
Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and
be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan; quoted in the Fresno Bee, October 10, 1965
In England, if a criminal carried a gun, even though
he didn't use it, he was tried for first-degree murder and hung if he was found
guilty.
Ronald Reagan; fudging it in the New York Times, March 21, 1986
All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant
can be stored under a desk.
Ronald Reagan; quoted fudging it, in the Burlington Free Press, February
15, 1980
The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against
the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for
fear it might be misinterpreted ... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent
of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants
and trees.
Ronald Reagan, 1979
So-so.
Ronald Reagan, when asked how his meeting with Archbishop Tutu went;
quoted by Pres. George W Bush at Reagan's memorial service, June 11,
2004
Please assure me that you are all Republicans!
Ronald Reagan; to surgeons after an assassination attempt
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor, born on February 6, 1917, Observer 'Sayings of the
Week', August 26, 1957
To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
You mean, other than my own?
Zsa Zsa Gabor, when asked how many husbands she'd had
To a smart girl men are no problem – they're the answer.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
François Truffaut, French film director, born on February 6, 1932
Film lovers are sick people.
François Truffaut
Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
François Truffaut
Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Ras Tafari.
Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae singer/songwriter, born on February 6, 1945, speaking in 1978
Until the philosophy which hold one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war, me say war.
Bob Marley; 'War', quoting from Haile Selassie I (aka 'Ras Tafari')
I like the Pope cos he smokes dope
He sniffed some charlie with old Bob Marley
And his Dad went mad from snorting coke.
Children's playground song, Wales, 2003 (contributed by Douglas Houston of the excellent
Gallery Bouglaf)
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day of the year in the Gregorian
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Aphrodisia, festival of Aphrodite,
ancient Greece
Aphrodite
('risen from sea-foam'),
the Greek goddess of
love, sex and beauty,
bears some likeness to other deities in the ancient world. These include
Astarte, Branwen, Aida Wedo, Xochiquetzal, Venus, Freya and Oshun. Her Roman analogue is Venus. Her Mesopotamian
counterpart was Ishtar and her Syro-Palestinian counterpart was Astarte;
her Etruscan equivalent was Turan. Her
festival is the Aphrodisia which was celebrated in various centres of
Greece, especially in Athens and Corinth.
Aphrodite was associated with, and often depicted
with dolphins,
doves, swans, pomegranates
and lime trees. She was also called Kypris
or Cytherea after her alleged birth-places in Cyprus and
Cythera, respectively. Originally she was considered a daughter of Zeus and Dione, one of
the ocean nymphs.
By classical times, however, an alternate story of her birth had gained
precedence, that she was born of the sea foam near
Paphos, Cyprus after Cronus cut
off Uranus' genitals and the god's blood dropped on
the sea. The Iliad
refers to both versions.
Deities
of many cultures in the Book of Days
Feast day of St Dorothy
of Caesarea
(The Blue Jacinth, Hyacinthus Orientalis caeruleus, is today's plant, dedicated to St Dorothea.)
St Dorothea (Dorothy) was a maiden of Caesaria in Cappadocia who suffered under the persecution of the Emperor Diocletian. Two apostate women were sent to pervert her, it is said, but she responded by converting them back to their Christian faith. She was beheaded in 303. Dorothy is the patron of brewers, brides, florists, gardeners, midwives and newlyweds.
St Dorothea's flora-gram
In 303 CE, when St Dorothea was about to be executed, Theophilus, the judge's secretary, said to her, "Send me some fruit and roses from Paradise". The scoffer was later converted after her execution when an angel appeared carrying a basket of three roses and an apple, saying "From Dorothea in Paradise".
Dorothea's snow
Traditionally, today is said to bring snow. (This is far more likely in the Northern than the Southern Hemisphere.)
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