Following World War one, London had responsibility for the land that is now Israel's. The Balfour Declaration promised to Jewry that that land would be theirs, with a caveat .. "His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country" Which Israel honours by being a modern democracy. Following WW1, London did not honour the agreement, and the League of Nations did not facilitate it. In the years leading into WW2, when it was known Jews were being exterminated by Hitler in Germany, London, her king, the US President and many other notable figures turned their backs on Jews begging for a land of their own.
Israel was reborn in 1948, on the 15th May. They were invaded by neighbouring states the next day. They have fought several wars since. Part of the extra land claimed since '48 has been necessary to secure her borders. Jordan came into being in '48 too, being a successor state to the Ottoman Empire. During the '48 war with Israel, Jordan illegally annexed the west bank. In later years, a civil war in Jordan resulted in some Jordanians calling themselves Palestinians. The name 'Palestinian' was chosen for political purposes, but gives the Roman name for the Jewish kingdom in ancient times. Israel secured the land in '68 and '73 and have required it ever since.
The Land would have been indisputably Israel's by law, but the UN during the cold war had two imperatives preventing it. The Soviet Union had politically exploited the area isolating the US as Israel supporters, and the US embraced Saudi Arabia to prove they were independent. The fractured Islamic world was then exploited by the Soviet Union and wealthy Islamists. When the Soviet's dissolved, the UN had had set pieces isolating Israel. One set piece was to label Jordanians calling themselves Palestinians as refugees and instructing Israel to give up her own land to the refugees. Even though that land was being used by terrorists who weren't refugees. Another set piece had the UN declaring that any child to a so called Palestinian refugee would not be called Israeli. this is different to every other refugee camp in the world. Any child born in Australia is Australian (unless the ALP wish to call them something else).
Today, Israel allows all peoples of any faith to live in Israel. But the UN run Palestinian areas is ethnically cleansed. Israel has been forced to allow terrorists to live in Jerusalem and damage their holiest monument. They have been forced to release killers from prison 'for peace.' Israel has been forced to not build settlements in their own land. Absurdly, the safest place for a Muslim in the world is Israel, because they are not targeted by other Muslims in Israel. And yet Obama has approved building a nuclear power plant in Iran capable of harvesting plutonium for an atom bomb.
I am not Jewish, but I stand with Israel against terrorism. Israel has a right to exist as a modern democracy and thrive as a whole nation. Israel has a right to defend her peoples from terror. Israel has a right to Jerusalem as her capital. Should Israel decide to rebuild her temple, she should. I don't mind people disagreeing with me, but I insist they give argument addressing these points, not mere abuse.
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Happy birthday and many happy returns Aaron Haider and Bobby Lam. Born on the same day, across the years, along with
- 398 or 399 – Pulcheria, Byzantine empress and saint (d. 453)
- 1676 – John Weldon, English composer (d. 1736)
- 1736 – James Watt, Scottish engineer (d. 1819)
- 1737 – Giuseppe Millico, Italian castrato, composer, and educator (d. 1802)
- 1807 – Robert E. Lee, American general (d. 1870)
- 1808 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
- 1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet (d. 1849)
- 1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
- 1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (d. 1883)
- 1935 – Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1978)
- 1939 – Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Everly Brothers) (d. 2014)
- 1942 – Michael Crawford, English actor and singer
- 1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (d. 1970)
- 1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
- 1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
- 1994 – Matthias Ginter, German footballer
Matches
- 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of theRoman Empire.
- 639 – Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy gets crowned.
- 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
- 1661 – Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
- 1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
- 1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
- 1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
- 1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.
- 1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
- 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
- 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenvalwill end unsuccessfully the following day.
- 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
- 1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
- 1935 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
- 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
- 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation
- 1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel.
- 1953 – 71.7% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
- 1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by theSoviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.
- 1974 – China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
- 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
- 1977 – Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas.
- 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
- 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
- 1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
- 2007 – Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
Despatches
- 520 – John of Cappadocia
- 639 – Dagobert I, Frankish king (b. 603)
- 1853 – Karl Faber, German historian (b. 1773)
- 2000 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and mathematician (b. 1913)
- 2004 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
Greens don’t have a prayer of replacing God
Piers Akerman – Saturday, January 18, 2014 (11:27pm)
BEREFT of significant nation-building policies, acting Greens leader Richard di Natale, has launched a crusade to axe the Lord’s Prayer from the formal opening of parliamentary sittings.
Continue reading 'Greens don’t have a prayer of replacing God'STABILIDY AND SECURIDY IN THE REGION
Tim Blair – Sunday, January 19, 2014 (1:14am)
A packed house for Julia Gillard’s big Dubai speech:
Three mentions of V8 Supercars (from 9:15). Maybe Tim wrote the speech. To Gillard’s credit, she did stand up for Israel while endorsing Palestinian independence. All the chicks in the crowd loved it:
Gillard barely touched on women’s issues during her speech, but there was this answer to a question (at 1:07:40) from a New Zealand student who asked about female representation in Middle Eastern politics:
Three mentions of V8 Supercars (from 9:15). Maybe Tim wrote the speech. To Gillard’s credit, she did stand up for Israel while endorsing Palestinian independence. All the chicks in the crowd loved it:
Gillard barely touched on women’s issues during her speech, but there was this answer to a question (at 1:07:40) from a New Zealand student who asked about female representation in Middle Eastern politics:
Ah, well, ah, it, you know, it’s, ah, not, not for me, ah, to, ah, you know, determine how, ah, countries and individuals determine these issues …
So much for her vow to “call out misogyny and sexism wherever I see it”.
(Via That Old Stone in the Shoe)
HOOROO HIROO
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 18, 2014 (5:44pm)
A Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle for 29 years after World War II has died at 91:
Hiroo Onoda was one of about 60 soldiers who fought on from their jungle strongholds after the war, refusing to believe that the Japanese empire had been defeated.The former army intelligence officer spent three decades waging his own guerrilla war on Lubang Island in the north-western Philippines.In 1974 he laid down his arms, but only after his former commanding officer returned and personally ordered him to do so.
How did Hiroo remain so completely oblivious to the war’s end and subsequent global developments during his decades in hiding?
