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The Lares (Roman household gods)
In
Roman
mythology, the Lares were said to be the children of
Mercury and the
naiad
Lara.
Lares
Familiares: Each home had a small shrine, the lararium,
dedicated to these
household gods, typically depicted as a pair of dancing
youths.
Compitalia
"The Roman festival of
Compitalia honors the Lares and Manes, household gods. The
Compitalia and the Feralia are part of the Mania. Mania is the
goddess referred to as the Mother or Grandmother of Ghosts. The
Romans celebrate the Compitalia on the 12th of January
and also the 6th of March. Loaves of bread are fashioned in the
shape of men and called Maniae. Woolen effigies of men and women are
dedicated to the goddess Mania and hung at the doors of all the
houses in Rome in the hope that, in her rounds through the city, she
will accept the effigies for the inmates of the house and so spare
the living from death for another year." Source
Frigg (the chief
goddess of Old England)
"Frigg or Freya is honored today by her
followers, the Freefolk from Frigefolc or 'Frigg's People.'" Source
(this source says January
13)
"As Woden/Odin gave his name to
Wednesday, and Thunor/Thor to Thursday, so Frigg is remembered in
Friday. Frige-daeg, Friday, is further equated with dies veneris,
the day of Venus, the love-goddess so revered by the Romans.
"Frigg was the direct daughter of
Fjorgyn, the Goddess of Earth. She kept her own hall, called
Fensalir. She was wife to Odin, All-Father, and is herself an
All-Mother.
"Women prayed to her for children
and prayed again for safe labour and delivery.
"Frigg gave birth to the perfectly
good and beautiful Baldr, and tried to protect her son from death
itself by requesting a pledge from every thing in the world not to
harm him. She neglected however to ask the mistletoe, and it was
with a small dart of this symbol of Winter resurrection that Baldr
was felled. She is thus the Sorrowing Mother as well as the lusty
bed companion. But when Frigg wept, her tears were of pure gold." Source
Deities
of many cultures in the Book of Days
January Jewels: Explore the Wonders of Orion, the Mighty
Hunter
"Astronomer
Robert H. Baker (1880-1962) once wrote of the Great Hunter or
Celestial Warrior, Orion, that he shines 'like a gigantic piece
of celestial jewelry through the frosty winter air.' Indeed,
Orion is by far the most brilliant of the constellations and is
visible from every inhabited part of the Earth.
"As darkness descends, he
clearly dominates the southeast sky. Three bright stars in line
in the middle of a bright rectangle decorate Orion's belt, which
point northward to the clusters of the Hyades and Pleiades of
Taurus, and southward to the Dog Star Sirius." Source
(NB:
Subaru only uses
six of the 'seven sisters' of the Pleiades in its logo – PW)
Pleaides star cluster
Pleiades in folklore and literature
Pleiades in Greek mythology
Last day of Runic month of Eoh (Yew) –
death, shamanism
Feast day of St Antony Mary
Pucci
Feast
day of St Arcadius of
Mauretania, martyr
(Hygrometic moss,
Funaria
hygrometica, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Feast day of St Benedict
Biscop, or Bennet
St Benedict
Biscop was a Northumbrian
(England)
monk of the Anglo-Saxon nobility. After
visiting Rome several times, collecting relics, pictures and books,
he founded the English monasteries of Wearmouth in 672 (where he amassed
many relics
and built a large and influential scriptorium) and Jarrow (684). Traditionally, he introduced
the construction of stone churches and glass church windows to
England. His religious houses, which had 600 monks and were
renowned for their art and decoration, were destroyed by Hinguar and
Hubba (Hubba the Just, that is, just Hubba, not Hubba Hubba), the
Danish pirates, in 870 CE.
Benedict's
biography was written by the historian, the Venerable
Bede, who had been entrusted to his care at age seven, and whose
learning was made possible by the library Benedict collected at
Jarrow. Bede says that the civilization and learning of the 8th
Century rested in the monastery founded by Benedict.
