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Happy birthday and many happy returns Particle Dots. Born on the same day, across the years, as
- 1209 – Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, German king (d. 1272)
- 1762 – Constanze Mozart, German wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
- 1855 – King C. Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (d. 1932)
- 1895 – Jeannette Piccard, American priest, and scientist (d. 1981)
- 1914 – George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959)
- 1929 – Russ Manning, American comic book and comic strip artist, created Magnus, Robot Fighter (d. 1981)
- 1932 – Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher and author
- 1932 – Raisa Gorbachova, Russian wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, First Lady of the Soviet Union (d. 1999)
- 1933 – Leonard Marsh, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (d. 2013)
- 1940 – Athol Guy, Australian bassist (The Seekers)
- 1961 – Iris DeMent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 2000 – Patricia Gayod, Filipino actress
Matches
- 1066 – Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England.
- 1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
- 1500 – Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
- 1527 – Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zurich, Switzerland, is executed by drowning.
- 1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France bydrawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
- 1854 – The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.
- 1895 – Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
- 1896 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
- 1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
- 1919 – The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
- 1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.
- 1949 – United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
- 1957 – In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called theEisenhower Doctrine.
- 1968 – Alexander Dubček comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
- 1972 – United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.
- 1976 – The Troubles: In response to the killing of six Catholics the night before, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill inCounty Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK.
Despatches
- 842 – Al-Mu'tasim, Iraqi 8th Abbasid caliph (b. 794)
- 1589 – Catherine de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henry II of France (b. 1519)
- 1941 – Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)
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ABC won’t let facts get in the way of a good rant
Piers Akerman – Saturday, January 04, 2014 (10:58pm)
BEFORE the federal election, both “our” ABC and its ideologically-paired print partner, Fairfax Media, announced they would each launch independent fact checking units to sort out claims made by politicians.
Drink bans won’t stop the violence
Miranda Devine – Saturday, January 04, 2014 (10:58pm)
THE Greengate Hotel is in a quiet tree-lined street in the middle-class north shore suburb of Killara.
It’s a place of trivia nights and chicken schnitzel. Thirty years ago it was dubbed the Teengate because of its appeal as a safe place to learn to drink.
But at 7pm on Christmas Eve it looked like Fort Knox. Cyclone fence ringed the perimeter. Riot police were stationed outside. Patrons lined up to submit themselves to bouncers with metal detectors.
Welcome to a Sydney night out, 2014-style, where police state meets a sunburnt country. Yet the tougher the restrictions, the more lethal the violence. St Vincent’s Hospital recorded one unconscious young man every half-hour on New Year’s Eve, and two devastated families are now standing vigil over two wounded sons felled by a “coward punch” on a night out.
Whatever we’re doing, it’s making things worse.
Whatever we’re doing, it’s making things worse.
As the O’Farrell government scrambles for a solution to alcohol and drug-fuelled violence, liquor licensees are imposing ever more draconian security measures in an effort to comply with Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) rules.
Visitors from the UK are astonished at how strict our pubs and clubs are and yet how violent our drinking culture is.
As any parent or teacher knows, if you treat people like animals, they will behave like animals. So it’s time to make the libertarian case for controlling alcohol violence.
It’s time to question whether authoritarian overreach by authorities has made things more dangerous.
The streets of Kings Cross and the CBD now are clogged from 9pm with angry drunks, who have pre-loaded at home, and then find themselves unable to get into a drinking venue.
All dressed up with nowhere to go, they are repeatedly rejected. It is a recipe for disaster. Or they have a few drinks and are ejected from the controlled environment of a pub or club, where they at least had the incentive of pretending to be well-behaved.
They are spat out into the street to roam around in a foul temper. Inside, drinking establishments have never been safer, with violence at its lowest recorded for 15 years.
Forced into action on threat of extreme financial penalties, pubs and clubs now maintain zero tolerance of intoxication or unrest on their premises.
Bouncers are told to hide in the shadows “to catch patrons who so much as look like sneezing” and eject them immediately, for fear of a licence breach, says a professional bouncer of 20 years, Rob. “Such is the level of hypertension those in the club industry are forced into by the enforcement of regulations and licensing police who set traps to prosecute us and bar staff who contravene the RSA laws.”
The result is that the problem has been forced outside on the street. Clubs and pubs have forsaken the wellbeing of society for the legal protection of their own establishments.
Where a fight might once have broken out in a pub, it was on carpet or such forgiving surface if anyone fell over, and it was broken up immediately.
Publicans are expert at defusing incidents, only calling in police for (or, in less enlightened times, beating the crap out of) a minority of psychopaths. By contrast, young police on the streets seem inexperienced in human psychology.
