Working very hard to deny justice is the Overland, which refuses to publish conservatives. I wouldn't subscribe to Overland, but my taxes pay for it, so I have no choice. I am reminded of when I was asked to start a business, and told I could get off unemployment, get assistance to further my education and not have to have an income test. I applied, but when I told them I would be starting a conservative email subscription I was refused, because, as I was told, it needed to be for the entire community.
It is summer and very warm. But the projected highs have failed to materialise. The reason for the heatwave has nothing to do with global warming, but is to do with a correctable problem of a bone dry desert in central Australia. The sun heats the land, and the hot air disperses the heat out at sea. If we flooded central Australia with something like a Bradfield scheme we could see an end to the heat waves.
Persons of Interest on SBS, highlighting how ASIO tracked communists in the past shows an ASIO that worked. It is admitted by the communists observed that they wanted violent overthrow of the government of the day. But you wouldn't know it watching the program. I am reminded of a movie highlighting the paranoid nature of the CIA operative who founded their counter insurgency work. He had believed that the communists in the cold war infiltrated the highest levels of Western Society. Records show they had.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Lyn Vo and Mary MacMahon. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 885 – Emperor Daigo of Japan (d. 930)
- 1689 – Montesquieu, French philosopher (d. 1755)
- 1743 – Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, French philosopher (d. 1803)
- 1779 – Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (d. 1869)
- 1849 – Edmund Barton, Australian politician and judge, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
- 1854 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934)
- 1882 – A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)
- 1892 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957)
- 1904 – Cary Grant, English-American actor (d. 1986)
- 1908 – Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, German-Swedish princess (d. 1972)
- 1913 – Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1933 – Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (d. 2013)
- 1944 – Paul Keating, Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
- 1947 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
- 1954 – Tom Bailey English singer-songwriter (Thompson Twins, International Observer, and Bailey-Salgado Project)
- 1955 – Kevin Costner, American actor, singer, director, and producer
- 1999 – Karan Brar, American actor
Matches
- 350 – Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
- 1591 – King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
- 1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama.
- 1701 – Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
- 1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
- 1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
- 1866 – Wesley College, Melbourne is established.
- 1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans.
- 1884 – Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
- 1886 – Modern hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
- 1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H.L. Smith.
- 1903 – President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States
- 1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
- 1916 – A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
- 1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
- 1919 – Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
- 1941 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
- 1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- 1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton,Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
- 1977 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
- 1978 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
- 1981 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
- 1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
- 1993 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
Despatches
- 52 BC – Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman politician (b. 93 BC)
- 1936 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
- 1978 – Walter H. Thompson, English bodyguard (b. 1890)
- 2010 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer-songwriter and accordion player (Mountain City Four and Kate and Anna McGarrigle) (b. 1946)
POETS BANNED AT OVERLAND
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 18, 2014 (1:23pm)
Tax-mooching suckwads at Overland blacklist poets who are tainted by conservative association, including Labor voter Joe Dolce:
I have just been advised in writing by Peter Minter, the poetry editor of Overland magazine, that as of 2014 he will not be publishing ANY poets who publish in Quadrant and that he doesn’t ‘wish to have any association with the authors of a journal edited by Keith Windschuttle.’ His ‘New Year’s Resolution’ apparently.Uh oh! I guess that means no Xmas cards for Les Murray, Sharon Olds, Jennifer Compton, Clive James, Christopher Koch (RIP), Rod Usher, Christopher Heathcote, Lin van Hek, A. D. Hope, Barry Humphries, me and hundreds of other Australian and International writers who appear in Quadrant.This probably also explains why Mr Minter has rejected every poem I have submitted to him over the past two years.
Overland‘s verse-averse reverse McCarthyism is brought to you by your own taxes.
Has global warming hype made us weather pussies?
Andrew Bolt January 18 2014 (10:00am)
The Sydney Morning Herald’s environment editor, warmist Peter Hannam, beat up Sydney’s ”heatwave” two days ago
UPDATE
Reader Steve noted something similar in Adelaide on Thursday:
===The huge heatwave searing most of south-eastern Australia will again lap against Sydney’s western and southern flanks on Friday, with no real relief expected for most of the city until Monday.Has global warming turned us into warming pussies? Yes, out at Penrith the temperature touched 39. But for the rest, Sydney seemed to have a perfectly normal week of summer weather:
Reader Andrew says Channel 9 was even worse:
Ch 9 Sydney talking it up (and not understanding the concept of Urban Heat Island). “Parts of Sydney swelter in its 4th consecutive day of extreme heat.” Apparently it was hot in Penrith in the far west.It’s like some news outlets want the heat to seem ever hotter than it is.
These “consecutive days of extreme heat” have been 28, 29, 28 and 28. In Sydney. It’s January.
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Reader Steve noted something similar in Adelaide on Thursday:
Hi Andrew, all morning we were told by the collective news broadcasts that Adelaide would have the hottest temperature on record. The ABC news pair discussed the design of our houses not suitable for climate change, and the impending doom for us all.
Surprisingly, no record was broken. The ninemsn headline below should read, Climate Change Cult Wrong.
Adelaide misses out on record high ninemsn staff with AAP 6:24pm January 16, 2014
Adelaide has fallen short of a record top temperature but South Australia has still sweltered through the fourth day of a forecast five-day heatwave
The city was tipped to have a maximum of 46C on Thursday, very close to the record of 46.1C set on January 12, 1939. But the top was 44.2C with the mercury dipping to 42.5C by 5pm....
The five days at 40C or above will make it the city’s third worst heatwave on record.
Warmist Schmidt bets very small
Andrew Bolt January 18 2014 (9:40am)
Professor Brian Schmidt takes up a bet:
===IN his article ”Mother nature suggests the party’s over for IPCC” ..., Maurice Newman ... challenges readers with a quote from eminent climate scientist Richard Lindzen about him being “willing to take bets that the global average temperatures in 20 years will in fact be lower than they are now”, and then asks: “Any takers?"…Jo Nova notes how modest that wager really is:
Mr Newman, I am prepared to put $10,000 on the line that the Earth’s average surface air temperature in a three-year average (2013-15 compared with 2033-35) will be warmer 20 years from now.
In 2007 the IPCC seemed to be 90% confident that the world would warm by about 0.4 degrees over the next two decades. Now Brian Schmidt braves up to offer a bet of “anything above zero”. Is he really a sceptic? It appears so.(Thanks to reader James.)
Let’s laugh at Max laughing at ASIO
Andrew Bolt January 18 2014 (9:04am)
Max Ogden gloats in the (uncritical) Age:
And if mistakes should be confessed, where is good old Max’s apologia? This is, after all, a man who devoted himself to a totalitarian creed that had already enslaved tens of millions of people. This is a man who helped lead a party which long pledged loyalty to the Stalinist Soviet Union.
