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Today in history

1 September 1715 - Death of King Louis XIV.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV
Wow, talk about donning gay apparel. The tights, high heels, his pose, the long flowing hair and it looks like he's wearing a skirt. Imagine seeing a world leader today like him, who surely would be ridiculed and not taken seriously.
 
On 30 September 1452 Johannes Gutenberg printed the first section of the Bible.

Mark Twain wrote in 1900, in a congratulatory letter to mark the opening of the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz: "What the world is today, good and bad, it owes to Gutenberg. Everything can be traced to this source, but we are bound to bring him homage ... for the bad that his colossal invention has brought about is overshadowed a thousand times by the good with which mankind has been favored."
 
Diana Vreeland , born 29 September 1903, Paris, died 22 August New York City,

Fashion columnist and editor, later heading up the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art



Quote: "There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want, and you make it for yourself."
Bought "The Eye has to Travel"....
 
Bought "The Eye has to Travel"....
So, what did you think? I found it entertaining but disquieting in that that film portrayed her as being so single-minded in her pursuit of fashion and career that her marriage and sons were of much lesser significance. Tim (the elder of the sons) seems to have taken a whimsical view of it all, but then Tim--whom I know--pretty much takes a whimsical view of everything. Feck--whom I don't know--comes off as a bit wounded and resentful, although I've heard that Feck is working on a memoir in which he now sees his mother as a source of delightful memories and continuing inspiration. (Feck is 95, lives in Rome and still going strong. Tim is 100, lives in Santa Monica and also still going strong.)
 
So, what did you think? I found it entertaining but disquieting in that that film portrayed her as being so single-minded in her pursuit of fashion and career that her marriage and sons were of much lesser significance. Tim (the elder of the sons) seems to have taken a whimsical view of it all, but then Tim--whom I know--pretty much takes a whimsical view of everything. Feck--whom I don't know--comes off as a bit wounded and resentful, although I've heard that Feck is working on a memoir in which he now sees his mother as a source of delightful memories and continuing inspiration. (Feck is 95, lives in Rome and still going strong. Tim is 100, lives in Santa Monica and also still going strong.)
It´s the only long picture I´ve ever seen from her, but I understand that to have an extraordinary career you must exert extraordinary effort, and you will have little time for your family. We´ve accepted this from men, what could be wrong with a woman who does this? Especially when the children are grown?

Not sure if I´m a Diana Vreeland person, but she was interesting.
 
1536: English reformer William Tyndale, who translated and published the first mechanically-printed New Testament in the English language (against the law at the time) is strangled to death. His body is then burned at the stake.
 
Death of Bette Davis, 6 October 1989, born 5 April 1908

 
7 October 1573 - Birth of Archbishop William Laud.

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Your post brought to mind the quote from Psalms,"Put not your trust in princes", reputedly uttered by Lord Strafford, his predecessor on the block. In Laud's case it might be amended to read "Put not your trust in the power of princes" as, unlike Strafford, he was pardoned by the King, or better still, "Put not your trust in princes or parliaments." A lesson for us all, regardless of status.
 
451: The Council of Chalcedon opens to deal with the Eutychians, who believed Jesus could not have two natures. His divinity, they believed, swallowed up his humanity "like a drop of wine in the sea." The council condemned the teaching as heresy and created a confession of faith which has since been regarded as the highest word in Christology.
 
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