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July 29 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1588 The Battle of Gravelines – Spanish Armada damaged and scattered by the English fleet
1609 Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting the stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years
1848 Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule put down by police
1905 US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines
1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party
1949 Moscow ends the blockade of West Berlin
Today’s Historical Events
362 Emperor Julianus of Constantinople’s “School Edict” prohibited Christian teachers from using pagan literature which were standard texts for classical education at the time
626 Avars under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople (fails, preserving the eastern Roman empire)
904 Thessalonica is sacked by Saracen pirates led by renegade Leo of Tripoli
1014 Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
1030 Battle of Stiklestad – Norwegian King Olaf II killed trying to reclaim the throne. One of the most famous Norwegian battles
1179 Lando Sittino proclaimed (anti-)pope Innocent III
1221 Emperor Go-Horikawa aged only 10 years old ascends to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan
1279 Five emissaries dispatched by Kublai Khan from the Mongol Yuan dynasty are beheaded by Japan
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1928 Test footage first created for Walt Disney‘s “Steamboat Willie” with Mickey Mouse
1954 Publication of “Fellowship of the Ring” 1st volume of “Lord of the Rings” by J. R. R. Tolkien by George Allen and Unwin in London
1956 WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting
1957 Jack Paar‘s “The Tonight show” premieres on NBC
1965 Beatles movie “Help” premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
1983 “Friday Night Videos” premieres on NBC TV
1988 South African government bans anti-apartheid film “Cry Freedom”
1992 Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguys), arrested for narcotic possession
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1961 Bob Dylan is injured in car accident
1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York
1973 Led Zeppelin has more than $200,000 in cash stolen from a safety-deposit box at the New York Hilton
1980 David Bowie stars in dramatic stage play “The Elephant Man” at the Auditorium Theater in Denver, Colorado
1987 Ben & Jerry’s and Jerry Garcia agree on new flavor: Cherry Garcia
1992 “Chinese Coffee” closes at Circle in the Square Theater, NYC, after 18 performances
1994 American minister and anti-abortionist Paul Jennings Hill murders Dr. John Britton and Britton’s bodyguard, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James Barrett, outside of an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida
2019 Record for longest run at the top of US singles chart made by country rap single “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X remixed with Billy Ray Cyrus, No. 1 for 17 weeks
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1751 1st international world title prize fight: Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M. Petit of France in 29 mins in England
1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
1899 Southern California Golf Association forms
1906 4th Tour de France won by René Pottier of France
1908 St Louis Browns’ future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell strikes out 16 Philadelphia A’s in 5-4 win against his previous team at Sportsman’s Park II, St. Louis
1911 Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St Louis Browns, 5-0
1915 Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR
1921 Cleveland’s 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn
Living Liminally: Discerning Good Source Material
One thing that’s important for anyone who relies, to any degree, on sources outside themselves for spirituality – or anything else – is being able to judge a good source from a bad one. So today I want to just run down a quick list of ways to vett sources of any type to decide how much weight you should give to something. Even if a source isn’t perfect it may have value – or it may be immediately tossed out. It depends on how it measures up.
- What sources does this source use? – One of the first things I do with any new source, be it written, video, in person, or what-have-you, is to try to look at what sources that source is using. Are they talking purely from personal gnosis? Are they using academic texts? Are they using other authors based in personal gnosis? Are they using well known and respected sources? Are they referencing conspiracy theorists or known white supremacists? Do they have no sources at all that they admit to? All of these things need to be taken into account. Something that’s entirely personal gnoses isn’t necessarily bad but needs to be understood in that context, while something from a deeply flawed or problematic source will be eliminated.
- Never once the Wikipedia – Okay this is bit ranty right here, but as soon as I see wikipedia listed as a source for anything I’m done with that source. There’s a very good reason that wikipedia can’t be used in college, university, or even high school classes: its notoriously unreliable and oddly biased. Anyone can and does edit wikipedia and while its true that wikipedia cites sources and includes references pretty much any print or online source can be used and there is no quality control. Let me repeat; there is no quality control. The entry on Baobhan Sithe was sourced mainly from modern vampire guides, themselves largely repeating modern urban legends, and from RPG guidebooks. No really. The entry on Finnbheara contained an assertion straight from a fiction novel (I removed it, because remember anyone can edit wikipedia). Please don’t trust anything on wikipedia or any article using wiki as a source. Just don’t.
