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Kukulkán (Quetzalcoatl); Mayan
Kukulkan
Mayan God from
whom the Aztec Quetzalcoatl is derived.
Source of date: The Phoenix
and Arabeth 1992 Calendar
From
Wikipedia: Quetzalcoatl ('feathered
snake'; in Nahuatl:
Ketsalkoatl, in Spanish:
Quetzalcóatl) is the Nahuatl
name for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerica,
one of the main gods of many Mexican
and northern Central
American civilizations.
The name 'Quetzalcoatl' literally
means quetzal-bird snake or serpent
with feathers (Amphitere)
of the Quetzal
(which implies something divine or precious) in the Nahuatl
language. The meaning of his local name in other Mesoamerican
languages is similar. The Maya
knew him as Kukulkán; the
Quiché
as Gukumatz.
The Feathered Serpent deity was important
in art and religion in most of Mesoamerica for close to 2,000 years,
from the Pre-Classic
era until the Spanish
conquest. Civilizations worshiping the Feathered Serpent
included the Olmec,
the Mixtec,
the Toltec,
the Aztec,
and the Maya.
The worship
of Quetzalcoatl sometimes included animal sacrifices,
and in other traditions Quetzalcoatl was said to oppose human
sacrifice ... He was known as the inventor of books and the calendar,
the giver of maize
(corn) to mankind, and sometime as a symbol of death and resurrection.
Quetzalcoatl was also the patron of the priests and the title of the
Aztec high priest.
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Feast day of St Albert of
Louvain
Feast day of St
Columbanus
(Columban, the Fair Colum)
Irish missionary notable for founding a
number of
monasteries on the European continent from
around
590 in the
Frankish and Italian kingdoms. Columbanus
is named in the Roman
Martyrology
on November 21, but his feast is kept by the Benedictines and
throughout Ireland on
November 24.
Feast day of St Gelasius I,
pope and confessor
Feast day of St Heliodorus
Feast
day of St Hilary
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Festival of
Madonna della Salute (the Madonna of the Salute), Venice, Italy
"This celebration evokes the terrifying
epidemic plague from 1629 to 1631 when German and French troops
carried the plague to Mantua in 1629."
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"The festival is mostly for children,
and there are toys and sweets for sale in the neighbourhood."
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Feast day of the Presentation
of the Blessed Virgin
(Largeflowered
wood sorrel, Oxalis grandiflora,
is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
The feast of the Presentation of
Mary
is not based on a
Biblical event, but rather an incident
mentioned in the
Infancy Narrative of James.
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"St Cecilia is the patron saint of
music. I have no idea why and I am not interested in finding
out. But her Saint's Day is on 22 November. This is the day we
are supposed to celebrate music, thank God for its existence. I
decided that No Music Day should be on the day before St
Cecilia's Day, using the same principles as having Halloween the
day before All Saints' Day or Mardi Gras on the day before Lent
kicks in."
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The Slave Market with Disappearing Bust of Voltaire,
by Salvador
Dali
1694 François-Marie
Arouet, called Voltaire
(d. May
30, 1778),
French
Enlightenment writer,
deist
and philosopher.
At 65, he spent all of three days writing
one of his most famous works, Candide
(read about other 'late
achievers' in the Scriptorium). When he was an old man, Voltaire was advised to foreswear the Devil. He declined, saying
"This is no time to make new enemies!" When he was dying, a priest was sent for.
"Who sent you here, Monsieur l'Abbe?" the philosopher asked. "God himself, Monsieur Voltaire."
"Ah, my dear sir," Voltaire replied, "and where are your credentials?"
A big coffee drinker, Voltaire was once warned that the beverage was a slow poison.
"It must be slow," the philosopher replied, "for I have been drinking it for sixty-five years and I am not yet dead".
On the question of Absolution, one of the cardinal supports of the Roman Catholic Church, Voltaire revealed this evidence from the church's official
documents:
Absolution for one who has carnally known his mother, his sister, etc. costs five drachmas. Absolution for one who has deflowered a virgin, six drachmas. Absolution for one who has revealed another's confession, seven drachmas.
Absolution for one who has killed his father, his mother, etc., five drachmas ...
