Miguel de Cervantes is born.

Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is born this day near Madrid.

Cervantes led an adventurous life and achieved much popular success, but he nevertheless struggled financially throughout his life. Little is know about his childhood, except that he was a favorite student of Madrid humanist Juan Lopez, and that his father was an apothecary.

In 1569, Cervantes was living in Rome and working for a future cardinal. Shortly thereafter, he enlisted in the Spanish fleet to fight against the Turks. At the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, he took three bullets and suffered permanent damage to his left hand. Later, he was stationed at Palermo and Naples. On the way home to Madrid in 1575, he and his brother Rodrigo were captured by Barbary pirates and held captive in Algiers. Cervantes was ransomed after five years of captivity and returned to Madrid, where he began writing. Although his records indicate he wrote 20 to 30 plays, only two survive. In 1585, he published a romance. During this time, he married a woman 18 years younger than he was and had an illegitimate daughter, whom he raised in his household. He worked as a tax collector and as a requisitioner of supplies for the navy, but was jailed for irregularities in his accounting. Some historians believe he formulated the idea for Don Quixote while in jail.

In 1604, he received the license to publish Don Quixote. Although the book began as a satire of chivalric epics, it was far more complex than a simple satire. The book blended traditional genres to create a sad portrait of a penniless man striving to live by the ideals of the past. The book was a huge success and brought Cervantes literary respect and position, but did not generate much money. He wrote dramas and short stories until a phony sequel, penned by another writer, prompted him to write Don Quixote, Part II in 1615. He died the following year.

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog - Caspar David Friedrich

Friedrich's greatest accomplishment was his ability to turn landscapes into a medium of physiological and spiritual biography. Here, he includes his own portrait within his landscape as a lay figure seen from behind -- a device intended to invite the viewer to look at the world through the lens of the artist's own personal perception.

It would not be an exaggeration to take this picture as the essense of the Romantic approach to art. Here, Friedrich has adapted the generic conventions of landscape painting to the demands of creative self-expression. Unwilling to have the artist serve as a mere "photographer" as it were of nature, Friedrich always took as his task the private and personal encounter of an individual with nature.

Indeed, Friedrich was captivated by the idea of encountering nature in solitude in deepest revines, on the edge of the sea, or as here on the pinncacle of a mountain, which was about as far away from urban civilization as a European man could get. Indeed in his later paintings, Friedrich will continue to stress that the very idea of "self-expression" had to be associated with physical and spiritual isolation. The Romantics believed that any artist who wanted to explore his own emotions, had necessarily to stand outside of the throng of money-making, political gimmickry, and urban noise in order to assert and maintain their positions.

How the parties got their animal symbols

Did you ever wonder about just what was behind two famous party animals?
The donkey was first associated with Democrat Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign.
His opponents called Jackson, well, a "jackass" for his populist views.
Jackson was actually ENTERTAINED by the insult, and used the image of the strong-willed donkey on his campaign posters.
Later, famed cartoonist Thomas Nast used the donkey in his newspaper cartoons, helping to establish it as the symbol of the Democratic Party.
And it was Nast who provided the Republicans with their elephant
In an 1874 cartoon, Nast drew a donkey clothed in a lion's skin - scaring off the other animals at the zoo.

. . . All the animals, except for the fearless elephant, which was labeled "the Republican vote."
The symbol endures to this day.

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1957 Louis Armstrong cancels trip to Russia

Louis Armstrong, the famous African-American jazz musician, angrily announces that he will not participate in a U.S. government-sponsored tour of the Soviet Union. Armstrong was furious over developments in Little Rock, Arkansas, where mobs of white citizens and armed National Guardsmen had recently blocked the entrance of nine African-American students into the all-white Central High School.

