I love books. Today is the anniversary of the publication of the first Gutenberg Bible. Anyone who does not read books is restricted to living only one life. Humble in aspect, the vellum copies were made with loving care. They predate the knowledge revolution, because they began it. It is possible to collect all the written work around the world made before this book on a single CD. As of 1972, there were a thousand non fiction books printed in the US every day. I had a library I valued at $50k. I intended to give it to the next generation, but I had to give it away to several different charities. None wanted it. Time marches on. Now, I have a Kindle ..
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Happy birthday and many happy returns David Nguyen. Born on the same day, across the years, as
- 1417 – Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
- 1583 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer (d. 1656)
- 1633 – Samuel Pepys, English administrator and politician (d. 1703)
- 1646 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
- 1648 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
- 1685 – George Frideric Handel, German-English composer (d. 1759)
- 1729 – Josiah Hornblower, English-American engineer and politician (d. 1809)
- 1744 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (d. 1812)
- 1850 – César Ritz, Swiss businessman, founded The Ritz London Hotel and Hôtel Ritz Paris (d. 1918)
- 1852 – Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883)
- 1940 – Peter Fonda, American actor
- 1973 – Jason_Boyd_(baseball), American baseball player
- 1973 – Jeff Nordgaard, American/Polish basketball player
- 1983 – Emily Blunt, English actress
- 1994 – Dakota Fanning, American actress
- 2012 – Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland
Matches
- 303 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
- 532 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
- 1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
- 1739 – Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
- 1820 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
- 1847 – Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican GeneralAntonio López de Santa Anna.
- 1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister Julia Brainerd Hall.
- 1896 – The Tootsie Roll is invented.
- 1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
- 1918 – Last monarch of Mecklenburg-Strelitz commits suicide.
- 1927 – President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
- 1927 – German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
- 1941 – Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
- 1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and arephotographed raising the American flag.
- 1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
- 1958 – Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
- 1966 – In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist.
- 1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
- 1980 – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
- 2005 – The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the "positive values of colonialism". After public outcry, it is repealed at the beginning of 2006.
Despatches
- 943 – Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (b. 884)
- 1821 – John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
- 1848 – John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
- 1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
- 1931 – Nellie Melba, Australian soprano (b. 1861)
- 1934 – Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)
- 1976 – L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
- 1995 – James Herriot, English surgeon and author (b. 1916)
Ukrainian president flees, but this fight is not over
Andrew Bolt February 23 2014 (9:19am)
The Opposition seizes power in Ukraine in a conflict that could set East against West - and tear the country in two:
===President Viktor F. Yanukovych fled Kiev on Saturday to denounce what he called a violent coup, as his official residence, his vast, colonnaded office complex and other once impregnable centers of power fell without a fight to throngs of joyous citizens…
While Mr. Yanukovych’s nemesis, former Prime Minister Yulia V. Tymoshenko, was released from a penitentiary hospital, Parliament found the president unable to fulfill his duties and exercised its constitutional powers to set an election for May 25 to select his replacement. But with both Mr. Yanukovych and his Russian patrons speaking of a “coup” carried out by “bandits” and “hooligans,” it was far from clear that the day’s lightning-quick events would be the last act in a struggle that has not just convulsed Ukraine but expanded into an East-West confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War…
A pugnacious Mr. Yanukovych appeared on television Saturday afternoon, apparently from the eastern city of Kharkiv, near Ukraine’s eastern border with Russia, saying he had been forced to leave the capital because of a “coup,"…
“I don’t plan to leave the country. I don’t plan to resign,” he said, speaking in Russian rather than Ukrainian, the country’s official language....
Regional governors from eastern Ukraine met in Kharkiv and adopted a resolution resisting the authority of Parliament....
Mr. Yanukovych said in his television appearance that he would be traveling to the southeastern part of Ukraine to talk to his supporters — a plan that carried potentially ominous overtones, in that the southeast is the location of the Crimea, the historically Russian section of the country that is the site of a Russian naval base.
Newman Government hit hard
Andrew Bolt February 23 2014 (8:52am)
The LNP’s former member resigned in disgrace. Labor’s candidate was strong. The LNP’s wasn’t. A sitting government is always likely to be clobbered.
But whichever way you cut it, yesterday’s result in the Redcliffe byelection was still bad for the Newman Government:
And once again I must ask why the Left is so prone to abuse:
Good point from Gerard Henderson today: the big swing to Labor in the Redcliffe by-election makes even more remarkable the swing to the Abbott Government in the Griffith by-election.
===But whichever way you cut it, yesterday’s result in the Redcliffe byelection was still bad for the Newman Government:
The Newman Government seems to have been rocked repeatedly by the consequences of having had inadequate or poorly vetted candidates elected as MPs. A note for the future.
