The filoviruses are similar in morphology, density & polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis profile, & there is a serological relationship between Ebola & Reston viruses. Originally classified as rhabdoviruses, they appear to be more closely related to paramyxoviruses on the basis of recent genome sequence data. However, filoviruses are sufficiently distinct from the other nonsegmented negative-stranded RNA viruses to warrant taxonomic status as a separate virus family. A classification within the family Filoviridae has not yet been proposed. However, based on the data available to date, a separation into two distinct groups of viruses. Marburg-like & Ebola-like viruses, is obvious.

"If I could I would work in silence & obscurity, & let my efforts be known by their results."

1822 -- Author Oliver Optic (William Taylor Adam) lives.



1838 -- England: Rain of frogs in London.

A better green joke than the one about the frog with hand-grenade?

What's green & yellow & lies in a gutter with cookie crumbs all over it?

A drunk girl scout!

— Bleedster Sam, The Progressive Review, 2002

1849 -- André Romans-Ville lives, Romans (Drôme). Shoemaker, autodidact, militant anarchist.

Involved with the group "Terre et Liberté," & correspondent with Jean Grave, Sébastien Faure, etc. Often under police surveillence. Arrested February 10, 1894, with Pierre Martin & 20 other companions, & accused of "participation in a criminal conspiracy." Released a few weeks later. In 1905, in Saillans, he participated in the founding congress of the socialist federation, SFIO.

1857 -- US: Cato Institute? Radical economist & ascerbic social theorist Thorsten Veblen lives, Cato, Wisconsin. Wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class. Coach for the baseball team who represents all the little guys of the world, THE HEARTLAND CAPITALISTS.

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/whyte-chap20.html

1858 -- Author Gaston Calmette lives.


1863 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot.

Smedley Darlington Butler was one of the most conscience-driven & controversial men ever to wear the uniform of the U.S. Marines. Although he rose to the rank of Major General & was a two-time winner of the Medal of Honor, Butler is remembered today as a vocal critic of colonialism & American foreign policy.

By the time of his retirement in 1931, in bitter reflection on a 33 year military career, he realized that far from "making the world safe for democracy" he had spent his entire adult life fighting dirty little wars all over Asia & Latin America whose true purpose was to enrich a handful of wealthy industrialists.

— Bleedster Camy

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
http://www.afn.org/~vetpeace

Masereel came from a well-to-do family. He attended an art academy, & became interested in anarchism & pacifism.

At the outbreak of WWI, he fled to Geneva, where he met many left artists & writers, such as Romain Rolland & Stefan Zweig, who became friends for life. Masereel started illustrating the pacifist magazines "Les Tablettes" & "La Feuille." which established his international reputation.

In the late 1920's artists surveyed by a German magazine named Grosz, Kathe Kollwitz, & Masereel as the most important artists concerned with the daily lives of workers.

[Details / context]

1894 -- Walter Pater dies, Oxford. The influence of his style & ideas continues.



1898 -- Italy: As a wave of anti-worker & anti-anarchist repression intensifies following riots in Milan, Amilcare Cipriani & five other anarchists are sent to prison with sentences ranging from 1-5 years.

Italian anarchist involved in the Paris Commune, & a friend of Lissagaray, Cipriani was condemned to death for his role in the Paris Commune, but sent to a prison colony at New Caledonia. He returned to France with the amnesty of 1880, but was expelled.

Arrested in Italy, January 1881 for "conspiracy," he was sent to prison for 20 years, but a campaign to secure his release freed him 1888. Cipriani returned to France & wrote for the anarchist press, with "Le Plébéien" & other libertarian papers. In 1897, he went to Greece to fight against the Turks (he was wounded).

Today he is sent to prison for three years.

[Details / context]

"Distinctly foreign events & concerns, such as the plight of Russian nihilists or of Irish tenants, often received more attention from Liberty than American concerns. Tucker was outraged by the imprisonment of the Italian Amilcare Cipriani, the trial of Louise Michel, & the plight of Russian refugees in Paris."

"Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, & Individualist Anarchism," Wendy McElroy

1898 -- Juan Puig Elias lives (1898-1972), Sallent (Barcelone). Spanish teacher & militant anarcho-syndicalist.

Founder of "l'Escola Natura" based on the educational ideas of Francisco Ferrer.

A C.N.T. activist, invovled with C.E.N.U. (Council of the New School Unified) during the Spanish Revolution. Following Franco's victory, Juan Puig fled to France where he was interned in concentration camps, then fought against the Nazis with the Resistance. In 1946, he joined the C.N.T. E (in Exile) & became secretary for culture & propaganda. In 1952 he moved to Oporto Alegre, Brazil. Participated in a Spanish mutal aid group to help those suffering from the Franco repression.

http://ytak.club.fr/juillet4.html#31

1912 -- Belgium: Beginning of a General Strike. Another of the revolutionary upheavals leading to the capitalists' first global war to reassert their control of the social milieu.