In
art St Benedict is depicted as a Benedictine abbot in episcopal
vestments standing by the Tyne with two monasteries near him.
Sometimes he is shown with the Venerable Bede. He is patron of English
Benedictines, musicians and painters.
Feast day of St Caesaria of
Arles
Feast day of St John of
Ravenna
Feast day of St Marguerite
Bourgeous
Feast day of St Martin of
León
Feast day of the Martyrs of
Ephesus
Forty-two monks put to death in 762 by the Byzantine Emperor
Constantine V for opposing the Iconoclasts. In records they are
associated with Ss Stephen and Basil.
Feast day of St Martyrs of
Iona
Feast day of St Modestus
Feast day of St Rogatus
Feast day of St Satyrus
Feast day of St Tatiana of
Rome
Feast day of St Tigrius,
or Tygrius, priest
Feast day of St Vincent da
Cunha
Feast day of St Zoticus
Click for Eastern Orthodox liturgical days Shop saints
Shusho-E Matsuri, Japan (Jan 1 - 14)
Fire
Festival, Scalloway, Shetland Islands, Jan 12 - 13
"The
Scalloway Fire Festival is a torch-lit procession through the
town, culminating in the burning of a Viking galley at sea. It is
a festival which harks back to the ancient Viking practice of
making sacrifice to the sun and no doubt the burning of the boat
in the depths of winter is designed to ape the sun's light-giving
powers.
"The Vikings came to the northern reaches of
Scotland in the 9th century when a powerful Viking earldom was
established in 872AD over Orkney with a local parliament at
Lawting Holm. Only in the mid-15th century did Scandinavian power
over these isles wane. Even today the influence of those Norsemen
is still prevalent – the fire festival is one example. Secondly,
wherever the Vikings went they took their law and their language
and most of Shetland's place names are Norse. Thirdly the
archeological site of Jarlshof, one of the most important in
Britain, reveals much about the Viking way of life." Source
Vikings!
Zanzibar
Revolution Day, Tanzania
Berber
New Year, Yennayer Hen Galan (New
Year's Day), Gwaun Valley, near Fishguard, Dyfed in Wales
For the 200 inhabitants of this Welsh valley, the new year does not
begin until today because for more than 200 years, locals in the
Welsh-speaking valley have held their own New Year celebrations
('Hen Galan) in line with the old calendar. They did not give up the
11 days lost when the rest of Great Britain switched from the Julian
calendar to the
Gregorian calendar in 1752.
1587 / '88 John Winthrop
(d. March 26,
1649), English lawyer
elected governor of Massachusetts
Bay Colony in 1629, who on April 8, 1630 led a
large party from England for the New
World
1628
Charles Perrault,
French writer of fairy tales (Cinderella; Sleeping
Beauty; Little Red Riding Hood) (d. 1703)
"Sleeping
Beauty's earliest influence apparently comes from 'Perceforest,'
an Arthurian romance which was first printed in 1528. The next
known version of the tale came from Giambattista Basile's 'Sun,
Moon, and Talia' also known more formally as Pentamerone,
Day 5, Tale 5 (1636). This is the tale which is thought to have
influenced Perrault's Sleeping Beauty .... Perrault included his
version, the first to use Sleeping Beauty as a title, as the first
tale in his Histories ou contes du temps passe (1697)." Source
Similar
tales to Sleeping Beauty from other cultures
1729
Edmund Burke
(d. July
9, 1797),
Irish philosopher
and statesman, remembered principally for his
criticism of the French Revolution and his discussion
of "the sublime". He was a founder of the Annual Register and is regarded as
the "father" of modern conservatism.
 1836 Arabella Goddard
(d. April
6, 1922),
French pianist.
On June 20, 1874 her
ship, the RMS Flintshire, was wrecked off Townsville, Queensland,
Australia, as it returned from Java. Mme Goddard shared a night of torrential
rain in an open boat with The Great Blondin, who was also on the Australian leg of a world tour. On
August 29 [qv],
Blondin made several spectacular tightrope crossings of Middle Harbour, Sydney;
on September
24 the same year, Mme Goddard laid the foundation stone of the Academy of Music,
Ballarat, Victoria.
