Clearly the media are not reporting on issues in a way that readers want. The result is falling readership. The media would rather cut their own throats rather than give up preaching to the left. There are too many cats paws in this world.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Remy Ilona, Petra Borén Supparo, Allan Joe Blo and Betty Nguyen. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 39 – Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
- 1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor and painter (d. 1571)
- 1560 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
- 1587 – Samuel Scheidt, German composer (d. 1654)
- 1801 – Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher, founded the Baedeker Publishing Company (d. 1859)
- 1900 – Adolf Dassler, German businessman, founded Adidas (d. 1978)
- 1921 – Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1948 – Lulu, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
- 1953 – Kate Capshaw, American actress
- 1987 – Gemma Ward, Australian model and actress
- 1995 – Kendall Jenner, American model
- 361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.
- 644 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina.
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
- 1867 – Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
- 1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
- 1954 – The first Godzilla film is released and marks the first appearance of the character of the same name.
- 1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
- 1979 – Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group ofKlansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
- 361 – Constantius II, Roman emperor (b. 317)
- 1580 – Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (b. 1512)
- 1926 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter (b. 1860)
- 1957 – Laika, Soviet dog (b. 1954)
PM brings diggers home with honour
Piers Akerman – Sunday, November 03, 2013 (12:42am)
AUSTRALIANS troops are preparing to bring home their battle flags from Afghanistan, a withdrawal with honour after an engagement that became our longest war.
Unions exposed as war saboteurs
Miranda Devine – Sunday, November 03, 2013 (12:44am)
AS the Abbott government begins to take on union power and corruption, a timely new book reveals the union movement’s role in one of the most shameful periods of Australian history.
What the wharfies did to Australian troops - and their nation’s war effort - between 1939 and 1945 is nothing short of an abomination.
Perth lawyer Hal Colebatch has done the nation a service with his groundbreaking book, Australia’s Secret War, telling the untold story of union bastardry during World War 2.
Using diary entries, letters and interviews with key witnesses, he has pieced together with forensic precision the tale of how Australia’s unions sabotaged the war effort, how wharfies vandalised, harassed, and robbed Australian troop ships, and probably cost lives.
One of the most obscene acts occurred in October, 1945, at the end of the war, after Australian soldiers were released from Japanese prison camps. They were half dead, starving and desperate for home. But when the British aircraft-carrier HMS Speaker brought them into Sydney Harbour, the wharfies went on strike. For 36 hours, the soldiers were forced to remain on-board, tantalisingly close to home. This final act of cruelty from their countrymen was their thanks for all the sacrifice.
Colebatch coolly recounts outrage after outrage. There were the radio valves pilfered by waterside workers in Townsville which prevented a new radar station at Green Island from operating.
So when American dive bombers returning from a raid on a Japanese base were caught in an electrical storm and lost their bearings, there was no radio station to guide them to safety. Lost, they ran out of fuel and crashed, killing all 32 airmen.
Colebatch quotes RAAF serviceman James Ahearn, who served at Green Island, where the Australians had to listen impotently to the doomed Americans’ radio calls:
“The grief was compounded by the fact that had it not been for the greed and corruption on the Australian waterfront such lives would not have been needlessly lost.”
Almost every major Australian warship was targeted throughout the war, with little intervention from an enfeebled Prime Minister Curtin. There was the deliberate destruction by wharfies of vehicles and equipment, theft of food being loaded for soldiers, snap strikes, go-slows, demands for “danger money” for loading biscuits.
Then there were the coal strikes which pushed down coal production between 1942 and 1945 despite the war emergency.
There were a few honourable attempts to resist union leaders, such as the women working in a small arms factory in Orange, NSW, who refused to strike and “pelted union leaders with tomatoes and eggs”.
This is a tale of the worst of Australia amid the best, the valour and courage of our soldiers in New Guinea providing our last line of defence against Japanese, only to be forced onto starvation rations and to “go easy on the ammo” because strikes by the wharfies back home prevented supplies from reaching them.
A planned rescue of Australian PoWs in Borneo late in the war apparently had to be abandoned, writes Colebatch, because a wharf strike in Brisbane meant the ships had no heavy weapons.
There was no act too low for the unionists. For instance, in 1941, hundreds of soldiers on board a ship docked in Freemantle entrusted personal letters to wharfies who offered to post them in return for beer money. The letters never arrived.
At one point in 1942 a US Army colonel became so frustrated at the refusal of Townsville wharfies to load munitions unless paid quadruple time, he ordered his men to throw the unionists into the water and load the guns themselves.