- What is the author’s bias? – Every author or teacher has biases, that’s just human nature. Figuring out what to think of a source means understanding what that source’s biases are and …
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July 28 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1794 French Revolutionary figure Maximilien robespierre and 22 other leaders of “the Terror” guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris
1914 Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia – first declaration of war of WWI
1917 Silent Parade organised by James Weldon Johnson of 10,000 African-Americans who march on 5th Ave in NYC to protest against lynching
1943 Operation Gomorrah: RAF bombing over Hamburg causes a firestorm that kills 42,600 German civilians
1976 Tangshan Earthquake, 8.2 in magnitude kills over 240,000 Northern China in the largest loss of life from an earthquake in the 20th century
2005 The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland
Today’s Historical Events
388 Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis
754 Pope Stephen II, [III] makes Pippin de Korte, King of France
1148 Second Crusade: Crusaders abandon their siege of Damascus
1330 Battle of Velbuzd: Serbian forces defeats Bulgarian army
1434 Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon
1579 Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid
1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England
1609 Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1932 “White Zombie” – 1st feature length zombie film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi is released in the US
1951 Walt Disney‘s animated musical film “Alice In Wonderland” released
1954 “On the Waterfront”, directed by Elia Kazan starring Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1955)
1957 Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance (Steve Allen Show)
1971 Dutch ends censorship of “Blue Movie”
2014 Linda Ronstadt receives the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in a White House ceremony. [1]
2019 Meghan Duchess of Sussex, revealed as the first guest editor for UK Vogue in 103 years for its September 2019 issue
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1914 Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden, in NYC, by Harry Fox
1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC
1951 Cole Porter‘s musical “Kiss Me, Kate”, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s ” The Taming of the Shrew”, closes at New Century Theater NYC after 1077 performances
1954 Ernest Bloch’s 4th string quartet premieres
1978 600,000 attend the “Summer Jam” rock festival at Watkins Glen, New York, at the time the largest ever audience at a pop festival
1989 Gloria Estefan releases her debut solo album “Cuts Both Ways”
1991 “Gypsy” closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 105 performances
1992 R&B singer Mary J. Blige releases her debut album “What’s the 411?”, with production by Puff Daddy
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1906 Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4
1912 10th Tour de France won by Odile Defraye of Belgium
1928 IX Summer Olympic Games open in Amsterdam, Netherlands
1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Michigan)
1929 24th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2)
1929 23rd Tour de France won by Maurice De Waele of Belgium
1929 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Home team wins 3 straight titles as Henri Cochet beats American George Lott 6-1, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 for a 3-2 victory
1931 White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
Today’s Word is
Projective Hand
From moonlitpriestess.com
Dominant hand; generally used to send energy from the body in magick.
July 27 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1586 Walter Raleigh brings the 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1689 Battle of Killicrankie: Jacobite Scottish Highlanders under Viscount Dundee defeat royalist force under General MacKay
1789 US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department
1866 transatlantic telegraph cable successfully in second attempt comes ashore at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland laid out by Isambard Kingdom Brunel‘s Great Eastern steamship (1,686 miles long)
1921 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto
Today’s Historical Events
432 St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1214 1st battle of Bouvines – King Philip II of France vs Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV and King John of England; as a result John lost Normandy and his other possessions in France (hence his nickname John “Lackland”)
1230 Treaty of San Germano between Emperor Frederik II & Pope Gregory IX
1280 Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple, arrives in Japan from China
1298 Albert (Albrecht) I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned King of the Germans
1360 Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby, Gotland
1377 First example of quarantine in Rugusa (now Dubroknik); city council passes law saying newcomers from plague areas must isolation for 30 days (later 40 days, quaranta in Italian)
1501 Nicolaus Copernicus formally installed as a canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1940 Bugs Bunny, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery, Bob Givens (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in “Wild Hare”
1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
1993 NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
1995 28th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
2007 Two News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there were no survivors. Worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.