A Four Corners program last year on alcohol violence showed a female constable using disrespectful language likely to aggravate drunken males.
Allowing publicans to again use their discretion and self-interest to keep the peace would make the streets safer.
Australians have been drinking alcohol to excess for over 200 years. So what else has changed?
Firstly, drinking establishments are open later than ever, leading to long hours of inebriation extending beyond the human capacity to remain rational.
A culture has developed of pre-fuelling before going out late. In previous generations people did their extra boozing or drug-taking at home at the end of the night.
When Professor Tanya Chikritzhs from the National Drug Research Institute studied “the impact of later trading hours for Australian hotels on levels of violent assault” in 2002, she found those which closed at 1am compared to midnight-closers, experienced “a significant increase in assault rates … Greater numbers of patrons and increased levels of intoxication contributed to the observed increase in violence.”
Which is just stating the bleeding obvious.
The Australian Hotels Association claims curtailing drinking hours will wreck Sydney’s reputation as Australia’s “global city”.
Who cares? Would we rather be known as the home of the “coward punch”?
Secondly, violence increases with drug-taking, and as alcohol is demonised, illicit drugs are more available than ever.
A 2008 study by UK’s John Moores University found the use of cocaine by drunks tripled the odds of violence while out drinking and cannabis doubled the odds.
Thirdly, courts are too lenient on habitual violent offenders, such as the perpetrators of recent catastrophic assaults.
“Every single one of the most violent individuals I have encountered over 20 years are repeat offenders,” says bouncer Rob. “Every one has a history of violence. All are either out on bail or have warrants pending. Why are the courts releasing them back into the community to re-offend?”
Decent young people out for a good night are being treated like animals, while the real animals are treated with kid gloves.
Ship of fools hits the inconvenient truth
Miranda Devine – Saturday, January 04, 2014 (6:54pm)
WE should thank the “ship of fools”, as the University of NSW’s climate change scientists, aka “tourists”, have been dubbed after their mission to study melting ice got stuck in record ice in Antarctica.
The mockery their predicament has brought on the entire climate alarm movement will be hard to shake.
Our bumbling explorers are safely aboard the Aurora Australis. But they’ve left a mess.
The Chinese icebreaker which rescued them is now stuck in ice.
Scientific equipment urgently needed by Australia’s Antarctic Division is reportedly languishing on the diverted Aurora. And the taxpayer has to foot the $400,000 bill for the rescue.
It’s been a very expensive joke.
ABC’s NYE show a damp squib
Miranda Devine – Saturday, January 04, 2014 (6:52pm)
THE Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s awful New Year’s Eve broadcast should be the final nail in the coffin for the $230-million-a-year Australia Network.
Our taxpayer money shouldn’t be promoting a crass image of Australia, replete with penis and vomit gags, to our conservative Asian neighbours.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop flagged her displeasure after being bombarded with complaints from expats and diplomats labelling the show “amateurish, crass, insulting, boorish and not funny”.
“The potential for this kind of commentary to be misinterpreted and viewed negatively in parts of Asia is immense,” she said.
Yet the ABC doesn’t care, last week defending the broadcast as “terrific”.
The Artist Formerly Known As Hannah Montana
Miranda Devine – Saturday, January 04, 2014 (5:49pm)
NO joke that Miley Cyrus’s most recent episode in auto-degradation was at a Britney Spears concert in Las Vegas.
The 21-year-old former child star Miley upstaged her fellow former child star-turned-celebrity car-crash, Spears, 32, by dancing on her VIP table and making out with one of the backup dancers.
After “twerking” her way into porn-star notoriety last year, the Artist Formerly Known as Hannah Montana continues to self-destruct, while greedy managers claim it’s all about ironic statements on pop culture.
That’s what they call cries for help from Girl Land these days.
In his coronial ruling, Magistrate Wallace said the contrast between the "original Crocodile Dundee who appeared on television'' and the emaciated drug addict - who weighed just 53kg when he opened fire on police - could hardly be more marked.
"His drug abuse rendered his mind so addled he believed fantasies that a child would dismiss with contempt,'' he said.
"His pointless and destructive actions caused immediate agony and suffering to the men he wounded.''
A dumb urban legend and drugs got him killed .. ed
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Morrissey supports herbivorous animals by eating there food. - ed
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"I'm watching it...I'm just not watching the boring parts where they're talking." (My son talking about a movie.)
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A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. “Your son is here,” she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient’s eyes opened.
Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man’s limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.
The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed. All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man’s hand and offering him words of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest awhile. He refused.
Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital - the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients. Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.
Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited.
Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her, “Who was that man?” he asked.
The nurse was startled, “He was your father,” she answered.
“No, he wasn’t,” the Marine replied. “I never saw him before in my life.”
