PARACULTURAL CALENDAR FOR MAY 30 & 31

[Mark Kohut]

Read how Shakespeare sees Joan in one of them early
history plays. From the English point of view...bad-ass terrorist
one might say in the paracultural style...



On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> PARACULTURAL CALENDAR FOR MAY 30
>
> On this day in 1431, in Rouen, France, shortly after being captured by
> Burgundian troops in the English-occupied French region then known as
> Compiègne, the virgin-warrior "Maid of Orleans", Joan of Arc, is
> burned at the stake as a heretic. She was only 19 years old, but in
> the two years that she'd led a devoted army of rugged warriors to
> numerous impressive victories in the name of the Charles Dauphin (whom
> she lived to see crowned King of France), she had managed to transform
> the Hundred Years War into a religious war, terrifying superstitious
> English soldiers and inspiring French warriors to the point of
> fanaticism... which made her brutal execution all the more devastating
> to her many devoted admirers. Twenty-five years after her execution,
> an Inquisitorial court authorized by Pope Callixtus IIIexamined the
> trial, pronounced her innocent and declared her a martyr. Joan was
> beatified in 1909, and canonized in 1920... Saint Joan, Patron Saint
> of France. Some modern historians think Joan fell prey to a plot by
> the very King Charles she'd helped to crown, because he wanted to make
> a deal with the Burgundians while she favored destroying them,
> militarily. It's impossible to know for sure at this point, but it
> does make for one hell of a story, that's for sure.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in 1778, renowned French philosopher and author
> François-Marie Arouet - better known as Voltaire - passes away at the
> tender age of 84. He is still widely read today, and his works still
> have the power to amuse, inspire, and offend, in equal measure. I
> recommend Candide, in which he rails hilariously against the naive
> philosophical optimism of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Leibniz.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in 1972, in Tel Aviv, Israel, members of the Japanese Red
> Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and
> injuring 78 others, leaving everybody scratching their heads,
> wondering what in the high holy FUCK kind of gripe those Japanese
> goofs could possibly have against the Jews, anyway?!
>
>
> PARACULTURAL CALENDAR FOR MAY 31
>
> On this day in the year 455, Emperor Flavius Petronius Maximus is
> stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome. He was only
> Emperor for two months and is best remembered for failing to prevent
> the Vandals' sack of Rome. Well... for that, and for being stoned to
> death by an angry mob.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in 1962, Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann is hanged in
> Israel for playing a major role in the planning and implementation of
> Hitler's "Final Solution" to the "problem" of European Jewry.
> Meanwhile, over at IBM...
>
> ***
>
> On this day in 2005, Vanity Fair Magazine reveals that FBI Number Two
> Mark Felt was the anonymous source named Deep Throat who gave Bob
> Woodward and Carl Bernstein all those Watergate tips that helped
> forceRichard Nixon to resign the Presidency and vacate the White House
> on August 9 of 1974. That's what The Powers That Be would like us all
> to believe. In all likelihood, however, Mark Felt was NOT Deep
> Throat... or, at least, he wasn't the only Deep Throat. In his
> landmark book Against Them, journalist Tegan Mathis argues
> persuasively that the realDeep Throat was actually a hard-partying
> White House aide named Richard Bruce Cheney, and Woodward asked Felt
> to assume the sole mantle of Deep Throat only to provide cover for the
> next vice president of the United States of America... and to help
> keep the lid on the assassination of JFK. It might seem bonkers at
> first blush, but when you consider the fact that there has always been
> an impressive range of scholarship linking Watergate to JFK's
> assassination, it becomes less so.
>
> ***
>
> On this night in 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South
> Fork dam sent a sixty-foot wall of water and debris crashing through a
> heavily populated Pennsylvania valley at forty miles per hour, the
> Johnstown Flood claims 2,209 lives. And all because a handful of
> stupid-evil-rich fuckers from Pittsburgh wanted some place nice and
> private to hunt, fish, and otherwise enjoy the Good Life away from the
> prying eyes of the annoying poor.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in 1969, while in the midst of an extended "bed-in" at a
> Toronto hotel, John Lennon and Yoko Ono record their famous hippy
> anthem Give Peace a Chance. Later that week, after the living legends
> end their demonstration and check out, the cleaning staff declare that
> John and Yoko should give probably soap a chance. "These sheets
> stink!" shrieked one disgusted housekeeper.
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