Happy birthday and many happy returns Daniel Bogo and Bob Scheer. Born on the same day, across the years. The same day, when in 1826, HMS Beagle sailed and the world made discoveries billions of years in the making. You have sailed from Plymouth, and now you can own your future.
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Their ABC
Miranda Devine – Wednesday, May 22, 2013 (12:15am)
IF a Martian were to land in Sydney and start watching the ABC, she would soon figure out the taxpayer-funded broadcaster is biased to the left.
Whether it’s a show like Q&A, which consistently stacks its panel with one lone conservative plus a Coalition politician (who may or may not be conservative) against four left-wingers. Or Insiders, which struggles to put one conservative on its couch each Sunday or MediaWatch, which just announced a new presenter, but did not extend the genepool past Paul Barry, who is not much of a leftie, but who has already done the job.
The leftist bias is patently obvious to everyone, and denials from within the ABC are laughable, even to themselves.
Now that bias has been quantified, in a survey into journalists’ political leanings by the University of the Sunshine Coast. It showed that all journalists lean left - no surprise.
But ABC journalists are extremists. They vote 41% Greens, 34% ALP and 16% Coalition - just about the exact opposite of the community.
The latest Newspoll shows the community favours 9% Greens, 31% ALP and 46% Coalition.
So will the ABC launch an affirmative action program to hire conservatives as a matter of urgency?
What assurances can the ABC provide that coverage of climate change is impartial and accurate when so many of its staffers are green zealots?
Does the ABC think its role is to balance against the perceived right-wing bias of News Limited and other commercial media?
If so, then it should say so honestly and allow the proposition to be tested. The truth is that News Limited journalists also lean left, just not so far as the ABC, with 19.8% voting for the Greens, 46.5% for Labor, and 26.7% for the Coalition, as reported by The Conversation website.
Yes, senior editors are more conservative than their staff, but they are still left of the public, voting 11.4% Greens, 34.1% Labor and 43.2% Coalition. ‘
And, as anyone who has worked in a newsroom knows, it’s the frontline journalists who create the culture, not their bosses.
So how can the ABC continue to pretend it provides balance when its staff are so out of kilter with the taxpayer? It’s why the ABC is known on twitter as #theirabc.
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Magistrate’s strength in weak legal system
Miranda Devine – Tuesday, May 21, 2013 (8:02pm)
PEOPLE have been quick to condemn magistrate Jacqueline Milledge over the refusal of a Muslim defendant to stand when she entered the court this week. But look a bit deeper and you’ll find they’re flogging the wrong horse.
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KYLE AND JULIA G
Tim Blair – Wednesday, May 22, 2013 (5:10pm)
The Prime Minister with her new best friend, this time minus the rabbit outfit:
Gillard’s previous alliances seem almost acceptable by comparison.
Gillard’s previous alliances seem almost acceptable by comparison.
UPDATE. “Business deals in parking lots …” A Midnight Oil lyric comes to life for our PM.
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BOB’S OPTIONS
Tim Blair – Wednesday, May 22, 2013 (1:41pm)
Labor folk hero Bob Ellis is considering two courses of action in his strange feud with Fairfax columnist and dental expert John Birmingham. Let’s help Bob by putting those options – plus a third – to a fair, democratic and legally binding vote:
UPDATE. With 1000 votes submitted, readers strongly endorse love. Marriage leads death and legal action by a massive margin.
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THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED
Tim Blair – Wednesday, May 22, 2013 (11:49am)
Back in 1975, tornadoes were said to be caused by global cooling. Now they’re caused by global warming – or conservatives.
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LEAF SENTENCE
Tim Blair – Wednesday, May 22, 2013 (11:47am)
A leaf is imprisoned in an upstairs window sill. Updates to follow:
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WE’RE ALL BAD
Tim Blair – Wednesday, May 22, 2013 (11:04am)
“If you find this amusing,” emails David Thompson, “you’re a very bad person.”
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CHECKER APPOINTED
Tim Blair – Wednesday, May 22, 2013 (10:59am)
Our spy deep within the ABC’s Ultimo compound forwards this memo:
I’m pleased to announce the appointment of a new and foundation Editor for the ABC Fact Check unit.Russell Skelton has vast experience as both a media executive and writer. He is a highly regarded reporter and Contributing Editor to The Age newspaper and Fairfax Media. A former deputy editor, business editor, foreign editor and North Asia correspondent for The Age, Russell has worked in top positions at Fairfax and News Limited. He has been business editor of the Melbourne Herald.Russell also worked for the ABC as Executive Producer for 7.30 Victoria.He is the winner of numerous awards including a Walkley and the George Munster award for independent journalism.The ABC News Division is delighted to attract to this position a journalist with Russell’s reputation for accuracy and integrity.Bruce Belsham
Head Current Affairs
Skelton is the husband of ABC presenter Virginia Trioli.
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NEW CHARGES FOR THOMMO
Tim Blair – Wednesday, May 22, 2013 (10:31am)
The member for Embattled faces additional charges:
Embattled MP Craig Thomson is now facing 19 new charges in relation to allegations he misused thousands of dollar in union funds.The Melbourne Magistrates’ Court heard this morning Mr Thomson would now face 173 fraud related charges – including 19 new charges …Court documents, tendered at that hearing, alleged Mr Thomson misused $42,800, allegedly using union credit cards to pay for prostitutes, R-rated movies and ATM cash withdrawals.
Thomson maintains his innocence. No comments.
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Damn. Mr Trioli beats me to another ABC job
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (5:14pm)
Of course, the ABC isn’t biased. It’s just that conservatives can’t be trusted to deliver news and views.
Thus the ABC’s head of current affairs announces a new appointment, just a couple of weeks after Media Watch gained its eighth straight presenter of the Left:
Which you click that last link, you might suspect Skelton will feel a strong temptation to make me an early subject of an ABC audit.
Thus the ABC’s head of current affairs announces a new appointment, just a couple of weeks after Media Watch gained its eighth straight presenter of the Left:
I’m pleased to announce the appointment of a new and foundation Editor for the ABC Fact Check unit.To cut to the chase, Skelton is the husband of Virginia Trioli.
Russell Skelton has vast experience as both a media executive and writer. He is a highly regarded reporter and Contributing Editor to The Age newspaper and Fairfax Media. A former deputy editor, business editor, foreign editor and North Asia correspondent for The Age, Russell has worked in top positions at Fairfax and News Limited. He has been business editor of the Melbourne Herald.
Russell also worked for the ABC as Executive Producer for 7.30 Victoria.
Which you click that last link, you might suspect Skelton will feel a strong temptation to make me an early subject of an ABC audit.
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Turning dead children in Oklahoma into a joke
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (9:48am)
Ah, the Left. So sure of its greater compassion:
She thought she was making a topical political joke, but a co-creator of ‘The Daily Show’ managed to enrage many of her followers after tweeting joke about the Oklahoma tornado’s political motivations.The Daily Show is one that ABC managing director Mark Scott is looking to for inspiration.
‘This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives,’ wrote comedian Lizz Winstead, in a tweet, around 3:30 Monday afternoon.
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Would journalists tell you if there really were a bust-up?
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (9:19am)
Would it be a big story if Tony Abbott was getting divorced? I suspect the answer would be yes, yes and yes.
In fact, Abbott’s marriage is as sound as a bell.
I’m just trying to establish the ground rules here, now that 3AW has referred to a rumor widely shared by journalists - but not with the public.
(From 36:50)
In fact, Abbott’s marriage is as sound as a bell.
I’m just trying to establish the ground rules here, now that 3AW has referred to a rumor widely shared by journalists - but not with the public.
(From 36:50)
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I’ll what?
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (9:05am)
News to me:
It is expected that the new owner will use Bolt for breeding more birds.(Thanks to reader burrah.)