During the late 1940s and 1950s, the U.S. government faced a serious problem in its propaganda war against the Soviet Union. American society had what some U.S. officials referred to as an “Achilles heel”–racial discrimination. To counteract worldwide criticism of America’s race problem, the U.S. government often sponsored world tours by African-American writers, artists, musicians, and sports figures. Former boxer Joe Louis, the Harlem Globetrotters, singer Marian Anderson, and many others were sent around the world as “goodwill ambassadors.” The famous jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong was much in demand, both by the American government and by audiences overseas. In 1957, the United States arranged for Armstrong to tour the Soviet Union. Just before he was supposed to depart, however, events in Little Rock exploded.

A federal judge had ordered the integration of the all-white Central High School in Little Rock. Nine African-American students tried to attend the school but were turned away by an angry mob of whites and by armed National Guardsmen called out by Governor Orval Faubus. Armstrong was furious at what he believed to be inaction on the part of the federal government to correct the situation. He declared, “The way they are treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.” Armstrong claimed that President Eisenhower had “no guts” in dealing with Faubus, whom he called an “ignorant plow boy.” “It’s getting so bad,” he concluded, “a colored man hasn’t got any country.”

Armstrong’s statements were a severe setback for U.S. officials and the American propaganda machine. Publicly, the U.S. government attempted to downplay Armstrong’s statements by noting that they were said in the heat of emotion generated by Little Rock. Privately, however, U.S. officials were furious at the entertainer. The tension between vocal critics of the government and U.S. propaganda efforts only heightened as the civil rights movement became more active in the early 1960s and more African-Americans–such as Malcolm X and W.E.B. Du Bois–who went overseas used their trips to condemn American racism rather than defend American democracy.

Mexican independence day !!

Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo-Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor, more commonly known as Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simply Miguel Hidalgo, was a Mexican Catholic priest ,  was involved in planned revolt against the Spanish rulers of Mexico and when  he got wind of his impending  arrest, he preempted the authorities and ordered his brother to take a contingent of armed rebels and free the political prisoners being held in the city jail on the night  of September 15, 1810. The next day Hidalgo ordered the church bell to rung while he, Ignacio Allende and Juan Aldama went out in front of the church  and urged the townsfolk  to revolt.

To the north, the United States had won its independence decades before, and many Mexicans felt they could, too. In 1808, Creole patriots saw their chance when Napoleon invaded Spain and imprisoned Ferdinand VII. This allowed Mexican and South American rebels to set up their own governments and yet claim loyalty to the imprisoned Spanish King.

The "flag" of the movement  used for Hidalgo that early  morning was a banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe; And the words uttered by Hidalgo  at the end of his fatefully speech has a lot of versions, but since 1910 the word of  "El grito" it's something like :

Mexicans!!
Long live  the heroes that gave us the  Fatherland!!
Long live Hidalgo!!
Long live Morelos!!
Long live Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez!!
Long live Allende!!
Long live Aldama y Matamoros!!
Long live National Independece!!
Long live Mexico!!
Long live Mexico!!
Long live Mexico!!

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What do Jews eat to celebrate the New Year

At sunset on Sunday (13 September) millions of Jews will be observing Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the first of the High Holy Days. The two-day celebration, which begins on the first day of Tishrei is marked with a number of traditions, but food is one of the main customs that has lasted to the modern day.
During these special days, many families will gather for meals the time to celebrate the time of rebirth and a feast of traditional sweet, salty and savory foods in the Jewish calendar. The foods will have named in Aramaic or Hebrew to evoke blessings for the months ahead. Before partaking of the meal, Jews recites Hamotzi, the blessing over bread.

Incorporating apples and honey in Rosh Hashanah meals is said to ensure a sweet new year. According to Jewish mythology, the apple represents the Shekhinah – the feminine aspect of God – and eating the combination is said to encourage Shekhinah to judge kindly. Eating apples and honey is also a late medieval Ashkenazi tradition that is now universally accepted.
Another food with a symbolic meaning is the head of a fish – to acknowledge the prayer "let us be the head and not the tail". It is just another example of fresh produce that is often abundant on the holiday table.

Happy Rosh Hashanah !!

1989 Hungary allows East Germans refugees to leave

In a dramatic break with the eastern European communist bloc, Hungary gives permission for thousands of East German refugees to leave Hungary for West Germany. It was the first time one of the Warsaw Pact nations-who were joined in the defensive alliance between Russia and its eastern Europe satellites–broke from the practice of blocking citizens of the communist nations from going to the West.

