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Dog Days,
ancient Rome (Jul 3
- Aug 11)
Esala Perahera
(Festival of Buddha's Tooth), Sri Lanka (Jul 22 - Aug 1) (2004)
Feast day of St Acacius
Feast day of St Anthony della Chiesa
Feast day of St Arduinus
Feast day of St Botwid
Feast day of St Camelian
Feast day of St Innocent I, pope
(Mountain groundsel, Senecio
montanus, is
today's
plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Feast day of St John Soreth
Feast day of Ss Nazarius
and Celsus,
martyrs
Saints
Nazarius and Celsus were two martyrs of whom nothing is known
except the discovery, in a garden outside the walls of Milan,
of their bodies by St Ambrose.
Feast day of St Lucidius
Feast day of St Lyutis
Feast day of St Pedro
Poveda Castroverde
Feast day of St Peregrinus
Feast day of St Samson
of Dol (Sampson of York), bishop and confessor
St Samson
of Dol (c. 490 - c. 565), regarded by many as one
of the greatest Welsh
saints, was a Christian
religious figure who is counted among the seven founder saints of Brittany,
with Ss
Pol
Aurelian,
Tudwal,
Brieuc,
Malo, Patern, and Corentin. He
was born in southern Wales to the Welsh nobility (the son of Amon of
Dyfed and Anna of
Gwent); as part of a prophecy concerning
his birth, his parents placed him under the care of the abbot of
Llantwit, St
Illtyd (putatively a cousin of King
Arthur),
to become a
monk.
In Cornwall, he founded a monastery that was located at either South
Hill or Golant, and, in Brittany, he founded the monastery of Dol.
Ordained
bishop
by St
Dubricius; soon after this, he believed he received a vision
from God telling him to bring the Gospel to Brittany. There is only one certain date in Samson's life: he was ordained bishop on
the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter (February
22) at the beginning of
Lent, which can be calculated to have
fallen in the year
521.
Samson died in Dol-de-Bretagne,
a small town in north Brittany. The primary source for his biography
is the Vita Sancti Samsonis (written sometime between
610
and
820, but clearly based on earlier
materials) which valuable details about
Celtic Christianity in Britain during
Samson's time.
Feast day of St Victor, pope and martyr
Bishop
of Rome (now called pope)
from 189
to 199
and the first African pope, having been born in the province
of Africa.
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Oshkosh
Air Show, USA (end of July)
The Oshkosh Airshow is an
annual gathering of aviation enthusiasts held each summer at Wittman
Regional Airport, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA.
'Oshkosh'
By Pip Wilson (July 8, 1996)
Because men are not in touch with
their feelings.
Because men are not in touch with their feelings.
Because men are not in touch with their feelings.
This year there will be no Oshkosh
festival of aviation.
Men won't come from all over the globe
to meet other men and women from all over the globe
falling into raptures for the mysteries of flight
and the beauty of engineering
because men do not care
for mystery or beauty.
And men are not in touch with their feelings.
They will not bring their flying dreams,
they will not bring their metal poems
out of their worldwide garages
and sail them out of pregnant sheds.
They will hammer no more dreams
out of aluminium and steel.
They will no longer gently flex their hands
to guide their mates
as they deliver their conceptions
from their hearts and their workshops.
Because men are not in touch with their feelings.
This year we shall close the galleries.
Leonardo and Vincent will be consigned
to the rubbish bins
of rampant ideology
because men are not in touch with their feelings.
We shall burn the books.
The tongues of Shakespeare and Coleridge
will become tongues of fire
as we eradicate the phoney soul of our race,
because men are not in touch with their feelings.
There will be no more men's talk
of pain and aspirations
in bars and cars
and fishing boats.
People with terrible meat between their legs
will fall silent about their wives
and lovers
and children
and their fear of death
and the grinding waste
of employment.
Nor will they speak of their love of life's work.
They will no longer say
the things they say
only to men.
The things women never hear.
Because men are not in touch with their feelings.
People whose faces grow hair
will face the correct wall
never again to make music or buy records
nor to cook haute cuisine
nor marvel at the ripening grapes
and press them into divine nectar.
Not wet their pillows for faithless lovers.
Not wet their palates for the newborn wonder.
Not wet their gardens for the bounty of colour.
Not dry their eyes to face the howling beast.
Not dry their eyes to undo the tangled knot.
Not dry their eyes to keep the table full.
Nor sing joyously to their lovers and children
about the bread they have baked
for the uncomprehending palates.
We shall ban the building of hospitals
and the quest for the stars.
We shall eradicate the memory of medicine and charity.
Invention will be punishable by death.
We shall close the book on
engineering and architecture and printing
and communications and transport and philosophy
and comedy and sculpture.
Wilberforce and Gandhi and Hollows
and Beethoven and Lennon and Lincoln
can go to hell in a handbasket.