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No one in Treasury fired for a $20 billion blue
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (8:48am)
Terry McCrann agrees there was no conspiracy. I just want to know why no one was fired for the mistake:
THE Treasury Department did not fiddle its forecasts to help the Government cook the Budget books - the easy, conspiratorial, explanation for why a predicted $1 billion surplus ended up as a $19.4 billion deficit.
Nor did Treasury provide the Government with a range of forecasts, to enable it to pick and choose the one that best suited its own political purposes.
Treasury head Martin Parkinson gave a vigorous, even aggressive, defence of his department and its role in the Budget forecasting process, in the traditional post-Budget speech yesterday… Essentially it came down to this: we got it wrong.
In the process, he once again proved the truth of the maxim: if you have to choose between a conspiracy and a stuff-up, go for the stuff-up every time.
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Sick pensioner finds Wayne Swan needs his $22,000 life savings
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (8:42am)
This isn’t a good look:
A QUEENSLAND pensioner emerged from a quintuple heart bypass only to find his bank had emptied his account, handing more than $22,000 to the Federal Government.
Legislative changes rushed through Parliament late last year mean money can now be identified as “unclaimed” after an account has been inactive for more than three years, instead of seven years.... ASIC says the money can be claimed “at any time by the rightful owner”, but banks have pointed out the process can take as long as six weeks.
Toowong resident Adrian Duffy is now looking at a lengthy battle to have his savings restored.
The 75-year-old spent 21 days in hospital following quintuple heart bypass surgery and a second operation in April.
When he and his wife, 57-year-old Mary-Jane, went to check their Suncorp account, they discovered their balance had plummeted from $22,616 to zero. A note on the May 1 entry read: “Closing WDL Govt unclaimed monies.”
The couple had saved for 14 years in preparation for major health-related costs…
Mr and Mrs Duffy are adamant they received no warnings of the closure of the account.
“I called it stealing,” Mr Duffy said.
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Robbing stay-at-home mums to pay for the child-care rich
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (8:34am)
Janet Albrechtsen, a critic of the baby bonus, concedes what we discussed on Sunday - that removing it, but boosting paid parental leave, privileges working women above stay-at-home mothers:
Howard’s policy had one great virtue. It was an equitable way to acknowledge the social value of women bearing and caring for children. As Howard explains in his biography, he was opposed to taxpayer-funded paid parental leave because he wanted fair treatment of both stay-at-home and workforce-bound parents. This led to the Baby Bonus, set at $3000 in 2004, rising to $5000 in 2008 - the rough equivalent of 12 or 13 weeks of paid leave at the then federal minimum wage level…
It put an end to the mummy wars.
However, with the abolition of the Baby Bonus and the introduction of paid parental leave, equity is gone. Now, even more middle-class welfare is skewed towards working parents. Even before the Baby Bonus was axed, the Gillard government boasted that working women will be $2000 better off receiving PPL than if they opt for the baby bonus. The opposition’s even more generous PPL policy is even more objectionable now that the Baby Bonus has been axed. Working women on incomes up to $150,000 can extract $75,000 from taxpayers to fund their maternity leave.
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Not a “cut to the bone” but a scratch
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (8:12am)
Labor’s latest focus-group-tested catch-phrase to attack Tony Abbott:
No one has yet challenged Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Treasurer Wayne Swan or Finance Minister Penny Wong on their use of this ludicrous meme.
The bare facts expose the lie.
The extra savings Tony Abbott announced last week - a net $1 billion a year:
Deficit next year: $18 billion.
A $1 billion a year cut in $391 billion outlays when we are running a deficit of $18 billion is not a “cut to the bone” but the lightest scratch.
UPDATE
Jack Waterford, like many on the Left, dramatically underestimates Abbott, but there is a kernel of truth to this attack:
These are just the start of the cuts to the bone that the Leader of the Opposition has planned ...“Cuts to the bone”? I wish.
No one has yet challenged Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Treasurer Wayne Swan or Finance Minister Penny Wong on their use of this ludicrous meme.
The bare facts expose the lie.
The extra savings Tony Abbott announced last week - a net $1 billion a year:
Aiming his pre-election Budget reply speech directly at the family wallet, the Opposition Leader last night pledged to lower the cost of living with a $4 billion tax and cash splash to households…Government spending: $391 billion next year.
To pay for it all, however, Mr Abbott said he would take an axe to government spending and other handouts - with $5 billion in extra savings..
Deficit next year: $18 billion.
A $1 billion a year cut in $391 billion outlays when we are running a deficit of $18 billion is not a “cut to the bone” but the lightest scratch.
UPDATE
Jack Waterford, like many on the Left, dramatically underestimates Abbott, but there is a kernel of truth to this attack:
But it cannot be said that cuts or changes of the order being promised will make a huge difference to the scale of government, or cause lasting damage to the economy. In any event Labor has been cutting at much the same rate…
Labor could be better to ask whether Abbott is more timid than bold, more timorous than decisive…
Can Abbott lead a government that does things, drives things and changes things? Can he win arguments about the rationing of public resources… Many of his senior colleagues are quite serious about economic restraint and simply do not trust Abbott to knuckle down to financial discipline.
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Gonski a fight over false figures and never-never funding
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (8:03am)
The Gillard Government just makes up another number - as it did with the ”10,000” rorted 457 visas - to flog a scare:
But Kelly says he shouldn’t worry - the real spending hit only comes in his second term:
Labor’s central claim that Abbott’s opposition to Gonski’s changes will cost schools $16.2 billion over six years is based on the extrapolation of a hypothetical and is still not justified or explained.Paul Kelly is right to warn Abbott about the poor politics of picking a fight over school funding with not just Gillard but a Liberal premier:
School Education Minister Peter Garrett has confused the education funding debate by arbitrarily announcing funding growth to be 3 per cent for the next six years, airily claiming this is standard budgetary practice.
What’s more, his claim the budget papers “clearly show” this fall to 3 per cent is plain wrong - they say “had” they fallen to this level, a hypothetical.
Abbott visited NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell and tried to persuade him not to sign up. O’Farrell, backed by his cabinet, rebuffed Abbott.But Abbott cannot slide into office just promising to do Labor things, but better. Spending is out of control. He cannot sign up to spend as much as Labor.
O’Farrell told Sky News’ Australian Agenda on Sunday “the existing funding formula is broken” and “unfair”. A direct repudiation of Abbott.
But Kelly says he shouldn’t worry - the real spending hit only comes in his second term:
The budget boasted an extra $9.8 billion from the national government for schools across six years. But only $2.9bn falls in the next four years of forward estimates. The bulk comes in 2017-18 and 2018-19, well into the second term of any theoretical Abbott government. Yet these ballpark numbers grossly exaggerate the new funding.Yet they do come.
Across the forward estimates Labor is redirecting to Gonski funds a series of five national funding plans worth $2.1bn. So the extra Gonski money is more like $800 million across four years. That’s no revolution. The Gonski funds come very slowly.
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The ABC is killing Fairfax and betraying its charter. Answer: sell it
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (7:52am)
The arguments are sound, the politics difficult:
UPDATE
Professor James Allan:
Treat that hope as vain - even naive. So the next step is to conclude that what cannot be reformed must be sold.
Tony Abbott is facing internal pressure from Victorian Liberals to privatise the ABC and SBS if he wins the September 14 election amid claims both organisations are struggling to comply with their charters…Abbott does not want this debate before the election. But conservatives - and Fairfax shareholders and journalists - must quickly address the vast expansion of the ABC into on-line publishing. We are getting a state newspaper (electronic version) that is actually a propaganda sheet for the Left and is cannibalising the traditional audience of Fairfax mastheads, which must sell what the ABC is giving away.
The Victorian Liberal Party’s state conference this weekend will vote on a motion urging the federal Coalition to make a full-scale ‘’operational review’’ of the ABC and SBS to ‘’look at the feasibility of partial or full privatisation of both’’.
The motion says ... both broadcasters ‘’aggressively compete’’ with private media outlets in a ‘’high-velocity public information environment’’…
Institute of Public Affairs executive director John Roskam said it was becoming ‘’more apparent by the day’’ that concerns about public ownership and bias would need to be addressed if the Coalition won the September 14 election.