“Then why didn’t you say something when I took you to him?”
“I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn’t here. When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me, I stayed. I came here tonight to find a Mr. William Grey. His Son was killed in Iraq today, and I was sent to inform him. What was this Gentleman’s Name? “
The nurse with tears in her eyes answered, “Mr. William Grey………”
The next time someone needs you … just be there
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JD: I really hope this guy's face ends up all over the Internet. He shielded a bunch of people from the bomb blast in Volgograd, Russia a few days ago.
He died instantly, but saved a bunch of people's lives. A real hero.
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Complete Classic Movie: In Harm’s Way (1965)
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Stars: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss, Brandon De Wilde, Jill Haworth, Burgess Meredith. A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.
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Israel Defense Forces
Another woman is shattering barriers in the #IDF. Meet Maj. Oshrat Bachar, who will soon become the first woman ever to command an IDF combat battalion. Give her a LIKE & celebrate great strides for women everywhere.
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“When I was about sixteen years old, in prep school, and knew I was losing my childhood faith, I resolved that I would not quit the Catholic church until I knew why I was quitting, that is to say, until I had dissolved the symbols and knew what they referred to and meant. The whole thing wasn’t over until I was twenty-five years old and in Germany. I spent nine years working everything out, and then it just dropped off like a worn-out shirt. That’s the knowing thing. If you don’t know what the hell that symbol is saying to you, then it’s just there as a command, and there is going to be more and more of this hanging on. If you can’t use your mind in this rather complex field, I don’t know how you are going to work it out.
"You become mature when you become the authority for your own life.”
Joseph Campbell, “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”
Nine years to give himself permission. - ed
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Just weather. We talk about it, but never do anything .. ed
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Geo Geller
life is a chess game we have with ourselves
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Manz left written testimony of his faith, an eighteen-stanza hymn, and was apparently the author of Protestation und Schutzschrift (a defense of Anabaptism presented to the Zürich council)>
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All Along The Watchtower
I found a high perch for the post sunset color fest tonight. A nice first post new year's eve photo op.— with Miguel De La Cruz at Panther Beach.
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****#BREAKING_NEWS****
A 16 year old #Arabic female , an eastern#Jerusalem resident - attempted to stab a border police officer stationed at #Jerusalem’s#Damascus Gate Friday evening (1/3/2014) while he was turning his back to check her paperwork.
The suspect, a resident Jabel Mukaber, was arrested immediately following the attack, during which one officer sustained a minor cut to his leg.
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It is a tree of life to those who grasp it, and its supporters are praiseworthy.
PROVERBS (3:18)
עֵץ חַיִּים הִיא לַמַּחֲזִיקִים בָּה וְתֹמְכֶיהָ מְאֻשָּׁר
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Be aware of button pushing during disagreements.
One common way that a person may attempt to sway your opinion is to introduce false isolation. That is, to say, "well everybody thinks what I think, and only you think differently."
"Everybody" may be family, a group of friends, or just a made up "everybody" that doesn't really exist. If you react, not wanting to be the only one left out, then this method of persuasion will be used on you again and again and you will eventually lose confidence in your own thoughts.
It usually comes after you ask for a reason. If there isn't a good one..."everybody else thinks so" seems to get pulled out as if that is a reason. But it's really not. Being aware of this allows you to respond and again ask for a reason, rather than just react and be persuaded against your own true feelings.
While it's good to be open to and consider other peoples opinions when things actually concern and affect them, be careful not to just abandon your own needs and concerns just because you've been told a group thinks otherwise...especially when decisions and outcomes don't even affect them.
Every person has wants, needs, and opinions, and yours are just as valid and important as those of anyone else.
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- 1757 – Louis XV of France survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who later became the last person to be executed in the country by drawing and quartering.
- 1919 – The German Workers' Party, the forerunner to the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler.
- 1941 – Second World War: Australian and British troops defeatedItalian forces in Bardia, Libya, the first battle of the war in which anAustralian Army formation took part.
- 1991 – Georgian troops attacked Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, opening the 1991–92 South Ossetia War.
- 2005 – Eris (pictured), the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, was discovered by a team led by Michael E. Brown using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California.
Events[edit]
- 1066 – Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England.
- 1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
- 1500 – Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
- 1527 – Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zurich, Switzerland, is executed by drowning.
- 1554 – A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
- 1675 – Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.
- 1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France bydrawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
- 1782 – American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts.
- 1846 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
- 1854 – The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.
- 1895 – Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
- 1896 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
- 1900 – Irish leader John Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
- 1909 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
- 1911 – Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
- 1912 – The Prague Party Conference takes place.
- 1913 – First Balkan War: During the Battle of Lemnos, Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
- 1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
- 1919 – The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
- 1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
- 1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
- 1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.
