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Don't
let the awkward squad fire over my grave. Robert Burns's last words; he died on this day in 1796 In history we are told Mungo Park
discovered the Niger, whereas the Niger was there before Mungo Park. All good books are alike in that
they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are
finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and
afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy,
the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather
was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are
a writer. All thinking
men are atheists. Rapidly, we approach the final
phase of the extensions of man - the technological simulation of
consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be
collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society,
much as we have already extended our senses and our nerves by the
various media. Any
breakdown is a breakthrough. The
United States has to move very fast to even stand still. |
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That's
one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil
Armstrong, stepping onto the lunar surface, July 21 (UT),
1969
I'm
from the democratic wing of the Democratic Party.
Paul Wellstone, US
Senator, born on July 21, 1944
Politics is not about power. Politics is not
about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing
the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is
about doing well for the people.
Paul
Wellstone
If you can remember the sixties, you
weren't there.
Robin Williams,
Scottish-born American comic actor, born on July 21, 1952
July 21
is
the 202nd
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (203rd
in leap years), with 163
days remaining.
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Commemorative day of Damo of Croton
Born on Museum Street in Croton, Italy, Damo of Croton was the daughter of Greek philosopher and mathematician, Pythagoras of Samos (who moved to Croton, a Greek town in Calabria, southern Italy, on the Gulf of Taranto, about 530 BCE), and his wife Theano.
Pythagoras bequeathed her all the secrets of his philosophy, giving her the unlimited care of his compositions. When the Pythagorean School at Croton closed, Damo sought refuge in Athens, where, with the help of Thymaridas and Philolaus, she published her father's treatises on geometry. Damo wrote treatises on the construction of a regular tetrahedron and the construction of a cube, and a book on advanced geometry, An Account of Pythagoras.
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Feast day of St Procopius the Fool for Christ, Wonderworker of Ustiug He was a monk
at the Saint Varlaam-of-Khutyn monastery outside Novgorod,
Russia and died at Vologda in 1303. He was able to predict natural
occurrences. Procopius (pictured at right) affected madness to avoid the praise of men, and had
insight into their hearts and fates. Iurodstvo (or holy foolishness for Jesus
Christ's sake)
is a form of Eastern
Orthodox asceticism,
marked by the subversive behaviour of people who feign madness in
order to provide the public with spiritual guidance while thus
avoiding praise for their holiness. Feast day of St Simeon the Holy Fool "Simeon had decided to play the fool in order to
mock the idiocy of the world and also to conceal his own identity as
a saint. His behaviour was eccentric and, of course, scandalou s... "During the church services, he threw nuts at the
clergy and blew out the candles. In the circus, he wrapped his arms
around the dancing-girls and went skipping and dancing across the
arena. In the streets, he tripped people up, developed a theatrical
limp, and dragged himself around on his buttocks. In the bath-house,
he ran naked into the crowded women's section. On solemn fasting
days he feasted riotously, consuming vast amounts of beans – with
predictable and hilarious results. In his lifetime, Simeon was
regarded as a madman, as an unholy scandal. Holy Fools by Joanne Harris (novel) Holy fools in Moscow by Yuri Kuper
Dog Days,
ancient Rome (Jul 3 - Aug 11) Lucaria, Roman Empire (Jul 19 -
21) Egyptian day (dies egypticus, dies ægypticus or dies mala), unlucky day in Medieval Europe. ("But, notwithstanding I will trust the Lord" was the associated saying.) Feast day of St Arbogast (Arbogastus), Bishop of Strasburg, confessor Feast day of St Barhadbescialbas, deacon and martyr Feast day of St Benignus Feast day of St Claudius of Troyes Feast day of St Francis de Montmorency Laval Feast day of St John Feast day of St John of Edessa Feast day of St Jucundinus of Troyes Feast day of St Julia of Troyes Feast day of St Justus of Troyes Feast day of St Lawrence of Brindisi Feast day of St Oddino Barrotti Feast day of
