Global warming is guilty of: fewer winter deaths; lower energy costs; better agricultural yields; probably fewer droughts; maybe richer biodiversity. It is a little-known fact that winter deaths exceed summer deaths — not just in countries like Britain but also those with very warm summers, including Greece.... Thankfully, although billions of dollars has been spent fighting it, the fight has been ineffective. The planet wont be saved by throwing away money, but it will make Adam Bandt smile.
Another fight is that against censorship of the press. This fight is being lead by the left wing mainstream press who favour censorship.
The working ALP motto seems to be paraphrasing that of the Australian Democrats "Calling each other bastards." There is a press award available for calling Mr Abbott a bastard, but nothing for excellence in reporting news.
In the US mainstream press are applauding Obama for failing to act to end the government stand down. Obama failed to negotiate. GOP made their point effectively. Now the press have to massage the truth in the lead up to the mid term elections.
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Hatches
Happy birthday and many happy returns Quyen Le Qttl, Anna Vasilyeva, Hoang Pham, Kymberley Wang, Hans-leo Rehbaum and Jade Guttenbeil. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
1127 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
1679 – Ann Putnam, Jr., American witness in the Salem witch trials (d. 1716)
1926 – Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1926 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
1927 – George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
1960 – Erin Moran, American actress
1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian martial artist, actor, and director
1990 – Bristol Palin, American author
1998 – Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress
Matches
320 – Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the sun and writes a commentary onThe Great Astronomer (Almagest).
614 – King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii), a sort of Frankish Magna Cartathat defend the rights of the Frankish nobles while it exclude Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom.
1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by theFatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
1356 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
1386 – Opening of the University of Heidelberg.
1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state asAlaska Day.
1898 – United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
1929 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
1945 – The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
1977 – German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
2004 – Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
Despatches
325 – Emperor Ming of Jin (b. 299)
629 – Chlothar II (b. 584)
1035 – Sancho III of Navarre (b. 992)
1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
1931 – Thomas Edison, American inventor, invented the light bulb (b. 1847)
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Belief in common sense lies in ashes
Piers Akerman – Thursday, October 17, 2013 (6:41pm)
MORE fingers than fire hoses are being pointed this fire season as serious bush fires burn around the state.
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A warming planet is helping humans
Andrew Bolt October 18 2013 (10:24am)
Matt Ridley says global warming policies are deadlier than global warming:
===Climate change has done more good than harm so far and is likely to continue doing so for most of this century…
Professor Richard Tol of Sussex University ... reviewed 14 different studies of the effects of future climate trends… [and] calculated that climate change would be beneficial up to 2.2 C of warming from 2009 (when he wrote his paper)… The latest estimates of climate sensitivity suggest that such temperatures may not be reached till the end of the century — if at all…
Now Prof Tol has a new paper ... [which] concludes that climate change did indeed raise human and planetary welfare during the 20th century… By how much? He calculates by 1.4 per cent of global economic output, rising to 1.5 per cent by 2025…
The chief benefits of global warming include: fewer winter deaths; lower energy costs; better agricultural yields; probably fewer droughts; maybe richer biodiversity. It is a little-known fact that winter deaths exceed summer deaths — not just in countries like Britain but also those with very warm summers, including Greece....
The greatest benefit from climate change comes not from temperature change but from carbon dioxide itself. It is not pollution, but the raw material from which plants make carbohydrates and thence proteins and fats. As it is an extremely rare trace gas in the air — less than 0.04 per cent of the air on average — plants struggle to absorb enough of it. On a windless, sunny day, a field of corn can suck half the carbon dioxide out of the air…
The increase in average carbon dioxide levels over the past century, from 0.03 per cent to 0.04 per cent of the air, has had a measurable impact on plant growth rates… As Dr Ranga Myneni of Boston University has documented, using three decades of satellite data, 31 per cent of the global vegetated area of the planet has become greener and just 3 per cent has become less green…
Well yes, you may argue, but what about all the weather disasters caused by climate change? Entirely mythical — so far. The latest IPCC report is admirably frank about this, reporting ‘no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century … lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency offloads on a global scale … low confidence in observed trends in small-scale severe weather phenomena such as hail and thunderstorms’.
In fact, the death rate from droughts, floods and storms has dropped by 98 per cent since the 1920s, according to a careful study by the independent scholar Indur Goklany. Not because weather has become less dangerous but because people have gained better protection as they got richer…
[But] climate policy is already doing harm. Building wind turbines, growing biofuels and substituting wood for coal in power stations — all policies designed explicitly to fight climate change — have had negligible effects on carbon dioxide emissions. But they have driven people into fuel poverty, made industries uncompetitive, driven up food prices, accelerated the destruction of forests, killed rare birds of prey, and divided communities. To name just some of the effects. Mr Goklany estimates that globally nearly 200,000 people are dying every year, because we are turning 5 per cent of the world’s grain crop into motor fuel instead of food: that pushes people into malnutrition and death. In this country, 65 people a day are dying because they cannot afford to heat their homes properly, according to Christine Liddell of the University of Ulster, yet the government is planning to double the cost of electricity to consumers by 2030.
Johnson: revolt against the new censors
Andrew Bolt October 18 2013 (8:29am)
London Mayor Boris Johnson cheers the revolt of newspaper editors against attempts to muzzle the press - attempts much like Labor’s this year:
The editor of The Spectator has announced his ancient and illustrious publication will have nothing whatever to do with any new system of press regulation… I think the whole of the media should do the same. Stuff all this malarkey about the Privy Council and a Royal Charter. Who are the Privy Council, for goodness sake? They are just a bunch of politicians, a glorified version of the government of the day. We are on the verge of eroding the freedom of the press. We are undermining the work of everyone from John Milton to John Wilkes - men who fought for the right to say and publish things of which politicians disapproved.
Why are we embarking on this monstrous folly? Because of a string of essentially political embarrassments that led to the Leveson inquiry and at the beginning of it all was the expenses scandal, and the sense among MPs that they had been brutally treated by the press.
It is true: they were mercilessly kicked for what they thought was a venial sin - padding out their pay with expenses claims that did not stand up well to scrutiny… That was the political context in which Leveson was called into being, with MPs seething for revenge. It was the hacking cases that gave them their pretext, the deep public revulsion against what appeared to have been done in the case of Milly Dowler by the News of the World and the sensational potential implications for the No 10 spokesman, Andy Coulson, a former editor of that paper.
A public inquiry became inevitable, and before that inquiry there trooped a succession of famous people who felt that the media had been not so much wrong as plain beastly; just horrid in the way they behaved, the kinds of questions they asked, the appalling things they wrote…
We already have abundant law against obscenity, or breach of official secrets. We have laws against libel and defamation, against bugging, hacking, theft, bribery of public officials. We have a growing tort of breach of privacy. We have no need of some new body backed by statute, or the Privy Council, and it is wrong in principle. You either have a free press or you don’t.
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Labor’s favorite topic: how Labor MPs are bastards
Andrew Bolt October 18 2013 (8:23am)
The soap opera continues:
Former Labor senator Trish Crossin says she has a shocking story to tell about Julia Gillard’s behaviour but will not provide the details now because it is not the right time for the Labor Party.
