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Girls go to Mars I have made but one mistake.
To commit a murder, besides the not
having the person in your power, there are many measures and
precautions to take. A favorable opportunity must be waited for, and
a place must be selected before we can put so damnable a design into
execution. More than this, the pistols may miss fire, blows may not
be sufficient, and all wounds are not mortal. But to deprive a man
of his reputation and honour, one word is sufficient. By finding out
the most sensitive part of his honour, you may tarnish his
reputation by telling it to all who know him, arid easily take away
his character for honour and integrity. To do this, however, no time
is required, for scarcely have you complacently cherished the wish
to calumniate him, than the sin is effected. |
Clara Schumann
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O envious one, you injure yourself
more than he whom you would injure, and the sword with which you
wound will recoil and wound yourself.
St John Chrysostom
What! Do they run already? Then I die happy.
Last words of General James
Wolfe, who died on September 13, 1759, aged only 32
I would rather have written those lines (Gray's Elegy) than take Quebec.
General James Wolfe, the night before the storming of Quebec, 1759
Her ivory hands on the ivory keys
Strayed in a fitful fantasy,
Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees
Rustle their pale leaves listlessly.
Oscar Wilde, on Clara Schumann, German musician, born on September 13, 1819
The
Saint
Patrick Irish Battalion (San
Patricio Battalion) arrived with the invaders, but fought
alongside the invaded. The Irish made theirs the fate, ill fate, of
the Mexicans. Many died defending the Churubusco monastery without
ammunition.
Eduardo Galeano, Faces
and Masks; the Irish of the Battalion
of San Patricio were executed in Mexico on September 13, 1848
Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.
Claudette Colbert (Lily Claudette Chauchoin), French-born Hollywood actress, born on September 13,
1903
I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.
Claudette Colbert
Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them. If they want you, you want to do it.
Claudette Colbert
I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.
Claudette Colbert
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the
same enemy – the mother.
Claudette Colbert
It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
Claudette Colbert
You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything.
Claudette Colbert; in the film,
The Palm Beach Story, 1942
Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.
Claudette Colbert
I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.
Claudette Colbert; as Betty MacDonald, to the audience in film
The Egg and I, 1947
... we called the radio station and Gene Nobles said it was the number-one most requested record. He said,
"Whoever Little Richard is, he's taking over." I heard "Awop-bop-a-loo-mop alop-bam-boom," and I felt an electric charge go over my body.
Anonymous; from Off the Record: An Oral History of Popular Music, p. 95;
on September 13, 1955,
Little Richard
recorded a censored version of 'Tutti
Frutti'
What a waste of human power
What a waste of human lives,
shoot the prisoners in the towers
Forty-three poor widowed wives.
Media blames it on the
prisoners,
But the prisoners did not kill.
"Rockefeller pulled the trigger"
That is what the people feel.
Attica State, Attica state,
we're all mates with Attica state.
September 13
is
the 256th
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (257th in leap years), with 109
days remaining.
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Festival of Lectisternium,
Roman Empire
This festival (from Lat. lectum sternere, to spread a couch) was held in honour of Jupiter (pictured), Juno and Minerva. From the commencement of the 3rd Century, the entire Senate celebrated a sacred banquet, with a statue of Jupiter lying on a cushion, and the two goddesses Juno and Minerva in chairs beside him, in allusion to the ancient custom, according to which only men reclined and women sat at table (Val. Max. ii.1 §2). At a later period both gods and goddesses were probably represented in the same position.
All the statues were bedecked with curls, drapery and colours as befitting a feast. If not busts or statues, the gods could be represented by portable figures of wood, with heads of bronze, wax or marble. Alternatively, the gods were bundles of sacred herbs, tied together in the form of a head, covered by a waxen mask thus resembling a bust (cf the straw puppets called argei). This was held on November 13, but under the Empire the celebration was today. In later times, the lectisternium became of even daily occurrence, and was celebrated in the different temples.
Also today, in Rome's temple of Minerva, the copper shields were assigned by the magistrate each year.
"Juno is the wife of Jupiter and the deified queen of heaven and womankind. She protects the growth and well-being, as well as the fertility, of every woman. Minerva is considered to be the sublime female abstraction of thought or mind. The name Minerva is derived from the word memini (to remember). Her realm is that of wisdom, education, industriousness, commerce, and the various arts that women practice, including sewing arts and music. Minerva is considered to be the Roman equivalent of Athena, but not as a warlike personification.
"This is one of the days on which the salt cakes, the mola salsa, were used as part of the sacrificial meal. This is the only day of the month in which sacrificing and feasting would occur in public." Source
In Christian times the word was used for a feast in memory of the dead (Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, iv. 15).
In Roman mythology, Jupiter (sometimes shortened to Jove) held the same role as Zeus in the Greek pantheon.
See also Epulum Jovis, November 13 in the Book of Days
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Ides of September, ancient Rome; first Roman consuls
entered office
"The first consuls, as far as we know, entered upon their office on the ides of
September (Dionys. VI.49;º
Liv. VII.3)."
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Day of Driving the Nail, Roman Empire
