|
 The
Tichborne Dole
In olden days in Hampshire,
England, a certain Lady Mabella, on her deathbed from a crippling
disease, asked Lord Tichborne to give her the means to bequeath a dole of money to anyone who
asked for it on the day of Annunciation.
Sir Roger must have been a difficult man, or
perhaps just parsimonious, for he promised her only the proceeds of
as much land as she could go over while a firebrand was burning.
However, a miraculous amount of strength came to her and she crawled
around 23 acres, an area still to this day called the Crawls. On her deathbed the
lady warned her family that they must keep the promise, and she
predicted that the family name and its estates would die out if they
neglected the Tichborne Dole, because a generation of seven sons would be
succeeded by seven daughters, and the manor house itself would
crumble.
It became tradition to bake 1,400 loaves for
the Dole, and to give twopence to any applicant if 1,400 loaves did
not go far enough. Only those families in Tichborne, Cheriton and
Lane End have ever been entitled to this charitable disbursement. So
it went for centuries, until the Tichborne estates had become a
place of assembly for many paupers. By 1796, when rowdy vagrants
assembled in large numbers on the
common, the number of these
paupers caused the Tichbornes to discontinue the Dole.
Local people remembered the final part of
the Tichborne legend and Lady Mabella's curse on any of her
successors who should fail to distribute her dole. The penalty for
such failure would be a generation of seven daughters (immediately
following a family of seven sons), the family name would die out and
the ancient house would fall down. Thus, it was seen as an omen
when, in 1803, part of old Tichborne House collapsed into ruins. At
the time, there were seven Tichborne sons.
Misfortune befell the family in many ways.
George, the sixth son, died in 1802,
aged only 13. In 1806, John, the fifth son, died in the East
Indies. Four years later, Benjamin, the second son, died in China, a
bachelor like his brother John. A few years later, Roger (son number
seven) died – married but childless.
Henry, the eldest son who succeeded to the
baronetcy in 1821, managed to father seven children, but all were
females. In 1826, Edward, the third son, changed his name, so the
estate later fell into the hands of a new family name, Doughty as he
produced the male heir so desired by the Tichborne heritage, but in
1835, the six-year-old Henry suddenly died. Edward Doughty
immediately revived the Dole, which has continued ever since – and
who can blame him? It is distributed today from St
Andrew's, the 11th-century Tichborne church.
The fourth
Tichborne son, James, had married in 1827 and produced two sons. The
eldest, Sir Roger Charles
Doughty Tichborne, was lost at sea in 1845, and was
impersonated two decades later by
Arthur Orton, a butcher with an
eye for a quick fortune. See below for more details.
The Tichborne
family won in court, but the celebrated case dragged on for two
years and cost the family £100,000 to defend their ancient estates.
Alfred Joseph Tichborne, the youngest of James's seven sons, was the
only one to survive Mabella's deathbed curse and was the great
grandfather of the late Sir Anthony Doughty Tichborne, the 14th
baronet.
A curse fulfilled
The
Tichborne church contains a number of interesting memorials to the
Tichborne family. One in particular is the monument, erected in 1619
to Richard, the infant son of Sir Richard Tichborne. Tichborne
tradition says that a gypsy woman who begged for food at Tichborne
House was refused and laid a curse on the toddler, predicting that
Richard would drown on a certain day. When that fateful day arrived,
servants were ordered to take the child up onto Gander Down which is
well away from the local River Itchen. When at that place, the
attention of his guardians was diverted as young Richard out of his
baby carriage and drowned in a water-filled cart rut.
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'the primordial man', who was believed to have been born on 25th March. His partner was Lilith who became the demon queen and spawned thousands of evil daughters."
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Festival of Hilaria, in
honour of Cybele
the Mother of Gods, ancient Rome (Mar 15 - 27)
On
March 22, the god Attis (a life-death-rebirth deity) was
pronounced dead. At this time, the priest opened the tomb to reveal
that the god was not still there. The worshippers cheered as the
priest announced, "Be of good cheer, neophytes, seeing that the god
is saved; for we also, after our toils, shall find salvation!"