"Both pianiste and tight-rope walker were stranded in Townsville for a week until the heavy baggage could be removed from the ship. Madame Goddard was particularly anxious about her magnificent iron-framed Broadwood piano, built for a recent Vienna Exhibition. The weight of the piano was holding the wreck stable, and it was feared that if it was removed, the vessel would sink. During the delay, the Malay sailors left on board ransacked the passengers' luggage, and all Goddard's mementoes and gifts presented to her so far on the tour were stolen.
Storm in Sydney
"By July 1874, Madame Goddard was back in Sydney for a series of concerts at the School of Arts. The performances were so well received that the series was extended and transferred to the Royal Victoria Theatre, managed by John Bennett. In fact the public were so enthusiastic, and so clamorous for encores, that tensions started emerging as to the lady's willingness to satisfy the demands of the audiences. Some press commentators were evidently embarrassed by the crass behaviour of the Sydney audiences; others were critical of the lady for her cool demeanour.
"However, these slight tensions were nothing compared to the trouble that erupted at the end of the concert series. The problem arose when Madame Goddard refused to share the bill for a projected tour to Bathurst and Orange with one Mrs Hilton. Mrs Hilton, a music hall singer also known as Miss Liddle, had recently been performing at Sydney's Café Chantant in York Street, later the Queen's Theatre. As one of Goddard's agents put it, Mrs Hilton was "selected from halls dedicated to acrobatism, human spiders, men fish and buffoonery."
"After Goddard received threats that her final Sydney concert would be disrupted with
'cabbages, carrots, turnips and eggs,' and a riot caused, she decided that discretion was the better part of valour and took the next steamer for Melbourne. To quote the
Evening Post of August 22, Madame Goddard "skedaddled from Sydney under suspicious circumstances." It was alleged that her passage on the SS
Dandenong was booked in the name of Miss Christian, an Australian member of her touring party."
Source: Her Majesty's
Theatre, Ballarat
1856 John Singer Sargent
(d. 1925), American
portrait artist
1863 Swami Vivekananda (d. 1902), guru
1876
Jack
London (d. 1916), American
writer (White
Fang;
Call of the
Wild;
The
Cruise of the Snark).
London
covered the 1908 Johnson
v. Burns world heavyweight championship fight in Sydney, Australia for the New
York Herald. It was the first such championship to be fought
outside the USA. London had had to abandon the Snark voyage
to recuperate in a Sydney hospital from the South Pacific tropical ailments
he had picked up on his voyages, and he was operated on for a double
fistula. See 'A
Piece of Steak', a short story with Sydney associations.
"We know that Jack and Charmian had to abandon their cherished cruise in 1909, selling their much-loved
Snark in Sydney, Australia. A year or so later Justus Scharff, Ltd.; 18 York Street, Sydney, sold the Snark to an English syndicate. She stayed in Sydney Harbor until the Syndicate sold her to Captain Briault who used her for recruiting and trading in the New Hebrides."
Whatever Happened to Jack London's Boat, the
Snark?
Bibliography of
Literary Scholarship on Jack London London
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Jack
Johnson and the Great White Hope World of Jack London
website
1893 Hermann Göring (d. 1946), Nazi
official
1905 Tex
Ritter (d. 1974),
American country and western entertainer
1934 Frankie Davidson, Australian pop singer
1941 Long John Baldry
(d. July 21,
2005),
English blues/rock musician and singer, formerly with the band
Bluesology.
Nicknamed 'Long John' because of his 6'7" height, he is credited with
having been one of the main forces in British Blues, Rock and Pop
music in the 1960s.
