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Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable;
love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done
you wrong. Maxim Gorky, Russian author and activist, born on March 28, 1868 Every new time will give its law. Happiness always looks small while you
hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big
and precious it is. The most beautiful words in the English
langauge are 'not guilty'. When work is a pleasure, life is a joy!
When work is a duty, life is slavery. One has to be able to count if only so
that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. The momentum of Asia's economic
development is already generating massive pressures for the
exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the
Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain
reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf
of Mexico, or the North Sea. In the long run, global politics are
bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of
hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is
not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower,
but it is also likely to be the very last ... Moreover, as America
becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more
difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in
the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct
external threat. Eroticism has its own moral justification
because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of
the individual's sovereignty. |
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If you are killed because you are a
writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
Mario
Vargas Llosa
It isn't true that convicts live like animals:
animals have more room to move around.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Prosperity or egalitarianism – you have to
choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway: you
simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
Mario Vargas Llosa
It is at Port Davey that I hope the Jewish settlement will start, not far from where I sever all earthly connections with it … to die in the service of so noble a cause is to me a great satisfaction and if, as I hope, the settlement brings happiness to many refugees and in so doing serves the state of Tasmania, I die happy.
Critchley Parker; one of the last entries in his diary. On March 28, 1942 he went missing.
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Care Sunday (2004)
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Care Sunday; care away,
Palm Sunday, and Easter day.
Care Sunday is the fifth Sunday from Shrove Tuesday, consequently it is the next Sunday before Palm Sunday, and the second Sunday before Easter. Why it is denominated Care Sunday is very uncertain. It is also called Carle Sunday. A native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne observes, that in that town, and many other places in the north of England, peas after having been steeped a night in water, are fried with butter, given away, eaten at a kind of entertainment on Carle Sunday, and are called Carlings, "probably as we call the presents at fairs, fairings." To this he attaches a query, whether Carlen "may not be formed from the old plural termination in en, as hosen, &c." The only attempt at a derivation of the word Care, is, that "the Friday on which Christ was crucified, is called in German both Gute Freytag and Carr Freytag;" and that the word karr signified a satisfaction for a fine, or penalty. The inference is corroborated by the church of Rome anciently using rites on this day peculiar to Good Friday, whence it was also called Passion Sunday. It is noted in an old calendar, that on this day "a dole is made of soft beans," which was also "a rite in the funeral ceremonies of heathen Rome." This "dole" of soft beans on Care Sunday accounts for the present custom of eating fried peas on the same day. No doubt the beans were a very seasonable alms to help out the poor man's lent stock of provision. "In Northumberland the day is called Carling Sunday. The yeomanry in general steep peas, and afterwards parch them, and eat them on the afternoon of that day, calling the carlings. This is said by an old author, to have taken its rise from the disciples plucking the ears of corn, and rubbing them in their hands." Hence it is clear that the custom of eating peas or beans upon this day is only a continuation of the unrecollected "dole" of the Romish church. It is possible, however, that there may have been no connection between the heathen funeral rite of giving beans, and the church donation, if the latter was given in mere charity; for there was little else to bestow at such a time of the year, when dried pulse, variously cooked, must have been almost the only winter meal with the labourer, and a frequent one with his employer.
The couplet at the head of this article Mr. Nichols says he heard in Nottinghamshire. There is another,
Tid, Mid, Misera
Carling, Palm, Paste Egg day.
The first line is supposed to have been formed from the beginning of Psalms, etc. viz. Te deum—Mi deus—Miserere mei.
But how is it that Care Sunday is also called Carl Sunday and Carling Sunday; and that peas, or beans, of the day are called carlings? Carle, which now means a churl, or rude boorish fellow, was anciently the term for a working countryman or labourer; and it is only altered in the spelling, without the slightest deviation in sense, from the old Saxon word ceorl, the name for a husbandman. The older denomination of the day, then, may not have been Care but Carl Sunday, from the benefactions to the carles or carlen. These are still the northern names for the day; and the dialect in that part of the kingdom is nearer to Saxon etymology. But whether the day were called Carle or Care Sunday it is now little known, and little more can be said about it, without the reader feeling inclined to say or sing,
"Begone dull Care."
William Hone, The Every-Day Book, or a Guide to the Year, William Tegg and Co., London, 1878; 1825-26 edition online
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The birthday of the Goddess Kuan Yin is celebrated annually in Taiwan on this date. Source Kwan Yin (Quan Yin; Kuan-Yin; Guān Yīn; Guān Shì Yīn; Kwan Yin; Kuan Shih Yin; Kun Yum; Kannon; Kanzeon; Gwan-eum; Gwan-se-eum; Kwan-ŭm; Kwan-se-ŭm; Quan Âm; Quan Thế Âm Bồ Tát, etc), whose name means 'one who hears the cries of the world', is a the bodhisattva of compassion as venerated by East Asian Buddhists. In the Buddhist tradition, the five major virtues are mercy, modesty, courage, justice, and wisdom. Commonly known as the Goddess of Mercy, Kuan Yin is also reverenced by Chinese Taoists as an Immortal. The name Kuan Yin is short for Kuan Shih Yin (py: Guan Shi Yin) which means "Observing the Sounds of the World". In Japanese, Kuan Yin is called Kannon or more formally Kanzeon; the spelling Kwannon, resulting from an obsolete system of romanization, is sometimes seen. In Korean, she is called Kwan-um or Kwan-se-um. In Vietnamese, she is called Quan Âm or Quan Thế Âm Bồ Tát. Kuan Yin is the Chinese name for the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. However, folk traditions in China and other East Asian countries have added many distinctive characteristics and legends. Most notably, while Avalokitesvara can be depicted as either male or female, Kuan Yin is usually depicted as a woman, whereas Avalokitesvara in other countries is usually depicted as a man. Her devotees believe that when Kwan Yin was ascending into spirit she heard the cries of suffering humans and chose to re-enter physical existence.Kuan Yin and the Virgin Mary Many observers have commented on the similarity between Kuan Yin and the Blessed Virgin
Mary of Christianity. The
Tzu-Chi Foundation commissioned a portrait of Kuan Yin and a baby that resembles the typical Madonna and Child painting.