UPDATE
Professor James Allan:
DOES it really matter if every host of the ABC’s Media Watch since its inception has left-of-centre sympathies?But I believe the ABC, certainly under Scott, has made it clear it has not the slightest intention of fixing its bias. To plead for balance at the ABC is to whistle in the wind.
Or if all the ABC political programs, not least Insiders, show an unmistakable tilt towards having more left-of-centre participants than right-of-centre ones, sometimes by a factor of 3:1?
... let’s consider a couple of analogies…
Does anyone doubt that if, say, the Labor Party got to pick every top judge that we would end up with a different set of rulings about how to read our Constitution and our federal statutes than if about half of these judges were chosen by Labor and half by the Coalition?
Of course we would. Because all of us bring to the table certain core beliefs that influence how we see and decide the borderline cases…
So the way the ABC selects its top hosts and participants for its big-ticket current affairs shows, choosing them overwhelmingly from one side of the political spectrum, means that we end up with less balance than if they were picked the way top judges are, with both sides of politics getting about even input…
Personally, I think there is real bias at the ABC. But let’s say I’m wrong. Why not at least improve the awful appearances and pick, say, at least one conservative host of Media Watch (ever) or make sure that exactly half of those who appear on Insiders have a lineage on each side of politics?
Treat that hope as vain - even naive. So the next step is to conclude that what cannot be reformed must be sold.
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That 97 per cent claim: four problems with Cook and Obama
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (7:13am)
John Cook’s claim got wide coverage:
Even the ABC this week conceded:
First, the papers which explicity endorsed the standard global warming theory were outnumbered by those which explicitly denied it:
Third, Cook’s study missed key papers by sceptical scientists.
Fourth, some of the papers Cook claims endorse global warming theory do not.
Says who? Say the scientists who wrote them:
Today, the most comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed climate research to date was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Our analysis found that among papers expressing a position on human-caused global warming, over 97% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming. Overwhelming agreement among scientists had already formed in the early 1990s. And the consensus is getting stronger.It was always odd that Cook, a Queensland University Climate Communication Research Fellow (what is that, exactly?), could find strong certainty about global warming science at the very time the failure of the world to warm as predicted was causing warmist scientists to rejig figures and think up new excuses.
Even the ABC this week conceded:
A recent slowdown in global warming means the harshest climate change predictions are less likely in the immediate decades, say an international team of scientists. Others argue the conclusions need to be taken with a ‘large grain of salt’.But four key things are now emerging about Cook’s claim, which was swallowed whole by the usual media suspects, and was even tweeted by President Barack Obama.
First, the papers which explicity endorsed the standard global warming theory were outnumbered by those which explicitly denied it:
The guidelines for rating these abstracts [of papers on global warming] show only the highest rating value blames the majority of global warming on humans. No other rating says how much humans contribute to global warming. The only time an abstract is rated as saying how much humans contribute to global warming is if it mentions:Second, a theory is not proved by the number of scientists who believe it. And however popular, it can be disproved by a single fact.
that human activity is a dominant influence or has caused most of recent climate change (>50%).If we use the system’s search feature for abstracts that meet this requirement, we get 65 results. That is 65, out of the 12,000+ examined abstracts. Not only is that value incredibly small, it is smaller than another value listed in the paper:
Reject AGW 0.7% (78)Remembering AGW stands for anthropogenic global warming, or global warming caused by humans, take a minute to let that sink in. This study done by John Cook and others, praised by the President of the United States, found more scientific publications whose abstracts reject global warming than say humans are primarily to blame for it…
This study found ~4,000 abstracts that say humans cause some amount of global warming. Only 143 of those indicate how much warming humans are responsible for. Of those, 65 say its a lot, 78 say it isn’t much.
Third, Cook’s study missed key papers by sceptical scientists.
Fourth, some of the papers Cook claims endorse global warming theory do not.
Says who? Say the scientists who wrote them:
I emailed a sample of scientists who’s papers were used in the study and asked them if the categorization by Cook et al. (2013) is an accurate representation of their paper. Their responses are eye opening and evidence that the Cook et al. (2013) team falsely classified scientists’ papers as “endorsing AGW"…
Craig D. Idso, Ph.D. Geography; Chairman, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
Dr. Idso, your paper ‘Ultra-enhanced spring branch growth in CO2-enriched trees: can it alter the phase of the atmosphere’s seasonal CO2 cycle?’ is categorized by Cook et al. (2013) as; “Implicitly endorsing AGW without minimizing it”.
Is this an accurate representation of your paper?
Idso: “That is not an accurate representation of my paper. The papers examined how the rise in atmospheric CO2 could be inducing a phase advance in the spring portion of the atmosphere’s seasonal CO2 cycle. Other literature had previously claimed a measured advance was due to rising temperatures, but we showed that it was quite likely the rise in atmospheric CO2 itself was responsible for the lion’s share of the change. It would be incorrect to claim that our paper was an endorsement of CO2-induced global warming.”Nicola Scafetta, Ph.D. Physics; Research Scientist, ACRIM Science Team
Dr. Scafetta, your paper ‘Phenomenological solar contribution to the 1900–2000 global surface warming’ is categorized by Cook et al. (2013) as; “Explicitly endorses and quantifies AGW as 50+%”
Is this an accurate representation of your paper?
Scafetta: “Cook et al. (2013) is based on a strawman argument because it does not correctly define the IPCC AGW theory, which is NOT that human emissions have contributed 50%+ of the global warming since 1900 but that almost 90-100% of the observed global warming was induced by human emission.Nir J. Shaviv, Ph.D. Astrophysics; Associate Professor, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
What my papers say is that the IPCC view is erroneous because about 40-70% of the global warming observed from 1900 to 2000 was induced by the sun....
Please note that it is very important to clarify that the AGW advocated by the IPCC has always claimed that 90-100% of the warming observed since 1900 is due to anthropogenic emissions. While critics like me have always claimed that the data would approximately indicate a 50-50 natural-anthropogenic contribution at most...”
Dr. Shaviv, your paper ‘On climate response to changes in the cosmic ray flux and radiative budget’ is categorized by Cook et al. (2013) as; “Explicitly endorses but does not quantify or minimise”
Is this an accurate representation of your paper?
Shaviv: “Nope… it is not an accurate representation. The paper shows that if cosmic rays are included in empirical climate sensitivity analyses, then one finds that different time scales consistently give a low climate sensitiviity. i.e., it supports the idea that cosmic rays affect the climate and that climate sensitivity is low. This means that part of the 20th century should be attributed to the increased solar activity and that 21st century warming under a business as usual scenario should be low (about 1°C)…
Science is not a democracy, even if the majority of scientists think one thing (and it translates to more papers saying so), they aren’t necessarily correct. Moreover, as you can see from the above example, the analysis itself is faulty, namely, it doesn’t even quantify correctly the number of scientists or the number of papers which endorse or diminish the importance of AGW.”
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Stand up for our rule of law
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (6:54am)
Miranda Devine defends the magistrate who dealt with the Muslim man who refused to stand for her in court.
Devine blames the legal culture for making it difficult to punish such contempt. But the culture cannot change until one individual starts to push. I want that individual to be the magistrate, not the defendant.
Devine blames the legal culture for making it difficult to punish such contempt. But the culture cannot change until one individual starts to push. I want that individual to be the magistrate, not the defendant.
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Abbott prays for fair coverage
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (12:08am)
What Tony Abbott actually said:
I thank God every day for the privilege of leading this great party and I pray to God every day that my colleagues and I can give this great country the better government that it deserves…How the Sydney Morning Herald cast that in its first paragraph:
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he prays every day for an election victory.
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The night Mike Carlton showed us what he’s got. Dear God…
Andrew Bolt May 22 2013 (12:06am)
Tim Blair, in his
update on the latest inanities of three writers of the Left, notes the
verdict of Twitter on the performance of the boor Mike Carlton on the ABC’s Q&A:
Here are all Carlton’s contributions to what the ABC fondly likes to imagine is an intellectually heavyweight show.
