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Egyptian Paganism for Beginners
The Great Goddesses of Egypt
Bast and Sekhmet
The Goddess Sekhmet
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The Da Vinci
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Ancient Ways
Garden Witchery
The Twilight
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Golden Bough
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The Pagan Book of Days
Eight Sabbats for Witches
Celebrate the Earth
A Year of Holidays in the Pagan
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Wheel of the Year
Be A Goddess
The Five Biggest Lies Bush
Told Us About Iraq
The Oxford Dictionary of Saints
Lucifer Ascending: The
Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture
Cassell's Dictionary of Superstitions
White Noise
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The Book of Spells
Spellcraft
The Book of Saints
The Encyclopedia of Saints
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 Bounty Day,
Pitcairn
Island
Commemorating the burning of HMAV
Bounty in
1790.
Model replicas, made by the
islanders, are burned.
From
Wikipedia:
Bounty Day on Pitcairn starts off with the a re-enactment of the
landing of the Pitcairners down at the Kingston Pier. The
Pitcairners are greeted by the administrator and his wife. From the
pier they then march to the centotaph where they lay wreaths in
remembrance. From the centotaph they march to the cemetery where
they sing hymns. After the cemetery they head on over to Government
House where a family being either Evans, McCoy, Buffett,
Adams, Nobbs,
Christian or
Young is awarded family of the year. The
children roll down the hill in front of Government House. After this
they go to the Compound where the children play games and everyone
feasts on wonderful food. After this they go home and get ready for
the Bounty Ball where there is a competition.
Norfolk Island holds a Bounty Day on
June 8.
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Feast day of St Agathangelus
Feast day of St Amasius of
Teano
Feast day of St Aquila
Feast day of St Asclas of
Antinoe
Feast day of St Bernard of
Vienne
Feast day of St Bernard of Lippe
Feast day of St Clement of Ancyra, martyr
Feast day of St Colman of
Lismore
Feast day of St Emerentiana,
virgin martyr
Feast day of the Espousal of
the Virgin Mary (to Joseph), Latin Roman Catholic Church (cel. Nov 26 in
Spanish countries)
Feast day of St Eusebius of Mount Coryphe,
abbot in Assyria
Feast day of St Ildephonsus,
archbishop of Toledo
Feast day of St John the
Almoner, patriarch of Alexandria
Feast day of St Lufthild
Feast day of St Maimbod
Feast day of St Margaret of
Ravenna
Feast day of Blessed Marianne
of Moloka'i (Marianne of Molokai)
From
Wikipedia: Mother Marianne Cope (January 23,
1838
-
August 9,
1918),
was a
Franciscan
nun
of the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint
Francis,
a
religious order of the
Roman Catholic Church. Born in
Heppenheim,
Germany, and having entered religious life
in
Syracuse,
New
York, she worked, lived and died for the
lepers on the
island of
Moloka'i in
Hawai'i,
as had Blessed
Damien of
Moloka'i before her. She was not herself inflicted by the
disease, a fact arguably declared to be
miraculous considering her close contact with the patients over the
course of several years, earning her the title, Blessed Marianne of
Moloka'i.
Feast day of St Martyrius of Valeria
Feast day of St Nikolaus
Gross
Feast day of St Ormond of
Mairé
Feast day of St Parmenas
Feast day of St Severian
Feast day of St Urban of
Langres
(Peziza,
Peziza acetabulum, is
today's plant)
– no saint
mentioned in Hone (William
Hone, The
Every-Day Book, or a Guide to the Year, William Tegg and
Co., London, 1878; 1825-'26
edition online), from which book I get the saints'
plants.
Click for Eastern Orthodox liturgical days Shop saints
1737 John Hancock (d. 1793), statesman and US
revolutionary
1745
William Jessop (d.
1814),
English canal engineer
1783 Stendhal
(d.
March
23, 1842),
writer
1813
Charles
Harpur (d. June 10, 1868),
Australian poet,
considered by many to be Australia's first notable writer of
English-language verse; he was the first Australian poet to
represent Australian scenery and Nature with any great skill.
