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Governor Arthur Phillip, from his journal, February 7, 1788 (Sydneytown), the day that the colony of New South Wales was proclaimed
Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
Charles Dickens
You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!
Charles Dickens
Happy birthday to you!
1478 Sir Thomas More, English Lord Chancellor, executed by Henry VIII. More is also famed for his authorship of Utopia, a book that has profoundly influenced many later writers seeking to imagine a better world.
Sir Thomas More, “a man for all seasons”
The honest politician
More was scrupulously honest. Once when given a a bribe of a valuable cup, he toasted the health of the giver and returned the cup after he drained it. When given gloves with gold in them, he returned them, saying he "preferred his gloves without lining".
More’s Utopia - home of Vikings
Utopia actually and officially exists. It is the name given to the landing site on Mars for the American spacecraft Viking II which set down on September 3 1976 after a space yoyage lasting six days short of one year.
Modern American Utopias
Utopias and alternative societies
Science Fiction and Utopias by Women, 1818-1949: A Chronology
On Utopias and Dystopias
Resources on Utopias
Google Directory - Society > Future > Utopias
Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World
1764 Ann Radcliffe, Gothic novelist (The Mysteries of Udolpho)
1812 Charles Dickens, English novelist (A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist)
Charles Dickens and mesmerism
Dickens so completely believed in Mesmerism (a system of treatment through hypnotism) that he considered himself a doctor in the method of transferring the healing rays called “animal magnetism” from himself to sick people".
1834 Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, describer of the Periodic table of Elements
“R. Buckminster Fuller, in his Synergetic-Energetic Geometry, which he claims is the "co-ordinate system of the Universe," reduces all phenomena to geometric-energetic constructs based on the tetrahedron (4-sided), the octet truss (8-sided) and the coupler (8-faceted with 24 phases). Fuller argues specifically that the 8-face, 24-phase coupler underlies the 8-fold division of the chemical elements on the Mendeleyev Periodic Table.
In 1973, unaware of Fuller's coupler - which I called to his attention later – Dr [Timothy] Leary began to divide his 8 circuits into a 24-stage Periodic Table of Evolution (see diagram). Leary also began attempting to correlate this with the Periodic Table of Elements in chemistry.” By Robert Anton Wilson
The Eightfold Model of Human Consciousness
To understand neurological space, Dr. Leary assumes that the nervous system consists of eight potential circuits, or "gears," or mini-brains. Four of these brains are in the usually active left lobe and are concerned with our terrestrial survival; four are extraterrestrial, reside in the "silent" or inactive right lobe, and are for use in our future evolution." Robert Anton Wilson
1837 Philologist and lexicographer Sir James Murray was born in Roxburghshire, Scotland. By his death in 1915, half of the Oxford English Dictionary had been prepared by Murray himself.
The professor and the lunatic
James Murray is the subject of the intriguing bestseller, The Surgeon of Crowthorne, by Simon Winchester, about his relationship with an insane murderer, the American amateur philologist, Dr WC Minor. Australian actor, Mel Gibson, is tipped to star in the Hollywood film version.
"I am Dr James Murray of the London Philological Society and Editor of the New English Dictionary. It is indeed an honor and a pleasure to at long last make your acquaintance — for you must be, kind sir, my most assiduous helpmeet, Dr WC Minor?"
Minor (L) and Murray (R)
had very much in common,
including their appearance
1870 Alfred Adler, Austrian psychoanalyst who intoduced the idea of the "inferiority complex"
1885 Sinclair Lewis, American Nobel Prize-winning novelist (Main Street; Elmer Gantry)
1944 Witi Ihimaera, Maori author, born in Gisborne, New Zealand. From the first short-story collection, Paunamu, Pounamu (1972) through to the first English novel by a Maori author, Tangi (1973), he wrote of the clash between Maori and Pakeha (white, European-derived) values in New Zealand.
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This day in history
1301 The son of King Edward I of England became the first English Prince of Wales.
1571 Marcley Hill in Herefordshire, England, according to legend, moved 40 paces commencing at 6:00 pm and continued moving for three days.
Marcley Hill went for a walk
“Legend states that this hill in Herefordshire, at six o'clock in the evening on 7 February 1571, ‘roused itself with a roar, and by seven next morning had moved 40 paces’. It kept on the move for three days, carrying all with it. It overthrew Kinnaston chapel and diverted two high roads at least 200 yards from their former route. Twenty-six acres of land are said to have been moved 400 yards." (Evans 1988)
1788 The colony of New South Wales was proclaimed.
1845 William Lloyd, while drunk in the British Museum, bumped into the 25 BC "Portland Vase", a cameo-glass masterpiece discovered in 1560, which once belonged to Augustus Caesar, causing it to smash into two hundred pieces. It has been said Lloyd’s act was deliberate.
