April 30
Posted: April 30, 2011 Filed under: Birthdays | Tags: April 30 birthdays, birthdays, Jane Campion, Samhain, Walpugisnight, Willie Nelson Leave a commentWALPURGISNIGHT
Walpurgisnacht (in German folklore), is the night from 30 April to 1 May when witches are reputed to hold a large celebration on the Brocken mountain to await the arrival of spring and hold revels with their gods. Brocken is the highest of the Harz Mountains of north central Germany. It is noted for the phenomenon of the Brocken spectre and for witches’ revels which reputedly took place there on Walpurgis night. The Brocken Spectre is a magnified shadow of an observer, typically surrounded by rainbow-like bands, thrown onto a bank of cloud in high mountain areas when the sun is low. – Oxford Phrase & Fable.
WILLIE NELSON and JANE CAMPION
April 29 birthdays
Posted: April 29, 2011 Filed under: Birthdays | Tags: April 29 birthdays, birthdays, Daniel Day Lewis, Duke Ellington Leave a commentDANIEL DAY LEWIS and DUKE ELLINGTON
April 27 birthdays
Posted: April 27, 2011 Filed under: Birthdays | Tags: Ace Frehey, April 27 birthdays, Mary Wollstonecraft Leave a commentTUESDAY 27th APRIL – MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT and ACE FREHLEY
Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th-century British writer,philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights.
Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.
Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft’s life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships, received more attention than her writing. Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38, ten days after giving birth to her second daughter, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. Her daughter Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, later Mary Shelley, would become an accomplished writer herself.
After Wollstonecraft’s death, her widower published a Memoir (1798) of her life, revealing her unorthodox lifestyle, which inadvertently destroyed her reputation for almost a century. However, with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Wollstonecraft’s advocacy of women’s equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important. Today Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and work as important influences.
April 26 birthdays
Posted: April 26, 2011 Filed under: Birthdays | Tags: April 26 birthdays, birthdays, CAROL BURNETT, Eugene Delacroix, JET LI Leave a commentEugène Delacroix, Carol Burnett and Jet Li
April 25 birthdays
Posted: April 25, 2011 Filed under: Birthdays | Tags: ABBA, ANZAC DAY, April 25 birthdays, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Renee Zelwegger Leave a commentANZAC DAY
BJORN ULVAEUS from ABBA and RENEE ZELLWEGGER
Weepy and thinking of history
April 23 birthdays
Posted: April 23, 2011 Filed under: Birthdays | Tags: April 23 birthdays, birthdays, Shirley Temple, St George, William Shakespeare Leave a comment23rd APRIL is also ST GEORGE’S DAY.
George slayed the dragon to save the king’s daughter. George explained to the king and his people that it was his Christian faith that gave him the superhuman strength to do it. George was originally a pagan.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE and SHAKESPEARE were also born on this day.
April 22 birthdays
Posted: April 22, 2011 Filed under: Birthdays | Tags: April 22 birthdays, birthdays, Glenn Campbell, Jack Nicholson Leave a commentJACK NICHOLSON and GLEN CAMPBELL
I love his hair and the outfit in this clip
April 21 birthdays
Posted: April 21, 2011 Filed under: Birthdays | Tags: April 21 birthdays, birthdays, Iggy Pop, Queen Elizabeth II 1 CommentQUEEN ELIZABETH II and IGGY POP
I’d love to be at their joint birthday party