The man who mans the lifeboat last
can go down with the ship.
Because men are not in touch with their feelings.
Because men are not in touch with their feelings.
Because men are not in touch with their feelings.
Gion
Matsuri,
Kyoto, Japan (all of July)
Commemoration of the deportation
of the Acadians, Canada
Independence
Day, Peru
Commemoration of the fall of the Fascist Government, San
Marino
System
Administrator Appreciation Day
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1678 Joseph
I, Emperor of Germany
and Holy
Roman Emperor
1804 Ludwig Feuerbach (d. 1872), philosopher
 1844
Gerard Manley
Hopkins (d. June 8, 1889), British Victorian poet and Jesuit
priest
"Considered an early Modern poet ahead of his Victorian time, GM
Hopkins's verse is notable for his use of sprung rhythm and
intricate use of language and rhyme. As a Jesuit priest, Hopkins's
poems dealt largely in the realm of religion and his inner
conflict."
Source
"Prior to Hopkins most Middle English and Modern English poetry was based on a
rhythmic structure inherited from the Norman side of English's
literary heritage. This structure is based on repeating groups of
two or three syllables, with the stressed syllable falling in the
same place on each repetition. Hopkins called this structure Running Rhythm, and though he wrote some
of his early verse in the Running Rhythm he became fascinated with
the older rhythmic structure of the Anglo-Saxon tradition, of which
Beowulf is the most famous example. Hopkins called this rhythmic
structure Sprung Rhythm. This Spring Rhythm is
structured around feet with a variable number of syllables,
generally between one and four syllables per foot, with the stress
always falls on the first syllable in a foot." Source:
Wikipedia
Hopkins poems online
'As Kingfishers Catch Fire'
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves – goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came.
Í say móre: the just man justices;
Kéeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is —
Chríst – for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
1866 Beatrix Potter (d. 1943),
English children's author and illustrator.
Born in South Kensington, London, she wrote
children's books based on the adventures and lives of animal
characters, best known of whom was Peter Rabbit.
1867 Charles Dillon Perrine (d. 1951),
astronomer
1868
Randolph
Bedford (d. July
7, 1941),
Australian writer and politician. With Henry
Lawson and Victor
Daley et al, he was a member of the Dawn
and Dusk Club.
"He was educated at the Newtown state school and at the age of 16 was working in the western district of New South Wales. He had a short story accepted by the Bulletin in 1886, the first of a long series of contributions. In 1888 he obtained a position on the Argus, Broken Hill, and in the following year went to Melbourne and was about two years on the Age. Much freelancing followed, verse, short stories and sketches, written while travelling in Australia searching for payable mining fields. Between 1901 and 1904 Bedford was in Europe and wrote a series of travel sketches, which in 1916 were collected and published under the title of Explorations in Civilization. His first novel, True Eyes and the Whirlwind, appeared in London in 1903, and his Snare of Strength was published two years later. Three short novels appeared afterwards in the Bookstall series, Billy Pagan, Mining Engineer (1911), The Silver Star (1917), Aladdin and the Boss Cockie (1919). He had also made a collection of his Bulletin verse in 1904 but the unbound sheets were all burned during a fire at the printers, except about six copies which were bound without title-page and apparently given to friends. A few years before his death Bedford stated that he did not regret the fire as some of the verses included "could only be excused on account of his extreme youth at the time of writing". He was then preparing a selection of his verse for the press which, however, was not
published.
"In 1917 Bedford entered the Queensland legislative council, pledged to work for the abolishment of that chamber which took place in 1922. In the following year he was elected to the legislative assembly for Warrego as a Labour member. He held this seat until his resignation in 1937 to contest the Maranoa seat for the federal house of representatives. He was defeated, but was again elected to his old seat in the legislative assembly. He died on 7 July 1941, and was survived by his wife and a grown-up family. As a politician Bedford showed himself to be a great fighter, but he was too exuberant, too impatient, and too impetuous for the council table, and was never included in any ministry. He was an eloquent speaker who neither gave nor asked for quarter, and he was always loyal to his party, generous and kind to his friends. A big man physically and mentally, who always looked slightly over life size, he was one of the most colourful personalities to enter politics in Australia. As a literary man he did a large amount of work. Most of his poetry is not important, though the best of it may be called good vigorous rhetorical verse. His Explorations in Civilization has been praised, but it is only fairly good journalism scarcely worth collecting. The first two novels, True Eyes and the Whirlwind and The Snare of Strength, are both vigorously and freshly written, but such excellent short stories as "Fourteen Fathoms by Quetta Rock", included in Australian Short Stories, and "The Language of Animals" in An Australian Story Book, suggest that his best work was done in that medium."