Performers such as Rod Stewart,
Ginger
Baker (drummer with Cream), Jeff Beck
(Yardbirds), Brian
Jones (Rolling Stones founder), Jack Bruce, Alex
Korner, Nicky Hopkins, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones all worked
with Baldry – some of them got their first big break playing with
him. Eric Clapton has said that he was inspired to pick up a guitar
after seeing Baldry perform in the early sixties. Reginald
Dwight took his
stage name Elton
John (middle
name 'Hercules') from the first names of
Bluesology's vocalist Elton Dean and Long John Baldry.
"Long John is particularly known
for his associations with former band members Rod Stewart and Elton
John. Looking closely at
LJB's musical tree
you will discover that virtually every musician who came up in
England during the 60's have some connection to LJB. Names like
Ginger Baker, Jeff Beck, Brian Jones, Beatles, Eric Clapton, and The
Rolling Stones are cemented in LJB's incredible musical history.
In
fact Eric Clapton has stated
many times that he was inspired to pick up a guitar after seeing
LJB perform in the early sixties."
Source
1962 Blues Incorporated (First Blues Band in England)
Long John Baldry..........................................................…....vocals
Mick Jagger
(pre - Rolling Stones)....................................…....vocals
Alexis Korner (influential founder of British
Blues)............…......guitar
Dick Heckstall-Smith.................................................................sax
Cyril Davis (with Korner a founder of British
Blues)....................harp
Keith
Scott................................................................................piano
Jack Bruce (later to join The
Cream)..........................................bass
Charlie Watts (pre - Rolling
Stones).......................................…drums
Notes:
Brian
Jones, Art Wood, Keith Richards and Paul Jones also played with Blues
Incorporated. Released first British Blues record in 1962
R&B
From The Marquee
1942
Bernardine
Dohrn, former leader of the 1960s radical American leftist
organization,
Weatherman,
and at that time one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives
"Since the breakup of the Weather
Underground, she has become a Clinical Associate Professor of
Law at Northwestern University in Chicago, a director and
founder of the Children and Family Justice Center, and a founder
of the Blum Legal Clinic."
Source
The
Weather Undeground
CounterCulture Wiki
Google Video 90-minute documentary
1943 Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for The
Doors
1951 Rush Limbaugh, right-wing American radio
personality
1954
Howard Stern, US
disk jockey, listed in 1999
Forbes
magazine's list of 100 Most
Powerful Celebrities. His 5-year, $100 million deal equates to about
$385,000 a week and roughly $77,000 a day. He is the highest-paid
radio personality in America.
Sirius gives Howard
Stern $83 million bonus
1955
Kirstie Alley,
American actress (Look
Who's Talking, 1989)
In
2001: A Space Odyssey, the
fictional computer HAL became operational on January 12. In the
movie by Stanley Kubrick he was "born"
in 1992,
while in the original book by English author Arthur C Clarke the same event
occurred in 1997.
'HAL':
Almaniac Chas points out that if each letter is shifted one letter
to the right, it's 'IBM'.
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1641 James City, Virginia, USA, passed law that if
any Indian committed a crime, the first Indian apprehended should pay the penalty, with life if necessary.
1773 The
first American museum
open to the public was opened in
Charleston, South Carolina.
1777 Mission Santa Clara de Asís was
founded in what is now Santa Clara, California.
1799 Australian explorers,
George Bass and Matthew Flinders, returned to
Sydney after circumnavigating Van Diemen's Land (now
Tasmania).
Tasmanian
Tiger (thylacine)
Thylacine
films before extinction
1807 In Leyden,
Holland, a vessel carrying gunpowder on a canal exploded, nearly destroying the
city. Two hundred houses were destroyed, as well as public buildings. The noise
was heard 50 miles away, and forty schoolchildren were killed.
1824 Governor
George Arthur arrived at Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land
(Tasmania, Australia).
1836 Charles Darwin arrived in Sydney,
Australia on
HMS
Beagle.
1838 USA: In order to avoid
anti-Mormon
persecution, Joseph Smith and his followers fled Ohio for Missouri.
1879
The
British-Zulu War began in South Africa.1888 The end of
the world was predicted for this day, Birmingham, England.
