wikipedia meme
Apr. 7th, 2006 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseWikipedia birthday meme, gacked from pretty much everyone.
Events:
533 - Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals.
1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthetized the first oral contraceptive
Births:
70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
1926 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
Deaths:
1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
And, incidentally: R.C. Saints' Day - Saint Teresa of Avila. I include this because something about the Carmelite nuns has to some degree haunted me - when I was on the east coast, my religions class visited a Carmelite monastery in NH, at the same time that I was rehearsing a one-act play about the death of a famous Carmelite nun (also named Teresa, if I recall) during WWII. Wish I could remember the name of that darned play. I'll have to look through my books.
...That was, quite probably, the worst performance I've ever done, just so you know. I hadn't studied enough. I blew a bunch of lines. *Dies of humiliation*
Events:
533 - Byzantine general Belisarius makes his formal entry into Carthage, having conquered it from the Vandals.
1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthetized the first oral contraceptive
Births:
70 BC - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (d. 1900)
1926 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (d. 1984)
Deaths:
1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876)
And, incidentally: R.C. Saints' Day - Saint Teresa of Avila. I include this because something about the Carmelite nuns has to some degree haunted me - when I was on the east coast, my religions class visited a Carmelite monastery in NH, at the same time that I was rehearsing a one-act play about the death of a famous Carmelite nun (also named Teresa, if I recall) during WWII. Wish I could remember the name of that darned play. I'll have to look through my books.
...That was, quite probably, the worst performance I've ever done, just so you know. I hadn't studied enough. I blew a bunch of lines. *Dies of humiliation*
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Date: 2006-04-07 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-04-07 05:03 pm (UTC)Besides, he was a better and more entertaining writer than most of the other philosophers we read that quarter.
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Date: 2006-04-07 05:34 pm (UTC)this chapter being about some Nietzsche fan who was also a "friend with benefits" of mine...
The Nietzsche part starts with the “This is Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy” quote in that chapter... :P
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Date: 2006-04-07 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-04-08 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-07 08:41 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2006-04-07 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-08 01:55 am (UTC)I remember you talking about goin to the Carmelite monastery. It was a really interesting story.
Are you and
If so have a great time!
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Date: 2006-04-08 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-08 07:39 am (UTC)