In Adelaide, American soldiers fired sub-machine guns at wharfies deliberately destroying their aircraft engines by dropping them from great heights. Australian soldiers had to draw bayonets to stop the same Adelaide wharfies from stealing food meant for troops overseas.
You will read this book with mounting fury.
Colebatch offers various explanations for the treasonous behaviour of the unions. Many of the leaders were Communists obsessed with class warfare. Fervent “identity politics” led them to believe they were victims, and that servicemen and women were “puppets of capitalism whose lives were of no consequence”.
Contrary to popular belief, strikes and sabotage continued to the end of the war, even after the Soviet Union became an ally, writes Colebatch, who contends that the Australian Left may have wanted to undermine the military in preparation for revolution after the war.
Whatever the reasons for the defective morality of those unionists who sabotaged our war effort, the traitors have never been brought to account. This story has been largely suppressed for 70 years because Labor and the Left have successfully controlled the narrative of history.
No more, thanks to Colebatch.
BLOGGING FOR LITTLE KIDS
Tim Blair – Sunday, November 03, 2013 (12:40am)
Despite some honourable Twitter exceptions, this is true.
SOMEONE ELSE LOVES HIM
Tim Blair – Sunday, November 03, 2013 (12:38am)
Advertising millionaire Todd Sampson blames capitalism for a grotesque cultural aberration:
I don’t know anyone who likes Kyle Sandilands but I do know someone that loves him – capitalism.
Sampson has forgotten about Kyle’s best friend – a certain former Prime Minister.
EMILY SHOCKED
Tim Blair – Sunday, November 03, 2013 (12:36am)
“Something shocking has happened to US journalism,” writes the Guardian‘s Emily Bell. “It has parted company with the free market.”
Philosophically, US journalism parted company with the free market some time ago. Now we’re just seeing how that works out.
Burnside spits
Andrew Bolt November 03 2013 (5:53am)
“Human rights” lawyer
Julian Burnside wants everyone treated with respect. Except Liberals
like the Immigration Minister, of course:
(Thanks to reader Correllio.)
===Why does Burnside contract out the spitting to children? Why does he not set the example - either in civility or brutality?
(Thanks to reader Correllio.)
Palmer loses Dio Wang. Abbott wins
Andrew Bolt November 03 2013 (5:04am)
This farce could help Tony Abbott:
That in turn depends, of course, on no new election being ordered.
===THE Greens’ Scott Ludlam and the Australian Sports Party’s Wayne Dropulich have won final spots in a controversial Senate recount in Western Australia that may go to the High Court and even result in a new election.To get legislation past a Labor/Greens block in the new Senate, the Government needs the votes of at least six of the eight remaining Senators. Palmer now has just two Senators, with the Australian Sports Party beating out Palmer’s Dio Wang, and that means the Government could get bills through without him, But that’s provided it can peel off the Motoring Enthusiasts’ Ricky Muir, who has signed some kind of deal with Palmer.
Their election, declared late yesterday, means the Palmer United Party’s Zhenya Wang and Labor’s Louise Pratt will miss out despite having been successful in the initial count.
However, the state now faces the prospect of a rerun after 1375 ballot papers were lost by the Australian Electoral Commission after a recount of the September voting ordered last month at the urging of the Greens.
That in turn depends, of course, on no new election being ordered.
On The Bolt Report today
Andrew Bolt November 03 2013 (12:03am)
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Unbelievable facts
Only 20 people are known to have Hyperthymesia. A condition that allows them to remember every detail of their lives.
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Joey Duong
Head to toes. Toes to head. Hehe.
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Samuel Reshevsky, at age eight, defeating several chess masters
in France !!! Reshevsky won the U.S. Chess Championship in
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Aprille Love
Finally got around to opening the godie bag from#socialdiary! Now thats what I call a goodie bag#boohoosocialdiary #goodiebag #amazing #love
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Another courageous heroine....
Afghan Schoolgirl Scarred in Acid Attack, Defies Taliban, Becomes a Teacher - upww.us/vinienco
More......http://paper.li/allysonchristy/1378777884
http://paper.li/allysonchristy/1378777884
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Here is what Jimmah Carter said to Parade magazine when asked how to evaluate how Barack Obama has done while in the Oval Office:
He’s done the best he could under the circumstances. His major accomplishment was Obamacare, and the implementation of it now is questionable at best.