While he said the spectre of disgraced former MP Scott Driscoll loomed large over the result, Mr Newman took some responsibility for the massive swing against the Liberal National Party.
With all booths reporting back on Saturday night, ... there was a 16.3 per cent two party preferred swing against the LNP and its candidate, former Family First candidate Kerri-Anne Dooley.
Across town at the Redcliffe Leagues Club, a victorious Yvette D’Ath claimed victory for the Labor Party, thus increasing their parliamentary stocks from seven to eight....
Ms D’Ath, the former federal MP who lost the seat of Petrie in last year’s election, said she wanted to “fix the damage this LNP government has done to this community” ...
And once again I must ask why the Left is so prone to abuse:
The writing was on the wall for the LNP early on Saturday when the Premier visited a polling booth at Humpybong State School, where Ms Dooley, who was ineligible to vote herself, had just accompanied her parents to the polling station. Mr Newman faced a hostile reception from unionists, Labor Party members and other protesters, who all subjected him to a barrage of abuse.UPDATE
Good point from Gerard Henderson today: the big swing to Labor in the Redcliffe by-election makes even more remarkable the swing to the Abbott Government in the Griffith by-election.
The riot shows Manus should be better run, not necessarily closed
Andrew Bolt February 23 2014 (8:46am)
It should be possible
to run a detention centre in Manus Island well, but I would want it much
better run than seems to have been the case:
===IMMIGRATION Minister Scott Morrison has refused to rule out shutting down the Manus Island detention centre as a damning new report warns Australia is failing in its “duty of care” to detainees in offshore processing centres.
Confirming Australia had sent more than 100 private security officers to Manus since last week’s riots that killed one man and injured 77, Mr Morrison said the possibility of closure was only a “hypothetical”.
Asked if Manus Island was a safe environment he said that was what the contract paid local staff to ensure.
“When people have taken it upon themselves to rip fences down and try and wreck the joint, well, they are going to put themselves at the risk of how people respond,” he told The Sunday Telegraph.
In what way is this another Malaysian solution?
Andrew Bolt February 23 2014 (8:31am)
Not true:
===The Australian government has asked Cambodia to accept refugees seeking asylum in a move similar to the former Labor government’s so-called ‘’Malaysian solution’’…That first sentence is not true, because the proposal - as the very same Fairfax article explains - omits the controversial element of the Malaysian people swap:
When they were in opposition, Coalition MPs were strongly critical of Labor’s attempt to send asylum seekers to Malaysia in 2011.
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Nam Hong said the request was made on Saturday morning during a meeting between his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop and the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen.Reader Peter of Bellevue Hill notes the obvious inaccuracy:
‘’In the past, there have been Cambodians going out as refugees to different countries. Now perhaps it is time for Cambodia to receive refugees back to Cambodia,’’ Mr Hor Nam Hong told journalists after a press briefing, adding the number of refugees had not been decided but this would depend on Australia…
‘’But my Prime Minister and myself this morning have told Australia that Cambodia will consider very seriously the request of Australia because before there were many Cambodians seeking asylum outside of Cambodia through the war but now maybe it is the time for Cambodia to accept some of the foreign refugees in Cambodia.’’
Nowhere in the story does it suggest Australia and Cambodia would be ‘swapping’ asylum seekers - which means the arrangement would be nothing like the Malaysia Solution. It was the ‘swap’ element that made the Malaysia Solution a reprehensible concept.
Michael Mann hides the decline in reports he says “exonerate” him
Andrew Bolt February 23 2014 (7:35am)
Warming alarmist Michael ”Hockey Stick” Mann is suing Mark Steyn for defamation after being mocked over his dodgy research.
Mann has claimed in court documents that he was in fact found innocent by every inquiry into the Climategate scandal:
In paragraph 21 of the Complaint, Mann claimed that there had been “separate and independent” investigations by Penn State and UEA (two each) and by five government agencies into misconduct by “Mann and colleagues” and that all nine found no basis to allegations of “scientific misconduct or manipulation of data”:But Steve McIntyre says that claim is false.
21. Following the publication of the CRU [Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia] emails, Penn State and the University of East Anglia (in four separate instances) and five governmental agencies [listed] have conducted separate and independent investigations into the allegations of scientific misconduct against Dr. Mann and his colleagues. Every one of these investigations has reached the same conclusion: there is no basis to any of the allegations of scientific misconduct or manipulation of data.
