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April 23 Hamlet, Don Quixote and Lolita walk into a book… Ok, so when your oh-so-sophisticated city friends are hobnobbing at tonight’s World Book Day soiree, you—you who fell asleep watching Pride & Prejudice because you were too lazy to read the book in English class—can wow them with this little-known literary anomaly. It is one of the literary world’s most bizarre coincidences that Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, each perhaps the greatest writer is his respective …Read more 
April 23
The legend of St. George has been heralded around the world ever since the publication of The Golden Legend, a compilation of the lives of saints, which took for fact the mythic tale of St. George and the Dragon. All that we really know for sure about St. George is that he was a soldier in the Roman army at the end of the third century AD, he was apparently of noble birth, …Read more 
April 22 “It’s April 21st Everybody knows today is Earth Day… Happy Birthday To whoever’s being born.” Well, Dramarama was just one day off. Today, April 22, is the unofficial birthday of Earth. She won’t say exactly how old she is this year, but rumor has it, it would take about 4.5 billion candles to light her cake. (Although flattering Creationists insist she doesn’t look a day over 6,014.) Earth Day as we know it–as celebrated …Read more 
April 21 What April 20 lacks in holidays, April 21 more than makes up for. In the Bahai calendar, it marks the beginning of Rivdan, the feast that celebrates Bahá’u’lláh’s pilgrimage from Baghdad to the Garden of Najibiyyih. Bahá’u’lláh is the Bahai Faith’s greatest prophet, and the date essentially marks the beginning of the Bahai religion as distinct from the earlier movement known as Babism. In Indonesia it’s Kartini Day — in honor of the birthday of Raden …Read more 
April 19 Flag of the 33 Orientales April 19 is the anniversary of the “Landing of the 33 Patriots” in Uruguay, also known as the Treinta y Tres Orientales, though it’s safe to say none of the 33 “Orientals” ever set foot in Asia. They were called ‘Orientales‘ because Uruguay was known as the Banda Oriental, or the “Eastern Bank” of the Rio de la Plata, the western shore being Argentina.
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April 18
Happy Independence Day, Zimbabwe! Okay, well, maybe not so happy. A quick scan of the blogosphere headlines reveals: “Little Enthusiasm for Independence Day in Zimbabwe“ “Zimbabwe: A Gloomy Independence Day for a Former African Jewel“ and my favorite: “What independence?“ According to the first article, “Independence followed a seven-year war between nationalist blacks and the white-minority regime that left 27,000 people dead. Robert Mugabe was sworn in as president in 1980 and …Read more 
April 17
Emigrants Arriving at Ellis Island On Thursday evening, December 31, 1891, the S.S. Nevada arrived in New York Harbor. Among its passengers were 14 year-old Annie Moore of Cork County, Ireland, and her two younger brothers, Anthony and Phillip. They had sailed to America to join their parents in New York City’s Lower East Side. On the morning of January 1, 1892, Annie’s 15th birthday, a barge transported the three Moores …Read more 
April 16
On April 9, 1940 Nazi Germany overran the virtually defenseless nation of Denmark on its way to invading Norway that same day. Germany’s reason was strategic. Germany was dependent on Norway’s natural resources for arms and materials. Its official justification was more altruistic: to “protect” Denmark from potential Franco-British invasion. Danish King Christian X was told that, if Denmark didn’t capitulate, the German Luftwaffe would decimate the capital. The King reluctantly agreed. Read more |
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