Considering the source, that’s the most damaging criticism Barack Obama has ever faced. Five years into a “recovery” where 95% of the gains are being made by the top 1%, the labor force participation is at Jimmy Carter levels, and America is experiencing record poverty unseen since the 1960s, it’s time for Carter to turn over the mantle for worst president in modern times.
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You are missing essential food groups .. chocolate eggs .. chocolate milk .. Chocolate rabbits .. ed
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Photographer Jimmy Nelson finds the last tribes on earth
http://bit.ly/HmogHn
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Timmy Lingy
They told me I could be anything. So I became a piano tuner. ;__;
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"The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more things you'll have to express gratitude for."- Zig Ziglar
more at The Zig Ziglar Foundation
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Meh, propaganda .. ed
Which is why children grow, but adults don't? - ed
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Dai Le
In Canley Heights supporting the Vietnamese Community in Australia (VCA) Bushfire Appeal with Son Brown and his team.===
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Tune-In Tuesday: In an exclusive two-part interview, Ariel Castro’s first victim, Michelle Knight, tells her story of the horrifying 11 years she spent as his captive.
http://bit.ly/
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Genius. Where's Wally? wallpaper:http://bit.ly/1cu4Xdl
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David Bowles
Ender's Game: better than it had any right to be, but not quite as good as fans would have liked. Given that the much slimmer Hobbit is being made into THREE movies, I'd have liked another 30 minutes of character development and battle room stuff (and a less ADHD editor). The last half hour was really compelling.
I like the writer's short stories "Maps in a mirror" I didn't take to Ender's game for no good reason .. I didn't like the hyper awareness of characters to nuance .. same thing made Dune series dull for me .. but a ripping yarn with excellent character - ed
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Aprille Love
Fun on set! #atomickingdom #letsdothis #kickass
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Andy Trieu
Opportunity doesn't seem to knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
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Aprille Love
Snapped in the Sunday Telegraph with Tim Wall for Social Diary Halloween.
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If you must lose, lose well. - ed
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JOHN WAYNE
November 1, 1928 ~ "Noah's Ark" was released to movie theaters 85 years ago today. The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War. JOHN WAYNE along with his pal Andy Devine played uncredited flood extras/stunt swimmers in this film.
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Incredible! This dad created a prosthetic hand for his son using 3-D technology. Paul and Leon McCarthy shared their story today on FOX & Friends Weekend: http://tinyurl.com/pl3uw5g
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Every new collab with Grathy is a gift !
Once again
Thank you, Mary !
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Chaque nouvelle collaboration avec Mary est toujours aussi agréable
Merci encore à elle pour sa gentillesse et sa disponibilité (sans oublier le talent ...).
- LaFayette
Every new collab with Grathy is a gift!
Once again :)
Thank you, Mary!
-Each new collaboration with Mary is always enjoyable :)
Thanks again to it for his kindness and availability (not to mention the talent...).
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The Night Train
Commuters fly by at night back to their homes at seeming light speed in this thirty second exposure.
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Pity. Run right, such a school could contribute much. How does Israel do it? They integrate well. - ed
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Pastor Rick Warren
Quiet prayer doesn't always end the storm,
but it always steadies me in the storm until it passes.
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When you be who God made you to be, you compete with no one.
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How do I know when I'm living by grace? I'm gracious to others
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The UNHRC Charter has a special article (Article 7) which stipulates that any conference on human rights must hold a separate discussion on Israel. This stipulation applies only to Israel, and no other country in the world is subject to such treatment – not even actual and horrendous human rights abusers such as Syria, Saudi Arabia, China or Sudan. This “Israel-only” clause was adopted by the UNHRC in 2007. http://
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I thought you might find this article interesting. You can also see the video segment of my appearance on the CBN News show "The Watchman with Erick Stakelbeck," where I showcased my 3-D Topographic Map of Israel. I look forward to any comments. Mark
Palestinian State' Would Leave Israel 'Indefensible'
Security expert breaks down the security threat posed to Israel by any future "Palestinian State" in Judea and Samaria ("West Bank").
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- 644 – Umar, the second Muslim Caliphafter Muhammad's death, was fatally stabbed by Pirouz Nahavandi, a Persian slave.
- 1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English-language dailybroadsheet newspaper, was founded as the The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
- 1948 – The Chicago Tribune published the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" in its early morning edition shortly after incumbent U.S. President Harry S. Truman (pictured) officially upset the heavily favoredGovernor of New York Thomas Dewey in the U.S. presidential election.