Take first the Oxburgh inquiry. The part of its findings cited by Mann don’t actually relate to him but to the CRU, as Mann’s own document reveals:
The Report of the International Panel assessed the integrity of the research published by the CRU and found “no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work of the Climatic Research Unit”.In fact, says McIntyre, the Oxburgh report did not examine Mann and his infamous “hockey stick” (showing unprecedented warming) in any detail, yet still included criticisms of him:
Oxburgh and his “Scientific Appraisal Panel” ... interpreted its terms of reference as the examination of a list of 11 academic articles selected by the University of East Anglia… The list included three CRU articles presenting variations of the Briffa MXD reconstruction [of tree ring data] that had originated the hide-the-decline controversy. Two of the three articles – both from 1998 – unambiguously showed the decline [in temperatures] in the Briffa reconstruction. (Indeed, it was the inconsistency between these articles and the IPCC diagram that had originally occasioned my interest.)But at a press conference to discuss the Oxburgh findings, panel member Professor David Hand went much further in criticising Mann, as the Daily Telegraph reported at the time:
However, both these articles were prior to the unsavory discussion among Mann and other IPCC authors in which senior IPCC officials expressed their concern that inclusion of the Briffa reconstruction [showing a later cooling, not warming] might “dilute the message”, with Mann readily acquiescing because he did not want to give “fodder to the skeptics"… CRU later sent Mann a version in which data was deleted after 1960....
The Oxburgh panel had only the following short report on these issues:
7. Recent public discussion of climate change and summaries and popularizations of the work of CRU and others often contain oversimplifications that omit serious discussion of uncertainties emphasized by the original authors. For example, CRU publications repeatedly emphasize the discrepancy between instrumental and tree-based proxy reconstructions of temperature during the late 20th century, but presentations of this work by the IPCC and others have sometimes neglected to highlight this issue. While we find this regrettable, we could find no such fault with the peer-reviewed papers we examined.Oxburgh obviously did not respond to actual criticism, which was of the IPCC diagram [the “hockey stick” prepared by Mann showing runaway warming]… The Climategate emails obviously shed a very unsavory light on the decision to delete adverse data in IPCC TAR.
The Oxburgh panel considered the IPCC diagram only in passing, but its finds were all adverse to Mann. They described IPCC’s failure (in Mann’s section) to highlight the discrepancy as negligent and “regrettable”.
Professor David Hand said that the research – led by US scientist Michael Mann – would have shown less dramatic results if more reliable techniques had been used to analyse the data… But the reviewers found that the scientists could have used better statistical methods in analysing some of their data, although it was unlikely to have made much difference to their results.Mann was also wrong to claim he’d been exonerated by the Muir Russell inquiry.
That was not the case with some previous climate change reports, where ”inappropriate methods” had exaggerated the global warming phenomenon. Prof Hand singled out a 1998 paper by Prof Mann of Pennsylvania State University, a constant target for climate change sceptics, as an example of this. He said the graph, that showed global temperature records going back 1,000 years, was exaggerated – although any reproduction using improved techniques is likely to also show a sharp rise in global warming. He agreed the graph would be more like a field hockey stick than the ice hockey blade it was originally compared to. “The particular technique they used exaggerated the size of the blade at the end of the hockey stick. Had they used an appropriate technique the size of the blade of the hockey stick would have been smaller,” he said. ”The change in temperature is not as great over the 20th century compared to the past as suggested by the Mann paper.”
In fact, McIntyre claims Mann or his team even tampered with the evidence in their court filing:
In my most recent post, I showed that Mann’s claim to have been “exonerated” by the Oxburgh inquiry had no more validity than Mann’s claim to have won a Nobel prize.... Mann’s claim to have been “exonerated” by the Muir Russell inquiry is equally invalid.And note how Mann and/or his lawyers even changed the spelling of “rigour” in purporting to quote from the report.
In their memoranda supporting their original motions to dismiss, both National Review and CEI had observed (correctly) that the Muir Russell panel had limited their findings to “CRU scientists” and contested Mann’s assertion that the Muir Russell panel had made any findings regarding Mann himself, let alone “exonerated” him.
In Mann’s Reply Memorandum, he vociferously rejected the (correct) assertion that the Muir Russell had not exonerated Mann himself… Mann supported this bluster with an apparent quotation from the Muir Russell report, but the phrase within the quotation marks does not actually occur within the Muir Russell report. As shown below, Mann and/or his lawyers subtly altered the quotation to more supportive language.....
Mann purported to provide the requested supporting quotation from the Muir Russell report showing that the supposed exoneration was not limited to “CRU scientists”, but extended more generally to “the scientists”, including Mann himself:
Three months later, the University of East Anglia published the Independent Climate Change Email Review report, prepared under the oversight of Sir Muir Russell. The report examined whether manipulation or suppression of data occurred and concluded that ”the scientists’ rigor and honesty are not in doubt. (my bold)(38 – Muir Russell Report)”But watch carefully here… The actual quotation from the Muir Russell report (shown below) clearly limits its findings to CRU scientists…
On the specific allegations made against the behaviour of CRU scientists, we find that their rigour and honesty as scientists are not in doubt.Had Mann’s Reply Memorandum provided the actual quotation, it would have confirmed National Review’s and CEI’s claim that the Muir Russell had confined its findings to “CRU scientists”, but not in the quotation as altered by Mann and/or his lawyers.