After Nicola Roxon launched a stinging attack on Kevin Rudd on Wednesday, arguing he was a rude and dysfunctional ‘’bastard’’ who deserved to be dumped in June 2010, Ms Crossin said ... people would be ‘’shocked’’ if she gave the full account of Ms Gillard’s so-called ‘’captain’s pick’’ in January this year, when Ms Crossin was replaced as Labor’s Northern Territory Senate candidate with Nova Peris.
‘’I’ve got a good story to tell. But I am choosing, at this point in time, not to tell it,’’ she said.
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The planet won’t be saved by exporting our cash
Andrew Bolt October 18 2013 (8:15am)
We are slowly edging to
reason - a realisation that nothing Australia does will actually have
any measurable effect on temperatures. In the meantime, billions will be
squandered and dumb “solutions” proposed:
Willox should actually be asking what difference either proposal would make to the world’s temperature, and whether that change would be good and worth the expense.
The answer, he’d find, is that the money would be better kept in our pockets.
Actually, it does matter whether we spend our money on dud green schemes here or ship it overseas to be wasted on dud green schemes there. At least money at home stays in our economy.
In a dramatic intervention into the debate, [Australian Industry Group] chief executive Innes Willox said… it was optimistic to believe Mr Abbott’s direct action policy – in which domestic carbon emitters would be directly subsidised from the budget to cut emissions – would meet the target of reducing emissions by 5 per cent below 2000 levels by 2020, as the government claims…
“While Australia has made great strides in reducing its emissions intensity, the developing world remains rife with inefficient and dirty technologies,’’ he said. “It can be much cheaper to upgrade or replace high-emitting facilities overseas than to wring further improvements out of much more efficient operations in Australia.’’
Mr Willox argues it does not matter whether taxpayers’ money is being used to reduce emissions at home or abroad.
Willox should actually be asking what difference either proposal would make to the world’s temperature, and whether that change would be good and worth the expense.
The answer, he’d find, is that the money would be better kept in our pockets.
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Adam Bandt: a picture of warmist hypocrisy and deception
Andrew Bolt October 18 2013 (7:46am)
Adam Bandt is not just a hypocrite, alarmist and deeply misleading. He has also been made a fool of by a photograph:
GREENS Deputy Leader Adam Bandt has been accused of using the destructive NSW bushfires to launch a political attack on Tony Abbott’s climate change policy…I’ve already noted that Adam Bandt is a hypocrite, having three years ago preached that “trying to turn a tragedy so quickly into some kind of perceived political advantage” was “outrageous”. He is also deceptive, given that the main cause of the fires’ ferocity is not global warming, which the Greens once claimed would bring permanent drought, but the heavy rains NSW got instead, promoting a huge growth of grass.
He tweeted: “Why Tony Abbott’s plan means more bushfires for Australia & more pics like this of Sydney.”
The photograph depicted a burnt-out and barren landscape on South Australia’s Kangaroo Island after a bushfire, and the post linked to Mr Bandt’s column entitled: “By repealing the carbon tax, Tony Abbott is failing to protect his people”.
But reader Daremo says the picture used to illustrate Bandt’s global warming fearmongering is also a con:
The image has been clearly worked, possibly through HDR (high dynamic range) effects/software, this gives it a more foreboding look…
But that aside, what also struck me was the image title for Bandt’s article which was “Trees after a bushfire near Emu bay, Kangaroo Island”. I though this strange as I cannot recall any recent fires on Kangaroo Island, and given that it is a nature reserve, I am sure we would have heard about it. So, back to the Google machine and the photo library to discover that the image was captured in 2007, and according to Wikipedia the last fires on Kangaroo Island in December 2007, when and I quote “Lightning strikes on Thursday 6 December 2007 caused several fires on the Island. Before being contained on 16 December 2007, over 900 square kilometres (or 20% of the Island) had been burnt, principally within National Park and Conservation Reserves....” Wikipedia’s source is The Islander (the local Kangaroo Island paper).
So, not only does he rave on about – well nothing – but the image used (and I accept he didn’t pick it) to hammer home the point shows trees burnt, not by man but by nature! How will a carbon (dioxide) tax stop lightning striking?
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And the winner of the annual Walkley for Abbott Hate is …
Andrew Bolt October 18 2013 (7:08am)
Spot what these people have in common.
Benjamin Law:
All were hosts lasts night of the Walkley Award announcement of finalists for the most prestigious prizes in Australian journalism.
Tim Blair concludes:
UPDATE
Irony alert. The Walkleys, too often a love-in of the Left, are funded by Big Oil.
Benjamin Law:
Clementine Ford:
Russell Skelton:
Correct!
All were hosts lasts night of the Walkley Award announcement of finalists for the most prestigious prizes in Australian journalism.
Tim Blair concludes:
All you need to know about the Walkley awards...Or of Australian journalism.
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Irony alert. The Walkleys, too often a love-in of the Left, are funded by Big Oil.
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Randall repays, but that should not end this matter
Andrew Bolt October 18 2013 (6:11am)
I don’t think this should end simply with a repayment, now that he’s been caught:
WEST Australian Liberal MP Don Randall will pay back more than $5000 in travel allowances he claimed for a trip to Cairns for himself and a family member “to avoid any ambiguity” over whether they were justified.
Mr Randall has refused to explain how the November 18 trip last year could be claimed as “electorate business” when his own electorate of Canning, in Perth, was on the opposite side of the continent.
A week after the trip, he updated his register of pecuniary interests to note that he and his wife had taken possession of an investment property in Cairns.
Mr Randall, who sits on the parliamentary committee that oversees MPs privileges, is also under pressure to explain a one-night trip with a family member to Melbourne on September 15 last year, and whether he went there to attend the AFL semi-final between West Coast and Collingwood.
He has claimed that the trip was for a “parliamentary sitting” even though it was a Saturday and parliament resumed in Canberra on the Monday, September 17.
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Last of our new 'An Adventure in Space and Time' images – and here's David Bradley as the brilliant William Hartnell AKA the First Doctor and Claudia Grant as Carole Ann Ford, who played the Doctor's granddaughter Susan Foreman.
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was the first American attack on Japanese soil, with Japanese soldiers defending their ground even after the historic raising of the American flag. These early battle plans dated over 6 months before the attack appeared on an episode of Pawn Stars on History.
See an Enigma machine, another military artifact, during all-new episodes of Pawn Stars, tonight at 10/9c. #PawnStars
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The Florida church where an 15-year-old orphan pleaded for a family to adopt him has been "flooded" with phone calls.
"It has been just an awesome outpour," Cynthia Coney, a secretary at St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church, said. "We've been getting calls from as far as Utah and forwarding them to his adoption agency."
Two weeks ago, Davion Navar Henry Only, 15, dressed in a dark suit and borrowed tie, told the packed church that he was seeking a family to call his own. His requirements were simple.A brother needs a home - ed
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A CONTROVERSIAL judge is in the firing line again after an accused rapist was set free and allegedly raped and stabbed the same woman.
Judge Sarah Bradley refused to adjourn the man's trial for a night after his alleged victim left court in the middle of giving evidence and said she couldn't go on.
It was the third time a trial had collapsed because the woman could not complete her testimony.
