Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:49:11 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 2/25 IDA B. LEWIS





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Everything is mirror!
       * Octavio Paz

FEBRUARY 25

IDA B. LEWIS
Lighthouse keeper, proto-feminist lifestyle adventuress.

TIME OF THE OLD WOMEN, lasting up to March 4th, & considered
dangerous, especially due to the weather. The Koran says the
world will end during this time.

FEAST OF THE STINKY BUTTS.


1601 - Earl of Essex executed for treason in revolt against
Queen Elizabeth.

1643 - US: Dutch massacre of friendly Indians at Pavonia, near
present-day Hackensack, New Jersey, is ordered by William
Kieft, Governor of New Netherlands. 120 Wecquaesgeek
men, women & children asleep in their wigwams die.

Eyewitness David P. deVries noted: "...about midnight I heard
a great shrieking, & I ran to the ramparts of the fort...Saw
nothing but firing, & heard the shrieks of the savages
murdered in their sleep.  When it was day the soldiers
returned to the fort, having massacred or murdered 80 Indians,
& considering they had done a deed of Roman valor, in
murdering so many in their sleep; where infants were torn from
mother's breasts, & hacked to pieces in the presence of the
parents, & the pieces thrown into the fire & in the water, &
other sucklings, being bound top small boards, were cut,
stuck, pierced, & miserably massacred in a manner to move a
heart of stone...Some came to our people in the country with
their hands, some with their legs cut off, & some holding
their entrails in their arms, & others had such horrible cuts
& gashes, that worse than they were could never happen."

1707 - In Venice, dramatist Carlo Goldoni lives.
Altered the commedia dell'arte dramatic form by creating
realistic characters, tightly constructed plots, & a new
spirit of gaiety & spontaneity, as a founder of Italian
realistic comedy.
http://sunsite.dsi.unimi.it/liberliber/biblioteca/biografie/goldoni/index.html

1778 - Jose de San Martin lives, liberator of
Argentina, Chile, Peru.

1814 - Taras Shevchenko lives. Born into serfdom in Morintsy,
Ukraine of the Russian Empire, he becomes the foremost
Ukrainian poet of the 19th century & a major figure of the
Ukrainian national revival.
http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/cgi-bin/LitCal/

1825 - Robert Owen announces New Harmony utopian
plan in Indiana to government dignitaries in the Hall of the
US House of Representatives.
http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Bio/owen.html

1830 - Victor Hugo's Romantic Army formed at opening
of his play *Hermani* at Theatre-Francais, Paris. They call
themselves "Young France".

1836 - Samuel Colt patents the 6-shooter.

1842 - Karl May (1842-1912) lives. German author of travel and
adventure stories, dealing with desert Arabs or American
Indians in the Old West.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/karlmay.htm

1842 - Ida B. Lewis lives, lighthouse keeper, lives
Newport, Rhode Island.
http://www.tiac.net/users/buster/shiningsea/limerock/index.html

1859 - First use of "insanity plea" to prove innocence.

1862 - Congress authorizes the first "greenbacks."
Within three years they depreciated to 39 cents per dollar
in value.

1870 - Hiram Revels becomes first black US Senator.

1874 - Skokomish reservation established (near
Shelton, Washington).

1882 - Ludvig Nordstr=F6m lives, H=E4rn=F6sand. Swedish
writer of realistic, socially conscious work.

1892 - André Soudy (1892-1913) lives, Beaugency,
Loiret. French anarchist illegalist, member of the Bonnot
Gang. Soudy first met Bonnot & other gang members at the
anarchist Romainville colony (where "L'anarchie" was
published). On March 25, 1912, Soudy took part in an attack in
which two people were killed. He was captured March 30, 1912,
sentenced to death February 28, 1913 & guillotined with
Callemin & Monier on April 21, 1913.
http://www.chez.com/durru/bonnot/bonnot.htm

1894 - Steele MacKaye dies in Buffalo, New York.
American playwright/actor/theater manager who patents over
100 theatrical inventions, including folding theater seats.

1902 - The mill manager of the George A. Whiting Paper Company
in Plover, Wisconsin, discharges a shipping clerk who is
trying to organize workers in the plant.

His outraged co-workers hold a protest rally at which they
form a lodge of the United Brotherhood of Paper Makers &
demand that the company reinstate the clerk. When nothing
happens, 25 union men shut down the plant & walk out, followed
by about 20 women employed in the finishing room.

By April, strikes disrupt plants up & down the Wisconsin River
Valley. The American Federation of Labor & the Wisconsin State
Federation of Labor send support, but the companies stand firm
&, by the end of April, defeat the strikers.

1904 - John Millington Synge's *Riders to the Sea* opens at
the Irish National Theatre Society; the audience is stunned,
there is no applause.
http://athena.english.vt.edu/~marvin/syngeweb/cover.html

1913 - IWW Paterson silk strike begins.
http://iww.org/labor/

1913 - Passage of the 16th Amendment to U.S. Constitution,
authorizing the federal government to tax income.