McIntyre pomises more revelations to explode Mann’s claims he was “exonerated”.
Morrison claims he was misled: detainees injured inside Manus centre
Andrew Bolt February 22 2014 (9:45pm)
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison admits he was misled about the Manus Island riot - misled, I’d add, in a very serious way:
My confidence in the information given to date by the Government on this riot is now extremely low.
There is now an independent investigation, but I’d like some interim signs that the guilty are being removed and any suspect staff urgently replaced.
===I wish to confirm that contrary to initial reports received, I have received further information that indicates that the majority of the riotous behaviour that occurred, and the response to that behaviour to restore order to the centre, took place within the perimeter of the centre.I find it hard to believe that whoever assured Morrison or his staff that most injuries were suffered outside the centre was not lying. It’s no longer possible to believe other assurances now, including claims there was no evidence of anyone having their throat cut.
As advised on the afternoon of Tuesday February 18, I indicated that I had received further information which meant that I could no longer confirm that the deceased man sustained his injuries outside the centre. The further information I have now received casts further doubt on the initial advice that his injuries were sustained outside the centre.
My confidence in the information given to date by the Government on this riot is now extremely low.
There is now an independent investigation, but I’d like some interim signs that the guilty are being removed and any suspect staff urgently replaced.
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February 23: National Day in Brunei (1984); Defender of the Fatherland Day in Russia and several other former Soviet republics
- 1847 – Mexican–American War: The United States Army used heavy artillery to repulse the much larger Mexican army at the Battle of Buena Vista near Saltillo, Coahuila.
- 1885 – Sino-French War: France gained an important victory in theBattle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of what is now Vietnam.
- 1927 – German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg (pictured)wrote a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli in which he described hisuncertainty principle for the first time.
- 1947 – The International Organization for Standardization, responsible for worldwide industrial and commercial standards, was founded.
- 2007 – A Virgin Trains Pendolino express train from London Euston to Glasgow Central derailed near Grayrigg, Cumbria, UK, killing one person and injuring 22.
Events[edit]
- 303 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
- 532 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
- 1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
- 1554 – Mapuche forces, under the leadership of Lautaro, score a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Marihueñu in Chile.
- 1739 – Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
- 1820 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
- 1821 – Alexander Ypsilantis starts the Greek War of Independence in Iași, Wallachia, modern-day Romania.
- 1836 – The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
- 1847 – Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican GeneralAntonio López de Santa Anna.
- 1854 – The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
- 1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1870 – In the United States, post-Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
- 1883 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
- 1885 – Sino-French War: French Army captures Dong Dang.
- 1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister Julia Brainerd Hall.
- 1887 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
- 1896 – The Tootsie Roll is invented.
- 1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
- 1900 – In South Africa, Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.
- 1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
- 1905 – Chicago, Illinois attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
- 1909 – The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
- 1917 – First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
- 1918 – Last monarch of Mecklenburg-Strelitz commits suicide.
- 1927 – President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
- 1927 – German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
- 1934 – Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
- 1941 – Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara.
- 1943 – A fire breaks out at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
- 1943 – Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded is Greece.
- 1944 – The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
- 1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and arephotographed raising the American flag.
- 1945 – World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
- 1945 – World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
- 1945 – World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
- 1945 – World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
- 1947 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
- 1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
- 1955 – First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
- 1958 – Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
- 1966 – In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist.
- 1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
- 1980 – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
- 1981 – In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
- 1983 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
- 1987 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- 1991 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
- 1991 – In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
- 1998 – In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
- 1999 – Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
- 1999 – An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
- 2005 – The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the "positive values of colonialism". After public outcry, it is repealed at the beginning of 2006.
- 2007 – A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
- 2008 – A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit crashes on Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2.
