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August 27 There is no more pathetic story in the annals of the Saints than that of Monica… The Catholic Encyclopedia Take Wilshire Blvd west all the way to the Pacific Ocean, and just before you crash over the cliff above PCH, you will have run over a white statue that serenely overlooks the bay that bears her name. Saint Monica statue, Santa Monica, CA Monica of Hippo was born in Tagaste (present-day Algeria) around 332 AD. She is the …Read more 
August 26 “Susan B. Anthony is not on trial; the United States is on trial.” – Matilda Joslyn Gage Susan B. Anthony Women’s Equality Day celebrates the anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920. The amendment gave American women the long-fought-for right to vote. One of the most vocal and influential activists for women’s suffrage was Susan B. Anthony. In fact, in Massachusetts it’s Susan B. Anthony Day today, in …Read more 
August 25, 1944 Is Paris Burning? The above line was supposedly uttered by Adolf Hitler to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl, referring to his order to General Dietrich von Choltitz, military governor of Paris during the German occupation, not to let majestic city of Paris fall back into Allied hands, except as complete rubble.
In August 1944, General Eisenhower originally refused to divert troops to help the liberate Paris on the Allies’ …Read more 
August 24
Today is the sixtieth birthday of Ukrainian activist, writer, agitator and politician Levko Lukyanenko. But Ukrainians aren’t celebrating the man, they’re celebrating the document he wrote on this day in 1991, Ukraine’s Declaration of Indpendence: In view of the mortal danger surrounding Ukraine in connection with the state coup in the USSR on August 19, 1991, Continuing the thousand-year tradition of state development in Ukraine, Proceeding from the right of a nation to …Read more 
The West read the headlines in shock…
The two most bitter enemies in Europe, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, had signed a non-aggression pact. What did it mean? The end of peace and the beginning of the most devastating war in history. In spite of concern over Nazi Germany’s buildup of military power, the Britain and France had been wary of signing any alliance treaty with the Soviet Union, whom they considered merely the …Read more 
August 22
They’re waving the red, white and blue over in Russia today, though not necessarily in that order. The white-blue-red Russian tri-color flag dates back to the 1660s when Czar Alexei Mikhailovich ordered ships to fly a similar banner for identification. Historians speculate it may have been inspired by the Dutch flag, the oldest remaining tri-color national flag. Dutch flag In the 1880s Czar Alexander III declared the tri-color flag the official flag …Read more 
August 21 “The greatest president we never had” Twenty-seven years ago today a shot rang out in a Manila airport. Returning to the Philippines after three years in exile, Benigno Aquino, leader of the Liberal Party and the most vocal opponent of President Ferdinand Marcos, was struck dead by an assassin’s bullet. Twelve years to the day prior to his death, Aquino had escaped another attack. He was not present at a Liberal Party rally where two fragmentation …Read more 
August 21-22, 2011 In the house of Vasudeva will the Supreme Lord, the original transcendental person, personally appear… Bhagavata Purana, 1:23 After midnight, we’re gonna let it all hang down. Eric Clapton, After Midnight Though worshipped differently across many Hindu sects, Krishna is one of the holiest figures–if not the holiest–in the Hindu religion. He was born at midnight on this, the eighth day after the full moon of Bhadrapada/Shravan, in the year–well, …Read more |
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