Note the reflex “blame America”, which leads Carlton to forget even the Cambodian genocide. Note the reflex hate-the-rich mockery, and the reflex resentment when another country snaffles what the business he expects our rich to have signed up. And note about all the schoolboy humor and, er, insights.
[UPDATE: Cut&Paste has edited excerpts, plus fact checks and screams of horror at his mumblings over oral sex.]
But judge for yourself:
...failed to impress on Q & A last night ...Intrigued, and keen to check prejudice against evidence, I checked the transcript to see if this harsh judgment from a normally sympathetic medium was fair.
Here are all Carlton’s contributions to what the ABC fondly likes to imagine is an intellectually heavyweight show.
Note the reflex “blame America”, which leads Carlton to forget even the Cambodian genocide. Note the reflex hate-the-rich mockery, and the reflex resentment when another country snaffles what the business he expects our rich to have signed up. And note about all the schoolboy humor and, er, insights.
[UPDATE: Cut&Paste has edited excerpts, plus fact checks and screams of horror at his mumblings over oral sex.]
But judge for yourself:
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This devil's food ice cream cake has been sprayed with red velvet chocolate and is filled with fruit syrup so it looks like it's bleeding when you take a bite. It's also giving us some kind of dessert panic attack…
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Helen Keller’s Letter to Nazi Germany
In 1933, she attacked book-burning German students
Slate’s new history blog recently posted a piece on a semi-obscure letter from Helen Keller to German university students in the wake of a decision to burn books that were deemed “un-German.” Among the books was Keller’s, whose political leanings were chronicled in How I Became a Socialist. As Rebecca Onion points out, Keller’s letter contained a prescient excoriation for Germany’s treatment of its Jewish citizens.
To the student body of Germany:
History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them.
You can burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds. I gave all the royalties of my books for all time to the German soldiers blinded in the World War with no thought in my heart but love and compassion for the German people.
I acknowledge the grievous complications that have led to your intolerance; all the more do I deplore the injustice and unwisdom of passing on to unborn generations the stigma of your deeds.
Do not imagine that your barbarities to the Jews are unknown here. God sleepeth not, and He will visit His judgment upon you. Better were it for you to have a mill-stone hung around your neck and sink into the sea than to be hated and despised of all men.
Slate’s new history blog recently posted a piece on a semi-obscure letter from Helen Keller to German university students in the wake of a decision to burn books that were deemed “un-German.” Among the books was Keller’s, whose political leanings were chronicled in How I Became a Socialist. As Rebecca Onion points out, Keller’s letter contained a prescient excoriation for Germany’s treatment of its Jewish citizens.
To the student body of Germany:
History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before, and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them.
You can burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds. I gave all the royalties of my books for all time to the German soldiers blinded in the World War with no thought in my heart but love and compassion for the German people.
I acknowledge the grievous complications that have led to your intolerance; all the more do I deplore the injustice and unwisdom of passing on to unborn generations the stigma of your deeds.
Do not imagine that your barbarities to the Jews are unknown here. God sleepeth not, and He will visit His judgment upon you. Better were it for you to have a mill-stone hung around your neck and sink into the sea than to be hated and despised of all men.
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Senator Barbara Boxer blamed global warming for deadly tornadoes and advocated for her carbon tax.
Would a carbon tax have prevented this tragedy?
Details at CFACT's Climate Depot http://
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A grassy knoll?
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The struggle of the spirit against the mindlessness: the composer, lyricist and music writer Richard Wagner in conversation nmz
new musikzeitung: Mr. Wagner, two years ago we spoke with your father Franz Liszt among other things, the "desire for change" in the musical and cultural life of our time (Schott 9/2011). What has done since then, in your view?
Richard Wagner: The struggle of man against the existing society has begun. This struggle, he is the most sacred, the most sublime that has ever been fought, for he is the struggle of consciousness against the coincidence of the Spirit against the inanity, morality and evil, the force against the weak: it is the struggle for our determination, our right to our happiness. The status quo, it has great power over the people. Our current society has a terrible power over us because they deliberately inhibited the growth of our power. The power of this holy struggle we can only arise from the knowledge of the depravity of our society. If we are well aware of how our existing society of their task contradicts how violent and often intentionally keeps us, our determination, our right to get our happiness, we have also gained the strength to fight them, to defeat them. Our first, most important task is therefore: on all sides to examine the nature and work of our existing society, and to grasp more clearly, it is once detected, then it is also judged! (1) However, we have this modern world to shed light necessary in order for us to find out that nothing was to be hoped from it? You will always be hostile and under every form, such requests as we have for the care of a noble art, because they just what we want, do not want. (2)
Richard Wagner: The struggle of man against the existing society has begun. This struggle, he is the most sacred, the most sublime that has ever been fought, for he is the struggle of consciousness against the coincidence of the Spirit against the inanity, morality and evil, the force against the weak: it is the struggle for our determination, our right to our happiness. The status quo, it has great power over the people. Our current society has a terrible power over us because they deliberately inhibited the growth of our power. The power of this holy struggle we can only arise from the knowledge of the depravity of our society. If we are well aware of how our existing society of their task contradicts how violent and often intentionally keeps us, our determination, our right to get our happiness, we have also gained the strength to fight them, to defeat them. Our first, most important task is therefore: on all sides to examine the nature and work of our existing society, and to grasp more clearly, it is once detected, then it is also judged! (1) However, we have this modern world to shed light necessary in order for us to find out that nothing was to be hoped from it? You will always be hostile and under every form, such requests as we have for the care of a noble art, because they just what we want, do not want. (2)
The bloody heavy work of education
Schott: Where do you get the motivation to compose in such a hostile environment?
Wagner: Only with true desperation, I always take back the Art on: happen Diess, and I must renounce the reality again - I have to throw myself back into the waves of the artistic imagination to satisfy me in an imaginary world, it must at least also helped my imagination, my imagination must be supported.Then I can not live like a dog, I can not embed on straw and refresh myself in booze: my very irritated, fine, immensely covetous, but extremely delicate and tender sensuality, must somehow be flattered if my mind the bloody heavy work of formation of a unvorhandenen world is to succeed. (3)
Wagner: Only with true desperation, I always take back the Art on: happen Diess, and I must renounce the reality again - I have to throw myself back into the waves of the artistic imagination to satisfy me in an imaginary world, it must at least also helped my imagination, my imagination must be supported.Then I can not live like a dog, I can not embed on straw and refresh myself in booze: my very irritated, fine, immensely covetous, but extremely delicate and tender sensuality, must somehow be flattered if my mind the bloody heavy work of formation of a unvorhandenen world is to succeed. (3)
Schott: Which brings us indirectly reached even at the cultural education ...
Wagner: The daily perceived and bitterly lamented gap between the so-called education and ignorance is so vast, a connecting link between the two so unthinkable, a reconciliation so impossible to admit at some sincerity, founded on those unnatural formation of modern art at its deepest shame is would, as a life elements owe their existence, which in turn can support its existence only to the deepest ignorance of the actual mass of humanity. The only thing that should be able to modern art in this their assigned position and assets in honest hearts aims, namely to spread education, they can not do, simply for the reason that because the art in order to somehow act in life can even the flower of a natural, that is grown out from below, education must be, can never be capable however, formation pour down from above. At best, therefore, resembles the person seeking in a foreign language a people communicate to themselves, which does not know this our culture art: Anything, and especially also the spirit richest person what he produces can only lead to the most ridiculous confusions and misunderstandings. (4)
Wagner: The daily perceived and bitterly lamented gap between the so-called education and ignorance is so vast, a connecting link between the two so unthinkable, a reconciliation so impossible to admit at some sincerity, founded on those unnatural formation of modern art at its deepest shame is would, as a life elements owe their existence, which in turn can support its existence only to the deepest ignorance of the actual mass of humanity. The only thing that should be able to modern art in this their assigned position and assets in honest hearts aims, namely to spread education, they can not do, simply for the reason that because the art in order to somehow act in life can even the flower of a natural, that is grown out from below, education must be, can never be capable however, formation pour down from above. At best, therefore, resembles the person seeking in a foreign language a people communicate to themselves, which does not know this our culture art: Anything, and especially also the spirit richest person what he produces can only lead to the most ridiculous confusions and misunderstandings. (4)
"We have the whole press against us"
Schott: I wonder what lies at our school system, with its emphasis on the natural sciences.
