“We would often
be sorry if our wishes were gratified.” - Aesop
The Catholic faith celebrates today St Hippolytus’s and St Cassian’s Feast Day. St Cassian was a very strict Christian schoolmaster in Imola near Ravenna, who was hated by his pagan students. He found death after being stabbed to death by his pupils’ iron pen nibs. He is therefore the patron saint of schoolteachers.
Greek Orthodox Christians celebrate Holy Maximus the Confessor’s Feast Day; St Irene the Queen’s Feast Day.
It is also International Left Handers’ Day. Today the Central African Republic celebrates its Independence Day; The Congo commemorates Independence Day I and Tunisia celebrates Women’s Day.
It is the anniversary of the birth of:
The Catholic faith celebrates today St Hippolytus’s and St Cassian’s Feast Day. St Cassian was a very strict Christian schoolmaster in Imola near Ravenna, who was hated by his pagan students. He found death after being stabbed to death by his pupils’ iron pen nibs. He is therefore the patron saint of schoolteachers.
Greek Orthodox Christians celebrate Holy Maximus the Confessor’s Feast Day; St Irene the Queen’s Feast Day.
It is also International Left Handers’ Day. Today the Central African Republic celebrates its Independence Day; The Congo commemorates Independence Day I and Tunisia celebrates Women’s Day.
It is the anniversary of the birth of:
William Caxton,
printer (1422);
Johann Christoph
Denner, inventor of clarinet (1655);
George Gabriel
Stokes, physicist (1819);
Annie Oakley,
frontier woman (1860);
John Ireland,
composer (1879);
Alfred
Hitchcock, director (1899);
Charles (Buddy)
Rodgers, actor (1904);
Ben Hogan,
golfer (1912);
Frederick
Sanger, Nobel laureate (1958, 1980) chemist (1918);
George Shearing,
pianist (1920);
Fidel Castro
Ruz, revolutionary and dictator (1926);
Dan Fogelberg,
musician (1951);
Vetch, Vicia sativa, is the birthday plant for today. It was formerly grown extensively as fodder crop. It symbolises shyness.
A cocktail that I enjoy around this time of the year is the Manhattan. Here’s how I make it.
Vetch, Vicia sativa, is the birthday plant for today. It was formerly grown extensively as fodder crop. It symbolises shyness.
A cocktail that I enjoy around this time of the year is the Manhattan. Here’s how I make it.
MANHATTAN
Ingredients
Ingredients
2 ice cubes
1 part sweet vermouth
2 parts white rum
1 Maraschino cherry
Method
Put the ice
cubes in a glass jug and pour in the vermouth and the rum. Stir vigorously and
strain into a chilled martini glass. Drop in the cherry and enjoy…
The Maya of Central America were an ancient people intrigued by and obsessed with time. Amongst the ancients, they had the most accurate calendar and they believed that time was finite with a definite starting and ending point. This day in 3,114 BC, according to the Maya marked the creation of time and its ending was predicted to be the 23rd of December 2,012 AD. A new cycle would then begin with a new universe and a new order of things.
The Maya of Central America were an ancient people intrigued by and obsessed with time. Amongst the ancients, they had the most accurate calendar and they believed that time was finite with a definite starting and ending point. This day in 3,114 BC, according to the Maya marked the creation of time and its ending was predicted to be the 23rd of December 2,012 AD. A new cycle would then begin with a new universe and a new order of things.
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