(Ogden also joined Julia Gillard’s Socialist Alliance before finding a home at Melbourne University’s Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development is his own march through the institutions. The McKnight he quotes is another former communist functionary given grants and a university job, teaching future journalists.)
If we must laugh at mistakes, let’s laugh at Max Ogden’s. They are far more serious.
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A reality check from Gerard Henderson:
===The four-part series Persons of Interest on SBS has taken me back to the days when I was put under surveillance by ASIO agents. As has been noted by various academics, including David McKnight, ASIO’s incompetence was legendary. This point was only emphasised after my partner and I spent a few days in the National Archives reading room going through the 25 folders that ASIO had kept on me. At times we had to contain ourselves from laughing. Up to 90 per cent was either wrong or so mundane as to be meaningless.Silly spies, bothering themselves about harmless Max, who continues:
A lifelong labour movement activist and union official, including at the ACTU, I spent 25 years in the (quite legal) Communist Party, much of that time in the state and national leadership. Virtually everything I was involved with was on the public record…What “immeasurable harm to law-abiding citizens”?
A note in my file suggests that operatives should be honest about their mistakes and learn from them, but that such surveillance was important. However, such activities, without proper checks and balances, did immeasurable harm to law-abiding citizens.
And if mistakes should be confessed, where is good old Max’s apologia? This is, after all, a man who devoted himself to a totalitarian creed that had already enslaved tens of millions of people. This is a man who helped lead a party which long pledged loyalty to the Stalinist Soviet Union.
(Ogden also joined Julia Gillard’s Socialist Alliance before finding a home at Melbourne University’s Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development is his own march through the institutions. The McKnight he quotes is another former communist functionary given grants and a university job, teaching future journalists.)
If we must laugh at mistakes, let’s laugh at Max Ogden’s. They are far more serious.
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A reality check from Gerard Henderson:
As Mark Aarons documents in his 2010 book The Family File, the CPA received funding and direction from Moscow and CPA members operated openly in the trade union movement and secretly in the Labor Party. He is the son of one-time leading CPA functionary Laurie Aarons.
In his 1993 memoir What’s Left, Eric Aarons conceded that if the CPA had come to power in Australia it would have killed its opponents.
A church accuser accused
Andrew Bolt January 18 2014 (8:29am)
I had my doubts from the start about the ABC’s star witness for the
prosecution of the Catholic Church - a witness of the kind that tends to
thrive in a witch-hunt. As I noted last year:
Beware the stars in a witch hunt.
===Chief Inspector Peter Fox was the ABC’s star witness in the case against the Catholic Church, and had his every claim taken at face value.Yesterday:
But I thought there was something just too glib, too eager, about him. He seemed to nurse a contempt for Catholics. I have from the start regarded his evidence with suspicion, not least after he kept referring to Cardinal Pell as “Mr Pell”.
And now:
A FAIRFAX reporter who spent years working with the detective at the centre of a NSW government inquiry into Catholic church child abuse said yesterday the policeman might have been motivated by a personal agenda against his colleagues. The reporter, Joanne McCarthy of The Newcastle Herald, moved to distance herself from the detective, Peter Fox, telling the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry that “my job, as he sees it, is to criticise the NSW Police”.The lie:
The inquiry was established after Detective Chief Inspector Fox publicly claimed he was “ordered to stand down” from the investigation into an alleged cover-up relating to a pedophile priest, Denis McAlinden…
The officer in charge of Strike Force Lantle, Jeffrey Little, told the hearing that many of Chief Inspector Fox’s other public claims, including that the investigation was “set up to fail”, were untrue.
“ . . . the mere fact that he’s ridden to glory on a saddle of lies at this point is a concern for me,” Sergeant Little said…
DCI Fox told the inquiry he intentionally disobeyed an order from the Newcastle commander Max Mitchell to bring all his investigation documents…More:
“So you lied to the police at the meeting?” she said.
PETER FOX...: Oh absolutely yes, I deliberately kept them myself
JAMELLE WELLS: Peter Fox was cross-examined by Wayne Roser, the barrister for a number of police officers appearing at the inquiry. He accused Peter Fox of breaching a suppression order by tweeting information about witnesses....Fox was remarkably chummy with journalists, not least on the ABC:
The NSW Police Force has painted whistleblower Peter Fox as a troublemaker who passed on confidential documents to journalists to undermine the sex abuse investigation he was excluded from in 2010 in the hope he could write a book about it… He read out emails from Inspector Fox to ABC journalist Suzanne Smith asking to drip feed information saying “it will only give us longer coverage"…
The inspector denied his answers were produced or that he had written a book.
WHISTLEBLOWER policeman Peter Fox used emails sent in his wife’s name to discuss a confidential criminal investigation with a newspaper reporter after being banned from talking to the journalist himself.And it gets worse:
THE detective doesn’t pause before he says it. Interviewed on the ABC’s Lateline program that will trigger the royal commission, he describes a female victim of child abuse who once contacted him, saying, “The only police officer I will speak to is Peter Fox”.How did Peter Fox come to be such a media hero?
This week, freshly released evidence from a state inquiry shows the woman denies ever saying these words.
Worse, the victim tells the inquiry, Detective Chief Inspector Fox in fact called her, using a telephone number provided by a newspaper reporter. He later emailed her witness statement to the journalist, without consent, who published parts of it, again without permission.
In an email tendered to the state inquiry the victim, who cannot be named, writes, “I should not have been used this way ... I have been ‘abused’ once again.”
Since that Lateline broadcast in November 2012, others have also challenged claims made by the man once dubbed the “hero cop"…
Broadly speaking, Fox makes two landmark claims on Lateline; that the Catholic Church covered up child sex abuse by priests, and that he was “ordered to stand down” from the police investigation of one such pedophile.
So potentially significant are these, a NSW Special Commission of Inquiry is established to investigate. The first major challenge to the detective’s evidence comes on the very first day.
Giving evidence, Fox says the Nationals MP and former NSW policeman Troy Grant told him a “Catholic mafia” existed within the police “who were attempting to discourage investigations into clergy”.
Grant, the inquiry hears, has given sworn evidence contradicting this, saying he never said, nor believed, such a thing…
His “irrefutable” statement on Lateline that Catholic priests destroyed evidence of sexual crimes against children turns out, the inquiry hears, to refer to a single case of adult pornography once owned by a priest.
Embarrassing, certainly, but not illegal, nor evidence of any crime.
Nor, according to police evidence to the inquiry, was Fox “ordered to stand down” from the strike force set up to investigate the alleged cover-up of abuse committed by a Hunter Valley priest, Denis McAlinden.
He was never on this strike force, the inquiry hears. Instead, he pursued his own private investigation of McAlinden, with his bosses unaware what he was doing.
Beware the stars in a witch hunt.
