Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Every morning you greet me
Small and white clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss,Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever.
In 1319, the poorly named Knights Hospitaller fleet scored a crushing victory over Turkish pirates. Today, the St John's Ambulance are more efficient. In 1632, 300 settlers set sail for New France, which is covered by territory from Louisiana through to Quebec. In 1829, the first patented typewriter was submitted. In 1903, Henry Ford's company sold its' first car. In 1914, Austria Hungary demanded Serbia allow Austria access to determine those responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia failed on one count, and so war was declared. Salient to today's demand on Russia over Ukraine territory. In 1926, Fox Film bought Movietone Sound Systems to produce sound to film. In 1927, Wilfred Rhodes became the only player in Cricket History to play 1000 first class matches. In 1929, Italy banned the use of foreign words. In 1942, Treblinka opened. On the same day in 1942, Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov was executed by firing squad, his one volume of poetry was titled "Motoring Verses." In 1943, the Rayleigh Bath murder occurred. In 1967, Detroit was in riot. In 1968 Ohio, a black militant named Ahmed had a shootout with police which preceded 5 days of riots. In 1982, the international Whaling Commission decided to end commercial Whaling by 1986. In 1992, A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may;I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
===1829 – William Austin Burt was awarded a patent for the typographer, the first practical typewriting machine.
- 1914 – Austria-Hungary presented Serbia withan ultimatum to allow them to investigate the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, that Serbia would ultimately reject, leading to World War I.
- 1927 – Wilfred Rhodes of England and Yorkshire became the only person to play in 1,000 first-class cricket matches.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: The gas chambers at Treblinka extermination camp began operation, killing 6,500 Jews who had been transported from the Warsaw Ghetto the day before.
1983 – Air Canada Flight 143 made an emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba, Canada, without loss of life after the crew was forced to glide the aircraft when it completely ran out of fuel.
- 1984 – Vanessa Williams, the first African-American Miss America, resigned in scandal after Penthouse magazinepublished nude photos of her that were taken two years prior.
Matches
- 1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
- 1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
- 1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
- 1840 – The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
- 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
- 1914 – Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
- 1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
- 1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
- 1927 – Wilfred Rhodes of England and Yorkshire became the only person to play in 1,000 first-class cricket matches.
- 1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
- 1940 – The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
- 1942 – World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
- 1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
- 1943 – The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
- 1945 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
- 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
- 1967 – 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
- 1968 – Glenville Shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
- 1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel.
- 1972 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
- 1982 – The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
- 1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthousemagazine.
- 1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
- 1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
- 1997 – Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
- 2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
- 2012 – At least 107 people are killed and more than 250 others wounded in a string of bombings and attacks in Iraq.
Hatches
- 647 – Yazid I, Arabian caliph (d. 683)
- 1705 – Francis Blomefield, English historian (d. 1752)
- 1773 – Thomas Brisbane, Scottish general and politician, 6th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1860)
- 1775 – Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
- 1856 – Arthur Bird, American-German composer (d. 1923)
- 1885 – Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman, created Prince Matchabelli perfume (d. 1935)
- 1888 – Raymond Chandler, American author (d. 1959)
- 1894 – Arthur Treacher, English-American actor and singer (d. 1975)
- 1905 – Leopold Engleitner, Austrian holocaust survivor, author, and educator (d. 2013)
- 1912 – M. H. Abrams, American author and critic
- 1928 – Vera Rubin, American astronomer
- 1931 – Claude Fournier, Canadian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
- 1931 – Guy Fournier, Canadian author and screenwriter
- 1933 – Richard Rogers, Italian-English architect, designed the Millennium Dome and Lloyd's building
- 1938 – Bert Newton, Australian actor and television host
- 1947 – David Essex, English singer-songwriter, and actor
- 1952 – Janis Siegel, American singer (The Manhattan Transfer)
- 1953 – Graham Gooch, English cricketer and coach
- 1957 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1961 – Martin Gore, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Depeche Mode and VCMG)
- 1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
- 1970 – Charisma Carpenter, American actress
- 1971 – Alison Krauss, American singer-songwriter and fiddler
- 1974 – Stephanie March, American actress
- 1975 – Sung Hyun-ah, South Korean model and actress
- 1976 – Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
- 1978 – Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1980 – Michelle Williams, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Destiny's Child)
- 1986 – Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
- 2002 – Benjamin Flores, Jr., American child rapper
Despatches
- 997 – Nuh II, ruler of the Samanid Empire (b. 963)
- 1227 – Qiu Chuji, Chinese founder of the Dragon Gate Taoism (b. 1148)
- 1373 – Bridget of Sweden, Swedish mystic and saint, founded the Bridgettine Order (b. 1303)
- 1875 – Isaac Singer, American businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (b. 1811)
- 1885 – Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
- 1948 – D. W. Griffith, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1875)
- 1966 – Montgomery Clift, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)
- 2011 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (b. 1983)
FAMILY VALUES
Tim Blair – Wednesday, July 23, 2014 (8:47am)
This story has it all:
Two first cousins in an arranged marriage are being investigated for immigration and Centrelink fraud and rorting the baby bonus by returning to Australia from Lebanon for the births of some of their seven children.The woman, 33, told the Federal Circuit Court sitting in Parramatta her husband also had her return several times to Australia solely to update Centrelink details so she could continue to get social security …The now-estranged couple wed in Lebanon in 2001 two weeks after meeting in an arranged marriage. They returned to Australia and lived for a time with their relatives — the woman’s sister is married to the man’s brother.
Her husband was granted Australian citizenship in 2006.
UPDATE. In earlier welfare developments:
A child bride allegedly married off at 12 was told sharia law “overrides” Australian law, court documents revealed …The girl’s father and the 26-year-old man she “wed” were charged in February over numerous child sex offences.Documents that formed part of a successful apprehended violence order application by police at the time against the girl’s “husband” state that the young girl “believed or had been informed that sharia law overrides the Australian law”.“She stated that together with the accused they had been trying to get him registered as her legal guardian with Centrelink in order to obtain any welfare benefits they could,” the court documents state.
Buyers heart Pro
Andrew Bolt July 23 2014 (7:17pm)
It has been many, many years since Leonard Joel last sold every single item in an auction this size, but Pro Hart (above) remains loved by the public if not by the critics:
Some of Australian artist Pro Hart’s most significant paintings have gone under the hammer in Melbourne, fetching $1.6 million for the family’s estate.
