May 4
Neuendorffer
May 4
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387 A.D. {Tuesday - 9 days after her Easter "vision at Ostia"]
Death of St. Monica, mother of Saint Augustine. Her feast
was celebrated on this day, the day before her son converted.
Today it is celebrated on August 27, the day before her son's
feast day. Monica, a patient woman, is the patron saint of wives
and mothers with troubled or wayward children.
1038 A.D. [Ascension (Thurs)day]
Death of Saint Gothard, also known as Godehard. Born in 962,
he became a Benedictine monk and then bishop of Bavaria.
St.Gothard Pass derives its name from a chapel in the Swiss Alps
1471 A.D. [Saturday]
Death of Prince Edward of England when Queen Margaret, also of
England, is defeated at TEWKESBURY Edward IV in the War of Roses.
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King Richard the Third Act II scene 1
Edward IV The mighty Warwicke, and did fight for me?
Who told me in the field at TEWKESBURY,
When Oxford had me downe, he rescued me
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1483 A.D. [Sunday]
Edward's son Edward V would march into London and
a new regime begins in the British Isles.
1493 A.D. [Saturday]
In honor of his great discovery, Christopher Columbus is granted an
official Spanish Coat of Arms by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand.
On the same day Pope Alexander VI, a Spanish native, sets a line of
demarcation 100 leagues west of the Azores between Spanish and
Portuguese interests of exploration. Since it naturally favored Spain,
it would be altered at the Treaty of Tordesillas a year later.
1605 A.D. [Saturday (J) Wednesday (G)] <<The will of Augustine
Phillips states: "Item I geve and bequeathe to my ffellowe william
Shakespeare a Thirty shillings peece in gould" (Public Record Office,
Prob. 10/Box 232). (handwritten) (EKC II, 73; facs. SS, 204)>>
1699 A.D. [Thursday (J) Monday (G)] Gulliver sets sail to Lilliput
1799 A.D. [Saturday] Storming of Seringapatam, India, [used in
opening of Wilkie Collins 'The Moonstone'.]
1832 A.D. [Friday] Mercury TRANSIT
1840 A.D. [Monday] Edward Oxford buys guns to shoot Queen Victoria.
1852 A.D. [Tuesday] Alice Liddell born.
1859 A.D. [Wednesday] Alice's adventure in Wonderland.
1862 A.D. [Sunday] Alice's adventure in Wonderland(Cheshire cat moon)?
1891 A.D. [Monday] Sherlock Holmes "dies" at Reichenbach Falls.
1939 A.D. [Thursday] Finnegans Wake first published.
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Charles Kingsley: _Westward Ho!_
How Mr. Oxenham Saw The White Bird
<< he thought that the sun moved round the earth, and that
the moon had some kindred with a Cheshire cheese.>>
`Please would you tell me,' said Alice, a little timidly, for she was
not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first,
`why your cat grins like that?'
`It's a Cheshire Cat,' said the Duchess, `and that's why. Pig!'
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_The Adventure of the FINAL Problem_
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Freemason)
<<The reason is that I am well convinced
that it is from his agents THE BLOW WOULD FALL.
I have the best of proofs that it would be so."
"You have already been assaulted?"
"My dear Watson, Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets
the grass grow under his feet. I went out about midday to
transact some business in OXFORD Street.
As I passed the corner which leads from
Bentinck Street on to the WELBECK Street
crossing a two-horse van furiously driven whizzed round and
was on me like a flash. I sprang for the foot-path and saved
myself by the fraction of a second. The van dashed round by
Marylebone Lane and was gone in an instant. I kept to the
pavement after that, Watson,
but as I walked down VERE Street a BRICK
came down from the roof of one of the houses
and was shattered to Fragments at my feet.>>
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(th)OMAS BRINCK(nell)
BRICK MASON
BRIC(k)
MASO(n)
CO-RA-MB-IS
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<<[Moses' father] AMRAM's sagacity kept pace with his piety and his
learning. The Egyptians succeeded in enslaving the Hebrews by seductive
promises. At first they gave them a shekel for every BRICK they made,
tempting them to superhuman efforts by the prospect of earning much
money. Later, when the Egyptians forced them to work without wages, they
insisted upon having as many BRICKs as the Hebrews had made when their
labor was paid for, but they could demand only a single BRICK daily from
Amram, for he had been the only one whom they had not led astray by
their artifice. He had been satisfied with a single shekel daily, and
had therefore made only a single BRICK daily, which they had to accept
afterward as the measure of his day's work.>>>
http://philologos.org/__eb-lotj/default.htm
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/4260/manyfaces.html
OXFORD in 1575 (The WELLBECK Portrait)
<<The Wellbeck Portrait shows Edward de Vere at the age of 25, in Paris
on the first leg of his Continental Tour. The Painting we have today is
a copy of the original lost painting, but it is presumed to have been
accurately copied in the decade contemporary to its creation. Oxford is
shown here *Styled* for the sitting in the current French fashion:
shaved high forehead, plucked eyebrows, makeup perhaps. Because of the
painting's provenance & history, this painting is considered to be the
touchstone by which all other likenesses of Oxford are judged. I find
this ironic because the sitter was "made-up" for the portrait, and what
we have is but a copy of a lost original. Nevertheless, the Wellbeck is
the one image of Oxford that virtually everyone agrees shows Oxford, and
nobody else.>> http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/ashbour2.htm
http://www1.basshotels.com/holiday-inn/?_franchisee=LONMR
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Art Neuendorffer