Indonesia’s frigate should stop the boats, not our navy
Andrew Bolt January 18 2014 (7:52am)
Professor Tim Lindsay says Indonesia’s navy is too small to stop the boats :
===On its own assessment, the Indonesian navy probably only has about 25 working, seaworthy ships available for operations at any one time and it has no coastguard. Indonesia’s obvious strategic sea defence weakness is one reason it has been so reluctant a partner with Australia in our efforts to stop people smuggling. It simply lacks the practical capacity to do much about it.But Indonesia’s navy seems big enough to stop Australia from stopping the boats:
Jakarta has demanded an immediate halt to the Abbott government’s asylum-seeker turnbacks policy and announced it will send a frigate to bolster its southern defences after Australian ships repeatedly breached Indonesian territorial waters.
Someone must be top dog, so worry if it’s not the US
Andrew Bolt January 18 2014 (7:42am)
The Left is getting the
relatively weaker and more timid US military power many wanted, but I
doubt this will bring the blessings they vaguely assumed:
===Three years after the Pentagon said it was de-emphasizing Europe in favor of the Asia-Pacific region, Navy Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III said this week that U.S. dominance has weakened in the shadow of a more aggressive China.Dean Cheng of the Heritage Foundation defines the problem:
“Our historic dominance that most of us in this room have enjoyed is diminishing, no question,” Adm. Locklear, chief of U.S. Pacific Command, said Wednesday at a naval conference in Virginia.
The… assumption is that we can somehow mold China into being ourselves — that China will see its interests as somehow congruent and coincident with those of the United States, and therefore China will assume the mantle of regional provider of public goods. But this is a remarkable assumption, especially in light of recent Chinese behavior. China is not interested in providing security for everyone and, frankly, not even for anyone other than itself.
A second generation more dangerous than their parents
Andrew Bolt January 18 2014 (7:24am)
We must change our old assumptions about immigration - that the second generation will be more assimilated than the first:
===AMIRA Karroum ... grew up a “sweet and caring” daughter on the Gold Coast beaches, where her dad ran a kebab shop along the Glitter Strip.Islam, particularly as it is often preached today, makes mass immigration a riskier proposition for countries such as ours. How can our border watchers screen out radicals not yet born to those trying to get in?
To the people who knew her from those days, she would have seemed the unlikeliest terrorist - they would never have thought of her as a religious martyr.
But in the months and weeks leading up to her death last week in a bullet-ridden house in war-torn Syria alongside her husband Yusuf Ali, her Facebook posts reveal a young woman heading for a dangerous future… It is believed as many as 205 Australians have travelled to the battlefield that is Syria since the conflict began in 2011 - part of a contingent of about 11,000 foreign fighters answering what they see as Allah’s call to battle…
Despite her education at one of the country’s top Anglican schools, St Hilda’s in Brisbane, Karroum was always a Muslim - but it was not until a couple of years ago that she started to wear a burqa. On her Facebook page, she described her work as a “Slave of Allah” and her posts became increasingly extreme, condemning America, the war on terror and even democracy.
“Today I witnessed hijabi girls promoting democracy with their T-shirts and their stupid voting papers. Kuffars! May Allah guide these strangers!’’ she posted on federal election day last September.
After wild Muslim riots in Sydney’s Hyde Park in 2012 she called for more violence, urging Facebook followers to: “F… the police! Smash the cop cars.”
On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, she posted: “Worst effing night. I’m proud of being a Muslim!!!!! 10 years of war in Afghanistan for two towers.”
Larry Pickering
THE MISSING PIECE IN THE GILLARD PUZZLE
Some interesting information came to light this week, (from, um, let’s just say an impeccable source deep within the Labor Party, and I would give my right testicle to be able to tell you who).
I always wondered why the disastrous Julia Gillard was feted as ‘PM extraordinaire’ at the ALP National Conference by Big Bill Ludwig whose union she helped steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from.
To quickly recap: In August of 1996 Gillard was discovered assisting to steal funds from her employer, Slater & Gordon’s, blue chip client, the AWU.
Peter Gordon pulled Gillard in and asked her to explain on tape but apparently the explanation was lacking and Peter Gordon claims to have sacked her on the spot.
S & G Partner, Bernard Murphy, who was also involved in the scam, was asked to leave at the same time. (Later as PM, Gillard promoted him to the Bench of the Federal Court.)
Bill Ludwig was livid and called in the cops to find the funds and lay charges. He also commenced Federal Court proceedings to recover $114,000 that Gillard’s lover, Bruce Wilson, had paid himself and others in redundancy payments once he had realised the game was up.
The Court duly ruled in favour of Ludwig’s application.
This is where it gets interesting. Strangely, and despite the Court ruling, Ludwig made no attempt to recover the $114,000 from Wilson and others.
Stranger still, although the AWU had sacked S & G and moved their account to the other bent Labor law firm Maurice Blackburn, who at the time employed lovers Roxon and Shorten, no attempt was made to recover the defrauded funds or to indict S & G, Gillard, Murphy or Wilson.
In fact Police were so frustrated by the lack of cooperation from the supposed “victims”, they closed the file.
Why? Why did the many “victims” of Gillard and Wilson (all except the AWU’s Bob Kernohan) suddenly want the matter shut down?
Bill Shorten certainly wanted it shut down and even called in the heavies to bash Bob after he refused to accept the safe Melbourne seat of Melton as a pay-off.
“You know, a lot of money changed hands around that time”, said my informant. “No, no I didn’t know that”, I said, sitting bolt upright. “Can you tell me about that?”
“Well, Ludwig was given $60,000 in cash and others were given lesser amounts.”
“By whom?”, I asked.
“Who do you think? Wilson of course!”
“Who were the others?” I asked. “I can’t say who, but let's just say a lot of money changed hands”, he said.
I lit a rollie,“Let me get this straight, so AWU heavies, whose members were defrauded of hundreds of thousands, were silenced using those same defrauded funds? Do Vicpol know about this?”
“You bet they do.”
So now it makes sense... the missing piece of the puzzle! Shorten, Ludwig and others had, apparently inexplicably, shut down the police investigation because they had willingly become beneficiaries of the defrauded funds. (Although I have no direct evidence that Shorten himself was a recipient.)
Of course Shorten has always been the “go to” man for corruption cover-ups.
He went close to “burying” the $20 million Michael Williamson defrauded from HSU East branch members.
Shorten savagely targeted and victimised whistleblower Kathy Jackson and sequestrated the Union to get his grubby hands on the books.
Fortunately that didn’t work and Williamson, via a plea bargain (he accepted a charge of stealing a mere $1 million) is now facing a long jail sentence.
The Bligh Government, before it was thrown out, handed unaccounted-for millions to Ludwig’s Queensland Racing.
