Under the Red Sky Today

[alice wellintown]

On this day in 1786 twenty-seven-year-old Robert Burns served his
third and last public penance for having "ante-nuptial fornication"
with his eventual wife, Jean Armour.

http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=8/6/2009

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on
Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in
the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html

In the Syriac Orthodox, Indian Orthodox, New Calendarist Eastern
Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches, the Feast of the
Transfiguration is observed on 6 August and is considered a major
feast, numbered among the twelve Great Feasts in Orthodoxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfiguration_of_Jesus

Mutt and Jeff

http://wordsmith.org/words/today.html

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