2018 CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves is accused of sexual misconduct in the “New Yorker” by journalist Ronan Farrow
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
1957 St James’ Theatre in London closes
1977 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US
1979 “Broadway Opry ’79” opens at St James Theater NYC for 6 performances
1982 Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s musical “Little Shop of Horrors” opens Off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre in NYC
1997 “Candide” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 103 performances
1997 “Victor/Victoria” closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 738 performances
2018 American singer-songwriter Neil Diamond gives a small thank-you concert to firefighters near his home in Colorado
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1913 11th Tour de France won by Philippe Thys of Belgium
1913 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon, England: Maurice McLoughlin beats Charles Dixon 8-6, 6-3, 6-2 to give US an unassailable 3-1 lead over the British Isles; US wins, 3-2
1914 Roda JC soccer team forms in Kerkrade
1919 13th Tour de France won by Firmin Lambot of Belgium
1920 Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America’s Cup
1920 14th Tour de France: Belgian rider Philippe Thys becomes first to win the race 3 times
1924 VIII Summer Olympic Games close in Paris, France
1927 Mel Ott, 18, hits his 1st league home run (inside the park)
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
Today’s Word is
Receptive Hand
From moonlitpriestess.com
Opposite of the projective hand; generally used to receive energy or sense information in the body in magick.
July 26 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
657 Battle of Siffin during the first Muslim civil war between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I beside Euphrates River
1519 Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America
1533 Francisco Pizarro orders the death of the last Sapa Inca Emperor, Atahualpa
1803 The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London
1908 United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during WWII
1953 Fidel Castro leads a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, intended to spark a revolution in Cuba
Today’s Historical Events
657 Battle of Siffin during the first Muslim civil war between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I beside Euphrates River
811 Battle of Pliska: Bulgarians under Krum beat Byzantines
920 Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona
1267 Inquisition forms in Rome under Pope Clement IV
1309 Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V
1469 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote Moor – Pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of King Edward IV
1497 “Edward IV‘s son” Perkin Warbeck’s army lands in Cork
1499 Spanish conquistador Alonso de Ojeda discovers Curacao Island
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1896 Vitascope Hall, 1st permanent for-profit movie theatre, opens in New Orleans
1938 1st radio broadcast of “Young Widder Brown” on NBC
1948 1st black host of a network show-CBS’ Bob Howard Show
1949 WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1978 11th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel
1982 Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1882 Richard Wagner‘s opera “Parsifal” premieres in Bayreuth, Germany
1973 Peter Shaffer‘s musical “Equus” premieres in London
1992 “Man of La Mancha” closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 108 performances
2018 Sir Paul McCartney performs a “secret” gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles began
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1914 12th Tour de France won by Philippe Thys of Belgium
1928 In only his second and final defence of his world heavyweight boxing title, Gene Tunney scores an 11-round TKO win over Tom Heeney at Yankee Stadium, NYC
1928 Yanks score 11 runs in 12th beating Tigers 12-1
1931 LPGA Western Open Women’s Golf, Midlothian CC: June Beebe beats Mrs. Melvin Jones, 3 & 2 for golf’s only major title
1931 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Henri Cochet beats Fred Perry 6-4, 1-6, 9-7, 6-3 to give France 3-2 win over Great Britain and 5th straight title
1931 25th Tour de France won by Antonin Magne of France
1933 Joe DiMaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League
1939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
Today’s Word is
Natural Magick
From moonlitpriestess.com
Another term for Earth Magick, magick that is drawn from the energies of the Earth, natural objects, the Elements, etc.
July 25 Today in HIstory
Today’s Important Historical Events
306 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops
1814 English engineer George Stephenson introduces his first steam locomotive, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway named Blücher
1943 Benito Mussolini dismissed as Italian Premier and arrested on the authority of King Victor Emmanuel III
1944 World War II: Operation Spring – one of Canada’s bloodiest days, 18,444 casualties and 5,021 killed
1997 Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos
Today’s Historical Events
306 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops
864 The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings
1120 Large fire in church of Saint Madeleine of Vézelay, France, kills a thousand pilgrims and seriously damages the church
1139 Count Alfonso I of Portugal proclaimed King
1261 Constantinople recaptured by Nicaean forces under Alexios Strategopoulos for Emperor Michael VIII, re-establishing Byzantine Empire
1360 Jews are expelled from Breslau, Silesia