In 1999, Beattie’s Government privatised the TAB and sold it for the bargain basement price of $262 Million.
Who they sold it to (the shareholders) reads like a who’s who of Labor crooks, including Queensland Racing’s Bob Bentley, who he himself admits is “likely” to spend some time with Her Majesty.
Unitab now clears in excess of $100 million per year.
Ludwig’s grifted dollars are converted to numbers and those numbers are converted to power.
Power enabled the unholy alliance of Richo’s and Bob Carr’s NSW Right, Victoria’s Socialist Left and Ludwig’s QLD AWU to present us with a delightful three years of Julia Gillard.
The list of who Julia duly repaid is a long one.
Mafioso bosses ruled from their cells as indeed Labor luminaries intend to.
... and the disgustingly credentialled Bill Shorten has their next tick of approval.
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http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/peer-reviewed-magazine-axed-after.html
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===Disney’s Blockbuster ‘Frozen’ Scores Points for Feminism—With Jewish Spirit
Male reviewers who’ve been lukewarm about the Golden Globe-winning children’s movie have failed to understand its true spirit
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Do those who depend on 'mainstream media,' know these ugly facts? Doubtful. Very doubtful, and that is pathetic. Imagine US schools in Texas or Arizona, and closings due to rocket attacks from Mexican terrorists. How would America respond? Would America do so by conceding to the Mexican government, for example, by releasing captured terrorists from their prisons?
Ashdod to close unfortified schools following rockets - Jpost
"Southern coastal city decides to call off studies for some 3,500 students following recent rocket fire from Gaza on nearby areas."
Continue to the link for this story and others…...….http://paper.li/allysonchristy/1338794440
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After spending the last couple of weeks in Israel visiting my father, I got the urge to write this article. I'd really appreciate if you read it, it's not too long and I feel you will really enjoy reading it. Feel free to share it!
https://www.facebook.com/notes/tomer-kornfeld/the-truth-about-israel/123498971053713
you don't tweet much .. but the article you have written is accurate and wise. I don''t feel the US will ever elect a woman PM. But I hope they will elect Sarah Palin President .. ed
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Prayer for Christian Unity begins
- 1788 – The armed tender HMS Supply, the first ship of the First Fleet, arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.
- 1884 – Welsh physician William Price was arrested for attempting to cremate his deceased infant son; he was acquitted in the subsequent trial, which led to the legalisation of cremation in the United Kingdom.
- 1915 – Japanese Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu issued theTwenty-One Demands to China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
- 1977 – The mysterious Legionnaires' disease was found to be caused by a previously unknown bacterium now known as Legionella(pictured).
- 1983 – Thirty years after his death, the International Olympic Committee restored gold medals to American athlete Jim Thorpe, who had had them stripped for playing semi-professional baseball before the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Events[edit]
- 350 – Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
- 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He died ten months later.
- 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
- 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.
- 1486 – King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV.
- 1535 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, the capital of Peru.
- 1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
- 1591 – King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now observed as Royal Thai Armed Forces day.
- 1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama.
- 1701 – Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
- 1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
- 1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
- 1866 – Wesley College, Melbourne is established.
- 1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. The empire is known as the Second Reich to Germans.
- 1884 – Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
- 1886 – Modern hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
- 1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H.L. Smith.
- 1903 – President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.[citation needed]
- 1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
- 1913 – First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
- 1915 – Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
- 1916 – A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
- 1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
- 1919 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
- 1919 – Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
- 1941 – World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
- 1943 – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
- 1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton,Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
- 1944 – Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three-year Nazi siege, known as the Siege of Leningrad.
- 1945 – Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army.
- 1945 – Liberation of Krakow, Poland by the Red Army.
- 1955 – Battle of Yijiangshan is fought.
- 1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
- 1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines crash in as many years.
- 1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
- 1974 – A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
- 1976 – Lebanese Christian militias overrun Karantina, Beirut, killing at least 1,000.
- 1977 – Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
- 1977 – Australia's worst rail disaster occurs at Granville, Sydney killing 83.
- 1977 – SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1978 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
- 1978 – The roof structure of the Hartford Civic Center collapses after a significant snowfall.
- 1981 – Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
- 1983 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
- 1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
- 1993 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
- 1994 – The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
- 1997 – In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
- 1997 – Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
- 2000 – The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
- 2002 – Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
- 2003 – A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
- 2005 – The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
- 2007 – The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
- 2009 – Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces's offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.
- 2012 – A series of coordinated actions (including a blackout of Wikipedia) take place in protest against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act).
Births[edit]
- 885 – Emperor Daigo of Japan (d. 930)
- 1519 – Isabella Jagiellon, Polish Queen consort of Eastern Hungary, wife of John Zápolya (d. 1559)
- 1543 – Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder, Italian composer (d. 1588)
- 1641 – François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French Secretary of State for War (d. 1691)
- 1659 – Damaris Cudworth Masham, English philosopher (d. 1708)
- 1672 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (d. 1731)
- 1688 – Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, English politician (d. 1765)
- 1689 – Montesquieu, French philosopher (d. 1755)
- 1743 – Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, French philosopher (d. 1803)
- 1751 – Ferdinand Kauer, Austrian composer and pianist (d. 1831)
- 1779 – Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (d. 1869)
- 1782 – Daniel Webster, American politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (d. 1852)
- 1795 – Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Russian Queen consort of the Netherlands (d. 1865)
- 1813 – Joseph Glidden, American farmer (d. 1906)
- 1815 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German scholar (d. 1874)
- 1840 – Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (d. 1921)
- 1841 – Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer (d. 1894)
- 1842 – A. A. Ames, American politician, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
- 1848 – Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (d. 1925)
- 1849 – Edmund Barton, Australian politician and judge, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
- 1850 – Seth Low, American politician, 92nd Mayor of New York City (d. 1916)
- 1853 – Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African farmer, soldier, and gun-maker (d. 1900)
- 1854 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934)
- 1856 – Daniel Hale Williams, American surgeon (d. 1931)
- 1867 – Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat(d. 1916)
- 1868 – Suzuki Kantarō, Japanese politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
