Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:06:30 -0700
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 9/28 SAINT COOL


Daily Bleed, 63 bloody links & countin', including pitchers,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0928.htm

Excerpts:

SEPTEMBER 28 -- MILES DAVIS.
                                        Saint Cool.

Old China: CONFUCIUS DAY.

Huichol, Mexico: FESTIVAL OF
WAWTSARI, God of Deer Peyote.

AMERICAN INDIAN DAY.

US: DRINK AS MUCH BEER AS POSSIBLE DAY.

Egypt: FEAST OF KHEPERA, The Beetle God.
http://www.sociology.auburn.edu/vw/oval/AUG/C.JPG


1573 -- Painter of Italian street life Caravaggio lives.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/4310/master.html
http://www.hol.gr/cjackson/caravagg/index.html
http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/

1820 -- Friedrich Engels lives.

1829 -- David Walker issues, on his birthday his
publication, An Appeal to the Coloured
Citizens of the World, but in Particular & Very
Expressly to those of the United States of America.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html

1856 -- Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, author, lives.
Wrote Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Timothy's
Quest, The Bird's Christmas Carol; organized first free
kindergarten in San Francisco, established
California Kindergarten Training School.
http://www.bowdoin.edu/dept/library/arch/manscrpt/kdwg.htm

1891 -- American novelist Herman Melville, 72, dies,
New York, in obscurity to scanty obituary
notices. http://www.melville.org/

1909 -- Poet/critic Stephen Spender lives, London.
http://www.deepleaf.com/poetry/spender.htm

1917 -- US: 166 Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the
World/IWW union activists) indicted for
interfering with the war effort (the war to end all war).
The first move in an illegal but successful
 U.S. government campaign to cripple the radical
union movement.

1937 -- Spain: With Augustin Souchy, Emma Goldman
leaves Valencia for Barcelona, which comes under
bombardment by Franco's forces a few days later.

1938 -- Victor Jara, singer of freedom, lives, Chile.

          He grew up to be a fighter
          Against the people's wrongs
          He listened to their grief & joy
          & turned them into songs
           His hands were gentle, his hands were strong

        --- "Victor Jara," words by Adrian Mitchell,
             music by Arlo Guthrie

1964 -- Harpo [Arthur] Marx, comedian, dies at 75.

1966 -- French surrealist André Breton dies.
One of the founders of the Surrealist
movement. Called the Pope of Surrealism
(as well as "A Corpse") by his detractors.
http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/surreal/writers.sht#Breton

1970 -- John Dos Passos dies. American novelist,
developed a fictional style incorporating
documentary devices

           all right we are two nations

           America our nation has been beaten by
           strangers who have bought the laws & fenced
           off the meadows & cut down the woods &
           turned our pleasant cities into slums & sweated
           the wealth out of our people & when they want
           to hire the executioner to throw the switch


http://grimace.ucsd.edu/~cthomas/Authors/passos.html
http://users.rcn.com/tdaniel.interport/tonydaniel/dospassos/dospassos.html

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/2600/dospassos.html

1973 -- New York: A bomb devastates part of the
Latin American section of the ITT building. In
retaliation for ITT's involvement (along with CIA)
in the bloody overthrow of Chile's
President Allende one week ago.
http://spin.com.mx/~hvelarde/estados.unidos/cia.htm
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

1991 -- American jazz great Miles Davis, 65, dies
http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/miles-davis.html

 2000 -- Czech Republic: 'Battle of Prague'. . .
http://www.sherwood.it/praga/
http://www.infoshop.org/s26.html


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