"In the year 1765, in the town of Abbeville, it was discovered that an old wooden cross standing on the bridge over the Somme River had been mutilated; it had been hacked with a knife. On the same night it was also discovered that a crucifix on one of the cemeteries had been bespotted with mud. For such a crime and for such an atrocity nothing must be left undone to punish the guilty.
"Such a defiance of God and such a mockery of the church must not go unpunished! Not every crime was so flagrant that it was
'worthy of the severest punishment known to the world's law,' but this one met all the requirements. It merited such severity as only hyenas of religion could inflict.
"Two young men, the Chevaliers de la Barre and d'Etallonde were accused. The former was arrested, the latter escaped to Russia. The evidence against de la Barre was that he was known to have passed a procession bearing the Sacrament without taking off his hat, and more damaging still was the fact that there was found in his room a copy of Voltaire's
Philosophical Dictionary." Source
"(Voltaire) employed ridicule, satire, and mockery in their proper place and in their most effective manner. He utilized reason when he knew the intelligence of the people would understand it. He met every falsehood with fact, and with direct and decisive blows demolished the false structures built upon casuistry.
"He was never idle in behalf of mankind. It has been said that he was extravagant with everything but his time. To him time was the most precious thing in the world. He could not bear to see a single golden moment wasted while heartless brutality of priest and king rode so mercilessly upon the backs of the ignorant masses. He could not reconcile himself to idleness and pleasure with so much misery and injustice prevailing, when he could be of some assistance."
Source
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A club (founded
by Hugo Ball
[pictured] on February 5, 1916),
where you might find
Tristan Tzara,
Jean Arp,
Guillaume
Apollinaire, Vassily
Kandinsky, Amedeo Modigliani,
Pablo
Picasso, Max
Oppenheimer, Jules LaForgue, Vladimir Lenin and
Arthur Rimbaud
having a drink.
Cabaret
Voltaire magazine, June
15, 1916
1761 Dorothy Jordan (d. 1816), British actress and royal mistress
1768 Friedrich Daniel Ernst
Schleiermacher (d. 1834), theologian, philosopher
1787 Samuel Cunard (d. 1865), Canadian-born shipping magnate,
founded his commercial empire on May 4, 1839
1835 Hetty
Green (d. 1916), American businesswoman
1840
Gresley Lukin (d.
September 12,
1916), Australian
editor who also worked in New Zealand; friend of Australian poet and
author Henry
Lawson. In 1873, he resigned his office as chief clerk of the
Supreme Court of Queensland to become editor of the Brisbane
Courier and Queenslander. In
1876, he sent an
expedition under Ernest Favenc to explore a proposed
transcontinental railway route. In March,
1890, he bought
Boomerang from
William Lane.
After becoming bankrupt and anxious to improve his health, in
1893 he went to New
Zealand where he worked as parliamentary reporter on Wellington's
Evening Post, of which he became editor until his death.
Lawson & Co: associations with Henry and Louisa Lawson
1842 Alferd Packer (d. April 23, 1907), alleged cannibal
and murderer.
The
Alferd Packer case is one of the most infamous episodes of the Wild
West, and a case that is far from resolved.
Alferd (or Alfred – he
preferred the misspelling which he took from a badly done tattoo)
Packer is often known as the only American ever convicted of
cannibalism, though in reality his conviction was for murder, not
cannibalism …
Read
on at the Alferd
Packer page in the Scriptorium
1844
Ada
Cambridge (d. July
19, 1926),
Anglo-Australian hymnist
and poet
and author of 25 novels (A Marked Man; The Three Miss
Kings; Not All in Vain); Australia's first woman poet of
note, her longer-term reputation rests on her novels
"In the 1880s and '90s ... the emerging nationhood was epitomised by
The Bulletin, journals like The Worker and writers such as Dyson, Lawson, Furphy,
O'Dowd, Marie Pitt, Ada Cambridge, Daley and Brady."
Source:
Critical
biography
of Edwin Brady,
by John B Webb, MA (PDF)
Lawson
& Co: associations with Henry and Louisa Lawson
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1854 Pope
Benedict XV (d. 1922)
1860 Tom
Horn, murderer-for-hire
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1870
Alexander
Berkman (d. June 28, 1936), Russian writer and
activist who lived and worked for many years in the United States,
where he was a leading member of the anarchist
movement. He was closely associated with Emma Goldman,
another Russian anarchist with whom he collaborated frequently and
organized civil rights
and anti-war
campaigns.