- 1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
- 1945 – The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
- 1949 – United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
- 1957 – In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called theEisenhower Doctrine.
- 1968 – Alexander Dubček comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
- 1969 – The Troubles: The Royal Ulster Constabulary raid the Bogside area of Derry, damaging property and beating residents. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
- 1972 – United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.
- 1974 – An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
- 1974 – Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59 °F (+15 °C) recorded at Vanda Station
- 1975 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
- 1976 – The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
- 1976 – The Troubles: In response to the killing of six Catholics the night before, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill inCounty Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK.
- 1991 – Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War.
- 1993 – The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
- 2005 – Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
Births[edit]
- 1209 – Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, German king (d. 1272)
- 1548 – Francisco Suárez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
- 1587 – Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
- 1592 – Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor (d. 1666)
- 1614 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662)
- 1640 – Paolo Lorenzani, Italian composer (d. 1713)
- 1679 – Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian composer and organist (d. 1750)
- 1717 – William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, English politician (d. 1793)
- 1762 – Constanze Mozart, German wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
- 1767 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (d. 1832)
- 1778 – Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (d. 1813)
- 1779 – Stephen Decatur, American navy officer (d. 1820)
- 1808 – Anton Füster, Austrian priest and activist (d. 1881)
- 1834 – William John Wills, English surgeon and explorer (d. 1861)
- 1838 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
- 1846 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
- 1855 – King C. Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (d. 1932)
- 1864 – Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911)
- 1864 – Ban Johnson, American businessman, founded the Western League (d. 1931)
- 1865 – Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
- 1866 – Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1922)
- 1871 – Frederick Converse, American composer (d. 1940)
- 1874 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
- 1876 – Konrad Adenauer, German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (d. 1967)
- 1879 – Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946)
- 1879 – Marcel Tournier, French harp player and composer (d. 1951)
- 1880 – Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1951)
- 1881 – David Hammond, American swimmer and water polo player
- 1882 – Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist (d. 1958)
- 1885 – Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet (d. 1940)
- 1886 – Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (d. 1976)
- 1893 – Zoltán Böszörmény, Hungarian politician (d. 1945)
- 1893 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)
- 1895 – Elizabeth Cotten, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1987)
- 1895 – Jeannette Piccard, American priest, and scientist (d. 1981)
- 1900 – Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
- 1902 – Hubert Beuve-Méry, French journalist (d. 1989)
- 1902 – Stella Gibbons, English author (d. 1989)
- 1903 – Harold Gatty, Australian navigator (d. 1957)
- 1904 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
- 1904 – Erika Morini, Austrian violinist (d. 1995)
- 1906 – Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist (d. 1978)
- 1908 – George Dolenz, American actor (d. 1963)
- 1909 – Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-American sculptor, painter, and photographer (d. 1995)
- 1909 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)
- 1910 – Hugh Brannum, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1910 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner (d. 1949)
- 1911 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. 2001)
- 1914 – Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (d. 1955)
- 1914 – George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959)
- 1915 – Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian cartographer (d. 2004)
- 1917 – Lucienne Day, English textile designer (d. 2010)
- 1917 – Francis L. Kellogg, American diplomat (d. 2006)
- 1917 – Wieland Wagner, German director (d. 1966)
- 1917 – Jane Wyman, American actress (d. 2007)
- 1919 – Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist (d. 2012)
- 1919 – Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flute player (d. 1992)
- 1920 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
- 1921 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (d. 1990)
- 1921 – Paul Governali, American football player (d. 1978)
- 1921 – Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- 1922 – Anthony Synnot, Australian navy officer (d. 2001)
- 1923 – Glenn Boyer, American historian and author (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Sam Phillips, American record producer, founded Sun Records (d. 2003)
- 1924 – Hamzah Abu Samah, Malaysian politician (d. 2012)
- 1926 – W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Hosea Williams, American businessman and activist (d. 2000)
- 1928 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician, 4th President of Pakistan (d. 1979)
- 1928 – Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States