By 1989, the Soviet Union was entering a period of accelerating collapse. Economic problems were foremost in the factors causing this collapse, but political turmoil in the Soviet Union, the various Soviet Socialist Republics, and the satellite nations in eastern Europe were also responsible for the decay of what President Ronald Reagan once termed the “evil empire.” In Hungary, a movement for greater democracy and economic freedom was gaining strength. Such forces were also alive in East Germany, but the communist government of that nation proved inflexible in dealing with the demands for change. In response, thousands of East Germans–traveling as “tourists”–began pouring into Hungary. As soon as they arrived, they declared that they would not return home.

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Who was Mao Zedong?

Mao Zedong was at the head of a Communist government in China during the year 1949 when it finally forced the Nationalists to retread to Taiwan. Mao, or as he was known during this time period, the Great Leader Chairman Mao, announced: “The Chinese people have stood up.” However, Mao had a long way to go before China, one of the largest nations in the world, would be on an even technological and economical foothold with the rest of the developed world.

Mao was able to empower China as an independent nation. Previously, China had been extremely weak to the outside world. So-called Western “democracies” would often use a better equipped army to force open unfair trade routes or make money in other unfair ways. Also, England used its superior military to win the Opium war. However, under Mao, despite the fact that China was still economically and technologically behind other nations, Mao was able to create an army that stalemated one of the world’s superpowers, the U.S. Also, during this time period, undue foreign influences greatly diminished, and China’s military strength grew greatly, becoming one of the nations to have successfully detonated the Atomic bomb. Mao was able to make China a powerful military nation capable of defending itself against outside invaders, something that no previous imperial dynasty had been able to successfully accomplish.

Despite Mao’s failures, he did manage to unite the country as one and to start the process of bringing China up to speed with the rest of the world. He built up an industrial force by forcing people to work on factories and farms. As a leader and a motivator, he was able to spurn his nation into attempting to increase production and becoming superior to the Western nations. However, as a Chairman who frequently felt threatened by others, he also initiated many violent movements to cement his control of the Communist Party and of an entire nation. Mao Zedong laid the foundation for China to come onto the world stage, and Deng Xiaoping and other reformers built upon that foundation to create the economic and political skyscraper China is today.

Hope everyone had a wonderful labor day weekend !!

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.”  – Thomas Edison

'Work' is a hard word to define. One person's idea of work can be another person's idea of leisure. Something that you dislike doing at work, you might quite enjoy in a leisure setting.
Is work still work if you don't get paid for it? People work productively in all areas of life without being paid. This unpaid work includes:
housework in households, child care and shopping for the home, volunteer and community work, work done free of charge (favours for others), etc.

What if you didn't work and you had every day to yourself? You could choose to go to the beach, watch television, go to the movies, go shopping, read books, visit friends, visit places of interest, go out for meals, play sport. This all sounds nice, but you'd need at least some money to do most of these things. Relaxing and doing what you please is great for a holiday, but after a while the pleasure can wear off and you can feel aimless and bored.

The benefits you get from paid and unpaid work are strongly linked to your values. When you know what your values are regarding work, you can work out what you hope to achieve through working what your overall ambitions are, set meaningful goals for yourself, 
choose jobs that will satisfy you in ways that are deeper than your 'hip pocket' and  understand why you feel dissatisfied in a job that doesn't fit with your values. 

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HAURVATAT AND AMERETAT - Wholeness and Immortality

Haurvatat and Ameretat are the last two of the seven Amesha Spentas, the emanations of God which Zoroastrians call the "Bounteous Immortals." They are not last in precedence, as there is no clearly defined hierarchy among the Seven, but they are last in that they are the latest to appear in the divine scheme of things. They are the virtues and gifts of the future, things devoutly to be hoped for, the signs of the Renewal at the End of Time.