St Praxides,
virgin Feast day of
St Victor
of Marseilles,
martyr Feast day of St Wastrada Feast day of St Zoticus, bishop and martyr National holiday, Belgium (1831; inauguration of Leopold I, first king of the Belgians) Meeting of the Twins, celebration at Barvaux-sur-Ourthe, Belgium Gion Matsuri, Kyoto, Japan (all of July) Uchiwa Matsuri, Yasaka Shrine, Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan (Jul 20 - 22) Kurosaki Gion Matsuri Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan (Jul 20 - 22) Osorezan Taisai, Bodai-ji Temple, Mutsu-shi, Aomori, Japan (Jul 20 - 24) Yamaguchi Gion Matsuri, Japan (Jul 20 - 27) Nagasaki Peiron Senshukan, Matsugae International
Pier, Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan (Jul 20 -
21) Stilt Dance, Anguiano, Spain "The rural town of Anguiano celebrates its patron saint day (Mary Magdalene) with a fiesta that for some takes place half a metre off the ground - the Danza de los Zancos (Stilt Dance). "Half a dozen or so of the devotees that escort the
saint around the town do so whirling and wheeling to the sound of
bagpipes and drums, perched on stilts." Source Martyrs' Day, Bolivia Liberation Day, Guam (1944)National holiday, Belgium (1831 - inauguration of Leopold I [1790 - 1865], first king of the Belgians) Racial Harmony Day, Singapore
On which day of the week were you born? Find out here 1810 Henri Victor Regnault, chemist and physicist 1816 Baron Paul
Reuter (Paul
Julius von Reuter; d. February
25, 1899),
Jewish
German-born
British
journalist and media owner, the founder of Reuters
news agency 1858 Lovis Corinth (d. 1925), painter and graphic artist 1870 Emil Orlik (d. 1932), painter and graphic artist 1893 Hans Fallada (d. 1947), writer 1899 Hart Crane (d. 1932), US poet 1899 Ernest Hemingway (d. 1961), American
writer 1903 Roy
Neuberger, financier and art collector 1911 (Herbert) Marshall McLuhan
(d. December
31, 1980), Canadian
educator,
philosopher,
and scholar,
professor of English
literature, literary
critic, and communications
theorist, who was one of the founders of the study of media
ecology (The Medium is the Massage) 1920 Isaac Stern (d. 2001), violinist 1924 Don
Knotts, American comic
actor, best known as Deputy Barney Fife in the 1960s TV series The Andy Griffiths Show 1926 Norman
Jewison, film director 1926 Karel
Reisz (d. 2002),
Czech-born film director (Morgan:
A Suitable Case for Treatment) 1935 Norbert Blüm, German
politician 1938 Janet
Reno, former Attorney General of the United States 1943 Edward Herrmann, actor
1944 Tony
Scott, film director 1948
Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), English
folk-rock singer 1948 Garry Trudeau, cartoonist (Doonesbury).
In 2004,
Trudeau made a widely-circulated offer of a $10,000 reward for proof
that George
W Bush fulfilled his military
duties in the 1970s. See George
W Bush military service controversy for more complete coverage. 1952 Robin Williams,
Scottish-born American comic actor (Mrs Doubtfire;
Dead
Poets Society; Good
Morning Vietnam; The World According to Garp) Robin Williams trivia During the making of Mork and Mindy, Williams departed from the scripts and ad libbed so many times and so well, that the producers stop trying to make him stick to the script and deliberately left gaps in the later scripts leaving only "Mork can go off here" in those places so Robin could improvise. Williams was considered
for the role of the Riddler in Batman and Robin (1995). 1957 Jon Lovitz, comedian 1978 Josh Hartnett, actor
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1298 Battle of Falkirk (1298): England's Edward Longshank defeated William
Wallace's Scottish rebels. 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury, at what is now Battlefield in Shropshire, England: King Henry IV of England (1367 - 1413) defeated rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England. Sir Henry Percy ('Harry Hotspur'; b. 1364 or 1366) was killed while trying to overthrow Henry. Henry Percy was initially buried at Whitchurch, Shropshire, but rumours soon spread that he was not really dead. In response the King had him disinterred. His body was set up in Shrewsbury impaled on a spear between two millstones, and was later quartered and put on show in the four corners of the country. In November his remains were returned to his widow. 1425 Death of Manuel II Palaeologus, |
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