*Ø* Blogmanac | August 5
Egypt: This day was the Festival of Thoth, god of Wisdom and Writing. In a prayer to Thoth the Egyptians would say: Suffer me to relate thy feats in whatever land I may be, Then the multitude of men shall say, ‘How great are the things that Thoth has done.’
Transfiguration of Jesus Christ
Christian celebration of the dazzling appearance of Jesus to the Disciples on Mt Tabor.
First Wednesday in August, Isle of Skye Highland Games, Portree, Scotland
“Inaugurated in 1877, the Isle of Skye Highland gathering has taken place each year since, except during the two World Wars. The Lump provides a natural amphitheatre for the activities, and the nearby Gathering Hall is the venue for the piping competition that runs alongside the games."
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Today is the celebration of Tan Hill in the Celtic traditions. Tan (also called Teinne) is equivalent to the spirit of fire that has been dedicated for sacred uses.
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1637 Ben Jonson, 65, British comic genius and satirist, died in London. Like some other great poets and writers – including Dryden, Tennyson, Browning, Masefield, Johnson, Dickens, Sheridan, Kipling and Hardy – he was honoured by being buried in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner with the epitaph: “O rare Ben Jonson”.
Poets’ Corner was not originally designated as the burial place of writers, playwrights and poets; the first poet to be buried here, Geoffrey Chaucer, was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey because he had been Clerk of Works to the palace of Westminster, not because he had written The Canterbury Tales.
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1890 New York, USA: At Auburn Prison, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in the electric chair. Officials closed the switch for 17 seconds, after which Kemmler appeared to be dead, but his body started to twitch. Believing him to be still alive, they administered another charge, but took a full two minutes to reattach him to the chair. The next jolt lasted 70 seconds, during which the corpse started to burn. The gruesome details of Kemmler's execution sparked (no pun intended) moral debate over capital punishment, except, of course, in Texass.
Egypt: This day was the Festival of Thoth, god of Wisdom and Writing. In a prayer to Thoth the Egyptians would say: Suffer me to relate thy feats in whatever land I may be, Then the multitude of men shall say, ‘How great are the things that Thoth has done.’
Transfiguration of Jesus Christ
Christian celebration of the dazzling appearance of Jesus to the Disciples on Mt Tabor.
First Wednesday in August, Isle of Skye Highland Games, Portree, Scotland
“Inaugurated in 1877, the Isle of Skye Highland gathering has taken place each year since, except during the two World Wars. The Lump provides a natural amphitheatre for the activities, and the nearby Gathering Hall is the venue for the piping competition that runs alongside the games."
Source
Today is the celebration of Tan Hill in the Celtic traditions. Tan (also called Teinne) is equivalent to the spirit of fire that has been dedicated for sacred uses.
1637 Ben Jonson, 65, British comic genius and satirist, died in London. Like some other great poets and writers – including Dryden, Tennyson, Browning, Masefield, Johnson, Dickens, Sheridan, Kipling and Hardy – he was honoured by being buried in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner with the epitaph: “O rare Ben Jonson”.
Poets’ Corner was not originally designated as the burial place of writers, playwrights and poets; the first poet to be buried here, Geoffrey Chaucer, was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey because he had been Clerk of Works to the palace of Westminster, not because he had written The Canterbury Tales.
1890 New York, USA: At Auburn Prison, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in the electric chair. Officials closed the switch for 17 seconds, after which Kemmler appeared to be dead, but his body started to twitch. Believing him to be still alive, they administered another charge, but took a full two minutes to reattach him to the chair. The next jolt lasted 70 seconds, during which the corpse started to burn. The gruesome details of Kemmler's execution sparked (no pun intended) moral debate over capital punishment, except, of course, in Texass.
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