Wagner might if our science, the idol of the modern world, our state constitutions found so much out sense that they would be able, for example, figure out a cure for starving unemployed citizens, we should take them at the end of the substitutions for the impotent become ecclesiastical religion then . But they can not do anything. And the state is using its social "order" in the face of extended circles there like a lost child, and has only one concern to prevent that it would otherwise about. To this end, he pulls himself together, gives laws and increased the armies: the bravery is formed disciplinary action, which then in cases occurring injustice is protected against Übele consequences. (5)
Wagner might if our science, the idol of the modern world, our state constitutions found so much out sense that they would be able, for example, figure out a cure for starving unemployed citizens, we should take them at the end of the substitutions for the impotent become ecclesiastical religion then . But they can not do anything. And the state is using its social "order" in the face of extended circles there like a lost child, and has only one concern to prevent that it would otherwise about. To this end, he pulls himself together, gives laws and increased the armies: the bravery is formed disciplinary action, which then in cases occurring injustice is protected against Übele consequences. (5)
Schott: What role do the media in this context?
Wagner: We have the whole press against us, which is very natural: for she is the only who they interested by material for themselves. All the rulers of this world, from the highest to the lowest powers, have their advocates, their organs in the press. Conviction is nothing here that interests all. (6)
Wagner: We have the whole press against us, which is very natural: for she is the only who they interested by material for themselves. All the rulers of this world, from the highest to the lowest powers, have their advocates, their organs in the press. Conviction is nothing here that interests all. (6)
Schott: Do you see a way out?
Wagner: We need to set ourselves an organ in the daily press. Even in my report on the music school I have shown the necessity of starting a specifischen press organ for the same. Diess must now be placed immediately into the work, without any loss of time. (7)
Wagner: We need to set ourselves an organ in the daily press. Even in my report on the music school I have shown the necessity of starting a specifischen press organ for the same. Diess must now be placed immediately into the work, without any loss of time. (7)
Schott: Interesting, because we would have to bring one or the other suggestion ...
Wagner: I wish that this sheet of 1 January of the next year to appear. I have already counseled me about it. The cost of such weekly Journales are not important: I have made for me by experts to calculate, after which with 3000 florins to justify this magazine and to be maintained to the point where they must entertain through their own sales themselves. In the cheap requirement that my Creirung would be entrusted to the music school, I had already ordered the redaction of this Journales considered.(8)
Wagner: I wish that this sheet of 1 January of the next year to appear. I have already counseled me about it. The cost of such weekly Journales are not important: I have made for me by experts to calculate, after which with 3000 florins to justify this magazine and to be maintained to the point where they must entertain through their own sales themselves. In the cheap requirement that my Creirung would be entrusted to the music school, I had already ordered the redaction of this Journales considered.(8)
The drama illuminated by artistic creation
Schott: We'll closely monitor ... Again back to the position of art and music: As an important means for their anchoring in society puts so for some time placement in the center. Are they right?
Wagner: Every art form divides naturally only in the degree of, as the core, the drama zureist in it, which can stimulate and justify the work of art only by its relation to man or in his derivation of it.Allverständlich, fully understood and justified, each art work in proportion as it rises in the drama, the drama is illuminated. (9)
Wagner: Every art form divides naturally only in the degree of, as the core, the drama zureist in it, which can stimulate and justify the work of art only by its relation to man or in his derivation of it.Allverständlich, fully understood and justified, each art work in proportion as it rises in the drama, the drama is illuminated. (9)
Schott: The now refers primarily to your own work. Can your conception of the musical drama because claim universal validity?
Wagner: Who has understood me as it would have been me to do it, set up an arbitrary erdachtes system, henceforth musicians and poets should work after that did not want to understand me. But who also wants to believe the new, what I said about, based on absolute acceptance and is not identical with the experience and the nature of the developed object that is can not understand me, even if he wanted to. The new thing that I said about, is nothing else than me become aware of the unconscious in the nature of things, as I became aware of the THINKING artist, because I sensed that its connection to what has so far been taken only separated by artists. I have therefore invented nothing new, but just found that connection. (10)
Wagner: Who has understood me as it would have been me to do it, set up an arbitrary erdachtes system, henceforth musicians and poets should work after that did not want to understand me. But who also wants to believe the new, what I said about, based on absolute acceptance and is not identical with the experience and the nature of the developed object that is can not understand me, even if he wanted to. The new thing that I said about, is nothing else than me become aware of the unconscious in the nature of things, as I became aware of the THINKING artist, because I sensed that its connection to what has so far been taken only separated by artists. I have therefore invented nothing new, but just found that connection. (10)
Schott: Hmm ... Do not you have the impression that your opinion has now become established?
Wagner: The utter immaturity of the theater-going public of our provincial cities in terms of a for precipitating first sentence of a new, it occurring Art phenomenon - because it's only used already outwardly judged of and demonstrated to see accreditirte works - brought me to the decision , at any price to bring in smaller theaters a larger work for the first performance. (11)
Wagner: The utter immaturity of the theater-going public of our provincial cities in terms of a for precipitating first sentence of a new, it occurring Art phenomenon - because it's only used already outwardly judged of and demonstrated to see accreditirte works - brought me to the decision , at any price to bring in smaller theaters a larger work for the first performance. (11)
Neglected area of public art
Schott: That seems to me a blanket judgment too ...
Wagner: The perfect Styllosigkeit of German opera, and the almost grotesque incorrectness of their services, the hope is corporate to meet in a home theater for higher task practiced art means not to grasp: the author, in this neglected public art areas, a seriously intentioned, intends to make greater task applies to its support of anything, as the real talent of individual singers who taught in any school, guided by no style for the presentation, here and there, rarely - because this is the talent of the Germans on the whole low - and leave completely themselves, occur. Therefore it can not provide a single theater, would be able, happy case, only an association airborne forces, which would be called together for a certain time on a certain point. (12)
Wagner: The perfect Styllosigkeit of German opera, and the almost grotesque incorrectness of their services, the hope is corporate to meet in a home theater for higher task practiced art means not to grasp: the author, in this neglected public art areas, a seriously intentioned, intends to make greater task applies to its support of anything, as the real talent of individual singers who taught in any school, guided by no style for the presentation, here and there, rarely - because this is the talent of the Germans on the whole low - and leave completely themselves, occur. Therefore it can not provide a single theater, would be able, happy case, only an association airborne forces, which would be called together for a certain time on a certain point. (12)
Schott: What role do the structural conditions of the theater?
Wagner: The role of the theater building for the future must be considered by no means our modern theater building as solved: in them are conventional assumptions and laws giving maaß who with the requirements of pure art nothing in common. Where acquisition speculation act determines on the one hand, and with her luxurious ostentation on the other hand, the absolute interest of art must be affected to the most sensitive, and so not a builder of the world is as it is able, that by the separation of our audience in under most diverse objects and citizenship categories offered layering and fragmentation of the auditoriums on legislation to raise the beauty. If we are in the theater of the future of the common rooms, we see without difficulty that to a rich field of the invention is open to him. (13)
Wagner: The role of the theater building for the future must be considered by no means our modern theater building as solved: in them are conventional assumptions and laws giving maaß who with the requirements of pure art nothing in common. Where acquisition speculation act determines on the one hand, and with her luxurious ostentation on the other hand, the absolute interest of art must be affected to the most sensitive, and so not a builder of the world is as it is able, that by the separation of our audience in under most diverse objects and citizenship categories offered layering and fragmentation of the auditoriums on legislation to raise the beauty. If we are in the theater of the future of the common rooms, we see without difficulty that to a rich field of the invention is open to him. (13)
Schott: What do you say about the state of the orchestra, whose existence threatened repeatedly appears. What function does it perform today?