- 1929 – Wilbert Harrison, American singer-songwriter (d. 1994)
- 1929 – Russ Manning, American comic book and comic strip artist, created Magnus, Robot Fighter (d. 1981)
- 1930 – Al Masini, American television producer (d. 2010)
- 1931 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer, founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (d. 1989)
- 1931 – Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist, poet, and author
- 1931 – Joan Coxsedge, Australian politician
- 1931 – Robert Duvall, American actor and director
- 1932 – Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher and author
- 1932 – Raisa Gorbachova, Russian wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, First Lady of the Soviet Union (d. 1999)
- 1932 – Chuck Noll, American football player and coach
- 1933 – Leonard Marsh, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (d. 2013)
- 1934 – William Bendeck, Bolivian race car driver (d. 1971)
- 1934 – Phil Ramone, South African-American record producer, co-founded A & R Recording (d. 2013)
- 1936 – Florence King, American author and columnist
- 1938 – Juan Carlos I of Spain
- 1938 – Jim Otto, American football player
- 1938 – Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan author
- 1940 – Athol Guy, Australian bassist (The Seekers)
- 1940 – Michael O'Donoghue, American screenwriter (d. 1994)
- 1941 – Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
- 1941 – Bruno Schettino, Italian archbishop (d. 2012)
- 1942 – Jan Ellis, South African rugby player (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Jan Leeming, English journalist
- 1942 – Terenci Moix, Spanish author (d. 2003)
- 1942 – Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist
- 1942 – Charlie Rose, American journalist and talk show host
- 1943 – Mary Gaudron, Australian lawyer and judge
- 1944 – Ed Rendell, American politician, 45th Governor of Pennsylvania
- 1944 – Jo Ann Kelly, English blues singer and guitarist (d. 1990)
- 1945 – Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (d. 1986)
- 1945 – Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-English director
- 1946 – Diane Keaton, American actress, director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1946 – Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (d. 2012)
- 1947 – Mike DeWine, American politician, 50th Attorney General of Ohio
- 1947 – Mercury Morris, American football player
- 1948 – Ted Lange, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1950 – Ioan P. Culianu, Romanian historian, philosopher, and author (d. 1991)
- 1950 – John Manley, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
- 1950 – Charlie Richmond, Canadian sound designer and engineer
- 1950 – Chris Stein, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Blondie)
- 1950 – Krzysztof Wielicki, Polish mountaineer
- 1951 – Steve Arnold, English footballer
- 1951 – Jagathy Sreekumar, Indian actor and screenwriter
- 1952 – Uli Hoeneß, German footballer and manager
- 1953 – Steve Archer, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Archers)
- 1953 – Pamela Sue Martin, American actress
- 1953 – Mike Rann, English-Australian politician, 44th Premier of South Australia
- 1953 – George Tenet, American civil servant and academic, 18th Director of Central Intelligence
- 1954 – Alex English, American basketball player
- 1954 – László Krasznahorkai, Hungarian author and screenwriter
- 1955 – Mohsen Sazegara, Iranian journalist
- 1956 – Chen Kenichi, Japanese-Chinese chef
- 1956 – Tim Macartney-Snape, Australian mountaineer
- 1957 – Kevin Hastings, Australian rugby player
- 1958 – Nancy Delahunt, Canadian curler
- 1958 – Ron Kittle, American baseball player
- 1958 – Marvin Lee Wilson, American murderer (d. 2012)
- 1959 – Clancy Brown, American actor
- 1960 – Steve Jones, English pilot
- 1960 – Otar Korghalidze, Georgian football player and manager
- 1960 – Glenn Strömberg, Swedish footballer
- 1960 – Phil Thornalley, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (The Cure and Johnny Hates Jazz)
- 1961 – Iris DeMent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1962 – Suzy Amis, American actress and model
- 1962 – Perry Fenwick, English actor
- 1962 – Danny Jackson, American baseball player
- 1963 – Jeff Fassero, American baseball player
- 1964 – Grant Young, American drummer (Soul Asylum)
- 1965 – Vinnie Jones, English footballer and actor
- 1966 – Kate Schellenbach, American drummer (Luscious Jackson and Beastie Boys)
- 1966 – Steve Tuttle, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 – Joe Flanigan, American actor
- 1968 – DJ BoBo, Swiss singer-songwriter and producer
- 1968 – Ricky Paull Goldin, American actor
- 1968 – Andrew Golota, Polish boxer
- 1968 – Carrie Ann Inaba, American actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer
- 1968 – Joé Juneau, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 – Marilyn Manson, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director (Satan on Fire)
- 1969 – Paul McGillion, Scottish actor
- 1970 – Rick Campanelli, Canadian television host
- 1971 – Jayne Middlemiss, English chef
- 1971 – Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress
- 1972 – Nikki Nova, American porn actress and model
- 1972 – Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer-songwriter, producer and actor
- 1973 – Phil Joel, New Zealand singer-songwriter and bass player (Newsboys)
- 1973 – Diamond Foxxx, American pornographic actress
- 1974 – Sarah-Jane Honeywell, English actress and dancer
- 1975 – Kylie Bax, New Zealand-American model and actress
- 1975 – Bradley Cooper, American actor
- 1975 – Warrick Dunn, American football player
- 1975 – Mike Grier, American ice hockey player
- 1976 – Diego Tristán, Spanish footballer
- 1976 – Matt Wachter, American bass player (Thirty Seconds to Mars and Angels & Airwaves)
- 1978 – Sabrina Harman, American army reservist
- 1978 – January Jones, American actress
- 1978 – Seanan McGuire, American author
- 1978 – Franck Montagny, French race car driver
- 1978 – Marcus Trick, German rugby player