It was the first time the 173 works from the Hart family’s private collection have been made available to the public.
One of the pieces, called Menindee Races, sold for more than $26,000…
Sophie Ullin from Leonard Joel Auction House told the ABC prices exceeded expectations, saying the sale was so successful because the artist’s appeal was far reaching.
Their country, our welfare
Andrew Bolt July 23 2014 (6:24pm)
I am not convinced our
immigration intake from Lebanon has been properly screened, or that our
politicians are alive to the influence of culture:
(Via Tim Blair.)
===TWO first cousins in an arranged marriage are being investigated for immigration and Centrelink fraud and rorting the baby bonus by returning to Australia from Lebanon for the births of some of their seven children.How could immigration officials possibly have thought it in the national interest to grant this man citizenship?
The woman, 33, told the Federal Circuit Court sitting in Parramatta her husband also had her return several times to Australia solely to update Centrelink details so she could continue to get social security…
The now-estranged couple wed in Lebanon in 2001 two weeks after meeting in an arranged marriage. They returned to Australia and lived for a time with their relatives — the woman’s sister is married to the man’s brother…
The husband, 39, was granted citizenship in 2006 in circumstances which Judge Harman said troubled him since the couple had decided to live in Lebanon.
(Via Tim Blair.)
Herald choses this moment to sneer at Abbott
Andrew Bolt July 23 2014 (5:44pm)
I know there are
vicious people who rejoice in their hatreds. But why does the Sydney
Morning Herald consider it part of its duty to print their most savage
abuse?
From the letters page today:
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“At last!’’ cried Peta Credlin as she reviewed the MH17 disaster and planned Tony Abbott’s daily agenda – “A Tampa/Port Arthur moment just in time!”Barbaric.
Russia peddles a smear to hide its guilt
Andrew Bolt July 23 2014 (9:30am)
Russia is throwing a lot of sand in the world’s eyes:
Only the Russian-backed side downed aircraft before the MH17 was shot down. Only the Russian-backed side had in interest in shooting down aircraft. Ukraine released alleged intercept calls of the Russian-backed side boasting it had brought down a plane. Russian media initially reported the Russian-backed rebels brought down an Antanov transport:
UPDATE
Reader Tassierooster protests:
A more likely scenario:
The BBC draws further links with Russia:
===Russian Lieutenant General Andrey Kartopolov told the Moscow news conference: “A Ukrainian air force military jet was detected gaining height, its distance from the Malaysian Boeing was 3km to 5km. (We) would like to get an explanation as to why the military jet was flying along a civil aviation corridor at almost the same time and same level as a passenger plane.”I don’t think Russia plans to give the inquiry into this disaster its full cooperation.
US officials dismissed the claim as “desperate” propaganda, pointing out that Ukrainian fighters cannot operate at 33,000 feet where MH17 was flying and that Ukraine had told Washington that none of its planes was in the air at the time.
Russia also suggested MH17 might have been shot down by a Ukrainian government surface-to-air Buk missile system rather than a Russian-supplied system provided to rebels by Moscow.
As evidence, the Russian generals offered five aerial photos they alleged showed Ukrainian forces had moved several missile systems into the area of the crash in the days before the tragedy…
The photographic evidence released by Russia to back its claims was inconclusive and lacking in context. It was unclear whether they showed missile systems at all and if so, who owned them and what their movements were near the time of the crash.
Only the Russian-backed side downed aircraft before the MH17 was shot down. Only the Russian-backed side had in interest in shooting down aircraft. Ukraine released alleged intercept calls of the Russian-backed side boasting it had brought down a plane. Russian media initially reported the Russian-backed rebels brought down an Antanov transport:
But now this.
UPDATE
Reader Tassierooster protests:
Um, the “US official” who pointed out that Ukrainian fighters cannot operate at 33,000 feet where MH17 was flying should perhaps have checked with the USAF before making such a stupid statement. The Ukrainian AF has a number of fighters, including SU-27’s & Mig-29’s whose operational ceiling is much higher than 33,000ft.UPDATE
Needlessly making factually incorrect statements to shred the lame excuses of the Russians will only give ammunition to those who want to believe the BS coming out of Moscow.
A more likely scenario:
SENIOR US intelligence officials say ... the passenger jet was likely felled by an SA-11 surface-to-air missile fired by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine and that Russia “created the conditions” for the downing by arming the separatists.UPDATE
They said the most probably explanation for why the plane was shot down was that the rebels made a mistake. Separatists previously had shot down 12 Ukrainian military aeroplanes, the officials noted…
The officials made clear they were relying in part on social media postings and videos made public in recent days by the Ukrainian government, even though they have not been able to authenticate all of it.
For example, they cited a video of a missile launcher said to have been crossing the Russian border after the launch, appearing to be missing a missile. But later, under questioning, the officials acknowledged they had not yet verified that the video was exactly what it purported to be.
They said they did not know who fired the missile at MH17 or whether any Russian operatives were present at the missile launch.
They were also not certain that the missile crew was trained in Russia…
In terms of who fired the missile, “we don’t know a name, we don’t know a rank and we’re not even 100 per cent sure of a nationality,” one official said…
The claim that the Ukrainian government had shot down the plan was not realistic, as Kiev had no such missile systems in that area, which is clearly under the control of the rebels.
The BBC draws further links with Russia:
Commonly known by his nom-de-guerre Strelkov (which translates loosely from Russian as “Rifleman"), Igor Girkin is one of the most effective military commanders the rebels have… He says he was a reserve colonel in the FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service, until 31 March last year.(Thanks to reader Romanoz.)
He is considered to be the commander-in-chief of both the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People’s republic (LPR). The EU believes he works for Russian military intelligence (the GRU), and has placed him under sanctions…
Shortly before news emerged that Flight MH17 had disappeared, a statement attributed to Strelkov (later deleted) appeared on Russian-language social media boasting that a Ukrainian army cargo plane had been shot down. However, the only wreckage reported on 17 July was that of the Malaysian airliner…
Igor Bezler is a prominent commander in charge of Horlivka, a city of 300,000 people north-east of Donetsk. Born in Simferopol in Crimea, he has a Russian military background and says he has both Russian and Ukrainian citizenship.... Known as Bes (Demon), his voice was identified by Ukrainian security services in a series of phone intercepts which they say proved that MH17 had been shot down by the separatists. US officials say they have verified the calls.