1891 Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi),
Indian leader and proponent of civil disobedience, passed the Law examination.
1896 After a two-week heatwave in Bourke, NSW,
Australia, with temperatures
averaging 47º Celsius, 50 people were dead.
1899
Oscar
Wilde wrote to his friend, Robert Ross, that "Henry James is
developing, but he will never arrive at passion, I fear."
1904 Motor car manufacturer, Henry
Ford, set a land speed record of
91.37 mph (147.05 kph) in his
'999' car.
1905 "The appearance of a 'wild man' in East
Anglia was reported. He was carrying a book with drawing and strange unknown
writing, and spoke in an unknown language. No one in Scotland Yard could
identify the writing. (East Anglia Daily Times, 12 Jan 1905). Charles Fort said
he had records of 10 wild men in England during the winter of 1904-5. One
appeared naked in the streets of Cheadle in Cheshire and was placed in a sack by
a policeman before being dragged to the police station." Source: The Fortean Times
1915 The
Rocky Mountain National Park was formed
by an act of Congress.
1915 United States House of
Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1924 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma
Gandhi), Indian leader and proponent of civil disobedience,
had surgery for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Poona.
1939 Adelaide, Australia experienced a temperature of
47.6 degrees Celsius.
1948 The first supermarket in Britain opened.
1948
Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi (nicknamed 'Mahatma', or
'Great
Soul')
(1869 - 1948)
began his final fast. Ghandi had hopes of staving off war between
Indians and Pakistanis, but did not live to see peace in the sub-continent; he
was assassinated later in the month.
Mahatma Gandhi often changed his mind publicly. It is said that an aide once asked him how he could so freely contradict this week what he had said just last week. The great man replied that it was because this week he knew
better.
Quotes by
Gandhi
1954 Her Majesty Betty Windsor opened the New Zealand
parliament.
1957 USA President Dwight
D Eisenhower urged the USSR to agree to a ban on space
warfare.
1964 The Sultan of Zanzibar was exiled, with his nation becoming a
republic.
1965
Wanda Beach
murders: The bodies of teenagers Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock
were found at Wanda Beach near Sydney,
Australia. The murder has never been solved.
1966
Batman the
television series, starring Adam
West, was first broadcast on the American
Broadcasting Company.
1970 The state of
Biafra, which had seceded from Nigeria,
capitulated.
1970 A Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet landed at Heathrow airport after its first
flight from New York.
1971 All in the Family
commenced on American television. The show, about the conservative bully Archie
Bunker and his family, was cloned from writer Johnny Speight's
popular and iconoclastic British TV show, Till Death Us Do Part.
1971 USA: Ralph Nader
formed the Earth Act group.
1971 Reverend Philip
Berrigan,
founder of the Catholic Peace Fellowship anti-Vietnam War organization, was
indicted with five others on charges of conspiring to kidnap Beloved and
Respected Comrade Leader national security advisor and future Nobel Peace Prize
recipient Henry 'Hank' Kissinger and to bomb the heating systems of federal
buildings in Washington, DC.
At the time, Berrigan
was serving six years at a federal prison in Connecticut with his brother Daniel
for their destruction of military draft records in Maryland during 1967/68.
Source: The Daily Bleed
 1976 Agatha Christie, English
master of the detective novel, playwright, and Dame of the British Empire
(1971), died in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Her books have sold more than
100,000,000 copies, been translated into more than 100 languages, and one play,
The
Mousetrap, set a world record for continuous performances at one theatre
(8,862 over a 21-year period).
Almost 50 years earlier,
she had been the protagonist in a real-life mystery:
Whodunnit
On December 3, 1926, while almost at the peak of her fame, Agatha Christie became part of a real-life mystery. She
disappeared from her Berkshire home and for eleven days no one could find her.
Police across the nation searched without success, till she turned up at the
Harrogate Hydro Hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, under an assumed
name. She told detectives she had no recollection of how she came to be in
Yorkshire. This mysterious disappearance became the basis of the fictional
movie, Agatha.
