Daily String: 11/10 BILLY HOGARTH
N. Cog Neeto
Subject: Daily String: 11/10 BILLY HOGARTH
((FB here: Due to computer difficulties beyond my control, I didn't get yesterday's bleed (Monday 11/09). Diehard readers will want to go to :http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/1109.htm --sorry!))
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WESTERN WIND
Western wind when wilt thou blow
the small rain down can rain
Christ if my love were in my arms
and I in my bed again.
---Anon (before 1500)
NOVEMBER 10
WILLIAM HOGARTH
Caricaturist, satirist, master observer of human foibles.
Lousa, Portugal: ST. MARTIN'S EVE FESTIVAL OF BEBIANA, said to be
Martin's sister. Her name derives from "beber" (to drink). Martin,
patron of revelry, presides over slaughter of festival pigs.
Torchlight procession with "Bebiana" in wheelbarrow, a flask to
her lips. She then delivers a sermon on the evils of drunkenness,
a temperance hymn is sung, & everyone gets stinking drunk.
FESTIVAL OF CYBERGNOSTICISM.
FESTIVAL OF SPIRITUAL INDOLENCE.
1483 - Anti-Church-of-Rome reformer Martin Luther lives.
1665 - British recapture the colony of New York from the Dutch.
First captured it in 1664, & held control there until August 1673.
1697 - British satirist engraver William Hogarth lives, London, England.
1728 - Oliver Goldsmith lives, Ballymahon, a poverty-stricken
village in County Longford, Ireland.
http://history.hanover.edu/early/gldsmith.htm
1739 - Samuel Richardson, 50, begins his first book, *Pamela*.
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Frank/People/richards.html
1759 - Friedrich von Schiller lives, Marbach, Wurtternberg.
German dramatist/poet/literary theorist whose mature plays examine
the inward freedom of the soul. His first drama, *Die Rauber*,
performed in 1782, gained immediate success with its revolutionary
appeal. Wrote *Maria Stuart; Wilhelm Tell*.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/schiller.htm
1835 - Lakshmibai lives, born into a Brahmin family in Varanasi,
India. Receive an unusual education for a girl, learning to read &
write, & even studying horsemanship & martial arts.
At age eight, Lakshmibai marries the raja of Jhansi. When her
husband dies in 1853, the English seize Jhansi & deny Lakshmibai
the throne. During the Great Rebellion -- which the British call
the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, 22-year-old Lakshmibai joins the rebels
& trains an army of women to defend her fortress.
In 1858, she is forced to abandon Jhansi, but escapes with most of
her troops. Male rebel leaders ignore her warnings of imminent
British attack. Lakshmibai died in the ensuing battle while
commanding 300 troops. She becomes a national heroine in India.
1865 - Confederate Captain Harry Wirz, commander of Andersonville
Prison, where crowded conditions & appalling lack of sanitary
facilities led to deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers, hanged for
murder.
1871 - Stanley presumes to find Dr. Livingstone in the dark (as
usual), somewhere in Africa (Ujiji, Central Africa).
1879 - Patrick Henry Pearse, Irish freedom fighter, lives, Dublin,
Ireland.
1879 - Vachel Lindsay lives, Springfield, Illinois. Louis
Untermeyer calls the poet "a rhyming John the Baptist singing to
convert the heathen".
1887 - US: Chicago Haymarket "martyr" Louis Lingg cheats the state
the day before their scheduled execution, commits suicide in his
prison cell. (see 4 May 1886).
"...I despise you. I despise your order, your laws, your force-
propped authority. Hang me for it!"
---Lingg's last words in his address to the court in the
Haymarket Trial
Lingg was one of eight men accused of the bombing in the
notorious Haymarket Riot. He was found guilty (on very weak
evidence) &, along with four others, sentenced to be hanged. Lingg
however, had a dynamite cap smuggled into his cell & detonated it
in his mouth, cheating the State of all its glory. (All the
anarchists were posthumously pardoned.
"The Words of this man seemed like deeds..."
---FRANK HARRIS, author
http://satie.arts.usf.edu/~cjones/lingg.html
http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/haymarket/Haymarket.html
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~galt/mayday.html
1891 - Gay French gun-runner, former poet Arthur Rimbaud dies,
Marseilles.
" ...As for me, I am intact, and I don't care."
(from "Bad Blood" A Season in Hell)
"I don't see how you can claim Rimbaud died in Marseilles -- he
died we think somewhere in Africa, unless someone found out
something recently..."
---Bleeder DW, Detroit, 1997
(BleedMesiter notes: ... becoming a trader and gunrunner in Africa.
Ill, he returned to Marseilles in June of 1891. His right leg was
amputated, probably due to the complications of syphilis,
& he was nursed for a time by his tender sister Isabelle.
See: http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/ArthurRimbaud.html )
1891 - Simon Radowitzky lives. Polish anarchist who killed police
chief Ramon Falcon & his secretary with a bomb, in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, on 14 November 1909.
1893 - Gregori Maximoff, Russian anarcho-syndicalist, lives,
Mitushino, Smolensk.
After studying for the priesthood, went to St. Petersburg,
where he graduated as an agronomist at the
Agricultural Academy in 1915. Joined the revolutionary movement
while a student, was an active propagandist and, after the 1917
revolution, joined the Red Army. When the Bolsheviks used the Army
for police work & disarming the workers, he refused to obey orders
& was sentenced to death. The solidarity of the steelworkers'
union saved his life.
In 1918 edited "Golos Truda" (Voice of Work). A leading figure in
N.A.B.A.T. (Anarchist Organizations of Ukraine, organized by
Voline) & secretary of the Confederation of Russian Anarcho-Trade
Unions.