1446 Foundation stone laid for King’s College Chapel in Cambridge by King Henry VI, one of England’s finest medieval buildings (main structure complete 1515) [1]
1510 Spanish conquest of Tripoli by Pedro Navarro for Aragon crown; over 3,000 killed and more than 5,000 inhabitants enslaved
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1922 AT&T begins broadcasting on WBAY (NYC-later WEAF, WNBC, WRCA & WFAN)
1946 At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team
1966 The Supremes release single “You Can’t Hurry Love”
1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS
1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman’s Championship Belt
1988 Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA
1989 Brandi Sherwood of Idaho crowned 7th Miss Teen USA
1990 Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem at Cincinnati Reds-San Diego Padres MLB game
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1936 Jazz saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker marries his childhood sweetheart Rebecca Ruffin
1964 “Here’s Love” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 338 performances
1964 Beatles’ album “A Hard Day’s Night” goes #1, stays #1 for 14 weeks
1965 Bob Dylan is booed by sections of the crowd at the Newport Folk Festival for performing with an electric guitar, beginning of folk-rock
1966 Brian Jones’ final performance as a Rolling Stone
1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival (across 3 days); performers included: Bo Diddley, Flying Burrito Brothers, Ten Years After, Guess Who, Santana, Tim Buckley, Byrds, Ike & Tina Turner Revue, Chicago Transit Authority, Chuck Berry, Led Zeppelin, and The Doors
1970 “(They Long to Be) Close to You” sung by the Carpenters reaches #1
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1900 Gloucestershire captain Gilbert Jessop hits his second century (139 in 95 minutes) before lunch in same County Cricket match (104 previous day); Yorkshire wins by 40 runs
1902 3 years after winning the title from English boxer Bob Fitzsimmons, American champion James J. Jeffries repeats the dose with an 8th round KO in San Francisco for the heavyweight crown
1913 Pittsburgh Pirates future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Max Carey scores 5 runs without a hit, reaching first base on an error and 4 walks, as the Bucs beat Philadelphia Phillies, 12-2
1914 Last day of club cricket for English legend W. G. Grace at age 66: makes unbeaten 69 runs for Eltham against Grove Park
1937 31st Tour de France won by Roger Lapebie of France
1939 New York Yankees starting pitcher Atley Donald sets American League rookie record for consecutive wins; beats St. Louis Browns 5-1 for his 12th straight victory
1940 American John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours, 46 minutes from St. Louis to Caruthersville, Missouri in the Mississippi River; 292 miles, longest solo swim of all time
1941 41-year-old Lefty Grove wins his 300th and final MLB career game as the Boston Red Sox defeat Cleveland Indians, 10-6 at Fenway Park
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
Today’s Words are
Hagstone
and
Holey Stones
From moonlitpriestess.com
Another name for holey stones.
and
Rocks with naturally occurring hole through their centers; known for protection and luck; believed that peering through the hole provides the ability to see creatures of other realms.
July 24 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1534 Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France
1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James VI of Scots
1832 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by Wyoming’s South Pass
1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas
1943 Operation Gomorrah: RAF begins bombing Hamburg (till 3rd August), creating a firestorm and killing 42,600 people
1982 Single “Eye Of The Tiger” by Survivor from “Rocky III” soundtrack starts 6-week run at No. 1 on US charts (Grammy for Best Rock Performance)
2019 Global warming is the fastest in 2,000 years and scientific consensus that humans are the cause is at 99%, according to three major reports published in journals “Nature” and “Nature Geoscience”
Today’s Historical Events
1132 Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily
1148 Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade
1411 Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place
1487 Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, rebel against ban on foreign beer
1525 Second attempt to circumnavigate the globe as seven ships departs Corunna headed by García Jofre de Loaísa on orders of King Charles I of Spain for the Spice Islands (only one will make it)
1534 Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France
1567 Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate; her 1-year-old son becomes King James VI of Scots
1577 Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1952 “High Noon”, American Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gary Cooper and Thomas Mitchell, is released
1953 KEYT TV channel 3 in Santa Barbara, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
1971 WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1974 “Death Wish”, based on the novel by Brian Garfield, directed by Michael Winner and starring Charles Bronson is released in the US
1978 Margaret Gardiner, of South Africa, crowned 27th Miss Universe
1998 “Saving Private Ryan“, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks, Edward Burns and Matt Damon, is released (Academy Awards Best Director 1999)
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1917 Trial of Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari begins in Paris for allegedly spying for Germany and thus causing the deaths of 50,000 soldiers
1942 Irving Berlin‘s musical “This Is The Army” premieres in NYC