Berkman
shot
Henry Clay
Frick in a brutal
attempted
murder in which Goldman was
a co-conspirator. Workers and anarchists alike condemned Berkman's
action. Goldman and Berkman led the libertarian
critique of the Soviet
Communist Party, denouncing what they saw as the betrayal of the
revolution.
Alexander
Berkman Archive ABC of
Anarchism, book by Alexander Berkman
'A
Sketch of Alexander Berkman' (by
Emma Goldman)
'Alexander
Berkman's Last Days' (by
Emma Goldman)
Spunk online
archive ISBNs for
Alexander Berkman
Early
progressives in the Book of Days
1878 Gustav Radbruch (d. 1949), German
law professor
1882 Paul Niehans (d.1971), physicist
1888
Harpo Marx (Arthur
Marx),
the silent member of the
Marx Brothers
1898
René Magritte (d. 1967), Belgian
painter1902 Foster Hewitt
(d. 1985), Canadian
radio
pioneer
1904 Coleman Hawkins (d. 1969), jazz
musician
1912 Eleanor Powell (d. 1983), actress, dancer
1912 Eileen Joyce, Australian concert pianist
1920
Ralph Meeker
(d. 1988), actor
1921
Vivian Blaine
(d. 1995), actress
1922
María Casarès
(d. 1996), actress
1931 Malcolm Williamson (d. 2003), composer
1933
Joseph Campanella, actor
1936 Dr Victor Chang, Australian
doctor, heart transplantation pioneer who
was murdered on July 4, 1991 following an
extortion attempt
1937
Marlo Thomas, American
actress
1939 Mulayam Singh Yadav, politician, India
1940 Dr
John, musician
1941 Juliet Mills, actress
1944 Harold Ramis, actor, comedian,
screenwriter, director, producer
1945 Goldie
Hawn, American actress who first came to international
notice in the TV series,
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1952
Deborah Shelton, actress
1962 Steven Curtis Chapman, contemporary Christian music
star
1963 Nicolette Sheridan, actress (Knots Landing, Desperate Housewives)
1965 Björk,
singer, songwriter, actress
1965 Alexander Siddig, actor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1973 Brooke
Kerr, actress
1984 Jena
Malone, actress
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235 Anterus
was elected Pope.
496 Death of Pope
Gelasius I.
1361 Death
of Philip of Rouvres, Duke
of Burgundy, from the plague.
1551
Francis Xavier and
other Jesuits returned from Japan.
The introduction of Christianity to Japan is frequently, one might
say usually, credited to St Francis Xavier, a disciple of St
Ignatius of Loyola, and
the date given is 1549. For
example, Kondansha's Encyclopedia of Japan makes that claim (source), and Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia of
Religion seems to accept the received wisdom.
However,
modern research indicates that the Christian gospel was already ancient in Japan
when Xavier first set foot there.
Christianity first arrived
in Far Eastern Asia about 1,800 years ago along the 'Silk Road', passing through
China to Nara, central Japan. Evidence is found in a copy of the Gospel of Saint
Matthew in ancient Chinese script, dating back to the ninth century, found
inside the Koryuji Buddhist Temple in Kyoto, near Nara. That temple was built
about 818 on the ruins of a Christian church erected in 603.
As for
the introduction of Christianity into China, my favourite online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, puts the date at 635: "Nestorianism was the first
Christian tradition to reach China (in 635), and about the
same time into Mongolia,
and its relics can still be seen in Chinese cities such as Xian. An inscribed stone, set up
in February, 781 at Chou-Chih,
fifty miles south-west of Sai-an Fu, at the time the capital of China, describes
the introduction of Christianity into China from Persia in the reign of Tang Taizong."
However, archaeology is uncovering Christian relics in Eastern Asia that are
pushing back the date closer and closer to the time of Christ.
Another
religion from the West that took root in ancient China was Manichaeism
(founded in Iran in the Third Century).
Christianity in
Japan
Jesus Christ's grave in Japan
1555 Death
of Georg
Agricola, German
scientist.
1695 Death
of Henry
Purcell, composer.
1783 In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
and
François Laurent, the Marquis d'Arlandes, in
a Montgolfier
brothers-built balloon, made the
first untethered hot air balloon flight (flight time: 25 minutes,
maximum height: about 100 m, distance:
9 km).
