corrigenda
- noun: a list of printing errors in a
book along with their corrections
- See corrigendum
What a shame
A tagboard spammer in the USA started a vendetta against me
when I challenged his hacking.
I told him he would have trouble sleeping, and that really
seemed to get under his skin (maybe he has some rudimentary conscience). When I
reported him to his ISP, he created a website that says that Wilson's Almanac
gave him a virus. (It's nonsense, of course, just a mean kid.) He has even
threatened to remove Wilson's Almanac permanently from the Net. For some
months I have known his full name and address so if he does that, he could end
up in prison. I would certainly spread his details widely across the Internet –
it's only me silly soft heart that has prevented me from doing so since October,
2005.
So the tagboard is broken and, sadly, removed. Thanks to the people who used to
use it. I really enjoyed hearing from you.
Sleep well, Matt.
Meanwhile, please email me instead - pipwilson[[AT]]bigpond.com
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Corrigenda
Correct me, teach me, or just say g'day
Sometimes – maybe often – I get it wrong.
However, as I become aware of errors in Wilson's Almanac, and
correct them, I will record the more significant amendments below.
So if you've
found an error, or if you wish to dispute something, have a suggestion
or query, want to report dead links or missing images – or just want to say "g'day" –
I warmly invite you to contact me. I'm especially grateful for tips on information the Almanac
should know. (You can also often resurrect a dead link at The
Wayback Machine, but I do like to be told of dead links on my
site.)
I very much look forward to hearing from you.
It helps if you're reasonably clear on what you're referring to as
there are thousands of pages and several departments, for example the Scriptorium,
Articles, the Book of
Days, Yellow Pages,
the ezine, fishpond,
Ongo Bongo and so on.
Our
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If you just want to flame me with angry or
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below this line, right on this page, where the cursor is
blinking:
No one will ever see it but you, but it might
make you feel better. I know it works for me.
Abundance and gratitude, Pip
Wilson
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Newest
amendments at top
A note about the
dating of items in Wilson’s Almanac
April 23,
2008 The name of the cross-dressing ship's steward (This day in
history, 1792) was Marie-Louise Victoire Girardin, not as previously spelt.
March 21,
2008 Moved the Jamestown massacre from
Mar 22 to
Apr 19 for reasons
explained at the latter.
Nov 28, 2007
Moved the birth date of John Bunyan from
Nov 30 to
Nov 28, 1628.
Oct 2
Moved death of Mark Antony from Aug
30 to Aug 1, 30
BCE.
Sep 28
I moved Ariel Sharon's d.o.b. from Feb
26 to Feb 27,
1928. Getting sick of this!
Apr 11 I
moved the birthday of Ariel Sharon to February
26, 1928. Formerly I had it at both February
27 and September
27!
Apr 6, 2006 I
moved the birthday of Peter Tosh from April
6 to October 9,
to accord with Wikipedia and IMDB.
Oct 5
According to the rather authoritative Gavin Souter (A Peculiar People: The Australians in
Paraguay, Sydney Univ. Press, 1968), the Royal Tar set sail from
Sydney, Australia on July
16, 1893, not July
17 which I had, and which some other sources give, so I moved it at great
expense to the management (ie, changes to lots of links elsewhere). As Souter
says they sailed on a Sunday afternoon, his date tallies with the 1893
calendar.
Sep 3
Moved the goddess Medetrina and her festival the Meditrinalia from October
11 to September 30,
apparently her main day of three.
Sept 26
Moved first reading of Ginsberg's 'Howl' from October
13 to October 7.
Still uncertain, though.
May 25
I had some anachronistic info about Agnodice and Herophilus at May 25, 350 BCE.
Removed.
May 20
I moved Botev Day (Bulgaria) from May 20 to June 2 to allow for
calendar change from Old Style to NS. I'm still uncertain I've got it right.
May 10
I had to shift the first appearance of Felix the Cat in a newspaper
strip from May 9,
1927, to August 1,
1923.
Mar 31
Moved Che Guevara's DoB from June 14 to May 14, where I explain
why. It seems his ma lied on the birth certificate.
Mar 13
Moved the birth date of Omar Khayyam from May 15 to May 18, and adjusted
his death date as well. Both are approximations.
Mar 9
The completion of the rebuilding of the temple at Jerusalem, moved from March 10 to March 12, 515 BCE.
Feb 20, 2005
A correspondent named Mike writes, "Thank you for an excellent resource on the similarities between Christ and the
pagan divinities. Your first page shows a graphic depiction of Dionysus dying on the cross. This
appears to be the same graphic image you have on the next page. But there it
claims to show Orpheus. What gives?"
My reply: What gives is that your correspondent is a knucklehead. Many thanks for
pointing out my error, now corrected.
Dec 11 Charles
Wesley was born in 1707, not 1757 as I had it on December 11 for the
past year or so. Sorry, Chicka.
Nov 15
I moved Shichi-Go San ('7-5-3') Ceremony, Japan from November 3 to November 15 where it
belongs. Ain't me good?
Oct 1
How did I have Roger Bannister's sub-4-minute mile anywhere else but May 6, 1954? It's there
now, moved from March 18,
and with some new information about an alleged 18th-century sub-4 guy, James
Parrot.