Imprisoned, along with other members of NABAT, on March 8, 1921,
during the Kronstadt revolt, in the Taganka Prison, Moscow. Four
months later he went on hunger strike for 10 & a half days & ended
it only when the intervention of European Syndicalists attending a
congress of the Red Trade Union International secured their exile
abroad.
Expelled, along with Voline & others, he went to Berlin, where he
edited "Rabotchi Put" (Labour's Path), a paper of the Russian
Syndicalists in exile & participated in founding the A.I.T.
(umbrella orgainzation of anarcho-trade unionists of 12
countries -- DRILLED, USI, SAC, FAUD, CNT, etc. -- which encompassed
several million members & was
headed by Rudolf Rocker, Augustin Souchy & Alexandre Schapiro), as
well as the "Committee of Defense of the Revolutionists Imprisoned in
Russia".
Moved to Paris, then to the U.S., where he settled in Chicago.
Worked as a tapestry maker & became a leading newspaper trade
unionist of the I.W.W. Edited "Golos Truzhenika" (Worker's
Voice) & later "Dielo Trauda-Probuzhdenie" (Labour's Cause-
Awakening) until his death on March 16, 1950.
Edited a collection of writings by Mike Bakunin, & wrote *The Guillotine
at Work*, exposing the terror & persecutions in the USSR under
Lenin & the Bolsheviks.
http://tigerden.com/~berios/libertarians.html
http://iww.org/~jah/russanar.html
http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/bakunin/bakunin2.html
1898 - US: 400 white Democratic Party activists in Wilmington,
North Carolina begin general massacre of blacks. Storm through the
black section of town, assassinating black political
officeholders. 30 (possibly as many as 100) blacks die in the
massacre. They then depose the mayor, force all remaining black
officials to resign, & institute new government by force.
1924 - Society for Human Rights, first gay rights organization in
the U.S., founded in Chicago.
1924 - Spain: Llacer & Montejo, members of the anacho-syndicalist
union C.N.T, executed for their role in the Spanish uprisings
sparked by the revolt in Vera de Bidassoa.
1949 - Louis Rimbault dies. French Libertarian militant &
propagandist of vegetarianism. Lived in the libertarian communist
Colony of Bascon (Aisne) (1910-1912). Convicted for "complicity"
in Bonnot Gang activities, he feigned mental illness to gain his
release. An active opponent of state communism, & writer-advocate
of vegetarianism for the newspaper "Néo-naturien". Credited for
"the basconaise", a single dish receipe made up of about 30
vegetables, which he believed would aid in reconstituting the
human body. Victim of an accident in 1932, invalid until his
death. Author of numerous booklets on vegetarianism, & a
contributor to Sebastien Faure's *Anarchist Encyclopaedia*.
1950 - U.S. Air Force B-50 bomber carrying an H-bomb develops
engine trouble over Canada, crew members detontate the bomb (with
its plutonium core removed), scattering 45 kg of highly enriched
uranium into the atmosphere only 2,493 feet over Riviere du Loup,
Quebec.
1951 - Hosea Richardson becomes first black jockey to ride in Florida.
1951 - First long distance telephone call without operator assistance.
Internet?: "String telephones are a great activity for examining
how sound is created, transmitted (both in air & solids) &
received. Our students experimented with creating string phones
with different materials & compared the results. Surprisingly,
string was one of the worst types of line to use."
1956 - Billie Holiday returns to the New York City stage at
Carnegie Hall after a three-year absence. The concert was called a
high point in jazz history.
1964 - Re-introduction of conscription announced for Vietnam War,
Australia.
1968 - Ida Cox, blues singer of such songs as "Wild Women Don't
Have the Blues," dies in Knoxville, Tennessee.
http://www.musicstrip.com/cgi-bin/search1.cgi
http://www.lunet.edu/blues/Ida_Cox.html
http://www.sfsu.edu/~avitv/avcatalog/90682.htm
1969 - US: "Sesame Street" first aired on television.
1973 - Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse 5" burned as "tool of the
Devil" by school board, & teacher who assigned it is fired, Drake, North
Dakota.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are
always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
--- Bertrand Russell
"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human
beings."
---Heinrich Heine
http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/boon/vonnegut/kv.html
http://www.bookbinding.net/newfar.htm
1980 - "I'd Rather Not?": Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie,
CBS pays the $12.55 bill.
1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the central committee
of the Communist Party & the Soviet Union, dies of a heart attack.
1989 - The Rhythm & Blues Foundation presents its first lifetime
achievement awards in Washington DC. Among the honorees are
bluesmen Charles Brown, Ruth Brown, Percy Sledge ("When a Man
Loves a Woman"), & Mary Wells ("My Guy").
http://users.neca.com/bfstew/publicat.htm
http://www.bluesworld.com/roots.html
http://www.opus1.com/~violist/transmgt/swrb/index.html
http://www.bluesaccess.com/ba_home.html
1994 - Iraq formally recognizes nation of Kuwait.
1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa & eight other human rights activists are
executed by the illegal military government of Nigeria. Clinton
administration refuses to pursue sanctions.
2084 - Transit of Earth as seen from Mars.
The mass production of instruments of comfort -- all equally
revolutionary, according to the publicity handouts -- has given
the most unsophisticated of people the right to express an opinion
on the marvels of technological innovation in a tone as blase as
the hand they stick in their pants. The first landing on Mars will
pass unnoticed at Disneyland.
---Raoul Vaneigem, "Technology & its mediated use"
http://elaine.teleport.com/~jaheriot/tekuse.htm
Auntie-Foibles 1998
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