"Their cloth balloon was
crafted by French papermaking brothers Jacques Etienne and Joseph Michel
Montgolfier, who believed smoke, not hot air, caused balloons to rise. Fueling
the balloon's burner with a combination of damp straw, rotting meat, and
rags, Rozier and d'Arlandes ascended as high as 1000 meters, before
returning safely to earth. The previous month, Rozier was the first human
passenger aboard a rising balloon, when he rose 25 meters in a tethered
Montgolfier-made balloon, and four months before that, a duck, a rooster, and
a sheep each successfully took a ride on a Montgolfier hot air balloon. MORE"
Source
1789 North
Carolina ratified the United States Constitution and was
admitted as the 12th US state.
1791 New South Wales Colony
(Australia): Twenty desperate but deluded convicts escaped from Sydney and attempted to reach
China – by land.
1791 French navigator, Étienne Marchand, arrived in China, having
crossed the Pacific in record time of 60 days.
1806 Napoleon's
Berlin Decree excluded British goods from France and declared a blockade on
Britain.
1811 Death
of Heinrich von Kleist, writer.
1818 The
Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle ended.
1820 Thirteen-year-old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's
first poem, The Battle of Lovell's Pond was published in the
Portland,
Maine, USA, Gazette.
1861 American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson
Davis appointed Judah Benjamin secretary of war.
1877 Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph,
a machine that can record sound (this is considered to be Edison's first great
invention).
1894 The
Port Arthur massacre occurred during the
First
Sino-Japanese War, when advanced elements of the First Division
of the Japanese Second Army under command of the one-eyed General
Yamaji Motoharu (1841-1897) killed an estimated 60,000 Chinese
servicemen and civilians, leaving only 36 to bury bodies, in the
Chinese coastal city of Lüshunkou, historically known in the West as
Port Arthur.
1899 Death of Garret
Hobart, Vice President of the United States.
1904 A cyclone left 30,000
Filipinos homeless.
1911
Suffragettes stormed Parliament in London. All were arrested and all chose
prison.
A
world chronology of women's suffrage
1916 Death
of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria.
1922 Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia took the oath of office, becoming the
first woman United States Senator.
1927 Columbine Mine Massacre, Colorado, USA:
Five hundred striking coal miners,
some with their families, were attacked with machine guns
by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian
clothes. The strike had been called by the Industrial Workers of the World (aka
'Wobblies').
1934
Anything Goes, a
musical by Cole Porter, opened in New York.
1935 England: In June of
this year Emma
Goldman began mobilizing anarchist writers and editors of the movement's
press – for example, Rudolf
Rocker, Max
Nettlau and Albert de Jong – to publish articles to mark Alexander
Berkman's 65th birthday today.
After traveling to London,
where she made her home for the winter, Emma began a series of lectures today
with 'Traders in Death' to an audience of about 100 at the National Trade
Union Club. She followed this with 'Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin' at a
packed meeting at Workers' Circle House, where she is heckled by Communists,
and "Fallacies of Political Action" at Broadway Congregational Hall,
Hammersmith.
Source:
The Daily Bleed
1941 USA: The radio program, King
Biscuit Time, was broadcast for the first time (it would later become
the longest-running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio
program).
1942 The completion of the Alaska
Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) was celebrated (however, the 'highway' was
not usable by general vehicles until 1943).
1962 The
Chinese People's Liberation Army declared a
unilateral cease-fire
in the Sino-Indian War.
1964 The
Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York
City opened to traffic (at the time it was the world's longest suspension
bridge).
1964 Second Vatican Council: The third period of
the Catholic Church's ecumenical council closed.
1967 Vietnam War:
American
General William Westmoreland told news reporters:
"I
am absolutely certain that whereas in
1965 the enemy was winning, today he is
certainly losing".
1969 The
first ARPANET
link was established.
1969 US President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato
agreed in Washington, DC on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under terms of
the agreement, the US was to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these
were to be nuclear free.
1970 Vietnam War:
Operation Ivory Coast – A joint Air Force and Army team raided the
Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs
thought to be held there (there were zero Americans killed, but the prisoners
had already moved to another camp; All US POWs were moved to a handful of
central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
ABBIE HOFFMAN: Are you asking if I had those thoughts or if I wrote that I had those thoughts? There's a difference.
