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Many thousands of years of recorded history, and one expects to be able to find somewhere what works and what doesn't for any of many things. Compass, on ABC channel 2 puts forward a labyrinth as a healing sculpture. All one need do is toddle from beginning to middle to end. It is different to a maze, gushes the voice over. A maze might not end, but have traps and dead ends. Others have religion, but the secular ABC has a labyrinth. One wants to give hope for the terminally ill. Finding God can do that. Following a labyrinth may be comforting, like waiting in a dole queue, only not as rewarding. Petrarch's great achievement on this day was to climb a mountain. But he had another achievement, which was to platonically love a virtuous woman, Laura. Thought to be Laura de Noves, Petrarch first saw her when she was 17 and he was 23. She died age 38, and he was grief stricken. He wrote poetry about her, not persuasive, so as to succumb to him, but exalting. And the renaissance began when a religious man fell in love. And he didn't get lost in the labyrinth of unrequited love. And the renaissance possibly ended in an ABC Labyrinth.
Nepal has needs, and has been struck by an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale. People are missing, buildings damaged, but there are remarkably many who are safe. Even so, at least 1900 have known to have died. The mountain has tragedy and inspiration, even today after Petrarch first noted it in 1336. Petrarch noted a mountain in Europe, not Nepal, but the great height and achievement remain. Give generously to Nepal. ABC Insiders presents three journalists none of which understand the conservative position on any policy. They accept, without question the most specious statements made by the opposition shadow health minister. There is no need to give public money to the ABC. They need to earn it by setting a good standard.
On this day in 1478, The Pazzi, a banking family, attack Lorenzo De Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass. Banking was serious back then too. Shakespeare was baptised on this day. It might mean he was born six days earlier. In 1802, Napoleon allowed former nobles to return to France. It was to help him secure his imperial crown. In 1803, thousands of meteor fragments fell in France, convincing scientists that meteors exist. No one knows what it will take to convince the religious regarding AGW hysteria. In 1865, Union soldiers found John Wilkes Booth in a warehouse and killed him there. In 1923, The Duke of York, and future king, married Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen's Mother. In 1937, the German Luftwaffe bombed Guernica in Spain. In 1942, the Benxihu colliery accident killed 1549 Chinese miners. In 1944, a heroic operation resulted in the capture of German General Kreipe in Crete. In 1945, some US and Filipino troops were liberated. They used their freedom to fight Japanese forces under General Yamashita. In 1956, the first successful container ship, SS Ideal X, sailed from NJ to Texas. In 1963, the Libyan constitution allowed women to vote. In 1965, a Rolling Stones concert shut down after 15 mins due to rioting. In 1981, the world's first open fetal surgery was performed. In 1982, an utterly selfish police officer in South Korea killed 56 people, including himself. He had been worried by what people thought about him. In 1986, the worst ever nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl. Nuclear power stations today are far safer.
2014
Success, they say, has many fathers. One event, said to have raised the spirit of Renaissance, happened on this day in 1336 when Petrarch claimed he climbed Mont Ventoux with his brother. The claim was made in a six thousand word letter he wrote almost fifteen years after the event, claiming he had composed the letter as he went on his journey. At the peak, he opened Augustine and read "People are moved to wonder by mountain peaks, by vast waves of the sea, by broad waterfalls on rivers, by the all-embracing extent of the ocean, by the revolutions of the stars. But in themselves they are uninterested." Regardless of the voracity of the claim, the renaissance is real. People nowadays climb mountains just for the view.
