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On board the brig
we also saw Cinques, the master spirit and hero of this bloody
tragedy, in irons. He is about five feet eight inches in height, 25 or
26 years of age, of erect figure, well built, and very active. He is
said to be a match for any two men on board the schooner. His
countenance, for a native African, is unusually intelligent, evincing
uncommon decision and coolness, with a composure characteristic of
true courage, and nothing to mark him as a malicious man. He is a
negro who would command in New Orleans, under the hammer, at least
$1500. As to
Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think
the System of Morals and his Religion ... has received various
corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in
England, some doubts as to his Divinity; tho' it is a question I do
not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to
busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing
the Truth with less trouble. The country habit has me by the heart, |
Caption: "Leader of the gang of Negroes who killed Captain Ramon Ferrers and the cook on board the Spanish Schooner Amistad. Captured by Lieutenant Gedney of the U.S. Brig Washington at Culloden Point Long Island, August 24th, 1839."
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An archaeologist is the best husband any woman
can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie; reported in the news on March 9, 1954
From the beginning Wilde performed his life and continued to do so
even after fate had taken the plot out of his hands.
Poet WH
Auden, on March 9,
1963; in a New Yorker review
of Oscar
Wilde's letters
March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (69th in leap years), with 297 days remaining.
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Strinennia, Slavic holiday of Spring
Oh little bee, Ardent bee!
Fly out beyond the sea.
Get out the keys, the golden keys.
Lock up winter, cold winter
Unlock summer, warm summer.
Warm summer –
A summer fertile in grain.
Today
is an old Slavic holiday. On this day, clay larks were made; their
heads were covered with honey and decorated with tinsel and they were
carried around the village by revellers who sang vesnjanki, invocations to
Spring.
Pastries
shaped like birds were baked, and given to children who threw them
into the air while saying "The rooks have come". Pastries
were sometimes tied to poles in the garden. The baking of these
pastries would ensure that the birds would return, for it is they
who bring back the Spring.
Slavic
Deities and Shaman-Pagan Traditions
"Lada
is the goddess of spring, love and beauty. She lives in the
Otherworld, called Vyri, until the spring equinox, when she emerges,
bringing Spring with her. In one myth, she is married to Dazhbog.
Other stories have Lado, a solar god of joy, as her partner
and Lel, the god of marriage, as her son."
Source: Moist
Mother Earth
Lada,
Slavic Maiden of Spring
Deities
of many cultures in the Book of Days See also Lada
and Lado in the Book of Days
"In 320
and during the reign of Emperor Licinius, forty Roman soldiers
stationed at a garrison in Sebaste, Armenia were singled out and
persecuted for their Christian faith. The governor of Sebaste
tried persuasion and various means of torture to get them to
apostatize, by demanding that they offer sacrifices to idols.
Refusing to do so, they were stripped and forced to stand on a
frozen pond all night, while warm baths and a fire were posted
on the bank to tempt them. The soldiers prayed to God that they
would not give in, and so remain forty strong – symbolizing the
forty days of fasting by Christ, Moses and Elijah. Only one gave
in, however, a soldier standing watch over them took his place,
making them again forty in number. They all finally died from
this torture."
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