The two Emanations, which are almost always referred to together, are both female in gender; this can be considered a result of linguistics, since the Avestan words Haurvatat (Wholeness) and Ameretat(Immortality) are of the female gender. But in the later thought of Zoroastrianism, in which the Bounteous Immortals become personified, these are indeed female entities.

"Haurvatat and Ameretat shall smite both hunger and thirst; Haurvatat and Ameretat shall smite the evil hunger and the evil thirst." (Zamyad Yasht, v.96, Darmesteter translation)

Pope Benedict XV named to papacy

On Aug. 20, 1914, with World War I less than a month old, Pope Pius X died, and on Sept. 3, 1914, Benedict was elected pope, only four months after being created a cardinal. Crowned on Sept. 6, 1914, he possessed the diplomatic experience that the conclave had wanted. The first four years of Benedict's seven-and-a-half-year papacy were to be consumed by his ultimately unsuccessful attempts to stop a war that he condemned as "the suicide of civilized Europe."

Born Giacomo della Chiesa in Genoa 1854, the sixth child of an ancient but poor patrician family, Benedict was ordained in 1878, spent much of his life in the Vatican's diplomatic service and became undersecretary of state in 1901. In 1907, he became archbishop of Bologna.

He opened a Vatican office to reunite prisoners of war with their families, and he tried to persuade neutral Switzerland to take in any combatants who were suffering from tuberculosis. While the Vatican's bank balance was not healthy, he spent 82 million lire on relief work.

Benedict has been called "the pope of peace." In the title of John F. Pollard's biography, he is "the unknown pope." In the year that marks the centenary of the beginning of World War I, the millions dead will be remembered, the fall of dynasties discussed, and the consequences of the conflict pondered. It should be a time, too, when the heroic efforts of Benedict find a true appreciation.

1920: En Estados Unidos se le reconoce a la mujer el derecho a voto.

En los Estados Unidos en el año de 1776 en Nueva Jersey se autorizó accidentalmente el primer sufragio femenino y esto fue a causa de un error; se usó la palabra "personas" en vez de "hombres", lo que permitia que sin distinción de genero se pudiera acudir a las urnas; pero se abolió en 1807. ya que se modificó la ley para "corregir" este "descuido" .

Por lo que fue hasta el año de 1920 en la enmienda número 19 de la Constitución de los Estados Unidos fue convertida en ley y las mujeres pudieron votar ese otoño. 

El Shah de Irán abdicó al trono a favor de su hijo Mohammad Reza Pahlaví (1941)

Un día como hoy pero de 1941, tomó el poder de Irán uno de los reyes mas recordados de la historia Iraní, también transliterado como Mohamed Reza Pahlevi -(Teherán, 26 de octubre de 1919 - El Cairo, 27 de julio de 1980) ostentaba el tratamiento de Su Majestad Imperial y portaba los títulos de Shahanshah (Rey de Reyes) y Aryamehr (Luz de los Arios), monarca de Irán desde el 16 de septiembre de 1941 hasta la revolución iraní de 11 de febrero de 1979. Él fue el segundo y último monarca de la dinastía Pahlavi de la monarquía iraní y el último shah o emperador de Irán.

Mohammad Reza Pahlaví nació el 26 de octubre de 1919 en el barrio teheraní de la Puerta de Qazvín en una casa alquilada por su padre, el oficial de la brigada cosaca de Ahmad Shah Qayar, Reza Jan Mirpanŷ Savadkuhí, comandante del regimiento de Hamadán (conocido como tras su coronación como Reza Shah Pahlaví) (1877-1944), y por la esposa de este Nimtaŷ Ayromlú, después conocida como Tayolmoluk Ayromlú. 

Unió los partidos políticos en uno solo, el Partido del rey y emprendió una política de modernización: expropiación de latifundios, sufragio femenino, tendencia al laicismo, etc. Estas reformas (llamadas "revolución blanca"), que globalmente suponen un gran crecimiento económico para Irán en su conjunto. En 1967 se corona Emperador de Irán en una fastuosa ceremonia a la que asistieron personalidades de todo el mundo. Pospuso la ceremonia porque, según él, no había honor en ser rey de un país empobrecido.