The woman, an indigenous special witness, was allegedly stabbed then raped and sodomised at knifepoint.
Prosecutors asked for an overnight adjournment or to call other witnesses while they sought to bring the woman back to court to continue testifying, but Judge Bradley refused.
The charges were withdrawn and the accused rapist was freed from custody.
Two days later police claim he allegedly tortured and raped the woman in an attack in which she was again stabbed multiple times.
Even if the rape trial wasn't to proceed, assault with a deadly weapon and GBH didn't require her testimony. He might have been given a custodial sentence on that? - ed
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AN INDIAN policeman who got lost as a child at a crowded railway station has been reunited with his family after 24 years - thanks to a tattoo on his arm.
Ganesh Raghunath Dhangade was separated from his parents in 1989 aged just six when they were boarding a train. He ended up on his own in Mumbai, where he was cared for by a fisherman and then at two orphanages.
A car accident later left him unconscious for four months, struggling to remember details of his family or home, and he spent years rummaging through missing person records at police stations - before joining the force himself in 2011.
"I had not given up on finding my family," Mr Dhangade said.
He pressed on with his search using the only clue he had: a tattoo of his mother's name, Manda, on his right arm.
Another piece of the puzzle - forgotten after his car crash - came from records at his first orphanage, where he had given his home place as "Mama Bhanja", a forested area in a district neighbouring Mumbai.
Earlier this month, Mr Dhangade went back to the area with his police colleagues asking for Manda, and he was directed to the hut of an old lady who had been staying in the hills there for years.
Heart warming - ed
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A WELL-PRESERVED skull from 1.8 million years ago offers new evidence that early man was a single species with a vast array of different looks.
With a tiny brain about a third the size of a modern human's, protruding brows and jutting jaws like an ape, the skull was found in the remains of a medieval hilltop city in Dmanisi, Georgia, said the study in the journal Science.
It is one of five early human skulls - four of which have jaws - found so far at the site, about 100 kilometres from the capital Tbilisi, along with stone tools that hint at butchery and the bones of big, saber-toothed cats.
Lead researcher David Lordkipanidze, director of the Georgian National Museum, described the group as "the richest and most complete collection of indisputable early Homo remains from any one site.''
The skulls vary so much in appearance that under other circumstances, they might have been considered different species, said co-author Christoph Zollikofer of the University of Zurich.
there is greater diversity within a race, than between races .. old news - ed
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YESTERDAY capped off a remarkable 16 days for the US government, after a last minute deal was passed to raise the debt ceiling and avoid an unprecedented default.
If you've just tuned in, here's a quick rundown.
Poor analysis .. Obama failed to negotiate. US peoples won't be impressed - ed
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Pastor Rick Warren
Staying quiet and trusting God to vindicate you when critics attack what God told you to do is a beautiful expression of faith.
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I bought this pink pumpkin to celebrate Kay's 10 year anniversary of being cancer free!
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The brightest lights are those who refuse to give up in the darkest nights. Weak fires blow out easily; strong ones #UseTheWindsOfAdversity to fan their flame brighter! Don't give up, my friend. You too can make it through what you're going through. God is with you and I'm praying for you as I write this.
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Red corn at morning, Farmer take warning...
Red corn at night, Lightning will strike... — withMike Oria.
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Fall Colors at Conway Summit
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James Calore
Throwback Thursday:
Elvis and John Lennon
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http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=15416
<...IS MODERATE ISLAM WORKING FOR YOU YET ?
... Despite all their denials and protests the leftists and those affiliated with the socialist alliance support directly and indirectly this type of Wahabi scum.
Where is this " moderate Islam " we are told exists ?
Let's not fool ourselves any longer.
If this is what Muslims do to Muslims what then will they do to others who refuse to be part of their sick ideology.
Islam is a mental disease.
Those that claim only extremists are responsible need to be reminded that a Muslim will always be a Muslim based on the perverted ideas of a dead false prophet with an imaginary man made god backed up by a book of gibberish.
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VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT Israeli Security Policy in an Uncertain Middle East 2013 Zeev Schiff Memorial Lecture Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad, IDF Also available in العربية October 11, 2013
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP79-4OKZ8s
VIDEO ROCK ATTACKs.. mobs of Arab Palestinians assaulting Israeli motorists . Obama's Israel does not need security points , and open road ways .. is killing and injuring Israeli women and children.
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Sarah Palin
See the link below for some inspiration and a reminder of how to push through pain and inconvenience and not complain or make excuses.
A group of vets with Operation Giveback took part in a charity relay-style race called Ragnar “to help raise awareness and resources for the families and children of fallen heroes. Every year they raise enough money to provide Christmas presents for Orphans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.” Many of the vets participating in the run were wounded warriors, and their dedication is especially inspiring.
It was great to see so many proud vets last Sunday in Washington, D.C. standing up for freedom. These guys know never to give up!
Hat tip to my cousin JD and his great band “Missing Stateside” for sharing this with me and generously supporting our vets and active duty military.
Here’s the article about the relay:
http://blognar.ragnarrelay.com/2013/10/team-operation-giveback-conquers-ragnar-relay-washington-d-c/
And here’s the Missing Stateside website:
http://missingstateside.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html#.UmCTIZQa_t4
- Sarah Palin
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Dean Hamstead
Our school system has failed, if people believe that you need to borrow more money to pay interest on your debt.
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Walrus' reaction after getting a birthday cake made out of fish..
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Next new image from 'An Adventure in Space and Time', and here's Jemma Powell and Jamie Glover as Jacqueline Hill and William Russell, who played the First Doctor companions Barbara and Ian.
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Larry Pickering
The perfect cup of tea
I fully expect to live and enjoy life well beyond 100 and if I do it will be for three reasons.
Good reds, good roll-tobacco and good cups of tea. Now I can’t share my baccy or reds with you but I can share how I have always made my tea.
First, do not use a teapot, or those hideous teabag things. Use hot water from the tap to boil the jug.
While the jug boils heat your teacup under the hot water tap. You must use milk! Why milk?
Well here’s the secret... milk is alkaline and tea is acid. The object is to have the Ph level balanced to perfection. You will notice when you get it right.
So the amount of cow juice you put in the cup must equate to the required strength of your tea.
Now put the strainer (I use a large one) in the cup and the required amount of tea leaves with the sugar (if you take it) on top of the tea leaves. The sugar must be on top.
By now the jug has boiled.
Slowly pour the boiling water through the strainer filling the cup to the rim and leave it to steep for no more than ten seconds.
Remove the strainer and your tea is ready.
Don’t use just any tea, the finer the leaf the less you need to use. Nerada is good but there are others and leaf tea is as cheap as chips.
You haven’t lost any critical heat by pouring the boiling water into a pot or using a cold spoon to add the sugar... and you haven’t wasted anything.
You can make multiple cups by adding tea or leaving the strainer in the cup longer.
Only takes about 40 seconds... and if you’re a tea tragic try it, it’s worth it!
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Anyone afraid of heights?
You'll be pleased to know this ISN'T a real house!
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Kirk DuQuette
Wow.. The old Model T still looking Good and built so long ago, I built this thing in 21 days before the Nats some 20 plus years ago. Donnie sent some pics and his Hot Rod collection is HUGE..