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goddess-worshipping pagans
Many goddess worshippers
call today thus. It is the conception date of the divinity that
enters the world nine months later on December
25.
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abbot
Feast day of St Cyrinus
Feast day of St Dismas
(Dysmas; The Penitent Thief; The Good Thief)
March 25,
Lady Day, is also the Feast Day of St Dysmas. Dysmas is the
traditional name of the penitent thief who was crucified next to
Christ. In some old calendars he was commemorated on this day. His
relics are claimed by the Italian city of Bologna. In the apocryphal
Gospel of Nicodemus he is
called Dimas, and elsewhere Titus; the impenitent thief is Gestas or
Gesmas.
 Alta petit Dismas, infellx infima Gesmas.
Part of a Charm.
To paradise thief Dismas went,
But Gesmas died impenitent.
Evans,
Ivor H, Brewer's
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Cassell, London, 1988
In
Longfellow's The Golden Legend
(The Miracle Play, V), both Dumachas (Dysmus or Dysmas) and Titus –
apparently two separate characters in this version – belonged to a
gang of bandits who harassed the Holy Family on
their flight into Egypt. An old
tale from an Arabic gospel says that when Joseph, Jesus and Mary
were refugees en route to Egypt, they were attacked by a band of thieves including Dismas and Gestas.
One of the bandits realised there was something special about the
fleeing family, and ordered his fellow robbers to leave them alone;
this thief was Dismas.
According to the Catholic
Community Forum Patron
Saints Index, Dismas's patronage includes condemned prisoners,
criminals, death row prisoners,
funeral directors, prisoners, prisoners on death row,
reformed thieves and undertakers.
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1252 Conradin (Conrad
the Younger; d. October 29,
1268), duke of Swabia,
titular king of
Jerusalem and king
of Sicily
1347
Catherine
of Siena,
OP (d.
April 29,
1380), Roman
Catholic saint, Tertiary (a
lay affiliate) of
the Dominican
Order, and a
scholastic
philosopher
and theologian,
feast day April 29 (qv). She was the 23rd child out of 25
(Catherine’s twin sister, the 24th, died at birth).
1741 Jean Antoine
Houdon (d. 1828), sculptor
1778
Sophie Blanchard (d.
July 6,
1819)
French
aeronaut. The widow of
ballooning pioneer
Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753
-
1809), she was the first woman to work as a professional
balloonist. She was also
the first woman to be killed in an
aviation accident. 1800
Heinrich
von Dechsen (d. 1889), geologist and mineralogist 1863 Simon Flexner
(d. 1946),
pathologist who in 1899 isolated a common strain (Shigella
dysenteriae) of dysentery
bacillus 1867 Arturo
Toscanini (d. 1957), conductor
 1873
Rudolf Rocker,
German-born anarcho-syndicalist
(d. September
19, 1958).
From Wikipedia: Rocker,
a Gentile,
became deeply involved in the Jewish anarchist movement while living
in London,
the Jewish Anarchist movement being larger than the native anarchist
movement in England. Learning Yiddish, then
quickly becoming a prominent speaker and writer in the movement,
Rocker became the editor for several Jewish newspapers, including Dos
Fraye Vort (The Free Word), Der Arbeiter Fraint (The
Workers' Friend) and Germinal. In 1902, a federation of
Jewish anarchist groups was formed; Rocker represented the
federation at the International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam
in 1907.
Rocker was interned as an enemy alien during the First World War
and Arbeiter Fraint was suppressed. The Jewish anarchist
movement in Britain never fully recovered from these blows.