1913 --

Clara Solomon, (Pianist, New York, USA) lives (1913-2000).

The eldest child of Samuel Freedman, a garment-union activist who also served as business manager of the anarchist newspaper "Freie Arbeiter Stimme" (Free Voice of Labor), Clara Solomon became active in the movement in her teens, once hitchhiking from New Jersey to Toronto to visit Emma Goldman & in the 1930s agitating in support of anarchist revolutionaries in Spain. She met her future husband, Sidney Solomon, when he was drumming in an all-anarchist jazz band.

Although the anarchist movement dwindled in the US, Solomon remained involved long enough to figure in its modest revival in the 1990s as a mentor to a young generation of activists. She helped to found the Atlantic Anarchist Circle, a coalition of anarchists from Quebec to Washington, D.C.

Clara died December 2000, age 87.

"When I was a girl, it was at home that I heard discussions about unions & strikes & anarchist activities. Peter Kropotkin, Errico Malatesta, Emma Goldman, & Rocker Rudolf were household names. In the middle 1920's Rudolf & Milly Rocker stayed with us in our home when they came to lecture in Stelton, New Jersey. This made an enduring impression on my brothers Sigmund & David . . . & me, of course." [Details / context]

1918 -- Joyce Kilmer, 31, is killed in fighting near Seringes on the Western Front. Can na see the forest for the trees, wrote Trees & Other Poems
http://www.main.nc.us/graham/hiking/joycekil.html

1922 -- Nils Hövermark lives. Swedish chemist & mystery writer, who published, from the 1970s, over 10 detective novels, which became very popular in the Scandinavian countries. None, apparently, translated to English.

Other Scandinavian mystery writers:

SWEDEN: Per Wahlöö & Maj Sjöwall, Maria Lang, Vic Suneson, Stieg Trenter, Jean Bolinder, Jan Guillou, Håkan Nesser, Ulf Durling, Henning Mankel.
FINLAND: Mauri Sariola, Marton Taiga, Outsider, Tauno Yliruusi, Matti Yrjänä Joensuu, Pentti Kirstilä, Juha Numminen.
DENMARK: Helle Stangerup, Kirsten Holst, Erik Otto Larsen, Bo Bjørnvik, Leif Davidsen.
NORWAY: Fredrik Skagen, Kim Småge, Kolbjørn Hauge, Karin Fossum, Anne Birkendeldt Ragde, Unni Maria Lindell, Kjersti Scheen, Anne Holt, Arid Rypdal

1922 -- France: Jeanne Humbert released from St. Lazare prison.

Militant anarchist, pacifist, néo-malthusian & naturist, she & Eugene Humbert were sent to prison on November 5, 1921, under 1920 laws designed to repress anti-nataliste propaganda. They were sentenced one to two years of prison & fined 3000 francs.

Eugene is not released until 1924, & they then continue their actions for free maternity & in the naturist movement.

http://ytak.club.fr/aout1.html#1

1924 -- Author William Gass lives.


1925 -- Rootless cosmopolitan, author, Alexander Trocchi lives, Glasgow, Scotland. See "Hands off Alexander Trocchi!" by Guy Debord, Jacqueline de Jong & Asger Jorn.
http://www.notbored.org/trocchi.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Trocchi


1928 -- US: Splatter Flicks? George Eastman demonstrates first color movie.

Marv Newland ’s animated spoof of film credits, an underground cult favorite, culminates in a fateful encounter between the little fawn & Big G.
http://www.sfsu.edu/~avitv/avcatalog/1220.htm



1935 -- The first ten Penguins paperback books appear with a penguin on the cover. Each book cost the price of a pack of cigarettes.

Penguins get down on their knees for no one, & thus the paperback revolution begins.

http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/packages/uk/aboutus/history.html


1936 -- Spain: Airlift of the (fascist) Army of Africa to the Iberian Peninsula with planes supplied by Germany & Italy.
[Sources here]

1938 -- Hitler presents highest non-citizen award — "Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle" — to Henry Ford in Berlin. Ford, like Charles Lindbergh & his author-wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was a Nazi sympathizer.