The prime minister of the DPR [Alexander Borodai] is a Russian citizen from Moscow who describes himself as a professional consultant who got involved in east Ukraine as a volunteer… Before coming to Donetsk, he says he worked as a “political strategist” in Crimea, reportedly for the pro-Russian rebel leadership there… He is alleged to be an operative for GRU, Russia’s military intelligence. Russian media reports link him to FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service.
Why is the ABC broadcasting Al Jazeera?
Andrew Bolt July 23 2014 (8:53am)
Of all the broadcasters in all the world, the ABC chooses al Jazeera to broadcast into Australia on its taxpayer-funded facilities, twice a day, every day. We need the Doha regime’s broadcaster to interpret world politics to us?
Know that Doha supports the Muslim Brotherhood, which in turn is close to Hamas, the terrorist group which runs Gaza. And so, not surprisingly, this is the top of today’s menu of opinion pieces on the al Jazeera website:
Get it off. Or let’s have the ABC also donate two hours a day to a news service from Israel.
Why not?
Why would Hockey want us to know he wanted a tougher budget?
Andrew Bolt July 23 2014 (8:02am)
I really do not understand how it benefits the Government to have Joe Hockey and his allies brief the writer of his biography in this way:
===Joe Hockey’s first budget, which delivered swingeing cuts to health, education and welfare, raised taxes and broke a series of promises, was ‘’much softer’’ than the Treasurer had wanted, a new biography published on Wednesday says.I also don’t understand why Hockey would want it known that he wanted his already unsaleable budget to be even tougher. I agree it should have been, but I also accept it could not have been.
Mr Hockey was convinced by Prime Minister Tony Abbott to take a more cautious approach, delaying cuts to pensions and reducing the number of people who would pay the deficit levy during meetings of the expenditure review committee…
The revelations are contained in Hockey: Not Your Average Joe, written by Fairfax Media columnist and long-time ABC broadcaster Madonna King…
The book quotes a source inside the room during meetings leading up to the budget as saying: ‘’It wasn’t as tough as Joe would have liked but a good compromise. Maybe it’s tougher than the Prime Minister would do if Joe wasn’t there to drive it.’’
King, who had Mr Hockey’s co-operation for the book, goes on to say: ‘’In reality, the budget was much softer than Joe would have liked. He wanted changes to pensions made earlier and the deficit levy to net more taxpayers … But Abbott, who chaired each of the expenditure review committee meetings, was taking a much more cautious approach than his Treasurer, no doubt with one eye firmly on the reaction of voters.’’
Hamas wants Palestinians to die
Andrew Bolt July 23 2014 (6:50am)
To Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, an excellent question about the Hamas terrorist group to which she gives comfort:
UPDATE
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs gives some background:
Hamas doesn’t care if Palestinian children die. Why else would it hide its rockets in schools? The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East protests:
===Civilians are being killed! Senator Rhiannon, July 13:And a good question for Hamas, which produces an insane answer:
THE more than 700 who have been injured and the 100 who have been killed ... More than 70 per cent are women and children because Israel is targeting the civilians of Gaza in these bombings …So how come Hamas can build tunnels but not bomb shelters? Abdulateef al-Mulhim, Arab News, July 16:
SO, why Hamas was successful in spreading a sophisticated network of tunnels and fail to build simple bomb shelters … Hamas leaders are jet setters. They travel high class, stay at the best hotels and eat the best food but their people are not paid their salaries on time and … Hamas did not even think of building bomb shelters. So, is Hamas looking for more innocent Palestinian casualties to gain more sympathy from the outside world?
SARAH FERGUSON: You’ve chosen to fire those rockets into Israel and it’s not clear from the outside what it is you’re hoping to achieve?Firing rockets for a ceasefire?
OSAMA HAMDAN (Hamas spokesman): Well, it’s clear that we are hoping to achieve a long-term ceasefire which can protect the Palestinians with guarantees that Israelis will not violate that another time.
UPDATE
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs gives some background:
In the 26 days between 12 June and 7 July, approximately 300 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip. Hamas directs its rockets at Israeli civilians…UPDATE
The operation was launched in response to rocket attacks, nothing more… Moreover, while the rocket fire began on 12 June, the day that three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped (and later found to have been murdered), it started before Israel was aware that they had been taken and searches by Israel’s security forces did not begin until the next day…
When the attacks reached over 80 rockets a day, Israel had no choice but to take action… On 8 July, Israel responded with Operation Protective Edge.
The objective of the operation is to restore stability and quiet to the residents of Israel, to damage Hamas’s capabilities and to destroy the terror infrastructures directed against Israel and its citizens…
From 8-17 July, prior to start of ground actions, more than 1,497 rockets were launched at Israel (bringing the total since 12 June to about 1,700). Approximately 301 rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system, but 1,093 hit Israeli territory.
The vast majority of Israel’s population is in range of these missiles, which have targeted villages, towns and major cities such as Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa as well as the southern cities of Be’er Sheva, Ashdod and Ashkelon…
On 15 July, Israel accepted the Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire and at 09:00 [Israel time] halted all its military activities in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas ... continued to launch sustained rocket barrages at Israel. Between 09:00-15:00, it fired approximately 50 rockets at Israeli towns and cities… Hamas also continued firing during several humanitarian lulls, including one proposed by the UN to allow Gazans to shop for supplies and receive humanitarian and medical aid…
On 17 July, Israel began a ground phase of the operation. It followed Hamas terrorists infiltrating into Israel through a terror tunnel earlier that day to perpetrate a large-scale attack against Israeli citizens in a kibbutz near the Gaza border…
The ground operation was ordered to strike at the terrorist tunnels from the Gaza Strip that open up inside Israeli territory. Hamas built an extensive network of elaborate tunnels to ... murder and kidnap Israeli citizens as evidenced by the weapons, plastic handcuffs and anesthesia taken from terrorists that managed to infiltrate Israeli territory through these tunnels
Hamas doesn’t care if Palestinian children die. Why else would it hide its rockets in schools? The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East protests:
Today, in the course of the regular inspection of its premises, UNRWA discovered rockets hidden in a vacant school in the Gaza Strip. As soon as the rockets were discovered, UNRWA staff were withdrawn from the premises, and so we are unable to confirm the precise number of rockets.This is the second time in a week UNRWA has found rockets in its schools. Last week:
Yesterday, in the course of the regular inspection of its premises, UNRWA discovered approximately 20 rockets hidden in a vacant school in the Gaza Strip. UNRWA strongly condemns the group or groups responsible for placing the weapons in one of its installations. This is a flagrant violation of the inviolability of its premises under international law. This incident, which is the first of its kind in Gaza, endangered civilians including staff and put at risk UNRWA’s vital mission to assist and protect Palestine refugees in Gaza.UNWatch reports other examples of Hamas using human shields:
Washington Post correspondent Willian Booth, reporting from Gaza, wrote in an article from 15 July: “At the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, crowds gathered to throw shoes and eggs at the Palestinian Authority’s health minister, who represents the crumbling “unity government” in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The minister was turned away before he reached the hospital, which has become a de facto headquarters for Hamas leaders, who can be seen in the hallways and offices."…Another example:
Another report by Washington Post correspondents from 17 July recounts: “During the lull, a group of men at a mosque in northern Gaza said they had returned to clean up the green glass from windows shattered in the previous day’s bombardment. But they could be seen moving small rockets into the mosque.” ...
