Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 09:41:09 -0700 From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 9/4 ALBERT SCHWEITZER Daily Bleed, in full, 44 entries, 38 links, etc... http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0904.htm (sorry, domain name not working this a.m., so we slip through the back door...) Excerpts: 1639 -- Milque-Toast?: U.S.'s first prohibition law, outlawing the drinking of toasts, passed in Massachusetts. 1833 -- US: Barnaby Flaherty hired as the first newsboy. Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. ---Thomas Jefferson 1886 -- Legendary Apache Geronimo surrenders Geronimo dies in 1909, a prisoner of war. The Chiricahuas were marked for extinction because they fought too hard for freedom. 1894 -- 12,000 tailors strike in New York -- striking a sew-what attitude. 1896 -- French playwright, poet, essayist, actor, director, madman Antonin Artaud lives. "All writing is pig shit" 1900 -- Cyril Hare lives. British mystery writer 1903 -- US: Cripple Creek, Colorado, police & deputy sheriffs are relieved of their duties & all citizens were required to register their firearms. 1908 -- Richard Wright, novelist & short-story writer, lives 1918 -- Seeing Red?: American troops land at Archangel in North Russia 1924 -- Joan Aiken (daughter of poet Conrad Aiken) lives...prolific writer 1935 -- Simone de Beauvoir joins the bookstore Shakespeare & Company 1970 -- Vietnam Veteran's Against the War (VVAW) begin Operation RAW 1978 -- Simultaneous demonstrations against nuclear weapons & power in Red Square, Moscow, & the White House lawn, Washington D.C. Tweedledum & Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoiled his nice new rattle... 1982 -- 10,000 dance on nuclear reactor site, Gorleben, West Germany. 1989 -- Georges Simenon, Belgian author, creator of Inspector Maigret novels, dies ...Though not activist, during a interview he states he has considered himself an anarchist from the age of 16... _______ The nights of my glory outshine the blazing wavecaps of the heavens at their floodtide Mine is the confident hand shaping this world. ---Kenneth Patchen ______ ---anticopyRite 2000, forwards & backwards, up & down
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