Today is the birthday of Shakespeare, Marcus Aurelius, Marie de Medici, Wittgenstein, Jessica Lynch and Jet Li. Today is the date that includes the last moments of Srinivasa Ramanujan, Count Basie and Lucille Ball. Today is the day the White House announced the G7 agreed to move swiftly in applying sanctions to Russia over claims by Ukraine that Russia wants a world war. It will be a long time before the truth of the situation is known, but prima facie, Putin did a deal with Obama allowing Russia to seize part of Ukraine. It looks like Ukraine secret agents are killing people so as to smear Russia in retaliation. For world peace, it would be good for Obama to step aside. Because, after climbing Mont Ventoux, one goes down.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1336, Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascended Mont Ventoux. 1478, the Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence. 1564, Playwright William Shakespeare was baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown). 1607, English colonists made landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. 1721, a massive earthquake devastated the Iranian city of Tabriz.
In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte signed a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule. 1803, thousands of meteor fragments fell from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist. 1805, First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon. 1865, American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states. Also 1865, Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
In 1903, Atlético Madrid Association football club was founded 1923, The Duke of York wedded Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. 1925, Paul von Hindenburg defeated Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. 1933, the Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, was established. 1937, Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. 1942, Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo left 1549 Chinese miners dead. 1943, the Easter Riots broke out in Uppsala, Sweden. 1944, Georgios Papandreou became head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. Also 1944, Heinrich Kreipe was captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete. 1945, World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. Also 1945, World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army were liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
In 1954, the Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, began. 1956, SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas. 1958, final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. 1960, forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigned after twelve years of dictatorial rule. 1962, NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashed into the Moon. 1963, in Libya, amendments to the constitution transformed Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allowed for female participation in elections. 1964, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. 1965, a Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario was shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting. 1966, an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroyed Tashkent. also 1966, a new government was formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. 1970, the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization entered into force.
In 1981, Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performed the world's first human open fetal surgery. 1982, fifty-seven people were killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. 1986, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. 1989, the deadliest tornado in world history struck Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless. Also 1989, People's Daily published the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflamed the nascent Tiananmen Square protests 1991, seventy tornadoes broke out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak). 1994, China Airlines Flight 140 crashed at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. 2002, Robert Steinhäuser infiltrated and killed 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. 2005, under international pressure, Syria withdrew the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
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This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, September www.createspace.com/5106914, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
===
Many thousands of years of recorded history, and one expects to be able to find somewhere what works and what doesn't for any of many things. Compass, on ABC channel 2 puts forward a labyrinth as a healing sculpture. All one need do is toddle from beginning to middle to end. It is different to a maze, gushes the voice over. A maze might not end, but have traps and dead ends. Others have religion, but the secular ABC has a labyrinth. One wants to give hope for the terminally ill. Finding God can do that. Following a labyrinth may be comforting, like waiting in a dole queue, only not as rewarding. Petrarch's great achievement on this day was to climb a mountain. But he had another achievement, which was to platonically love a virtuous woman, Laura. Thought to be Laura de Noves, Petrarch first saw her when she was 17 and he was 23. She died age 38, and he was grief stricken. He wrote poetry about her, not persuasive, so as to succumb to him, but exalting. And the renaissance began when a religious man fell in love. And he didn't get lost in the labyrinth of unrequited love. And the renaissance possibly ended in an ABC Labyrinth.
Nepal has needs, and has been struck by an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale. People are missing, buildings damaged, but there are remarkably many who are safe. Even so, at least 1900 have known to have died. The mountain has tragedy and inspiration, even today after Petrarch first noted it in 1336. Petrarch noted a mountain in Europe, not Nepal, but the great height and achievement remain. Give generously to Nepal. ABC Insiders presents three journalists none of which understand the conservative position on any policy. They accept, without question the most specious statements made by the opposition shadow health minister. There is no need to give public money to the ABC. They need to earn it by setting a good standard.