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#Burma is among the top 10 countries with the highest number of people in #ModernDaySlavery with an estimated 384,000 enslaved people, according to the Global Slavery Index 2013. The top 10 countries account for 76% of the world's 30 million enslaved people. Read the report: http://bit.ly/1bAszsq
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I was so tired last night I almost used this as toothpaste.... #close #call #lol #deepheat #ninja#senses #tweegram #instafollow #igdaily#picoftheday #toothpaste #pictureoftheday #igers#instagood #instadaily
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Just got this warning on my phone. Anyone in the area, the fire is listed as 'out of control'...make preparations, you should probably leave your home for safety Renee Dinkha
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- 320 – Pappus of Alexandria, one of the last great Greek mathematicians of antiquity, observed an eclipse that allowed historians to calculate the approximate dates of his life.
- 1009 – Under orders from Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church now within the walled Old City ofJerusalem, was destroyed.
- 1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by American writer Herman Melville, was first published as The Whale.
- 1967 – The Soviet space probe Venera 4 (pictured)performed direct analysis of the environment of Venusand became the first spacecraft to land on another planet, although it stopped working before that.
- 2004 – SPDC Chairman Senior General Than Shweannounced that Burmese Prime Minister Khin Nyuntwas "permitted to retire on health grounds", but then had him arrested.
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Events[edit]
- 320 – Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the sun and writes a commentary onThe Great Astronomer (Almagest).
- 614 – King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii), a sort of Frankish Magna Cartathat defend the rights of the Frankish nobles while it exclude Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom.
- 629 – King Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks.
- 1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by theFatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
- 1016 – The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Assandun.
- 1081 – The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
- 1210 – Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV.
- 1356 – Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys the town of Basel, Switzerland.
- 1386 – Opening of the University of Heidelberg.
- 1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila in present-dayAlabama, killing Tuskaloosa.
- 1599 – Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of Andrew Bathory in the Battle of Şelimbăr, leading to the first recorded unification of the Romanian people.
- 1648 – Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization.
- 1748 – Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
- 1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine) prompts the Continental Congress to establish theContinental Navy.
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
- 1797 – Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
- 1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
- 1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
- 1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state asAlaska Day.
- 1898 – United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
- 1912 – First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as Serbia joins the war.
- 1914 – The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
- 1921 – The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the RSFSR.
- 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
- 1929 – The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
- 1944 – Soviet Union begins liberation of Czechoslovakia.
- 1945 – The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- 1945 – A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, stages a coup d'état against then president Isaías Medina Angarita, who is overthrown by the end of the day.
- 1945 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries actress Eva Perón.
- 1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
- 1964 – The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes for its first season after a six-month run.
- 1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
- 1968 – The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.
- 1977 – German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
- 1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2003 – Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
- 2004 – Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
- 2007 – Karachi bombings: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is not injured.
Births[edit]
- 1127 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1192)
- 1405 – Pope Pius II (d. 1464)
- 1517 – Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese priest (d. 1570)
- 1547 – Justus Lipsius, Belgian philologist and humanist (d. 1606)
- 1569 – Giambattista Marino, Italian poet (d. 1625)
- 1595 – Edward Winslow, English politician (d. 1655)
- 1634 – Luca Giordano, Italian painter (d. 1705)
- 1653 – Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1713)
- 1662 – Matthew Henry, English minister (d. 1714)
- 1663 – Prince Eugene of Savoy (d. 1736)
- 1668 – John George IV, Elector of Saxony (d. 1694)
- 1679 – Ann Putnam, Jr., American witness in the Salem witch trials (d. 1716)
- 1701 – Charles le Beau, French historian (d. 1778)
- 1706 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (d. 1785)
- 1741 – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
- 1777 – Heinrich von Kleist, German author and poet (d. 1811)
- 1785 – Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (d. 1866)
- 1804 – Mongkut, Thai king (d. 1868)
- 1831 – Frederick III, German Emperor (d. 1888)
- 1836 – Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (d. 1911)
- 1854 – Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
- 1859 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
- 1862 – Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general (d. 1952)
- 1865 – Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (d. 1957)
- 1865 – Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist and critic (d. 1946)
- 1868 – Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931)
- 1870 – Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Japanese scholar (d. 1966)
- 1872 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet and author (d. 1936)
- 1873 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1951)
- 1878 – James Truslow Adams, American author and historian (d. 1949)
- 1880 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Jewish-Zionist political activist, theorist and general (d. 1940)
- 1882 – Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (d. 1917)
- 1884 – Hugo Goetz, American swimmer (d. 1972)
- 1893 – George Ohsawa, Japanese philosopher (d. 1966)
- 1894 – H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960)
- 1894 – Tibor Déry, Hungarian author (d. 1977)
- 1897 – Isabel Briggs Myers, American author and theorist (d. 1980)
- 1898 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (d. 1981)
- 1902 – Miriam Hopkins, American actress (d. 1972)
- 1902 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980)
- 1903 – Lina Radke, German runner (d. 1983)
- 1904 – A. J. Liebling, American journalist (d. 1963)
- 1904 – Haim Shirman, Russian-Israeli academic (d. 1981)
- 1905 – Jan Gies, Dutch activist, husband of Miep Gies (d. 1993)
- 1905 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivorian politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 1993)
- 1906 – James Brooks, American painter (d. 1992)
- 1909 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2004)
- 1914 – Raymond Lambert, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1997)
- 1915 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor (d. 1980)
- 1918 – Molly Geertsema, Dutch politician (d. 1991)
- 1918 – Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece
- 1918 – Bobby Troup, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1999)
- 1919 – Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
- 1919 – Anita O'Day, American singer (d. 2006)
- 1919 – Pierre Trudeau, Canadian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2000)
- 1919 – Camilla Williams, American soprano (d. 2012)
- 1920 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician (d. 1994)
- 1921 – Jesse Helms, American politician (d. 2008)
- 1923 – Jessie Mae Hemphill, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008)
- 1924 – Buddy MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler
- 1925 – Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (d. 2011)
- 1926 – Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1926 – Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
- 1927 – Marv Rotblatt, American baseball player (d. 2013)
