Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 19:05:47 -0800
From: "Senex R. Rupicapra" <olgoat-AT-kdsi.net>
Subject: Re: Daily Bleed: 2/14 FEBRUARY 14


Freddie Baer wrote:
> 
> Web version: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0214.htm
> 
> FEBRUARY 14
> 
> FREDERICK DOUGLASS
> Great orator, writer, Black emancipationist.
> 
> VALENTINES DAY: Grew out of Roman LUPERCALIA, when young
> people drew names from urns to determine true loves ...
> St. Valentine is the patron saint of prisoners.
> The day birds & animals choose their mates.
> 
> 1349 - 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg Germany.
> 
> 1571 - Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/metalsmith & author of a
> remarkable autobiography, dies in Florence.
> 
> 1776 - Captain James Cook killed by native Hawaiians after
> taking hostages. or 1779.
> 
> 1804 - New Jersey is the last Northern state to abolish slavery.
> 
> 1817 - Black abolitionist, orator Frederick Douglass lives,
> born a slave, founder of the influential The North Star
> newspaper in Rochester, New York.
> 
> "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who
> profess to favor freedom & yet deprecate agitation are people
> who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain
> without thunder & lightning. That struggle might be a moral
> one; it might be a physical one; it might be both moral &
> physical, but it must be struggle. Power concedes nothing
> without a demand. It never did & never will. People might not
> get all that they work for in this world, but they must
> certainly work for all they get."
> 
> 1831 - Parisians plunder a church & Archbishop's palace in a
> demonstration against the former Bourbon dynasty.
> 
> 1848 - Prussian Revolution begins.
> 
> 1856 - Editor Frank Harris, author of the erotic memoir *My
> Life & Loves*, lives, County Galway. Oscar Wilde quips: "Frank
> Harris is invited to all the great houses in England -- once."
> http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws98/ws53_wilde.html
> 
> 1859 - George Ferris lives, inventor of the Wheel.
> 
> 1870 - US: Esther Morris becomes the nation's first woman
> justice of the peace.
> 
> Morris is credited with winning women's suffrage in Wyoming
> territory last year. She arm-twisted two Democratic lawmakers
> into sponsoring legislation giving women the vote. Most
> Wyoming lawmakers treated the measure lightheartedly, hoping
> their bold step would attract more women to the territory.
> Democrats, for their part, were counting on a veto by Governor
> John Campbell. After the bill passed, however, Campbell
> promptly signed the bill, making Wyoming the first state or
> territory to enact women's suffrage. In 1872, the Democrats
> try to repeal the bill, offering Campbell 2,000 dollars to
> cooperate.  The governor firmly refused.
> 
> 1885 - Jules Valles dies. French journalist, anarchist
> propagandist, novelist. His autobiographical novels 
> The Child; The Graduate; [and] The Insurrectionist were 
> published pseudonymously. 

	i wonder how he woulda felt about being played by
Dustin Hoffman.

	old goat.
	The more corrupt the state, 
	the more numerous the laws.
        --Tacitus (A.D. 55?-130?)
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