PEN & INK
Art Neuendorffer
http://users.uniserve.com/~canyon/attempts.html
Assassination Attempts on Queen Victoria
. 10 June 1840 (Edward Oxford)
. 29 May 1842 (John Francis)
. 3 July 1842 (John William Bean)
. 19 May 1849 (William Hamilton)
. 27 June 1850 (Robert Pate)
. 29 Feb. 1872 (Arthur O'Connor)
. 2 March 1882 (Roderick Maclean)
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March 2, 1619, Anne of Denmark, the wife of King James I, dies at 44.
March 2, 1930, D.H. [David Herbert] Lawrence dies at 44 near Taos, N.M.
March 2, 1545, Sir Thomas Bodley (Bodleian Library at Oxford) born
March 2, 1904, Dr. SEUSS born THEODORE Geisel in Springfield, Mass.
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Dave Webb wrote:
<<Dr. Seuss is an obvious Masonic Shakespeare authorship coverup
conspirator. After all, he was a Dartmouth alumnus, and he wrote _The
Lorax_, whose title is an anagram of "Ox, th'Earl." And of course,
there's _Green Eggs and Ham(let)_, i.e., "Greene eggs on Hamlet," a
clear reference to the _Groatsworth_ incident. Even Seuss's real name,
THEODOR, can be read as "THE ODOR," an obvious reference to
Oxford's famous flatulence in the presence of the Queen.>>
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<<The most impressive runestone of the early Viking Age
is the Rok stone (Sweden, ca. 800).
http://www.control.chalmers.se/vikings/LVS/photos.runes.rok.html
This huge stone is carved all over with an inscription which includes
verse, coded "twig-runes", a description of a Gothic battle
(in which the Hreidhgoths, who are referred to a number of times
in Old English & Norse legends and who may be the Ostrogoths, fall),
a call to the hero THEODERIC (possibly Theoderic the Great)
who sits "ready on his steed, his shield strapped on">>
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Squabbling over Virginia, and with company reforms of 1618,
Sir Edwin Sandys' "gentry party" battled Sir Thomas Smythe's
"merchant party" for Treasurer of the Virginia Company.
In 1619, Edwin Sandys supplanted Smith as Treasurer & chief executive.
The pro-Sandys faction from 1618, the year of the "Great Charter" of
the Virginia Company included William, first Baron Cavendish, and
Wriothesley, Earl Southampton, plus brothers John and Nicholas Ferrar.
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http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/nneck/4a-fecken.htm
<<Mercy Culpeper was included [by marriage] in the innermost circle
of the founders of Virginia. Her husband, long M. P.,
was a member of the Council of the Virginia Company,
of which his two younger brothers were officers:
Sir Edwin(1561-1629) & George Sandys (b. 2 March, 1578, d. 1644),
who translated Ovid while resident at Jamestown, as Secretary.>>
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preserved letters of
George Sandys. "Letter to Mr Farrer by the Hopewel." March, 1622/3.
George Sandys. Letter to John Ferrar. April 8, 1623.
George Sandys. Letter to John Ferrar. April 11, 1623.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/vc04.html
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George Sandys. http://www.bartleby.com/217/0303.html
Drayton, also, was the friend, and, in no small degree, the master,
of George Sandys, who has some importance in the history
of the couplet. Sandys was the youngest son of Edwin Sandys,
Archbishop of YORK.
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March 2, 1769, DeWitt Clinton, New YORK Governor & Senator, was born.
March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 pts. against the N.Y. Knicks
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Antarctica Journal ŠCopyright, 2002, Joan Myers
http://www.joanmyers.com/Journal10.htm
<<We took a six-hour hike up Lake Hoare, across
LAKE CHAD, & around the SEUSS GLACIER to MUMMY Pond.>>
March 2, 1939, (King Tut's tomb) Egyptologist Howard Carter dies at 65.
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March 2: Feastday of Saint CHAD of Lichfield
http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0302.htm
Born in Northumbria, England; died at Lichfield in 673.
The Venerable Bede writes that:
<<King Oswy sent to Kent a holy man of modest character,
well versed in the Scriptures, and practicing with
diligence what he had learned from them,
to be ordained bishop of the church of YORK. . . .
But when they reached Kent, they found that
Archbishop DEUSdedit had departed this life and that
as yet no other had been appointed in his place.
Thereupon they turned aside to the province of the West
Saxons, where Wine was bishop, and by him the above
mentioned CHAD was consecrated bishop, two bishops of the
British nation, who kept Easter in contravention of the
canonical custom from the 14th to the 20th of the moon,
being associated with him, for at that time there was no other
bishop in all Britain canonically ordained besides Wine.
