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I will praise the water Ardvi Sura Anahita, the efficacious against the Daevas, devoted to Ahura's lore, and to be worshipped with sacrifice within the corporeal world, furthering all living things
[?] and holy, helping on the increase and improvement of our herds and settlements, holy, and increasing our wealth, holy, and helping on the progress of the Province, holy
[as she is?] . [Ardvi Sura Anahita] who purifies the seed of all male beings, who sanctifies the wombs of all women to the birth, who makes all women fortunate in labour, who brings all women a regular and timely flow of milk. Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women ... you will see the colored men will be masters over the women.
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Sojourner Truth |
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty
and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will
understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a
protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is
something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
WS Gilbert, British dramatist and librettist born on November 18,
1836; from The Mikado
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude
to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
WS Gilbert; ibid
It's a bad old world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical
productions.
WS Gilbert; ibid
She may very well pass for forty-three
In the dusk with the light behind her.
WS Gilbert; from Trial by Jury
I know what love is. There was a happy time when I didn't, but bitter
experience has taught me.
WS Gilbert; from Patience
Gentleman: How is Bloodygore doing?
Gilbert: The title is Ruddigore.
Gentleman: Surely that's the same thing.
Gilbert: Then it is the same to say "I admire your ruddy countenance" –
which I do – as "I like your bloody cheek" – which I don't.
WS Gilbert (during the period after the debut of Ruddigore,
which was far less successful at the box office than its predecessor,
The Mikado); attributed
'Lawsuit mania' ... a continual craving to go to law against others,
while considering themselves the injured party.
Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist, born on November 18, 1835;
from The Man of Genius (1891), Pt III, ch. 3
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare Lombroso
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is
why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great
men as lunatics.
Cesare Lombroso
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
Cesare Lombroso
Unfortunately, goodness and honour are rather the exception than the
rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
Cesare Lombroso
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Shepherd Day, Jr, American author born on November 18, 1874;
attributed
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Clarence Shepherd Day, Jr; attributed
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when
taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Clarence Shepherd Day, Jr; attributed
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the
world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line
of character.
Clarence Shepherd Day, Jr; attributed
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of
facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
Clarence Shepherd Day, Jr; attributed
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that
you won't have any.
Clarence Shepherd Day, Jr; attributed
I have got no doubt either that the purpose of our challenge from the UN is disarmament of weapons of mass destruction, it is not regime change.
Tony
Blair,
UK Prime Minister, November 18, 2002
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Sura (Aredvi Sura Anahita), Mother of the Stars, ancient PersiaApproximately on this day was a festival in honour of the Persian and Armenian goddess Ardvi Sura ('undefiled, immaculate, or mighty, blameless'), one of the names of Anahita, known as the Mother of the Stars, goddess of heavenly waters; Iranian version of Astarte/Ishtar. In the Christian tradition she is a cognate of Mary, Stella Maris.
A Persian
water goddess, also a cognate of
Aphrodite
(Greek goddess
of love,
sex
and beauty),
Anahita is sometimes
regarded as the consort of
Mithras,
the old-Iranian god of light, contracts and friendship. She is a fertility
goddess, and patroness of women, as well as a goddess of war.
Like Cybele ('the All-Begetting Mother, who
beats a drum to mark the rhythm of life'), Anahita is one of the forms
of the 'Great Goddess' which appears in many ancient eastern
religions. Temples to this goddess were built at Babylon, Soesna and
Ecbatana.
Like the later
female deity, the Virgin Mary,
Anahita is without spot or blemish, for the name 'Anahita' means
'the immaculate one'. She is portrayed as a virgin, dressed in a
golden cloak, and wearing a diamond tiara; sometimes she also
carries a pitcher. Anahita's sacred animals are the dove
and the peacock.
She is related to the Armenian goddess Anahid, whose feast days fell in spring and autumn, the most important ceremony dedicated to her being held on the fifteenth day of Navasard, the first month of the ancient Armenian calendar.
"The Peacock in Byzantine and early Romanesque art was used to signify the Resurrection, because its flesh was thought to be incorruptible. (St. Augustine, City of God, xxi, c, iv.) It was also a symbol of pride." Source
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St Peter (died c. 67) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. His birth name was Simon (Hebrew שמעון Šim'ôn, Shim'on 'Hearkening; listening'), he was a fisherman, and was given the nickname of 'Peter', which means 'rock' in Greek (Petros). Saint Paul generally called him Cephas or Kephas, which is the Aramaic equivalent of the nickname. Peter was the brother of Saint Andrew the Apostle who led him to Christ. Roman Catholics believe him to be the first Pope and to their church he is known as 'Prince of the Apostles'. His patronage includes against frenzy, bakers, butchers, clock makers, cobblers, feet problems, fever, fishermen, harvesters, locksmiths, longevity, net makers, papacy, Popes, Rome, ship builders, shipwrights, shoemakers, stone masons and watch makers. More on Peter on June 29, the Feast day of Ss Peter and Paul.
