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'T is the last rose of summer |
The 1995 Hindu 'milk miracle' |
All without the Fiord was quiet
But within it storm and riot,
Such as on his Viking cruises
Raud the Strong was wont to ride.
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow (1807
- '82); 'Raud
the Strong'. September 21 is the day of remembrance for the
pagan martyr, Raud the Strong
Then the king ordered Raud to be brought before him,
and offered him baptism. "And," says the king, "I will not take thy property
from thee, but rather be thy friend, if thou wilt make thyself worthy to be so."
Raud exclaimed with all his might against the proposal, saying he would never
believe in Christ, and making his scoff of God. Then the king was wroth, and
said Raud should die the worst of deaths. And the king ordered him to be bound
to a beam of wood, with his face uppermost, and a round pin of wood set between
his teeth to force his mouth open. Then the king ordered an adder to be stuck
into the mouth of him; but the serpent would not go into his mouth, but shrunk
back when Raud breathed against it. Now the king ordered a hollow branch of an
angelica root to be stuck into Raud's mouth; others say the king put his horn
into his mouth, and forced the serpent to go in by holding a red-hot iron before
the opening. So the serpent crept into the mouth of Raud and down his throat,
and gnawed its way out of his side; and thus Raud perished.
Snorri Sturlson (1178
-
1241) on the torture and martyrdom of Raud the
Strong;
Heimskringla The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
Twenty-four hours: to give relief workers a safe interlude for the provision of vital services; to offer mediators a building block towards a wider truce; to allow all those engaged in conflict to reconsider the wisdom of further violence.
Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General; September 21 is International Day of Peace
The International Day of Peace is always a special occasion, but this one is even more so – for this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Peace Bell, which we ring every year on this day.
Kofi Annan, September 21, 2004
St Matthee shut up the bee.
English traditional saying (as cold approaches, the bees don't get out and about as much)
St Matthew brings on the cold dew.
English traditional saying
St Matthew get candlestick new,
St Matthi [Matthias, Feb 24] lay candlestick by.
English traditional saying
St Matthew, get candle new
St Matthew brings the cold rain and dew.
English traditional saying
Matthew's Day, bright and clear,
Brings good wine in the next year.
English traditional saying
His great unfortunateness was in his greatest blessing; for of four sons which he had by his Queen Eleanor, three of them died in his own lifetime, who were worthy to have outlived him; and the fourth outlived him, who was worthy never to have been born.
Sir Richard Baker, in reference to Edward I in A Chronicle of the Kings of
England, making a strong indictment against Edward II, who was murdered on September 21, 1327
During this period from 1827 to 1830, Joseph Smith abandoned the company of his former money-digging associates, but continued to use for religious purposes the brown seer stone he had previously employed in the treasure quest. His most intensive and productive use of the seer stone was in the translation of the Book of Mormon. But he also dictated several revelations to his associates through the stone.
D Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, Signature Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 1987, p. 143.
Joseph Smith, Jr claimed that the angel Moroni gave him a record of gold plates, September 21, 1827.
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God bless you all. I feel myself again.
Last words of Sir Walter
Scott, Scottish poet and novelist, died on September 21, 1832; to his family
A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and
promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much
surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
HG Wells, English social activist and writer, born on September 21, 1866
That Anarchist world, I admit, is our dream; we do believe
– well, I, at any rate, believe this present world, this planet, will some day bear a race beyond our most exalted and temerarious dreams, a race begotten of our wills and the substance of our bodies, a race, so I have said it, 'who will stand upon the earth as one stands upon a footstool, and laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars,' but the way to that is through education and discipline and law. Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men.
HG Wells; New Worlds for Old (1908)
I remember very well the first Fabian Society meeting we attended at Essex Hall. The platform seemed to be full of bearded men: Aylmer Maude, William Sanders,
Sidney Webb and
Bernard Shaw. I said to my brother, "Have we got to grow a beard to join this
show?"
HG Wells was on the platform, speaking with a little piping voice; he was very unimpressive.
Clement Attlee,
British Prime Minister 1945 - 1951; As It Happened (1954)
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist, that is the essence of it.
HG Wells; to American author Henry James in 1915
I can't – in my present state anyhow – bank on religion. God has no thighs and no life. When one calls to him in the silence of the night he doesn't turn over and say,
"What is the trouble, Dear?"
HG Wells; in a letter to Rebecca West, with whom he was having a love affair
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.
HG Wells
There was no aloofness or coldness in approaching him, no barriers to break down as with most Englishmen; his twinkling eyes were like those of a mischievous boy.
Margaret
Sanger, American feminist, on her former lover, HG Wells
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer/songwriter, born on September
21, 1934
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard Cohen
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a
caress.
Leonard Cohen
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of
itself.
Leonard Cohen
Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
Leonard Cohen
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Leonard Cohen
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Leonard Cohen
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
Leonard Cohen
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Leonard Cohen
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
Leonard Cohen
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International Day of Peace
School children in a 'Peace Dove' campaign write messages of peace in Uzbek, Russian, English and Dari on peace
doves (UN)
"The General Assembly, in resolution 55/282 (PDF), of 7 September 2001, decided that, beginning in 2002, the International Day of Peace should be observed on 21 September each year. The Assembly declared that the Day be observed as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, an invitation to all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities during the Day. It invited all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system, regional and non-governmental organizations and individuals to commemorate the Day in an appropriate manner, including through education and public awareness, and to cooperate with the United Nations in establishing a global ceasefire."
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