Wagner: The orchestra has an undeniable power of speech, and the creations of our modern instrumental music have revealed to us Diess. We have the symphonies of Beethoven Diess seen develop language skills to a level from which it felt forced, even to say what exactly it but can not speak to his nature. Now that we have just supplied in the Wortversmelodie him what he could not pronounce, and zuwiesen him as the carrier of this kindred melody, the effectiveness of it - totally easy - just only that should not say what it is by its nature can only speak, - we call this ability to speak clearly to the orchestra as meaning that it is the manifestation of the power of the ineffable. (14)
Wagner: The orchestra has an undeniable power of speech, and the creations of our modern instrumental music have revealed to us Diess. We have the symphonies of Beethoven Diess seen develop language skills to a level from which it felt forced, even to say what exactly it but can not speak to his nature. Now that we have just supplied in the Wortversmelodie him what he could not pronounce, and zuwiesen him as the carrier of this kindred melody, the effectiveness of it - totally easy - just only that should not say what it is by its nature can only speak, - we call this ability to speak clearly to the orchestra as meaning that it is the manifestation of the power of the ineffable. (14)
Horny modern opera, music, and other excesses
Schott: Beethoven - well and good, but the "modern instrumental music" is even now but already a bit further. How do you assess the current composers scene?
Wagner: Only the incompetent, weak, knows no nothwendigstes, strongest soul desire in himself: in him outweighs any moment the random, occasionally excited by external desires that he, precisely because it is only a longing for it can never be silent, and therefore, arbitrarily thrown from one to the other back and forth, never even get to the real enjoyment. Did this Bedürfnißlose but the power to pursue the satisfaction random cravings persistent, so just created the hideous, unnatural phenomena in life and in art, which we as outgrowths insane selfish and bustle, as murderous lust of the despot, or as a horny modern opera, comply with such unspeakable disgust. (15)
Wagner: Only the incompetent, weak, knows no nothwendigstes, strongest soul desire in himself: in him outweighs any moment the random, occasionally excited by external desires that he, precisely because it is only a longing for it can never be silent, and therefore, arbitrarily thrown from one to the other back and forth, never even get to the real enjoyment. Did this Bedürfnißlose but the power to pursue the satisfaction random cravings persistent, so just created the hideous, unnatural phenomena in life and in art, which we as outgrowths insane selfish and bustle, as murderous lust of the despot, or as a horny modern opera, comply with such unspeakable disgust. (15)
Schott: Who do you specifically have in mind with this diagnosis, and why maybe we can discuss some other time. In our context, however, would be interesting to see which treatment you suggest.
Wagner: The outrageous Dani Eder chairs our present domestic German composer initially made me aware of what is to take now: (16) Complete you, you unfortunate people, a healthy digestion, and suddenly living in a very different shape to yourself, when you could seen it from the abdomen Plage out!Truly, all of our politics, diplomacy, ambition, fainting and science, and - unfortunately - our whole modern art, in which one has the palate to spoilage of the stomach so long only satisfied, irritated, and again tried to flatter, until finally insensibly only one body was still galvanisirt, - verily, all these Schmarotzergewüchse of our life today have no other reason and soil from which they grow, as - ruined our abdomen! Oh! wanted and everyone could understand me, I Diess - almost ridiculous-sounding - and yet so terribly shouts true word! - But now I realize that I am the hundredth to the thousandth gerathe: I will finally close then! (17)
Wagner: The outrageous Dani Eder chairs our present domestic German composer initially made me aware of what is to take now: (16) Complete you, you unfortunate people, a healthy digestion, and suddenly living in a very different shape to yourself, when you could seen it from the abdomen Plage out!Truly, all of our politics, diplomacy, ambition, fainting and science, and - unfortunately - our whole modern art, in which one has the palate to spoilage of the stomach so long only satisfied, irritated, and again tried to flatter, until finally insensibly only one body was still galvanisirt, - verily, all these Schmarotzergewüchse of our life today have no other reason and soil from which they grow, as - ruined our abdomen! Oh! wanted and everyone could understand me, I Diess - almost ridiculous-sounding - and yet so terribly shouts true word! - But now I realize that I am the hundredth to the thousandth gerathe: I will finally close then! (17)
Schott: In fact, even the space is limited in our monthly ...
Wagner: Above all, however, I must also have money: (18) Could you give me at once, but in a few days or 100 dollars to any percentage ... (19)
Wagner: Above all, however, I must also have money: (18) Could you give me at once, but in a few days or 100 dollars to any percentage ... (19)
Schott: ... here we have to cancel, unfortunately, Mr. Wagner. Thank you for this interview!
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Bit of quick fire fun for you – can you spot the 5 differences in this pic from 'Nightmare in Silver'?
You can get two more spot-the-differences (and the answers to this one) on the BBC Doctor Who website: http://bbc.in/1a0PoDh
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One more for my contention that I would REALLY be okay with chasing for more than two days each year.
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Another View from this morning's storm over Oklahoma.
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José Guadalupe Posada 1852-1913
El Jarabe en Ultratumba (A Jig Beyond the Grave) c.1910
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20 Pearls of Wisdom From The Book of Job
If you're enduring a season of hardship, be encouraged and use this time to build your faith. God is still on the throne and He's in control. Let these 20 pearls of wisdom from the book of Job remind us that God always has the last say in our lives....
READ MORE ►http://r.beliefnet.com/
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I'm with Kate Wilkinson MP and the Opus team which is working on the $2m Kaiapoi Riverbanks development, funded by The Christchurch Earthquake Appeal
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JEWISH COMMUNITY REACHES OUT TO OKLAHOMA TORNADO VICTIMS
As emergency crews sort through the wreckage of yesterday’s Oklahoma tornado, which has killed at least 51 people, the Jewish community is reaching out to offer support. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו contacted President Barack Obama early this morning, expressing his condolences and prayers. Meanwhile, the Chabad Community Center of Southern Oklahoma is organizing a supply drive for victims, many of whom saw their homes flattened during the Monday storm.
Read full article: http://www.jspace.com/
Follow Jewish news at Jspace.com. — with דורית קוסטיקה.
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Incredible footage of Jerusalem from the year 1896!
http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/jerusalem-in-1896-jews-muslims-christians-living-under-the-ottomans
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HISTORY IN THE HEADLINES: An international team of scientists has finally solved one of history’s greatest mysteries: What caused the devastating Irish potato famine of 1845?http://histv.co/10jpo56
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Retired U.S. Army Sgt. Troy Gamble shares the powerful story behind this American flag he put up amid tornado debris --http://tinyurl.com/mwynxxz
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I have a poster in my window and also a couple of small ones on my car of my local Liberal candidate Emanuele Cicchiello. When I went out to my car this morning, I discovered that it had been 'egged'! You know when the oposition can't beat you with reasoned debate, but...
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I was leaving the OKC area today when I saw some dark clouds on my left. I decided to take a closer look and found a beautiful dark blue shelf structure filling up the entire sky, slowly churning down the road... it was also producing baseball sized hail, so I avoided that nice teal colored hail shaft.
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If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.
Pastor Rick Warren'
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a letter of condolences to the President and people of the United States, following the tragic tornado in Oklahoma.
The Prime Minister wrote:
On behalf of the Government and people of Israel, I offer our heartfelt condolences to you and to the people of the United States on the massive tornado that struck in Oklahoma and exacted such a horrific toll in human life.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this tragedy and their families at this difficult time.
In friendship,
Benjamin Netanyahu
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Gillette the best a cat can get
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- 1826 – HMS Beagle (pictured) departed on its first voyage from Plymouth for ahydrographic survey of the Patagonia andTierra del Fuego regions of South America.