For information, he would listen to a stolen shortwave radio. His favourite broadcast was ABC Radio Australia.
(Via CL)
SIDE CHOSEN
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 18, 2014 (5:41pm)
The Courier-Mail‘s gullible Paul Syvret seems upset by a lack of boats:
If I was Indonesia I’d now be tempted to provide naval escorts for refugee boats to the edge of Aust waters
ANNITA WHO?
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 18, 2014 (5:38pm)
To celebrate Paul Keating’s 70th birthday, Fairfax’s Jacqueline Maley files 1730 words of love about the “incredibly warm, intensely loyal, incredibly funny’’ former Labor Prime Minister, who “has read everything, listened to everything and sometimes, it seems, knows everything.”
Maley doesn’t mention Keating’s former wife Annita, to whom he was married for 23 years before dumping her at a dinner party.
HARVEY AND MERYL VERSUS THE NRA
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 18, 2014 (3:59pm)
US firearms manufacturers may as well shut down right away:
Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein has revealed plans to expose the National Rifle Association in a new movie starring Meryl Streep, saying “they’re going to wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them” …Weinstein said the movie would do so much damage to gun manufacturers that their stocks would “crash and burn” upon its release.
Interestingly, Weinstein is “one of the strongest supporters of President Barack Obama”, who happens to behistory’s greatest gun salesman. Readers may be familiar with Weinstein’s production of films such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Rambo, none of which feature any firearms or glorify violence in any way.
CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE
Tim Blair – Saturday, January 18, 2014 (2:05pm)
Andrew Bolt smugly dismisses claims that Sydney is suffering a frightening global-warming induced heatwave. Well,what do you say to this, Mr Gaia-Hating Denier Man?
A happy and confident man should speak faster
Andrew Bolt January 19 2014 (7:56am)
Tony Abbott’s speech
patterns as Prime Minister are to some extent a metaphor for his first
months in office - much caution, but too little identity:
===Mr Abbott speaks 100 words a minute slower in media interviews than he did in opposition, and also speaks in a more monotone voice, according to Cate Madill, the director of the voice research laboratory at the University of Sydney’s faculty of health sciences…
Her analysis found his interview responses dropped from 216 words a minute to 108 words a minute…
‘’There is always a balance between authority and spontaneity, but the hard part is you risk losing the sense of who you are, and that was what Julia Gillard suffered from. I think he’s now on a par with her wooden presentation style...”
The gobal warming faith sees warming even in ice
Andrew Bolt January 19 2014 (7:31am)
Global warming is actually a faith. Let Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Professor of Theology at the snow-bound Chicago Theological Seminary, demonstrate:
Hell is normally depicted as a “lake of fire,” as in Revelation 20:10. This week in the Midwest, however, Hell is likely to look more like lakes of ice, as dangerous cold from a polar vortex, brings “wind chills [that] could hit 50, 60 or even 70 below zero.” The Great Lakes will likely freeze over and prolong an already very cold winter.When freezing is warming, emissions a “sin against the creation”, and “the climate is where the weird things are” you know you have left the world of reason and facts no longer count. You will not change such a believer’s faith until hell freezes over, and, as we see, probably not even then.
This is the chilling effect of global warming…
Simply put, the Christian theological argument must start with our sinful failure to take care of the creation, as God intends (Gen. 2:15). Instead, we are trashing the planet and changing its climate primarily through the fossil fuel emissions.
Sin against the creation abounds…
The climate is where the weird things are. You may not know the cause, but everybody knows the weather sure has gotten weird. Weird is threatening. Weird is scary.
And you should be scared.
In history, artists have portrayed scenes of the fiery Hell as very scary. Today, there is a Hell coming toward us, but it is a frigid apocalypse, brought on by our own sinful disregard of the planet.
The future prospects are chilling.
UPDATE
Professor David Deming, a geophysicist, responds to the babbling of a Brooks:
Global warming is nowhere to be found. The mean global temperature has not risen in 17 years and has been slowly falling for approximately the past 10 years…(Via Watts Up With That.)
At the end of the first week in January, a brutal spell of cold weather settled over most of the country. Multiple cold-temperature records were shattered across the country… . Chicago and New York City broke temperature records set in 1894 and 1896, respectively…
Weather extremes also seem to bring out the lunatic fringe… We were subjected to the oxymoronic explanation that frigid weather was, in fact, caused by global warming. According to Time magazine, cold temperatures in the United States were a result of global warming forcing the polar vortex southward. But in 1974, the same Time informed us that descent of the polar vortex into temperate zones was a harbinger of a new Ice Age.
Gillard can’t shout “misogynist” in Arabic
Andrew Bolt January 19 2014 (7:04am)
Julia Gillard in 2012 in Canberra, smearing Tony Abbott as a woman-hater:
(Via Tim Blair.)
===Enough is enough… When I see sexism and misogyny, I’m gonna call ‘em for what they are.Gillard in 2014 in Abu Dhabi, where raped women are jailed for adultery:
Gillard barely touched on women’s issues during her speech, but there was this answer to a question (at 1:07:40) from a New Zealand student who asked about female representation in Middle Eastern politics:It’s remarkable what people are prepared to overlook when they sense a future on the UN circuit.
Ah, well, ah, it, you know, it’s, ah, not, not for me, ah, to, ah, you know, determine how, ah, countries and individuals determine these issues …
(Via Tim Blair.)
Why do we fund men who censor poets for their political connections?
Andrew Bolt January 18 2014 (6:23pm)
The taxpayer-funded Overland magazine decides to ban poets who are published in the politically conservative Quadrant.
Poetry editor Peter Minter declares he does not “wish to have any
association with the authors of a journal edited by Keith Windschuttle”.
How McCarthyist. It is bizarre how intolerant the Left can be while claiming to represent the politics of tolerance. Imagine what such people would if granted real power. Or just think the Union of Soviet Writers.
Question is, why does the state fund a literary magazine which punishes poets for their political associations? And how feeble is Overland to challenge conservatives not with argument but with bans on the poets they support? The very antithesis of intellectual engagement. The very seeds of totalitarianism.
UPDATE
Turns out Minter also has a very fashionable academic position - one that is almost a parody of modern Leftism, involving issues it is now legally dangerous to publicly satirise:
Whoever wrote his CV does not have a way with words.
