Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:16:12 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Broth: 2/23 W. E. B. DUBOIS 




Subject: Daily Broth: 2/23 W. E. B. DUBOIS

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When you have consumed all the broth, run to the bed & jump
between the prepared sheets, quickly take the clothespins &
put one on each big toe. These clothespins must be worn all
night, firmly pressed to the nails, at a 45 degree angle from
the toes.
This simple recipe guarantees good results, & normal people
can proceed pleasantly from a kiss to strangulation, from rape
to incest, etc., etc.
Recipes for more complicated cases, such as necrophilia,
autophagia, tauromachia, alpinism, & others, can be
found in a special volume in our collection of Discreetly
Healthy Advice.

 * Remei Lissaraga Varo, excerpt, "A Recipe: How to
Produce Erotic Dreams"
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~whit0580/igloo/surrealist/varo.html

FEBRUARY 23

W. E. B. DUBOIS
Premier Black American activist, emancipationist, commie.

Ancient Rome: TERMINALIA, feast of Terminus, the God
of Boundaries.

Venice: PANCAKE DAY.  Pancake tossing, pancake
races. King Carnival is greeted with much ceremony. He is a very
fat man, his straw body stuffed with explosives. He is burned
at midnight.


1395 - Typographer/printer Johannes Gutenberg lives.

1564 - British dramatist Christopher Marlowe lives.

1633 - Diarist Samuel Pepys lives, London.
(Pronounced "peeps").
http://history.hanover.edu/early/pepys.htm

1669 - Mummy May I?: Samuel Pepys visits Westminster Abbey.
The body of Katherine of Valois, interred 200 years earlier,
is on show to a privileged few. Pepys kisses her on the mouth:
"This was my birthday, 36-years-old that I did first kiss a Queen."

1775 - Patrick Henry addresses a Virginia
convention, uttering the admonition "Give me liberty, or give me death."

1821 - British lyric poet John Keats, dies aged 25,
of tuberculosis, in Rome. His tombstone reads: "Here
lies one whose name was writ in water."
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/keats/keats.html

1836 - The siege of the Alamo begins.

1852 - 1,400-ton paddle-wheel steamer HMS Birkenhead
runs aground on rocks near the Cape of Good Hope. As the
ship began to sink, soldiers were ordered to stand in ranks on
deck while women & children were loaded into lifeboats. Some
200 were saved by lifeboats & another 30-40 were pulled from
the wreckage of boat, but 420 others died, almost all
soldiers. This incident established the now traditional
concepts of "women & children first" & "going down with the
ship".

1868 - William Edward Burghardt Dubois lives, Great
Barrington, Massachusetts.
http://history.hanover.edu/19th/dubois.htm

1879 - Australian satirist, political cartoonist Norman Linsay lives.

1882 - B. Traven lives (1882?-1969), Posnanie,
Poland. Anarchist author, aka Ret Marut, Hal Croves, Bruno
Traven, Traven Torsvan, Otto Feige. Spent a portion of his
life hiding his tracks, changing identity, country, & jobs.

Marut/Traven published the anarchist Munich
newspaper "Der Ziegelbrenner" between 1917 & 1921. When the
Republic of Bavaria is proclaimed, April 7, 1919, Ret Marut
worked with fellow anarchists Gustav Landauer & Eric Muhsam. His
first novel *The Death Ship* appeared under the name B.
Traven. The majority of Traven's novels, on the surface
adventure books, reveal the sources & conditions which spark revolt:
*The Treasure of the Sierra Madres; Revolt of the Hanged;
White Rose*, etc. Extracts of "Der Ziegelbrenner" were
published in French in 1994, as *In the Freest State of the
World*.
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/library/favenovels.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/traven.htm
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/mexico/sp000194.txt

1883 - Karl Jaspers lives, Germany, existentialist philosopher.

1883 - American Anti-Vivisection Society formed in Pennsylvania.

