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Re: Celebrating today « Reply #67 on Dec 8, 2010, 5:53pm »
Today is the Immaculate Conception, the 30th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon and my brother's birthday.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack and the anniversary of my mother's second wedding. Interestingly enough, my stepfather was one of the survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack -- his ship was not sunk.
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Re: Celebrating today « Reply #68 on Dec 8, 2010, 5:59pm »
What a lovely thing to read, Jazz ~~ I think your shiny feeling will rub off on others.
I finally figured out that today is the feast of the Immaculate Conception. I wish that I could explain that to my dog, who is a trembling wreck from all the fireworks that have been going off for the last week. (religious festivals here start a week before the actual day and continue up to that day)
I think one that sticks in the minds of many members of this forum is the murder of John Lennon. Verlyn Klinkenborg usually writes graceful ruminations on nature. His appreciation of Lennon is no less graceful and likely to resonate with many of us ~~
John Lennon By Verlyn Klinkenborg - Published: December 7, 2010
I don’t remember how I heard that John Lennon had been shot. Thirty years ago, on a warm December night in Manhattan, it was suddenly in the air, on the street — with only a brief, grim gap between news of the shooting at the Dakota, on 72nd Street and news of his death at Roosevelt Hospital. I called my brother in California and then sat in the stairwell of a building at 27th and Third, numb and grieving, like everyone else.
It was a new kind of death — not a political assassination like the ones that claimed the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King Jr.; not the self-immolation that took down Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison. Lennon survived the ’60s and ’70s, and by 1980 he was living in New York City as normally, as modestly, as he and his wife, Yoko Ono, could. Then a deranged young man, Mark David Chapman, found a secular scripture in J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” and shot Lennon in hopes of becoming Holden Caulfield.
Every day I’m at The Times, I pass a photo of the Beatles taken at a press conference during one of their early visits to New York. In the picture, Lennon’s hands are folded behind him, and he stands, with the other Beatles, in a corona from the press lights. Invariably, it reminds me of the famous portrait Annie Leibovitz shot the morning of the day Lennon was killed — the one where he is lying naked, fetal, clinging to Yoko Ono, the ridge of his back so terribly exposed.
We remember what we remember of Lennon, and of that night. When I was young, he was the only adult that mattered outside my family — the Beatle of Beatles. I loved his wit; his irony; his “Help!”; his urgent, reedy voice; his unceasing transformations. Like everyone else who loved him, I can’t help grieving, even now, for all the transformations we lost 30 years ago when John Lennon was only 40.
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Re: Celebrating today « Reply #69 on Dec 10, 2010, 2:37pm »
“We regret that the Laureate is not present here today. He is in isolation in a prison in northeast China. Nor can the Laureate’s wife Liu Xia or his closest relatives be here with us. No medal or diploma will therefore be presented here today. This fact alone shows that the award was necessary and appropriate.” ~~ from the speech prepared by Norwegian Nobel committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland for delivery at a ceremony to bestow the Nobel Peace Prize on Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo -- source
1967, Otis Redding died at age 26 in a plane crash ~
My maternal grandmother would have been 111 today. Happy 89th birthday to my dear stepfather.
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Re: Celebrating today « Reply #70 on Dec 22, 2010, 2:38am »
Huh -- really strange ..... yesterday I was thinking about a funny string of coincidences in my own life involving an Australian author whom I met years ago. Just now, scrolling through the list of people born on Dec. 21, I came across his name. (b. 1938)
If you wanted to share a birthday with people who were mostly famous, rather than infamous, Dec. 21 would be a good choice. (if you doubt this, it's also the date that Thomas the apostle died)
John "Jack" Russell, parson and dog breeder was born on this day in 1795, and Frank Zappa entered the world Dec. 21, 1940. Another musical luminary shares the birthday, in 1947 ~~
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Re: Celebrating today « Reply #71 on Dec 22, 2010, 2:41am »
It's December 22 in much of the world as I write this.