- 1915 – Five trains were involved in a crashnear Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246 others.
- 1980 – Pac-Man, an arcade game that became an icon of 1980s popular culture, made its debut in Japan.
- 1990 – The Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen merged to become theRepublic of Yemen.
- 2003 – Swedish golfer Annika Sörenstam became the first woman to play in a PGA Tour event in 58 years.
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- 334 BC – The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
- 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt
- 1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
- 1200 – King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
- 1246 – Henry Raspe was elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany, in opposition to Conrad IV.
- 1254 – Serbian King Stephen Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
- 1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
- 1455 – Wars of the Roses: at the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
- 1629 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II & Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck to end the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
- 1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
- 1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
- 1807 – Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
- 1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
- 1816 – A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs; the rioting spreads to Ely the next day.
- 1819 – The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20.
- 1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
- 1840 – The transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
- 1844 – Persian Prophet The Báb announces his revelation, founding Bábism. He announces to the world the coming of "He whom God shall make manifest". He is considered the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
- 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
- 1849 – President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, the only patent ever issued to a U.S. President.
- 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas").
- 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
- 1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends with the Union unable to achieve any of its objectives.
- 1871 – The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
- 1872 – Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
- 1897 – The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames is officially opened
- 1903 – Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
- 1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
- 1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous US during the 20th century.
- 1915 – Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
- 1926 – Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Kuomintang, China
- 1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
- 1942 – Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
- 1942 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.
- 1942 – World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
- 1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands Comintern.
- 1945 – Operation Paperclip – United States Army Major Robert B. Staver recommends that the U.S. evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
- 1947 – Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called theTruman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement.
- 1958 – Sri Lankan riots of 1958: This riot is a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils.
- 1960 – An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
- 1961 – An earthquake rocks New South Wales.
- 1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
- 1963 – Assassination attempt of Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis, who will die five days afterwards.
- 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an "end to poverty and racial injustice" in America.
- 1967 – The L'Innovation department store in the center of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
- 1967 – Vietnam War: Vinh Xuan massacre.
- 1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
- 1969 – Apollo 10 's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
- 1972 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution, thus becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1980 – Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.
- 1987 – Hashimpura massacre in Meerut, India.
- 1987 – First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
- 1990 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
- 1990 – Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
- 1992 – After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
- 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
- 1997 – Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court-martial.
- 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.
- 2002 – In Washington, D.C., the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.
- 2002 – American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
- 2003 – In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
- 2004 – The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado (part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide, which kills one resident.
- 2008 – The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between May 22 and May 31, 2008. The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian province.
- 2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri killing 161 people, the single deadliest tornado in the United States since modern record keeping began in 1950.
- 2012 – Tokyo Skytree is opened to public. Its the tallest tower in world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa(829.8 m).
Births [edit]
- 1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France (d. 1698)
- 1715 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
- 1724 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
- 1733 – Hubert Robert, French artist (d. 1808)
- 1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
- 1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, Indian reformer (d. 1833)
- 1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor, invented the Electromagnet and Electric motor (d. 1850)
- 1808 – Gérard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855)
- 1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
- 1823 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
- 1823 – Isabella Glyn, English actress (d. 1889)
- 1841 – Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909)
- 1844 – Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926)
- 1849 – Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
- 1859 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish physician and writer (d. 1930)
- 1859 – Tsubouchi Shōyō, Japanese author (d. 1935)
- 1864 – Willy Stöwer, German artist (d. 1931)
- 1874 – Daniel François Malan, South African politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
- 1876 – Antonius Bouwens, Dutch sports shooter (d. 1963)
- 1879 – Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer (d. 1947)
- 1879 – Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
- 1879 – Jean Cras, French composer and naval officer (d. 1932)
- 1885 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
- 1885 – Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
- 1887 – Frederick Garfield Gilmore, American featherweight boxer (d. 1969)
- 1891 – Eddie Edwards, American baseball player and musician (Original Dixieland Jass Band) (d. 1963)
- 1900 – Yvonne de Gaulle, French wife of Charles de Gaulle (d. 1979)
- 1901 – Maurice J. Tobin, American politician, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
- 1902 – Al Simmons, American baseball player (d. 1956)
- 1903 – Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
- 1904 – Pyotr Sobolevsky, Soviet actor (d. 1977)
- 1904 – Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (d. 1962)
- 1907 – Hergé, Belgian writer and artist (d. 1983)
- 1907 – Martha Angelici, French soprano (d. 1973)
- 1907 – Laurence Olivier, English actor (d. 1989)
- 1908 – Rattana Pestonji, Thai director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer (d. 1970)
- 1908 – Horton Smith. American golfer (d. 1963)
- 1910 – Johnny Olson, American television announcer (d. 1985)
- 1911 – Anatol Rapoport, Russian-American psychologist (d. 2007)
- 1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- 1913 – František Jílek, Czech conductor (d. 1993)
- 1914 – Maurice Blackburn, Canadian composer and conductor (d. 1988)
- 1914 – Vance Packard, American author (d. 1996)
- 1914 – Sun Ra, American composer, bandleader, pianist, poet, and philosopher (d. 1993)
- 1914 – Edward Arthur Thompson, English historian (d. 1994)
- 1917 – Nathan Davis, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1917 – Daniel Nagrin, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2008)
- 1917 – Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor (d. 1999)
- 1919 – Paul Vanden Boeynants, Belgian politician (d. 2001)
- 1920 – Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 2004)
- 1922 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
- 1923 – Denise Pelletier, Canadian actress (d. 1976)
- 1924 – Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer-songwriter, actor, and activist
- 1925 – James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
- 1925 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
- 1926 – Elek Bacsik, Hungarian bandleader and musician (d. 1993)
- 1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1927 – Michael Constantine, American actor
- 1927 – Phil Tucker, American director (d. 1985)
- 1928 – T. Boone Pickens, American businessman
- 1930 – Kenny Ball, English trumpet player (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Harvey Milk, American politician and activist (d. 1978)
- 1932 – Merry Anders, American actress (d. 2012)
- 1934 – Peter Nero, American pianist and conductor
- 1934 – Arne Harris, American director and producer (d. 2001)
- 1935 – Ron Piché, Canadian baseball player
- 1936 – M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005)
- 1937 – Guy Marchand, French actor and singer
- 1938 – Richard Benjamin, American actor
- 1938 – Frank Converse, American actor
- 1938 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1939 – Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1940 – Bernard Shaw, American journalist
- 1940 – Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (d. 2011)
- 1941 – Sir Menzies Campbell, English politician
- 1941 – Martha Langbein, German athlete
- 1942 – Calvin Simon, American singer and musician (The Parliaments and Parliament-Funkadelic)
- 1942 – Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress
- 1943 – Jean-Louis Heinrich, French footballer (d. 2012)
- 1943 – Tommy John, American baseball player
