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For my part I keep the Commandments, I love my neighbour as my selfe, and to avoid Coveting my neighbour's wife I desire to be coveted by her; which you know is quite another thing.
British playwright William Congreve wrote these words on September 27, 1700 to a married lady-friend

On September 27, 1722, a woman named Grace was killed by a Dobhar-chu, while washing clothes in Glenade Lake. When her husband came to find her, he found instead a Dobhar-chu sitting on her bloody clothes and mutilated body. He killed the beast, stabbing it in the heart. As it died, it made a noise like a whistle. Its supposed mate rose from the water and chased the man and his friend. They killed it before it got the chance to hurt either man.
Inscription on the tomb of 'Grace' died on September 27 (or 22), 1722

One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.
George W Bush; Los Angeles, CA, USA, September 27, 2000   

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.
George W Bush; Redwood, CA, USA, September 27, 2000

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Sir Edwin Landseer. Scene from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream': Titania and Bottom

Sir Edwin Landseer. Scene from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream': Titania and Bottom. 1848 - '51. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Here in a variety of wicker lounges and easy chairs these luxurious bachelors look down, as if from an eyrie, on to the road beneath and the blue winding river and clustering South Brisbane beyond. It was a lovely, mild, moonlight night with a faint cool breeze coming from the sea.
Francis Adams, Australian writer, born on September 27, 1862; Australian Life

 

 

 

September 27 is the 270th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (271st in leap years), with 95 days remaining.
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French Community Day, Belgium

Schools and some institutions are on holiday. This feast was created when Belgium became a federal State. Belgium has three official languages, French, Dutch, and German. Thank you, Belgian Almaniac, Marcel Lambert.

 

 

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Day of Willows, Mesopotamia
"Festival for Belili, Astarte or Aeea. Origin of Hebrew Succoth."
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Meskel in the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox Churches

Meskel is an annual religious holiday commemorating the discovery of the True Cross by Queen Elena (St Helena) during the 4th Century.

The Meskel celebration includes the burning of a large bonfire, or Damera, based on the belief that Elena traced the smoke from a bonfire to find the location of the True Cross. The firewood is decorated with daisies prior to the celebration. Afterwards, charcoal from the remains of the fire is collected and used by the faithful to mark their foreheads with the shape of a cross (compare Ash Wednesday).

According to the Eritrean Orthodox Church, the discovery of the True Cross is traditionally believed to be in March, but Meskel was moved to September to avoid holding a festival during Lent, and because the church commemorating the True Cross in Jerusalem was dedicated during September.

 

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1275 John II of Brabant (d. 1312)

1389 Cosimo de Medici (d. 1464), Florentine ruler

1601 Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)

1627 Jacques Benigne Bossuet (d. 1704), French bishop

1643 Solomon Stoddard, American Puritan clergyman

1696 Alphonsus Liguori (d. 1787), Italian founder of the Redemptionist order

1719 Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (d. 1800), German mathematician

1722 Samuel Adams (d. 1803), American revolutionary leader

1792 George Cruikshank (d. February 1, 1878), English caricaturist and book illustrator who worked on publications by Charles Dickens and William Hone, among others

1818 Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (d. 1884), German chemist

1840 Thomas Nast (d. 1902), political cartoonist

1843 Gaston Tarry (d. 1913), French mathematician

1855 Paul Appell (d. 1930), French mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris

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1862 Francis Adams (Francis William Lauderdale Adams; d. September 4, 1893), Maltese-born Australian writer (Songs of the Army of the Night, 1888; John Webb's End, a Story of Bush Life, 1891; Australian Life). He was educated in England and France, but came to Australia in 1884 for his health (he had tuberculosis). Adams worked as a journalist and tutor, finally settling in Brisbane where he wrote for the Brisbane Courier, William Lane's radical Boomerang and The Bulletin of Sydney. He is best remembered for his poetry which encouraged radicalism and spoke against the oppression of the poor.

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1862 Louis Botha, Afrikaner and first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa

1871 Grazia Deledda (d. 1926), Sardinian (Italy) writer, winner of Nobel prize for literature

1885 Harry Blackstone (d. 1965), magician

1895 George Raft (d. 1980), American tough-guy actor (Scarface; Some Like it Hot)

1896 Sam Ervin (d. 1985), Senator from North Carolina, Watergate scandal figure

1913 Albert Ellis, psychologist

1919 James H Wilkinson (d. 1986), mathematician

1920 William Conrad (d. 1994), American actor (TV series: Cannon; Jake and the Fat Man)

1922 Carl Ballantine, actor

1922 Arthur Penn, director

1924 Fred Singer, American environmental scientist

1927 Romano Scarpa, Italian comic book artist

1929 Sada Thompson, actress

1932 Oliver E Williamson, American economist

1933 Greg Morris, actor

1934 Wilford Brimley, actor

1934 Claude Jarman Jr, actor

1936 Gordon Honeycombe, British author, playwright and stage actor

1936 Don Cornelius, television host

1942 Dith Pran (d. March 30, 2008), photojournalist best known as a refugee and Cambodian Genocide survivor and was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields. He was portrayed in the movie by first-time actor Haing S Ngor, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

1947 Randy Bachman, Canadian musician

1947 Cheryl Tiegs, fashion model

1947 Barbara Dickson, Scottish actress and singer, known for her work on stage (Blood Brothers) and television (Band of Gold)

1948 A Martinez, actor

1949 Graham Richardson, former Australian Labor Party politician, known as the party's 'numbers man'

1949 Robb Weller, TV producer

1950 Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor

1951 Meat Loaf (born Marvin Lee Aday), American singer and actor

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1952 Dumitru Prunariu, Romanian cosmonaut

1953 Mata Amritanandamayi, Indian religious leader

1953 Diane Julie Abbott, British politician

1958 Shaun Cassidy, singer, actor

1965 Peter MacKay, Canadian political leader

1984 Avril Lavigne, singer, songwriter

 

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2 Name Your Car Day
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