- 1877 – Sam Zemurray, Russian-American businessman, founded the Cuyamel Fruit Company (d. 1961)
- 1879 – Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
- 1879 – Tane Ikai, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 1995)
- 1880 – Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian physicist (d. 1933)
- 1881 – Gaston Gallimard, French publisher, founded Éditions Gallimard (d. 1975)
- 1882 – A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)
- 1883 – George Oliver, American golfer (d. 1965)
- 1886 – Clara Nordström, German author and translator (d. 1962)
- 1888 – Thomas Sopwith, English ice hockey player and pilot (d. 1989)
- 1891 – Nikolajs Švedrēvics, Latvian javelin thrower (d. 1937)
- 1892 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (d. 1957)
- 1892 – Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)
- 1894 – Toots Mondt, American wrestler (d. 1976)
- 1896 – C. M. Eddy, Jr., American author (d. 1967)
- 1896 – Ville Ritola, Finnish runner (d. 1982)
- 1898 – Albert Kivikas, Estonian writer and journalist (d. 1978)
- 1901 – Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1973)
- 1904 – Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordion player and composer (d. 2006)
- 1904 – Cary Grant, English-American actor (d. 1986)
- 1905 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American gangster (d. 2002)
- 1908 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, historian, and television presenter (d. 1974)
- 1908 – Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, German-Swedish princess (d. 1972)
- 1910 – Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (d. 1993)
- 1911 – José María Arguedas, Peruvian author, poet, and anthropologist (d. 1969)
- 1913 – Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1913 – Giannis Papaioannou, Greek composer (d. 1972)
- 1914 – Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979)
- 1914 – Vitomil Zupan, Yugoslav author, poet, and playwright (d. 1987)
- 1915 – Syl Apps, Canadian pole vaulter, ice hockey player, and politician (d. 1998)
- 1915 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish soldier and politician (d. 2012)
- 1915 – Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (d. 1984)
- 1917 – Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2008)
- 1918 – Gustave Gingras, Canadian physician (d. 1996)
- 1918 – Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013)
- 1919 – Toni Turek, German footballer (d. 1984)
- 1921 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1922 – Bob Bell, American clown (d. 1997)
- 1923 – John Graham, Welsh general (d. 2012)
- 1925 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
- 1925 – Sol Yurick, American author (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Randolph Bromery, American geologist and academic (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Sundaram Balachander, Indian veena player, actor, and singer (d. 1990)
- 1931 – Chun Doo-hwan, South Korean general and politician, 5th President of South Korea
- 1932 – Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007)
- 1933 – John Boorman, English-Irish director
- 1933 – Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (d. 2013)
- 1934 – Raymond Briggs, English author and illustrator
- 1935 – Albert Millaire, Canadian actor and director
- 1935 – Gad Yaacobi, Israeli diplomat, 10th Israel Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2007)
- 1937 – Dick Durock, American actor and stuntman (d. 2009)
- 1937 – John Hume, Northern Irish politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1938 – Curt Flood, American baseball player (d. 1997)
- 1940 – Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican race car driver (d. 1971)
- 1941 – Denise Bombardier, Canadian journalist and author
- 1941 – Bobby Goldsboro, American singer-songwriter
- 1941 – David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991)
- 1943 – Paul Freeman, English actor
- 1943 – Kay Granger, American politician
- 1943 – Charlie Wilson, American politician (d. 2013)
- 1944 – Paul Keating, Australian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
- 1944 – Carl Morton, American baseball player (d. 1983)
- 1945 – Balagangadharanatha Swamiji, Indian religious leader (d. 2013)
- 1946 – Perro Aguayo, Mexican wrestler
- 1946 – Joseph Deiss, Swiss politician, 156th President of the Swiss Confederation
- 1946 – Henrique Rosa, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2013)
- 1947 – Sachio Kinugasa, Japanese baseball player
- 1947 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
- 1949 – Bill Keller, American journalist
- 1949 – Philippe Starck, French interior designer
- 1950 – Gianfranco Brancatelli, Italian racing driver
- 1950 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
- 1951 – Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982)
- 1951 – Bob Latchford, English footballer
- 1951 – Alan Moody, English footballer
- 1952 – Michael Angelis, English actor
- 1952 – Michael Behe, American biochemist and author
- 1952 – R. Stevie Moore, American singer-songwriter
- 1953 – Patrick G. Halpin, American politician
- 1953 – Brett Hudson, American singer-songwriter and producer (Hudson Brothers)
- 1954 – Tom Bailey English singer-songwriter (Thompson Twins, International Observer, and Bailey-Salgado Project)
- 1954 – Ted DiBiase, American wrestler and manager
- 1954 – Jagdish Mali, Indian photographer (d. 2013)
- 1955 – Kevin Costner, American actor, singer, director, and producer
- 1955 – Fergus Martin, Irish painter
- 1956 – Sharon Mitchell, American porn actress and director
- 1961 – Peter Beardsley, English footballer
- 1961 – Bobby Hansen, American basketball player
- 1961 – Mark Messier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1961 – Jeff Yagher, American actor
- 1962 – Alison Arngrim, American actress
- 1962 – Mike Lynch, American cartoonist
- 1962 – David O'Connor, American horse rider
- 1963 – Maxime Bernier, Canadian politician, 7th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Canada
- 1963 – Martin O'Malley, American politician, 61st Governor of Maryland
- 1963 – Yury Zakharevich, Russian weightlifter
- 1964 – Brady Anderson, American baseball player
- 1964 – Jane Horrocks, English actress
- 1964 – Andrea Leand, American tennis player
- 1964 – Enrico Lo Verso, Italian actor
- 1965 – Dave Attell, American comedian and actor
- 1966 – Alexander Khalifman, Russian chess player
- 1966 – André Ribeiro, Brazilian race car driver
- 1967 – Andrei Inešin, Estonian shooter
- 1967 – Kim Perrot, American basketball player (d. 1999)
- 1967 – Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
- 1968 – Dragana Mirković, Serbian singer
- 1969 – Dave Batista, American wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor
- 1969 – John Eder, American politician
- 1969 – Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer
- 1969 – Jim O'Rourke, American guitarist and producer (Sonic Youth, Loose Fur, and Gastr del Sol)
- 1970 – DJ Quik, American rapper, producer, and actor (The Fixxers and QDT)
- 1970 – Peter van Petegem, Belgian cyclist
- 1971 – Jonathan Davis, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Korn, Sexart, and Killbot)
- 1971 – Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
- 1971 – Josep Guardiola, Spanish footballer
- 1971 – Seamus O'Regan, Canadian journalist
- 1971 – Fabian Ribauw, Nauruan politician
- 1972 – Vinod Kambli, Indian cricketer
- 1972 – Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player
- 1973 – Burnie Burns, American actor, director, and producer, co-founded Rooster Teeth Productions
- 1973 – Luther Dickinson, American guitarist and vocalist (North Mississippi Allstars and The Black Crowes)
- 1973 – Benjamin Jealous, American political scientist
- 1973 – Anthony Koutoufides, Australian footballer
- 1973 – Guo Degang, Chinese comedian and xiangsheng actor
- 1973 – Crispian Mills, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
- 1974 – Christian Burns, English singer-songwriter (BBMak)
- 1974 – Princess Claire of Belgium, English-Belgian land surveyor
- 1974 – Devon Odessa, American actress
- 1974 – Maulik Pancholy, American actor
- 1974 – Michael Tunn, Australian television and radio host
- 1976 – Laurence Courtois, Belgian tennis player
- 1976 – Damien Leith, Irish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1977 – Richard Archer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hard-Fi)
- 1977 – Curtis Cregan, American actor and singer (Hi-5)
- 1977 – Alina Jidkova, Russian tennis player
- 1977 – Richard Wall, Irish actor
- 1978 – Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player
- 1978 – Thor Hushovd, Norwegian cyclist
- 1978 – Bogdan Lobonț, Romanian footballer
- 1979 – Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and director
- 1979 – Ruslan Fedotenko, Ukrainian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
- 1979 – Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player
- 1979 – Anastasia Grebenkina, Russian ice dancer
- 1979 – Kenyatta Jones, American football player
- 1980 – Estelle, English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1980 – Robert Green, English footballer
- 1980 – Kert Haavistu, Estonian football, futsal and beach soccer player and coach
- 1980 – Julius Peppers, American football player
- 1980 – Jason Segel, American actor, singer, and screenwriter
- 1981 – Otgonbayar Ershuu, Mongolian visual artist
- 1981 – Kang Dong-won, South Korean actor
- 1981 – Olivier Rochus, Belgian tennis player
