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"There are many of us in this old world of ours who hold that things break
about even for all of us.
I have observed, for example, that we all get about the same amount of ice.
The rich get it in the summer, and the poor get it in the winter."
-- Bat Masterson
1178 B.C. The eclipse mentioned in Homer's Odyssey occurs on this day.
A few stanzas from Robert Burns's "Ye Jacobites By Name," a traditional and pro-James ballad which Burns turns into a protest against war:
"What is right and what is wrong
By short sword or by long
A weak arm or a strong for to draw
What makes heroic strife famed afar
To whet the assassain's knife
Or haunt a parent's life wi' bloody war….
1881 -- On this date on the streets of Dodge City, lawman Bat Masterson fought the last gun battle of his life. He turned to newspaper work. He died at his desk in 1921 in New York City.
{Seeking copy in Gunnison, Colorado, a reporter asked Dr W.S. Cockrell about mankillers.
Dr. Cockrell pointed to a young man nearby and said it was Bat Masterson and that he had killed 26 men.
Cockrell then regaled the reporter with several lurid tales about Bat's exploits and the reporter wrote them up for the New York Sun.
The story was then widely reprinted in papers all over the country and became the basis for many more exaggerated stories told about Bat over the years.}
1943 -- On this day, Albert Hoffman, accidently ingests LSD-25 in his medical research, becoming the world's first LSD "Tripper."
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1947 -- This day, former Auschwitz commandant, Rudolph Hoss, is hanged at Auschwitz.
In his memoirs was found this written statement: "History will mark me as the greatest mass murderer of all time."
1972 -- This day, Apollo 16 lifts off for the moon.
2009 -- On this day, President Obama ruled out prosecutions against those C.I.A. operatives
who participated in the torture of terrorists suspects at the Guantánamo Bay and other secret detention centers.
N stands for Friedrich NIETZSCHE:
#1 Nietzsche was a failure during his lifetime
Nietzsche achieved the impressive feat of becoming a professor by the age of 24.
However, he was alienated by his peers and forced to retire by the age of 35.
Nietzsche also wanted to abandon philosophy in favor of gardening.
It wasn’t until after his death that Nietzche’s work began to be read widely.
#2 His mustache frightened women
Nietzsche was sadly incompetent at romance. Apparently, Nietzsche’s epic mustache “scared” women at the time.
And that’s probably for the better, because Nietzsche also managed to contract syphilis at a brothel while he was still in college.
#3 He had a mental breakdown when he saw a horse being beaten
After seeing a horse being whipped in the streets of Turin, Italy, Nietzsche had a mental breakdown that put him in an asylum for the rest of his life.
Nietzsche is reported to have run over to the horse and held it in his arms to protect it before he collapsed to the ground.
The scene was also the subject of a movie by Bela Tarr (whom Jacques Ranciere wrote a book
called The Turin Horse.
After the horse incident Nietzsche returned to his boarding house.
In the following few days, Nietzsche sent short writings—known as the Wahnbriefe ("Madness Letters")—to a number of friends.
Nietzsche commanded the German emperor to go to Rome to be shot
and summoned the European powers to take military action against Germany.
Nietzsche’s mother, Franziska, first placed in a clinic, and then dissatified with his treatment, brought him to her home in Naumburg.
After the death of Franziska in 1897, Nietzsche lived in Weimar,
where Elisabeth, his sister, cared for him and allowed visitors to meet her uncommunicative brother.
After contracting pneumonia in mid-August 1900, he had a stroke during the night of 24–25 August and died at about noon on 25 August.
“I'm not upset that you lied to me. I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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