1965 “Flora, the Red Menace” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 87 performances
1965 Bob Dylan release “Like a Rolling Stone”
1965 Rock group “The Animals” 1st time in British charts
1967 The Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana
1982 “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” closes at E O’Neill NYC after 63 performances
1983 “Mame” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1860 Olympics beat St. George, 25-17 at St. Georges Cricket Grounds, Philadelphia in first baseball game played in enclosed field
1893 For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men’s double championship in Chicago
1902 Victor Trumper scores a century for Australia before lunch 4th Test Cricket v England
1904 2nd Tour de France won by Henri Cornet of France
1905 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Laurence Doherty & Reggie Doherty beat Holcombe Ward & Beals Wright 8-10, 6-2, 6-2, 4-6, 8-6 to give British Isles an unassailable 3-0 lead over US (ends 5-0)
1908 American Johnny Hayes wins London Olympic marathon in Games record 2:55:18.4 after Dorando Pietri of Italy disqualified for receiving assistance before the finish line
1909 Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates in a 1-0 victory at Washington Park, Brooklyn
1921 15th Tour de France won by Leon Scieur of Belgium
July 23 Today in History
Today’s Important Historical Events
1215 Frederick II crowned King of the Romans (King of the Germans) in Aachen
1829 William Austin Burt patents America’s first “typographer” (typewriter)
1840 Union Act passed by British Parliament, uniting Upper & Lower Canada
1944 Conference of Bretton Woods signed; IMF operations begin
1995 Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later
Today’s Historical Events
636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1148 Crusaders begin siege of Damascus during Second Crusade (abandoned 28 July)
1215 Frederick II crowned King of the Romans (King of the Germans) in Aachen
1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne, France by order of Pope Innocent IV
1298 Rindfleisch (“Beef”) Persecutions – Jewish community in Wurzburg, Germany massacred
1453 Battle at Gavere: Philip the Good beats Gentse rebellion
1532 Emperor Charles V and the Schmalkaldic League sign Peace of Nuremberg
Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV
1966 Frank Sinatra‘s album “Strangers In The Night” hits #1 on the US charts, (Grammy for Record Of The Year and Best Male Vocal Performance)
1975 Alan Ayckbourn’s “Absent Friends” premieres in London
1981 14th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel
1984 Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss America, resigns after Penthouse publishes unauthorized nude photos of her
1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America’s Most Wanted)
1989 Ringo Starr‘s first All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include Joe Walsh, Nils Lofgren, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Clarence Clemons, Dr. John, Billy Preston, and Jim Keltner
1994 American dancer, actor, and director Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
Today’s Historical Events in Music
1961 American opera singer Grace Bumbry becomes the first black singer to perform at the Bayreuth Festival, Germany, she earns 42 curtain calls
1965 The Beatles’ single “Help” is released in the UK
1976 Wings release single “Let ’em In”
1992 Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour, his first with musicians other than the E Street band
1995 “Hamlet” closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 121 performances
2010 One Direction is formed during the X Factor show as Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson join together
Today’s Historical Events in Sports
1827 1st US swimming school opens (Boston, Massachusetts)
1866 Cincinnati Baseball club (Red Stockings) forms
1868 All England Lawn Tennis Club is founded as The All England Croquet Club; 1877 name changed to The All England Croquet & Lawn Tennis Club
1902 Dutch Excelsior soccer club is established in Rotterdam (Eerste Divisie winners 1973-4, 78-79, 2005-06)
1907 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Norman Brookes beats Herbert Roper Barrett 6-2, 6-0, 6-3 to give Australasia a 3-2 win over British Isles
1921 Edward Gourdin of US sets long jump record at 25′ 2 3/4″
1922 16th Tour de France won by Firmin Lambot of Belgium
1925 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers
Pagan and Magickal Terms and Definitions
Today’s Word is
Dabbler
From moonlitpriestess.com
Refers to a person who, without proper training and/or education, decides to practice any form of magick; generally considered as harmless in most cases, but can cause ill effects (typically in the dabbler’s own life) due to the lack of required knowledge, awareness, and/or skill depending upon the specifics dabbled in.
Ancient sanctuary used by Roman soldiers nearly 2,000 years ago found in the Netherlands
One of the most extensive ancient Roman temple complexes in northern Europe, which includes sacrificial altars used by soldiers on a far frontier of the Roman Empire, has been unearthed in the Netherlands.
The first century A.D. site — known as a temple sanctuary — was located near the fork of the Rhine and Waal rivers and a short walk from Roman forts along the Lower German Limes, which was then the northernmost border of the empire. It now lies near the Dutch city of Zevenaar in the eastern Gelderland region, near the border with Germany.
The sanctuary consisted of at least three large temples and many smaller altars dedicated to particular Roman gods and goddesses, and would mainly have been used for sacred vows by Roman soldiers stationed at the nearby forts, project leader Eric Norde, an archaeologist at the Dutch archaeology agency RAAP, told Live Science.