- 1979 – Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Ronnie O'Brien, Irish footballer
- 1979 – Masami Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
- 1980 – Bennie Joppru, American football player
- 1981 – Corey Flynn, New Zealand rugby player
- 1981 – Brooklyn Sudano, American actress
- 1981 – Joel Thomas Zimmerman Canadian DJ
- 1982 – Norichika Aoki, Japanese baseball player
- 1982 – Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
- 1982 – Darren Mackie, Scottish footballer
- 1982 – Tiiu Nurmberg, Canadian-Estonian alpine skier
- 1982 – Vadims Vasiļevskis, Latvian javelin thrower
- 1982 – Benoît Vaugrenard, French cyclist
- 1983 – Sean Dockery, American basketball player
- 1984 – Reinar Hallik, Estonian basketball player
- 1984 – Amanda Hearst, American model
- 1985 – Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (2Ge+Her) (d. 2001)
- 1985 – Yoon So-yi, South Korean actress
- 1985 – Fabienne Suter, Swiss skier
- 1985 – Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
- 1986 – J. P. Arencibia, American baseball player
- 1986 – Teppei Koike, Japanese actor and singer (WaT)
- 1986 – Deepika Padukone, Danish-Indian model and actress
- 1987 – Kristin Cavallari, American actress
- 1988 – Pauline, French singer-songwriter
- 1988 – Mario de Luna, Mexican footballer
- 1989 – Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
- 1990 – Yang Yo-seob, South Korean singer and dancer (Beast)
- 1991 – Denis Alibec, Romanian footballer
- 1991 – Eric Fisher, American football player
- 1991 – Daniel Pacheco, Spanish footballer
- 1992 – Julian Derstroff, German footballer
- 1993 – De'Anthony Thomas, American football player
- 1995 – Joyce Ching, Filipino actress
- 1995 – Lexi Fernandez, Filipino actress
- 1996 – Max Baldry, English actor
- 1999 – Marc Yu, American pianist
- 2000 – Patricia Gayod, Filipino actress
Deaths[edit]
- 842 – Al-Mu'tasim, Iraqi 8th Abbasid caliph (b. 794)
- 1066 – Edward the Confessor, English king (b. 1004)
- 1400 – John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (b. 1350)
- 1448 – Christopher of Bavaria (b. 1416)
- 1465 – Charles, Duke of Orléans (b. 1394)
- 1477 – Charles the Bold, French son of Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1433)
- 1524 – Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (b. 1450)
- 1527 – Felix Manz, Swiss martyr (b. 1498)
- 1588 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528)
- 1589 – Catherine de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henry II of France (b. 1519)
- 1713 – Jean Chardin, French explorer (b. 1643)
- 1740 – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1667)
- 1762 – Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709)
- 1771 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, English politician (b. 1710)
- 1796 – Samuel Huntington, American jurist and politician, 18th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1731)
- 1823 – George Johnston, Scottish military officer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales (b. 1764)
- 1846 – Alfred Thomas Agate, American painter (b. 1812)
- 1858 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
- 1860 – John Neumann, American bishop (b. 1811)
- 1883 – Charles Tompson, Australian poet (b. 1806)
- 1888 – Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
- 1891 – Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
- 1904 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (b. 1839)
- 1910 – Léon Walras, French economist (b. 1834)
- 1919 – Sumako Matsui, Japanese actress and singer (b. 1886)
- 1922 – Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)
- 1933 – Calvin Coolidge, American politician, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
- 1937 – Marie Booth, English daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864)
- 1940 – Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet and civil servant (b. 1885)
- 1941 – Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)
- 1942 – Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (b. 1896)
- 1943 – George Washington Carver, American botanist, educator, and inventor (b. 1864)
- 1946 – Kitty Cheatham, American singer and actress (b. 1864)
- 1947 – Charles Schlee, Danish-American cyclist (b. 1873)
- 1951 – Andrei Platonov, Russian author (b. 1899)
- 1951 – Seo Jae-pil, Korea's independence activists, journalist (b. 1864)
- 1952 – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Scottish politician (b. 1887)
- 1952 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian activist (b. 1869)
- 1954 – Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (b. 1891)
- 1956 – Mistinguett, French actress and singer (b. 1875)
- 1957 – Jerome Steever, American water polo player (b. 1880)
- 1963 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (b. 1896)
- 1970 – Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
- 1970 – Cyril Fagan, Irish astrologer (b. 1896)
- 1970 – Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer and scholar (b. 1896)
- 1971 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer and engineer (b. 1899)
- 1974 – Lev Oborin, Russian pianist (b. 1907)
- 1976 – John A. Costello, Irish politician, 3rd Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891)
- 1976 – Mal Evans, English manager (b. 1935)
- 1977 – Artur Adson, Estonian poet, playwright and theatre critic (b. 1889)
- 1978 – Wyatt Emory Cooper, American author and screenwriter (b. 1927)
- 1979 – Billy Bletcher, American actor (b. 1894)
- 1979 – Charles Mingus, American bassist and composer (b. 1922)
- 1981 – Harold Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
- 1981 – Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
- 1982 – Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1982 – Edmund Herring, Australian military commander and politician, 7th Chief Justice of Victoria (b. 1892)
- 1982 – Harvey Lembeck, American actor (b. 1923)
- 1985 – Alexis Rannit, Estonian poet, critic and literature researcher (b. 1914)
- 1985 – Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
- 1987 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian skier (b. 1875)