The International Jew The World’s Foremost Problem

Abridged from the original as published by the world renowned industrial leader Henry Ford, Sr. archive

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/2539/
http://www.earthstation1.com/Warposters/

Copyright, 1922. by The New York Times Company. Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

BERLIN HEARS FORD IS BACKING HITLER Bavarian Anti-Semitic Chief Has American's Portrait & Book in His Office. SPENDS MONEY LAVISHLY One German Paper Appeals to the United States Ambassador to make Investigation. BERLIN, Dec. 10.— A rumor is current here, that Henry Ford, the American Automobile manufacturer, is financing Adolph Hitler's nationalist anti-Semitic movement in Munich. Indeed, the Berlin Tageblatt has made an appeal to the American Ambassador in Berlin to investigate & interfere. Doubtless there is some ground for suspicion that Hitler is spending foreign money, for the paper marks his admirers throughout Germany contribute toward his movement would hardly suffice to pay for such large expenditure as his personal & business establishments require. His spacious headquarters in Munich are splendidly furnished & his organization employs a host of highly paid lieutenants & officials. [SNIP] — New York Times, 1922

Ford's own anti-Semitic newspaper, "The Dearborn Independent," with a circulation of 700,000, first attacked Jews in its May 22, 1920 issue & continued to do so in 91 subsequent editions. Many of these were reprinted as The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem (four volumes), & later published in a variety of languages & disseminated widely in the US & abroad.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/ford.html
http://users.crocker.com/~acacia/text_bhfibh.html
http://alan.fasick.net/edsel/

1938 -- At the anarchist Whiteway Colony in Gloucestershire, Emma Goldman examines the late Thomas H. Keell's papers on behalf of IISH, which hopes to acquire part of his collection.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Freedom.htm


1944 -- US: The NY Times reports "labor-management antagonisms which forecast a post-war period of great turmoil..." Business was set to break de facto control of production won by workers during the war. The real question is not whether there would be strikes, but whether they would be union-controlled or wildcat.

During the 44 months from Pearl Harbor to V-J Day, there were 14,471 strikes involving 6,774,000 strikers. In 1944 alone there were 369,000 steel & iron workers, 389,000 auto workers, 363,000 other transportation equipment workers, & 278,000 miners involved in strikes.

Jeremy Brecher, Strike!, pp226-27

1945 -- High Seas: USS Indianapolis, having just completed its secret mission to deliver the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, is torpedoed. The ship sinks in 12 minutes. Because of the secret nature of its mission, the incident went unreported for 5 days; survivors were left to fend for their own before a Navy plane on routine patrol discovered them. Of the 1,100 men aboard, 880 lost their lives to drowning, sharks & exposure.


1954 -- US: Solidarity Forever Rock? Elvis Presley makes his first advertised concert appearance, Memphis; today he also joins the Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71.


1956 -- US: "In God We Trust" is adopted as the official motto of the United States of America. & none too soon.



1958 -- Iraq: Left-wing coup arouses Western fears of Domino Effect.
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/pizzaburn.html


1967 -- US: Race riots begin in black sections of Milwaukee. Last until August 4; Four die.


1967 -- US: Eight days of race riots in Detroit come to an end.


1967 -- Author Elizabeth Wurtzel lives.


1968 -- England: Only seven months after opening, the Beatles' Apple boutique in London closed due to mismanagement; entire inventory is given away.


1968 -- Detenidos seis sacerdotes en Vizcaya por impago de sanciones impuestas por insultos a las autoridades y negarse a que la bandera española entre en la iglesia.
http://www.el-mundo.es/larevista/num132/textos/crono.html


1969 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Used Car Salesman Dick M Nixon calls the Vietnam War,

"One of America's finest hours."

1970 -- US: Remember the Power Keg Rock Festival in Connecticut cancelled by local authorities? Over 30,000 people show up even though police barricade all roads leading up to the site for two hours. Utilities are cut off but the crowd parties on. Doctors report over 800 cases of bad drug reactions.



1970 -- England: Series of bombings occurs — attributed to the anarchist Angry Brigade — over the next 18 months. Attacks include Gordon Carr's (Minister of Employment) home (January 12, 1971), the Department of Employment & the Miss World contest (November 20).
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/AngryBrigade/




1971 -- Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162.




1972 -- 53 caribou found dead near an army base that had served as the site of a chemical & biological warfare laboratory. The post commander suggests the animals might have been struck by lightning.

1973 -- US: Grand Opening of Left Bank Books Collective, Seattle, Washington. A split off from Red & Black Books Collective (before it opened its doors).

BleedMeister, Stan Iverson, Karen Herold, Barbara Sealy, remain with the R&B; Paul Zilsel & Lynn Thorndycraft left the formative group to start Left Bank, with a more focused anarchist identity & presence rather than the generic "radicalism" of Red & Black. Early Left Bank participants include Bruce Huebel, Jo Maynes, Ruth Sabiers, Mark Kent & others... BleedMeister joins LB in 1978 & remains until 1995.

Both stores celebrate their 25th year in 1998; Red & Black closed in the spring of 1999.