In 1918
Rocker was deported from Britain to the Netherlands and
eventually returned to Germany. He became a major figure in the
German and international anarcho-syndicalist
movement, helping to organize the International Congress in Berlin
in 1922
leading to the formation of the International
Workers Association (IWA). Rocker was opposed to anarchist
support for the Bolshevik
Revolution after 1917 and led the libertarian
socialist opposition to the growing Nazi movement in
Germany.
In 1933
Rocker left Germany again to escape persecution by the new Nazi
regime. Settling in the United States,
he continued to work as a speaker and writer, directing his efforts
against the twin evils of Fascism and Communism.
He spent the last 20 years of his life as a leading figure in the
Mohegan community at Crompond, New York, and was
the best-known anarchist in the country until his death.
Early
progressives in the Book of Days Rocker
Archive Anarchosyndicalism,
by Rocker
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1879 Grace Monroe, Australian founder of the
Country Women's Association
1881 Béla Bartók (d. 1945),
composer1881 Mary Gladys
Webb (d. 1927), writer 1886 Athenagoras (d. 1972),
Patriarch
of Constantinople 1906 AJP Taylor (d. September 7,
1990), British
historian, one
of the leading lights of the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament
 1908 David
Lean (d. 1991), British
filmmaker (Great
Expectations;
Oliver Twist;
Ryan's Daughter;
Lawrence of
Arabia, [Oscar];
Doctor Zhivago;
A Passage to India;
The Bridge on the River Kwai [Oscar])
David Who?
I have good reason to be sceptical of 'experts'. One night I was
listening to a film reviewer on ABC Radio in Sydney, Australia (I
shouldn't be too scathing because the ABC, the national
broadcaster, for a considerably long time broadcast Wilson's Almanac). A caller
phoned to say he admired the films of David Lean. Neither the
compère nor the expert
reviewer had ever heard of the brilliant, double-Oscar-winning
director of Great
Expectations (1946);
Oliver Twist
(1948); Ryan's
Daughter (1970);
Lawrence of Arabia
(1962), (Oscar);
Doctor Zhivago
(1965);
A Passage to India
(1984);
The Bridge on the River Kwai
(1957) (Oscar). Such is the state
of Australian journalism.
On March 25, 2004, just after entering the above paragraph,
I heard this exchange on ABC and it tickled my funny bone:
Compere: "I see that 'Being There' was made in 1979, and Peter
Sellers died in 1980 – so it must have been one of his last
movies?"
Film reviewer: "I think
there was a Pink Panther film released posthumously after his
death."
The other reason for my scepticism
of experts is, of course, that the ABC for a considerably long time
broadcast Wilson's Almanac.
See also Turtles All
the Way Down.
"According to Richard
Schickel, Lean was so wounded by critic Pauline Kael's vicious
attacks on his work, such as Ryan's
Daughter (1970) that it kept him from directing another
picture for 14 years,
until Passage to India,
A (1984)."
Source
1908 Helmut Käutner
(d. 1980),
actor and film director
1911 Jack
Ruby (d. 1967), killer of Lee Harvey
Oswald (alleged
lone assassin of USA President
John F
Kennedy). In 1947,
Ruby worked as an
investigator for
Richard M
Nixon.
