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January 16: Fair goddess, thee the next morning set in thy snow-white fane, where high Moneta lifts her steps sublime: Now, Concord, shalt thou well o'erlook the Latin throng now hallowed hands have stablished thee. Furius … had vowed the ancient temple, and he kept his vow. This wedding of Kadmos and Harmonia was the first, we are told, for which the gods provided the marriage-feast, and Demeter, becoming enamoured of Iasion, presented him with the fruit of the corn, Hermes gave a lyre, Athene the renowned necklace and a robe and a flute, and Elektra the sacred rites of the Great Mother of the Gods [Rhea], as she is called, together with cymbals and kettledrums and the instruments of the ritual; and Apollon played upon the lyre and the Mousai upon their flutes, and the rest of the gods spoke them fair and gave the pair their aid in the celebration of the weding. After this Kadmos, they say, in accordance with the oracle he had received, founded Thebes in Boiotia. |
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Mon Dieu, Mon Dieu!
Last words of Edward Gibbon, English historian, who died on January 16, 1794
On the 16th of January, 1832, we anchored at Porto Praya, in St Jago, the chief island of the Cape de Verd archipelago.
The neighbourhood of Porto Praya, viewed from the sea, wears a desolate aspect. The volcanic fires of a past age, and the scorching heat of a tropical sun, have in most places rendered the soil unfit for vegetation. The country rises in successive steps of table-land, interspersed with some truncate conical hills, and the horizon is bounded by an irregular chain of more lofty mountains.
Charles Darwin; The Voyage of
the Beagle,
Ch. 1
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Robert W Service, born on January 16, 1874; ' The Cremation of Sam McGee'
And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar;
And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and he said: "Please close that door.
It's fine in here, but I greatly fear you'll let in the cold and storm
–
Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've been warm."
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Robert W Service; ' The Cremation of Sam McGee'
This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall thrive;
That surely the Weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.
Robert W Service; ' The Law of the Yukon'
You'll be swell, you'll be
great! Gonna have the whole world on a plate!
Startin' here, startin' now! Honey, everything's comin' up roses ...
Ethel
Merman, American entertainer, born on January 16, 1909,
in Airplane (1980)
I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.
Ethel Merman
I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.
Ethel Merman
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.
Albert Einstein
(1879 - 1955); USA: the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) was passed on January
16, 1919
I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.
Bertrand
Russell (1872 - 1970)
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers
(1918 - 2002)
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Feast day of Concordia, ancient Rome
In Roman mythology, Concordia was the goddess of
agreement and understanding. Her oldest temple was on the Forum
Romanum and was built in 367 BCE by
Marcus
Furius Camillus. The Roman
Senate often met there.
In art, Concordia was depicted sitting, wearing a long cloak and holding onto a sacrificial bowl and a cornucopia. Sometimes, she is shown standing between two members of the Royal House shaking hands.
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Concordia's counterpart in Greek mythology was Harmonia, and the Harmonians and some Discordians equate her with Aneris. Her opposite is Discordia (or the Greek Eris).
According to one account the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, another, the daughter of Aphrodite and Hephaestus, but almost always the wife of Cadmus. With Cadmus, she was the mother of Ino, Polydorus, Autonoe, Agave and Semele.
When the government of Thebes was bestowed upon Cadmus by Athena, Zeus gave him Harmonia to wife. All the gods honoured the wedding with their presence. Cadmus (or one of the gods) presented the bride with a robe and necklace, the work of Hephaestus. This necklace brought misfortune to all who possessed it.
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