UPDATE
Minter’s crude shutting down of debate is in breach of the Australia Council’s objectives for funding this magazine with our taxes:
But don’t expect the politically loaded panel responsible for the grants to bother too much about this punishment of poets with conservative ties.
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Reader Andrew V:
===How McCarthyist. It is bizarre how intolerant the Left can be while claiming to represent the politics of tolerance. Imagine what such people would if granted real power. Or just think the Union of Soviet Writers.
Question is, why does the state fund a literary magazine which punishes poets for their political associations? And how feeble is Overland to challenge conservatives not with argument but with bans on the poets they support? The very antithesis of intellectual engagement. The very seeds of totalitarianism.
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Turns out Minter also has a very fashionable academic position - one that is almost a parody of modern Leftism, involving issues it is now legally dangerous to publicly satirise:
Dr Peter Minter is Coordinator of the Indigenous Australian Studies Major and Coordinator of Honours in Indigenous Australian Studies. He is an ARC Chief Investigator on the “AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource” consortium, contributing to the national “BlackWords” Aboriginal literature digital humanities infrastructure project.
Dr Minter’s teaching and research interests are in Australian Aboriginal Literature and Australian Literature…
A leading Australian poet, editor and scholar, Dr Minter’s expertise is concentrated in Indigenous literatures and their interpolations of Australian and transnational modernisms and countermodernisms. His work proposes critical and theoretical affiliations between Indigenous literatures and western cultural formations such as marxism, surrealism, psychoanalysis, economics , ecology, and law. He is particularly interested in comparative and interdisciplinary studies of interactions between Indigenous poetics and cultures of avant-garde experimentalism, the visual arts, cinema, music, resistance politics and ecopoetics.
Whoever wrote his CV does not have a way with words.
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Minter’s crude shutting down of debate is in breach of the Australia Council’s objectives for funding this magazine with our taxes:
The Literature Panel aims are to encourage the writing and reading of Australian literature, to open up opportunities for our writers to earn from their creative work, and to keep the avenues of debate, discussion, analysis and criticism open.
But don’t expect the politically loaded panel responsible for the grants to bother too much about this punishment of poets with conservative ties.
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Reader Andrew V:
Andrew, you don’t seem to mention the point that Joe Dolce, who wrote the original Quadrant piece, is an unabashed leftist, and makes the point that Quadrant have never banned him from posting pieces in other publications, even encouraging him to post pieces too edgy for then in other publications such as the Monthly. Even an old leftie like Joe is now starting to see who the real totalitarians are!
Possums at my feet at last
Andrew Bolt January 18 2014 (6:13pm)
One of the most attractive innovations I saw in New Zealand. As an Australian gardener I would wear these socks with a special pleasure, despite the price.
Green power was useless in this heatwave. Praise coal - and the “gold-plating” Gillard attacked
Andrew Bolt January 18 2014 (1:28pm)
The worst heat often
occurs when there is not a breath of wind, which is a problem if you
rely on wind power for your airconditioning to survive a heat wave:
But this week exposed another fraud of the Left. Julia Gillard as Prime Minister tried to deflect anger at her carbon tax by attacking utilities for their high spending on making our power system able to cope with days of highest demand - typically days like the ones we have just had:
===WHEN electricity demand peaked at the height of this week’s heatwave in southern Australia, the total power output from the fleet of wind farms across Victoria and South Australia was almost zero...And solar power remains more a green gesture than a major source of energy:
Figures supplied by the Australian Energy Market Operator show that between 11.30am and 4pm on Wednesday, as demand hit a daily peak of 33029 megawatts nationally, wind’s share of supply fell as low as 0.3 per cent. When the electricity price peaked at $6213 in South Australian on Wednesday in the half-hour to 4pm, wind was contributing 0.7 per cent to total demand.
More than $2 billion of subsidised investment in over 2 million rooftop solar systems contributed less than 5 per cent of peak power demand in Victoria and South Australia during the worst of this week’s heatwave.This goes straight to the madness of Labor’s crusade against cheap coal-fired power and of the Renewable Energy Target that is still backed by the Abbott Government. Why are we taxing cheap, reliable power and giving handouts to expensive, unreliable power that can’t even power airconditioning in a heatwave?
But this week exposed another fraud of the Left. Julia Gillard as Prime Minister tried to deflect anger at her carbon tax by attacking utilities for their high spending on making our power system able to cope with days of highest demand - typically days like the ones we have just had:
Ms. Gillard pointed her finger at the “gold-plating” of electricity infrastructure being a major driver of price hikes, rather than the carbon price and green initiatives such as supporting the uptake of solar panel systems:I thought it astonishing that so many journalists fell for this red herring. Ask yourself: do you begrudge that investment now? Or would you have been happy for the power in Melbourne and Adelaide to have failed this week, at the cost of who knows how many lives of the elderly and frail?
“These energy price rises are well above the cost of the introduction of the carbon price and taking action on climate change. 9c of every dollar in an electricity bill is for the carbon price - and that’s fully compensated - while 51c is for the poles and wires.”
The Prime Minister also pointed out a quarter of all retail electricity costs is spent to meet the costs of peak events that last for a few days a year.
“One sixth of our national electricity networks - $11 billion in infrastructure - caters for peak events that last for barely four days per year.
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Madu Odiokwu Pastorvin
Today,choose to live with an attitude of expectancy. Get your hopes up. Start by taking captive any negative thoughts you may have. As you focus on God’s goodness and faithfulness, you’ll feel that hope inside you growing. You’ll give your faith a target, and you’ll move confidently into the blessings and peace the Lord has in store for you.
PRAY.
Father, today I surrender every thought to You. I choose to release my cares and concerns so that I can focus on Your goodness in my life. Thank You for the gift of faith to see the impossible become possible as I continue to place my hope and confidence in You in Jesus’ name, Amen.
PRAY.
Father, today I surrender every thought to You. I choose to release my cares and concerns so that I can focus on Your goodness in my life. Thank You for the gift of faith to see the impossible become possible as I continue to place my hope and confidence in You in Jesus’ name, Amen.
