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Kathryn Dawn (k.d) lang, singer, born today in 1961 - to which I can only say "Hallelujah" (click here to hear her singing it, to LC, at his inauguration into the Canadian Hall of Fame, and especially the ecstacy on his face when they make namaste together at the end of the song)
Annie Oakley, or Phoebe Ann
Moses, sharpshooter, not sharp enough, today in 1926
The Declaration, by Arthur Balfour on behalf of the British Government, that "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people", sent in a letter to Lord Rothschild, today in 1917
Luis de
Torres is mentioned on Feb 1, but his tale belongs on this date. Yosef ben Ha
Levi Ha Ivri before he was required to adopt
Christianity and take a Christian name; he sailed as interpreter on Columbus's first expedition, chosen for reasons of no obvious use whatsoever given that they were going west not east: he was fluent in Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic. It was today that he was sent, with the sailor Rodrigo de Jerez, to explore the first piece of land that they had finally reached, which they thought was the continent of Asia, but turned out to be Cuba; on this day too that he became the first European ever to smoke tobacco. He was one of the thirty-nine who stayed behind to garrison La Navidad, Hispaniola,
when Columbus went back to Spain in January 1493; within months they had either
quarreled each other to death, or been killed by a band of pagan-heathen terrorists known as the Hispaniola Liberation Army (sorry, that should simply read "natives of the island").
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