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1913
Harry Butler,
Australian wildlife expert and TV broadcaster
1921 Simone Signoret
(d. 1985),
German-born, French-raised actress1925 Flannery
O'Connor (d. 1964), author 1928 Jim
Lovell, astronaut
1934
Bernard King
(d. December
20, 2002),
Australian cooking expert and TV personality
1935 Gloria Steinem,
American feminist author and editor (Ms magazine)1938 Hoyt
Axton (d. 1999), musician, actor 1939 Toni Cade
Bambara (d. 1995), author 1940 Anita Bryant,
American entertainer and radical anti-homosexual activist 1942 Aretha Franklin
('Queen of Soul'), American soul singer (Respect) whose voice has been
designated a natural resource of the State of Michigan
"1944 Moves to Detroit
with father, pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church
1954 Emerges as singing
prodigy in church choir at age 12
1960 Signs with Columbia
Records, which fails to make her a star
1966 Switches to
Atlantic Records; hits start coming
1967 Respect hits
No. 1; she wins her first Grammy
1987 First woman
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"
Source
Rolling
Stone on Aretha Franklin
1942 Richard O'Brien,
actor, writer
1947 Elton
John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight), English rock musician
"Taking the stage name Elton
'Hercules' John from the first names of Bluesology's vocalist
Elton Dean and saxophonist 'Long' John Baldry, Dwight embarked
on a solo career in mid-1968 …
"1975's Captain Fantastic became the first album ever to
debut at No. 1. In 1977 John announced that he would no longer
perform live, due to exhaustion …"
Source
1952 Antanas Mockus,
Colombian
mathematician
and politician1960 Idy
Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong, actress 1964 Lisa Gay
Hamilton, actress 1965 Sarah
Jessica Parker, actress 1974 Lark Voorhies,
actress 1976 Juvenile,
rapper
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31 CE The first Easter, that is, the day on which
Jesus Christ rose
from the dead, according to early calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus.
Dionysius
Exiguus and dating the birth of Jesus
708 Constantine
was consecrated Pope.
752 Death of Pope Stephen II
after serving less than two days.
1005 King
Kenneth III of Scotland was killed in
battle.
1233 Death of
King Afonso II of
Portugal (b. 1185).
1306 Robert the
Bruce became King of Scotland.
1409 The Council of Pisa
opened.
1561 Death of Conrad
Lycosthenes (b. 1518), humanist and encyclopaedist.
"Prodigiorum Ac Ostentorum Chronicon,
Text by Conrad Lycosthenes. Basel: Henricpteri, 1557.
First Edition.
"The most
exhaustive early work illustrating medieval superstition. With its three or
more woodcuts to every page it is one of the best illustrated books of the
Renaissance. This woodcut book contains no less than 1545 woodcuts including
several repeats, the majority showing human monsters of all types, many of
which later appeared in Ambroise Pare's works. Others are of beasts and
animals, sea-monsters. Page 494 is a woodcut showing a spaceship seen over
Arabia in 1479. Perhaps the first work including UFO's." Source
The Prodigiorum Ac Ostentorum Chronicon is held at the Australian Museum
Research Library
1584 The first American
colonists set sail from England.
1609 English
navigator Henry Hudson set sail on third attempt to find the North-West
Passage.
1634 New World:
The first settlers arrived in Maryland (led by
Lord Baltimore).
1655 Saturn's
largest moon, Titan, was
discovered by Christian
Huygens.
1688
Parochial charity schools for the education of the children of the poor, were
established in the London area.
1736 Death of Nicholas
Hawksmoor
(b. c. 1661), architect.1748 A fire
in 'Change-alley, London's stock market district, destroyed all the buildings in
the street.
1751 Death of
King Frederick I of
Sweden, (b. 1676).1802 The Treaty of
Amiens was signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace"
between France
and the United
Kingdom.
1807 The Slave Trade Act
became law, abolishing slavery in the Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland and its colonies, after intense
lobbying by William
Wilberforce.
1811 Refusing
to admit writing The Necessity of Atheism, the English poet, Percy
Bysshe Shelley, was expelled from Oxford.
1815
Austria, Britain Prussia and Russia form alliance against Napoléon Bonaparte.
1839
Trail of Tears: "1,312 of the original group of 1,776 forced Cherokee emigrants arrived in the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma). This is the last of the major groups of arriving Cherokees in the Indian Territory, the migration called "the Trail of Tears." Although figures vary according to the source, it is believed almost 12,000 Cherokees survived the emigration with nearly
4,000 dying along the way."
Source: Earth, Moon and
Sky
1855 Inundation
of Holland.