- 1981 – Khari Stephenson, Jamaican footballer
- 1982 – Quinn Allman, American guitarist and producer (The Used)
- 1982 – Tõnis Erm, Estonian mountain bike orienteer
- 1982 – Joanna Newsom, American singer-songwriter and harp player (The Pleased)
- 1982 – Rolf Roosalu, Estonian singer
- 1983 – Samantha Mumba, Irish singer-songwriter and actress
- 1984 – Kristy Lee Cook, American singer
- 1984 – Ioannis Drymonakos, Greek swimmer
- 1984 – Makoto Hasebe, Japanese footballer
- 1984 – Michael Kearney, American educator
- 1984 – Benji Schwimmer, American dancer and choreographer
- 1984 – Viktoria Shklover, Estonian figure skater
- 1985 – Dale Begg-Smith, Australian skier
- 1985 – Minissha Lamba, Indian actress and model
- 1985 – Riccardo Montolivo, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Grigoris Makos, Greek footballer
- 1986 – Marya Roxx, Estonian-American singer-songwriter (Vanilla Ninja)
- 1986 – Becca Tobin, American singer-actress
- 1987 – Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer
- 1987 – Christopher Liebig, German rugby player
- 1988 – Ronnie Day, American singer-songwriter
- 1988 – Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
- 1988 – Anastasios Kissas, Greek footballer
- 1989 – Rubén Miño, Spanish footballer
- 1990 – Alex Pietrangelo, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1991 – Diego Simões, Brazilian footballer
- 1992 – Kieran Tscherniawsky, English discus thrower
- 1993 – Morgan York, American actress
- 1994 – Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer (Kara)
- 1994 – Ilona Kremen, Belarusian tennis player
- 1994 – Minzy, South Korean singer and dancer (2NE1)
- 1996 – Alexandra Scott, American cancer patient, founded Alex's Lemonade Stand, (d. 2004)
- 1999 – Karan Brar, American actor
Deaths[edit]
- 52 BC – Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman politician (b. 93 BC)
- 474 – Leo I the Thracian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
- 1213 – Tamar of Georgia (b. 1160)
- 1367 – Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
- 1425 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
- 1471 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
- 1586 – Margaret of Parma (b. 1522)
- 1677 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch administrator, founded Cape Town (b. 1619)
- 1803 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
- 1849 – Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (b. 1752)
- 1862 – John Tyler, American politician, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
- 1873 – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
- 1878 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
- 1886 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
- 1892 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
- 1896 – Charles Floquet, French politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
- 1923 – Wallace Reid, American actor (b. 1891)
- 1936 – Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)
- 1936 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
- 1940 – Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1865)
- 1945 – Hermann Braun, American-German actor (b. 1918)
- 1951 – Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary (b. 1867)
- 1952 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
- 1954 – Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
- 1955 – Saadat Hassan Manto, Pakistani author (b. 1912)
- 1956 – Konstantin Päts, Estonian politician, 1st President of Estonia (b. 1874)
- 1963 – Hugh Gaitskell, English politician (b. 1906)
- 1966 – Kathleen Norris, American author (b. 1880)
- 1967 – Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
- 1969 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
- 1969 – Dada Lekhraj, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1884)
- 1970 – David O. McKay, American religious leader, 9th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
- 1971 – Virgil Finlay, American illustrator (b. 1914)
- 1975 – Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1978 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher and author (b. 1919)
- 1978 – Carl Betz, American actor (b. 1921)
- 1978 – Walter H. Thompson, English bodyguard (b. 1890)
- 1980 – Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
- 1984 – Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Soviet politician and military commander (b. 1902)
- 1984 – Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1915)
- 1985 – Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
- 1989 – Bruce Chatwin, English author (b. 1940)
- 1990 – Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
- 1993 – Eleanor Hibbert, English author (b. 1906)
- 1994 – Denis Henry Desty, English chromatographer (b. 1923)
- 1995 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
- 1995 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
- 1996 – N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1923)
- 1997 – Paul Tsongas, American politician (b. 1941)
- 1997 – Adriana Caselotti, American voice actress and singer (b. 1916)
- 2000 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
- 2001 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Congolese politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
- 2001 – Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
- 2003 – Ed Farhat, American wrestler (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet (b. 1907)
- 2005 – Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
- 2005 – Pez Whatley, American wrestler (b. 1951)
- 2006 – Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Brent Liles, American bass player (Agent Orange and Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
- 2008 – Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman (b. 1927)
- 2008 – Frank Lewin, American composer and theorist (b. 1925)
- 2008 – John Stroger, American politician (b. 1929)
- 2009 – Tony Hart, English television host (b. 1925)
- 2009 – Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (b. 1931)
- 2009 – Bob May, American actor (b. 1939)
- 2009 – Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
- 2010 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer-songwriter and accordion player (Mountain City Four and Kate and Anna McGarrigle) (b. 1946)
- 2010 – Robert B. Parker, American author (b. 1932)
- 2011 – Sargent Shriver, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to France (b. 1915)
- 2013 – Martin Barbarič, Czech footballer (b. 1970)
- 2013 – Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer (b. 1951)
- 2013 – Walmor Chagas, Brazilian actor (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Sean Fallon, Irish footballer (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Jim Horning, American computer scientist (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Alfons Lemmens, Dutch footballer (b. 1919)
- 2013 – David Lewis, Zimbabwean cricketer (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Jon Mannah, Australian rugby player (b. 1989)
- 2013 – Lewis Marnell, Swedish/Australian professional skateboarder (b. 1982)
- 2013 – Ron Nachman, Israeli politician (b. 1942)
- 2013 – Borghild Niskin, Norwegian skier (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Jacques Sadoul, French author (b. 1934)
- 2013 – Theodore Stern, American academic (b. 1912)
- 2013 – Morné van der Merwe, South African rugby player (b. 1973)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Confession of Peter (Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran Churches)
- Feast of the Cross (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Revolution Day (Tunisia)
- Royal Thai Armed Forces Day (Thailand)
- The beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Christianity)
“Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.” - Philippians 2:14-16
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
January 17: Morning
"And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion." -Revelation 14:1
The apostle John was privileged to look within the gates of heaven, and in describing what he saw, he begins by saying, "I looked, and, lo, a Lamb!" This teaches us that the chief object of contemplation in the heavenly state is "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world." Nothing else attracted the apostle's attention so much as the person of that Divine Being, who hath redeemed us by his blood. He is the theme of the songs of all glorified spirits and holy angels. Christian, here is joy for thee; thou hast looked, and thou hast seen the Lamb. Through thy tears thine eyes have seen the Lamb of God taking away thy sins. Rejoice, then. In a little while, when thine eyes shall have been wiped from tears, thou wilt see the same Lamb exalted on his throne. It is the joy of thy heart to hold daily fellowship with Jesus; thou shalt have the same joy to a higher degree in heaven; thou shalt enjoy the constant vision of his presence; thou shalt dwell with him forever. "I looked, and, lo, a Lamb!" Why, that Lamb is heaven itself; for as good Rutherford says, "Heaven and Christ are the same thing;" to be with Christ is to be in heaven, and to be in heaven is to be with Christ. That prisoner of the Lord very sweetly writes in one of his glowing letters--"O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without thee, it would be a hell; and if I could be in hell, and have thee still, it would be a heaven to me, for thou art all the heaven I want." It is true, is it not, Christian? Does not thy soul say so?