Wall Street Journal Correspondent Nick Casey tweeted the following:
The Japanese daily Mainichi’s correspondent in Gaza reported on 21 July:
Hamas criticizes that ‘Israel massacres civilians’. On the other hand, it tries to use evacuating civilians and journalists by stopping them and turning them into ‘human shields,’ counteracting thoroughly with its guerrilla tactics…
Contrary to international rules of warfare, Hamas has commandeered a large hospital in Gaza City as its “de facto headquarters,” the Washington Post reported. Buried eight paragraphs in, The Post‘s correspondent, William Booth, wrote on July 15: “At the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, crowds gathered to throw shoes and eggs at the Palestinian Authority’s health minister, who represents the crumbling ‘unity government’ in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The minister was turned away before he reached the hospital, which has become a de facto headquarters for Hamas leaders, who can be seen in the hallways and offices.”Thane Rosenbaum:
On some basic level, you forfeit your right to be called civilians when you freely elect members of a terrorist organization as statesmen, invite them to dinner with blood on their hands and allow them to set up shop in your living room as their base of operations. At that point you begin to look a lot more like conscripted soldiers than innocent civilians. And you have wittingly made yourself targets.(Thanks to readers JudoChop, Brian, kat and doc molloy.)
But of course Keddie’s character must be Labor
Andrew Bolt July 23 2014 (6:24am)
And she’s Labor, of course, because the Nice must be:
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I did today's cartoon ten years ago back in 2003. The cartoon text uses accepted terminology in order to communicate smoothly. So the cartoon uses the accepted term "prisoners" rather than the more accurate "convicts."
In the latest set of rumors (2013) it seems that we're agreeing to release convicted murderers, to make Abbas and Kerry look good. Do you think that the name Pollard came up in the "prisoner" release discussions?
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That adds to the image! today is the day of first fruit (grape) harvest in ancient Israel .. a minor holiday for Jews .. a bit like Valentine's Day. They call it Tu B'Av and the season for grapes ends on Yom Kippur .. their holiest day .. which is Sept 16th this year. In the image, one dancer grasps a love letter .. ed
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Former Treasurer Peter Costello:
The introduction of the Carbon Tax cost jobs. Its very purpose was to close down heavy smokestack industry. So reversing it should save jobs… That’s the reason for doing it. Yet when our Government announced it was cutting the carbon tax, it put hundreds of people out of work. It takes a special incompetence to destroy jobs when you are removing a job-destroying tax. These are the people who govern us.
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Obama supporters in San Diego, California petition to grant the President immunity for any crimes he has committed or will commit while in office. Media analyst and author Mark Dice simply asks random people if they'll sign a petition to support Obama by granting him immunity for his crimes, and one person right after the other signs it to show support for dear leader.
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What happens when a Science teacher is on playground duty.
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Pastor Rick Warren
When God calls you to do something, you don't negotiate. You just obey in faith.
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It's our 30th Wedding Anniversary today. Killy + l got married on the 23rd July 1983 in Cambridge. We thank the Lord for 3 wonderful decades
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The Lost World of Communism – Part 1 (Documentary)
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The BBC’s documentary series from 2009, The Lost World of Communism, examined the legacy of communism twenty years after the fall of the Stalinist regimes of the Eastern Bloc, focusing on personal memories and descriptions of daily life. The three programmes of the series were each about a different country — East Germany, Czechoslovkia and Romania. Part 1, about East Germany, below.
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KEV’S ELECTION DATE AN EXECUTION DATE
The Labor Party faithful grit their teeth, unconvincingly defending positions they were denouncing only yesterday. They stand by helplessly watching their muted union comrades being attacked by a despised, recycled leader.
They toss and turn, struggling to sleep with bellies full of Mylanta and hearts full of remorse. What have they allowed their beloved Party to become? And all for the sake of a few crappy seats.
They are desperate for an election date because only then, win lose or another draw, can they plan for the devil’s demise.
They have done it before, and they will do it all again.
Uncle Kev has done his best to ward off his fate. He even demanded that 75% of them must first agree to his execution... but they stood firm, staring him down to 60%, knowing that’s all they will need to rid themselves, once and for all, of the traitorous psychopath who is bereft of Labor values.
The Left is uncomfortable sitting somewhere to the Right of Abbott but they must get through this election without too much loss of life.
They must somehow retain the core of the force to enable a successful sortie on the enemy within.
This shell of a man, with puerile popularity his only prop, will have no blindfold. He will be made to watch as the sights settle on his pudgy frame. No blanks in this squad.
Only then, when the smell of gunpowder has dispersed and Uncle Kev lies in an unmarked shallow pit, can their beloved Party be reclaimed.
Only then, can it once again become the rightful plaything of corrupt unions.
Pastor Rick Warren
Narcissism causes most leader sex scandals. It's why they can't stay out of the spotlight after a fall.
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AZ Sunset, 2012 — in Picacho, AZ.
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- 1829 – William Austin Burt was awarded a patent for the typographer (replica pictured), the first practical typewriting machine.
- 1914 – Austria-Hungary presented Serbia withan ultimatum to allow them to investigate the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, that Serbia would ultimately reject, leading to World War I.
- 1927 – Wilfred Rhodes of England and Yorkshire became the only person to play in 1,000 first-class cricket matches.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: The gas chambers at Treblinka extermination camp began operation, killing 6,500 Jews who had been transported from the Warsaw Ghetto the day before.