 1858 Marie-Bernard Soubirous
(St Bernadette of
Lourdes; feast day April
16), French shepherd and
visionary who claimed to have experienced some of the most famous apparitions in Christian
history, had her 17th
and second-last vision, which went for more than one hour.
During this vision, the second of two
"miracles of the candle" occurred. Bernadette was holding
a lighted candle; during the vision it burned down, and the flame
was in direct contact with her skin for over 15 minutes but she
showed no sign of experiencing any pain. This was witnessed by many
people present, including a doctor who timed it. Despite the flame,
there was no sign that her skin was in any way affected, so the
doctor monitored Bernadette closely but did not intervene. After the
vision ended, the doctor examined her hand but found no evidence of
any burning, and she was completely unaware of what had been
happening. The doctor then briefly applied a lighted candle to her
hand and she reacted immediately.
Towards the end of this vision, Bernadette
asked the lady her name but she just smiled back. She repeated the
question a further three times. The lady then said, in the local
dialect, "I am the Immaculate
Conception". Four years earlier, Pope Pius IX had
promulgated the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. Bernadette's
parents, teachers and priests all later testified that she had never
previously heard the words 'immaculate conception' from them.
Sources: Wikipedia
et al
1872 Toronto
printers went on strike for the 9-hour day – the first major strike in Canada.
1821 Greece
declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire,
beginning the Greek
War of Independence.
1865 The 'Claywater
Meteorite'
exploded just before reaching ground level in Vernon
County, Wisconsin, USA. Fragments having a combined mass of 1.5 kg were
recovered.
1865 American
Civil War: In Virginia,
Confederate forces captured Fort Stedman
from the Union.
1894 Coxey's Army,
the first significant American protest march, departed Massillon, Ohio
for Washington DC.
 1911 In New York
City the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
killed 146 garment workers.
The Triangle Shirt Waist Company,
occupying the top floors of a 10-story building in New York, was consumed by
fire. One hundred and forty-six people, mostly women and young girls, age 13 to
23, working in sweatshop conditions, lost their lives.
Approximately
50 died as they leapt from windows to the street; the others were burned or
trampled to death, desperately trying to escape via stairway exits illegally
locked to prevent "the interruption of work."
Company owners
were charged with seven counts of manslaughter – but were found not guilty.
A turning
point in labor laws – especially concerning health and safety – occurred as
a result of this disaster. For the previous three days, the company, along with
other warehouse owners, had grouped together to fight the Fire Commissioner's
order that fire sprinklers be installed.
Source:
The Daily Bleed
1916 Death of
Ishi (b. c.
1860), the last surviving member
of the Yahi
tribe and considered to be the last 'Stone Age'
Native American. He was studied by anthropologist
Alfred L Kroeber,
and died of tuberculosis.
1918 Death of Claude Debussy (b. 1862), composer.
1918 The Belarusian
National Republic was established.
1924 Greece
proclaimed itself a republic.
 1931
The
Scottsboro
Boys were arrested in Alabama and charged with rape. The first trial
began on April 6 of that year.
More at the Book of Days, April 6
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1935 Australia: The pearling fleet anchored at
Lacapede,
Western Australia was hit by a cyclone, with 142 lives lost. (More
info sought from readers.)
1941 The Kingdom of
Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers.
1947 USA: An
explosion in a coalmine in Centralia,
Illinois killed 111.
1949 Laurence Olivier's film Hamlet
won five
Oscars, with Olivier himself winning Best Actor.
 1953 The
polio vaccine was announced by Dr Jonas Salk.
"The vaccine worked.
But the world of science has a protocol for releasing such findings: first
publish them in a medical journal, and then spread the credit as widely as
possible. Salk took part in a press conference and went on radio but gave
credit to nobody, including himself--of course, he was going to get the credit
anyway. And that was the mistake that would haunt him.