That's Mothers Day in Indonesia, and Armed Forces Day in all these countries: # 1 Azerbaijan # 2 Australia and New Zealand # 3 Bangladesh # 4 Brazil # 5 Bulgaria # 6 Canada # 7 Chile # 8 China
* 8.1 Republic of China (Taiwan) * 8.2 People's Republic of China (Mainland China)
# 9 Croatia # 10 Egypt # 11 Guatemala # 12 Hungary # 13 India # 14 Indonesia # 15 Iran # 16 Israel # 17 Italy # 18 Lebanon # 19 Mauritania # 20 Mexico # 21 Montenegro # 22 Myanmar # 23 Nigeria # 24 Pakistan # 25 Peru # 26 Poland # 27 Romania # 28 Russia # 29 Singapore # 30 Slovenia # 31 South Korea # 32 Sri Lanka # 33 United Kingdom # 34 United States # 35 Vietnam
Re: Celebrating today « Reply #72 on Dec 22, 2010, 4:38am »
It's not, as far as I know, Armed Forces Day in Egypt. That is on Oct. 6th. As says the font of all knowledge, Wikipedia -
In Egypt, Armed Forces Day is celebrated on October 6, the date on which the October War of 1973 began with the Egyptian Army's successful crossing of the Suez Canal that culminated in the capture of the Bar Lev Line.
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Re: Celebrating today « Reply #73 on Dec 22, 2010, 5:46am »
Tsk, tsk. I got my info from Wikipedia, too. Actually, far from being the font of all knowledge, it's a mish-mash of stuff contributed by people who may or may not even be sane, much less correctly informed. Wikipedia does attempt to stay on top of things, but boo-boos do get through.
Re: Celebrating today « Reply #74 on Dec 22, 2010, 6:01am »
If that's the page you copied the list from then if you go to each of the countries you'll see a different date for when each celebrate that day. That's where I got confirmation of when it is in Egypt.
Huh -- really strange ..... yesterday I was thinking about a funny string of coincidences in my own life involving an Australian author whom I met years ago. Just now, scrolling through the list of people born on Dec. 21, I came across his name. (b. 1938)
If you wanted to share a birthday with people who were mostly famous, rather than infamous, Dec. 21 would be a good choice. (if you doubt this, it's also the date that Thomas the apostle died)
John "Jack" Russell, parson and dog breeder was born on this day in 1795, and Frank Zappa entered the world Dec. 21, 1940. Another musical luminary shares the birthday, in 1947 ~~
Talking of Frank Zappa I see his mate Captain Beefheart has just died.
If that's the page you copied the list from then if you go to each of the countries you'll see a different date for when each celebrate that day. That's where I got confirmation of when it is in Egypt.
So now you want me to actually read the crap interesting information that I post?!
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Re: Celebrating today « Reply #78 on Dec 25, 2010, 3:26pm »
All kinds of important things happened on this day in history. Maybe the one all of us here will take as our Christmas present is the birth of the World Wide Web as computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau created the world's first hyperlinked Web page on December 25, 1990.
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Re: Celebrating today « Reply #80 on Dec 26, 2010, 5:02pm »
Yes, how time passes. I remember that sad Boxing Day tsunami well.
Boxing Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day came from alms-giving (and "re-gifting" on the Feast of Stephen) Now it is mostly a celebration of the Church of Shopping.
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Re: Celebrating today « Reply #83 on Jan 6, 2011, 4:55pm »
On this day in history ~~
Joan of Arc was born -- 1412, Domremy, France
Some famous people got married: Henry VIII (to Anne of Cleves, the 4th wife), 1540 George & Martha (Washington), 1759 George & Barbara (Bush), 1945
And, in a day that should live in infamy in the history of the US: Congress certified Republican George W. Bush the winner of the close and bitterly contested 2000 presidential election, 2001.
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Re: Celebrating today « Reply #84 on Jan 6, 2011, 6:29pm »
And let us not forget please that it is the Feast of the Epiphany,Twelfth Night,King's Day,"Little Christmas",and a very special celebratory day for me personally.
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Re: Celebrating today « Reply #86 on Jan 7, 2011, 6:26pm »
On this day in ~
1789, the first U.S. presidential election was held. Americans voted for electors who, a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation's first president.
1927, commercial transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated between New York and London.
1979, Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government.
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