1863 The HMS Orpheus was wrecked on the New Zealand coast, with the loss of 185 lives.
1886 Englishman George Walker struck gold in the Transvaal while digging foundations for a house, starting a gold rush.
1960 Israeli archaeologists unearthed a number of Dead Sea Scrolls.
1964 The Beatles arrived at New York's Kennedy Airport on their first visit to the USA, greeted by 25,000 screaming fans.
1971 Swiss women gained the vote.
1989 Sardines fell on Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, in a violent storm.
1990 The Soviet Communist Party voted to end its monopoly of power.
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Today's site from the http://www.celestopea.com |
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There have long been, and probably will always be, Utopian dreams, and people who labour to turn those dreams into goals. This beautifully illustrated site has a lot to read, and I'm sure you will find it fascinating. (While surfing through this modern Utopia, you will come upon a Wilson's Almanac animated banner, linking Celestopea to your daily ezine. The Celestopea website is one of more than 250 that have decided to recommend the almanac to their readers. If your site, or that of your friends, would like a link partnership, please let me know. If you would like to recommend link partnership to any site you enjoy, by all means, please do so.) You'll also find the fascinating Celestopea Times, an ezine well worth bookmarking for its great range of stimulating articles, such as Geologist’s Melting Story of a Lost Civilization Giant, Floating City Due For 2006 Launch Sudden Ice Age or World Drought Possible |
The Celestopea ProjectTM is the planned colonization of the earth's oceans through a series of self-sufficient, semi-autonomous, floating cities located in international waters and incorporating innovative new technologies, industries and social organization. The residents of these future cities, throughout the world, will show by exemplary actions that people of different races and divergent political, religious, cultural and social beliefs can live and prosper together while also being good stewards of the earth, respecting and thereby benefiting all inhabitants and ecosystems of the planet. The motto of the Celestopea ProjectTM is "transformation begins with me". This recognizes that whenever you seek to improve the world, you must first make the changes necessary within yourself. Your character, the example of who you are and how successfully and happily you live your life are more powerful engines of change than all the words that you could ever write, or all the battles you could ever fight.
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Let's celebrate!
Lenaea, ancient Athens
”Lenaea was celebrated at Athens as the Festival of Wild Women. In this festival a yearling bull, representing Dionysius, was sacrificed
to Semele and cut into nine pieces. One piece was burned and the rest was feasted on. The nine pieces represented the original number
of orgiastic moon-priestesses who presided over the ceremonies. The rites involved the nine priestesses dancing around a statue in the
temple, probably followed by an orgy.” (More)
Unlucky day in 15th century England, Sed tamen in Domino confido ("But, notwithstanding I will trust the Lord")
Feast day of St Theodorus (Stratilates), martyred at Heraclea
Feast day of St Augulus, bishop of London, martyr
Feast day of St Tresain, of Ireland
Feast day of St Richard, king of the west Saxons
Feast day of St Romualdo, founder of the order of Camaldoli (Roundleaved cyclamen, Cyclamen Coum, is today's plant,
dedicated to this saint)
Iroquois Midwinter Festival (January 30-February 8)
Iroquois Dreamwork and Spirituality
Iroquois Myths and LegendsThe Constitution of the Iroquois Nations
Owase Yaya Matsuri, Japan (Feb 1 - 8) (Shouting Festival)
Today is one of the Yaya or Shouting Festival days at Owase Shrine, Owase, Japan (February 1-8). Young men collide with each other
on the streets, shouting Yaya! People whose houses border the routes of such craziness erect protective fences. There is much dancing,
and the next year’s participants are elected at the shrine on the Yaya festival’s final night (tomorrow).
Yuki Matsuri, or Snow Festival, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan (Feb 5-7)
From the Almaniacs
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FROM David Urquhart, Sydney, Australia ANGERED BY SNUBBING, LIBYA, CHINA SYRIA FORM AXIS OF JUST AS EVIL Cuba, Sudan, Serbia Form Axis of Somewhat Evil; Other Nations Start Own Clubs Beijing (SatireWire.com) -- Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil," Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil," which they said would be way eviler than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of his State of the Union address. Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. "Right. They are Just as Evil... in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils... best at being evil... we're the best." Diplomats from Syria denied they were jealous over being excluded, although they conceded they did ask if they could join the Axis of Evil. "They told us it was full," said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "An Axis can't have more than three countries," explained Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "This is not my rule, it's tradition. In World War II you had Germany, Italy, and Japan in the evil Axis. So you can only have three. And a secret handshake. Ours is wicked cool." THE AXIS PANDEMIC International reaction to Bush's Axis of Evil declaration was swift, as within minutes, France surrendered. Elsewhere, peer-conscious nations rushed to gain triumvirate status in what became a game of geopolitical chairs. Cuba, Sudan, and Serbia said they had formed the Axis of Somewhat Evil, forcing Somalia to join with Uganda and Myanmar in the Axis of Occasionally Evil, while Bulgaria, Indonesia and Russia established the Axis of Not So Much Evil Really As Just Generally Disagreeable. With the criteria suddenly expanded and all the desirable clubs filling up, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, and Rwanda applied to be called