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So many people today are depressed and discouraged simply because they only focus on their present circumstances. They’re constantly dwelling on their problems, what they don’t have, and what’s wrong with them. They don’t realize it, but they’re allowing the enemy to steal their hope. This negative frame of mind is what keeps people from moving forward in life.
Understand today that faith is confidence and assurance about the things we hope for according to the promises of God. Like an arrow, your faith points to the target of hope. If you don’t have hope, that arrow of faith will just drop to the ground. It won’t accomplish anything. But when you keep your hopes up, when you keep expecting and believing, it’s as if that target gets larger and larger — easier to hit.The Scripture say,"Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.”(Hebrews 11:1) I urge you today to Give Your Faith a Target.God bless you.
Understand today that faith is confidence and assurance about the things we hope for according to the promises of God. Like an arrow, your faith points to the target of hope. If you don’t have hope, that arrow of faith will just drop to the ground. It won’t accomplish anything. But when you keep your hopes up, when you keep expecting and believing, it’s as if that target gets larger and larger — easier to hit.The Scripture say,"Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.”(Hebrews 11:1) I urge you today to Give Your Faith a Target.God bless you.
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PRAY ALONG.
Father in heaven, today I surrender every difficulty to You. I release the questions, hurts and frustrations. I choose to trust You and do the right thing. Increase Your strength in me so that I can live in the victory You have in store for me in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Father in heaven, today I surrender every difficulty to You. I release the questions, hurts and frustrations. I choose to trust You and do the right thing. Increase Your strength in me so that I can live in the victory You have in store for me in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Joseph went through seasons of difficulty. He was rejected by his family, sold into slavery, lied about, mistreated, abandoned, falsely accused and thrown in jail. But through it all, Joseph never gave up. He kept pressing through and doing the right thing even though the wrong thing kept happening. The Bible says in Psalm 105 verse 18 that as Joseph lay in prison in those chains of iron, his soul entered into that iron. In other words, as Joseph just kept on fighting life through, his soul became as strong as that steel. God developed a supernatural strength in him that no one could take away.
If you are going through difficulty today. God wants to increase your strength. He wants to increase your power to overcome. He wants to make your inner man as strong as steel.The Scripture says,“He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound].”(Isaiah 40:29) God bless you.
===If you are going through difficulty today. God wants to increase your strength. He wants to increase your power to overcome. He wants to make your inner man as strong as steel.The Scripture says,“He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound].”(Isaiah 40:29) God bless you.
Pastor Rick Warren
Great gifts
great talent
great freedom
great advantages
great opportunities
come with
great responsibility.
See Luke 12:48
Photo: Volcano lava flow at night in Hawaii
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Stop judging how far people still have to go. Start celebrating how far they've come.
See Romans 14:1
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"Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down" Col. 4:6 (Mes)
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It's nonsense that you must always agree with people to #love them. I often disagree with people I deeply love. I married one!
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Matt Granz
Campo 2010
Best Viewed LARGE... (click on the image)
Something for all my chaser friends currently suffering from SDS (Storm Deprivation Syndrome). A different view of the famous Campo, Colorado tornado as seen from about 20 miles away with a 200mm lens.
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Cinnamon and Honey
Honey is the only food on the planet that will not spoil or rot. It will do what some call turning to sugar. In reality honey is always honey.. However, when left in a cool dark place for a long time it will do what I rather call "crystallizing" . When this happens I loosen the lid, boil some water, and sit the honey container in the hot water,turn off the heat and let it liquefy. It is then as good as it ever was. Never boil honey or put it in a microwave. To do so will kill the enzymes in the honey.
Cinnamon and Honey
Bet the drug companies won't like this one getting around. Facts on Honey and Cinnamon: It is found that a mixture of honey and Cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also accept honey as a 'Ram Ban' (very effective) medicine for all kinds of diseases. Honey can be used without any side effects for any kind of diseases.
Today's science says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic patients. Weekly World News, a magazine in Canada , in its issue dated 17 January,1995 has given the following list of diseases that can be cured by honey and cinnamon as researched by western scientists:
HEART DISEASES:
Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread, instead of jelly and jam, and eat it regularly for breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack. Also, those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack. Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat. In America and Canada , various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins.
ARTHRITIS:
Arthritis patients may take daily, morning and night, one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured. In a recent research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain, and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.
BLADDER INFECTIONS:
Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it. It destroys the germs in the bladder.
CHOLESTEROL:
Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a cholesterol patient, was found to reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10 percent within two hours. As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken three times a day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to information received in the said Journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complaints of cholesterol.
COLDS:
Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for three days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold, and clear the sinuses.
UPSET STOMACH:
Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.
GAS:
According to the studies done in India and Japan , it is revealed that if Honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.
IMMUNE SYSTEM:
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of Honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacterial and viral diseases.
INDIGESTION:
Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.
INFLUENZA:
A scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ' Ingredient' which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu..
LONGEVITY:
Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests the ravages of old age. Take four spoons of honey, one spoon of cinnamon powder, and three cups of water and boil to make like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, three to four times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans also increase and even a 100 year old, starts performing the chores of a 20-year-old.
PIMPLES:
Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.
SKIN INFECTIONS:
Applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections.
WEIGHT LOSS:
Daily in the morning one half hour before breakfast on an empty stomach, and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup of water. If taken regularly, it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also, drinking this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.
CANCER:
Recent research in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully. Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month three times a day.
FATIGUE:
Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful rather than being detrimental to the strength of the body. Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts, are more alert and flexible. Dr. Milton, who has done research, says that a half tablespoon of honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3:00 P.M. when the vitality of the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of the body within a week.
BAD BREATH:
People of South America , first thing in the morning, gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.
HEARING LOSS:
Daily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in equal parts restores hearing. Remember when we were kids? We had toast with real butter and cinnamon sprinkled on it!
www.naturalnews.com
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Snowden? Wikileaks?
This is even bigger!
#Spotlighting has found the plans of the "Zionist Lobby" and exposes them here for the first time ever!
#Snowden #WikiLeaks #ZionistLobby#KushMirInTuches #Gefilte
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By early 2011, writes former defense secretary Robert Gates, he had concluded that President Obama “doesn’t believe in his own [Afghanistan] strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his.”