1913 - British feminist Emmeline Pankhurst accused in Surrey
bombing plot.

1917 - Anthony Burgess lives, Manchester England.
Novelist/critic, whose fiction is characterized by
verbal inventiveness & social satire. His most famous book
is *A Clockwork Orange*.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/burgess.htm

1919 - Russia: The Cheka closes down "Vsegda Vpered." This
marks a return to despotic rule by Bolsheviks. In January the
Mensheviks were "legalized" & allowed to publish this paper in
Moscow, but the short-lived era of relative freedom is no
more.
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/rusrev.html

1919 - US: Some released conscientious objectors (COs) return
government pay for non-combatant services.

1920 - US: Arrest of Andrea Salsedo & Roberto Elia, anarchist
editors, for "interrogation" about the anarchist
attacks of the previous year. Andrea Salsedo was suicided 3 May
1920, defenestrated from the 14th floor of the "Department
of Justice" where he was being questioned.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/fevrier4.html#25

1924 - Basket Weaving 101?: Marie Boyd scores 156
points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3).

1931 - After a week at William Randolph Hearst's
estate, San Simeon, P. G. Wodehouse writes about dining there:
"I sat Marion Davies' right the first night, then found
myself being edged further & further away till I got to the
extreme end... Another day, & I should have been feeding on the
floor."
http://bushrat.jpl.nasa.gov/tak/wodehouse.html

1932 - Pierre Lariviere (1884?-1932) dies. French
anarchist, painter & caricaturist who illustrated some of
<http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/1016.htm>Jean
Grave's "Temps nouveaux". Mobilized in 1914, he opposed the
"Manifesto of the 16"  issued by Kropotkin. In 1916, Lariviere's poems
were published  in *Ce qu'il faut dire*, by Sebastien
Faure, & began collaborating, until 1927, on "Semeur" with
Alphonse Bores.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/fevrier4.html#25
http://www.borg.com/~akoontz/tmh/index/one_t.html

1932 - British volunteers organize nonviolent "Peace
Army" to attempt to intervene in fighting in China.

1957 - US Supreme Court voids Michigan law banning
sale of books that might corrupt youth. Obviously, in
retrospect, Michigan's claim was correct.

1963 - Vee Jay Records, a small Chicago-based label, releases
the first Beatles record in the US, "Please Please Me" backed
with "Ask Me Why." A smash in the UK, barely noticed in the US.

1964 - Cassius Clay beats-up Sonny Liston for
heavyweight championship.
http://www.courier-journal.com/ali/timeline/640226_listonmiami.html

1965 - Beatles begin filming their 2nd feature film
"Help!" (Working title: "Eight Arms to Hold You")

1968 - Discussing the war capacity of a country that
had been fighting for 23 years & had just staged the massive
Tet Offensive, US General William C. Westmoreland
states:  "I do not believe Hanoi can hold up under a long war."

1970 - US: Isla Vista, Santa Barbara Bank of America burning.

1970 - Latvian-born American artist Mark Rothko commits
suicide, New York City.

1975 - Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad dies.
http://www.noi.org/history-elijah.html

1977 - Fire aboard the Wawaiin Patriot, in the northern
Pacific, results in a 99,000 ton oil spill.

1983 - Playwright Tennessee Williams dies, age 71, in New
York, after swallowing the cap of a small plastic bottle. New
York newsman Storm Field calls him "Tennessee Ernie
Williams."
http://www.susqu.edu/ac_depts/arts_sci/english/lharris/class/WILLIAMS/bio.htm

1984 - "I'm here! It's me! It's Mayor Koch! I'm here!"
    * New York mayor Ed Koch at the Berlin Wall announcing his
presence to East German soldiers.
http://www.rs-renningen.bb.bw.schule.de/fotoex1.html

1986 - Philippines: Mass demonstrations overthrow Marcos
dictatorship, Manila.

1988 - Sam Donaldson broadcasts excerpts from
Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader acting President Reagan's
private schedule for the day -- a document that includes a
complete script for everything he is to say in private
meetings. Among the "talking points" suggested: "Bob I appreciate
you & your colleagues coming down today," "I want to thank all
of you for your input," "God bless you all" & "Otis, what are
your thoughts?"  http://www.deoxy.org/reagan.htm

1990 - Nicaraguan voters elect opponent Violetta
Chamorro, dump Sandinistas, replace Daniel Ortega as
president.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com.au/dest/cam/nic.htm

1991 - Agreement to dissolve Warsaw Pact is signed.

1994 - Jewish settler opens fire, kills dozens of Palestinians
praying in a mosque in Hebron, Israel. Oddly, Israeli
government does not rush to declare martial law & bulldoze
Jewish homes in response.


Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody
peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of
courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to
growth. Let a beauty full of healing and a strength of final
clenching be the pulsing in our spirits and our blood. Let the
martial songs be written, let the dirges disappear. Let a race
of men now rise and take control.

  * Margaret Walker,  "For My People"
http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/walker-margaret.html

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