Words Twice a Week 11.14
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Some days from the church calendar -
Nov 15 - Francis Asbury and George Whitefield. They were Methodists – Whitefield in England, Asbury in the United States (while they were still colonies!) Whitefield was one of the ones who convinced John Wesley to go outside the church building and preach in the open, where the people were. Asbury was one of the first bishops sent by Wesley to the colonies. He spent most of his life riding on horseback or in carriages to visit Methodist churches throughout the colonies, states, territories. Apparently, at one time he was the most recognized person in America.
Nov 16 - Margaret of Scotland, of Wessex, sometimes called “The Pearl of Scotland”
Nov 22 - CS Lewis - He wrote a variety of books - Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia
Nov 24 - Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara of Nicomedia, and Margaret of Antioch. They were martyrs. Santa Barbara CA, is named after Barbara. They were the first of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
Some days from the world/earth calendar -
Nov 15
+ Opening Day. If you are from Upper Michigan, you know what that means!
+ Someone named Emile Durkheim died on this day in 1917. This is from W. Paul Jones – “Along with Weber and Marx, Durkheim is one of the premier sociologists of all time. His central thesis is that both religion and morality arise from our collective unconsciousness, giving to society the sacredness necessary to inhibit the human tendencies toward undue selfishness and violence.” I don’t know. Doesn’t seem to be happening, to me.
+ Georgia O’Keefe was born in 1887.
+ Elvis premiered in his first movie (1956) – Love Me Tender. I remember the song – don’t know if I ever saw the movie or not!
Nov 16
+ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (movie) was released in 2001. It grossed $90 million in the US the first weekend.
+ Shigeru Miyamoto was born in 1952. Don’t recognize the name – he designed/developed video games such as Mario, Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, and others.
Nov 17
+ Historian and author Shelby Foote was born in 1916. The Ken Burns Civil War Documentary featured a lot of him. He once wrote to William Faulkner, “I have every right to be a better writer than you. Your literary idols were Joseph Conrad and Sherwood Anderson. Mine were Marcel Proust and you. My writers are better than yours!”
+ Auguste Rodin died in 1917.
Nov 18
+ Marcel Proust died in 1922. Obsessed with time and memory, her wrote 16 volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. And I guess he inspired some other writers!
+ Railroads in the US adopted standardized time zones in 1883. Before that many towns had their own times!
+ Margaret Atwood CC OOnt CH FRSC was born in 1939. (Check the website to see what those letters mean.) Anyway, she’s written poetry, novels, non-fiction, short fiction, children’s books, and graphic novels. She lived part of her childhood in Sault Ste Marie (CA – though I suppose she came over the bridge now and then to buy fudge or tee-shirts!). She wrote The Handmaid’s Tale and The Year of the Flood.
Nov 19
+ Lincoln gave an address in Gettysburg. It became rather well known, read, and recited!
+ Joe Hill was executed in Utah in 1915. He was an organizer for working-class causes, in particular a song-writer and singer. In one of his songs he coined the phrase “pie in the sky”. He was framed on a murder charge and executed by firing squad. There are several songs about Joe Hill, including “I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night” by Alfred Hayes.
Nov 20
+ World Children’s Day established by the United Nations in 1954. In 1959 the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. It is also the date in 1989 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. W Paul Jones notes that “interestingly, while Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are widely celebrated, Children’s Day has fallen into neglect.” For Every Child is a wonderful picture book that summarized some of the rights of every child.
+ Windows 1.0 was released in 1985. A couple of relevant haiku’s (not mine) -
Yesterday it worked. Three things are certain -
Today it is not working. Death, taxes and lost data.
Windows is like that. Guess which has occurred.
+ Joe Biden was born in 1942. Happy Birthday, Joe! RFK was born in 1925.
Nov 21
+ Tweety Bird made his debut in 1941 in a cartoon called A Tale of Two Kitties.
But that’s what I got for now…..
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