You are here: Home / this week From ten years ago! Pardon the formatting–ten years ago was still blogger. It’s funny the connections we humans make when we live a Big Life filled with family & friends & books & The World-Wide-Web, isn’t it? I noted a few things that happened this week in history and here’s what Daughter C had to
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Horace, Roman lyric poet and critic, born 65 B.C. (d.8 B.C.)John Milton, England’s greatest Puritan Poet– one of the greatest of the world– born 1608 (d.1674) Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes militia units into three regiments– celebrated as the birth of the National Guard 1636 John Jay, first Chief Justice of United States Supreme Court, born
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It’s funny the connections we humans make when we live a Big Life filled with family & friends & books & The World-Wide-Web, isn’t it? I noted a few things that happened this week in history and here’s what Daughter C had to say in the comments: This is what I’ve been trying to think
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I found a few more words for one of this week’s birthday boys— Rutherford B. Hayes, our 19th President, (1877-1881). Hayes was an upright, conscientious, and better-than-average President, but the professional politicians of the Republican party disliked him, and his wife’s refusal to serve wine at White House dinners brought ridicule from Washington society. He
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This week is Kat’s Birthday week. From my point of view, the only two weeks that are as important as this week are the weeks that envelope 3/12 and 4/7. Oh. and one or two in December. ~~ And now to the history. Two executions in one week. 1183 St. Francis of Assisi born (d.1226)
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9/ 8 Antonin Dvořák, “Bohemian (Czech) composer and teacher” born 1841. Famous for his symphony From the New World, which he composed while in America, 1892-95. The New World Symphony is my favorite piece of music. The second movement is especially moving. I invited Dvořák to dinner. 9/9 William the Conqueror died 1087 California admitted
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Philosopher Confucius born 552 B.C. Saint Saint Augustine born A.D. 354; “Christian thinker” Philosopher and inspiration to America’s Founding Fathers John Locke born 1632 Chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier born 1743; father of “modern” chemistryPoet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born 1749; “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Philosopher Georg Wilhelm
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Recall that the 17th Amendment was not even a twinkle in Lincoln’s eye. He was trying to get the legislature of Illinois to elect him as a United States Senator.Thus, he had to debate Douglas, the incumbent.Douglas was a little s^%# who– at least on my reading (which isn’t much)– had no real convictions except
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Miss M will return to the Farm after her Paycation in North Carolina. Mike will say, “So long!” to the Farm as his in-transition home. We think ahead to the arrival of Daughter C. and A. Leland. We note the births of a bunch of folks. Napoleon (b. 8/15/1769– although this is debated). Sir Walter
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Ben Jonson died (1637). Patriot Nathanael Greene was born (1742). Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born (1809). “The Claremont, Fulton’s first steamboat, made a successful trip from New York to Albany.” (1807)Missouri became the 24th state (1821).Smithsonian Institution was established (1846). The Battle of Mobile Bay was fought (1864). And on August 6, 1945, a plane
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Not an especially inspiring week in history. I like my truck so it’s good Henry was born. I don’t like Lemark. Clark? Just not into him right now. And so on. July 30Henry Ford born 1863 [1] July 31 The Donner Party left Fort Bridger, Wyoming in 1846 en route to California via an “untried
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As you may recall, I have two editions of Mary Emogene Hazeltine’s Anniversaries and Holidays: A Calendar of Days and How to Observe Them. The first edition was published in 1928; the second, “completely revised,” in 1944. I have the second printing of the 2nd ed., published in ’65.As I noted last week, there are
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Today is the Feast of St. Swithin. St. Swithin (A.D. c800-c862) was “a pious British monk who became Bishop of Winchester and counsellor [sic] of the king.” He remained so humble, in spite of all his honors, that he requested to be buried outside the cathedral, where the rain from the eves would fall upon
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