- 1956 – In the midst of the Suez Crisis, during an invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot deadhundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in Khan Yunis.
- 1979 – Five members of the U.S. Communist Workers Party were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest inGreensboro, North Carolina.
Events[edit]
- 361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.
- 644 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina.
- 1333 – The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
- 1468 – Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.
- 1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
- 1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.
- 1783 – The American Continental Army is disbanded.
- 1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
- 1812 – Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
- 1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
- 1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
- 1848 – A greatly revised Dutch constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.
- 1867 – Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
- 1868 – John Willis Menard was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated.
- 1883 – American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
- 1898 – France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
- 1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
- 1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
- 1918 – Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
- 1918 – Poland declares its independence from Russia.
- 1918 – The German Revolution of 1918–1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
- 1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
- 1932 – Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1935 – George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possible fixed, plebiscite.
- 1942 – World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
- 1943 – World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
- 1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
- 1954 – The first Godzilla film is released and marks the first appearance of the character of the same name.
- 1956 – The Khan Yunis killings are perpetrated by the Israel Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 275 male Arabs.
- 1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
- 1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
- 1964 – Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
- 1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
- 1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
- 1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.
- 1978 – Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1979 – Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group ofKlansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
- 1982 – The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000 people.
- 1986 – Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iranin order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
- 1986 – The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
- 1988 – Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, theIndian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.
- 1996 – Death of Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).
- 1997 – The United States of America imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
Births[edit]
- 39 – Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
- 1500 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor and painter (d. 1571)
- 1558 – Thomas Kyd, English author (d. 1594)
- 1560 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
- 1587 – Samuel Scheidt, German composer (d. 1654)
- 1604 – Osman II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1622)
- 1618 – Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor(d. 1707)
- 1633 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
- 1656 – Georg Reutter, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1738)
- 1689 – Jan Josef Ignác Brentner, Czech composer (d. 1742)
- 1718 – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English politician (d. 1792)
- 1749 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
- 1757 – Robert Smith, American politician, 6th Secretary of State (d. 1842)
- 1777 – Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
- 1793 – Stephen F. Austin, American businessman (d. 1836)
- 1794 – William Cullen Bryant, American poet and journalist (d. 1878)
- 1799 – William Sprague, American politician (d. 1856)
- 1801 – Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher, founded the Baedeker Publishing Company (d. 1859)
- 1801 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
- 1815 – John Mitchel, Irish journalist and activist (d. 1875)
- 1816 – Jubal Early, American general and lawyer (d. 1894)
- 1816 – Calvin Fairbank, American minister (d. 1898)
- 1845 – Edward Douglass White, American politician and jurist, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
- 1852 – Emperor Meiji of Japan (d. 1912)
- 1856 – Jim McCormick, American baseball player (d. 1918)
- 1857 – Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (d. 1918)
- 1862 – Henry George, Jr., American politician (d. 1916)
- 1863 – Alfred Perot, French physicist (d. 1925)
- 1871 – Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby player (d. 1943)
- 1876 – Stephen Alencastre, American bishop (d. 1940)