- 2010 – Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in Northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
Births[edit]
- 1417 – Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
- 1443 – Matthias Corvinus, Hungarian king (d. 1490)
- 1583 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer (d. 1656)
- 1633 – Samuel Pepys, English administrator and politician (d. 1703)
- 1646 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (d. 1709)
- 1648 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
- 1664 – Georg Dietrich Leyding, German composer and organist (d. 1710)
- 1680 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Canadian politician (d. 1767)
- 1685 – George Frideric Handel, German-English composer (d. 1759)
- 1723 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (d. 1791)
- 1729 – Josiah Hornblower, English-American engineer and politician (d. 1809)
- 1744 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (d. 1812)
- 1752 – Simon Knéfacz, Croatian monk and author (d. 1819)
- 1809 – William Sprague, American minister and politician (d. 1868)
- 1840 – Carl Menger, Austrian economist (d. 1921)
- 1840 – Frederick Wicks, English author and inventor (d. 1910)
- 1842 – Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906)
- 1850 – César Ritz, Swiss businessman, founded The Ritz London Hotel and Hôtel Ritz Paris (d. 1918)
- 1852 – Dục Đức, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883)
- 1868 – W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (d. 1963)
- 1868 – Anna Hoffman-Uddgren, Swedish actress and director (d. 1947)
- 1873 – Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (d. 1929)
- 1874 – Konstantin Päts, Estonian politician, 1st President of Estonia (d. 1956)
- 1877 – Frederic L. Paxson, American historian (d. 1948)
- 1878 – Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and theorist (d. 1935)
- 1882 – Max Hainle, German swimmer (d. 1961)
- 1883 – Karl Jaspers, German philosopher (d. 1969)
- 1886 – Antonio Alice, Argentine painter (d. 1943)
- 1889 – Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
- 1889 – Victor Fleming, American director, cinematographer, and producer (d. 1949)
- 1889 – John Gilbert Winant, American politician, 60th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1947)
- 1891 – Harold Horder, Australian rugby player (d. 1978)
- 1892 – Kathleen Harrison, English character actress (d. 1995)
- 1896 – J. N. Arumugam, Ceylon Tamil civil servant
- 1899 – Erich Kästner, German author and poet (d. 1974)
- 1899 – Norman Taurog, American director and screenwriter (d. 1981)
- 1901 – Edgar Ende, German painter (d. 1965)
- 1904 – Terence Fisher, English director (d. 1980)
- 1904 – William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (d. 1993)
- 1904 – Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy (d. 1982)
- 1907 – Lee Hyo-seok, South Korean writer (d. 1942)
- 1908 – William McMahon, Australian politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)
- 1914 – Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)
- 1915 – Jon Hall, American actor (d. 1979)
- 1915 – Paul Tibbets, American general and pilot (d. 2007)
- 1918 – Richard Girnt Butler, American engineer, founded the Aryan Nations (d. 2004)
- 1919 – William McLean Hamilton, Canadian politician (d. 1989)
- 1920 – Paul Gérin-Lajoie, Canadian lawyer and politician
- 1923 – Miljenko Smoje, Croatian journalist (d. 1995)
- 1923 – Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan jurist and politician, President of Uruguay
- 1923 – Yannis Grivas, Greek judge and politician, 176th Prime Minister of Greece
- 1923 – Mary Francis Shura, American author (d. 1991)
- 1924 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- 1924 – Claude Sautet, French director and author (d. 2000)
- 1924 – Lee Hu-rak, South Korean politician (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Merv Hunter, Australian politician (d. 2013)
- 1927 – Régine Crespin, French soprano (d. 2007)
- 1928 – Hans Herrmann, German race car driver
- 1928 – Vasily Lazarev, Russian astronaut (d. 1990)
- 1929 – Jaan Einasto, Estonian astro physicist
- 1929 – Elston Howard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
- 1929 – Alexy II of Moscow, Estonian-Russian patriarch (d. 2008)
- 1931 – Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor (d. 2004)
- 1932 – Majel Barrett, American actress and producer (d. 2008)
- 1933 – Donna J. Stone, American poet (d. 1994)
- 1935 – Gerrianne Raphael, American actress
- 1937 – Tom Osborne, American football player, coach, and politician
- 1938 – Paul Morrissey, American film director
- 1938 – Diane Varsi, American actress (d. 1992)
- 1940 – Peter Fonda, American actor
- 1940 – Jackie Smith, American football player
- 1941 – Ron Hunt, American baseball player
- 1943 – Fred Biletnikoff, American football player and coach
- 1943 – Harry Pilling, English cricketer (d. 2012)
- 1944 – Bernard Cornwell, English author
- 1944 – John Sandford, American author
- 1944 – Johnny Winter, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1945 – Allan Boesak, South African cleric, politician, and activist
- 1946 – Rusty Young, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Poco)
- 1947 – Pia Kjærsgaard, Danish politician
- 1947 – John McWethy, American journalist (d. 2008)
- 1948 – Doug Moench, American author
- 1948 – Steve Priest, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Sweet)
- 1949 – Marc Garneau, Canadian astronaut, engineer, and politician
- 1950 – Maxi, Irish singer, actor, and radio host
