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Name: Anna
Interests: My family, reading, studying, thinking/discussion, languages, cooking, music, traveling, skiing
Expertise: Fighting roosters...
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
7/8/2006
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| "Therefore, when you hunt, following my example, carry a lunch basket and flask and even a notebook with you: you will not find Diana wandering in the mountains more than Minerva." -Pliny the Younger 
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| Today...January 11, (49 B.C.) Julius Caesar led his army across the Rubicon River and entered Italy. Since Roman law forbade a general to cross this river (it marked the boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and Italy) without first disbanding his army, trouble was inevitable. Soon civil war, with Caesar on one side and Pompey on the other, broke out.  
Julius Caesar Pompey the Great  Alea iacta est!
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| Fortitude..."But the big courage is the cold-blooded kind, the kind that never lets go even when you're feeling empty inside, and your blood's thin, and there's no kind of fun or profit to be had, and the trouble's not over in an hour or two but lasts for months and years. One of the men here was speaking about that kind, and he called it 'Fortitude.' I reckon fortitude's the biggest thing a man can have--just to go on enduing when there's no guts or heart left in you. Billy had it when he trekked solitary from Garungoze to the Limpopo with fever and a broken arm just to show the Portugooses that he wouldn't be downed by them. But the head man at the job was the Apostle Paul." --One of my heroes, Peter Pienaar (From Mr. Standfast) | | |
| Today...On this day, December 28 1065, Westminster Abbey was consecrated under Edward the Confessor. 
Today Emily and Kathryn C. are getting married. Congratulations and blessings to you both! Finally, MERRY CHRISTMAS to all! (though slightly belated) Adoremus Dominum nostrum. | | |
| Today...In 1854, Pope Pius IX declared the dogma of the Immaculate Conception to be an article of faith. Some people may think that the "Immaculate Conception" refers to Christ's conception, but it's really talking about Mary's conception. In the Constitution Ineffabilis Deus of 8 December, 1854, Pius IX pronounced and defined that the Blessed Virgin Mary "in the first instance of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved exempt from all stain of orginal sin." 
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