- 1877 – Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean army officer and politician, 20th President of Chile (d. 1960)
- 1884 – Joseph William Martin, Jr., American politician, 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1968)
- 1884 – Arthur Rosenkampff, American gymnast (d. 1952)
- 1887 – Samuil Marshak, Russian author and poet (d. 1964)
- 1890 – Harry Stephen Keeler, American author (d. 1967)
- 1890 – Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch missionary (d. 1943)
- 1894 – William George Barker, Canadian pilot (d. 1930)
- 1894 – Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1964)
- 1896 – Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
- 1899 – Rezső Seress, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1968)
- 1899 – Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)
- 1900 – Adolf Dassler, German businessman, founded Adidas (d. 1978)
- 1901 – Leopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
- 1901 – André Malraux, French author (d. 1976)
- 1903 – Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
- 1903 – Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator (d. 1981)
- 1908 – Giovanni Leone, Italian politician, 6th President of Italy (d. 2001)
- 1908 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player (d. 1990)
- 1909 – James Reston, American journalist (d. 1995)
- 1910 – Richard Hurndall, English actor (d. 1984)
- 1911 – Kick Smit, Dutch footballer (d. 1974)
- 1912 – Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan military officer and politician, 46th President of Paraguay (d. 2006)
- 1915 – Hal Jackson, American radio host (d. 2012)
- 1917 – Annapurna Maharana, Indian activist (d. 2012)
- 1918 – Claude Barma, French director and screenwriter (d. 1992)
- 1918 – Bob Feller, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1918 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American general (d. 2007)
- 1918 – Russell B. Long, American politician (d. 2003)
- 1918 – Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (d. 2010)
- 1918 – Dean Riesner, American screenwriter (d. 2002)
- 1919 – Jesús Blasco, Spanish writer and illustrator (d. 1995)
- 1919 – Ludovic Kennedy, Scottish journalist and author (d. 2009)
- 1919 – Květa Legátová, Czech author (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet, educator, and activist (d. 1993)
- 1921 – Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1922 – Dennis McDermott, English-Canadian trade unionist (d. 2003)
- 1923 – Tomás Ó Fiaich, Irish archbishop (d. 1990)
- 1923 – Yamaguchi Hitomi, Japanese author (d. 1995)
- 1924 – Samuel Ruiz García, Mexican bishop (d. 2011)
- 1926 – Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politician, 3rd President of Lithuania
- 1926 – Maurice Couture, Canadian archbishop
- 1927 – Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (d. 2004)
- 1927 – Peggy McCay, American actress
- 1928 – Goseki Kojima, Japanese illustrator (d. 2000)
- 1928 – Bill Morrison, Australian politician (d. 2013)
- 1928 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese animator and producer (d. 1989)
- 1929 – Alfonso Orueta, Chilean politician (d. 2012)
- 1929 – Ed Richards, American fencer (d. 2012)
- 1930 – D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
- 1930 – Brian Robinson, English cyclist
- 1930 – Tsutomu Seki, Japanese astronomer
- 1930 – Lois Smith, American actress
- 1930 – Frits Staal, Dutch philosopher and scholar (d. 2012)
- 1931 – Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
- 1931 – Monica Vitti, Italian actress
- 1931 – Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (d. 2007)
- 1933 – John Barry, English composer (d. 2011)
- 1933 – Ken Berry, American actor, singer, and dancer
- 1933 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)
- 1933 – Aneta Corsaut, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1933 – Michael Dukakis, American politician, 65th Governor of Massachusetts
- 1933 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1934 – Hans Janmaat, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
- 1935 – Ingrid Rüütel, Estonian folklorist and philologist, 3rd First Lady of Estonia
- 1936 – Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
- 1936 – Takao Saito, Japanese illustrator
- 1937 – Dietrich Möller, German politician, Mayor of Marburg
- 1938 – Martin Dunwoody, English mathematician
- 1938 – Akira Kobayashi, Japanese actor and singer
- 1938 – Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter
- 1942 – Martin Cruz Smith, American author
- 1942 – Priit Tomson, Estonian basketball pplayer
- 1943 – Bert Jansch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pentangle) (d. 2011)
- 1944 – Jan Boerstoel, Dutch poet and songwriter
- 1945 – Ken Holtzman, American baseball player and manager
- 1945 – Gerd Müller, German footballer
- 1946 – Reinhard Karl, German mountaineer (d. 1982)
- 1946 – Tom Savini, American actor
- 1946 – Wataru Takeshita, Japanese politician
- 1947 – Mazie Hirono, Japanese-American politician
- 1947 – Faraj Sarkohi, Iranian journalist
- 1948 – Lulu, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
- 1948 – Takashi Kawamura, Japanese politician
- 1948 – Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (d. 1974)
- 1948 – Rick Kreuger, American baseball player
- 1948 – Rainer Zobel, German footballer
- 1949 – Mike Evans, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1949 – Osamu Fujimura, Japanese politician
- 1949 – Larry Holmes, American boxer
