*Ø* Blogmanac September 21 | A little about today from the Almanac
Feast day of Raud the Strong, Norway
Martyrdom of Raud the Strong by the King of Norway, Olav Tryggvason, commemorated on the eve of Autumnal Equinox. He was tortured and died rather than give up the old Norse gods.
Feast of Kuodor-Gup, Selkup, Siberia
God of Riches. Source: The Daily Bleed
19 BCE The Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, b. October 15, 70 BCE), aged 50, died in the port of Brindisii (Brundisium) upon his return from Greece, having removed from his last will an earlier request that the Aeneid be burned upon his death.
1327 England's King Edward II (b. April 25, 1284) was murdered in the dungeons of Berkeley Castle, allegedly by a red hot poker being shoved in his rectum, at the bidding of his estranged and ambitious wife, Queen Isabella of France, whom the hapless homosexual had married on January 25, 1308.
"An alternative version of events, which has received little attention from historians, suggests that the body buried at Gloucester is not that of King Edward, but that he was allowed to escape to the Continent and survived many more years.” Source
1741 A fall of "angel’s hair"- an unknown fluffy substance - fell on Selborne, England, then became gelatinous, then evaporated away altogether. Similar experiences have happened in Japan (October 1, 679 CE and September 27, 1477) .
1968 In a bloody prelude to the Mexico City massacre of October 2 this year, in which more than 300 students were massacred by the police, cops raided the Tlatelolco district of the city and battled with students and other residents. A baby girl and at least three students were killed and many hundreds arrested during this battle. More
Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead,
who never to himself hath said
As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed:
To hell with the rent ... I'll drink instead!
Hunter S Thompson, The Proud Highway
1986 Hunter S Thompson claims he remained sober on this day.
Feast day of Raud the Strong, Norway
Martyrdom of Raud the Strong by the King of Norway, Olav Tryggvason, commemorated on the eve of Autumnal Equinox. He was tortured and died rather than give up the old Norse gods.
Feast of Kuodor-Gup, Selkup, Siberia
God of Riches. Source: The Daily Bleed
19 BCE The Roman poet Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, b. October 15, 70 BCE), aged 50, died in the port of Brindisii (Brundisium) upon his return from Greece, having removed from his last will an earlier request that the Aeneid be burned upon his death.
1327 England's King Edward II (b. April 25, 1284) was murdered in the dungeons of Berkeley Castle, allegedly by a red hot poker being shoved in his rectum, at the bidding of his estranged and ambitious wife, Queen Isabella of France, whom the hapless homosexual had married on January 25, 1308.
"An alternative version of events, which has received little attention from historians, suggests that the body buried at Gloucester is not that of King Edward, but that he was allowed to escape to the Continent and survived many more years.” Source
1741 A fall of "angel’s hair"- an unknown fluffy substance - fell on Selborne, England, then became gelatinous, then evaporated away altogether. Similar experiences have happened in Japan (October 1, 679 CE and September 27, 1477) .
1968 In a bloody prelude to the Mexico City massacre of October 2 this year, in which more than 300 students were massacred by the police, cops raided the Tlatelolco district of the city and battled with students and other residents. A baby girl and at least three students were killed and many hundreds arrested during this battle. More
Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead,
who never to himself hath said
As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed:
To hell with the rent ... I'll drink instead!
Hunter S Thompson, The Proud Highway
1986 Hunter S Thompson claims he remained sober on this day.
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