Now online, The Stan Iverson Memorial Library
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml

http://www.eatthestate.org/03-24/EatTheseShorts.htm

1973 --

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"If the Nuremberg laws were applied today, then every Post-War American president would have to be hanged."

— Noam Chomsky

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1974 -- US: House of Reps recommends 3rd article of impeachment
of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Dickster M Nixon.
http://www.bananadine.com/m/nixon.html


1975 -- US: The Real Dirt?: Teamsters union boss James Hoffa, is disappeared from the parking lot of the Hungry Tiger(!) coffee shop in suburban Birmingham, Michigan. His body is recently discovered, in the back of the twisted wreckage of John Kennedy Jr.'s airplane.



1980 -- South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu gains independence.


1980 -- Mary Meagher, US, sets a world 200-m butterfly swim record, 2:06.37.


1981 -- Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies is published. We don't know if Mary made it in...see 1980 above.



1986 -- US: RCA, acquired by General Electric, elects not to renew John Denver's contract despite being one of the most profitable acts on its label. Rumored that G.E., a major producer of military equipment was offended his single (with Russian Alexander Gradsky) "Let Us Begin (What are we Making Weapons For?)."




1987 -- Brazil: Um grupo de professores estudiosos do anarquismo promoveu curso na ABI (Associação Brasileira de Imprensa).
[ Source: Arquivo de História Social ]



1990 -- Liberia: Women & children in refugee compound massacred by army, Monrovia.


1991 -- Canada: Quebec natives announce they will determine their own course if Quebec secedes.


1991 -- US: Doug Danziger, crusader against topless bars & adult bookstores, resigns as Ft Lauderdale vice mayor after being linked (sic) to a prostitute.
Source:[ Robert Braunwart]


1993 -- Africa Rights accuses UN & US of major rights violations in Somalia.


1994 -- Brazil: The anarcha-feminist group in Sao Paulo (CAF) sponsors today's anti-homophobia event in Espaco Vadiagem.

Ten anarcho-punk groups perform to young audiences. The event is marred by the infiltration of Nazi skinheads who are exposed & removed. Some members of CAF are the target of intimidation by these troublemakers since this event.

http://www.spunk.org/texts/pubs/freedom/intnews/sp000894.txt
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3471/

1994 -- France: Court overturns the government's attempt to ban English words.



1996 -- England: Four Ploughshares activists acquitted, in Liverpool, of all charges on the basis of preventing a greater crime, after having extensively damaged an F-16 fighter jet set to be sold to the Indonesian government in its genocidal occupation of East Timor.




1999 -- US: Southern Girl's Convention begins, Memphis, Tennessee.

2000 -- US: An armed & threatening 91-year-old man is subdued by a robot with a water cannon, Upper Marlboro, Md. (quite a picture, isn't it?)



2001 -- Argentina: In a protracted economic crisis, the government's key austerity bill is passed. A "zero deficit" law aims to end deficit spending & slash state salaries & some pensions by up to 13%. See http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1219.htm#Argentina




2005 -- US: Brooklyn’s the Hungry March Band (23-pieces) has lit up the Coney Island Mermaid Day Parade. Voted Best Anarchist Parade Group by the Village Voice in 2004, the band (a group of non-musicians), which has also graced Lincoln Center Out of Doors, plays at Bard College today.
http://hungrymarchband.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michelelee/sets/733687/


2006 -- US: Memorial Gathering for Paul Zilsel (1923-2006), Seattle, Washington. Highly regarded theoretical physicist, one-time Communist, militant anarchist, cofounder Left Bank Books Collective, active in Arab-Jewish peace groups in Israel & the US.


2006 -- Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) dies, Burlington, Vermont. Autoworker, anarchist militant & theorist. Pioneer in the ecology movement, introducing the concept of social ecology. He taught at Ramapo College (1977-1981). In Burlington, Bookchin was instrumental in helping to organize the Green Party. He also co-founded the Institute for Social Ecology in Plainfield in 1971. Bookchin published over two dozen books ecology, history, politics, philosophy, & urban planning.

A recollection: Auntie Dave was a guest of Murray's at his NY City apartment for a few days in 1971, & again later when Murray moved to Vermont, where the raving drunken sot (Dave, not Murray) upchucked all over the apartment & had to be nursed back to (ab)normalcy. We met again a decade or so later in Detroit at Lorraine & Fredy Perlman's home where a lively exchange was held in the kitchen as the two of them chopped salad, head to head, toe to toe.

http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/599#comment-18264

3000 --

"Chemicals.... I love chemicals...
Without chemicals ....
What would my life be like?
what would my hair be like?
What would my kitchen be like?"

— Debbie Harry

3001 --

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