As soon as CHAD had been consecrated bishop, he began most
strenuously to devote himself to ecclesiastical truth and purity
of doctrine and to give attention to the practice of humility,
self- denial and study: to travel about, not on horseback,
but on foot, after the manner of the apostles, preaching the
Gospel in the towns and the open country, in cottages, villages
and castles, for he was one of Aidan's disciples and tried
to instruct his hearers by acting and behaving after
the example of his master and of his brother Cedd.>>
When Saint THEODORE became archbishop of Canterbury in 669, he
removed CHAD from the see of YORK on the grounds that he was improperly
consecrated by Wine, and restored St. Wilfrid. CHAD's humility in
accepting this change was evidenced in his reply to THEODORE: "If you
consider that I have not been properly consecrated, I willingly resign
this charge of which I never thought myself worthy. I undertook it,
though unworthy, under obedience."
A typical story is of how on one occasion when two of the king's sons
were out hunting, they were led by their quarry to the oratory of
St.CHAD,
where they found him praying, and were so impressed by the sight
of the frail old man upon his knees, his face glowing with rapture, that
they knelt and asked his blessing, and were later baptized and
confirmed. Wulfhere was so angry when his sons were converted that he
slew them and, breathing fury, sought out St. CHAD, but as he approached
the bishop's cell a great light shone through its single window, and the
king was almost blinded by its brightness. All who encountered him were
similarly impressed, and many made pilgrimage to Lichfield and to his
holy well outside the city, which still remains.
In his early days in Northumbria, St. CHAD had trudged on foot on his
long missionary journeys until Archbishop THEODORE with his own hands
lifted him on horseback, insisting that he conserve his strength. This
was typical of St. CHAD, and he brought to his work at Lichfield the
same grace and simplicity. In Lichfield CHAD founded monasteries
including possibly Barrow (Barton) upon Humber.
Many legends gathered round his name, and the familiar one which
relates to his death reflects at least the inner beauty of his life.
After two and one half years of steady, unremitting labor, when CHAD
came to die, his oratory was filled with the sound of music. First a
laborer heard it, outside in the fields, and drew near in wonder, then
ran and told others. St. CHAD's followers gathered outside, and when
they asked what it was, he told them that it meant that his hour had
come and it was the angels calling him home. Then he gave each of them
a blessing, begged them to keep together, to live in peace,
and faithfully fulfill their calling. St. CHAD's body simply wore out.
In art, St. CHAD is a bishop:
1) holding Lichfield Cathedral and a branch (usually a vine).
2) in the midst of a battlefield with the dead surrounding him,
3) with a hart leading hunters to him by a pool, or
4) at the conversion the hunters: SS. Wulfhald & Ruffinus.>>
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http://www.ntin.net/McDaniel/0302.htm
March 2, 1459, last non-Italian pope ADRIAN VI born
(tutor to young CHARLES V)
only modern pope, except Marcellus II, to retain own name
March 2, 1498, Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island
March 2, 1797, author Horace Walpole dies at 79.
March 2, 1799, Congress standardizes weights & measures.
March 2, 1807, Congress bans slave trade, effective January 1, 1808.
March 2, 1819, Congress passed the first immigration law.
March 2, 1819, the territory of Arkansas organized.
March 2, 1824, Czech composer Bedrich Smetana (The Moldau) born.
March 2, 1828, Union Civil War General Jefferson Columbus Davis born
in Indiana. No doubt it was hard for him to endure the fact that he had
the same name as the president of the Confederacy. On September 29,
1862, in a Louisville hotel lobby, he became quarrelsome with his
superior officer William Nelson and threw a wadded note in his face.
Nelson slapped him. Davis went out, fetched a revolver,
came back and shot Nelson. No charges were levied against him.
March 2, 1829, Amer. journalist & reformer Carl Schurz born in Cologne.
He was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln.
March 2, 1836, Texas Independence Day
March 2, 1859, Yiddish story-teller Shalom Aleicheim born.
March 2, 1900, German-American composer Kurt Weill born in Dessau.
March 2, 1923, First issue of Time magazine
March 2, 1924, Abbey Theater in Dublin, William Butler Yeats attended
the dress rehearsal of Sean O'Casey's play _Juno and the Paycock_.
Yeats said to Lady Gregory, the theater's patroness, that the last
act reminded him of a Dostoyevsky novel. Lady Gregory said, "Willie,
you've never read a novel by Dostoyevsky," promising to send him one.
March 2, 1931, Mikhail Gorbachev & Tom Wolfe born.
March 2, 1942, John Irving born in Exeter, N.H.
(World According to Garp & Cider House Rules)
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http://www.anapsid.org/aboutmk/seuss.html
<<Dr. SEUSS was born THEODORE Geisel March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Mass.