"Radio was right; vanity was wrong. This was not some
breakthrough in carbuncle research but hot news that couldn't wait one more
minute. Within the brotherhood of researchers, however, Salk had sinned
unforgivably by not saluting either Enders or, more seriously, his
colleagues at the Pittsburgh lab. Everything he did after that was taken as
showboating …" Source
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1955 Russian United
States Customs
confiscated 520 copies of Allen
Ginsberg's 'Howl' as they entered
the US. It was later published by City Lights publishers in San Francisco,
leading to the arrest of Lawrence
Ferlinghetti. Customs also seized and destroyed another shipment of
Ginsberg's poetry sent from Canada in the '60s.
1957 US Customs again seized
Allen Ginsberg's book of poetry, Howl, this time the second printing
published by Lawrence
Ferlinghetti's City Lights Books in San Francisco. The US District Attorney
decided not to pursue, and the printing was released. However, in August Officer
Friendlies from the San Francisco Juvenile Department raided City Lights
Bookstore and charged Ferlinghetti with obscenity for selling copies of Howl.
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1957 The European
Economic Community (Common
Market) was formed with the Treaty of Rome
(West Germany, France,
Italy,
Belgium,
Netherlands, Luxembourg).
1965 Civil rights
activists led by Martin Luther
King, Jr complete their four-day, 50-mile march from Selma to the
capitol in Montgomery.
1971 Bangladesh
Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight of the Pakistan
Army against East Pakistani
civilians.
1975 Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot and killed by
a nephew (Prince Faisal ibn Museid) who had a history of mental
illness.
1979 The first
fully functional space shuttle
orbiter, Columbia,
was delivered to the John
F Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1990 In New York City,
a fire at an illegal social club
called Happy Land killed 87.
1992 Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev
returned to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space
station.
1995 Ward Cunningham
opened the first wiki, the Portland
Pattern Repository.
1995 After
nearly three decades of acrimony, Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono joined in a recording session,
along with McCartney's wife Linda McCartney and Ono's son
Sean Lennon. They recorded Ono's
'Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue', a memorial to the victims of the
atomic bomb on Japan 50 years before.
1996 USA: An
81-day long standoff between the antigovernment group
Montana
Freemen and law enforcement in Jordan, Montana
began.
1996 The EU's
Veterinarian Committee banned the export of British beef and its
by-products as a result of mad cow disease
(BSE; Encefalopatía espongiforme).
2004 Air
Holland filed for bankruptcy when unproven allegations of marijuana
abuse by the their pilots led them to bankruptcy.
2005
USA: Bush justice: "In spite of recommendations by investigators that they be charged, US Army commanders decide not to prosecute 17 American soldiers implicated in the deaths of three prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan."
A
Chronology of US War Crimes & Torture, 1975-2005
The Torture
Working Group
Working
Group Report on Detainee Interrogations in the Global War on
Terrorism (PDF)
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1) At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2) Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3) Insist that your e mail address is: Xena-Warrior-Princess@OCDSB.edu.on.ca or
Elvis-the-King@OCDSB.edu.on.ca
4) Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want
fries with that.
5) Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN."
6) Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has
gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
7) In the memo field of all your cheques, write "FOR SEXUAL FAVORS."
8) Finish all your sentences with "In accordance with the prophecy."
9) Don't use any punctuation.
10) As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
11) Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.
12) Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."
13) Sing along at the opera.
14) Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
15) Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.
16) Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.
17) Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Hard.
18) When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I Won!, I Won!
Third time this week!!!"
19) When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "Run for your lives, they're loose!"
20) Tell your children over dinner. "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go
And the final way to keep a healthy level of insanity ...
21) Send this e-mail to everyone in your address book, even if they sent it to you or have asked you not to send them stuff like this.
Wikipedia
and David Brown's prodigious Daily Bleed
are both excellent resources that aid my research.
I frequently make use of their generously liberal 'fair use', 'copyleft'
and 'anti-copyright' policies, with much gratitude.
© My own copyright
policy is also liberal, but as this is my livelihood, conditions apply.
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