Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 10:50:40 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: 4/10 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT 




APRIL 10 -- FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Innovative organic architect, utopian idealist.

Florence, Italy: EXPLOSION OF THE CAR.


787 - Pepin, King of France, installs his Organ in the church
of St. Cornielle at Compiegne

1618 - Agust=EDn Moreto, Spanish dramatist, once considered the
equal of his near-contemporary Lope de Vega, is baptized.
Turned over 100 dramas, gaining him great popular success.

1703 - Danish Baroque poet & clergyman Thomas Kingo, dies in
Odense. Remembered mainly for the Kingo hymn book, a
collection that first appeared in 1699 & had at least 85 of
his own poems.

1841 - Horace Greeley's *New York Tribune* begins publication:

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the
country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west,
before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.
(*New York Tribune*, 1841)

During the 1840s Greeley wrote numerous articles promoting a
voluntary system of agricultural collectives he called
"association," based on the writings of French socialist
Charles Fourier. Although he employed Karl Marx as a European
correspondent in the 1850s, Greeley exchanged most of his
high-minded utopian schemes for down-&-dirty party politics in
the contentious decade leading up to the Civil War.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Curricula/Immigration/article.html

1847 - Joseph Pulitzer lives, Budapest (or Mak=F3), Hungary.
Bought the *New York World* in 1883. In 1885 he was elected
to Congress from New York, but resigned.
In 1890s Pulitzer had a circulation war with William Randolp
Hearst, & his newspapers were accused of "yellow journal"
practices.

Through his will, he established the Columbia University
School of Journalism & annual prizes for literature, drama,
music, & journalism.

1848 - Revolution in Paris aids plans for massive Chartist
uprising in London -- stopped by the cops.

1849 - Safety pin patented. Punk movement begins.

1864 - Archduke Maximilian, supported by a French army, became
Emperor of Mexico.

1866 - American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(ASPCA) founded.

1867 - Irish man of letters AE (George William Russell) lives,
Lurgan, County Armagh.

1878 - California Street Cable Car Railroad Company starts
service.

1912 - RMS Titanic sets sail for its maiden voyage. There is
discontent among the 1st class passengers as rumors fly,
"there may not be enough ice."

1919 - Mexican anarchist revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata
ambushed & assassinated by Mexican troops, age 29, Chinameca,
Mexico. One of the main -- & best known -- participants in the
peasant uprisings against the central government's authority
from 1910 until his death.

Born into a poor peasant family in 1883, Zapata united Mexican
peasants behind agrarian reform with the motto "land, liberty,
& death to the hacendados." From his base in the southern
state of Morelos, Zapata organized guerrilla bands & led
devastating attacks on haciendas & sugar refineries, joining
forces with Francisco Madero in 1911 to oust Mexican dictator
Porfirio Diaz. But once Madero became president & ignored the
landless peasants, Zapata united with Pancho Villa to advance
the revolution. But a string of military defeats forced Zapata
to confine his struggle to an area south of Mexico City.
http://www.tigerden.com/~berios/libertarians.html
http://www.zapatistas.com/gallery.html
In Spanish,
http://spin.com.mx/~hvelarde/Uruguay/Galeano/memoria/19190410.htm

http://www.ingeb.org/songs/emiliano.html

1925 - F. Scott Fitzgerald's *The Great Gatsby* is published.
Although generally well-received by critics & eventually his
best-known work of the Jazz Age, sales are disappointing.

1931 - Kahlil Gibran dies, New York. Lebanese born American
philosophical essayist, novelist, mystic poet, & artist.
Author of *The Prophet*.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gibran.htm

1937 - Bella Akhmadulina lives, Moscow. A distinctive poetic
voice in post-Stalinist Soviet literature. Wrote *Struna *
("The Harp String").

1941 - Paul Theroux lives, Medford, Massachusetts. Novelist
(*The Mosquito Coast*), & traveller (*The Old Patagonian
Express* among others).