- 1987 – Margaret Laurence, Canadian author (b. 1926)
- 1988 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
- 1990 – Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1991 – Tõnis Kint, Estonian politician (b. 1896)
- 1991 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (b. 1922)
- 1993 – Westley Allan Dodd, American murderer (b. 1961)
- 1994 – Brian Johnston, English sportscaster (b. 1912)
- 1994 – Elmar Lipping, Estonian military commander and politician (b. 1906)
- 1994 – Tip O'Neill, American politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1912)
- 1996 – Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian Hamas member (b. 1966)
- 1996 – Lincoln Kirstein, American director (b. 1907)
- 1997 – André Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1924)
- 1997 – Burton Lane, American composer and songwriter (b. 1912)
- 1998 – Sonny Bono, American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and politician (Sonny & Cher) (b. 1935)
- 1998 – Ken Forssi, American bass player (Love) (b. 1943)
- 2001 – Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942)
- 2003 – Doreen Carwithen, English composer (b. 1922)
- 2003 – Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (b. 1918)
- 2003 – Roy Jenkins, Welsh politician (b. 1920)
- 2003 – Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923)
- 2004 – Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist, co-developed penicillin (b. 1911)
- 2004 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- 2005 – Danny Sugerman, American manager and author (b. 1954)
- 2006 – Merlyn Rees, Welsh-Irish politician (b. 1920)
- 2007 – Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (b. 1910)
- 2007 – Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Clinton Grybas, Australian sportscaster (b. 1975)
- 2009 – Griffin Bell, American lawyer and politician, 72nd United States Attorney General (b. 1918)
- 2009 – Ned Tanen, American movie executive (b. 1931)
- 2010 – Willie Mitchell, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1928)
- 2010 – Murray Saltzman, Russian-American rabbi and activist (b. 1929)
- 2011 – Malangatana Ngwenya, Mozambican painter and poet(b. 1936)
- 2012 – Selwyn Baptiste, Trinidadian educator (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Frederica Sagor Maas, American screenwriter and author (b. 1900)
- 2012 – Alexander Sizonenko, Russian basketball player (b. 1959)
- 2013 – Joselo, Venezuelan actor (b. 1936)
- 2013 – Selkirk, English race horse (b. 1988)
- 2013 – Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Bengali-Indian actor (b. 1926)
- 2013 – Piet de Bekker, Dutch politician (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Anders Carlberg, Swedish politician (b. 1943)
- 2013 – Pierre Cogan, French cyclist (b. 1914)
- 2013 – T. S. Cook, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1947)
- 2013 – Reg Dean, English super-centenarian (b. 1902)
- 2013 – Martha Greenhouse, American actress (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Abraham Hecht, American rabbi and author (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Jeff Lewis, American football player (b. 1973)
- 2013 – Bruce McCarty, American architect, designed the Knoxville City-County Building (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Richard McWilliam, American businessman, co-founded the Upper Deck Company (b. 1953)
- 2013 – Fitzroy Newsum, American pilot (b. 1918)
- 2013 – Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Canadian archbishop (b. 1915)
- 2013 – Claude Préfontaine, Canadian actor (b. 1933)
- 2013 – Harry Searson, English footballer (b. 1924)
- 2013 – Vladimir Šenauer, Croatian footballer (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Chandler Williams, American football player (b. 1985)
- 2013 – Sol Yurick, American author (b. 1925)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Joma Shinji (除魔神事) at Tsurugaoka Hachiman. (Kamakura, Japan)
- The Twelfth day of Christmas and the Twelfth Night of Christmas. (Western Christianity)
- National Bird Day
“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” - Micah 6:8
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
January 4: Morning
"Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." - 2 Peter 3:18
"Grow in grace"--not in one grace only, but in all grace. Grow in that root-grace, faith. Believe the promises more firmly than you have done. Let faith increase in fulness, constancy, simplicity. Grow also in love. Ask that your love may become extended, more intense, more practical, influencing every thought, word, and deed. Grow likewise in humility. Seek to lie very low, and know more of your own nothingness. As you grow downward in humility, seek also to grow upward--having nearer approaches to God in prayer and more intimate fellowship with Jesus. May God the Holy Spirit enable you to "grow in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour." He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed. To know him is "life eternal," and to advance in the knowledge of him is to increase in happiness. He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet. Whoever hath sipped this wine will thirst for more, for although Christ doth satisfy, yet it is such a satisfaction, that the appetite is not cloyed, but whetted. If you know the love of Jesus--as the hart panteth for the water-brooks, so will you pant after deeper draughts of his love. If you do not desire to know him better, then you love him not, for love always cries, "Nearer, nearer." Absence from Christ is hell; but the presence of Jesus is heaven. Rest not then content without an increasing acquaintance with Jesus. Seek to know more of him in his divine nature, in his human relationship, in his finished work, in his death, in his resurrection, in his present glorious intercession, and in his future royal advent. Abide hard by the Cross, and search the mystery of his wounds. An increase of love to Jesus, and a more perfect apprehension of his love to us is one of the best tests of growth in grace.
