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Leonids, Niagara Falls, 1833 |
L'exactitude est la politesse des rois. (Punctuality is the politeness of
kings).
King Louis XVIII of France, born November 17, 1755
The "City of Magnificent Distances" [Washington, DC, USA] was a mere cluster of huts in a bog when the second session of the sixth Congress began the first Washington congressional session there November 17, 1800.
Willis Thornton
Miss Goldman is a communist;
I am an individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property, I wish to
assert it. I make my war upon privilege and authority, whereby the right of
property, the true right in that which is proper to the individual, is
annihilated. She believes that co-operation would entirely supplant competition;
I hold that competition in one form or another will always exist, and that it is
highly desirable it should.
Voltairine de Cleyre, US anarchist, born on November 17, 1866; referring to
Emma Goldman
Written in red their protest
stands,
For the Gods of the World to see;
On the dooming wall their bodiless hands
have blazoned "Upharsin,"
and flaring brands
Illumine the message: "Seize the lands!
Open the prisons and make men free!"
Flame out the living words of the dead
Written-in-red.
Voltairine de Cleyre; 'Written in Red'
The paramount question of
the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out
demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it
impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his
existence.
Voltairine de Cleyre;
The Economic Tendency of Freethought
(1890)
In the name of Purity what lies are told!
What queer morality it has engendered.
Voltairine de Cleyre; Sex Slavery (1890)
This, then, is the tyranny of the State; it denies,
to both woman and man, the right to earn a living, and grants it as a privilege
to a favored few who for that favor must pay ninety per cent toll to the
granters of it.
Voltairine de Cleyre; ibid
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Voltairine de Cleyre
I am not a crook.
President Richard Nixon, November 17, 1973
That the materially poor can ever be spiritual is out-and-out absurd.
Osho (Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh), Indian cult leader, who left the USA for India on November 17, 1985
Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life
is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don't ask about
the path.
Osho
Knowledge is not information, it's transformation.
Osho
A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to
avoid the errors, that will do.
Osho
Only people who carry the opinions of others need the support of
others.
Osho
The mind can be used and can be put aside. It is an instrument, a very
beautiful instrument; no need to be so obsessed with it.
Osho
You can't go on eating Italian food forever. Once in a
while you want to try a Chinese restaurant. Marriage is a lifelong
bondage.
Osho
November 17
is
the 321st
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (322nd
in leap years), with 44
days remaining.
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Leonids meteor
showers (Nov 12 - 23 annually)The peak of Leonids visibility is around November 17. There is a spike every 33 years above the normal levels of about 50 'shooting stars' an hour.
The years 1799, 1833 and 1866, 1900 and 1966 all had spectacular Leonid displays, and the show of 1998 was described by one American observer as "jaw-dropping", with fireballs and some 'shooting stars' as big as Venus and brighter than the Moon. Probably the best one on record was the famous one of 1833 (pictured at right; see November 12). However, in 902, Chinese astronomers reported that "stars fell like rain" and Egyptians declared it 'the year of the stars'. One wonders if the Leonids were the 'Tears of Isis' that we discussed on November 13.
"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
Source: Wikipedia
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.
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