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For there to be peace in the Middle East, peace must be taught.
Sadly, Palestinian television shows and leaders continue to promote hate and violence against Jews and Israel.
When a terrorist is a hero, can there ever be peace?
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Inspect it before they bomb it or is Bibi just full of hot air ?
Ask yourself why a nation with more oil than you can point a stick at needs nuclear energy in one of the most earthquake prone zones in the world ?
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January 19: Theophany (Julian calendar)
- 649 – War against the Western Turks: The forces ofKucha surrendered after a siege led by Tang Dynastygeneral Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
- 1746 – During the Second Jacobite Rising, Bonnie Prince Charlie (pictured) occupied the town of Stirling, Scotland, but failed to capture its castle.
- 1862 – American Civil War: In their first significant victory, Unionforces defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Mill Springs near modern Nancy, Kentucky.
- 1917 – Approximately 50 tons of TNT exploded at a munitions factory in Silvertown in West Ham, present-day Greater London, killing over 70 people and injuring over 400 others.
- 1996 – A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, US, spilling an estimated 828,000 US gallons (3,130,000 l) of home heating oil.
Events[edit]
- 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of theRoman Empire.
- 639 – Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy gets crowned.
- 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang Dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
- 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
- 1511 – Mirandola surrenders to the French.
- 1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
- 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
- 1661 – Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
- 1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
- 1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
- 1795 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
- 1806 – The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
- 1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
- 1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
- 1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.
- 1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
- 1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
- 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
- 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenvalwill end unsuccessfully the following day.
- 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
- 1893 – Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
- 1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
- 1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
- 1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
- 1917 – Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
- 1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
- 1935 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
- 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
- 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
- 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
- 1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel.
- 1953 – 71.7% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
- 1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
- 1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by theSoviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.
- 1974 – China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
- 1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
- 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
- 1977 – Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas.
- 1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
- 1981 – Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
- 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
- 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
- 1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
- 1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
- 1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
- 1995 – After being struck by lightning the crew are forced to ditch Bristow Flight 56C. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
- 1996 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
- 1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
- 1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
- 2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
- 2007 – Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
- 2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
- 2013 – A failed attempt to assassinate Ahmed Dogan, chairman of the Bulgarian political party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, on live television is foiled by security guards.
Births[edit]
- 398 or 399 – Pulcheria, Byzantine empress and saint (d. 453)
- 1544 – Francis II of France, French monarch (d. 1560)
- 1676 – John Weldon, English composer (d. 1736)
- 1721 – Jean-Philippe Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
- 1736 – James Watt, Scottish engineer (d. 1819)
- 1737 – Giuseppe Millico, Italian castrato, composer, and educator (d. 1802)
- 1739 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect, designed Longford Hall and Barrells Hall (d. 1808)
- 1752 – James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820)
- 1757 – Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (d. 1831)
- 1788 – Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
- 1790 – Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
- 1798 – Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
- 1807 – Robert E. Lee, American general (d. 1870)
- 1808 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
- 1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet (d. 1849)
- 1813 – Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (d. 1898)
- 1832 – Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1875)
- 1833 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872)
- 1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
- 1848 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1904)
- 1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (d. 1883)
- 1851 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
- 1863 – Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941)
- 1871 – Dame Gruev, Bulgarian revolutionary, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1906)
- 1874 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (d. 1922)
- 1876 – Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (d. 1943)
- 1876 – Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet (d. 1899)
- 1878 – Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1934)
- 1879 – Boris Savinkov, Russian author and terrorist (d. 1925)
- 1887 – Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (d. 1943)
- 1889 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1943)
- 1892 – Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1964)
- 1893 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist (d. 1986)
- 1905 – Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (d. 1991)
- 1908 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Soviet mathematician (d. 1971)
- 1909 – Hans Hotter, German opera singer (d. 2003)
- 1911 – Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (d. 2009)
- 1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Soviet economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1913 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
- 1914 – Bob Gerard, English race car driver (d. 1990)
- 1917 – John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005)
- 1918 – John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Bernard Dunstan, English painter
- 1920 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian diplomat, 5th Secretary-General of the United Nations
- 1921 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
- 1922 – Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
- 1923 – Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
- 1924 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
- 1924 – Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Nina Bawden, English author (d. 2012)
- 1926 – George Ives, American actor (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Jim Line, American basketball player (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (d. 2013)
- 1926 – Fritz Weaver, American actor
- 1930 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
- 1931 – Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American journalist and author
- 1932 – Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
- 1932 – Richard Lester, American-English director
- 1933 – George Coyne, American priest, astronomer, and theologian
- 1934 – Lloyd Robertson, Canadian journalist
- 1935 – Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor
- 1935 – Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1978)
- 1936 – Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 7th President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
- 1937 – Princess Birgitta of Sweden
- 1937 – Fred J. Lincoln, American porn director, producer, screenwriter, actor, editor and cinematographer (d. 2013)