- 1984 – Vanessa Williams, the first African-American Miss America, resigned in scandal after Penthouse magazinepublished nude photos of her that were taken two years prior.
Events[edit]
- 1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
- 1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
- 1677 – Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
- 1793 – Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
- 1821 – While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Minor Asia coasts.
- 1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
- 1833 – Cornerstones are laid for the construction of the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.
- 1840 – The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
- 1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
- 1881 – The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
- 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
- 1908 – The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
- 1914 – Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
- 1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
- 1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
- 1929 – The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
- 1936 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
- 1940 – The United States' Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
- 1942 – World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
- 1942 – Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
- 1943 – The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
- 1943 – World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
- 1945 – The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
- 1952 – The European Coal and Steel Community is established.
- 1952 – General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing KingFarouk of Egypt.
- 1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
- 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
- 1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
- 1967 – 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
- 1968 – Glenville Shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
- 1968 – The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel.
- 1970 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms, modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.
- 1972 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
- 1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece'smetapolitefsi era.
- 1982 – The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
- 1983 – 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
- 1983 – Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
- 1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthousemagazine.
- 1986 – In London, England, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
- 1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
- 1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
- 1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
- 1993 – Agdam was occupied by Armenian separatists.
- 1995 – Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
- 1997 – Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
- 1999 – Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Al-Hassan is crowned King Mohammed VI of Morocco on the death of his father.
- 1999 – ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
- 2005 – Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
- 2012 – At least 107 people are killed and more than 250 others wounded in a string of bombings and attacks in Iraq.
Births[edit]
- 647 – Yazid I, Arabian caliph (d. 683)
- 1301 – Otto, Duke of Austria (d. 1339)
- 1339 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (d. 1384)
- 1503 – Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1547)
- 1649 – Pope Clement XI (d. 1721)
- 1705 – Francis Blomefield, English historian (d. 1752)
- 1773 – Thomas Brisbane, Scottish general and politician, 6th Governor of New South Wales (d. 1860)
- 1775 – Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (d. 1812)
- 1777 – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
- 1796 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer (d. 1868)
- 1823 – Alexandre-Antonin Taché, Canadian archbishop (d. 1894)
- 1838 – Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (d. 1910)
- 1851 – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-Danish painter (d. 1909)
- 1856 – Arthur Bird, American-German composer (d. 1923)
- 1856 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer and journalist (d. 1920)
- 1864 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (d. 1903)
- 1865 – Max Heindel, Danish occultist and mystic (d. 1919)
- 1866 – Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (d. 1950)
- 1883 – Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, French-English field marshal (d. 1963)
- 1884 – Emil Jannings, Swiss-German actor and producer (d. 1950)
- 1885 – Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman, created Prince Matchabelli perfume (d. 1935)
- 1886 – Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat (d. 1978)
- 1886 – Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist (d. 1976)
- 1888 – Raymond Chandler, American author (d. 1959)
- 1892 – Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1975)
- 1894 – Arthur Treacher, English-American actor and singer (d. 1975)
- 1895 – Aileen Pringle, American actress (d. 1989)
- 1898 – Bengt Djurberg, Swedish actor and singer (d. 1941)
- 1898 – Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1987)
- 1898 – Herman Kruusenberg, Estonian wrestler (d. 1970)
- 1898 – Jacob Marschak, Ukrainian-American economist (d. 1977)
- 1899 – Gustav Heinemann, German politician, 3rd President of West Germany (d. 1976)
- 1900 – John Babcock, Canadian soldier (d. 2010)
- 1901 – Hank Worden, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1905 – Leopold Engleitner, Austrian holocaust survivor, author, and educator (d. 2013)
- 1906 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- 1906 – Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian activist (d. 1931)
- 1909 – John William Finn, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2010)
- 1912 – M. H. Abrams, American author and critic
- 1912 – Michael Wilding, English actor (d. 1979)
- 1913 – Michael Foot, English politician (d. 2010)
- 1914 – Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter (d.2010)
- 1914 – Virgil Finlay, American illustrator (d. 1971)
- 1914 – Elly Annie Schneider, German-American actress (d. 2004)
- 1916 – Laurel Martyn, Australian ballerina and choreographer (d. 2013)
- 1918 – Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (d. 2005)
- 1918 – Ruth Duccini, American actress (d. 2014)
- 1918 – Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1999)
- 1920 – Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (d. 1999)
- 1921 – Calvert DeForest, American actor (d. 2007)
- 1922 – Damiano Damiani, Italian screenwriter and director (d. 2013)
- 1923 – Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (d. 1997)
- 1923 – Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist
- 1923 – Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress (d. 2001)
- 1924 – Gavin Lambert, English-American screenwriter and author (d. 2005)
- 1925 – Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
- 1925 – Alain Decaux, French historian and author
- 1925 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress and singer
- 1927 – Gérard Brach, French director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
- 1928 – Leon Fleisher, American pianist and conductor
- 1928 – Vera Rubin, American astronomer
- 1928 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American author (d. 2004)
- 1929 – Danny Barcelona, American drummer (d. 2007)
- 1929 – Lateef Jakande, Nigerian journalist and politician, 5th Governor of Lagos State
- 1931 – Te Atairangikaahu, Māori queen (d. 2006)
- 1931 – Claude Fournier, Canadian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
- 1931 – Guy Fournier, Canadian author and screenwriter
- 1933 – Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Cultural Forum (d. 2010)
- 1933 – Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host (d. 1991)