- 1927 – George C. Scott, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1928 – Keith Jackson, American sportscaster
- 1929 – Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan publisher and politician, President of Nicaragua
- 1929 – Hillard Elkins, American theatre and film producer (d. 2010)
- 1929 – Kees Fens, Dutch critic (d. 2008)
- 1930 – Esther Hautzig, American writer (d. 2009)
- 1930 – Enrique Oltuski, Cuban politician (d. 2012)
- 1931 – Chris Albertson, American journalist and historian
- 1931 – Ien Dales, Dutch politician (d. 1994)
- 1932 – Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
- 1933 – Forrest Gregg, American football player
- 1934 – Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian-American actor (d. 2007)
- 1934 – Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (d. 1970)
- 1934 – Chuck Swindoll, American pastor, author, and educator
- 1935 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1938 – Dawn Wells, American actress
- 1939 – Flavio Cotti, Swiss jurist
- 1939 – Mike Ditka, American football player and coach
- 1939 – Ted Boy Marino, Italian-Brazilian wrestler and actor (d. 2012)
- 1939 – Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
- 1940 – Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
- 1942 – Gianfranco Ravasi, Italian cardinal
- 1943 – Birthe Rønn Hornbech, Danish politician
- 1945 – Yıldo, Turkish footballer
- 1945 – Huell Howser, American television host (d. 2013)
- 1945 – Chris Shays, American politician
- 1946 – James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
- 1946 – Frank Beamer, American football player and coach
- 1946 – Howard Shore, Canadian composer
- 1947 – Paul Chuckle, English comedian and actor
- 1947 – Job Cohen, Dutch politician, Mayor of Amsterdam
- 1947 – Joe Morton, American actor
- 1947 – Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1997)
- 1948 – Hans Köchler, Austrian philosopher
- 1948 – Ntozake Shange, American author
- 1949 – Joe Egan, Scottish singer-songwriter (Stealers Wheel)
- 1949 – George Hendrick, American baseball player
- 1949 – Gary Richrath, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (REO Speedwagon)
- 1950 – Om Puri, Indian actor
- 1950 – Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright (d. 2006)
- 1950 – Sheila White, English actress
- 1951 – Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and coach
- 1951 – Pam Dawber, American actress
- 1951 – Terry McMillan, American author
- 1951 – Nic Potter, English bass player and songwriter (Van der Graaf Generator and The Misunderstood) (d. 2013)
- 1952 – Patrick Morrow, Canadian mountaineer
- 1952 – Chuck Lorre, American scriptwriter, director, and producer
- 1952 – Bao Ninh, Vietnamese author
- 1952 – Jerry Royster, American baseball player
- 1953 – Loes Luca, Dutch actress and singer
- 1954 – Liz Burch, Australian actress
- 1954 – Arliss Howard, American actor
- 1955 – Jean-Pierre Hautier, Belgian television host (d. 2012)
- 1955 – Vanessa Briscoe Hay, American singer-songwriter (Pylon and Supercluster)
- 1955 – Timmy Mallett, English radio and television host
- 1955 – David Twohy, American director and screenwriter
- 1955 – Rita Verdonk, Dutch politician
- 1956 – Craig Bartlett, American animator
- 1956 – Martina Navrátilová, Czech-American tennis player
- 1956 – Jim Talent, American politician
- 1957 – Jon Lindstrom, American actor
- 1957 – Catherine Ringer, French singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Les Rita Mitsouko)
- 1958 – Stacy Allison, American mountaineer
- 1958 – Corinne Bohrer, American actress
- 1958 – Thomas Hearns, American boxer
- 1958 – Kjell Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1959 – Kirby Chambliss, American pilot
- 1959 – Milčo Mančevski, Macedonian director and screenwriter
- 1959 – John Nord, American wrestler
- 1959 – Chris Russo, American radio host
- 1960 – Erin Moran, American actress
- 1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian martial artist, actor, and director
- 1961 – Wynton Marsalis, American trumpet player, composer, and educator
- 1961 – Rick Moody, American author
- 1962 – Min Ko Naing, Burmese activist
- 1962 – Vincent Spano, American actor
- 1964 – Dan Lilker, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death, Nuclear Assault, Exit-13, and Brutal Truth)
- 1964 – Charles Stross, English author
- 1965 – Zakir Naik, Indian surgeon
- 1965 – Curtis Stigers, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1966 – Dave Price, American journalist and weatherman
- 1966 – Slavi Trifonov, Bulgarian actor and singer
- 1966 – Angela Visser, Dutch model and actress, Miss Universe 1989
- 1967 – Eric Stuart, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and voice actor
- 1968 – Michael Stich, German tennis player
- 1969 – Volker Neumüller, German talent manager
- 1969 – Nelson Vivas, Argentine footballer
- 1970 – Doug Mirabelli, American baseball player
- 1970 – Mike Starink, Dutch television host and actor
- 1971 – Koshalendraprasad Pande, 7th successor of Lord Swaminarayan in the North Diocese
- 1972 – Alex Tagliani, Canadian race car driver
- 1973 – Michalis Kapsis, Greek footballer
- 1973 – Rachel Nichols, American sports journalist
- 1973 – Brian Scolaro, American comedian, actor, and producer
- 1974 – Candy Lo, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
- 1974 – Robbie Savage, Welsh footballer
- 1974 – Peter Svensson, Swedish guitarist and songwriter (The Cardigans)
- 1975 – Baby Bash, American rapper
- 1975 – Alex Cora, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1976 – Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
- 1977 – Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
- 1977 – David Vuillemin, French motorcycle racer
- 1977 – Gloc-9, Filipino rapper
- 1978 – Jake Farrow, American actor
- 1978 – Wesley Jonathan, American actor
- 1978 – Jaime Koeppe, Canadian fitness expert
- 1978 – Mike Tindall, English rugby player
- 1978 – Priyanka Trivedi, Indian actress
- 1978 – Jyothika, Indian actress
- 1978 – Kenji Wu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
- 1979 – Jaroslav Drobný, Czech footballer
- 1979 – 'Ana Po'uhila, Tongan shot putter
- 1979 – Ne-Yo, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1980 – Josh Gracin, American singer
- 1980 – Rebecca Watson, American blogger
- 1981 – Tina Hergold, Slovenian tennis player
- 1981 – Greg Warren, American football player
- 1982 – Thierry Amiel, French singer-songwriter
- 1982 – Michael Dingsdag, Dutch footballer
- 1983 – Dante Bonfim Costa Santos, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 – Robert Harting, German discus thrower
- 1984 – Freida Pinto, Indian actress and model
- 1984 – Esperanza Spalding, American singer-songwriter and bassist
- 1984 – Lindsey Vonn, American skier
- 1985 – Andrew Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1986 – Wilma Elles, German actress
- 1987 – Zac Efron, American actor and singer
- 1987 – Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
- 1989 – Joy Lauren, American actress
- 1990 – Bristol Palin, American author
- 1990 – Carly Schroeder, American actress
- 1991 – Roly Bonevacia, Dutch footballer
- 1991 – Tyler Posey, American actor
- 1992 – Kurt Drago, Maltese footballer
- 1998 – Julia Wróblewska, Polish actress
Deaths[edit]
- 325 – Emperor Ming of Jin (b. 299)
- 629 – Chlothar II (b. 584)
- 1035 – Sancho III of Navarre (b. 992)
- 1101 – Hugh I, Count of Vermandois (b. 1053)
- 1141 – Leopold, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1108)
- 1382 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician (b. 1331)
- 1417 – Pope Gregory XII (b. 1326)
- 1480 – Uhwudong, Korean dancer and poet (b. 1440)
- 1503 – Pope Pius III (b. 1439)
- 1541 – Margaret Tudor, English wife of James IV of Scotland (b. 1489)
- 1545 – John Taverner, English composer and organist (b. 1490)
- 1558 – Mary of Hungary (b. 1505)
- 1564 – Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
- 1570 – Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese priest (b. 1517)
- 1604 – Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
- 1646 – Isaac Jogues, French missionary and priest (b. 1607)
- 1667 – Fasilides, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1603)
- 1678 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
- 1739 – António José da Silva, Brazilian-Portuguese playwright (b. 1705)
- 1744 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1660)
- 1770 – John Manners, Marquess of Granby, English soldier (b. 1721)
- 1775 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
- 1817 – Etienne Nicolas Méhul, French composer (b. 1763)
- 1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
- 1865 – Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
- 1886 – Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796)
- 1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American inventor (b. 1808)
- 1892 – William W. Chapman, American politician (b. 1808)
- 1893 – Charles Gounod, French composer (b. 1818)
- 1911 – Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857)
- 1921 – Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