- 1951 – Ed Jones, American football player
- 1951 – Patricia Richardson, American actress
- 1952 – Brad Whitford, American guitarist (Aerosmith and The Joe Perry Project)
- 1953 – Kenny Bee, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Wynners)
- 1953 – Satoru Nakajima, Japanese race car driver
- 1954 – Rajini Thiranagama, Sri Lankan Tamil physician and academic (d. 1989)
- 1954 – Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian politician, 3rd President of Ukraine
- 1955 – Tom Bodett, American voice actor, radio host, and author
- 1955 – Howard Jones, English singer-songwriter
- 1955 – Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach
- 1957 – Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots) (d. 2009)
- 1957 – Viktor Markin, Russian runner
- 1958 – David Sylvian, English singer-songwriter (Japan and Nine Horses)
- 1959 – Clayton Anderson, American astronaut and engineer
- 1959 – Richard Dodds, English field hockey player
- 1960 – Alan Griffin, Australian politician
- 1960 – Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan
- 1960 – Ivan Vdović, Yugoslavian drummer (Suncokret, Šarlo Akrobata, Supernaut, and Ekatarina Velika) (d. 1992)
- 1962 – Michael Wilton, American guitarist (Queensrÿche and Soulbender)
- 1962 – Ahn Byeong-Keun, South Korean judoka Olympian
- 1963 – Bobby Bonilla, American baseball player
- 1963 – Radosław Sikorski, Polish journalist and politician, 11th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
- 1964 – David E. Clemmer, American chemist
- 1964 – John Norum, Norwegian guitarist and songwriter (Europe)
- 1965 – Michael Dell, American businessman, founded Dell
- 1965 – Ashok Kamte, Indian police officer (d. 2008)
- 1965 – Helena Suková, Czech tennis player
- 1966 – Mark Abrahamian, American guitarist (Starship) (d. 2012)
- 1967 – Hélène Darroze, French chef
- 1967 – Tamsin Greig, English actress
- 1967 – Chris Vrenna, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Nine Inch Nails, Tweaker, Die Warzau, and Exotic Birds)
- 1968 – Justin Bell, English race car driver
- 1969 – Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer
- 1969 – Daymond John, American fashion designer, founded FUBU
- 1969 – Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist
- 1970 – Marie-Josée Croze, Canadian actress
- 1970 – Niecy Nash, American actress
- 1971 – Jung Chan, South Korean actor
- 1971 – Risto Kallaste, Estonian footballer
- 1971 – Arvo Kraam, Estonian footballer
- 1971 – Don Maxwell, Canadian cricketer
- 1971 – Melinda Messenger, English model and television host
- 1971 – Joe-Max Moore, American soccer player
- 1972 – Steve Holy, American singer
- 1972 – Alessandro Sturba, Italian footballer
- 1972 – Rondell White, American baseball player
- 1973 – Lars-Olof Johansson, Swedish guitarist (The Cardigans)
- 1973 – Peng Weijun, Chinese soccer player
- 1973 – Jason_Boyd_(baseball), American baseball player
- 1973 – Jeff Nordgaard, American/Polish basketball player
- 1973 – Arnold Dwarika, Trinidadian soccer player
- 1973 – Tatyana Gracheva, Russian volleyball player
- 1973 – Brad Young, Australian cricket player
- 1974 – Leko, American DJ and producer
- 1974 – Herschelle Gibbs, South African cricketer
- 1975 – Michael Cornacchia, American actor
- 1975 – Robert Lopez, American composer
- 1975 – Maryse Turcotte, Canadian weightlifter
- 1975 – Natalia Verbeke, Argentinian actress
- 1976 – Scott Elarton, American baseball player
- 1976 – Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
- 1976 – Jeff O'Neill, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1976 – Satoshi Yoneyama, Japanese wrestler
- 1976 – Irina Zahharenkova, Estonian pianist
- 1977 – Kristina Šmigun-Vähi, Estonian skier
- 1978 – Residente, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (Calle 13)
- 1978 – Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
- 1979 – Sascha Zacharias, Swedish actress
- 1979 – S. E. Cupp, American author and talk show host
- 1981 – Gareth Barry, English footballer
- 1981 – Mai Nakahara, Japanese voice actress
- 1981 – Charles Tillman, American football player
- 1981 – Dylan Ryder, American pornographic actress
- 1982 – Karan Singh Grover, Indian actor
- 1982 – Adam Hann-Byrd, American actor
- 1982 – Malia Metella, French swimmer
- 1983 – Mido, Egyptian footballer
- 1983 – Aziz Ansari, American comedian and actor
- 1983 – Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
- 1983 – Emily Blunt, English actress
- 1983 – Courtney Culkin, American model
- 1986 – Emerson da Conceição, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Skylar Grey, American singer-songwriter
- 1986 – Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (KAT-TUN and Shūji to Akira)
- 1986 – Boipelo Makhothi, Lesotho swimmer
- 1986 – Jerod Mayo, American football player
- 1986 – Ola Svensson, Swedish singer-songwriter
- 1988 – Nicolás Gaitán, Argentinian footballer
- 1989 – Evan Bates, American ice dancer
- 1989 – Amara Baby, French footballer
- 1990 – Kevin Cheung, Mauritian swimmer
- 1992 – Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1993 – Kasumi Ishikawa, Japanese table tennis player
- 1994 – Dakota Fanning, American actress
- 1995 – Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player
- 2012 – Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland
Deaths[edit]
- 943 – Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (b. 884)
- 1011 – Willigis, German archbishop (b. 940)
- 1100 – Emperor Zhezong of Song (b. 1076)
- 1270 – Isabel of France (b. 1225)
- 1447 – Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