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1977 Black
September terrorist leader, Abu Davoud, was released by France.
1978 Perth,
Australia experienced a temperature of
44.7 degrees
Celsius.
1979 American singer, Tiny Tim, established the
world professional non-stop singing record of 2 hours, 15 minutes and 7 seconds
at Luna Park amusement ground, Sydney.
1981
Dynasty made its
debut on American television.
1982 British prime minister Margaret
Thatcher's son, Mark
Thatcher, was reported missing
in the Sahara Desert, while participating in the
Paris-Dakar motor rally.
After a large-scale search, a
C-130 Hercules search plane from the
Algerian military spotted Thatcher's white
Peugeot
504 some 50 km off
course, with Thatcher unharmed.
1986 In San
Francisco, California, Beat poet Bob
Kaufman died, still silent after many years of vowed silence.
Jazz radio on a midnight kick,
Round about Midnight.
Sitting on the bed,
With a jazz type chick
Round about Midnight,
Piano laughter, in my ears,
Round about Midnight.
Stirring up laughter, dying tears,
Round about Midnight.
Soft blue voices, muted grins,
Excited voices, Father's sins,
Round about Midnight.
Come on baby, take off your clothes,
Round about Midnight.
Wilson's
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1989 Former
Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, was expelled from Zaire and took refuge in Senegal.
1991 Persian
Gulf War: An act of the United States Congress authorized the use of military force to drive Iraq
out of Kuwait.
How they dunnit
'Nariyah'
"Furthermore, the Gulf War
of 1991 and the current planned war, have been media-managed by huge public
relations firms as well as the US military's own huge PR machine. Executives
of the large PR firm, Hill & Knowlton (the public relations firm hired by
Citizens for a Free Kuwait, the Kuwaiti government front group that lobbied
Congress for military intervention), were involved in arranging for a speech
to be made by a 15-year-old girl, 'Nariyah', to the US Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990. To the caucus she told of being an eyewitness to babies in hospital incubators being killed by Iraqi soldiers. Even Amnesty International, normally an excellent organization, swallowed the story, which goes to show how scientific and persuasive PR is today.
'Nariyah' played a significant role in turning public opinion towards the George Bush Sr administration's war plans.
"'Nariyah' turned out to be the daughter of Kuwait's Ambassador to the United States, and Congress had been conned by PR. The Congressional Human Rights Foundation was actually housed in Hill & Knowlton's Washington headquarters.
"Other clients of Hill
& Knowlton have included Turkey and the former dictatorship of Indonesia,
when both were at the height of human rights abuses."
Source:
Myths of the War on Terrorism and Iraq
The Unseen Gulf
War, by Peter Turnley – excellent (but disturbing)
visual essay
Needless Deaths
in the Gulf War: report
Highway
of Death CBC
audio report on Highway of Death
A Report on United States War
Crimes Against Iraq to the Commission of Inquiry for the International War
Crimes Tribunal by Ramsey Clark and others
General
McCaffrey a war criminal? More on
McCaffrey's turkey shoot
WANTED:
General Barry McCaffrey, for war crimes The True
History of the Gulf War
Myths of the 'War
on Terror' and Iraq Iraq "probably didn't
gas Kurds": ex-CIA analyst
1991 American
actor Robert
Young (1907 - '98) failed in his attempt to commit suicide by sitting in his car with the
exhaust connected to the interior.
1992 American singer Paul Simon performed to 15,000 people in South
Africa, the numbers in the audience being greatly reduced by the effect of a
boycott called by left-wing black activists.
1995 Malcolm X's
daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, was arrested for conspiring to kill
Louis
Farrakhan.
1998
Nineteen European nations
agreed to forbid human cloning.
2003
Bizarro
cartoons by Don
Piraro were withdrawn by Yahoo! From http://my.yahoo.com/
– almanackist enters first day of Bizarro turkey.
2005
Deep
Impact (space mission) launched from Cape
Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.
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