"Not all the harps above
Can make a heavenly place,
If God his residence remove,
Or but conceal his face."
All thou needest to make thee blessed, supremely blessed, is "to be with Christ."
"Not all the harps above
Can make a heavenly place,
If God his residence remove,
Or but conceal his face."
All thou needest to make thee blessed, supremely blessed, is "to be with Christ."
Evening
"And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house." - 2 Samuel 11:2
At that hour David saw Bathsheba. We are never out of the reach of temptation. Both at home and abroad we are liable to meet with allurements to evil; the morning opens with peril, and the shades of evening find us still in jeopardy. They are well kept whom God keeps, but woe unto those who go forth into the world, or even dare to walk their own house unarmed. Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armour-bearer of Sin is Self-confidence.
David should have been engaged in fighting the Lord's battles, instead of which he tarried at Jerusalem, and gave himself up to luxurious repose, for he arose from his bed at eventide. Idleness and luxury are the devil's jackals, and find him abundant prey. In stagnant waters noxious creatures swarm, and neglected soil soon yields a dense tangle of weeds and briars. Oh for the constraining love of Jesus to keep us active and useful! When I see the King of Israel sluggishly leaving his couch at the close of the day, and falling at once into temptation, let me take warning, and set holy watchfulness to guard the door.
Is it possible that the king had mounted his housetop for retirement and devotion? If so, what a caution is given us to count no place, however secret, a sanctuary from sin! While our hearts are so like a tinder-box, and sparks so plentiful, we had need use all diligence in all places to prevent a blaze. Satan can climb housetops, and enter closets, and even if we could shut out that foul fiend, our own corruptions are enough to work our ruin unless grace prevent. Reader, beware of evening temptations. Be not secure. The sun is down but sin is up. We need a watchman for the night as well as a guardian for the day. O blessed Spirit, keep us from all evil this night. Amen.
David should have been engaged in fighting the Lord's battles, instead of which he tarried at Jerusalem, and gave himself up to luxurious repose, for he arose from his bed at eventide. Idleness and luxury are the devil's jackals, and find him abundant prey. In stagnant waters noxious creatures swarm, and neglected soil soon yields a dense tangle of weeds and briars. Oh for the constraining love of Jesus to keep us active and useful! When I see the King of Israel sluggishly leaving his couch at the close of the day, and falling at once into temptation, let me take warning, and set holy watchfulness to guard the door.
Is it possible that the king had mounted his housetop for retirement and devotion? If so, what a caution is given us to count no place, however secret, a sanctuary from sin! While our hearts are so like a tinder-box, and sparks so plentiful, we had need use all diligence in all places to prevent a blaze. Satan can climb housetops, and enter closets, and even if we could shut out that foul fiend, our own corruptions are enough to work our ruin unless grace prevent. Reader, beware of evening temptations. Be not secure. The sun is down but sin is up. We need a watchman for the night as well as a guardian for the day. O blessed Spirit, keep us from all evil this night. Amen.
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Isaac
[Ī'zaac] he laugheth or laughing one.
The son of Abraham and Sarah, who was born at Gerar when Abraham was one hundred years of age and Sarah was about ninety years old (Gen. 17:19, 21; 21:3-12; 22:2-9).
The Man Whose Birth Caused a Laugh
Isaac is one of the few cases in the Bible in which God selected a name for a child and announced it before he was born. In the Old Testament we have Isaac, Ishmael, Solomon, Josiah, Cyrus and Isaiah's son; in the New Testament, John the Baptist and Jesus.
Isaac's beautiful and suggestive name, "he laughed," commemorates the two laughings at the promise of God - the laughing of the father's joy and the laughing of Sarah's incredulity which soon passed into penitence and faith (Gen. 21:6). Isaac was the child of the covenant, "I will establish My covenant with him." To three patriarchs in succession was this covenant specifically given: to Abraham, as he left Chaldea (Gen. 12:3); to Isaac, when in Canaan during the famine (Gen. 26:4 ); to Jacob, at Bethel (Gen. 28:14). Isaac, however, was the first to inherit the covenant, and to him God gave the whole inheritance of Abraham (Gen. 24:35).
We have no record of Isaac's early life apart from the fact that he was circumcised when eight days of age (Gen. 21:4). Doubtless as a lad he became God's child in heart and life, ever mindful of the covenant he was heir to. When, according to Josephus, Isaac was twenty-five years of age, he was taken from Beer-sheba to the land of Moriah, where, as the burnt offering, Abraham presented him to God. While we have Abraham's unquestioning faith in his submission to the divine command to offer up his only son, we must not forget Isaac's supreme confidence in his father and also his willing consent to become the victim ( Gen. 22:12; 26:5; Heb. 11:17). Thus in Isaac we have a type of Him who gave Himself for our sins. From the day of his surrender to death, Isaac became a dedicated man. "The altar sanctified the gift."
When his mother Sarah died, Isaac was a man of thirty-six, and was deeply grieved over the death of his mother. Comfort was his when he took Rebekah as his wife to help fill the vacant place in his heart. To the credit of Isaac it must be said that he was the only one of the patriarchs who had but one wife. It is also perfectly clear from the ancient idyll, one of the most beautiful in all literature, that Isaac left the choice of his wife to God. When the caravan bearing Rebekah neared home, Isaac was in the fields meditating or "praying," as the margin expresses it (Gen. 24:63).