- 1937 – John Lions, Australian computer scientist (d. 1998)
- 1937 – Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter
- 1937 – Appadurai Muttulingam, Sri Lankan Tamil author
- 1939 – Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Everly Brothers) (d. 2014)
- 1940 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge (d. 1992)
- 1940 – Mike Reid, English comedian, actor, and author (d. 2007)
- 1941 – Tony Anholt, Singaporean-English actor (d. 2002)
- 1941 – Colin Gunton, English theologian (d. 2003)
- 1941 – Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler
- 1942 – Michael Crawford, English actor and singer
- 1942 – Thom Mayne, American architect, designed the San Francisco Federal Building and Phare Tower
- 1942 – Paul-Eerik Rummo, Estonian poet and politician
- 1942 – John Stanley, English politician
- 1943 – Petchara Chaowarat, Thai actress
- 1943 – Larry Clark, American writer and film director
- 1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (d. 1970)
- 1943 – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
- 1944 – Shelley Fabares, American actress
- 1944 – Laurie London, English singer
- 1944 – Peter Lynch, American businessman
- 1944 – Dan Reeves, American football player and coach
- 1945 – Trevor Williams, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Audience and The Nashville Teens)
- 1946 – Julian Barnes, English author
- 1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1947 – Frank Aarebrot, Norwegian political scientist
- 1947 – Christine Allsopp, English Anglican priest former Archdeacon of Northampton,
- 1947 – Ann Compton, American journalist
- 1947 – Paula Deen, American chef and author
- 1947 – Rod Evans, English singer-songwriter (Deep Purple and Captain Beyond)
- 1947 – Patricia Hodgson, English broadcasting executive
- 1948 – Amanda Holden, English musician and librettist
- 1948 – Frank McKenna, Canadian politician and diplomat, 27th Premier of New Brunswick
- 1948 – Mal Reilly, English rugby player and coach
- 1949 – Arend Langenberg, Dutch voice actor and radio host (d. 2012)
- 1949 – Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Power Station) (d. 2003)
- 1949 – Lindsay Roy, British politician
- 1949 – Andrew Samuels, English psychoanalist and writer
- 1949 – Dennis Taylor, Irish snooker player
- 1950 – Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor
- 1950 – Jon Matlack, American baseball player
- 1950 – Grant Nordman, American-Canadian politician
- 1950 – David Tredinnick, English politician
- 1951 – Graham James English Anglican Bishop of Norwich
- 1951 – Arthur Taxier, American actor
- 1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
- 1953 – Linda Hayden, English actress
- 1953 – Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician
- 1954 – Katey Sagal, American actress
- 1954 – Cindy Sherman, American photographer
- 1954 – Katharina Thalbach, German actress and director
- 1955 – Tony Mansfield, English songwriter, musician and record producer
- 1955 – Simon Rattle, English conductor
- 1955 – Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American actor and comedian
- 1956 – Carman, American singer-songwriter, actor, and television host
- 1957 – Ottis Anderson, American football player
- 1957 – Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician, 13th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico
- 1958 – Thomas Kinkade, American painter (d. 2012)
- 1959 – Jeff Pilson, American bass player, songwriter, and actor (Dokken, Dio, and Foreigner)
- 1961 – William Ragsdale, American actor
- 1961 – Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer and co-founder of Red or Dead
- 1962 – Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
- 1962 – Chris Sabo, American baseball player
- 1962 – Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball coach
- 1963 – Michael Adams, American basketball player
- 1963 – Martin Bashir, English journalist
- 1963 – John Bercow, English politician and Speaker of the House of Commons (UK)
- 1963 – Caron Wheeler, English singer-songwriter (Soul II Soul)
- 1963 – Luís Martins, Portuguese football coach
- 1964 – Janine Antoni, Bahamian sculptor and photographer
- 1964 – Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer-songwriter and basketball player
- 1966 – Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
- 1966 – Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1966 – DJ Sun, American Musician/DJ
- 1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
- 1966 – Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
- 1967 – Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
- 1968 – Whitfield Crane, American singer-songwriter (Ugly Kid Joe, Medication, Another Animal, and Life of Agony)
- 1969 – Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American author
- 1969 – Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
- 1969 – Predrag Mijatović, Yugoslavian footballer
- 1969 – Junior Seau, American football player (d. 2012)
- 1969 – Casey Sherman, American author
- 1969 – Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
- 1970 – Tim Foster, English rower
- 1970 – Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
- 1970 – Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian and singer (UltraCats)
- 1970 – Steffen Freund, German footballer and coach.
- 1971 – Shawn Wayans, American actor
- 1971 – John Wozniak, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Marcy Playground)
- 1972 – Angham, Egyptian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1972 – Joana Benedek, Mexican actress
- 1972 – Drea de Matteo, American actress
- 1972 – Jon Fisher, American businessman and author
- 1972 – Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
- 1972 – Elena Kaliská, Slovak canoe racer
- 1972 – R-Truth, American wrestler
- 1972 – Troy Wilson, Australian footballer and race car driver
- 1973 – Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
- 1973 – Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer
- 1973 – Aaron Yonda, American comedian, actor, and director
- 1974 – Dainius Adomaitis, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1974 – Frank Caliendo, American comedian
- 1974 – Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 – Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
- 1975 – Noah Georgeson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1975 – Zdeňka Málková, Czech tennis player
- 1976 – Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer
- 1976 – Tarso Marques, Brazilian race car driver
- 1977 – Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor
- 1977 – Cocco, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1977 – Margus Maiste, Estonian architect
- 1977 – Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer
- 1977 – Nicole, Chilean singer-songwriter
- 1979 – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
- 1979 – Josu Sarriegi, Spanish footballer
- 1979 – Wiley, English rapper and producer (Roll Deep)
- 1980 – Jenson Button, English race car driver
- 1980 – Pasha Kovalev, Russian-American dancer
- 1980 – Luke Macfarlane, Canadian actor and singer
- 1980 – Arvydas Macijauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1981 – Asier del Horno, Spanish footballer
- 1981 – Lucho González, Argentine footballer
- 1981 – Dimosthenis Manousakis, Greek footballer
- 1981 – Andrus Mitt, Estonian football and beach soccer player
- 1981 – Jaanus Nõmmsalu, Estonian volleyball player
- 1981 – Kerby Raymundo, Filipino basketball player
- 1981 – Bitsie Tulloch, American actress
- 1982 – Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
- 1982 – Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
- 1982 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress
- 1983 – Hikaru Utada, American-Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
- 1984 – Fabio Catacchini, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Karun Chandhok, Indian race car driver
- 1984 – Jimmy Kebe, Malian footballer
- 1984 – Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Jake Allen, American football player
- 1985 – Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete
- 1985 – Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
- 1985 – Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine race car driver
- 1985 – Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, Ongaku Gatas, v-u-den, and Hangry & Angry)
- 1985 – Aleksandr Nikulin, Russian footballer
- 1986 – Loren Galler-Rabinowitz, American ice dancer
- 1986 – Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Oleksandr Miroshnychenko, Ukrainian footballer
- 1986 – Moussa Sow, Senegalese footballer
- 1987 – Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
- 1987 – Angus Monfries, Australian footballer
- 1988 – JaVale McGee, American basketball player
- 1988 – Yusuke Yamamoto, Japanese actor
- 1991 – Corinna Harrer, German runner
- 1991 – Petra Martić, Croatian tennis player
- 1991 – Erin Sanders, American actress
- 1992 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
- 1992 – Logan Lerman, American actor
- 1992 – Mac Miller, American rapper and producer
- 1993 – Gus Lewis, American-English actor
- 1993 – Erick Torres Padilla, Mexican footballer
- 1994 – Matthias Ginter, German footballer
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Deaths[edit]
- 520 – John of Cappadocia
