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We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington. The terror campaign could be pointed at Cuban refugees seeking haven in the United States. We could sink a boatload of Cubans enroute [sic] to Florida (real or simulated). We could foster attempts on lives of Cuban refugees in the United States even to the extent of wounding in instances to be widely publicized. US Joint Chiefs of Staff; Operation Northwoods, 1962
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
Joseph Priestley, English scientist, born on March 13, 1733
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.
Joseph Priestley
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
Joseph Priestley
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
Joseph Priestley, English scientist, born on March 13, 1733
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Joseph Priestley
I am sometimes so very skeptical as to think poetry is a mere Jack-o-Lantern to whoever may chance to be struck with its brilliance.
English poet John Keats writes to Benjamin Bailey, March 13, 1818
On the 13th of March, after I had heard the bluebird, song sparrow, and red-wing, the ice was still nearly a foot thick. Henry David
Thoreau (1817
- 1862); Walden,
Ch. 17 'Spring'
I will tell you the secret
of this strange life I had. Sssh! I was born on Friday the thirteenth. Lafayette Ron Hubbard; from his journal. Not so: March 13, 1911 was a MondaySource
I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.
Lafayette Ron Hubbard, Jr, whose father (the founder of Scientology) was born on March 13, 1911
Diotima was the teacher of Socrates (470 BCE
- 399 BCE), the Athenian philosopher. The
Juno Covella
Calendar commemorates her day today. Socrates described his teacher
thus: "Diotima of Mantinea, a woman wise in this [ie, love] and in many
other kinds of knowledge ... She was my instructress."
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Feast day of St Kevoca
(Kennocha; Kennotha; Quivoca), Scottish virgin
Feast day of St Macedonius
Feast day of St Mochoemoc
(Kennoch, Mo-Chaomhog, Mochaemhog, Pulcherius, Vulcanius),
abbot in Ireland
Born in Munster, Ireland, Mochoemoc was raised by his aunt, St Ita, and educated by
St Comgall in the Bangor Abbey, County
Down. He died died c. 656.
Feast day of St Nicephorus, patriarch of
Constantinople (June 2 –
feast of his death, Greek orthodox)
National Day (formerly), Grenada
A holiday commemorating a nearly bloodless
coup led by Maurice
Bishop's Marxist-Leninist
Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education and
Liberation (JEWEL
Movement) on this day in 1979 [qv].
Youth
Day, Zambia (date
apparently varies)
A holiday in the Republic of Zambia dedicated to the
interests and activities of young people.
"William Ramesey is an
excellent example of English astrology at its height of popularity
and development. His Astrologia Restaurata or Astrology
Restored, published in London in 1653, provides the most complete
set of rules for electional
astrology available in English."Source
From his biography
"I was born the
thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord 1626. stilo
Anglia, in the City of Westminster, in the County of Middlesex
Angliae.
"My Mother was by birth of
England, and were all her Predecessors, my Father of Scotland
and that of an antient family viz. of Eighther house, which hath
flourished in great glory for 1500 and years till these latter
days, as the Records there testifie …"Source
"Priestley
moved to Birmingham
where he became friends with businessmen and scientists such as John
Wilkinson, Josiah
Wedgwood, Matthew
Boulton and James Watt.
Whereas Priestley's scientific work, for example, his discovery of
oxygen, was welcomed, his religious and political views were
constantly getting him into trouble. Priestley and his friend Richard
Price became leaders of a group of men that became known as
the Rational Dissenters. To the government, these were dangerous
men.
"Hostility
towards Joseph Priestley increased in 1791 when he wrote a
pamphlet defending the French Revolution. Priestley argued that he
believed the events in France increased the chance of 'universal
peace and goodwill among all nations' as it made possible an 'empire of reason'. His predictions that the French Revolution
heralded a change in the role of the monarchy upset King
George III. The king and his supporters particularly disliked
Priestley's view that in future monarchs will be the 'first
servants of the people and accountable to them'. Priestley now
obtained the nickname 'Gunpowder' after he expressed the view
that it should be placed 'under the old building of error and
superstition'.
"In 1791
Priestley published A Political Dialogue on the General
Principles of Government. In the book Priestley expressed
similar political ideas to those expressed by Tom Paine
in the Rights of Man. Later that year Priestley took part
in forming a Constitutional Society in Birmingham.
Tories
in the city made inflammatory speeches attacking Priestley's
political ideas and this resulted in a mob breaking into his
house and destroying most of his papers, books and scientific
equipment."Source
1864 Casey Jones (d.
April 3,
1900), American train driver in a popular American folk song, who died with
"one hand on the whistle, one on the brake",
in a railroad disaster in Yazoo County, just north of Vaughan,
Mississippi.
Famed railroad engineer John Luther 'Casey' Jones
moved from Jackson,
Tennessee to Water Valley in Yalobusha
County, Mississippi in 1893. In 1896, four
years before his death in the train wreck which brought him fame,
Jones moved back to Jackson.
"'Jump, Sim, and save yourself!,' was Casey's last order to his fireman. As for himself, Casey through
[sic] his engine in reverse and applied the air-brakes-all any engineer could do, and rode roaring 638 into a holocaust of crashing wood that splintered like match boxes. Sim Webb jumped, fell into some bushes and was not injured.
"When they took Casey's body from the wreckage (old 638 had plowed
through the cars and caboose and turned over on her side a short
distance beyond) they found one hand on the whistle cord, the other
on the air-brake lever."
The True Story Of
Casey Jones
"The Hubbards
moved into a two-storey house in the leafy Maryland suburb of
Silver Spring, just outside the Washington DC metropolitan area,
and it was from there that Ron resumed his correspondence with
the Communist Activities Division of the FBI. On 11 July 1955,
he wrote a maundering three-page letter, about Communists and
wicked accountants conspiring with renegade IRS agents to
destroy him, so inane that the recipient at the FBI scribbled on
it a notation 'appears mental'."Source
"Hubbard had
been quietly planning the conversion of Scientology into a
religion for more than twelve months, ever since his return from
Europe in the autumn of 1953. It made sense financially, for
there were substantial tax concessions available to churches,
and it made sense pragmatically, for he was convinced that as a
religion Scientology would be less vulnerable to attack by the
enemies he was convinced were constantly trying to encircle him
…"Source
Born in New York City, Neil Sedaka has enjoyed a long
career as a successful singer-songwriter. His Tin Pan Alley
successes started in the 1950s and '60s with songs such as Stupid Cupid, recorded by
Connie Francis, and Calendar
Girl, recorded by himself. For five years of his heyday, only
Elvis Presley sold more records than Sedaka in the US. His
distinctive sound with a loud piano behind a catchy melody wowed the
fans. He also wrote for such artists as Peggy Lee,
Johnny
Mathis,
and the Fifth Dimension.
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