On this day:
48 BC
Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
235
Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.
935
Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
995
Members of Slavník’s dynasty – Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus’s son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
1066
William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.
1787
The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
1918
World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
1919
Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
1928
Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1939
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
1971
The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
2008
SpaceX launches the first-ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit
2009
The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped, killed and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.
Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
235
Pope Pontian resigns. He and Hippolytus, church leader of Rome, are exiled to the mines of Sardinia.
935
Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.
995
Members of Slavník’s dynasty – Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus’s son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
1066
William the Bastard (as he was known at the time) invades England beginning the Norman Conquest.
1787
The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
1918
World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
1919
Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
1928
Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1939
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
1971
The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
2008
SpaceX launches the first-ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit
2009
The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped, killed and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
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A Russian aerial bombardment that lasted more than 12 hours has killed at least four people and injured at least 70 others in Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the deaths all occurred in the capital, Kyiv, where many of the projectiles were aimed, and the victims included a 12-year-old girl.
The barrage - involving nearly 600 drones and several dozen missiles aimed at seven regions of Ukraine - is one of the heaviest in recent months.
A Russian aerial bombardment that lasted more than 12 hours has killed at least four people and injured at least 70 others in Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the deaths all occurred in the capital, Kyiv, where many of the projectiles were aimed, and the victims included a 12-year-old girl.
The barrage - involving nearly 600 drones and several dozen missiles aimed at seven regions of Ukraine - is one of the heaviest in recent months.
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Inventiveness and focus. These are particularly human qualities that are manifest in the creative human mind.
Does AI allow us to bypass these human qualities?
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Is violence against law officers a good position for a society to hold? Isn't it taking a position against yourself?
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A Chicago Cub player left the team to attend the Memorial for Kirk, a close personal friend. He was criticized by team announcers over the air. But Sandy Koufax, a proud but non-observant Jew, declined to pitch Game 1 of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, with the admiration of all.
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Nato has vowed to upgrade its mission in the Baltic Sea after Denmark’s armed forces said unidentified drones were seen near the country’s military installations overnight.
Nothing is quite as much fun as nuclear provocation.
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Steeler QB Skyler Thompson, while in Dublin with the team, was attacked and robbed on Friday.
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Sunday/Another Lazarus
In today's gospel, Christ gives a parable that depicts the death of the beggar Lazarus at the door of an unnamed rich man who has ignored him. When they both die, the rich man goes to hell, Lazarus to heaven. In hell, the rich man asks Abraham to send Lazarus back to his five brothers and warn them of the punishment suffered by those who dismiss the plight of their fellows. Abraham, in the parable, refuses, saying,
'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead.'"
Biblical irony, yes, and funny, but grimly so. This gospel is traditionally discussed in its parallels to Christ's torture and death. But, isolated, this is a remarkable line, fitting more of Mencken than Christ. Here is another, less rewarding Lazarus than the friend Christ raises from the dead. And there is a head-shaking bitterness about it, as Christ predicts the ineffectiveness of His coming sacrifice. In its indirect praise of the Old Testament, it recalls the God of Lot, annoyed and discouraged by man.
A scary idea.
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