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When I am buried, carry my winding-sheet on the point of a spear, and say these words: Behold the spoils which Saladin carries with him! Of all his victories, realms and riches, nothing remains to him but this. I
appeal to the immaculate God – I swear by the Throne of Heaven,
before which I must shortly appear – by the blood of the murdered
patriots who have gone before me – that my conduct has been, through
all this peril, and through all my purposes, governed only by the
convictions which I have uttered, and by no other view than that of
the emancipation of my country from the superinhuman oppression
under which she has so long and too patiently travailed; and I
confidently and assuredly hope that, wild and chimerical as it may
appear, there is still union and strength in Ireland to accomplish
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I am charged
with being an emissary of France. An emissary of France! And for what
end? It is alleged that I wish to sell the independence of my country;
and for what end? Was this the object of my ambition? And is this the
mode by which a tribunal of justice reconciles contradictions? No; I am
no emissary.
Robert Emmet; ibid
Let no man dare, when I am dead, to charge me with dishonour; let
no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any
cause but that of my country’s liberty and independence; or that I could
have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression and misery of
my countrymen. The proclamation of the Provisional Government speaks for
my views; no inference can be tortured from it to countenance barbarity
or debasement at home, or subjection, humiliation, or treachery from
abroad. I would not have submitted to a foreign oppressor, for the same
reason that I would resist the domestic tyrant. In the dignity of
freedom, I would have fought upon the threshold of my country, and its
enemy should only enter by passing over my lifeless corpse. And am I,
who lived but for my country, who have subjected myself to the dangers
of the jealous and watchful oppressor, and now to the bondage of the
grave, only to give my countrymen their rights, and my country her
independence—am I to be loaded with calumny and not suffered to resent
it? No, God forbid!
Robert Emmet; ibid
I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it
is – THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no
man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or
ignorance asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and
my name remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do
justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the
nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be
written. I have done.
Robert Emmet; closing lines of his speech from the dock
I must present the face of life and not discuss life.
Nikolay Gogol, Russian writer who died on March 4, 1852; from a letter to Zhukovsky
I am destined by the mysterious powers to walk hand in hand with my strange heroes, viewing life in all its immensity as it rushes past me, viewing it through laughter seen by the world and tears unseen and unknown by it.
Nikolay Gogol
Generally
speaking, the significance of the indirect results may very often be of more
importance than the significance of direct ones.
Peter D Ouspensky (Russian – Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii), Russian philosopher
born March 4, 1878; Tertium Organum (1922)
When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many
things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at
himself he knows nothing about himself.
Peter D Ouspensky; In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown
Teaching (1949)
Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get
something, or if they want to get rid of something. Only, in ordinary
conditions, without knowledge, people do not know what they can get rid of or
what they can gain.
Peter D Ouspensky; The Fourth Way (1958)
The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already
conscious.
Peter D Ouspensky; The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution (1950)
I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that
they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard
before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They
had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.
Peter D Ouspensky; ibid
Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the
synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy
must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.
But where can such a philosophy be found? All that we know in our times by the
name of philosophy is not philosophy, but merely 'critical literature' or the
expression of personal opinions, mainly with the aim of overthrowing and
destroying other personal opinions. Or, which is still worse, philosophy is
nothing but self-satisfied dialectic surrounding itself with an impenetrable
barrier of terminology unintelligible to the uninitiated and solving for itself
all the problems of the universe without any possibility of proving these
explanations or making them intelligible to ordinary mortals.
Peter D Ouspensky; A New Model Of The Universe (1932)
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal
profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there
is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal
legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called
crimes.
Peter D Ouspensky
It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins
to have meaning.
Peter D Ouspensky
In every community, in
every nation, people are doing little and big things to help make a better
world. Think of what has been accomplished to date: space exploration; satellite
communications; heart transplants. Today, we have managed to do what previous
generations never dreamed of. But, you see, today, around the world, 820 million
people still don't have enough to eat. And it doesn't have to be this way.
Miriam Makeba, Grammy Award-winning South African singer, also known as Mama
Afrika, born March 4, 1932
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Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
US President Franklin D Roosevelt, at his inauguration on March 4, 1933
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue that. I'm right and will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus right now.
John Lennon, causing a storm on March 4, 1966
The
dingo took my baby!
Lindy Chamberlain, born on March 4, 1948, Australian woman falsely
imprisoned for murdering her baby Azaria

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Feast day of St Casimir,
Prince of Poland, patron
saint of Lithuania
(Chickweed, Alsine media, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Saint Casimir Jogailaitis, prince of Poland and Lithuania
Commonwealth was born on October
5, 1458 at the royal palace in Krakow. He
died at Grodno
on March 4,
1484 (some
sources say 1482).
The second son of King Casimir III of Poland, he wore underneath his princely attire a prickly hair shirt. He fasted rigorously, prayed at night till he fell exhausted on the bare floor, and went barefoot to church at midnight in all seasons and lay on his face before the door, thus serving God. He worked to drive heresy out of Poland – a Church euphemism for massacring multitudes of pagan (country-dwellers; people of the old rural religions) men, women and children as happened for centuries throughout Europe.