- 1949 – Anna Wintour, English-American journalist and editor
- 1950 – Massimo Mongai, Italian author
- 1950 – Joe Queenan, American author and critic
- 1951 – Dwight Evans, American baseball player
- 1951 – Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist
- 1951 – André Wetzel, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1952 – Roseanne Barr, American comedian, actress, and producer
- 1952 – Jim Cummings, American voice actor and singer
- 1952 – David Ho, Taiwanese-American scientist
- 1953 – Kate Capshaw, American actress
- 1953 – Helios Creed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chrome)
- 1953 – Larry Herndon, American baseball player
- 1953 – Dennis Miller, American comedian and actor
- 1954 – Adam Ant, English singer-songwriter (Adam and the Ants)
- 1955 – Teresa De Sio, Italian singer-songwriter
- 1955 – Phil Simms, American football player
- 1956 – Kevin Murphy, American actor and puppeteer
- 1956 – Gary Ross, American director
- 1956 – Bob Welch, American baseball player
- 1957 – Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor
- 1957 – Gary Olsen, English actor (d. 2000)
- 1959 – Hal Hartley, American director and screenwriter
- 1960 – Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
- 1961 – David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley, English businessman
- 1961 – Dave Hahn, American mountaineer
- 1962 – Gabe Newell, American businessman, co-founder of Valve Corporation
- 1962 – David J. Schiappa, American politician
- 1962 – Jacqui Smith, English politician
- 1963 – Davis Guggenheim, American director and producer
- 1963 – Shigeaki Hattori, Japanese race car driver
- 1963 – Ian Wright, English footballer
- 1964 – Algimantas Briaunis, Lithuanian football player and coach
- 1964 – Paprika Steen, Danish actress
- 1965 – Gert Heerkes, Dutch football coach and manager
- 1965 – Ann Scott, French author
- 1967 – Mike O'Neill, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 – John Tomac, American cyclist
- 1967 – Steven Wilson, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, No-Man, and Storm Corrosion)
- 1968 – Alberto Iñurrategi, Spanish mountaineer
- 1968 – Paul Quantrill, Canadian baseball player
- 1969 – Robert Miles, Swiss-Italian DJ and producer
- 1969 – Niels van Steenis, Dutch rower
- 1970 – Geir Frigård, Norwegian footballer
- 1971 – Diego Alessi, Italian race car driver
- 1971 – Sticky Fingaz, American rapper and actor (Onyx)
- 1971 – Dylan Moran, Irish comedian and actor
- 1971 – Dwight Yorke, Tobagonian footballer
- 1972 – Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer
- 1972 – Michael Hofmann, German footballer
- 1972 – Marko Koers, Dutch runner
- 1973 – Nemone, English radio and television host
- 1973 – Ben Fogle, English television host and author
- 1973 – Mick Thomson, American guitarist (Slipknot)
- 1973 – Julia Channel, French pornographic and mainstream actress, singer and entrepreneur
- 1974 – Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player
- 1974 – Sonali Kulkarni, Indian actress
- 1975 – Darren Sharper, American football player
- 1976 – Tōko Aoyama, Japanese voice actress
- 1976 – Guillermo Franco, Argentine-Mexican footballer
- 1976 – Jake Shimabukuro, American ukulele player
- 1977 – Aria Giovanni, American model and actress
- 1977 – Marcel Ketelaer, German footballer
- 1977 – Sean Ringgold, American actor
- 1978 – Tim McIlrath, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rise Against, Baxter, Arma Angelus, and The Killing Tree)
- 1978 – Hiroko Sakai, Japanese softball player
- 1978 – Koshiro Take, Japanese jockey
- 1978 – Julia Taylor, European porn actress
- 1979 – Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
- 1979 – Beau McDonald, Australian footballer
- 1980 – Hans Anderson, Danish Speedway Rider
- 1981 – Diego López Rodríguez, Spanish footballer
- 1981 – Rodrigo Millar, Chilean footballer
- 1981 – Sten Pentus, Estonian race car driver
- 1981 – Vicente Matías Vuoso, Argentine-Mexican footballer
- 1982 – Moniek Kleinsman, Dutch speed skater
- 1982 – Evgeny Plushenko, Russian figure skater
- 1983 – Julie Marie Berman, American actress
- 1983 – Suzane von Richthofen, Brazilian murderer
- 1984 – Christian Bakkerud, Danish race car driver (d. 2011)
- 1984 – Ryo Nishikido, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (NEWS and Kanjani Eight)
- 1985 – Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player
- 1986 – Paul Derbyshire, Italian rugby player
- 1986 – Jermaine Jones, American singer and actor
- 1986 – Piet Velthuizen, Dutch footballer
- 1986 – Heo Young-saeng, South Korean singer (SS501)
- 1987 – Ariane Andrew, American wrestler and manager
- 1987 – Colin Kaepernick, American football player
- 1987 – Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player
- 1987 – Gemma Ward, Australian model and actress
- 1988 – Angus McLaren, Australian actor
- 1989 – Paula DeAnda, American singer-songwriter
- 1989 – Joyce Jonathan, French singer
- 1990 – Ellyse Perry, Australian footballer and cricketer
- 1992 – Valeria Solovyeva, Russian tennis player
- 1995 – Kendall Jenner, American model
Deaths[edit]
- 361 – Constantius II, Roman emperor (b. 317)
- 753 – Saint Pirmin, Spanish-German monk (b. 700)
- 1254 – John III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine emperor (b. 1193)
- 1428 – Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1388)
- 1580 – Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (b. 1512)