For many years Isaac and Rebekah were childless, but God heard Isaac's prayers and Rebekah gave birth to twins, Jacob and Esau. Isaac seems to have outlived his wife, and died at the age of 180 (Gen. 35:28). For some fifty years Isaac was almost blind, a sad and pitiful lot for God's chosen one.
The character of Isaac, beautiful though it was in many ways, yet carried a few blots. He followed his father, Abraham, in deceitfulness when he called his wife his sister, bringing upon himself the rebuke of Abimelech. He also loved "savoury food," which should have been alien to a man so calm and still, lord of his passion and himself. Then in the matter of Esau and the blessing, Isaac surely rebelled against the Lord's purpose.
Among the commendable features of his character, mention can be made of Isaac's submission (Gen. 22:6, 9); meditation (Gen. 24:63); instinctive trust in God (Gen. 22:7, 8); deep devotion (Gen. 24:67; 25:21); peaceableness (Gen. 26:20-22); prayerfulness (Gen. 26:25); faith ( Heb. 11:16, 17). "The fear of Isaac" (Gen. 31:42, 53), means the God tremblingly adored by the patriarch.
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LOT'S WIFE
Scripture Reference: Genesis 19:15-26; Luke 17:29-33
When Abraham heard that his nephew, Lot, had been taken captive by the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah, he pursued the enemies and freed Lot, and "the women, and the people." Who the women were, Scripture does not say. They may have been Lot's wife and daughters, or Sodomite female servants. The first direct reference we have of Lot's unnamed wife is when the angels came to hasten the family out of doomed Sodom (Genesis 19:15 ). Who she was, of what race and family, of what life and character, by what name she was known, the Bible is silent. All the information we have about her is packed into one short verse, "His wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." Yet we must give attention to her for it is written in burning words by the finger of God -
"Remember Lot's wife."
Some dozen words in the Old Testament, and three words in the New Testament, then, are all we have of this female character.
When, because of strife, Abraham and his nephew, Lot, came to part, Abraham gave Lot the pick of the land before them. Lot selfishly chose the best stretch of the country, "well watered everywhere ... even as the garden of the Lord" (Genesis 13:10). But such a greedy choice had dire consequences. Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom, and before long was in Sodom where its inhabitants "were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly" (Genesis 13:13 ). Lot became a citizen of Sodom, sat at its gate as the city's mayor, and was treated with honor and reverence as a relative of the mighty Abraham who had delivered Sodom from the Elamite invasion. While Peter speaks of Lot as being just and of having a righteous soul vexed with the filthy lives of the Sodomites (2 Peter 2:7-9), he yet somehow closed his eyes to the wickedness of the people, married a woman of Sodom and consented for his two daughters born in Sodom to marry Sodomites.
Sodom was such a cesspool of iniquity that God said He would destroy it. But because of Lot's presence in the city Abraham interceded for its preservation. If only there had been ten righteous people in it God said the city would be spared. The only apparent righteous person in it - whose righteousness had been made ineffective through compromise - was Lot. So the two angels came to deliver Lot and his family from the terrible judgment about to fall on Sodom. They were entertained overnight, and Lot's wife doubtless shared in the hospitality shown. Early the next morning the angels sought to hasten Lot and his family out of the city, but they lingered. They were loathe to leave the luxury, pleasure, and sin of Sodom, so the angelic deliverers had to remove them forcibly from the city and compel them to escape for their life.
The account of the tragedy is briefly related. As fire and brimstone out of heaven fell upon Sodom, Lot's wife looked back from behind her husband. In oriental countries it was the rule for the wife to walk some distance behind her husband, but as Lot's wife lingered and looked back she was overtaken by sulphurous vapors, and, encrusted with salt, perished where she stood. Entombed as a pillar, she became "as a monument of an unbelieving soul" in a desolate region, "of whose wickedness even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony" (Wisdom 10:7 ). The wife of Lot looked back upon her own city with regrets at having to part with its sinful pleasures. She had been compelled to leave Sodom as a city, but all that Sodom represented was very much in her heart.
All the while Lot's wife was in Sodom, its "filthy communications" soaked into her soul, so much so that when the angel of mercy sought to save her from the angel of judgment, she could not be saved. In the look back to Sodom was regret for all she was leaving for an unknown life before her, and as she sighed the salt air whitened her body into marble, and "nature made for her at once a grave and a monument." "She became a pillar of salt," and in that word we have a symbol of character as well as a monument of destiny. A pillar of salt is the picture of many a society woman today. All the sweet blood of a true woman's heart has become brackish by the life she leads. Instead of a woman, you have only a pillar of salt. In Sodom, Lot's wife lived in pleasure but was dead as she lived. As the wife of a righteous man, she had a name to live, but the gay life of Sodom asphyxiated her soul. Thus when the warning voice of God sounded in her ear, she may have heard it but did not heed it. Sodom with its society and sin had been her whole life.
When dealing with the truth of His Second Advent, our Lord used the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot's deliverance from their destruction as an illustration of His emancipation of His own from the catastrophe to overtake a godless world, and warns believers to remember Lot's wife and not linger, look, and be lost. As those who wait His coming we are not to look back nor draw back, but look up for our redemption draweth nigh. How arrestive is Christ's exhortation! "Remember Lot's wife." Mary's one act of piety in breaking her alabaster box of precious spikenard brought her a perpetual memorial, and in like manner the one tragic act of Lot's wife brought her a different kind of remembrance. For all who preach the Gospel what an appeal for immediate decision there is in the urgent summons of the angels to Lot and his family, "Escape for thy life, look not behind thee ... lest thou be consumed." That stirring evangelistic hymn has led many a sinner to escape to the arms of the Saviour -
The Gospel bells give warning,
As they sound from day to day,
Of the fate which doth await them
Who forever will delay -
Escape thou for thy life;
Tarry not in all the plain.
Nor behind thee look, oh, never,
Lest thou be consumed in pain.
As they sound from day to day,
Of the fate which doth await them
Who forever will delay -
Escape thou for thy life;
Tarry not in all the plain.
Nor behind thee look, oh, never,
Lest thou be consumed in pain.
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Today's reading: Genesis 41-42, Matthew 12:1-23 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Genesis 41-42
Pharaoh's Dreams
1 When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile, 2 when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. 3After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank. 4 And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
5 He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk. 6After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted--thin and scorched by the east wind. 7 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream....
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 12:1-23
Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. 2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath."
3 He answered, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread--which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests. 5Or haven't you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent? 6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here. 7 If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the innocent. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath...."
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