Prince/Saint Casimir committed suicide but his soul was
carried to Heaven by angels, surrounded by bright light. Thirty-six years
after his death he appeared mounted and attired in glittering armour, and
led the Polish army through an impassable river to conquer the Muscovites.
The next year he led the Poles in the air against the enemy, and they were
victorious. Or, so it is said.
St Casimir's Day, Lithuania
From
Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia.
For
the celebration of St Casimir's Day on March 4, many pilgrims came to
Vilnius from various Lithuanian places. After services in Vilnius Cathedral, the people lingered for a
while. This gave rise to the so-called Kaziuko muge (Casimir's Fair) (see
also Kaziukas).
Thousands of sellers, buyers and visitors came to these fairs. They were
held outdoors. The most typical Kaziuko muge merchandise was Vilniaus
verbos. These are various dried flowers and grasses braided together into
typical Lithuanian designs and tied to short sticks; they are taken to
church on Palm Sunday and later used to decorate the home.
Kaziukas
From
Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia.
Kaziukas is a traditional Lithuanian folk crafts fair dating back to the beginning of the 17th Century at two main market places and in Vilnius city centre.
As the fair was traditionally held on St Casimir's Day on March 4, it is popularly referred to as Kaziukas Fair or Little Casimir's fair. Today it is rather more like a festival of folk art and crafts, music and dance attracting tens of thousands of people and craftsmen from all over the country.
Traditional palms (called 'verbos', hence 'Verbu Sekmadienis') made of colourful dried flowers and herbs which believers take to church on Palm Sunday in Vilnius district are the fair's badge.
The Vilnius palms originate from a lily with which traditionally St Casimir is portrayed.
Another typical product of the fair is called 'muginukas', a heart-shaped Honey cookie, decorated with coloured sugar flowers, zig-zags, dots and birds. Popular men's and women's names are written on the cookies. People buy and give them to selected loved ones. It is a custom to bring some back for anyone who had to remain home.

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(Source of date: The Phoenix and Arabeth 1992 Calendar) From Wikipedia: In Welsh mythology, Rhiannon was a daughter of Hefeydd the Old. She was married to Pwyll and, later, Manawydan. Pwyll first met Rhiannon, when she appeared as a beautiful woman dressed in gold and riding a white horse. Pwyll sent his horsemen after her, but she was too fast. After three days, he spoke and Rhiannon told him she would rather marry him than the man she was being forced upon, Gwawl. She made a tryst with Pwyll and after a year from that day, he won her from Gwawl by tricking him to climb into a magic bag that Rhiannon had given to Pwyll – striking an agreement to free him in exchange for Rhiannon. Rhiannon gave birth to a son after three years of their rule; however, on the night of the birth, the child disappeared while in the care of six of Rhiannon's ladies-in-waiting. They feared that they would be put to death, and to avoid any blame, smeared blood from a puppy on the sleeping Rhiannon, and lay its bones around her bed. Pwyll imposed a penance on Rhiannon for her crime, to remain in the court of Arberth for seven years, and to sit every day near a horse-block outside the gate telling her story to all that passes. In addition, she was to carry any willing guest to the court on her back. The child appeared outside a stable of King Teyrnon, whose mares had just given birth but the foals had disappeared. Teyrnon had been watching his stables when he saw a mysterious beast coming to take the foal; Teyrnon stopped the beast by cutting off its arm at the elbow, and found the child outside the stable. He and his wife adopted him. The child grew to adulthood in only seven years and was given the foal which had led Teyrnon to the stable. Teyrnon realized who the child was and returned him to Pwyll and Rhiannon, who named him Pryderi (worry). Pryderi married Cigva and became King of Dyfed after his father died. He then invited Manawydan (his stepfather) to live with him in Dyfed. Soon, Dyfed turned into a barren wasteland and only Rhiannon, Pryderi, Cigva and Manawydan lived. Manaywdan and Pryderi, while out hunting, saw a white boar which they followed. Pryderi and his mother, Rhiannon, touched a golden bowl that the boar led them to and became enchanted. Manawydan and Cigva were unable to help them until they captured a mouse which was actually the wife of Llwyd, Rhiannon's enemy (seeking revenge for her treatment of Gwawl), and the spell was lifted. Pictured: The Penance of Rhiannon, by Stephen Reid, c. 1910 See Mabinogion Goddess Symbols and Sacred Objects of Rhiannon More And more Festival of the god Mars, ancient Rome (Mar 1 - 19) Egyptian day (dies egypticus, dies ægypticus or dies mala), unlucky day in Medieval Europe. ("But, notwithstanding, I will trust the Lord" was the associated saying.) Time of the