the Axis of Countries That Aren't the Worst But Certainly Won't Be Asked to Host the Olympics; Canada, Mexico, and Australia formed the Axis of Nations That Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Nasty Thoughts About America, while Spain, Scotland, and New Zealand established the Axis of Countries That Be Allowed to Ask Sheep to Wear Lipstick. "That's not a threat, really, just something we like to do," said Scottish Executive First Minister Jack McConnell. While wondering if the other nations of the world weren't perhaps making fun of him, a cautious Bush granted approval for most axes, although he rejected the establishment of the Axis of Countries Whose Names End in "Guay," accusing one of its members of filing a false application. Officials from Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chadguay denied the charges. Israel, meanwhile, insisted it didn't want to join any Axis, but privately, world leaders said that's only because no one asked them. |
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From Nora, Ireland Afghanistan: Urgent action needed on prison conditions The lives of thousands of prisoners in Afghanistan are at risk because of the conditions in which they are detained, Amnesty International warned today. Visitors to detention facilities are reporting that prisons are dangerously overcrowded and that prisoners lack adequate food and medicine and are not sheltered from severe winter conditions. THINGS YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR IN SURGERY Better save that. We'll need it for the autopsy. |
http://www.castlepook.com/bev.html acouple of pictures of myself and and mistress pushkins taken in the garden at castlepook.......in love and laughter Ireland |
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From Jasna Kamin, Slovenia
Pip,
I've just received this thought ..... (author unknown) If sometimes you feel yourself little, useless, offended and depressed,
always remember that you were once the fastest and most victorious sperm in your group. |
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Pip, If someone has a copy of that program, then perhaps it would be for the telling. Why it has stuck in the dim dark recesses of my mind was that they did discuss the differences of the effects of the poisons of the two snakes and why Cleo actually suicided. As you know history is always written by the victors - after all who wants to hear about a defeat from the losing perspective - except from Vietnam, Galipoli, Rorkes Drift et al? George Newnham Cairns, Australia |
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Dear Pip,
I was diappointed to hear about your banner with the time machine going to the great by and by. When I was a child, in the sixth grade, my class had to write a short paper on "If I had Three Wishes". Everyone else asked for puppies and bicycles, but yours truely wished for peace in the world, an end to communism and a Time Machine. Must have been about the time that movie came out, you think? Anyway, I wrote something very poetic and they read the whole damn thing to the PTA (Parent Teachers Association). Mine was the only one to garner such noteriety. Mother wore her furs to the meeting, and I've been disappointed since that I haven't become a major literary influence in our would today!! :b
Anyway, wish you would find a way to incorporate the Time Machine image back in to the Almanac. That and the Man viewing the Mechanisms of the Universe were special to me.
Just a thought.
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Another fascinating one from Nora in Dublin LONDON (Reuters) - A new phenomenon is emerging on the Internet and like all geekish fads it involves terms seldom, if ever, heard elsewhere, such as ``cuneiform meatspace'' and ``carburettor logotype.'' The game is called ``Googlewhacking'' and is the invention of some search-obsessed fans of Google.com, the search engine that has an index of over three billion Web pages. The object of Googlewhacking is simple enough. A participant types two words into the Google search line with the hopes of pulling off a single search result. If you see ``Results 1-1 of 1'' appear under a Google search -- congratulations! You're a winner (and you clearly don't have enough work to do). Googlewhacking is more difficult than it looks. Google's massive database updates constantly, thus making the solitary search result more and more elusive. And, of course, if your Googlewhack is subsequently recorded anywhere online it is forever nullified as a Googlewhack since future searches would pull up multiple results, one of the maddening challenges of the pastime.
Hi Nora, I would like to register the word 'scungeous', which will not googlewhack one hit -- yet. Wilson's Almanac hopes to be responsible for the googlization of this frumentious word.
Scungeous is a word that is looking for a language, and I recommend English. Will you use scungeous every day on the Internet? Together we can do our bit for googlewhack history. If you have access to no other webiste, why not use it in someone's guestbook. Hell, use it in my guestbook. I should have cleaned my teeth. I have this layer of scunge today. Pip Wilson's Almanac
(You can cut, paste and send the above to your scungeous friends) PS 'Scungeous' was formerly known in parts of Australia,butwe had it chopped down to make way for Progress. |
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From E. Markham Kennedy, Australia A comely redhead was thrilled to have obtained a divorce and dazzled by the skill and virtuosity of her lawyer, not to mention his healthy income and good looks. In fact, she realized, she had fallen head over heals in love with him, even though he was a married man. "Oh, Howard," she sobbed at the conclusion of the trial, "isn't there some way we can be together, the way we were meant to be?" Taking her by the shoulders, Howard held her tight, "Snatched drinks in grimy bars on the edge of town, lying on the phone, hurried meetings in sordid motels rooms - is that really what you want for us?" "No, no..." she sobbed, heartsick. "Oh," said the lawyer. "Well, it was just a suggestion." |
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