Evening
"And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him." -Genesis 42:8
This morning our desires went forth for growth in our acquaintance with the Lord Jesus; it may be well tonight to consider a kindred topic, namely, our heavenly Joseph's knowledge of us. This was most blessedly perfect long before we had the slightest knowledge of him. "His eyes beheld our substance, yet being imperfect, and in his book all our members were written, when as yet there was none of them." Before we had a being in the world we had a being in his heart. When we were enemies to him, he knew us, our misery, our madness, and our wickedness. When we wept bitterly in despairing repentance, and viewed him only as a judge and a ruler, he viewed us as his brethren well beloved, and his bowels yearned towards us. He never mistook his chosen, but always beheld them as objects of his infinite affection. "The Lord knoweth them that are his," is as true of the prodigals who are feeding swine as of the children who sit at the table.
But, alas! we knew not our royal Brother, and out of this ignorance grew a host of sins. We withheld our hearts from him, and allowed him no entrance to our love. We mistrusted him, and gave no credit to his words. We rebelled against him, and paid him no loving homage. The Sun of Righteousness shone forth, and we could not see him. Heaven came down to earth, and earth perceived it not. Let God be praised, those days are over with us; yet even now it is but little that we know of Jesus compared with what he knows of us. We have but begun to study him, but he knoweth us altogether. It is a blessed circumstance that the ignorance is not on his side, for then it would be a hopeless case for us. He will not say to us, "I never knew you," but he will confess our names in the day of his appearing, and meanwhile will manifest himself to us as he doth not unto the world.
But, alas! we knew not our royal Brother, and out of this ignorance grew a host of sins. We withheld our hearts from him, and allowed him no entrance to our love. We mistrusted him, and gave no credit to his words. We rebelled against him, and paid him no loving homage. The Sun of Righteousness shone forth, and we could not see him. Heaven came down to earth, and earth perceived it not. Let God be praised, those days are over with us; yet even now it is but little that we know of Jesus compared with what he knows of us. We have but begun to study him, but he knoweth us altogether. It is a blessed circumstance that the ignorance is not on his side, for then it would be a hopeless case for us. He will not say to us, "I never knew you," but he will confess our names in the day of his appearing, and meanwhile will manifest himself to us as he doth not unto the world.
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Eliashib
[Ĕlī'ashĭb] - god is requiter or god hath restored.
1. A priest in David's time from whom the eleventh priestly course took its name (1 Chron. 24:12).
2. A son of Elioenai, descendant of Zerubbabel, a Judahite (1 Chron. 3:24).
3. The high priest at the time of the rebuilding of the city wall (Neh. 3:1, 20, 21; 13:4, 7, 28).
4. A Levite and singer who put away his foreign wife (Ezra 10:24).
5. A son of Zattu who married a foreign wife (Ezra 10:27).
6. A son of Bani who also married a foreign wife (Ezra 10:26).
7. An ancestor of Johanan who helped Ezra in the assembly of foreign wives (Ezra 10:6; Neh. 12:10, 22, 23).
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Today's reading: Genesis 10-12, Matthew 4 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Genesis 10-12
The Table of Nations
1 This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.
2 The sons of Japheth:
Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.
Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.
3 The sons of Gomer:
Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah....
Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah....
Today's New Testament reading: Matthew 4
The Temptation of Jesus
1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."
4 Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God....'
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