- 1933 – Benedict Groeschel, American priest, psychologist, and talk show host
- 1933 – Richard Rogers, Italian-English architect, designed the Millennium Dome and Lloyd's building
- 1935 – Jim Hall, American race car driver
- 1935 – Hein Heinsen, Danish sculptor
- 1936 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1993)
- 1936 – Anthony Kennedy, American jurist
- 1937 – Dave Webster, American football player and engineer
- 1938 – Juliet Anderson, American porn actress and producer (d. 2010)
- 1938 – Ronny Cox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1938 – Götz George, German actor and producer
- 1938 – Charles Harrelson, American murderer (d. 2007)
- 1938 – Bert Newton, Australian actor and television host
- 1939 – Raine Karp, Estonian architect
- 1940 – Don Imus, American radio radio host
- 1940 – Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian economist and politician (d. 2010)
- 1941 – Christopher Andrew, British historian
- 1941 – Richie Evans, American race car driver (d. 1985)
- 1942 – Sallyanne Atkinson, Australian journalist and politician, Lord Mayor of Brisbane
- 1942 – Madeline Bell, American singer-songwriter (Blue Mink)
- 1942 – Richard E. Dauch, American businessman, co-founded American Axle (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Dimitris Liantinis, Greek philosopher and author (d. 1998)
- 1942 – Myra Hindley, High profile English serial killer (d. 2002)
- 1943 – Randall Forsberg, American scientist (d. 2007)
- 1943 – Tony Joe White, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1944 – Dino Danelli, American drummer (The Rascals and Fotomaker)
- 1944 – Maria João Pires, Portuguese pianist
- 1945 – Edward Gregson, English composer
- 1946 – Andy Mackay, English oboe player and composer (Roxy Music)
- 1946 – René Ricard, American poet, painter, and critic (d. 2014)
- 1947 – Gardner Dozois, American author
- 1947 – David Essex, English singer-songwriter, and actor
- 1947 – Torsten Palm, Swedish race car driver
- 1947 – Robin Simon, British art historian
- 1947 – Ross Cranston, Autralian-born British high court judge
- 1948 – John Cushnahan, Irish politician
- 1948 – John Hall, American pianist, songwriter, and politician
- 1948 – Stanisław Targosz, Polish general (d. 2013)
- 1949 – Clive Rice, South African cricketer
- 1950 – Alex Kozinski, Romanian-American judge
- 1950 – Len McCluskey, English trade unionist
- 1950 – Ian Thomas, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1950 – Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
- 1950 – Alan Turner, Australian cricketer
- 1951 – Edie McClurg, American actress
- 1951 – Michael McConnohie, American voice actor and screenwriter
- 1951 – Glen Weir, Canadian football player
- 1952 – Paul Hibbert, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 2008)
- 1952 – Bill Nyrop, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
- 1952 – John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (Rush) (d. 2008)
- 1952 – Janis Siegel, American singer (The Manhattan Transfer)
- 1953 – Claude Barzotti, Belgian-Italian singer
- 1953 – Graham Gooch, English cricketer and coach
- 1953 – Bob Hilton, American game show host and announcer
- 1954 – Annie Sprinkle, American porn actress and producer
- 1957 – Jo Brand, English comedian, actress, and screenwriter
- 1957 – Kate Buffery, English actress
- 1957 – Nikos Galis, Greek basketball player
- 1957 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1958 – Tomy Winata, Indonesian businessman and philanthropist, founded the Artha Graha Peduli Foundation
- 1959 – Nancy Savoca, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1960 – Susan Graham, American soprano
- 1960 – Al Perez, American wrestler
- 1961 – André Ducharme, Canadian comedian and author
- 1961 – Michael Durant, American pilot and author
- 1961 – Martin Gore, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Depeche Mode and VCMG)
- 1961 – Woody Harrelson, American actor
- 1962 – Eriq La Salle, American actor, director, and producer
- 1962 – Alain Lefèvre, Canadian pianist and composer
- 1964 – Uwe Barth, German politician
- 1964 – Edward Forchion, American activist and politician
- 1964 – Nick Menza, German drummer and songwriter (Megadeth and Memorain)
- 1965 – Slash, English-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, Hollywood Rose, and Road Crew)
- 1965 – Rob Dickinson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Catherine Wheel)
- 1965 – Dick Jaspers, Dutch billiards player
- 1966 – Samantha Beckinsale, English actress
- 1966 – Hamid Mir, Pakistani journalist
- 1967 – Titiyo, Swedish singer-songwriter
- 1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
- 1968 – Elden Campbell, American basketball player
- 1968 – Gary Payton, American basketball player and actor
- 1968 – Stephanie Seymour, American model and actress
- 1969 – Andrew Cassels, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – David Kaufman, American actor
- 1970 – Charisma Carpenter, American actress
- 1970 – Thea Dorn, German author
- 1970 – Sam Watters, singer-songwriter and producer (Color Me Badd)
- 1971 – Dalvin DeGrate, American rapper and producer (Jodeci)
- 1971 – Alison Krauss, American singer-songwriter and fiddler
- 1971 – Christopher Lee, Malaysian-Singaporean actor and singer
- 1971 – Chris Michalek, American harmonica player (d. 2010)
- 1971 – Joel Stein, American journalist
- 1972 – Floyd Reifer, Barbadian cricketer and coach
- 1972 – Marlon Wayans, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1972 – Giováne Élber, Brazilian footballer
- 1973 – Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player
- 1973 – Fran Healy, English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Travis)
- 1973 – Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern, author, and handbag designer
- 1973 – Himesh Reshammiya, Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director
- 1973 – Andrea Scanavacca, Italian rugby player and manager
- 1974 – Terry Glenn, American football player and coach
- 1974 – Maurice Greene, American sprinter
- 1974 – Kathryn Hahn, American actress
- 1974 – Stephanie March, American actress
- 1974 – Sonny Siaki, Samoan-American wrestler
- 1974 – Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian cyclist
- 1975 – Suriya, Indian actor and producer
- 1975 – Dan Rogerson, English politician
- 1975 – Sung Hyun-ah, South Korean model and actress
- 1976 – Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
- 1977 – Scott Clemmensen, American ice hockey player
- 1977 – Néicer Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1977 – Shawn Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 – Kalup Linzy, American Video and Performance Artist
- 1978 – Stuart Elliott, Irish footballer
- 1978 – Marianela González, Venezuelan actress
- 1978 – Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1979 – Perro Aguayo, Jr., Mexican wrestler
- 1979 – Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Greek footballer
- 1979 – Anta Livitsanou, Greek actress
- 1979 – Richard Sims, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1979 – Ricardo Sperafico, Brazilian race car driver
- 1979 – Cathleen Tschirch, German sprinter
- 1980 – Sandeep Parikh, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1980 – Michelle Williams, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Destiny's Child)
- 1981 – Steve Jocz, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and director (Sum 41)
- 1981 – Dmitriy Karpov, Kazakhstani decathlete
- 1981 – Aleksandr Kulik, Estonian footballer
- 1981 – Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player
- 1982 – Zanjoe Marudo, Filipino actor
- 1982 – Joe Mather, American baseball player
- 1982 – Tom Mison, English actor
- 1982 – Gerald Wallace, American basketball player
- 1982 – Paul Wesley, American actor
- 1983 – Andrew Eiden, American actor
- 1983 – Bec Hewitt, Australian actress and singer
- 1983 – Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
- 1983 – David Strettle, English rugby player
- 1984 – Walter Gargano, Uruguayan footballer
- 1984 – Matthew Murphy, English singer and guitarist (The Wombats)
- 1984 – Brandon Roy, American basketball player
- 1984 – Celeste Thorson, American actress, screenwriter, and producer
- 1985 – Matthew Colin Bailey, American historian and author