- 1943 – Gesine Schwan, German politician and educator
- 1943 – Betty Williams, Irish activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1944 – Beaton Tulk, Canadian educator, civil servant, and politician
- 1944 – Vaiko, Indian politician
- 1946 – Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager
- 1946 – George Best, Irish footballer (d. 2005)
- 1947 – Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1997)
- 1948 – Richard Baker, American politician
- 1950 – Alekos Alavanos, Greek politician
- 1950 – Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and poet
- 1950 – Bill Whelan, Irish musician, producer, and composer (Planxty)
- 1952 – Bernhard Brinkmann, German politician
- 1953 – Doris Barnett, German politician
- 1953 – Cha Bum-Kun, Korean footballer
- 1953 – Paul Mariner, English footballer and manager
- 1955 – Jimmy Lyon, American guitarist (The Greg Kihn Band)
- 1955 – Dale Winton, English disc jockey and broadcaster
- 1955 – Jerry Dammers, English keyboard player and songwriter (The Specials and The Spatial AKA Orchestra)
- 1955 – Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (d. 2008)
- 1955 – Iva Davies, Australian singer and musician (Icehouse)
- 1956 – Al Corley, American actor and producer
- 1956 – Natasha Shneider, Russian-American singer, musician, and actress (Eleven) (d. 2008)
- 1957 – Lisa Murkowski, American politician
- 1957 – Gary Sweet, Australian actor
- 1958 – Denise Welch, English actress
- 1959 – Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and pianist (The Smiths, The Nosebleeds, and Slaughter & The Dogs)
- 1959 – Harry Standjofski, Canadian actor
- 1960 – Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
- 1961 – Mike Breen, American sportscaster
- 1961 – Ann Cusack, American actress
- 1962 – Brian Pillman, American football player and wrestler (d. 1997)
- 1964 – Mark Christopher Lawrence, American actor and comedian
- 1965 – Jay Carney, American journalist, 29th White House Press Secretary
- 1965 – Fanis Christodoulou, Greek basketball player
- 1965 – John Cherry, Australian politician
- 1965 – Catie Curtis, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1966 – Kenny Hickey, American singer-songwriter and musician (Type O Negative and Seventh Void)
- 1966 – José Mesa, Dominican baseball player
- 1966 – Scott Putski, American wrestler
- 1967 – Brooke Smith, American actress
- 1967 – John Vanderslice, American singer-songwriter and musician (Mk Ultra)
- 1968 – Randy Brown, American basketball player
- 1968 – Kevin Carolan, American actor and comedian
- 1968 – Graham Linehan, Irish actor, writer, and director
- 1968 – Pedro Bleyer, Bolivian fencer
- 1969 – Michael Joseph Kelly, American actor
- 1969 – Cathy McMorris Rodgers, American politician
- 1970 – Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
- 1970 – Pedro Diniz, Brazilian race car driver
- 1970 – Paddy Atkinson, English footballer and manager
- 1971 – Raimund Marasigan, Filipino singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Eraserheads, Sandwich, Pedicab, Cambio, and Project 1)
- 1972 – Anna Belknap, American actress
- 1972 – Alison Eastwood, American actress and model
- 1973 – Donell Jones, American singer
- 1973 – Julián Tavárez, Dominican baseball player
- 1973 – Danny Tiatto, Australian footballer
- 1974 – John Bale, American baseball player
- 1974 – Sean Gunn, American actor
- 1974 – Graham Fenton, English footballer
- 1974 – A. J. Langer, American actress
- 1975 – Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice-hockey player
- 1975 – Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer
- 1975 – Tracy Brookshaw, American wrestler and referee
- 1975 – Enrique Palacios, Venezuelan model
- 1976 – Daniel Erlandsson, Swedish musician (Arch Enemy, Eucharist, Armageddon, and Carcass)
- 1977 – Alastair Ralphs, Canadian bodybuilder and wrestler
- 1977 – Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, Irish hurler
- 1977 – Dré Bly, American football player
- 1977 – Tom Chambers, English actor
- 1977 – Vinnie Potestivo, American talent agent and television producer
- 1978 – Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
- 1978 – Katie Price, English model, businesswoman, and author
- 1978 – Igor Kotjuh, Estonian poet and translator
- 1979 – Nadia Khan, Pakistani actress and producer
- 1979 – Maggie Q, American actress and model
- 1980 – Steven Baker, Australian rules footballer
- 1980 – Rhett Fisher, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1980 – Chad Tracy, American baseball player
- 1980 – Tommy Smith, English footballer
- 1980 – Lucy Gordon, English actress and model (d. 2009)
- 1981 – Daniel Bryan, American wrestler
- 1981 – Melissa Gregory, American figure skater
- 1981 – Jana Hlaváčková, Czech tennis player
- 1981 – Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
- 1982 – Apolo Ohno, American speed skater
- 1982 – Erin McNaught, Australian model and television host, Miss Australia 2006
- 1982 – Alex Smith, American football player
- 1982 – Hong Yong-Jo, North Korean footballer
- 1983 – John Hopkins, American motorcycle racer
- 1983 – Abdulrahman Al-Qahtani, Saudi Arabian footballer
- 1984 – Joe Lauzon, American mixed martial artist
- 1984 – Didier Ya Konan, Ivorian footballer
- 1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
- 1985 – Chrissie Chau, Chinese actress and model
- 1985 – Mauro Boselli, Argentine footballer
- 1985 – CariDee English, American model
- 1985 – Graham Harrell, American football player
- 1985 – Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Chris Salvatore, American singer-songwriter, actor, and activist
- 1986 – Luca Gentili, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Matt Jarvis, English footballer
- 1987 – Christine Danelson, American actress
- 1987 – Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
- 1987 – Vladimir Granat, Russian footballer
- 1987 – Andrew Lauterstein, Australian swimmer
- 1987 – Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer
- 1987 – Kyle Downey, Belfastian Superstar
- 1988 – Chase Budinger, American basketball player
- 1988 – Pape M'Bow, Senegalese footballer
- 1991 – Nathan Norman, American actor, singer, and dancer (Devo 2.0)
- 1991 – Kyle Bartley, English footballer
- 1992 – Chinami Tokunaga, Japanese singer (Berryz Kobo and ZYX)
Deaths [edit]
- 192 – Dong Zhuo, Chinese politician and warlord, Chancellor of Han (b. 138)
- 337 – Constantine the Great (b. 272)
- 748 – Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 680)
- 985 – St. Bobo French Knight
- 1068 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
- 1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician
- 1455 – Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1406)
- 1457 – Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
- 1538 – John Forrest, English friar and martyr (b. 1471)
- 1540 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian (b. 1483)
- 1666 – Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608)
- 1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
- 1745 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
- 1746 – Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
- 1760 – Israel ben Eliezer, Polish rabbi (b. 1700)
- 1772 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687)
- 1795 – Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1725)
- 1802 – Martha Washington, American wife of George Washington, 1st First Lady of the United States (b. 1731)
- 1851 – Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer and journalist (b. 1755)
- 1859 – Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
- 1861 – Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (b. 1829)
- 1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
- 1885 – Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)
- 1901 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869)
- 1910 – Jules Renard, French author (b. 1864)
- 1932 – Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
- 1939 – Ernst Toller, German author (b. 1893)
- 1939 – Jiří Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
- 1947 – Edwin Hedley, American rower (b. 1864)
- 1965 – Christopher Stone, English disc jockey and broadcaster (b. 1882)
- 1966 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
- 1967 – Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
- 1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (b. 1904)
- 1972 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
- 1975 – Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
- 1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
- 1985 – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American Disney animator, director and producer (b. 1909)
- 1988 – Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
- 1989 – Steven De Groote, South African pianist (b. 1953)
- 1990 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
- 1991 – Stan Mortensen, English footballer (b. 1921)
- 1992 – Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
- 1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908)
- 1997 – Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (b. 1930)
- 1998 – José Enrique Moyal, Israeli mathematical physicist and engineer (b. 1910)
- 1998 – John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (b. 1926)
- 2000 – Davie Fulton, Canadian politician and judge (b. 1916)
- 2003 – Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabe-American arts trader, victim of police brutality (b. circa 1960)
- 2004 – Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
- 2004 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
- 2005 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914)
- 2005 – Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
- 2006 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean 6th Director-General of World Health Organization (b. 1945)
- 2006 – Heather Crowe, Canadian waitress and activist (b. 1945)
- 2008 – Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)
- 2010 – Martin Gardner, American writer (b. 1914)
- 2011 – Joseph Brooks, American composer, screenwriter, director, and producer (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Muzaffar Ahmed, Bangladeshi economist and educator (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Janet Carroll, American actress (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Dave Mann, American football player (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Alan Thorne, Australian anthropologist (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Jesse Whittenton, American football player (b. 1934)
Holidays and observances [edit]
- Abolition Day (Martinique)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Harvey Milk Day (California)
- International Day for Biological Diversity (International)
- National Maritime Day (United States)
- National Sovereignty Day (Haiti)
- Republic Day (Sri Lanka)
- Unity Day or National Day, celebrate the unification of North and South Yemen into the Republic of Yemen in 1990.
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