Que es el Kabbalah?

¿La vida tiene que ser tan áspera? ¿Algunas situaciones que comienzan de una manera, no deberían mejorar cada día? ¿Es eso posible? ¿Hay una manera de conseguir lo que quiero en mi vida? 

Sí, hay una manera. No sólo eso, sino que siempre tengas la oportunidad de cambiar tu destino y alcanzar tu verdadero potencial. ¡Todo el mundo puede hacerlo - nadie es demasiado joven o demasiado viejo o demasiado apegado a su manera de ser! Todos tenemos la capacidad de encontrar un significado y realizarnos más allá de nuestros sueños por más inverosímiles o inimaginables. No tienes que vivir una vida que pareciera que no tiene sentido o lleno de subidas y bajadas al azar. 

Hace cinco mil años, un conjunto de principios espirituales se le comunicaron a la humanidad, en un momento de revelación divina. Estas revelaciones antiguas son para desbloquear todos los misterios de la vida y nos dan el código secreto que rige al universo. Se trata de un increíble sistema de lógica y una fenomenal tecnología que puede alterar la forma de verse en la vida. En lo que respecta a documento sagrados tenemos el El Zóhar - La base de la sabiduría kabbalística. 

Parece poco probable que conocimientos desde  hace 5 mil años pudieran tener alguna relevancia para los hombres y las mujeres del mundo actual. Necesitamos la sabiduría de la Kabbalah, más ahora que en cualquier otro momento de nuestra historia. La Kabbalah no es una religión, no es dogma, y no es un sistema de creencias que tienes que comprar. Aún más importante, no es la opinión personal de cómo funciona el universo visto por alguien. Se trata simplemente de conocimiento.

Los kabalistas no buscan acercarse a la Luz, sino buscan Ser la Luz en sí, reconocer la Luz que habita en cada uno de nosotros y en todos los demás, que eso ya es el nivel más alto pues se trata aún de encontrar virtudes en nuestros enemigos y agradecer por el daño que pudieron habernos hecho (porque nos hicieron aprender algo), también aprender a ser felices con los éxitos y triunfos de los demás y a vivir sus tristezas como nuestras.

Colmillos falsos de marfil con rastreadores GPS

Cada año, más de 30.000 elefantes son asesinados en el continente africano, sobre todo por su marfil. Bryan Christy, un periodista de investigación de National Geographic, decidió realizar un seguimiento de cómo sucede el contrabando de marfil.  La estrategia fue encargar aun taxidermista crear dos colmillos de elefante falsos integrados con dispositivos de localización GPS, y éstos se plantaron en la cadena de contrabando de marfil de la República Centro-Africana.

A través de los rastreadores GPS Christy y su equipo siguieron el rastro de los colmillos falsosutilizando la herramienta de Google Earth, dicho rastro inició en la República Centro-Africana y continuó en Kafia Kingi un área en disputa en el sur de Sudán.

Kafia Kingi, según  National Geographic es un territorio en donde se encuentra la base de Joseph Kony cabecilla del ejercito de resistencia, dicho ejercito a cometido crímenes atroces en las últimas dos décadas como robo de niños para convertirlos en militares. El mismo Kony a sido acusado de crímenes de lesa humanidad.

Según la investigación de Christy, este grupo guerrillero está involucrado en el tráfico de los preciados colmillos y su ruta de tráfico comienza en la reserva nacional de Garamba en la República Centro-Africana  y se abre paso hacia el sur de sudan en donde se presume que los colmillos de marfil son intercambiados por armamento y medicina con los militares de ese país.

Desde Sudan la ruta se abre a Ed Daein una ciudad al sureste de Darfur desde allí, es más fácil exportarlo a ciudades como Khartoum, Accra and Maputo y eventualmente a el continente asiático  para productos naturistas, joyas, palillos etc.

La demanda de china es tan grande que si redujera la compra de marfil, se acabaría el financiamiento de la guerra africana y las matanzas indiscriminadas de elefantes en el continente africano.