RICHARD G. SCHULTZ, THE ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY: It's a convenient difference, isn't it Mr. Hoffman?
ABBIE HOFFMAN: I don't know what you mean. I've never been on trial for my thoughts before.
 1972 The Chicago
Seven Trial (USA): The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the
convictions of Abbie
Hoffman, Jerry Rubin,
David Dellinger, Rennie
Davis and Tom Hayden.
(Originally the Chicago Eight, they also included John
Froines, Lee
Weiner and Bobby
Seale. When Black Panther Seale misbehaved, Judge Julius Hoffman separated
him from the trial, leaving 'Seven'.)
The trial had been characterized by a
politically charged atmosphere, and the theatrics of the defendants: Hoffman and Rubin dressed in American
Revolution uniforms; Seale
bound and gagged under Judge Hoffman's order; poet Allen Ginsberg bellowing
"Hare Krishna" from the witness stand. Testimonies were also given by a variety
of witnesses, such as psychonaut Dr
Timothy Leary,
singer-songwriters Phil
Ochs, Arlo Guthrie
and Judy Collins,
comedian Dick Gregory,
Chicago mayor Richard
Daley, author Norman
Mailer, and cleric and activist
Jesse Jackson.
The trial was a circus, because that is what the
Yippie
(Youth International Party) leaders had decided to make it.
Jerry Rubin and
Abbie
Hoffman (seen here in the judicial robes they wore to the trial,
when they weren't wearing American revolutionary uniforms, etc),
perhaps the best-known and certainly the most flamboyant of the Chicago 8, are
both now in Yippie heaven.
The defendants were leaders
of the New Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam, which launched
the protests
that had turned the 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago into one of
America's most embarrassing political fiascos.
The appellate court based
its decision on the refusal to allow inquiry into the cultural biases of
potential jurors during voir dire. Attention was also given to Judge
Hoffman's "deprecatory and often antagonistic attitude toward the defense".
The court also noted that the FBI, with the knowledge and complicity of Judge
Hoffman and prosecutors, had bugged the offices of the Chicago Seven's defence
attorneys. The outcome for the Chicago Seven, was, in fact, a decision that
revealed the fairness of the very system they were attempting to overthrow.
The
background
"What did it all mean? Was the Chicago Seven Trial
merely, as one commentator suggested, 'a monumental non-event'?
Was it, as others argue, an important battle for the hearts and minds of the
American people? Or is it best seen as a symbol of the conflicts of values
that characterized the late sixties? These are some of the questions that
surround one of the most unusual courtroom spectacles in American history, the
1969-70 trial of seven radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the
1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago …"
Source
'Chicago'
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
So your brother's bound and gagged
And they've chained him to a chair
Won't you please come to Chicago just to sing
In a land that's known as Freedom
How can such a thing be fair
Won't you please come to Chicago for the help that we can bring
We can change the world, rearrange the world
It's dying – to get better
Politicians sit yourselves down
There's nothing for you here
Won't you please come to Chicago for a ride
Don't ask Jack to help you
'Cause he'll turn the other ear
Won't you please come to Chicago or else join the other side
We can change the world, rearrange the world
It's dying – if you believe in justice
Dying – and if you believe in freedom
Dying – let a man live his own life
Dying – rules and regulations, who needs them
Open up the door
Somehow people must be free
I hope the day comes soon
Won't you please come to Chicago, show your face
From the bottom of the ocean
To the mountains of the moon
Won't you please come to Chicago, no one else can take your place
We can change the world, rearrange the world
It's dying – if you believe in justice
Dying – and if you believe in freedom
Dying – let a man live his own life
Dying – rules and regulations, who needs them
Open up the door
THE COURT: Will you call the witness, please?
MR. KUNSTLER: Would you state your full name for the record?
THE WITNESS: Timothy F Leary.
MR. KUNSTLER: Dr Leary, what is your present occupation?
THE WITNESS: I am the Democratic candidate for Governor in California ...
MR. KUNSTLER: Now, Dr Leary, do you recall when your first met Jerry Rubin?
THE WITNESS: Yes, I do. I met Jerry Rubin at the love-in at San Francisco, which was January 1967.
MR. KUNSTLER: And do you know where that love-in was held?
