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Is't on St Mary's bright and clear, Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm … the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.
Actors can be a terrible bore on the set, though I enjoy having dinner with them.
Jack Ruby: Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts, of what occurred, my motives. The people had, that had so much to gain and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world. |
The Annunciation with St
Emidius, by
Carlo Crivelli,
1486 |
Representative FORD: Are there any questions
that ought to be asked to help clarify the situation that you described?
Mr RUBY: There is only one thing. If you don't take me back to
Washington tonight to give me a chance to prove to the President that I
am not guilty, then you will see the most tragic thing that will ever
happen.
RUBY: Maybe something can be saved, something can be done ... What
have you got to answer to that, Chief Justice Warren?
RUBY: But I won't be around, Chief Justice. I won't be around to
verify these things you are going to tell the President.
Mr TONAHILL: Who do you think is going to eliminate you, Jack?
Mr RUBY: I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain
tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow
vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.
Chief Justice WARREN: But we have taken your testimony. We have it
here. It will be in permanent form for the President of the United
States and for the Congress of the United States, and for the courts of
the United States, and for the people of the entire world ...
RUBY: You have lost me though. You have lost me, Chief Justice
Warren.
Chief Justice WARREN: Lost you in what sense?
RUBY: I won't be around for you to come and question me again.
Chief Justice WARREN: Well, it is very hard for me to believe that. I
am sure that everybody would want to protect you to the very limit.
RUBY: All I want is a lie detector test, and you refuse to give it to
me.
Because as it stands now--and the truth serum, and any
other--Pentothal--how do you pronounce it, whatever it is. And they will
not give it to me, because I want to tell the truth.
And then I want to leave this world. But I don't want my people to
be blamed for something that is untrue, that they claim has happened.
From Jack Ruby's evidence at the
Warren
Commission
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Feast day of the Annunciation (Lady Day)
(Marigold, Calendula officinalis,
is
today's plant, dedicated to
the Virgin Mary.)
Today in Christian lore marks the day that the Archangel Gabriel told Mary that she would give birth to Jesus. Annunciation, nine months before Christmas Day, is widely celebrated in Europe.
According to early calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus, March 25 was the day, in 31 CE, of the first Easter, that is, the day on which Jesus Christ rose from the dead. It was once also known to the Christians of Britain as 'Lady Day'.
Lady Day is an abridgement of the old term 'Our Lady's day' – a 'gaudy day' of the Catholic Church, and it represents the Christianization of older, pagan Spring Equinox festivals, in the much the same way that St Patrick's Day and Easter do.Known as the first day of the year, from the 12th Century till until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752, it is the first of the four traditional Irish Quarter days and English quarter days. In England, it was actually celebrated as New Year's Day until 1752 when, following the move from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, January 1 was first declared to begin the year. A vestige of this remains in the United Kingdom's tax year, which starts on April 6, which is March 25 adjusted for the 11 lost days of the calendar change.
It seems appropriate to acknowledge the sacred dimension of
birthing at this time of the year when Persephone is emerging from her time underground,
animals are bearing young, and plants are producing flowers.
The placement by Dionysius Exiguus of the first Easter on this date in 31 CE, was no doubt to correlate the resurrection of Jesus with the supposed date of his conception, as today is nine months before Christmas. It is celebrated in Rome by sumptuous festivities. The Pope's horse-guards ride in full uniform, each wearing in his hat a myrtle sprig, as a sign of rejoicing. The horsemen are traditionally followed by a shaven-headed monk on a white mule, bearing the host in a gold cup, at the sight of which everyone bows. At one time the Pope himself rode on the mule, and all the cardinals followed in their magnificent robes of state, mounted on either mules or horses. The Eminentissimi were generally not good horsemen so they were fastened onto their mounts.
In England it was traditionally only remembered
by those who pay rent to landlords.
Once, a country gentleman in England wrote a
letter to a noble lady, only addressed
To
The 25th of
March,
Foley-place,
London
and the post office duly delivered to Lady Day.
Lady Day was once considered to be the date of
the Creation of the world as it was the date of the conception of Christ.
A legend says that a noble and ignorant knight
entered an abbey but was so foolish that all he could say was Ave Maria, constantly. When he
died, out of his grave grew a fleur-de-lis,
and in every flower grew, in letters of gold, the words Ave Maria. At this miracle his friends were amazed and, opening his
grave, found that the flower's root was in his mouth. The virgin had
honoured him for his simple devotion. Or, so it is said.
Today's (and Mary's) flower is also the
Cardamine, or Lady's Smock, its white flowers blooming in England about
March 25.
When Easter Sunday falls on the same date as Lady Day (March 25). This is said to be an omen of evil for England.
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