Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:31:31 -0800
From: Recollection Books <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Mind Shoot: 3/13 ALBERT EINSTEIN


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'The human face
is an empty power, a
field of death ...
... after countless thousands of years
that the human face has spoken
and breathed
one still has the impression
that it hasn't even begun to
say what it is and what it knows.'

— Antonin Artaud, from a text to introduce an exhibition of
his portraits & drawings, Galerie Pierre, July 1947.

MARCH 13

ALBERT EINSTEIN
Relativity theorist, socialist, humanist, peace activist.
Jubilee Saints Calendar has had his birthday listed today
for years, but it's actually tomorrow. Today's Saint,
tomorrow's pin-up.

Anniversary of GRENADAN REVOLUTION.

Bali: PURIFICATION FEAST.  Yama, Lord of Hell, sweeps
demons out of his abode.  They fall on Bali.  Elaborate
offerings draw them to one spot, where they are driven out
with noise and chanting, following two days on which no
work can be done.

FEAST OF TROPICALISMO.


1325 - México-Tenochtitlan City is founded. Huitzilopochtli
gave the welcome them:

This is the place of rest & greatness — resonated the voice
—
Tenochtitlán is the city that will be queen & lady of all
the others. Mexico is here!

1818 - John Keats, writes to Benjamin Bailey:
"I am sometimes so very skeptical as to think poetry
is a mere Jack-o-Lantern
to whoever may chance to be struck with its brilliance."

1858 - Maximilien Luce (1858-1941) lives, Paris. Painter,
engraver, anarchist. A reader of Jean Grave's "La révolte",
& eventually his friend. In 1887, Pissaro, Seurat & Signac
inducted him into their group of neo-impressionists. Luce
produced many drawings for libertarian newspapers such as
"Le père Peinard", "La révolte", "L'en dehors". In 1894,
during the repression following the attacks of Ravachol,
Valiant & others, Luce was imprisoned, indicted as a
"dangerous anarchist" whose drawings were judged
"inciting people to revolt". Luce produced a series
of lithographs based on this prison experience,
accompanied with text by Jules Valles.
After his release he collaborated on the review "Les temps
nouveaux".  Became President of the Society of Independent
Artists in 1934, & signed a petition calling for
antifascist fighters. Luce left many thematic works involving
the Paris Commune, the daily life of the common worker
& peasant, etc. -

1864 - Suicidal train engineer Casey Jones lives.
Drivin' that train
     High on cocaine
     Casey Jones you better
     watch your speed
     Trouble ahead
     Trouble behind
     and you know that notion
     just crossed my mind

     Trouble with you is
     The trouble with me
     Got two good eyes
     but we still don't see
     Come round the bend
     You know it's the end
     The fireman screams and
     The engine just gleams

1864 - US: First contingent of 14,030 Navajo reach Fort
Sumner, New Mexico during the Long Walk of the Navajo, a
400-mile forced march in which thousands died.

1877 - Earmuffs patented by Chester Greenwood. Now the
Eskimos are happy?

1881 - Russian nihilists assassinate Czar Alexander II with
a bomb. Carried out by the group "Will of the People"
which hopes to ignite a social revolution. Nikolai
Kibaltchitch, Sofia Petrovskaïa, Nikolai Rissakov,
Gavril Mikhaïlov, Jehabov, are arrested & condemned
to death. Hessa Hefmann is sent to Siberia

1891 - Henrik Ibsen's play “Ghosts”, dealing with venereal
disease, opens in London to unveiled abuse.
http://www.hd.uib.no/ibsenbt.html

1892 - Janet Flanner (Genet) lives, Boston. Paris
correspondent to “The New Yorker “for 50 years.

1912 - Bill S. Ballinger (1912-1980), aka Frederic Freyer,
B.X. Sanborn , lives, Oskaloosa, Iowa. American thriller
writer, who specialized from the early 1950's in a
multi-level kind of narration or divided narration.
Received Edgar Allan Poe Award from Mystery Writers
of America in 1960 for his TV
work.  http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ballinge.htm

1914 - Writer of the hardships of Canadian prairie life,
W.O. Mitchell, lives, Weyburn, Saskatchewan. His first
novel, ”Who Has Seen the Wind” (1947), is followed by
a weekly radio series, "Jake & the Kid," telling of the
prairie life.

1915 - Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a
baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot
substituted a grapefruit.

