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They should therefore be given the choice between baptism and expulsion ... At Andarax the principal mosque, in which the women and children had taken refuge, was blown up with gun-powder ... all books in Arabic, especially the Qur'an, were collected to be burnt ... Cardinal Ximenes ... was reported during his conversion campaign among the Granada Moors in 1500 to have burnt in the public square of Vivarrambla over 1,005,000 volumes including unique works of Moorish culture.
At the pre-emptory
request of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I
Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for
the last nine years and ten months past of San Francisco, California,
declare and proclaim myself the Emperor of These United States. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, Like other cities created overnight in the Outlet, Woodward acquired between noon and sunset of September 16, 1893, a population of five thousand; and that night a voluntary committee on law and order sent around the warning,
"if you must shoot, shoot straight up!"
She's a real Joe. You'll fall in love with her like everybody else.
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I never believed marriage was a lasting institution ... I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.
Lauren Bacall
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
Lauren Bacall; in the Daily Mail (London), November
1, 1990
Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.
Lauren Bacall; Lauren Bacall, By Myself
I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
Lauren Bacall; in Uncommon Scold, by Abby Adams, 1989
People should tell your children what life is all about – it's about work.
Lauren Bacall
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall; in the Daily Telegraph (London), March, 1988
They will be able to hold the Widow Bogart's wake in a telephone booth.
Frank Sinatra
I try to portray me in a song, so if I'm telling you a joke, something to make you laugh, then I'll let you know that. I try to do the same thing in song.
BB King, American blues musician, born on September 16, 1925
I've never really been accepted by the blues purists as a true blues guitarist because they say I use too many cliches.
BB King
Blues to me is many things. It has to do with people, places and things. And the way of life that we lived in the past, we are living today, and the way I believe we will live tomorrow. It tells you about the world as well; it tells you about yourself as well as the ones you love.
BB King
On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
Gore Vidal (b. 1925), US novelist, critic; 'The Day the American Empire Ran Out of Gas',
Armageddon? Essays 1983 - 1987 (1987)
My denomination shunned me when they heard I was preaching in a drive-in
theater.
Robert Schuller, American televangelist, born on September 16, 1926
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert Schuller
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Fête of Cornely (St Cornelius), at Carnac, Brittany, France
Cornelius was elected 21st pope on either March 6 or March 13, 251 during the lull in the persecution of the emperor Trajan Decius. His election was opposed by Novatian, who maintained the view that not even the bishops could grant remission for grave sins like murder, adultery, and apostasy, but that these could only be remitted at the Last Judgement; Cornelius on the contrary believed that bishops could grant remission for these grave sins. With the help of St Cyprian (whose feast day this is; see below), his party prevailed and he was elected Pope. Novatian fled Rome, but his followers organized into a sect considered heretical by the rest of Christianity.
After ruling for two years, under the emperor Trebonianus Gallus, he was exiled to Centuricellae (Civita Vecchia), where he died in June 253. After 30 years his body was returned to Rome and buried in the cemetery of St Callistus.
Cornely is patron saint of horned animals, no doubt because of the similarity of the saint's name with the Latin word for 'horn', but also a remnant of pre-Christian worship of the horned god, who to the Celts was the similarly named Cernunnos (the Stag Lord).
Even the name of the town, Carnac, gives away the pagan origins. Elsewhere in the Catholic Church, today commemorates the feast day of St Cornelius, patron against earache, cattle, domestic animals, earache, epilepsy, epileptics, fever and twitching. Cornelius is represented in art as a pope holding a battle horn or cow's horn, or as a pope with a cow nearby. He is often pictured with a broken cup because some tried to poison him and as he reached to drink from the cup, it shattered.
Cornely
and the menhirs
According to tradition, when Cornelius was being pursued by the emperor's forces, he looked behind and saw the ranks of soldiers coming over the crest of a hill. With the sign of the Cross of Christ, he turned them to stone, each one a menhir, or standing stone, forming the megalithic Alignement de Carnac* (picture 1; 2; 3). A church was built on this site, and at midnight at Carnac on this day, the oxen are blessed in a shrine dedicated to the saint, and all kinds of horned animals are processed among Carnac's pre-Celtic menhirs, then around and even within the church.
* From Wikipedia: The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites around the French village of Carnac, in Brittany, consisting of alignments, dolmens, tumuluses and single menhirs. The more than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local rock and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany, and are the largest such collection in the world. Local tradition claims that the reason they stand in such perfectly straight lines is that they are a Roman legion turned to stone by Merlin — Brittany has its own local versions of the Arthurian cycle. Most of the stones are within the French commune of Carnac, but some to the east are within La Trinité-sur-Mer.
The stones were erected at some stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BC, but some may date to as old as 4500 BC.
In recent centuries, many of the sites have been neglected, with reports of dolmens being used as sheep shelters, chicken sheds or even ovens. Even more commonly, stones have been removed to make way for roads, or as building materials. The continuing management of the sites remains a controversial topic.
Christian saints and the Horned God, at the Scriptorium List of popes Other St Cornelius (the Centurion)
Neopagan nemeton/Cornely chant Megaliths of Carnac: Introduction More on Carnac And more on Carnac
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