Sep 13
I have removed the 1440 date of execution of Gilles de Rais (Bluebeard) from December 22 and will
replace at October 26.
Aug 31
Moved the date of death of Daniel Defoe from April 26 to April 24. Sources
disagree on date; Wikipedia's article has April 21.
Aug 11
Shifted Mayan New Year from July 21 which was there
because of a date I saw in The Mystical Year, Time-Life Books, but,
according to Wikipedia, August
11 seems to be correct, so there it is. Apologies to those who've seen it
'repeated'. I should add that I've seen about 5 different dates for this event
in different sources. August 11 groks better than July, since August 12 was the
Aztecs' solar alignment at Tenochtitlan (also approx. halfway through the
season), but I confess I need help here. He-e-e-e-lllpppp!!!!
Jul 29
Until today I had placed (after Chambers)
the disappearance of Don Sebastian of Portugal at July 29, 1578. Moving
it to August 4 (after
Wikipedia).
Jul 20
Mama Cass was born on September
19, 1941. Why did I say February 19, 1943?
Beats the hell outta me.
Jul 19
Nativity of Inanna: moved from December 21 to January 2 in accord with
the Lux Madriana calendar, after Fellowship of Isis,
though I have my doubts about this date, and the authority of LM and FI in this
matter as well. Caveat emptor: often such dates are quite arbitrary.
Jul 18
Bishop Ussher
apparently set the date of creation of the Earth at October 23, 4004 BCE,
not November 23 as I
had. Now there's a date I wouldn't want to get wrong.
Jul 13
William Gosse's 'discovery' of Ayer's Rock (Uluru): July 19, 1873, not April 23. That was the
date his expedition left Alice Springs.
Jul 1
Sources vary as to the date of Ned Kelly's Last
Stand. Some say June
28, some June 29,
though all seem to agree that it happened on a Monday morning. I've checked and
double checked and have moved it from the 29th to June 28.
Jun 10
Thanks to a message left here by Myrrhina, an Almaniac from Ohio, USA, I'm
shifting the birth date of Tenzin Gyatso, HH the Dalai Lama No 14, from June 6, 1935, to July 6. A Google of the matter agrees with her ... mostly. The June 4
date is given on some sources, but most concur with Myrrhina. Thank you, Ohio!
Same mistake as the Beatles one, below LOL. Just a note, that Wikipedia's article also had June 6,
but some time in the past year has amended it to July 6. Maybe our pal Myrrhina
told'em!
Jun 6
July 6, 1957 is the date that
Paul McCartney met John Lennon at the St Phillips Church fete at Woolton, not
June 6 as I had.
Mar 23 I have moved the date
on which Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty or give me death", from
Feb 23, 1775 to Mar 23,
on the advice of several online sources.
Jan 23 Saint
Raymond of Peñafort His feast day, which I got from Chambers
(1881), was January 23, I believe. It's probably been moved by the Catholic
Church since 1881 and appears now to be January 7, where now he sits in the Book
of Days.
Jan 23 Last year, did I say Edmund Burke was English?
I'll get lynched by every Irish reader on the Net!! Fixed. And I've shifted his
birthday from Jan 23 to Jan 12 ... it's one of them OS (Old Style) calendar
things that always come up with people born before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar when 11
days were 'lost'. This happened in 1752 in Britain and I think Ireland.
Jan 22 Leadbelly: Some
sources have the great blues artist's birthday as January 21. That's where I've
had him before now. Wikipedia and a prominent Leadbelly website say
January 29,
so that's where he's going.
Jan 16, 2004 The Lênaia:
I had this Greek festival to Dionysus
pegged
at Jan 15 (following
The
Phoenix and Arabeth 1992
Calendar which is a work of love but only a rough guide at best). I'll be
putting it in at Jan 28 from
now on, following this apparently well-researched source.
Also
today, and in a kind of reversal to the above, I've amended the birth date of
Susan Sontag from Jan 28, 1933 to Jan 16, because
Wikipedia and one other source showed me I must be wrong.
Dec 22 Based on the
information from School of the
Seasons that Modresnach (Mothers' Night) was referred to by the Venerable
Bede as being on December 24, I have
moved it from December
20 where I'd first placed my short article.
Dec 11 Would you believe it?
Somehow in the ezine of today I said that the Halcyon Days of the ancient world
started on December 11.
This should be December
14, as it was the week preceding and week following the Winter Solstice.
Dec 8 I had in my notes for
December 9: "1531 The Virgin of Guadalupe appears to Indian boy, Mexico." Quite
wrong. The actual matter about Juan Diego is now at December 9. I
also had some confusion about Guadalupe Day in some places. The Feast of St Juan
Diego is Dec. 9, the Virgin of Guadalupe is three days later.
Dec 8, 2003 Two links, http://www.bhopal-justice.com/deception.htm
and http://www.bhopal-justice.com/
that I gave on December
3, 2003, appear to have been hacked and are no longer
pointing to a website about justice for Bhopal, India victims of Union Carbide.
Links on December 7 were pointing to some silly site. Links removed. Thanks to
the reader who alerted me ... I accidentally dumped your email, so have lost
your name.
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