May 16
Colour: White
Moon Sign: Leo
Incense: Myrrh
St. Honoratus' Day
Discovery Day (Cayman Islands)
On this date in the year 1918, famous Italian spiritualist-mediumEusapia Palladino passed away. She was be remembered for her ability toenter a state of trance and levitate during seances.
Feast day of St Brendan the Elder (aka, the Navigator, or Voyager)
Some say that Brendan sailed from Ireland and found America in the 6th century. In the 1970s, Tim Severin showed that it was possible to sail a coracle (a small boat made of wood and leather) to America, so it is possible, if unlikely, that Irish monks might have preceded Christopher Columbus by several centuries.
Founder and first abbot of monastery at Clonfert, Galway, Brendan went looking for the island that had once contained Adam and Eve's paradise, encountering the monstrous fish named Jascon (Jasconius) along the way
1763 One of Western history's most celebrated friendships commenced.
James Boswell first met Dr Samuel Johnson, whose famous biography, Life of Dr Johnson, he later wrote and published on this day in 1791. They met in the back parlour of Tom Davies's London bookshop
1997 President Bill Clinton apologised on behalf of the United States of America, for the Tuskegee syphilis study, carried out by Tuskegee Institute, the African-American university founded by Booker T Washington. In the notorious human experiment, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932 -1972), 400 poor, mostly illiterate black share croppers from Tuskegee, Alabama became part of a study on the treatment of syphilis without their full knowledge, and were allowed to suffer and even die from the disease when treatment could have been given them
Moon Sign: Leo
Incense: Myrrh
St. Honoratus' Day
Discovery Day (Cayman Islands)
On this date in the year 1918, famous Italian spiritualist-mediumEusapia Palladino passed away. She was be remembered for her ability toenter a state of trance and levitate during seances.
Feast day of St Brendan the Elder (aka, the Navigator, or Voyager)
Some say that Brendan sailed from Ireland and found America in the 6th century. In the 1970s, Tim Severin showed that it was possible to sail a coracle (a small boat made of wood and leather) to America, so it is possible, if unlikely, that Irish monks might have preceded Christopher Columbus by several centuries.
Founder and first abbot of monastery at Clonfert, Galway, Brendan went looking for the island that had once contained Adam and Eve's paradise, encountering the monstrous fish named Jascon (Jasconius) along the way
1763 One of Western history's most celebrated friendships commenced.
James Boswell first met Dr Samuel Johnson, whose famous biography, Life of Dr Johnson, he later wrote and published on this day in 1791. They met in the back parlour of Tom Davies's London bookshop
1997 President Bill Clinton apologised on behalf of the United States of America, for the Tuskegee syphilis study, carried out by Tuskegee Institute, the African-American university founded by Booker T Washington. In the notorious human experiment, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932 -1972), 400 poor, mostly illiterate black share croppers from Tuskegee, Alabama became part of a study on the treatment of syphilis without their full knowledge, and were allowed to suffer and even die from the disease when treatment could have been given them
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