Greece: Set sail ... May 6 is St George's Day in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition
Greek sailors’ proverb ”On the day of the Cross, cross your sails and tie your ropes, rest in harbour. On St George’s Day rise and set sail again.”
Nothing easier. One step beyond the pole, you see, and the north wind becomes a south one.
Robert Peary, born on May 6, 1856, explaining how he knew when he had reached the North Pole
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
Maximilien Robespierre, born on May 6, 1758, Déclaration des Droits de l'homme
The great question, which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"
Sigmund Freud, born on May 6, 1856
I leave this world without a regret.
Last words of Henry David Thoreau, American author and naturalist, who died on this day in 1862. (One source says his last words were “Moose. Indian.”)
May 6, 1782 James Price, a Guildford, England chemist, began an experiment (concluded May 25) to turn mercury (another source says sulphur, and another, half a grain of ‘a certain powder of deep red colour’ with some heated mercury. Yet another refers to a white powder with mercury, borax and nitre, as well as silver.) into gold. He presented some of his supposed gold to King George III, and was awarded the degree of MD by Oxford University. Months later, when asked by Sir Joseph Banks (the botanist famed for his work in Australia with Capt. James Cook) and others of the Royal Society to repeat his experiment publicly, he called a group of members together and drank prussic acid in front of them, falling dead.
One source tells the event without mentioning that Price was found out, as though he had in fact discovered the alchemists’ ‘philosophers’ stone’ – the ability to make gold from base materials.
On September 24, 1541, one of history’s greatest alchemists, Paracelsus (born on November 26, 1493), made his will, but there was no mention of gold or silver, the alchemists’ holy grail. His only legacy was a 125 grams (approx. 4 oz Troy/Apoth.) silver chalice. Paracelsus died in 1541, possibly from a fall (he was a heavy drinker).
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Greek sailors’ proverb ”On the day of the Cross, cross your sails and tie your ropes, rest in harbour. On St George’s Day rise and set sail again.”
Nothing easier. One step beyond the pole, you see, and the north wind becomes a south one.
Robert Peary, born on May 6, 1856, explaining how he knew when he had reached the North Pole
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
Maximilien Robespierre, born on May 6, 1758, Déclaration des Droits de l'homme
The great question, which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"
Sigmund Freud, born on May 6, 1856
I leave this world without a regret.
Last words of Henry David Thoreau, American author and naturalist, who died on this day in 1862. (One source says his last words were “Moose. Indian.”)
May 6, 1782 James Price, a Guildford, England chemist, began an experiment (concluded May 25) to turn mercury (another source says sulphur, and another, half a grain of ‘a certain powder of deep red colour’ with some heated mercury. Yet another refers to a white powder with mercury, borax and nitre, as well as silver.) into gold. He presented some of his supposed gold to King George III, and was awarded the degree of MD by Oxford University. Months later, when asked by Sir Joseph Banks (the botanist famed for his work in Australia with Capt. James Cook) and others of the Royal Society to repeat his experiment publicly, he called a group of members together and drank prussic acid in front of them, falling dead.
One source tells the event without mentioning that Price was found out, as though he had in fact discovered the alchemists’ ‘philosophers’ stone’ – the ability to make gold from base materials.
On September 24, 1541, one of history’s greatest alchemists, Paracelsus (born on November 26, 1493), made his will, but there was no mention of gold or silver, the alchemists’ holy grail. His only legacy was a 125 grams (approx. 4 oz Troy/Apoth.) silver chalice. Paracelsus died in 1541, possibly from a fall (he was a heavy drinker).
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