- 639 – Dagobert I, Frankish king (b. 603)
- 1526 – Isabella of Austria (b. 1501)
- 1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)
- 1576 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (b. 1494)
- 1597 – Maharana Pratap, Indian ruler (b. 1540)
- 1661 – Thomas Venner, English rebel leader (b. 1599)
- 1729 – William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
- 1755 – Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist (b. 1683)
- 1757 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish scholar (b. 1674)
- 1766 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French architect and painter (b. 1695)
- 1785 – Jonathan Toup, English scholar and critic (b. 1713)
- 1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1718)
- 1833 – Ferdinand Hérold, French composer (b. 1791)
- 1847 – Charles Bent, American politician, 1st Governor of New Mexico (b. 1799)
- 1847 – Athanasios Christopoulos, Greek poet (b. 1772)
- 1851 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentine poet and author (b. 1805)
- 1853 – Karl Faber, German historian (b. 1773)
- 1865 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
- 1869 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
- 1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
- 1878 – Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
- 1905 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
- 1906 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine historian and politician, 6th President of Argentina (b. 1821)
- 1915 – Thomas Herbst, German painter (b. 1848)
- 1925 – Maria Sophie of Bavaria (b. 1841)
- 1927 – Carlota of Mexico (b. 1840)
- 1929 – Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
- 1938 – Branislav Nušić, Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1864)
- 1939 – Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
- 1948 – Tony Garnier, French architect, designed the Stade de Gerland (b. 1869)
- 1954 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1885)
- 1957 – József Dudás, Romanian-Hungarian politician and activist (b. 1912)
- 1963 – Clement Smoot, American golfer (b. 1884)
- 1964 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
- 1965 – Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1905)
- 1968 – Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
- 1969 – Jan Palach, Czech activist (b. 1948)
- 1971 – Harry Shields, American clarinet player (b. 1899)
- 1972 – Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
- 1973 – Max Adrian, Irish actor (b. 1903)
- 1975 – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
- 1976 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer (b. 1886)
- 1980 – William O. Douglas, American jurist (b. 1898)
- 1982 – Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
- 1983 – Ham the Chimp, Cameroonian-American chimpanzee (b. 1956)
- 1984 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
- 1987 – Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist (b. 1927)
- 1990 – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian mystic and guru (b. 1931)
- 1990 – Alberto Semprini, English pianist (b. 1908)
- 1990 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
- 1991 – Marcel Chaput, Canadian scientist (b. 1918)
- 1991 – John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
- 1995 – Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
- 1996 – Don Simpson, American actor, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1943)
- 1997 – Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b. 1916)
- 1997 – James Dickey, American poet and author (b. 1923)
- 1998 – Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
- 1999 – Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (b. 1967)
- 2000 – Bettino Craxi, Italian politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
- 2000 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and mathematician (b. 1913)
- 2001 – Dario Vittori, Argentine actor (b. 1921)
- 2003 – Françoise Giroud, French journalist, screenwriter, and politician (b. 1916)
- 2003 – Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (b. 1974)
- 2004 – Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (b. 1917)
- 2004 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
- 2005 – Bill Andersen, New Zealand union leader (b. 1924)
- 2005 – K. Sello Duiker, South African author (b. 1974)
- 2005 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (b. 1976)
- 2006 – Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2006 – Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (The Falcons) (b. 1941)
- 2006 – Awn Alsharif Qasim, Sudanese author and scholar (b. 1933)
- 2006 – Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1921)
- 2007 – Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
- 2007 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
- 2007 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas and The Halifax III) (b. 1940)
- 2007 – Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1969)
- 2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
- 2008 – John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
- 2008 – Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1936)
- 2010 – Jennifer Lyon, American contestant on Survivor: Palau (b. 1972)
- 2010 – Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Ernest McCulloch, Canadian biologist (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Sarah Burke, Canadian skier (b. 1982)
- 2013 – Anatoly Bannik, Ukrainian chess player (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Mehnaz Begum, Pakistani singer (b. 1958)
- 2013 – Milt Bolling, American baseball player (b. 1930)
- 2013 – John Braheny, American singer-songwriter and author (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Happy Fernandez, American politician (b. 1939)
- 2013 – Abderrahim Goumri, Moroccan runner (b. 1976)
- 2013 – Viggo Hagstrøm, Norwegian scholar (b. 1954)
- 2013 – Basil Hirschowitz, American gastroenterologist (b. 1925)
- 2013 – İsmet Hürmüzlü, Iraqi-Turkish actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1938)
- 2013 – Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (b. 1940)
- 2013 – Jim Marking, American basketball coach (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Steven Muller, German-American academic (b. 1927)
- 2013 – Stan Musial, American baseball player (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Frank Pooler, American conductor and composer (b. 1926)
- 2013 – A. Rafiq, Indonesian singer and actor (b. 1948)
- 2013 – Marcel Sisniega Campbell, Mexican chess player (b. 1959)
- 2013 – Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Ian Wells, English footballer (b. 1964)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe (commemorated by the Poe Toaster at his grave in Baltimore)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Confederate Heroes Day (Texas), and its related observance:
- Earliest day on which Husband's Day or Bóndadagur can fall, while January 25 is the latest; celebrated on Friday between 19 and 25 January (Iceland)
- Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty), first day of the 17th month of the Bahá'í calendar (Bahá'í Faith)
- Theophany / Epiphany (Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy), and its related observances:
- Timkat, or 20 during Leap Year (Ethiopian Orthodox)
- Vodici or Baptism of Jesus (Republic of Macedonia)
“No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” - 1 Corinthians 10:13
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
January 18: Morning
"There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." -Hebrews 4:9
How different will be the state of the believer in heaven from what it is here! Here he is born to toil and suffer weariness, but in the land of the immortal, fatigue is never known. Anxious to serve his Master, he finds his strength unequal to his zeal: his constant cry is, "Help me to serve thee, O my God." If he be thoroughly active, he will have much labour; not too much for his will, but more than enough for his power, so that he will cry out, "I am not wearied of the labour, but I am wearied in it." Ah! Christian, the hot day of weariness lasts not forever; the sun is nearing the horizon; it shall rise again with a brighter day than thou hast ever seen upon a land where they serve God day and night, and yet rest from their labours. Here, rest is but partial, there, it is perfect. Here, the Christian is always unsettled; he feels that he has not yet attained. There, all are at rest; they have attained the summit of the mountain; they have ascended to the bosom of their God. Higher they cannot go. Ah, toil-worn labourer, only think when thou shalt rest forever! Canst thou conceive it? It is a rest eternal; a rest that "remaineth." Here, my best joys bear "mortal" on their brow; my fair flowers fade; my dainty cups are drained to dregs; my sweetest birds fall before Death's arrows; my most pleasant days are shadowed into nights; and the flood-tides of my bliss subside into ebbs of sorrow; but there, everything is immortal; the harp abides unrusted, the crown unwithered, the eye undimmed, the voice unfaltering, the heart unwavering, and the immortal being is wholly absorbed in infinite delight. Happy day! happy! when mortality shall be swallowed up of life, and the Eternal Sabbath shall begin.