1883 - Belgium: In Ganshoren, a bomb being carried by the
French anarchists Antoine Cyvoct & Paul Metayer,
accidentally explodes. Metayer died the following day, refusing
to reveal anything to the police about his activities. Cyvoct
was extradited to France to be tried for the Bellcour
attack in Lyon.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/fevrier4.html#23

1899 - Erich K=E4stner (1899-1974) lives. German
satirist/poet/novelist, whose military experiences
made him pacifist & opponent of totalitarian systems. Best
known for his children's books, but they were not popular
among Nazis.
K=E4stner wrote *Emil & the Detectives* (1929),  *The
School of Dictators* (1956), among others.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kastner.htm

1901 - Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901-1990) lives. Swedish
author/social critic, recognized for his working
class & landless peasant novels & short stories. His books
include *The Share Croppers* (1936-36), *Proletarians of the
Earth* (1941).  http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ivarlo.htm

1903 - Jean-Baptiste Clement dies, Paris. Communard
& author of the famous song "The Time of Cherries".  Clement
was several times condemned to the prison for its
writings & lampoons. During the Paris Commune he ended up, May
28, as one of the last on the barricades, along with Varlin &
Ferré. Went into hiding, & gained refuge in England. Condemned
to death in his absence, he returned after the Amnesty of 1879.
Became a socialist & trade union activist, particularly in
the Ardennes.

"The Time of Cherries," written in 1866, became the
song of the Paris Commune & was dedicated to the anarchist
Louise Michel, who was also on that last barricade with
Clement.

"Quand nous chanterons le temps des cerises
Et gai rossignol et merle moqueur
Seront tous en f=EAte.
Les belles auront la folie en t=EAte
Et les amoureux, du soleil au coeur!
Quand nous chanterons le temps des cerises
Sifflera bien mieux le merle moqueur! (...)

---  Le temps des Cerises.
http://poesie.webnet.fr/auteurs/liste.html
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/fevrier4.html#23

1904 - Historian/journalist William L. Shirer (*The Rise &
Fall of the Third Reich*) lives, Chicago.

1904 - William Randolph Hearst's *San Francisco Chronicle*
begins publishing articles on the menace of Japanese
laborers, leading to a resolution of the California
Legislature that action be taken against their immigration.

1911 - Commanchee chieftain Quanah Parker dies.

1919 - Portugal: "A Batalha", the second daily
newspaper in the country begins, published by the
anarcho-syndicalist CGT (the General Confederation of Workers in Portugal
comprised of 150,000 workers). It prints 25,000 copies a day
before being suppressed after the military coup d'etat in 1926.
http://flag.blackened.net/agony/syndical.html

1922 - Henri Landru executed for having 11 wives, France.

1934 - Augusto Sandino Nicaraguan patriot, assassinated by
National Guard.

1934 - First rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, New York.

1936 - Puerto Rican nationals assassinate Puerto Rico's U.S.
police chief, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader E.
Francis Riggs.

1942 - Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_141000/141359.stm
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ma5mjf/ys/

1945 - Germany: Mass bombing by the RAF, Pforzheim.

1965 - Film comedian Stan Laurel dies.
http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~jweber0/index.html

1968 - On or about this date, Timothy Leary evicted
from Millbrook house.

1970 - In a costume action by the Los Angeles Gay Liberation
Front, his Holiness Pope Morris the First goes to First
Congregational Church & tacks an invoice for 90 billion
dollars on the door. The amount represents 10,000 dollars for
each of the 9 million known executions of gay people at the
instigation of clergy. The gay Pope declares (quote): "The
Congregational or Puritan Church is particularly
guilty. They murdered thousands of people for sodomy in New
England during the 17th & 18th Centuries." As he
leaves the church, the Pope remarks (quote): "I hope the
straight Christians will pay their just bill & then learn a
little bit about love -- doing it in the missionary position
all the time is a sin & an awful bore."
http://www.luther.de/e/tanschl.html

1971 - Lt. William Calley confesses he directed a
mass execution of South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai
(see 16 March), & implicates his commanding officer, Capt.
Ernest L. Medina, who he says issued the orders to murder. He
got his wrists slapped & was sent home.
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/mylai1.html

1972 - Angela Davis is released from prison (after
16 months). She goes on trial on the 28th.

1981 - "White Paper" on El Salvador issued by US
State Department defending US intervention.

1982 - Wales becomes nuclear-free zone.

1984 - "They tell me I'm the most powerful man in
the world. I don't believe that. Over there in the White House
someplace, there's a fellow that puts a piece of paper on my
desk every day that tells me what I'm going to be doing every
15 minutes. He's the most powerful man in the world."
-- acting President Reagan on an unidentified aide
http://www.deoxy.org/reagan.htm

1987 - Ian Shelton discovered supernova 1987A in the
Large Magellanic Cloud; first naked-eye supernova since
1604.

1998 - A U.N.-brokered deal forces the U.S. to
reluctantly give up plans for a new series of military strikes
against Iraq.


when god decided to invent
everything he took one
breath bigger than a circustent
and everything began

when man determined to destroy
himself he picked the was
of shall and finding only why
smashed it into because

--e.e. cummings

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