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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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