Evening
"He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself." - Luke 24:27
The two disciples on the road to Emmaus had a most profitable journey. Their companion and teacher was the best of tutors; the interpreter one of a thousand, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. The Lord Jesus condescended to become a preacher of the gospel, and he was not ashamed to exercise his calling before an audience of two persons, neither does he now refuse to become the teacher of even one. Let us court the company of so excellent an Instructor, for till he is made unto us wisdom we shall never be wise unto salvation.
This unrivalled tutor used as his class-book the best of books. Although able to reveal fresh truth, he preferred to expound the old. He knew by his omniscience what was the most instructive way of teaching, and by turning at once to Moses and the prophets, he showed us that the surest road to wisdom is not speculation, reasoning, or reading human books, but meditation upon the Word of God. The readiest way to be spiritually rich in heavenly knowledge is to dig in this mine of diamonds, to gather pearls from this heavenly sea. When Jesus himself sought to enrich others, he wrought in the quarry of Holy Scripture.
The favoured pair were led to consider the best of subjects, for Jesus spake of Jesus, and expounded the things concerning himself. Here the diamond cut the diamond, and what could be more admirable? The Master of the House unlocked his own doors, conducted the guests to his table, and placed his own dainties upon it. He who hid the treasure in the field himself guided the searchers to it. Our Lord would naturally discourse upon the sweetest of topics, and he could find none sweeter than his own person and work: with an eye to these we should always search the Word. O for grace to study the Bible with Jesus as both our teacher and our lesson!
This unrivalled tutor used as his class-book the best of books. Although able to reveal fresh truth, he preferred to expound the old. He knew by his omniscience what was the most instructive way of teaching, and by turning at once to Moses and the prophets, he showed us that the surest road to wisdom is not speculation, reasoning, or reading human books, but meditation upon the Word of God. The readiest way to be spiritually rich in heavenly knowledge is to dig in this mine of diamonds, to gather pearls from this heavenly sea. When Jesus himself sought to enrich others, he wrought in the quarry of Holy Scripture.
The favoured pair were led to consider the best of subjects, for Jesus spake of Jesus, and expounded the things concerning himself. Here the diamond cut the diamond, and what could be more admirable? The Master of the House unlocked his own doors, conducted the guests to his table, and placed his own dainties upon it. He who hid the treasure in the field himself guided the searchers to it. Our Lord would naturally discourse upon the sweetest of topics, and he could find none sweeter than his own person and work: with an eye to these we should always search the Word. O for grace to study the Bible with Jesus as both our teacher and our lesson!
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Benjamin
[Bĕn'jamĭn] - son of the right hand.
1. The youngest son of Jacob and the only one born in Canaan; founder of a tribal family. His mother, Rachel, who died in giving birth to Benjamin, named him with her last breath Benoni "son of sorrow." Jacob changed the name to Benjamin (Gen. 35:18, 24).
The Man Beloved of Jehovah
The prophecy of Jacob regarding Benjamin is short and easily verified. Personal courage and martial temperament, a characteristic of the Benjamites throughout history, are before us in Benjamin as a ravening wolf devouring the prey and dividing the spoil. Benjamin was the last, the bravest and the best-beloved tribe of all the tribes of Israel, the center of the affections of the whole family, and the dwelling place of the beloved of the Lord (Deut. 33:12).
Some Benjamites of the Bible are the second of the Judges, Ehud, Saul, the first of Israel's kings and Saul of Tarsus, who was "not a whit behind the chiefest of the apostles." Although "the smallest of the tribes" (1 Sam. 9:21), Benjamin was not to be despised. Christ came from a small village. In the division of the land, as Joshua records it, Jerusalem was assigned to Benjamin (Josh. 18:28) - a fact referred to by the psalmist, "There is little Benjamin their ruler." Between the shoulders of Benjamin, the God of Israel caused His name to dwell. In Benjamin He "covered Israel all the day long."
The tribe of Benjamin, as the seat of God's love, ought to be the meeting place for all Israel; Jerusalem is so, in a figure. It has open gates for all the tribes of Israel.
2. A son or descendant of Harim who put away his foreign wife (Ezra 10:32).
3. A son of Bilhan and a great-grandson of Benjamin (1 Chron. 7:10).
4. One who took part in the repair of the wall (Neh. 3:23).
5. Another who did the same (Jer. 20:2; 37:13; 38:7; Zech. 14:10).
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Today's reading: Genesis 43-45, Matthew 12:24-50 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Genesis 43-45
The Second Journey to Egypt
1 Now the famine was still severe in the land. 2 So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Go back and buy us a little more food."
3 But Judah said to him, "The man warned us solemnly, 'You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.' 4 If you will send our brother along with us, we will go down and buy food for you. 5 But if you will not send him, we will not go down, because the man said to us, 'You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.'"
6 Israel asked, "Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had another brother?"
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 12:24-50
24 But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, "It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons."
25 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. 26 If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand? 27And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges. 28 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
29 "Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man's house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
30 "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. 31 And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
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