THE WITNESS: Yes, that was held in Golden Gate Park, and I think either seventy or eighty thousand people came to the park to participate in this love-in.
MR. FORAN: Objection.
THE COURT: I sustain the objection. Seven or eight thousand?
MR. KUNSTLER: Seventy or eighty thousand.
THE COURT: Oh, even worse.
MR. KUNSTLER: Even better ...
THE COURT: "Erotic", did you say?
THE WITNESS: Erotic.
THE COURT: E-R-O-T-I-C?
THE WITNESS: Eros. That means love, your Honor.
Timothy Leary's testimony
More testimonies
Phil
Ochs, folksinger Allen
Ginsberg, poet Bobby
Seale, defendant Dick
Gregory, comedian
Abbie
Hoffman, defendant Richard
Daley, mayor Arlo
Guthrie, folksinger Judy
Collins, folksinger
Rennie
Davis, defendant Norman
Mailer, author Jesse
Jackson, minister
"As one of
the seminal political events of the 1960s, the Chicago Seven
trial seems to come from another era, but filmmaker Brett
Morgen, in his third trip to the Sundance Film Festival, has
created a film that is much more than a look back. Indeed
Chicago 10 takes a stylized, innovative approach that gives
contemporary history a forced perspective. He boldly mixes
original animation with extraordinary archival footage to
explore the buildup to and unraveling of the infamous conspiracy
trial. Set to the music of revolution then and now, Chicago 10
is a parable of hope, courage, and challenge as it portrays the
struggle of young Americans attempting to confront an oppressive
and armed government … their own."
Source
Watch the trailer
Hear
the Chicago Seven
The background Chicago
Seven
The Abbie Hoffman Webpage
Demo pix
Chicago
Seven Trial
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Related items at March 19, 1969;
March 22,
1968; August 23, 1968;
September
17, 1968;
September 17,
1969; January 23,
1970.
1974 The Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA killed 21 people. The Birmingham
Six were sentenced to life in prison for this and subsequently acquitted.
See also Guildford
Four and Sydney Hilton
Bombing, cases involving anti-terrorism mania and extreme miscarriages of
justice.
1974 George W Bush was discharged from the US Air Force
Reserve.
Bush's military record
1979 The
United
States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan was attacked by a mob and set afire, killing four.
(see: Foreign relations of Pakistan)
1980 A
fire at the
MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las
Vegas, Nevada, USA, killed 87 people.
1985 United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested for spying (he
was caught giving Israel
classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison).
1986 Iran-Contra Affair: National Security
Council member Oliver North and his secretary started to
shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and
channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contras
rebels in Nicaragua.
More
1987
The Nation published Reefer Madness
by Abbie Hoffman.
1990 Michael
Milken, ('The Junk Bond King'), was sentenced to
ten years imprisonment in the USA for federal tax and securities violations.
1995 Toy Story was released as the first feature-length film
created completely using computer-generated imagery.
1995 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed
above 5,000 (5,023.55) for the first time.
2002 NATO invited Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to
become members.
2004
The second round of the Ukrainian
presidential election was held, unleashing massive protests and controversy
with regards to the election's integrity.
2004 The Nintendo DS was released in North America.
2006 Atlanta,
Georgia, USA: Police planted marijuana on Kathryn Johnston, a
92-year-old woman they had killed in a botched drug raid.
Source
Tomorrow: St Clem,
'inventor of iron and steel'
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Spellcheckers are a grate tool for the modren writer to use, but
what else will you need to do write better? Abide by the following 16 rules
1. The passive voice is to be avoided.
2. Avoid alliteration. Always.
3. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
4. Avoid cliches like the plague (they're old hat.)
5. Comparisons are as bad as cliches too.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. Contractions aren't necessary either.
8. Never generalise.
9. Be more or less specific.
10. Don't be redundant - don't use more words than necessary because it's
highly superfluous.
11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "I hate
quotations. Tell me what you know."
12. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
13. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
14. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
15. Who needs rhetorical questions anyway?
16. Always sue a spell hcecker.
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Brown's prodigious Daily
Bleed are both excellent resources that aid my research.
I frequently make use of their generously liberal
'fair use', 'copyleft' and 'anti-copyright' policies, with much
gratitude.
© My own copyright
policy is also liberal, but as this is my livelihood, conditions
apply.
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