On this day in 1478, The Pazzi, a banking family, attack Lorenzo De Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass. Banking was serious back then too. Shakespeare was baptised on this day. It might mean he was born six days earlier. In 1802, Napoleon allowed former nobles to return to France. It was to help him secure his imperial crown. In 1803, thousands of meteor fragments fell in France, convincing scientists that meteors exist. No one knows what it will take to convince the religious regarding AGW hysteria. In 1865, Union soldiers found John Wilkes Booth in a warehouse and killed him there. In 1923, The Duke of York, and future king, married Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen's Mother. In 1937, the German Luftwaffe bombed Guernica in Spain. In 1942, the Benxihu colliery accident killed 1549 Chinese miners. In 1944, a heroic operation resulted in the capture of German General Kreipe in Crete. In 1945, some US and Filipino troops were liberated. They used their freedom to fight Japanese forces under General Yamashita. In 1956, the first successful container ship, SS Ideal X, sailed from NJ to Texas. In 1963, the Libyan constitution allowed women to vote. In 1965, a Rolling Stones concert shut down after 15 mins due to rioting. In 1981, the world's first open fetal surgery was performed. In 1982, an utterly selfish police officer in South Korea killed 56 people, including himself. He had been worried by what people thought about him. In 1986, the worst ever nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl. Nuclear power stations today are far safer.
2014
Success, they say, has many fathers. One event, said to have raised the spirit of Renaissance, happened on this day in 1336 when Petrarch claimed he climbed Mont Ventoux with his brother. The claim was made in a six thousand word letter he wrote almost fifteen years after the event, claiming he had composed the letter as he went on his journey. At the peak, he opened Augustine and read "People are moved to wonder by mountain peaks, by vast waves of the sea, by broad waterfalls on rivers, by the all-embracing extent of the ocean, by the revolutions of the stars. But in themselves they are uninterested." Regardless of the voracity of the claim, the renaissance is real. People nowadays climb mountains just for the view.
Today is the birthday of Shakespeare, Marcus Aurelius, Marie de Medici, Wittgenstein, Jessica Lynch and Jet Li. Today is the date that includes the last moments of Srinivasa Ramanujan, Count Basie and Lucille Ball. Today is the day the White House announced the G7 agreed to move swiftly in applying sanctions to Russia over claims by Ukraine that Russia wants a world war. It will be a long time before the truth of the situation is known, but prima facie, Putin did a deal with Obama allowing Russia to seize part of Ukraine. It looks like Ukraine secret agents are killing people so as to smear Russia in retaliation. For world peace, it would be good for Obama to step aside. Because, after climbing Mont Ventoux, one goes down.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 1336, Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascended Mont Ventoux. 1478, the Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence. 1564, Playwright William Shakespeare was baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown). 1607, English colonists made landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. 1721, a massive earthquake devastated the Iranian city of Tabriz.
In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte signed a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule. 1803, thousands of meteor fragments fell from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist. 1805, First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon. 1865, American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states. Also 1865, Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
In 1903, Atlético Madrid Association football club was founded 1923, The Duke of York wedded Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. 1925, Paul von Hindenburg defeated Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. 1933, the Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, was established. 1937, Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. 1942, Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo left 1549 Chinese miners dead. 1943, the Easter Riots broke out in Uppsala, Sweden. 1944, Georgios Papandreou became head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. Also 1944, Heinrich Kreipe was captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete. 1945, World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. Also 1945, World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army were liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
In 1954, the Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, began. 1956, SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas. 1958, final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. 1960, forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigned after twelve years of dictatorial rule. 1962, NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashed into the Moon. 1963, in Libya, amendments to the constitution transformed Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allowed for female participation in elections. 1964, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. 1965, a Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario was shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting. 1966, an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroyed Tashkent. also 1966, a new government was formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. 1970, the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization entered into force.
In 1981, Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performed the world's first human open fetal surgery. 1982, fifty-seven people were killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. 1986, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. 1989, the deadliest tornado in world history struck Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless. Also 1989, People's Daily published the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflamed the nascent Tiananmen Square protests 1991, seventy tornadoes broke out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak). 1994, China Airlines Flight 140 crashed at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. 2002, Robert Steinhäuser infiltrated and killed 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. 2005, under international pressure, Syria withdrew the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
===
This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, September www.createspace.com/5106914, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
===
For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.