- 1931 – Thomas Edison, American inventor, invented the light bulb (b. 1847)
- 1932 – Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
- 1941 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
- 1942 – Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
- 1948 – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
- 1959 – Boughera El Ouafi, French runner (b. 1898)
- 1961 – Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-American actress (b. 1892)
- 1965 – Henry Travers, English actor (b. 1874)
- 1965 – Larry Thorne, American soldier (b. 1919)
- 1966 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-American businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (b. 1878)
- 1966 – S. S. Kresge, American businessman, founded Kmart (b. 1867)
- 1973 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American publisher, founded The Little Review (b. 1886)
- 1973 – Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
- 1973 – Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher (b. 1899)
- 1975 – Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
- 1976 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet (b. 1895)
- 1977 – Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides
- Andreas Baader, German left-wing militant leader (b. 1943)
- Gudrun Ensslin, German left-wing militant leader (b. 1940)
- Jan-Carl Raspe, German left-wing militant (b. 1944)
- 1978 – Ramón Mercader, Spanish assassin of Leon Trotsky (b. 1914)
- 1980 – Edwin Way Teale, American photographer and writer (b. 1899)
- 1982 – Dwain Esper, American director (b. 1892)
- 1982 – Pierre Mendès France, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
- 1982 – John Robarts, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (b. 1917)
- 1982 – Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 35th First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
- 1983 – Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish economist and author (b. 1897)
- 1983 – Willie Jones, American baseball player (b. 1925)
- 1984 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
- 1984 – Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
- 1987 – Adriaan Ditvoorst, Dutch director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
- 1988 – Frederick Ashton, Ecuadorian dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
- 2000 – Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
- 2000 – Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress (b. 1925)
- 2002 – Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer and actor (Roman and the Four Steps) (b. 1950)
- 2003 – Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish journalist, author, and critic (b. 1939)
- 2003 – Preston Smith, American politician, 40th Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
- 2004 – Veerappan, Indian criminal and murderer (b. 1945)
- 2005 – John Hollis, English actor (b. 1931)
- 2005 – Johnny Haynes, English footballer (b. 1934)
- 2005 – Bill King, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
- 2006 – Mario Francesco Pompedda, Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
- 2006 – Anna Russell, English-Canadian singer and actress (b. 1911)
- 2007 – Alan Coren, English journalist and author (b. 1938)
- 2007 – William J. Crowe, American admiral and diplomat (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Vincent DeDomenico, American businessman, founded the Napa Valley Wine Train (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Lucky Dube, South African singer-songwriter (b. 1964)
- 2008 – Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (b. 1945)
- 2009 – Adriaan Kortlandt, Dutch ethologist (b. 1918)
- 2010 – Marion Brown, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
- 2012 – E. K. Fretwell, American academic (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model and actress (b. 1952)
- 2012 – Marvin Lambert, American wrestler (b. 1977)
- 2012 – Mihály Lukács, Hungarian politician (b. 1954)
- 2012 – Thomas Madigage, South African footballer and coach (b. 1970)
- 2012 – Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
- 2012 – George Mattos, American pole vaulter (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Albert Lee Ueltschi, American pilot, founded FlightSafety International (b. 1917)
- 2012 – David S. Ware, American saxophonist (b. 1949)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Alaska Day (Alaska)
- Persons Day (Canada)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Necktie Day (Croatia)
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“The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them. My eyes are ever on the LORD, for only he will release my feet from the snare.” Psalm 25:14-15 NIV
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
Morning
"And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul."
1 Samuel 27:1
1 Samuel 27:1
The thought of David's heart at this time was a false thought, because he certainly had no ground for thinking that God's anointing him by Samuel was intended to be left as an empty unmeaning act. On no one occasion had the Lord deserted his servant; he had been placed in perilous positions very often, but not one instance had occurred in which divine interposition had not delivered him. The trials to which he had been exposed had been varied; they had not assumed one form only, but many--yet in every case he who sent the trial had also graciously ordained a way of escape. David could not put his finger upon any entry in his diary, and say of it, "Here is evidence that the Lord will forsake me," for the entire tenor of his past life proved the very reverse. He should have argued from what God had done for him, that God would be his defender still. But is it not just in the same way that we doubt God's help? Is it not mistrust without a cause? Have we ever had the shadow of a reason to doubt our Father's goodness? Have not his lovingkindnesses been marvellous? Has he once failed to justify our trust? Ah, no! our God has not left us at any time. We have had dark nights, but the star of love has shone forth amid the blackness; we have been in stern conflicts, but over our head he has held aloft the shield of our defence. We have gone through many trials, but never to our detriment, always to our advantage; and the conclusion from our past experience is, that he who has been with us in six troubles, will not forsake us in the seventh. What we have known of our faithful God, proves that he will keep us to the end. Let us not, then, reason contrary to evidence. How can we ever be so ungenerous as to doubt our God? Lord, throw down the Jezebel of our unbelief, and let the dogs devour it.
Evening
"He shall gather the lambs with his arm."
Isaiah 40:11
Isaiah 40:11
Our good Shepherd has in his flock a variety of experiences, some are strong in the Lord, and others are weak in faith, but he is impartial in his care for all his sheep, and the weakest lamb is as dear to him as the most advanced of the flock. Lambs are wont to lag behind, prone to wander, and apt to grow weary, but from all the danger of these infirmities the Shepherd protects them with his arm of power. He finds new-born souls, like young lambs, ready to perish--he nourishes them till life becomes vigorous; he finds weak minds ready to faint and die--he consoles them and renews their strength. All the little ones he gathers, for it is not the will of our heavenly Father that one of them should perish. What a quick eye he must have to see them all! What a tender heart to care for them all! What a far- reaching and potent arm, to gather them all! In his lifetime on earth he was a great gatherer of the weaker sort, and now that he dwells in heaven, his loving heart yearns towards the meek and contrite, the timid and feeble, the fearful and fainting here below. How gently did he gather me to himself, to his truth, to his blood, to his love, to his church! With what effectual grace did he compel me to come to himself! Since my first conversion, how frequently has he restored me from my wanderings, and once again folded me within the circle of his everlasting arm! The best of all is, that he does it all himself personally, not delegating the task of love, but condescending himself to rescue and preserve his most unworthy servant. How shall I love him enough or serve him worthily? I would fain make his name great unto the ends of the earth, but what can my feebleness do for him? Great Shepherd, add to thy mercies this one other, a heart to love thee more truly as I ought.
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Today's reading: Isaiah 50-52, 1 Thessalonians 5 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Isaiah 50-52
Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience
1 This is what the LORD says:
“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce
with which I sent her away?
Or to which of my creditors
did I sell you?
Because of your sins you were sold;
because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.
2 When I came, why was there no one?
When I called, why was there no one to answer?