1945 - US medical staff at an Oak Ridge, Tennessee hospital
injected plutonium into the survivor of a car accident. Thus
began an enormous (& until the 1990's, top-secret) US
government program to investigate the effects of radioactive
materials when injected into live humans, which did not end
until the mid-1970's. The program was expanded in the 1950's
to include "Operation Sunshine", under which 1500 cadavers
were stolen from locations around the world, in order to more
comprehensively study the effects of radiation on the human
body. As of this writing a total of 16,000 men, women &
children are known to have been experimented on as a part of
these studies.

1947 - Jackie Robinson becomes the first black in major league
baseball.

1953 - *House of Wax*, the first 3-D movie, released in New York.

1955 - Death of Jesse Wallace Hughan, a War Resisters League
founder.

1959 - Utopian architect Frank Lloyd Wright dies, Taliesin
West, Arizona.

Architecture is that great living creative spirit which from
generation to generation, from age to age, proceeds, persists,
creates, according to the nature of man, & his circumstances
as they change.

That is architecture.

--- Frank Lloyd Wright, 1937
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1995/950612/950612.architecture.html

1959 - Unknown assassin failed in an attempt to shoot
Governor J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. of Virginia.

1962 - Stuart Sutcliffe, 22, an original member of the
Beatles, dies of cerebral paralysis, Hamburg, Germany.
Sutcliffe met Lennon at art school. Sutcliffe introduced
Lennon to modern art & literature & Lennon introduced
Sutcliffe to rock & roll. He joined the Beatles & played bass
(McCartney was on rhythm guitar then). He left the band in
1961 & resumed painting because his headaches were getting too
bad. By then he had given the Beatles the look that would soon
charm the world, shaggy, brushed-forward hairstyles.

1963 - $45 million nuclear submarine Thresher implodes during
a test dive east of Boston. All 129 aboard were lost.
http://www.sonic.net/~books/new.html

1966 - Evelyn Waugh dies. Photographer Cecil Beaton surmises
that he "died of snobbery," & further notes,

"His abiding complex & the source of much of his misery was
that he was not a six-foot tall, extremely handsome & rich
duke."
http://e2.empirenet.com/~jahvah/waugh/

1970 - <FONT COLOR=LIGHTORCHID>At a concert in Boston, Doors
singer Jim Morrison asks the audience if "anyone wants to see
my genitals," just after a brief power failure. Everyone
missed his opening line: "And now I'd like to do my impression
of the Governor of Arkansas."
http://web.scioto.net/judyrn/jim.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/morrison.htm
http://www.doors.com/

1970 - A deed was prepared for the gift of Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader President Nixon's Vice-Presidential papers to
the National Archives, & back-dated so the President would
qualify for an otherwise illegal tax deduction.

1981 - UN approves world treaty assuring no civilians should
be attacked with "napalm, mines or booby-traps." Defeated by
US veto.

*Saturation of unexploded submunitions has become a
characteristic of the modern battlefield."

---*U.S. Military Procedures Report5*

"Toy-size bombs designed to kill tanks & soldiers appear as
white lawn darts, green baseballs, orange-striped soda cans --
& have proved deadly to children. . .

`When you see a 5-year-old boy come to the hospital without
any limbs,' asked Kuwait City surgeon Dr. Mohammad Khaled,
`how can you forget the sight?'"

1981 - Brixton Riots: Beginning of a weekend of rioting in the
racially mixed section of London, known as Brixton. Young
people set fire to buildings & cars, pelted cops with bricks,
& looted stores. Roving gangs directly fought cops with
bricks, iron bars & Molotovs.

1981 - Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to
British Parliament.

1984 - US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors.

1984 - Zoe, first frozen-embryo child lives, Melbourne
Australia. http://www.palantir.net/2001/


A STRONG PEOPLE NEEDS NO LEADER

--Emiliano Zapata

Anti-Copyrite 1999
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