Deities of many cultures in the Book of Days
Akitu Festival,
Sumeria (c. Mar
20 - 31) Sacrifice at the Tombs, ancient Rome (acknowledging ancestors) Feast day of Pallas Athena, ancient Greece Feast of
Cronus, ancient Greece Urban Dionysia, ancient Greece (c. Mar 24 - 28) Eka Dasa Ruda,
Bali Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial Discrimination (UN) (Mar 21 - 28) Creation of Sun and Moon, according to De Pascha Comutus Birthday of Christ (until 336 CE) St Mark's Eve
(St Mark of
Arethusa), celebrated in East Anglia, UK. Feast day of St Castor Feast day of St Conon Feast day of St Dorotheus Feast day of St Gontran, King of Burgundy Feast day of St Gundelindis Feast day of St Guntramnus Feast day of St Gwendoline Feast day of St James Claxton Feast day of Ss Priscus, Malchus and
Alexander, of Caesarea, in Palestine, martyrs Feast day of St Rogatus Feast day of St Sixtus III, Pope Feast day of St Tutilo Feast day of St Venturino of Bergamo Teachers' Day, Slovakia, Czech Republic Rikyuiki, Japan End of March,
King Tides, Derby, Australia
At the Scriptorium The origins and folklore of April Fools' Day The origins and folklore of Easter
Teresa was a contemporary and compatriot of St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. In her forties, she read the Confessions of St Augustine and was truly converted to Christianity, although she had been a nun (against her father's wishes) since the age of 17. She experienced visions and ecstasies and a remarkable, orgasmic-like mystical piercing of her heart by a 'spear of divine love':
1609 King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
From Wikipedia: On his way to London to get an essay that was published in English, he stopped at Wadesmill, Hertfordshire. While relaxing and trying to get a little rest, Thomas Clarkson experienced a spiritual revelation from God. It was this experience that ordered him to devote his life to abolishing the trade. As he continued on his journey to London, he ran into a publisher named James Phillips, who was a Quaker. Phillips arranged for publication in 1786. Philips had introduced Thomas Clarkson to many others were sympathetic to the cause of abolishing slavery. In 1787, along with William Wilberforce and others, they initiated a series of parliamentary inquiries which brought out the horrors of the Middle Passage. Thomas Clarkson had the responsibility of collecting information to support the abolition of the slave trade. This included interviewing 20,000 sailors and obtaining equipment used on the slave-ships such as iron handcuffs, leg-shackles, thumb screws, instruments for forcing open slave's jaws and branding irons. His collections of information, and his research that took him to ports such as Bristol, helped support their arguments. In 1807, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed, but it was not until 1833 that Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom. Brief Biography of Thomas Clarkson Works by Thomas Clarkson at Project GutenbergWorks by Thomas Clarkson at the Online Library of Liberty Map of the slave trade Early progressives in the Book of Days
1810 Edward Henty (d. August 14, 1878), pioneer, first permanent settler in Victoria, Australia 1819 Sir Joseph Bazalgette (d. 1891), civil engineer 1862 Aristide Briand (d. 1932), politician, winner of the Nobel Prize in peace 1926 1868 Maxim Gorky (d. 1936), Russian author and political activist 1878 Willem Mengelberg (d. 1951), Dutch conductor 1890 Paul Whiteman (d. 1967), bandleader 1895 Spencer W Kimball (d. 1985), president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1899 Harold B Lee (d. 1973), president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1902 Dame Flora Robson (d. 1984), actress 1903 Rudolf Serkin (d. 1991), Austrian pianist 1905 Marlin Perkins (d. 1986), naturalist, television host 1914 Edmund Muskie (d. 1996), United States politician 1921 Dirk Bogarde (d. 1999), actor 1922 Neville Bonner (d. February 5, 1999), Australian politician, the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to the Parliament of Australia 1924 Freddie Bartholomew (d. 1992), actor1928 Zbigniew Brzezinski, USA National Security Advisor 1935 Michael Parkinson, CBE, English journalist and television presenter 1936 Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and politician1940 Tony Barber, Australian quiz show compere (Sale of the Century; The Great Temptation) 1942 Neil Kinnock, British Labour Party leader1948 Dianne Weist, actress 1951 Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina 1955 Reba McEntire, country music singer, actress 1968 Iris Chang (d. November 9, 2004), Chinese American freelance historian and journalist best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanjing Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. She committed suicide after a depressive episode resulting from a nervous breakdown. 1970 Vince Vaughn, actor 1977 Devon, pornographic film actress 1981 Julia Stiles, actress
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