Source
Lawson
& Co: associations with Henry and Louisa Lawson
Bedford portrait
1874 Ernst Cassirer (d. 1945), philosopher
 1887 Marcel Duchamp (d. October 2, 1968),
French artist, leader of the New York Dada movement
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What's
wrong with this picture?
A fascinating true-life detective story: did Duchamps influence
scientists Penrose and Penrose
with his 'impossible figure', Apolinère Enameled?
1892
Joe E
Brown (d.
July 6, 1973),
American comedian and actor (Some
Like It Hot)
1899
Florence
Broadhurst (d.
October 15,
1977),
Australian designer and businesswoman (Florence Broadhurst
Wallpapers Pty Ltd) whose murder in 1977 remains a mystery. The 2006
Gillian Armstrong documentary film
Unfolding Florence:
The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst, details her life and
murder. Several books have also been written about her life and
designs including the 2006 book
Florence Broadhurst: Her Secret and Extraordinary Lives by
Helen O'Neill.
 1902 Albert Namatjira
(d. August
8, 1959), Australian artist
Caught between two worlds:
Albert Namatjira
Born on this day in 1902 at the Ntaria
(Hermannsburg) mission in Australia's
Northern
Territory, Elea
(baptised Albert in 1905) Namatjira became the first Australian
Aboriginal artist to gain national and international fame. His life,
however, was marred by racism, misfortune and depression.
Albert
Namatjira was born to Christian parents whose background had been as
tribal people in the northern deserts. He attended the school at
Hermannsburg, a mission about 225 km (140
miles) from the remote outback town of
Alice Springs, and at 13 was taken into the bush for manhood initiation
ceremonies in his Arrernte
(Aranda) tribe.
Work as a camel driver took him to parts of
Australia's red centre that he might not otherwise have visited,
places that appeared in his work. He had learned to draw in school,
and, from the late 1920s, Namatjira had contact with white Australian
artists who came to 'The Centre' in search of magnificent
scenery afforded by that part of the world. In 1936, one visiting
artist, Rex Batterbee, taught the keen student how to paint in the
European style.
Namatjira's
first public showing was two years later, in Melbourne, and proved
to be a great success as his superb watercolours drew the attention
of art lovers. Over succeeding years his fame grew for his haunting
landscapes of land and gumtrees, and with it came financial rewards.
In 1954, he met Britain's Queen
Elizabeth on her
Australian tour. The Queen purchased several of his paintings,
including Ghost Gums in the Macdonnell Ranges.
 Married
(to a woman of another tribe, which attracted great displeasure
amongst his people) and with seven children, Namatjira tried to
lease a cattle station (ranch), but paternalistic laws in the
Northern Territory at the time disallowed this. Though his name was
known in virtually every home in his ancestral land, the Aboriginal
celebrity's attempts to gain permission to build a house in Alice
Springs also met with a firm wall of forbidding racism.
Albert Namatjira descended into depression and
alcoholism, eventually finding himself jailed for two months for
providing alcohol to family members. Despite his fame and success,
his life had become a litany of injury, hospitalisation,
imprisonment and despair, and he died in 1959, aged just 57, a
broken man.
The person who had first shown all Australians,
indigenous and non-indigenous, the heart of their own continent, was
a man of two cultures as widely different as it is possible to
imagine, and never fully accepted by either.
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1902 Karl
Popper (d. 1994), philosopher of science
1907 Dolf Sternberger (d. 1989), German
philosopher
1909 Malcolm Lowry (d. 1957), British
novelist (Under the Volcano)
1914 Carmen Dragon (d. 1984), American
conductor, composer, and arranger
1915 Frankie Yankovic (d. 1998), musician
1922 Jacques Piccard,
explorer and engineer, known for having developed underwater
vehicles for studying ocean currents
1927 John Ashbery, poet
1929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,
(d. 1994)
(née Bouvier), editor and wife of US President John F Kennedy.
She was known while 'First Lady' for
her fashion sense. Five years after JFK's assassination she
married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
1934 Jacques d'Amboise,
US ballet
dancer
and choreographer
1937 Peter Duchin, pianist, bandleader
1940 Phil Proctor,
comic and voice actor
1943
Mike Bloomfield (d. February
15, 1981),
American
musician,
blues guitarist
and composer;
session
musician who became famous through his work with Bob
Dylan during his first explorations into the 'electric Dylan'
phase
Wilson's
Almanac Book of Days hip list
1945 Jim
Davis, cartoonist
1948
Sally Struthers, American actress (All in the Family)
1952
Glenn A Baker, Australian businessman, writer and 'Rock Brain of
the Universe'
1958 Terry
Fox (d. 1981), cancer activist
1962 Rachel Sweet, singer
1965 Lori Loughlin, actress (Full
House)
1972 Elizabeth Berkley, actress (Saved by the Bell, Showgirls)
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