Cada par de colmillos de marfil es un elefante muerto, hagamos algo.

Que es el zoroastrismo?

La Religión Zoroastriana ha sido percibida por muchos como una religión estrictamente iraní o parsi. Pero de hecho es la primera religión Universal y con adoración de un solo dios en la historia de mundo.

Los preceptos principales del zoroastrismo parecenser lo que necesita la sociedad hoy en día, puntos de respeto hacia nosotros mismos, nuestros semejantes y a la naturaleza; Los principales puntos de esta religión son los siguientes:

Igualdad: igualdad de todos, al margen de diferencias de sexo, raza o religión.

Respeto a todas las formas vivientes. Condena de la opresión del ser humano, y de la crueldad y sacrificio de animales.

Ecologismo: la naturaleza es central en la práctica del zoroastrianismo y muchos importantes festivales son celebrados en la naturaleza: el día de año nuevo, el primer día de primavera, el festival de agua en verano, el festival de otoño al final de la estación y el festival de fuego de la mitad de invierno.

Trabajo duro y caridad.

Lealtad y fidelidad a la familia, la comunidad y el país.

Dios en el zoroastrismo no es de miedo, culpa, tormento y condenación. Ante los ojos de Dios no existe ni pecado, ni pecadores y en el corazón de Dios no hay ni condenación, ni maldición. Por tanto no hay un juicio final divino, es la propia conciencia que al momento de cruzar el puente, hace un auto examen y si el remordimiento es tanto, el alma no cruza el puente hasta que haya encontrado la iluminación para sus errores. “Quien teme a Dios, no conoce a Dios.”

Existen algunos ángeles de esta religión los cuales tienen atribuciones especificas y los cuales conoceremos más adelante.

"El niño" may be historical this year.

El niño it’s continuing to strengthen as expected.The ongoing event is already quite strong, and although much has been made of daily fluctuations in the Niño region ocean temperatures, all available evidence continues to point toward continued strengthening into the fall months and persistence through winter 2015-2016.
Interestingly, the strongest westerly wind burst yet this year has just occurred in the western tropical Pacific, which has initiated a powerful new Kelvin wave that is now propagating eastward across the Pacific basin and will continue to reinforce the strengthening event through September. It’s still too early to say exactly how El Niño will influence California’s upcoming winter, though it still appears that there’s a significantly increased chance of a wetter-than-average winter. Of shorter-term interest: extremely warm near-shore sea surface temperatures off the Mexican and California coasts will continue to present an increased potential for East Pacific tropical remnant events through September and possibly October.
“We’re predicting this El Niño could be among the strongest El Niños in the historical record,” said Mike Halpert, deputy director of the Climate Prediction Center for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in a teleconference with reporters. This year’s El Niño is already the second strongest for this time of year in more than 60 years of recordkeeping, he said.
Conditions in the Pacific Ocean suggest that what has formed there is as big as anything seen since 1997-1998, a system that brought the term “El Niño” into popular culture, and which is remembered for the catastrophic amounts of water it dumped on California, triggering flooding and mudslides.

Huge explosions in China's Tianjin port area kill 17, hurt 400.

Two massive explosions caused by flammable goods ripped through an industrial area in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin late on Wednesday, killing 17 people and injuring around 400, official Chinese media reported.

President Xi Jinping demanded that authorities quickly extinguish the fire caused by the blasts and "make full effort to rescue and treat the injured and ensure the safety of people and their property", China Central Television (CCTV) said on its official microblog.

CCTV said the blasts erupted in a shipment of explosives at around 11:30 p.m. local time (1530 GMT), triggering a blast wave that was felt kilometres (miles) away. The second blast came roughly 30 seconds after the first, state media said.

The official People's Daily newspaper said the death toll was 17 while other state media said three firefighters were among the dead. The official Xinhua news agency said around 400 were hurt.

Video posted on YouTube from what appeared to be an apartment building some distance from the scene showed fire shooting into the night sky from the initial blast when the second, much bigger, explosion rocked the area, sending a huge fireball into the air.