- 1584 – Charles Borromeo, Italian archbishop (b. 1538)
- 1600 – Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
- 1639 – Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (b. 1579)
- 1643 – John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
- 1643 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
- 1711 – John Ernest Grabe, German theologian (b. 1666)
- 1787 – Robert Lowth, English bishop (b. 1710)
- 1793 – Olympe de Gouges, French activist (b. 1748)
- 1794 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
- 1858 – Harriet Taylor Mill, English philosopher (b. 1807)
- 1869 – Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet (b. 1792)
- 1890 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss politician (b. 1811)
- 1891 – Louis Lucien Bonaparte, French politician and linguist (b. 1813)
- 1914 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (b. 1887)
- 1917 – Léon Bloy, French author (b. 1846)
- 1918 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1857)
- 1926 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter (b. 1860)
- 1927 – Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
- 1929 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
- 1933 – Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician (b. 1853)
- 1939 – Charles Tournemire, French composer and organist (b. 1870)
- 1949 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1861)
- 1954 – Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (b. 1869)
- 1957 – Laika, Soviet dog (b. 1954)
- 1957 – Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychotherapist (b. 1897)
- 1960 – Paul Willis, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1962 – Antonius van Loon, Dutch tug of war competitor (b. 1888)
- 1962 – L.O. Wenckebach, Dutch sculptor and painter (b. 1895)
- 1964 – John Henry Barbee, American singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
- 1970 – Peter II of Yugoslavia (b. 1923)
- 1973 – Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
- 1975 – Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1925)
- 1975 – Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1919)
- 1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi politician, President of Bangladesh (b. 1925)
- 1975 – Abul Hasnat Muhammad Qamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1926)
- 1983 – Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
- 1987 – Mary Shane, American sportscaster (b. 1945)
- 1988 – Henri van Praag, Dutch educator, philosopher, and theologian (b. 1916)
- 1990 – Mary Martin, American actress (b. 1913)
- 1991 – Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1936)
- 1991 – Chris Bender American singer (b. 1972)
- 1993 – Léon Theremin, Russian inventor, invented the Theremin (b. 1895)
- 1994 – Alvin Andreas Herborg Nielsen, American physicist (b. 1910)
- 1995 – Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician (b. 1887)
- 1995 – John Orchard, English actor (b. 1928)
- 1996 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, African military officer, 2nd President of the Central African Republic (b. 1921)
- 1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, Turkish drug trafficker and murderer (b. 1956)
- 1998 – Bob Kane, American writer and illustrator (b. 1915)
- 1999 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
- 2001 – Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-English historian (b. 1909)
- 2002 – Lonnie Donegan, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
- 2002 – Jonathan Harris, American actor (b. 1914)
- 2003 – Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Sergejs Žoltoks, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1972)
- 2006 – Paul Mauriat, French conductor (b. 1925)
- 2006 – Marie Rudisill, American author (b. 1911)
- 2006 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
- 2007 – Aleksandr Dedyushko, Russian actor (b. 1962)
- 2007 – Martin Meehan, Irish politician (b. 1945)
- 2007 – Ryan Shay, American runner (b. 1979)
- 2008 – Jean Fournet, French conductor (b. 1913)
- 2009 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish author (b. 1906)
- 2009 – Archie Baird, Scottish footballer (b. 1919)
- 2009 – Carl Ballantine, American magician and actor (b. 1917)
- 2010 – Jerry Bock, American composer (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician, 30th Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1938)
- 2010 – Jim Clench, Canadian bass player (April Wine and Bachman–Turner Overdrive) (b. 1949)
- 2012 – Odd Børretzen, Norwegian singer and author (b. 1926)
- 2012 – George Chesterton, English cricketer (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Thomas K. McCraw, American business historian (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Kailashpati Mishra, Indian politician (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Eugenija Pleškytė, Lithuanian actress (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Ingegerd Troedsson, Swedish politician (b. 1929)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Culture Day (Japan), and its related observances:
- Feudal Lord's Parade or Hakone Daimyō Gyōretsu (Hakone, Kanagawa)
- Independence Day / Separation Day, celebrates the separation and independence of Panama from Colombia in 1903.
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Dominica from the United Kingdom in 1978.
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Federated States of Micronesia from the United States in 1986.