Old Woman, Morocco (Feb 25 - Mar 4) Jindai-ji Daruma-ichi, Jindai-ji Temple, Choufu, Tokyo, Japan (Mar 3 - 4) Shimabara Hatsuichi, Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan (Mar 3 - 10) Sounkyo Ice Festival, Sounkyo Onsen (spa), Hokkaido, Japan (Jan 29 - Mar 5) Todai-ji Shunie, Tōdai-ji temple, Nara, Japan, (Mar 1 - 14) Feast day of St Adrian,
bishop of St Andrew's, and his Companions Feast day of St Basil
and Companions He should not be confused with Saint Basil the Confessor, who lived about 400 years later. He also should not be confused with Basil Fool for Christ, a Russian Orthodox saint, after whom St Basil's Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow is named. Nor should he be confused with St Basil of Ostrog, who is a Serbian Orthodox saint, who built the Ostrog Monastery which is caved in and stands on a very high hill between Danilovgrad and Niksic. Feast day of St Basinus Feast day of St Giovanni Antonio Farina Feast day of St Humbert III Feast day of St Lucius I, pope and martyr Feast day of St Placide VielMaha Shivaratree, Mauritius Magka Puja, ThailandCharter Day (1681), Pennsylvania Constitution Day, US (1789) Admission Day (1791), Vermont, USA Admission Day (1803), Ohio, USA
1678 Antonio Vivaldi (d. 1741), Italian composer (The Four Seasons)
Sheppard inspired the figure of Macheath in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728) and The Threepenny Opera of Bertholt Brecht and Kurt Weill and thus 'Mack the Knife', the shady character immortalised not only in Brecht's play but also in the famous Bobby Darin/Louis Armstrong song of that name. A 1969 movie, Where's Jack, was based on Sheppard and Bess Edgworth. Highwaymen, outlaws, bushrangers, pirates, gangsters, etc in the Book of Days More
1793 Karl Lachmann
1856 John Dwyer (d. February 1, 1934), English-born Australian labor activist, who immigrated to Australia in 1888. From the early 1890s, he was a leader of Sydney's Active Service Brigade (with JA Andrews, Arthur Desmond, et al). Dwyer was imprisoned after the Sydney Anarchy Trial of June, 1894.
Sydney Anarchy Trial of February, 1894 Lawson & Co: associations with Henry and Louisa Lawson
1864 Daniel Mannix (d. November 2, 1963), Irish-born Australian Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years, one of the most influential public figures in 20th-Century Australia, and certainly the most powerful cleric in Australian history. In 1914, Australia entered World War I on the side of Britain, and when Mannix denounced the war as "just a sordid trade war", he was widely denounced as a traitor. When the Australian Labor Party government of Billy Hughes tried to introduce conscription for the war, Mannix campaigned against it. Although he only spoke out against conscription twice in the period leading up to the 1916 referendum, he was scapegoated by Hughes, and blamed for its defeat in its aftermath. His input was almost certainly too small to have made any real difference. He spoke out more frequently about the 1917 referendum, and might have contributed to its defeat; the extent to which Mannix was influential in the debates surrounding the conscription referenda has been the subject of debate among historians. Source: Wikipedia 1876 Léon-Paul Fargue1877 Garrett Morgan
1878
PD Ouspensky
(Peter D Ouspensky;
1879 Josip Murn
Aleksandrov 1901 Charles Goren, contract bridge expert 1903 Luis Carrero
Blanco 1909 Harry Helmsley 1913 John Garfield 1916 Hans Eysenck 1925 Paul Mauriat, musician 1926 Iñigo Sanz, professor of law 1928 Alan Sillitoe, British author and playwright (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) 1929 Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor1932 Miriam Makeba ('Mama Afrika'), Grammy Award-winning South African singer 1934 Dame Jane
Goodall, conservationist and author "Jane Goodall is the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees, having closely observed their behavior for the past quarter century in the jungles of the Gombe Game Reserve in Africa, living in the chimps' environment and gaining their confidence … Dr Goodall has expanded her global outreach with the founding of the Jane Goodall Institute based in Ridgefield, CT. She now teaches and encourages young people to appreciate the conversation of chimpanzees and all creatures great and small. She lectures, writes, teaches and continues her mission in many inventive ways, including the Chimpanzee Guardian Project." Source 1934 Janez Strnad, Slovene physicist 1941 Adrian Lyne, director1942 Charles C Krulak, 31st Commandant of the US Marine Corps 1947 Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
1948 Lindy Chamberlain, New Zealand-born Australian woman who was mistakenly jailed for the August 17, 1980, so-called murder of her baby, Azaria, who was devoured at the mythic Uluru (Ayer's Rock) by a dingo, an Australian wild dog. The story involved some very poorly conducted forensic blood tests – on a substance that later proved to be not blood at all, but a spray-on material used in the normal manufacture of a car. Remarkably, despite the fact that a lethal attack by a dingo on
a baby in a desert camping ground is scarcely an unlikely event, Lindy
Chamberlain and her husband Michael survived years
of assault by media and the law, and more than a few Australians
believed them both guilty.
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