Milestones

[Naraku]

Events 21 November
• 1985 – United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.

Friday, November 20, Pollard was paroled after serving nearly 30 years.

 

[Eulalia]

22nd November - Saint Cecilia

She is reasonably certain to be a historical martyr, who probably perished in Sicily under Emperor Marcus Aurelius between 176 and 180, though her legend is hardly historical.

According to the story, despite her vow of virginity, she was forced by her parents to marry a nobleman named Valerian. During the wedding, Cecilia sat apart singing to God in her heart, and for that she later became venerated as the patron saint of musicians. When the time came for her marriage to be consummated, Cecilia told Valerian that she had an angel of the Lord watching over her who would punish him if he dared to violate her virginity but who would love him if he could respect her maidenhood. When Valerian asked to see the angel, Cecilia replied that he would see the angel if he would go to the third milestone on the the Appian Way and be baptized by Pope Urbanus. After his baptism, he found an angel standing by the side of Cecilia, and crowning her with a chaplet of roses and lilies.

The martyrdom of Cecilia is said to have followed that of Valerian and his brother by the prefect Turcius Almachius. The legend about Cecilia’s death says that after being struck three times on the neck with a sword, she lived for three days, and asked the pope to convert her home into a church, traditionally this is Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome, which was first built in the 4th century; incorrupt remains supposed to be hers were found there in the 9th century.

 

[admihoek]

Holidays and observances[edit]

• Christian feast day:
  • Alexander Nevsky (Repose, Russian Orthodox Church)
  • BlessedMiguel Agustín Pro - one of Saints of the Cristero War (Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church)
  • Columbanus
  • Felicitas of Rome
  • Pope Clement I (Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and the Lutheran Church)
  • November 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Earliest day on which Black Friday can fall, while November 29 is the latest; observed on the day after Thanksgiving. (United States), and its related observances.
• Feast of Qawl (Speech) – The first day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)
• Labor Thanksgiving Day (Japan)
• Rudolf Maister Day (Slovenia)
• St George's Day (Georgia) or Giorgoba (Georgia)
• International Day to End Impunity

 

[Eulalia]

International Day to End Impunity

well, we don't allow it here!

 

[thehangingtree]

well, we don't allow it here!

Well, certainly not for the ladies!!!!

 

[Eulalia]

25th November - Catherine of Alexandria - alongside Eulalia, my equal favourite VM!



a few (mostly) less familiar images of her

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[thehangingtree]

25th November - Catherine of Alexandria - alongside Eulalia, my equal favourite VM!



a few (mostly) less familiar images of her

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...she looks like a rather pregnant VM...

 

[Eulalia]

It's an odd one that, isn't it? It's the only one I've come across that shows St Cat being tortured in one of the other ways they tried on her, other than the famous Wheel. It's a 15th century manuscript illumination by the very up-market Limbourg brothers, and they portrayed women like that pretty regularly, maybe women in those days were pregnant so much of the time, they'd forgotten what we look like when we aren't!

 

[Loxuru]

It's an odd one that, isn't it? It's the only one I've come across that shows St Cat being tortured in one of the other ways they tried on her, other than the famous Wheel. It's a 15th century manuscript illumination by the very up-market Limbourg brothers, and they portrayed women like that pretty regularly, maybe women in those days were pregnant so much of the time, they'd forgotten what we look like when we aren't!

Fertility was a highly esteemed quality of women during the Middle Ages. Therefore women were often depicted as being pregnant. In Van Eyck's "Marriage of Arnolfini", the bride simulates pregnancy in her pose, as a sign that she is healthy and fertile.

 

[thehangingtree]

The last Thursday in November is "Thanksgiving Day" in the US. So unlike my rather irrelevant irreverent thread where we cook our girls I offer a moment of thanks for the good things in my life...

My wife, a 12 year cancer survivor...

My friends and with CF they span the globe...

To the higher power... I call him 'God' (call him/her/it what you will) for the life I have had and maybe much more to come...

Health and happiness to you all...

Old Oak

 

[phlebas]

The last Thursday in November is "Thanksgiving Day" in the US. So unlike my rather irrelevant irreverent thread where we cook our girls I offer a moment of thanks for the good things in my life...

My wife, a 12 year cancer survivor...

My friends and with CF they span the globe...

To the higher power... I call him 'God' (call him/her/it what you will) for the life I have had and maybe much more to come...

Health and happiness to you all...

Old Oak

Yes, we have much to be thankful for.
Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends

(do you wish each other happy thanksgiving? I don't know the conventions)

 

[thehangingtree]

Yes, we have much to be thankful for.
Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends

(do you wish each other happy thanksgiving? I don't know the conventions)

At the very least. And while I think it is a mostly American holiday it is a day of thanks and sharing so I wish to share my thanks for all of you and hope in this this seemingly troubled world we can all take a moment to look about and as what is good in our lives and smile...

 

[Repertor]

At the very least. And while I think it is a mostly American holiday it is a day of thanks and sharing so I wish to share my thanks for all of you and hope in this this seemingly troubled world we can all take a moment to look about and as what is good in our lives and smile...

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[Naraku]

At the very least. And while I think it is a mostly American holiday it is a day of thanks and sharing so I wish to share my thanks for all of you and hope in this this seemingly troubled world we can all take a moment to look about and as what is good in our lives and smile...