Was my arm too short to deliver you?
Do I lack the strength to rescue you?
By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea,
I turn rivers into a desert;
their fish rot for lack of water
and die of thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with darkness
and make sackcloth its covering.”
4 The Sovereign LORD has given me a well-instructed tongue,with which I sent her away?
Or to which of my creditors
did I sell you?
Because of your sins you were sold;
because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.
2 When I came, why was there no one?
When I called, why was there no one to answer?
Was my arm too short to deliver you?
Do I lack the strength to rescue you?
By a mere rebuke I dry up the sea,
I turn rivers into a desert;
their fish rot for lack of water
and die of thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with darkness
and make sackcloth its covering.”
to know the word that sustains the weary.
He wakens me morning by morning,
wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.
5 The Sovereign LORD has opened my ears;
I have not been rebellious,
I have not turned away.
6 I offered my back to those who beat me,
my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;
I did not hide my face
from mocking and spitting.
7 Because the Sovereign LORD helps me,
I will not be disgraced.
Therefore have I set my face like flint,
and I know I will not be put to shame....
Today's New Testament reading: 1 Thessalonians 5
The Day of the Lord
1 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. 5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 6 So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. 9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. 10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing....
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WIDOW OF ZAREPHATH
The Woman Who Shared Her Last Morsel
What deeper interest we would have in some of the conspicuous characters of the Bible if only we knew their names and their significance! The renowned widow of Zarephath, or Sarepta, so sympathetic, kind and self-sacrificial, must have had a lovely name. Yet both her own name and that of her boy are not given. The prophet Elijah who lived with them for so long must have come to know them well, but he has left us with no clue as to their identity. Even the Lord, who has our names engraven upon the palms of His hands, does not lift the curtain of anonymity, but simply refers to this commendable female, as "a woman that was a widow." Evidently, attention is focused on what she did, rather than on who she was.
Her Position
She lived in Sarepta which belonged to Zidon - a fact marking the striking providence of God. When the land of Israel was apostate and unsafe, Elijah found a welcome refuge in a heathen country, which was, moreover, the native place of his deadliest enemy, Jezebel, daughter of King Eth-Baal of the Zidonians. Although brought up among worshipers of strange gods, it would seem as if she had come to know about the faith of the Hebrews before Elijah the prophet came her way. She came to accept it more fully as the result of what she saw and heard due to Elijah's sojourn in her poor home.
Of an alien race, she was likewise a widow with a child to keep. Half-way between Tyre and Sidon, she had the humble home her husband had left her, and from a few olive trees and a small barley field she was able to eke out a frugal living for herself and her growing boy. When seasons were favorable what she was able to gather sufficed for her modest needs, but when a terrible drought killed the growing harvest then her poverty was most acute. What struggles some women had after they become widows. Straitened circumstances and oppressive cares made life difficult. With the able breadwinner taken, widows frequently had more cares than they could cope with. Yet godly widows have the promise of divine provision and protection, as this widow of Sarepta came to experience. When famine struck she did not know where the next meal could come from to keep the two of them alive.
Her Provider
Little did the distressed widow realize that deliverance was at hand - that never again would she and her son suffer the pangs of hunger - that the rough-looking stranger who appeared at her door one day was to be her provider for many a day. Elijah was a hunted man on the run, for the godless Queen Jezebel had set a price upon his head, and the sleuths of the wicked queen hunted in vain for the prophet who had pronounced the doom of Jezebel and her equally godless husband, Ahab. They never thought of looking for Elijah in the poor home of a starving widow. Yet she was the one whom God had singled out to shelter the prophet for some two years. She fed him, as a heaven-protected guest, with fearless faith. When Elijah met the widow she was gathering sticks to make a final scanty meal out of the last cakes and oil she had. What pathos was in the woman's reply to Elijah's request for a drink of water and a morsel of bread. She said -
As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
Famine in the land had emaciated the widow and her boy, now they have come to their last meal. Once this was eaten there would be nothing to do but throw their haggard, fleshless bodies on the bed and await their release from suffering - the terrible death of starvation. But she was to be the widow whom God would command to sustain Elijah. His commands were to be His enablings, as she was to daily prove. Hereafter she and her son were to live from hand to mouth, but it would be from God's ever open hand to their mouths - and the prophet's as well!
Although she came to speak of Elijah as the "man of God," and saw in him the prophet as he performed the miracle of multiplication, there is no evidence that she recognized in him, as he came to her as a stranger in a crucial moment asking for water, that he was indeed God's honored servant. While God had marked her out as the widow to sustain Elijah, she had not received any advance word that the beggar coming to her would be the prophet. She did not know beforehand of God's purpose for she was preparing to die. Further, lacking any intuition that the one asking for water would miraculously preserve her and her son from death by starvation, as soon as Elijah told her to go on with the preparation of what the widow felt would be her last meal, and share her penury with the prophet, she mechanically obeyed, believing what he had said about her meal never wasting and the cruse of oil not failing until the famine was past. "She went and did according to the saying of Elijah."
This woman of true hospitality who, in her willingness to share her only mouthful of food with a stranger whose face indicated a weariness born of fatigue and thirst, and exhaustion due to long travel, knew not that she was to entertain an angel unawares. She yet took the stranger in, and proved herself to be a noble type of Christian hospitality in that it was exercised out of the depth of her poverty. She might have protested when the beggar asked for food by saying, "Have a heart, sir! Do not mock me, a destitute widow who, with a dying son, has only one scanty meal left." Had this nameless woman met the request of Elijah with bitter scorn, asking him what he expected to find in a famine-stricken house, and also what kind of a man was he to take the last morsel of food out of her mouth, we would have understood her refusal. But no, she did none of these things. It may be that her kind heart said, "I'll share these last cakes with him, for death will soon end our hunger." Although she felt sharing the final meal would hurt both herself and her boy, she ventured out to give the hungry man who had come her way a portion of it, not realizing that her venture was to be one of faith, and would become the evidence of things not seen.
The widow of Sarepta, then, went ahead with her baking and used up her last handful of meal. She served the stranger firstfor this was what he had said, "Make me a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son." The astonished woman had little to say for the bold prediction and the manner of its announcement gave the man's message a commanding solemnity and convinced her that this man was no ordinary beggar. Hastening to do what her innate love of hospitality prompted her to do, she came to prove that "little is much if God is in it." Can you not imagine her after that first meal together - which she thought would be the last - was over, how anxiously she would steal away to the empty meal tub and examine her oil cruse to see if the prediction of the stranger had been fulfilled. How hope must have leaped in her heart as she fingered fresh meal and saw the empty cruse refilled. Truly the guest with whom she was willing to share, was a prophet! The widow was to experience a continuing miracle for until the rains came and famine was past -
The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.
Daily, the widow of Sarepta proved that sharing what she had with another needy one did not impoverish her life, but greatly enriched it, just as the heavenly Stranger does when we open the door for Him to come in and sup with us. Yes, God multiplied her handful of meal and cruse of oil as Jesus multiplied the five loaves and the two fishes to feed the hungry crowd following Him. How expressive are the stanzas an American poet has given us -
Is thy cruse of comfort failing?
Rise and share it with another:
And through all the years of famine
It shall serve thee and thy brother.
