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When a star falls from the sky The bay trees in our country are
all wither'd, By nature I am not subtly spun, nor is it the custom of my native land to accomplish anything by spinning silk. Nor are we raised on figs, nor on mead, nor on wheaten bread, but on cheese, milk and oatcakes, which cannot give one a subtle disposition. Moreover, a man clings all his days to what he received in his youth; and my youth was coarse as compared to that of the subtle, pampered, and over-refined. For those who are raised in soft clothes and in women's apartments and we who are brought up among the pine-cones have trouble in understanding one another well.
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To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American feminist, born on November 12, 1815
Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I live ...
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance
And the good that I can do.
Poem quoted on the title page of the diary of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We have struggle to not proceed but to precede to the future of a nation's child.
George W Bush, Journal Gazette, November 12, 2000
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Epulum Jovis in Capitoli,
Festival of Jupiter,
Roman Empire (Nov 12 - 14)
Epulum Jovis in Capitoli was a three-day festival honouring the one Roman deity given the title of God – Jupiter, or Jove to the Romans and Zeus to the Greeks. Jupiter was the god of the sky and thunder, a friendly, mostly happy god, not vengeful or destructive like the Bible's Jehovah (God of the Jews), who is also sometimes called in English 'Jove' by association. The English word 'jovial', in fact, comes from this happy god. However, he could sometimes be a punishing deity.
He was born of Cronus
(Saturn) and Rhea
(Ops). Worship of Zeus originated
among the Minoans, where he was known as the
Earthshaker. At Epirus in Greece, his voice was heard coming from a giant oak tree.
Jupiter overthrew his
Father Saturn (in Greek, Cronus),
then drew lots with his brothers Poseidon and Hades to determine who would
be the supreme ruler of the gods. Jupiter won this draw and became the
ruler of Olympus and the patron of the ancient Roman state.
His weapon is a thunderbolt which he hurls at
those who incur his displeasure. Jupiter is married to Hera but, is known
for his many affairs. Jupiter had an affair with Juturna
but the secret was betrayed by a nymph named Lara, whom
Jupiter struck with muteness as punishment. Despite his philandering, he
is also known to punish those that lie or break oaths.
On this, the first day, celebrations commenced in honour of the goddesses of Plenty, Fortune and Piety, climaxing tomorrow on the Ides of the month. The festivities included music with singing and dancing in the streets, feasting, games, and wine-drinking.
Tomorrow we shall look at how the Epulum Jovis was celebrated.
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showers (Nov 12 - 23
annually)"The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet
Tempel-Tuttle. The meteor
stream is viewable every year around November
17 and is thought to be comprised of particles ejected by the
comet as it passes by the Sun. When the Earth
moves through the meteor stream, the meteor shower is visible. The
Leonids get their name from usually making their appearance in or
near the constellation Leo. "The
Leonids are famous because their meteor showers, or storms, can be
among the most spectacular. They seem to follow a 33 year cycle,
associated with the 33 year orbit of Tempel-Tuttle. Storms in peak
years can feature thousands of meteors
per hour; notable events were observed in 1698, 1799, 1833, 1866, 1966, and 2001." Pictured above right: The Leonids were particularly spectacular in 1833 and they are seen here over Niagara Falls Each November the Earth runs into the dusty debris from periodic comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. The Leonid meteor shower originates from the area around the constellation Leo the lion. In the best years, there have been Leonid meteor 'storms' recorded of up to 150,000 meteors per hour.The peak of Leonids visibility is around November 17; more then in the Book of Days. Were meteor showers responsible for omens in ancient sacred texts? Meteors & Native American Folklore
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of meteor showers Meteor observing calendar Meteors and the Native Americans Sky map Thunderstones and Shooting Stars: Meteors and Meteorites in Folklore Jaw-dropping Leonids Picture of the Tempel-Tuttle Comet More And more See also Perseid and Lyrid meteor showers in the Book of Days
If you can't see the Milky Way outside at night, join the International Dark-Sky Association and help lobby for some laws to save the human spirit!
St Michael's
day for the Nile, Egypt Related (use Search): Tears of Isis; Lamentations of Isis, Rising of the Nile)
Feast day of St Astricus Feast day of St Cummian
Fada (Cumian, Cummin) Feast day of St Gabriel Ferretti Feast day of St Himerius Feast day of St Isaac Feast day of St John Cini della Pace Feast day of St Josaphat Feast day of St Lebuin (Lebwin), patron of Daventer Feast day of St Livinus (Livin), bishop and martyr Feast day of St Nilus the
Elder, anchoret, father of the church Feast day of St Rene Wuwuchim (Hopi) Fire Ceremony (Nov 5 - 21) Kitano Odori, Kyoto, Japan (Nov 1 - 15)
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Paracelsus
believed that "magic is a teacher of medicine preferable to all
the written books". He also believed that epileptics were ill, not
possessed. Paracelsus was the first to use tincture of opium in
medicine, and he correctly associated head injury with paralysis,
and miners' lung with the occupation. He claimed to have
discovered the philosopher's stone and that he was immortal. On September 24,
1541 Paracelsus made his will, but there was no mention of gold or
silver, the alchemists' holy grail. His only legacy was a 125
grams (approx. 4 oz
Troy/Apoth.) silver chalice. Paracelsus died in 1541, possibly
from a fall (he was a heavy drinker).
Science > Anomalies and Alternative Science > Alchemy
Alchemists in the Almanac:
Cornelius Agrippa
Roger Bacon
Count Cagliostro
John Dee
1729 Louis Antoine de Bougainville (Louis-Antoine, comte de Bougainville; d. August 20, 1811), French navigator and military commander
1493 Bartolommeo Bandinelli
(d. 1560), Italian
sculptor
1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (d. October 26, 1902), American social reformer and feminist, co-founder, with Lucretia Mott, of the women's rights movement; first president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association A world chronology of women's electoral rights, in the Scriptorium A USA chronology of women's suffrage Shop Suffragettes 1817 Mírzá Husayn-'Alí (Bahá'u'lláh; d. May 29, 1892), founder of the Bahá'í Faith. He was born in Tehran, Persia, now a part of Iran. His father was Mirza Buzurg of Nur (in the province of Mazandaran), a distinguished nobleman from the court of Fath Ali Shah, the king of Persia. 1833 Alexander Borodin (d. 1887), Russian composer (opera Prince Igor) 1840 Auguste Rodin 1866 Sun
Yat-sen 1889 DeWitt Wallace (d. March 30, 1981, also known as William Roy), United States magazine publisher who co-founded Reader's Digest with his wife Lila Wallace and published the first issue in 1922 1896 Salim Ali (d. 1987), Indian ornithologist 1903 Jack Oakie (d. 1978), American actor 1908 Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court; wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade (d. 1999) 1910 Kurt Hoffmann, film director 1915 Roland Barthes (d. 1980), French writer 1917 Jo
Stafford, singer 1920 Richard Quine, actor 1922 Sunset Carson, actor 1922 Kim Hunter (d. 2002), actress 1923 Vicco von Bülow, known as Loriot, graphic artist, actor and film director 1929 Grace Kelly (d. 1982), Princess Grace of Monaco, actress 1929 Michael Ende (d. 1995), writer 1934 Charles Manson, murderer 1943 Brian Hyland, singer 1943 Wallace Shawn, actor, playwright 1944 Booker T Jones, musician (Booker T and the MGs) 1945 Neil Young, singer, songwriter, musician 1966 David Schwimmer, actor 1978 Andrew Kinlochan, singer, musician 1984 Tim Woodland, evangelist, civil rights activist
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