Canadians celebrate their own Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October.

So, a belated Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian friends!

The modern US Thanksgiving is a day to eat heavily, watch football and - in recent years - go shopping.
It is also, for some, a time to gather together with relatives & be thankful you don't have to see them for another 364 days.

The first thanksgiving in North America was celebrated in St Augustine, Florida on September 8, 1565. So, stuff it, Pilgrims.

 

[thehangingtree]

Canadians celebrate their own Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October.

So, a belated Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian friends!

The modern US Thanksgiving is a day to eat heavily, watch football and - in recent years - go shopping.
It is also, for some, a time to gather together with relatives & be thankful you don't have to see them for another 364 days.

The first thanksgiving in North America was celebrated in St Augustine, Florida on September 8, 1565. So, stuff it, Pilgrims.

Who are you calling a pilgrim, pilgrim???


Ol' Tree

 

[RacingRodent]

Who are you calling a pilgrim, pilgrim???
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Ol' Tree

Boston United FC

Aka the Pilgrims

 

[thehangingtree]

December 7, 1941... a day that will live in infamy...

T

 

[admihoek]

December 7

December 7 is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated.
• 574 – Emperor Justin II retires due to recurring seizures of insanity. He abdicates the throne in favor of his general Tiberius, proclaiming him Caesar.
• 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
• 1724 – Tumult of Thorn: Religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
• 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.
• 1776 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
• 1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
• 1869 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
• 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
• 1930 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
• 1936 – Australian cricketerJack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
• 1941 – World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
• 1946 – A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
• 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan.
• 1962 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
• 1963 – Instant replay makes its debut during an American Army–Navy football game.
• 1965 – Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras Isimultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.

· 1971 – Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.

• 1972 – Imelda Marcos survives an assassination attempt using a bolo knife against her.
• 1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
• 1975 – Warschauer Kniefall - German Chancellor Willy Brandt makes a gesture of humility towards the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• 1975 – Indonesian invasion of East Timor: The invasion begins.
• 1982 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
• 1983 – An Iberia AirlinesBoeing 727 collides with an AviacoDC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.
• 1987 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
• 1988 – Spitak earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills more than 25,000, injures 30,000 and leaves 500,000 homeless out of a population of 3,500,000.
• 1988 – Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
• 1993 – The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
• 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
• 1999 – A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peerfile-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
• 2003 – The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
• 2005 – Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
• 2005 – Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes but later acquitted, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife, by Spanish police.
• 2006 – A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties.
• 2007 – The Hebei Spirit oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the Very Large Crude Carrier, Hebei Spirit.
• 2009 – United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) is held.
• 2015 – The Akatsuki space probe successfully enters orbit around Venus, using only its attitude control thrusters.

 

[admihoek]

December 8 is the 342nd day of the year (343rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 23 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events

• 395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
• 757 – Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
• 1432 – The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War.
• 1596 – Luis de Carabajal the younger, one of the first Jewish authors in the Americas, died in an auto-da-fé during the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico City.
• 1660 – A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
• 1813 – Premiere of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
• 1854 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin.
• 1907 – King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
• 1912 – Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
• 1914 – World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats an inferior squadron of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
• 1922 – Northern Ireland ceases to be part of the Irish Free State.
• 1927 – The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
• 1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
• 1941 – World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.)
• 1949 – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
• 1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
• 1955 – The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.
• 1962 – Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
• 1963 – Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
• 1966 – The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
• 1969 – An Olympic Airways Douglas DC-6 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90—the worst crash of a DC-6.
• 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.
• 1972 – United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. The crash is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737.
• 1974 – A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
• 1980 – John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.
• 1982 – In Suriname, several opponents of the military government are killed.
• 1987 – The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed.
• 1987 – Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death.
• 1987 – The Alianza Lima air disaster occurs.
• 1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.
• 1988 – A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.
• 1991 – The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
• 1991 – The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
• 1998 – Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
• 2004 – The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
• 2007 – Three unidentified gunmen storm an office of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party in Balochistan. Three PPP supporters are killed.
• 2009 – Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 and injure 448.
• 2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
• 2010 – The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.
• 2013 – Riots break out in Singapore after a fatal accident in Little India.

• Christian feast day:
  • Clement of Ohrid (Julian Calendar), and its related observances:
  • Eucharius
  • Feast of the Immaculate Conception (public holiday in several countries, a holy day of obligation in others), and its related observances:
    • Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Anglican Communion), lesser commemoration
    • Christmas on Campus (University of Dayton)
    • Mother's Day (Panama)
    • Festa da Conceição da Praia, celebrating Yemanjá, Queen of the Ocean (Salvador, Bahia)
    • Festival of Lights (Lyon)
  • Richard Baxter (US Episcopal Church)
  • Romaric
  • December 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Earliest day on which National Tree Planting Day (Malawi) can fall, while December 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in December
• Bodhi Day (Japan)
• CARICOM–Cuba Day (Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba)
• Constitution Day (Romania)
• Constitution Day (Uzbekistan)
• National Youth Day (Albania)

Kim Basinger in 1970
born 1953

 

[admihoek]

and yep Tree some pics