PARACULTURAL CALENDAR FOR MAY 30 & 31

Tue Jun 2 00:40:16 CDT 2015

(on a tangent) read how the bard sees Richard III from the Tudors's pov,
murderer of his nephews etc.

And then perhaps read The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.

2015-06-01 19:44 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> 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...
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> 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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