… Continues.
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Saturday August 15, 2009
For St. Willard
Van Orman Quine
" ... to apprehend The point of intersection of the timeless With time, is an occupation for the saint" -- Four Quartets
The Timeless:
Time
(64 years,
and more):
| Today in History
Today is Saturday, Aug. 15, the 227th day of 2009. There are 138 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 15, 1945, Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced to his subjects in a prerecorded radio address that Japan had accepted terms of surrender for ending World War II. On this date: In 1057, Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain. |
Macbeth:
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
Quine:
“I really have nothing to add.”
— Quine, quoted
on this date in 1998.
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Saturday August 15, 2009
An Honest Question:
“Did the Catholic Church just jump the shark by electing Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger? This is an honest question… not a slam.”
— Anonymous user at an online forum on April 19, 2005
A Munificent Answer:
No. That leap of faith was taken long before, on November 1, 1950. See the note below.
“The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 15 August….
…has a double object: (1) the happy departure of Mary from this life; (2) the assumption of her body into heaven. It is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin….
Note: By promulgating the Bull Munificentissimus Deus, 1 November, 1950, Pope Pius XII declared infallibly that the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was a dogma of the Catholic Faith.”
Also on today’s date (AP, Today in History)–
“In 1998, 29 people were killed by a car bomb that tore apart the center of Omagh, Northern Ireland; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claimed responsibility.”
On the same day in 1998, The New York Times published Sarah Boxer’s century-end summary:
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