Love divine will fill the storehouse,
And thy handful still renew;
Scanty fare for one will often
Make a royal feast for two.
For the heart grows rich in giving;
All its wealth is golden grain:
Seeds, which mildew in the garner,
Scattered, fill with gold the plain.
Is thy burden hard and heavy?
Do thy steps drag wearily?
Help to bear thy brother's burden -
God will bear both it and thee.
Her Perplexity
What a difference the God-sent prophet had made to the home of the widow! All trial was past and daily their need was met by Him who opens His hand and supplies what His own require. Before this the widow had come to know that her guest was a prophet and what blessed truths she must have received from his lips. As the weeks and months rolled by Elijah became part of the home, and without exposing himself unnecessarily must have helped in gathering sticks and helping in other ways when manual labor was required. Then there was the widow's young son, who, like the rest of his kind, must have been inquisitive and full of questions as to the lodger's name and experiences. The rugged personality of Elijah must have had an impact on the mind of that boy, whose coming had saved him from death by starvation.
As time rolled by the widow must have grown to feel as calmly secure as Elijah himself who knew that whomever the Lord hides is safe. But one day the peace and contentment of the home miraculously sustained were disturbed for the widow's son was suddenly seized with illness and finally died. Once again the widow knew despair. Before Elijah came to the home, she feared the death of her boy because of the famine. Now he is actually dead and her mother-heart is perplexed and torn with unspeakable anguish. Why was her child rescued from death the first time, if only to die now? In her grief her conscience seems to trouble her. She feels that the boy's death was a form of divine judgment because of sin and she said to Elijah -
What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
The presence of the prophet in her home must have impressed her with the reality of God, resulting in a deeper sense of sin within herself, and thus she connected Elijah, whom she had come to regard, with this terrible calamity. She felt that this man of God had looked into her heart and had detected that it was sinful, and that divine vengeance had fallen upon her. But Elijah knew the bereaved mother was beside herself, and had committed no evil meriting the death of her son. This anguish was to be another trial of her faith.
Her Praise
Somewhat bitter, the Sarepta widow was not permitted to reproach Elijah who did not rebuke her nor answer her question, but simply said, "Give me thy son." The dead form she was clasping was placed in the prophet's arms, who took the lifeless body up to his chamber and asked God why He had allowed such a grief to overtake the widow who had been so kind to him. Three times he stretched himself upon the child and prayed most earnestly that the child might live again. For the mother downstairs it must have been an agonizing wait, but she was to be the witness to another miracle. The Lord heard Elijah's prayer, the child's soul came into him again, and, hastening down the stairs, the prophet handed over the precious burden saying, "See, thy son liveth." The faith of the mother returned with a fervent vigor, and her sorrow turned to song as she praised God and exclaimed -
Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth.
In such a declaration we have the final victory of faith brought out by the crowning mercy of her child's resurrection. The widow's growing apprehension of God is seen in her concept of Him. As a heathen woman speaking of Jehovah from without, she said, "The Lord thy God" (1 Kings 17:12). Not her God but Elijah's - thyGod, and as "the Lord God of Israel." Now she believes as never before that Elijah, God's servant, is indeed "a man of God" and in accepting "the word of the Lord" from his lips as "the truth" seems undoubtedly to express the widow's full surrender to Him whose miraculous power on her behalf had been manifested through His servant whom she had befriended.
Her Prominence
It must have been a sad day when God called Elijah to leave the shelter and love of the widow's home and go to show himself to Ahab and pronounce the end of the three and a half years drought. While, possibly, Elijah never lost contact with the Sarepta widow who had become such a part of his life, the Bible does not tell us anything further about her and her son whom God raised from the dead. Yet because of our Lord's reference to her, she is held in everlasting remembrance. While in the synagogue at Nazareth He selected this incident from the Old Testament and said that although there were "many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah," unto none of them was the prophet sent save unto the widow of Sarepta (Luke 4:26). As the heathen woman was visited of God, so Christ had come to gather Gentiles, as well as Jews, unto Himself. Jesus immortalized that lowly woman who was so hospitable, to emphasize the immortal truth that in this dispensation of divine grace God is no respecter of persons. No favored nation, nor exclusive privilege enters into His scheme of salvation. God's favor becomes the portion of those who repent of their sin and accept His Son as their Saviour and Lord.
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Samson
[Săm'son] - distinguished, strong orsun-man.
[Săm'son] - distinguished, strong orsun-man.
The Man of Contrasts
One of the most renowned of the Hebrew judges, Samson was a son of the Danite, Manoah, who judged Israel for twenty years. He was unique in that his birth and manner of life were foretold. Supernaturally endowed, he killed a lion, thirty Philistines and one thousand men. He broke the strongest bands, carried off the gates of Gaza and pulled down the Temple of Dagon (Judg. 13:24-16:30). He is found among the illustrious in Faith's Hall of Fame (Heb. 11:32).
As long as Samson remained a Nazarite he was unconquerable. He only of all the judges of whom we have any history, does everything single-handed and alone. Samson never called the armies of Israel together; he asked no assistance. What he did, he did alone in his own unconquerable strength. We are not told how he managed his court, nor about the wisdom of his judgments, nor about the manner of Israel's life for a whole generation under her gigantic judge.
The complex story of Samson teaches us the evils of mixed or foreign marriages ( Judg. 14:3), the laxity of sexual relations and of playing with temptation. C. W. Emmet says that Samson "teaches us that bodily endowments, no less than spiritual, are a gift from God, however different may be our modern conception of the way in which they are bestowed, and that their retention depends on obedience to His laws."
But if Samson stands as an example "of impotence of mind in body strong," he also stands, in Milton's magnificent conception, as an example of patriotism and heroism in death, to all who "from his memory inflame their breast to matchless valour and adventures high."
The deadly results of Samson's self-indulgence after he broke his Nazarite vow, appear in their dark and ominous order:
Self-confidence: "I will go out" (Judg. 16:20).
Self-ignorance: "He wist not" (Judg. 16:20).
Self-weakness: "The Philistines laid hold on him" (Judg. 16:21).
Self-darkness: "They put out his eyes" (Judg. 16:21).
Self-degradation: "They brought him down to Gaza" ( Judg. 16:1-3, 21).
Self-bondage: "They bound him with fetters" (Judg. 16:21).
Self-drudgery: "He did grind in the prison-house" (Judg. 16:21).
Self-humiliation: "Call for Samson, that he may make us sport" (Judg. 16:25, 27).
Samson stands out as a man of striking contrasts. He had a kind of Dr. Jekell and Mr. Hyde being.
I. He was separated as a Nazarite ( Judg. 13:5 ), yet tampered with evil associations (Judg. 14:1-3).
II. He was occasionally Spirit-possessed (Judg. 13:25; 15:14), yet yielded to carnal appetites (Judg. 16:1-4).
III. He appeared childish in some of his plans (Judg. 15:4), yet was courageous in battle (Judg. 15:1-4).
IV. He was mighty in physical strength ( Judg. 16:3, 9, 13, 14), yet weak in resisting temptation (Judg. 16:15-17).
V. He had a noble beginning but a sad end (Judg. 16:30).
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