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” 1 Peter 2:9 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"I am the Lord, I change not."
Malachi 3:6
Malachi 3:6
It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows. All things else have changed--all things are changing. The sun itself grows dim with age; the world is waxing old; the folding up of the worn-out vesture has commenced; the heavens and earth must soon pass away; they shall perish, they shall wax old as doth a garment; but there is One who only hath immortality, of whose years there is no end, and in whose person there is no change. The delight which the mariner feels, when, after having been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon the solid shore, is the satisfaction of a Christian when, amidst all the changes of this troublous life, he rests the foot of his faith upon this truth--"I am the Lord, I change not."
The stability which the anchor gives the ship when it has at last obtained a hold-fast, is like that which the Christian's hope affords him when it fixes itself upon this glorious truth. With God "is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." Whatever his attributes were of old, they are now; his power, his wisdom, his justice, his truth, are alike unchanged. He has ever been the refuge of his people, their stronghold in the day of trouble, and he is their sure Helper still. He is unchanged in his love. He has loved his people with "an everlasting love"; he loves them now as much as ever he did, and when all earthly things shall have melted in the last conflagration, his love will still wear the dew of its youth. Precious is the assurance that he changes not! The wheel of providence revolves, but its axle is eternal love.
"Death and change are busy ever,
Man decays, and ages move;
But his mercy waneth never;
God is wisdom, God is love."
Evening
"Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law."
Psalm 119:53
Psalm 119:53
My soul, feelest thou this holy shuddering at the sins of others? for otherwise thou lackest inward holiness. David's cheeks were wet with rivers of waters because of prevailing unholiness, Jeremiah desired eyes like fountains that he might lament the iniquities of Israel, and Lot was vexed with the conversation of the men of Sodom. Those upon whom the mark was set in Ezekiel's vision, were those who sighed and cried for the abominations of Jerusalem. It cannot but grieve gracious souls to see what pains men take to go to hell. They know the evil of sin experimentally, and they are alarmed to see others flying like moths into its blaze. Sin makes the righteous shudder, because it violates a holy law, which it is to every man's highest interest to keep; it pulls down the pillars of the commonwealth. Sin in others horrifies a believer, because it puts him in mind of the baseness of his own heart: when he sees a transgressor he cries with the saint mentioned by Bernard, "He fell today, and I may fall to-morrow." Sin to a believer is horrible, because it crucified the Saviour; he sees in every iniquity the nails and spear. How can a saved soul behold that cursed kill-Christ sin without abhorrence? Say, my heart, dost thou sensibly join in all this? It is an awful thing to insult God to His face. The good God deserves better treatment, the great God claims it, the just God will have it, or repay His adversary to his face. An awakened heart trembles at the audacity of sin, and stands alarmed at the contemplation of its punishment. How monstrous a thing is rebellion! How direful a doom is prepared for the ungodly! My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy. View it with detestation, for so only canst thou evidence the possession of holiness, without which no man can see the Lord.
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Today's reading: Jeremiah 27-29, Titus 3 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Jeremiah 27-29
Judah to Serve Nebuchadnezzar
1 Early in the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2 This is what the LORD said to me: “Make a yoke out of straps and crossbars and put it on your neck. 3 Then send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. 4 Give them a message for their masters and say, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Tell this to your masters: 5 With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please. 6 Now I will give all your countries into the hands of my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him.7 All nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until the time for his land comes; then many nations and great kings will subjugate him.
8 “‘“If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I destroy it by his hand. 9 So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums or your sorcerers who tell you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 They prophesy lies to you that will only serve to remove you far from your lands; I will banish you and you will perish. 11 But if any nation will bow its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let that nation remain in its own land to till it and to live there, declares the LORD....”’”
Today's New Testament reading: Titus 3
Saved in Order to Do Good
1 Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, 2to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone.
3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. 8 This is a trustworthy saying. And I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone.
9 But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. 10 Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them. 11 You may be sure that such people are warped and sinful; they are self-condemned....
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Naboth
[NÄ'bÅth] - prominence. A Jezreelite of the tribe of Issachar, whom Jezebel, wife of Ahab, caused to be put to death to obtain his vineyard adjoining the palace (1 Kings 21; 2 Kings 9:21-26).
For this dastardly act doom was pronounced upon Ahab and his house by Elijah. "The murder of Naboth seems to have deeply impressed the popular mind," comments W. F. Boyd, "and the deaths of Joram and Jezebel near the spot were regarded as Divine retribution on the act."
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