- 1985 – Blake Harrison, English actor
- 1985 – Luis Ángel Landín, Mexican footballer
- 1985 – Anna Maria Mühe, German actress
- 1986 – Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress
- 1986 – Nelson Philippe, French race car driver
- 1986 – Reece Ritchie, English actor
- 1986 – Yelena Sokolova, Russian long jumper
- 1987 – Alessio Cerci, Italian footballer
- 1987 – Felipe Dylon, Brazilian singer
- 1987 – Arthur Napiontek, American actor
- 1988 – Pippa Bennett-Warner, English actress
- 1988 – Pablo Holman, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (Kudai)
- 1989 – Eliška Bučková, Czech model, Czech Miss 2008
- 1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
- 1989 – Donald Young, American tennis player
- 1990 – Ryan Castro, American actor
- 1990 – Kevin Reynolds, Canadian figure skater
- 1991 – Bibi Jones, American porn actress
- 1991 – Lauren Mitchell, Australian gymnast
- 1992 – Danny Ings, English footballer
- 1996 – Rachel G. Fox, American actress
- 2002 – Benjamin Flores, Jr., American child rapper
Deaths[edit]
- 997 – Nuh II, ruler of the Samanid Empire (b. 963)
- 1227 – Qiu Chuji, Chinese founder of the Dragon Gate Taoism (b. 1148)
- 1373 – Bridget of Sweden, Swedish mystic and saint, founded the Bridgettine Order (b. 1303)
- 1403 – Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (b. 1343)
- 1531 – Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, French husband of Diane de Poitiers
- 1536 – Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, English son of Henry VIII of England (b. 1519)
- 1562 – Götz von Berlichingen, German knight (b. 1480)
- 1584 – John Day, English printer (b. 1522)
- 1692 – Gilles Ménage, French scholar (b. 1613)
- 1727 – Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, English politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1661)
- 1757 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
- 1764 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-American religious leader (b. 1703)
- 1773 – George Edwards, English biologist and ornithologist (b. 1693)
- 1781 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor and politician (b. 1724)
- 1793 – Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1721)
- 1833 – Anselmo de la Cruz, Chilean politician (b. 1777)
- 1853 – Andries Pretorius, South African general (b. 1798)
- 1875 – Isaac Singer, American businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (b. 1811)
- 1878 – Carl von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician, pathologist, and politician (b. 1804)
- 1885 – Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822)
- 1916 – William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1919 – Spyridon Lambros, Greek historian and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
- 1920 – Conrad Kohrs, German-American rancher and politician (b. 1835)
- 1924 – Frank Frost Abbott, American scholar (b. 1850)
- 1926 – Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
- 1930 – Glenn Curtiss, American pilot and engineer (b. 1878)
- 1932 – Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (b. 1884)
- 1941 – George Lyman Kittredge, American scholar and educator (b. 1860)
- 1941 – José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian aviator (b. 1914)
- 1942 – Adam Czerniaków, Polish engineer and politician (b. 1880)
- 1942 – Andy Ducat, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
- 1948 – D. W. Griffith, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1875)
- 1950 – Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Japan (b. 1882)
- 1951 – Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (b. 1884)
- 1951 – Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (b. 1856)
- 1954 – Herman Groman, American runner (b. 1882)
- 1955 – Cordell Hull, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
- 1957 – Bob Shiring, American football player and coach (b. 1870)
- 1966 – Montgomery Clift, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)
- 1968 – Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
- 1971 – Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1973 – Eddie Rickenbacker, American pilot and race car driver, founded Rickenbacker Motors (b. 1890)
- 1979 – Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (b. 1898)
- 1980 – Sarto Fournier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 38th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1908)
- 1980 – Keith Godchaux, American keyboard player and songwriter (Grateful Dead and Heart of Gold Band) (b. 1948)
- 1980 – Mollie Steimer, Russian-American activist (b. 1897)
- 1982 – Giorgos Gavriilidis, Greek actor (b. 1906)
- 1982 – Vic Morrow, American actor and director (b. 1929)
- 1983 – Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
- 1985 – Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
- 1989 – Donald Barthelme, American journalist and author (b. 1931)
- 1990 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (b. 1899)
- 1993 – James R. Jordan, Sr., American father of Michael Jordan (b. 1936)
- 1996 – Jean Muir, American actress and singer (b. 1911)
- 1996 – Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress and singer (b. 1934)
- 1997 – Chūhei Nambu, Japanese long jumper (b. 1904)
- 1999 – Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
- 2001 – Eudora Welty, American author (b. 1909)
- 2002 – Leo McKern, Australian-English actor (b. 1920)
- 2002 – William Luther Pierce, American activist and author (b. 1933)
- 2002 – Chaim Potok, American rabbi and author (b. 1929)
- 2003 – James E. Davis, American police officer and politician (b. 1962)
- 2003 – Yvonne Sanson, Greek-Italian actress (b. 1926)
- 2004 – Mehmood Ali, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1932)
- 2004 – Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitarist and composer (b. 1925)
- 2004 – Piero Piccioni, Italian pianist, conductor, and composer (b. 1921)
- 2004 – Serge Reggiani, Italian-French singer and actor (b. 1922)
- 2005 – Ted Greene, American guitarist and journalist (Bluesberry Jam) (b. 1946)
- 2006 – Jean-Paul Desbiens, Canadian journalist (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Tor Kamata, American-Canadian wrestler (b. 1937)
- 2007 – Ron Miller, American songwriter and producer (b. 1933)
- 2007 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (b. 1914)
- 2008 – Kurt Furgler, Swiss politician (b. 1924)
- 2009 – E. Lynn Harris, American author (b. 1955)
- 2009 – Talis Kitsing, Estonian kickboxing trainer and politician (b. 1976)
- 2010 – Daniel Schorr, American journalist (b. 1916)
- 2011 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (b. 1983)
- 2012 – Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Margaret Mahy, New Zealand author (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut (b. 1951)
- 2012 – Lakshmi Sahgal, Indian army officer and politician (b. 1914)
- 2012 – John Treloar, Australian sprinter (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Esther Tusquets, Spanish publisher and author (b. 1936)
- 2012 – José Luis Uribarri, Spanish television host and director (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Duane Wood, American football player (b. 1937)
- 2013 – Dominguinhos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player (b. 1941)
- 2013 – Rona Anderson, Scottish-English actress (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Pauline Clarke, English author (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Arthur J. Collingsworth, American diplomat (b. 1944)
- 2013 – Emile Griffith, Virgin Islander boxer (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Jokichi Ikarashi, Japanese super-centenarian (b. 1902)
- 2013 – Kim Jong-hak, South Korean director and producer (b. 1951)
- 2013 – Red McManus, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
- 2013 – Mike Morwood, Australian archaeologist (b. 1950)
- 2013 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1929)
- 2013 – Manjula Vijayakumar, Indian actress (b. 1953)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Birthday of Haile Selassie (Rastafari movement)
- Christian Feast Day:
““But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”” Matthew 16:15-16 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"I am married unto you."