“The Marxist Minstrels”, an  (unintentionally) hilarious
rightwing Revisionist humor book ghost written by Ayn Rand,
reveals, in passing, that the Brooklyn Dodgers are (quote)

    “The baseball arm of the CPUSA."

1925 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution.

1928 - 450 die in St. Francisquito Valley Dam burst,
California.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate.html

1938 - German army takes over Austria & applies anti-Jewish
laws.

1943 - New crematoriums open in Auschwitz. This follows
an October order that all Jews in German concentration camps
be deported here. But as the Institute for Historical Review,
one of Reagan's favorite think-tanks reminds us, there was no
Holocaust.  http://ihr.org/index.html

1943 - Stephen Vincent Benet (“John Brown's Body”) dies of
a heart attack at 44, New York.

1945 - Pax Christi founded, France.

1950 - Hippolyte Havel dies in psychiatric hospital, New
Jersey. Wrote for Emma Goldman's “Mother Earth”, involved
in the Modern School in NY, & wrote biographies of fellow
anarchists such as walking she-devil, Emma Goldman (he was
also one of her lovers) & Voltairine de Cleyre, along with
various reviews & booklets. Edited "Revolt". Just before
WWI he opened a restaurant in Greenwich village which
became a great meeting place for artists & intellectuals.
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/spcol/modser.htm

http://www.nmwa.org/legacy/bios/babbott.htm

“Hippolyte Havel” - Luxury, XH chassis, heavy suspension,
Sport PP w/SC, 4 SB PR tires, driver, gunner, VMG w/HD
ammo in turret, smartlinked to VMG w/HD ammo in rear
sponson. Armor (Sloped): F33, R30, L30, B34, T20, U10,
10 pt. CA on driver,
10 pt. CA on gunner. Targeting computer, fire extinguisher.
Accel. 10, HC 3, top speed 120; 6,600 lbs., $27,879.
http://www.io.com/~sjohn/hastur.htm

1961 - Labor organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is elected
chair of the National Committee of the Communist Party,
U.S.A.

In 1953, Flynn declined a federal judge's offer to deport
her & 12 others to the Soviet Union on conspiracy
charges (quote):

"We have no desire to enjoy the fruits of socialism in a
land where we did not work for it."

Instead, Flynn & the others received three-year jail
sentences & fines of 6,000 dollars apiece.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/cp-usa/archives/96-03-30-3.html

1962 - US: Wing Luke becomes the first non-white to be
elected to the Seattle City Council, & the highest
Asian-American elected official in the continental U.S.

1967 - Got Religion? United Farm Workers (UFW)
wins a contract with the Christian Brothers Winery.

1968 - US: Clouds of nerve gas drift outside the Army's
Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, poisoning 6,400
sheep in nearby Skull Valley.

1970 - Song Bombs?: A group calling itself "Revolutionary
Force 9" takes credit for three bombings in New York City.
The “New York Times” notes a "possible connection
to the Beatles song 'Revolution 9.'"

1971 - The Allman Brothers Band records its breakthrough
album, "Live at the Fillmore East."

1972 - Author Clifford Irving pleads guilty to a charge
that the "autobiography" of Howard Hughes on which
he supposedly collaborated was a hoax.

1979 - Grenada Revolution. Eric Gairy regime overthrown
by the New Jewel Movement.

1980 - Members of Iroquois & Lakota request European
Parliament's support to gain international recognition for
their rights.

1983 - El Salvador: Marianela García Vilas, founder of the
Human Rights Commission, assassinated.

1984 - If the Bikini Fits, Wear It?: Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader Anti-Environment Reagan agrees to
cleanup Bikini Atoll of nuclear contamination so Bikinians
can return (estimated 42 million).

1988 - 500 Palestinian police resign in protest of Israeli
policies in occupied territory.

1989 - Tibet demonstrations against Chinese rule.

1989 - Germany: Neo-Nazis win 6% of the vote in Hesse,
Frankfurt.

1997 - Chile: 580 people detained around the country in
protests as former Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader
dictator General Augusto Pinochet is made
"Senator-for-Life." Pinochet also given immunity from
prosecution for the thousands of
people butchered under his regime.



    "The mind is a gun shooting at history."

                    ---Paul Engle, 1931



---Auntie-Countless 2001

"Free thought, necessarily involving freedom of speech
& press, I may tersely define thus: no opinion a law --
no opinion a crime."

       ---Alexander Berkman