Hundreds of artifacts have been found at the site, including coins and jewelry; while the tips of spears and lances, and the remains of armor and horse harnesses, emphasize its military nature, he said.
The discoveries give a glimpse of the lives of soldiers stationed on the frontiers of the empire, far from the Roman heartlands.
“It’s the best-preserved Roman sanctuary in the Netherlands, and perhaps in a much larger area,” Norde said. “It’s quite extraordinary.”
The central government of the Netherlands and the provincial Gelderland government have contracted RAAP to excavate the site, which was first unearthed during commercial clay extraction works in 2021, according to a statement by the Dutch cultural ministry (opens in new tab). The clay extraction has been stopped for the excavations but is continuing nearby, and so the archaeological site is closed to the public for now.
Votive altars …
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Public Service Announcement – Security flaws in a popular GPS tracker are exposing a million vehicle locations
Security vulnerabilities in a popular Chinese-built GPS vehicle tracker can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines of at least a million vehicles around the world, according to new research. Worse, the company that makes the GPS trackers has made no effort to fix them.
Cybersecurity startup BitSight said it found six vulnerabilities in the MV720, a hardwired GPS tracker built by MiCODUS, a Shenzhen-based electronics maker, which claims more than 1.5 million GPS trackers in use today across more than 420,000 customers worldwide, including companies with fleets of vehicles, law enforcement agencies, militaries and national governments. BitSight said in its report that it also found the GPS trackers used by Fortune 50 companies and a nuclear power plant operator.
But the security flaws can be easily and remotely exploited to track any vehicle in real time, access past routes and cut the engines of vehicles in motion.
Security vulnerabilities in a popular Chinese-built GPS vehicle tracker can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines of at least a million vehicles around the world, according to new research. Worse, the company that makes the GPS trackers has made no effort to fix them.
Cybersecurity startup BitSight said it found six vulnerabilities in the MV720, a hardwired GPS tracker built by MiCODUS, a Shenzhen-based electronics maker, which claims more than 1.5 million GPS trackers in use today across more than 420,000 customers worldwide, including companies with fleets of vehicles, law enforcement agencies, militaries and national governments. BitSight said in its report that it also found the GPS trackers used by Fortune 50 companies and a nuclear power plant operator.
But the security flaws can be easily and remotely exploited to track any vehicle in real time, access past routes and cut the engines of vehicles in motion.
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Thank You All
Thank you to everyone who sent me suggestions on combating my allergies and summer cold. Also, for your patients and answering when I did not feel up to posting any of the regular daily posts. I did use some of the suggestions and am feeling somewhat better today. A full night’s sleep helped too especially with my fibromyalgia flare.
All missing birth horoscopes from July 16 to July 20 are now posted on their specific date. Remember the birthday horoscopes are not just for your birth date but for the next year of your life.
I do not know right now if I will get all of the regular daily posts done for both hemispheres’ today, I will do what I can.
I posted what I think are the best posts to help with spells and rituals for both hemispheres’ today. I am hoping to get back on later to do these posts for the southern hemisphere’s tomorrow.
Still Not Feeling Well
On top of the fibromyalgia flare and tick bite I was exposed to Covid this past Friday. So now I get to isolate until next Wednesday unless I have symptoms. This past couple of weeks have really taken a toll on my physical body making it hard to do anything including walking about 10 to 15 feet.
I will try to catch upon on birthday horoscopes tomorrow. I am sorry for the delay in posts and thank you for your understanding with me at this time.
Not Feeling Good at All
I’m sorry I am not up to doing all the regular dailky and extra posts. I’m just not feeling good and have limited physical energy right now. I am going to take the rest of this week off. I will only be posting the birthday horoscopes and a spell a day until the northern hemisphere’s Monday. I will do the two posts when I feel up to doing them each day
I am hoping and wishing it is just a fibromyalgia flare again. But since Wednesday I have been bitten by two ticks. The second one feasting on my blood while I slept last night. I have been and will keep telling my body it is not allowed to get lyme disease. I ask for positive energy to be sent if you want to, to help my mantra of “I refuse to get lyme disease ” be stronger..
Thank you for your understanding and support not only when I am feeling totally yucky but every day. Much love and thanks to each of my brothers, sisters, and honored guests.
Posts Will Be Late Today
After only 4 hours of sleep starting at 7:00 AM I am not doing too good. I also did some forgotten spring cleaning than finished mowing our yard. I hopefully get the tomorrow posts for both hemispheres up before my body says ENOUGH and I just crash. If I do not I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
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