Jeremiah 3:14
Jeremiah 3:14
Christ Jesus is joined unto his people in marriage-union. In love he espoused his Church as a chaste virgin, long before she fell under the yoke of bondage. Full of burning affection he toiled, like Jacob for Rachel, until the whole of her purchase-money had been paid, and now, having sought her by his Spirit, and brought her to know and love him, he awaits the glorious hour when their mutual bliss shall be consummated at the marriage-supper of the Lamb. Not yet hath the glorious Bridegroom presented his betrothed, perfected and complete, before the Majesty of heaven; not yet hath she actually entered upon the enjoyment of her dignities as his wife and queen: she is as yet a wanderer in a world of woe, a dweller in the tents of Kedar; but she is even now the bride, the spouse of Jesus, dear to his heart, precious in his sight, written on his hands, and united with his person. On earth he exercises towards her all the affectionate offices of Husband. He makes rich provision for her wants, pays all her debts, allows her to assume his name, and to share in all his wealth. Nor will he ever act otherwise to her. The word divorce he will never mention, for "He hateth putting away." Death must sever the conjugal tie between the most loving mortals, but it cannot divide the links of this immortal marriage. In heaven they marry not, but are as the angels of God; yet there is this one marvellous exception to the rule, for in Heaven Christ and his Church shall celebrate their joyous nuptials. This affinity as it is more lasting, so is it more near than earthly wedlock. Let the love of husband be never so pure and fervent, it is but a faint picture of the flame which burns in the heart of Jesus. Passing all human union is that mystical cleaving unto the Church, for which Christ left his Father, and became one flesh with her.
Evening
"Behold the man!"
John 19:5
John 19:5
If there be one place where our Lord Jesus most fully becomes the joy and comfort of his people, it is where he plunged deepest into the depths of woe. Come hither, gracious souls, and behold the man in the garden of Gethsemane; behold his heart so brimming with love that he cannot hold it in--so full of sorrow that it must find a vent. Behold the bloody sweat as it distils from every pore of his body, and falls upon the ground. Behold the man as they drive the nails into his hands and feet. Look up, repenting sinners, and see the sorrowful image of your suffering Lord. Mark him, as the ruby drops stand on the thorn-crown, and adorn with priceless gems the diadem of the King of Misery. Behold the man when all his bones are out of joint, and he is poured out like water and brought into the dust of death; God hath forsaken him, and hell compasseth him about. Behold and see, was there ever sorrow like unto his sorrow that is done unto him? All ye that pass by draw near and look upon this spectacle of grief, unique, unparalleled, a wonder to men and angels, a prodigy unmatched. Behold the Emperor of Woe who had no equal or rival in his agonies! Gaze upon him, ye mourners, for if there be not consolation in a crucified Christ there is no joy in earth or heaven. If in the ransom price of his blood there be not hope, ye harps of heaven, there is no joy in you, and the right hand of God shall know no pleasures for evermore. We have only to sit more continually at the cross foot to be less troubled with our doubts and woes. We have but to see his sorrows, and our sorrows we shall be ashamed to mention. We have but to gaze into his wounds and heal our own. If we would live aright it must be by the contemplation of his death; if we would rise to dignity, it must be by considering his humiliation and his sorrow.
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Today's reading: Psalm 31-32, Acts 23:16-35 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Psalm 31-32
For the director of music. A psalm of David.
1 In you, LORD, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in your righteousness.
2 Turn your ear to me,
come quickly to my rescue;
be my rock of refuge,
a strong fortress to save me.
3 Since you are my rock and my fortress,
for the sake of your name lead and guide me.
4 Keep me free from the trap that is set for me,
for you are my refuge.
5 Into your hands I commit my spirit;
deliver me, LORD, my faithful God.
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in your righteousness.
2 Turn your ear to me,
come quickly to my rescue;
be my rock of refuge,
a strong fortress to save me.
3 Since you are my rock and my fortress,
for the sake of your name lead and guide me.
4 Keep me free from the trap that is set for me,
for you are my refuge.
5 Into your hands I commit my spirit;
deliver me, LORD, my faithful God.
Today's New Testament reading: Acts 23:16-35
16 But when the son of Paul's sister heard of this plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.
17 Then Paul called one of the centurions and said, "Take this young man to the commander; he has something to tell him." 18 So he took him to the commander.
The centurion said, "Paul, the prisoner, sent for me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you."
19 The commander took the young man by the hand, drew him aside and asked, "What is it you want to tell me?"
20 He said: "Some Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul before the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of wanting more accurate information about him. 21 Don't give in to them, because more than forty of them are waiting in ambush for him. They have taken an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They are ready now, waiting for your consent to their request."
22 The commander dismissed the young man with this warning: "Don't tell anyone that you have reported this to me."
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Ittai
[Ĭt'ta ī] - plowman or living.
[Ĭt'ta ī] - plowman or living.
- The Gittite leader who, with six hundred Philistines, attached himself to David at the outbreak of Absalom's rebellion. This inhabitant of Gath was determined to follow David in all his trials. How admirable was the affirmation of his loyalty to the fugitive king: "As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be" (2 Sam. 15:21 ). Although a stranger and not of Israel, Ittai was more faithful than many who were Israelites by birth. His fidelity brought him a position of great trust (2 Sam. 18:2).
- A Benjamite, son of Ribai, who was one of David's heroes (2 Sam. 23:29). He is called Ithai in 1 Chronicles 11:31.
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