- 1447 – Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
- 1464 – Zhengtong Emperor of China (b. 1427)
- 1554 – Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1515)
- 1572 – Pierre Certon, French composer (b. 1510)
- 1603 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
- 1669 – Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian and diplomat (b. 1600)
- 1704 – Georg Muffat, French composer (b. 1653)
- 1766 – Stanisław Leszczyński, Polish king (b. 1677)
- 1781 – George Taylor, Irish-American politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)
- 1792 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)
- 1800 – Joseph Warton, English academic and critic (b. 1722)
- 1821 – John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
- 1848 – John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
- 1855 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
- 1859 – Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet (b. 1812)
- 1879 – Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and politician, 10th Minister-President of Prussia (b. 1803)
- 1897 – Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (b. 1828)
- 1908 – Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)
- 1918 – Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
- 1922 – Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)
- 1925 – Samuel Berger, American boxer (b. 1884)
- 1930 – Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907)
- 1931 – Nellie Melba, Australian soprano (b. 1861)
- 1934 – Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)
- 1944 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist (b. 1863)
- 1946 – Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
- 1948 – John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher (b. 1866)
- 1955 – Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
- 1957 – Marika Ninou, Greek singer (b. 1918)
- 1960 – Arthur Legat, Belgian race car driver (b. 1898)
- 1961 – Davey Crockett, American baseball player (b. 1875)
- 1965 – Stan Laurel, English actor and director (b. 1890)
- 1969 – Madhubala, Indian actress (b. 1933)
- 1970 – Hirsch Jacobs, American horse trainer (b. 1904)
- 1973 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
- 1974 – Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1895)
- 1976 – L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
- 1979 – W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1900)
- 1983 – Herbert Howells, English organist and composer (b. 1892)
- 1984 – Jessamyn West, American author (b. 1902)
- 1990 – José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
- 1992 – Markos Vafiadis, Greek politician (b. 1906)
- 1995 – Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1942)
- 1995 – James Herriot, English veterinary surgeon and author (b. 1916)
- 1996 – William Bonin, American serial killer and sex offender (b. 1947)
- 1996 – Paul Saagpakk, Estonian linguist (b. 1910)
- 1997 – Tony Williams, American drummer, composer, and producer (The Tony Williams Lifetime) (b. 1945)
- 1999 – Carlos Hathcock, American sniper (b. 1942)
- 1999 – Rick Wilson, American wrestler (b. 1965)
- 2000 – Ofra Haza, Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1957)
- 2000 – Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
- 2001 – Robert Enrico, French director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
- 2003 – Howie Epstein, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) (b. 1955)
- 2003 – Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (b. 1910)
- 2003 – Titos Vandis, Greek actor (b. 1917)
- 2004 – Vijay Anand, Indian director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1934)
- 2004 – Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (b. 1945)
- 2004 – Neil Ardley, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
- 2004 – Sikander Bakht, Indian politician (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Don Cornell, American singer (b. 1919)
- 2004 – Carl Liscombe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1915)
- 2006 – Benno Besson, Swiss actor and director (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
- 2007 – Donnie Brooks, American singer (b. 1936)
- 2007 – John Ritchie, English footballer (b. 1941)
- 2008 – Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian politician, 2nd President of Slovenia (b. 1950)
- 2008 – Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot (b. 1916)
- 2008 – Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and journalist (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Denis Lazure, Canadian politician (b. 1925)
- 2010 – Orlando Zapata, Cuban plumber and activist (b. 1967)
- 2011 – Nirmala Srivastava, Indian religious leader, founded Sahaja Yoga (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Peter King, English footballer (b. 1964)
- 2013 – Eugene Bookhammer, American politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (b. 1918)
- 2013 – Joan Child, Australian politician, 19th Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Donald A. Haggar, American lawyer, businessman, and politician (b. 1924)
- 2013 – George A. Hamid, Jr., American businessman (b. 1918)
- 2013 – Paul McIlhenny, American businessman (b. 1944)
- 2013 – Mary Ann McMorrow, American judge (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920)
- 2013 – Sylvia Smith, English author (b. 1945)
- 2013 – Richard Worsley, English general (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances[edit]
- Christian Feast Day:
- Lindel Tsen and Paul Sasaki, (commemoration, Anglicanism)
- Mashramani-Republic Day (Guyana)
- National Day (Brunei)
- Red Army Day or Day of Soviet Army and Navy in the former Soviet Union, also held in various former Soviet republics:
- Defender of the Fatherland Day (Russia)
- Terminalia held in honor of Terminus (Ancient Rome)
“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” - 1 John 4:18
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Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon
February 22: Morning
"His bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob." -Genesis 49:24
That strength which God gives to his Josephs is real strength; it is not a boasted valour, a fiction, a thing of which men talk, but which ends in smoke; it is true--divine strength. Why does Joseph stand against temptation? Because God gives him aid. There is nought that we can do without the power of God. All true strength comes from "the mighty God of Jacob." Notice in what a blessedly familiar way God gives this strength to Joseph--"The arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob." Thus God is represented as putting his hands on Joseph's hands, placing his arms on Joseph's arms. Like as a father teaches his children, so the Lord teaches them that fear him. He puts his arms upon them. Marvellous condescension! God Almighty, Eternal, Omnipotent, stoops from his throne and lays his hand upon the child's hand, stretching his arm upon the arm of Joseph, that he may be made strong! This strength was also covenant strength, for it is ascribed to "the mighty God of Jacob." Now, wherever you read of the God of Jacob in the Bible, you should remember the covenant with Jacob. Christians love to think of God's covenant. All the power, all the grace, all the blessings, all the mercies, all the comforts, all the things we have, flow to us from the well-head, through the covenant. If there were no covenant, then we should fail indeed; for all grace proceeds from it, as light and heat from the sun. No angels ascend or descend, save upon that ladder which Jacob saw, at the top of which stood a covenant God. Christian, it may be that the archers have sorely grieved you, and shot at you, and wounded you, but still your bow abides in strength; be sure, then, to ascribe all the glory to Jacob's God.
Evening
"The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power." - Nahum 1:3
Jehovah "is slow to anger." When mercy cometh into the world she driveth winged steeds; the axles of her chariot-wheels are red hot with speed; but when wrath goeth forth, it toileth on with tardy footsteps, for God taketh no pleasure in the sinner's death. God's rod of mercy is ever in his hands outstretched; his sword of justice is in its scabbard, held down by that pierced hand of love which bled for the sins of men. "The Lord is slow to anger," because he is great in power. He is truly great in power who hath power over himself. When God's power doth restrain himself, then it is power indeed: the power that binds omnipotence is omnipotence surpassed. A man who has a strong mind can bear to be insulted long, and only resents the wrong when a sense of right demands his action. The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit. God marketh his enemies, and yet he bestirs not himself, but holdeth in his anger. If he were less divine than he is, he would long ere this have sent forth the whole of his thunders, and emptied the magazines of heaven; he would long ere this have blasted the earth with the wondrous fires of its lower regions, and man would have been utterly destroyed; but the greatness of his power brings us mercy. Dear reader, what is your state this evening? Can you by humble faith look to Jesus, and say, "My substitute, thou art my rock, my trust"? Then, beloved, be not afraid of God's power; for by faith you have fled to Christ for refuge, the power of God need no more terrify you, than the shield and sword of the warrior need terrify those whom he loves. Rather rejoice that he who is "great in power" is your Father and Friend.
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Shimri, Simri
[Shĭm'rī,Sĭm'rī] - jehovah is watching.
1. A Simeonite and head of a tribal family (1 Chron. 4:37).
2. Father of Jediael, one of David's heroes (1 Chron. 11:45).
3. A son of Hosah and Tabernacle gatekeeper (1 Chron. 26:10).
4. A son of Elizaphan who assisted in Hezekiah's reformation (2 Chron. 29:13).
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Today's reading: Numbers 3-4, Mark 3:20-35 (NIV)
View today's reading on Bible GatewayToday's Old Testament reading: Numbers 3-4
The Levites
1 This is the account of the family of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai.
2 The names of the sons of Aaron were Nadab the firstborn and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 3 Those were the names of Aaron's sons, the anointed priests, who were ordained to serve as priests. 4 Nadab and Abihu, however, died before the LORD when they made an offering with unauthorized fire before him in the Desert of Sinai. They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron....
Today's New Testament reading: Mark 3:20-35
Jesus Accused by His Family and by Teachers of the Law
20 Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. 21 When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."
22 And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebul! By the prince of demons he is driving out demons...."
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