His father was the curator of Forest Park Zoo. His first book
_To Think That I Saw It on MULBERRY Street_ is the prototype for all
his outlandish books. We start with a simple situation, in this case,
young MARCO going home from school but he knows that his father will
interrogate him on his return home and be dissatisfied with his
observation of nothing more than a HORSE and wagon on MULBERRY Street.
So, he starts adding interest to the sight, changing first the HORSE
and then the wagon to bigger more outrageous things. We worry
about MARCO, knowing that his father will not believe him, urging
him to stay closer to reality, stretching the truth only slightly,
but MARCO's imagination is in full gear. Then, he reaches home and his
father asks the dreaded question, "What did you see on the way home
from school.?" and MARCO tells him, not the wild sights in his head,
but what he really saw, "a horse and a wagon on MULBERRY Street".>>
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http://www.batcave.net/business/web/elements/runic.html
http://zurix.apana.org.au/asatru/Webpage2/Ftpstone.htm
<<One of the best-known [memorial runestone] is the Kylver stone
(Gotland, ca. 400-450 C.E., thought to be part of a grave chamber),
gives us the whole futhark for the first time, together with the
palindrome "SUEUS" => Gotlandic EUS: 'HORSE'" - a creature
which is certainly most meaningful in Germanic religion,
especially where the dead are concerned.>>
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http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/LiesAGR/shakeparents.htm
<<Neither John nor Mary could write-- John used a pair of glovers'
compasses as his signature while Mary used a RUNNING HORSE.>>
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http://netgeist.com/Dr_Seuss/Death.htm
<<The authorized biography, _Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel_
(Random House, 1995) chronicles many of Geisel's trips
to obscure villages and sacred ruins in Peru, Mexico, Panama,
Britain, France, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, India, Japan, Tibet,
Australia and New Zealand. This biography also contains revealing
detail about one of Geisel's first experiments in
corporeal-environmental
equilibrium. In 1934, he rented a studio on Park Avenue and lined it
with lead. He installed an elaborate system of high-power vacuum
pumps to simulate the air pressure of the Peruvian mountain sanctuary
Maccu Piccu. Geisel, himself, was the first test subject of this virtual
environmental unit. He later involved dozens of volunteers, many of
whom reported spontaneous relief from headaches and insomnia resulting
from periods of isolation in the chamber. This experiment attracted
the attention of both Albert Schweitzer & Nikola Tesla.
_Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel_ confirms that Geisel died "at about 10:00 p.m.
on September 24, 1991," and "on that day his body was cremated."
In accordance with Geisel's supposed final wishes, there was
no funeral and there is no grave or physical memorial.>>
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Walburga, OSB Abbess
(also known as Bugga, Gaudurge, Vaubourg, Walpurga, Walpurgis)
http://207.172.3.91/saintpat/ss/0225.htm
Born in Devonshire, Wessex, England, 710 AD;
died at Heidenheim, Swabia, Germany, February 25, 779;
feasts of her translation:
May 1, 870 (translation to Eichstatt)
October 12, (Columbus Day) and
SEPTEMBER 24, 893 (translation to ZUTPHEN
- scene of Sidney's Sept.22, 1586 wounding).
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the Sun's transit of the cardinal points-originally:
March 25, June 24, September 24 and December 25
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September 24, 1493, Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World
[Venus in conjunction with Spica.]
September 24, 1501, Girolamo Cardano born (mathematician/physician)
[Venus in conjunction with Spica.]
Cardano predicts he will live to the age of 75
[but he commits suicide 3 days early.]
September 24, 1848, Branwell Bronte dies STANDING UP.
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Twelfth Night Act 4, Scene 2
Clown: Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for, as the old hermit of PRAGUE,
that NEVER SAW PEN AND INK, very wittily
said to a niece of King Gorboduc, 'That that is is;'
<<NEVER SAW PEN AND INK: refers to an episode which occurred
in the conference" of September 24, 1581,
in which CAMPION was opposed by one Master FULKE:
"If you dare, let me show you Augustine and Chrysostom,"
he [CAMPION] cried at one moment, "if you dare."
Fulke: "Whatever you can bring, I have answered already in writing
against others of your side. And yet if you think you can
add anything, put it in writing and I will answer it."
CAMPION: "Provide me with ink and paper and I will write."
Fulke: "I am not to provide you ink and paper."
In this exchange, we see that CAMPION, having been deprived of the means
of preparing a defense, such as access to books containing the teachings
of St. Augustine and St. John Chrysostom, seizes upon Fulke's apparent
offer of writing materials. Fulke immediately realizes that the has
made a tactical error, for the government's plan in no way involves
providing CAMPION with the means to write, since
much of CAMPION's success lay in his writings.>>
http://www.folger.edu/institute/sacred/manuscript.html
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Art Neuendorffer