Leonids meteor showers
(Nov 12 - 23
annually)
Wuwuchim (Hopi) Fire Ceremony (Nov 5 - 21) Hopi Prophecy sung at Wuwuchim in 1961
Roman festivals The day 1 Dios dedicated to the sun god by emperor Licinius Feast
day of Ss Alphaeus and Zachaeus, Romanus and Barulas (Barula),
martyrs Feast day of St Amandus of Lérins Feast day of St Constant Feast day of the Dedication
of the Basilicas of Ss Peter and Paul, Apostles, Rome Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul Feast day of St Guilminus Feast day of St Hesychius of Antioch Feast day of St John Xoun Feast day of St Karolina Kózkówna Feast day of St Keverne Feast day of St Leonard Kimura Feast day of St Mummolus Feast day of St Odo,
Abbot of Cluni, confessor Feast day of St Oriculus and Companions Feast day of St Rose
Philippine Duchesne Ebisu-san Matsuri, Ebisu
Shrine, Hiroshima City, Japan (Nov 18 -
20) Carib Settlement Days, Belize (Nov 16 - 19) Independence Day, Latvia (1918)
The week before Thanksgiving, National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, USA
On which day of the week were you born? Find out here 1785 Sir David Wilkie, Scottish artist 1786 Carl Maria von Weber (d. 1826), German composer, conductor, pianist and critic. Some sources give his date of birth as December 18.1787 Louis-Jacques Daguerre (d. 1851),
French theatrical scene painter (producer of panoramic dioramas),
physicist, inventor of the first practical process of photography, the
daguerrotype.
Through his Diorama, which
opened in the Rue du Faubourg-du-Temple in Paris in 1822, Daguerre
became very well known in Paris, even before his innovations in
photography. Daguerreotypy, first shown on September 17,
1839, in Paris, was a method of capturing an
image projected by a camera obscura
onto silver-coated copper plates. Then the plates were sensitised
with iodine vapour, exposed in a camera, developed with mercury
vapour, and fixed with a solution of sodium thiosulfate, resulting
in a single, fixed image.
Baumfree settled in New York City, earning a living as a domestic worker for several religious communes, including the 'Kingdom of Matthias' which became embroiled in a scandal of adultery and murder. When, in 1843, she was inspired by some kind of spiritual peak experience, Isabella Baumfree changed her name to Sojourner Truth, walked throughout Long Island and Connecticut, and preached "God's truth and plan for salvation". Eventually arriving in Northampton, MA, Sojourner joined the intentional community the Northampton Association for Education and Industry, where she met and worked with abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison (founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society), Frederick Douglass and Olive Gilbert. (The latter helped edit her memoirs which were published in 1850 as The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave.) Truth eventually added
abolitionism and women's suffrage to her oratory; in her later life she became a noted
speaker for both the abolitionist movement and the women's rights movement. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, at Amazon.com
1836 Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (d. May 29, 1911), English playwright, librettist and humourist best known for his collaboration with Arthur Sullivan in comic operas; he was also a cartoonist. On May 29, 1911, he was giving swimming lessons to two young women at the lake on his property, Gram's Dyke, when one of them began to flail around. Gilbert dived in to save her, but suffered a heart attack in the middle of the lake. 1836 Cesare Lombroso (d. 1909), professor of psychiatry, pioneer of criminology 1870 Dorothy Dix (d. December 16, 1951; not to be confused with Dorothea Dix, 1802 - '87, social activist), pen-name of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (November 18, 1870 - December 16, 1951), who was famous for authoring a newspaper column that gave advice to people suffering personal or emotional problems. Letters in her column were typically addressed "Dear Dorothy", which has become an archetype for advice columns in newspapers, magazines and other printed media. Dorothy Dix's name gave rise to a political term in Australia for a simple question asked of a Minister by a backbencher from their own party. Such a question is often referred to as a "Dorothy Dixer" and is used to give the Minister a chance to promote themselves or the work that the Government is doing in their area, or to criticise the opposition party's policies, or to raise the profile of the backbench member asking the quesion. The term has been common in Australian politics since the 1950s and is a common and widely accepted tactic used during question time in the House of Representatives. 1874 Clarence Day (d. 1935), American author 1882 Jacques Maritain (d. 1973), French philosopher 1883 Carl Vinson (d. 1981), United States Congressman 1891 Gio Ponti (d. 1979), Italian architect 1897 Patrick Blackett (d. 1974), English physicist, 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics 1898 Joris Ivens (d. 1989), filmmaker 1899 Eugene Ormandy (d. 1985), conductor 1901 George Gallup (d. 1984), statistician, opinion
pollster 1906 Sir Alec Issigonis, Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1959 1906 Klaus
Mann (d. 1949), publicist, dramatist and narrator 1906 George Wald (d. 1997), American chemist, 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 Imogene Coca (d. 2001),
pioneering US television comedienne 1909 Johnny Mercer (d. 1976), lyricist 1916 Amelita Galli-Curci (d. 1963), opera soprano 1923 Alan Shepard (d. 1998)
1928 Mickey Mouse debuted in NY in Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie, the first successful sound-synchronized animated cartoon and a loose parody of Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), starring Buster Keaton. Ub Iwerks, Disney's right hand man in the creation of the early Mickey Mouse cartoons, later said, "I've never been so thrilled in my life. Nothing since has ever equalled it." 1935 Rudolf Bahro (d. 1997), dissident 1936 Hank Ballard (d. 2003), musician 1939 Brenda Vaccaro, actress 1939 Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer
(The Handmaid's Tale;
The Blind Assassin – Booker
Prize winner 2000) 1941 David Hemmings (d. 2003), British actor 1942 Linda Evans, American actress (TV soap opera: Dynasty) 1944 Susan Sullivan, actress 1946 Alan Dean Foster, author 1947 Ross Wilson, Australian musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer best known for fronting the groups Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock, and for his production of albums by the Australian band Skyhooks 1948 Andrea Marcovicci, singer, actress 1950 Jameson Parker, actor 1958 Laura Miller, mayor of Dallas, Texas, USA |
