1920 - The American Civil Liberties Union was founded
1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.
Happy Birthday to...
Lucas Faydherbe
Lysander Spooner
“A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.”
“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.”
Edgar Allen Poe
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
Paul Cézanne
Arturo Graf
"Nothing prevents happiness as much as the desire for more"
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Rex Ingamells
"The Campfires of the Past"
A thousand, thousand camp fires every night,
in ages gone, would twinkle to the dark
from crest and valley in the rolling bush,
from mulga scrub and mallee scrub, from dunes
of Central sand, from gaps in straggling ranges,
from gibber plains and plains of iron-wood,
through leaves and in the open, from the mangroves
by shore of Carpenteria, from rocks
and beaches of the Bight.....for countless aeons,
a thousand, thousand camp fires burned each night,
and, by the fires, the Old Men told their tales
which held their listeners spellbound.... Every night
among the fires men chanted to the beat
of stick and boomerangs and clap of hands,
or drone-and-boom of didgeridoo, the songs
rising and falling, trailing, quickening,
while eyes gleamed bright, through smoke drift, bodies shone
and dusked in fitful glow amid the shadows.......
Rod Evans
Janis Joplin
Trevor Williams
Dolly Parton
Robert Palmer
Martha Davis
Cindy Sherman
Thomas Kinkade
Janine Antoni
R-Truth
"The Poe Toaster paid a stealthy visit to the cenotaph marking the site of Poe's original grave, in Baltimore, every January 19th for almost 80 years."