"The largeness of his vision and the
simplicity of his emotion suggest life in an undeveloped and
sparsely populated country; and, while he practised many forms of
lyrical poetry, he found his most suitable medium in blank verse
narrative and description. The Creek of the Four Graves is
the poem on which his fame is most firmly established, and it is
essentially Australian. His play, The Bushrangers,
published in 1853, is not a good play; but the volume in which it
appeared and the volume called The Power of the Dream,
published in 1865, contain some thoughtful and learned verse."
Source
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1813
Camilla Collett (d.
1895),
Norwegian
writer,
often referred to as the first Norwegian
feminist
1827
Takamori Saigo (d.
1877),
Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion
1832 Edouard Manet (d. 1883), French impressionist artist
1898 Sergei Eisenstein (d. 1948), Russian film
director, whose Potemkin and Alexander
Nevsky are classics of film making. Prokofiev did the film
score for the latter.
1899 Humphrey
Bogart is often said to have been born today, but Warner Bros changed the date to December
25. See December
25, as this theory is given less credence today than it was.
1904
Randolph Scott, American actor
1907
Dan Duryea,
American actor
1910 Django Reinhardt
(d. 1953), guitarist
1919
Ernie
Kovacs (d. January 13,
1962), American comedian, the 'madcap Magyar' (The
Ernie Kovacs Show)
"Kovacs was an innovative and absurdist TV
comedian of the 1950s. In a series of local and national shows –
none lasting more than a year – Kovacs introduced comic
characters like the Nairobi Trio (three mechanical musicians in
ape masks and derby hats) and the lisping poet Percy Dovetonsils.
Inventive and playful, Kovacs is sometimes credited with inspiring
later offbeat comedians like Steve Martin and David Letterman.
Kovacs also had a short film career, playing a corrupt policeman
in the spy spoof Our Man in Havana and a gold rush con man
opposite John Wayne
in North to Alaska (both in 1960)."
Source
The
Unofficial Official Ernie Kovacs Website
More
1928
Jeanne
Moreau, French actress (Jules
et Jim; Viva Maria)
1929
John Charles Polanyi,
Canadian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
1929
Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko)
of
Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate
1930
Derek Walcott, West Indian
writer,
Nobel Prize laureate
1930 Bill Hayden, Governor-General of Australia
1933
Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican
actress and dancer
1934
Pierre Bourgault (d.
2003), Quebec politician
and essayist
1938
Georg Baselitz, German
painter and sculptor
1939
Sonny Chiba, Japanese
actor and martial artist
1940
Johnny Russell (d.
2001), American country
singer and songwriter
1943
Gil Gerard, American actor
1943
Millie Jackson, American
singer
1943
Gary Burton, American jazz
vibraphonist
1944
Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
1945
Mike Harris, Canadian
politician,
Premier of Ontario
1947
Thomas R Carper,
US Senator from Delaware.
1947
Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th
President of Indonesia
1948
Anita Pointer, American
singer
1950
Richard Dean Anderson,
American actor
1950
Danny Federici, American
musician (Bruce
Springsteen and the E-Street Band)
1952
Robin Zander, American
singer (Cheap
Trick)
1953
Antonio Villaragoisa,
American 52nd
Mayor of Los Angeles
1954
Franco De Vita, Venezuelan
singer and songwriter
1957 Princess
Caroline of Monaco,
daughter of Grace Kelly and Prince
Rainier III
of Monaco
1959
Clive Bull,
English radio talk
show host
1963
Gail O'Grady, American
actress
1964
Mariska Hargitay, American
actress
1972
Mark Curry,
African American
rapper
1973
Lanei Chapman, American
actress
1974
Tiffani Thiessen, American
actress
1974
Richard T Slone, British
artist
1979
Sampsa Astala, Finnish
musician (Lordi)
1983
David Firth, British
animator/musician
1983
George Foreman III,
American
reality series star; son
of
George Foreman
1985
Doutzen Kroes, Dutch
supermodel
1986
Felicia Brandström,
Swedish singer
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