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Friday, March 12th, 2021
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| 10:45a | Бодлеризация bowdlerize Bowdler + -ize; named after English physician Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825). In 1818 he published a censored version of William Shakespeare (The Family Shakespeare), expurgating “those words and expressions […] which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family" To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly. "The bowdlerized version of the novel, while free of vulgarity, was also free of flavor" * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Famil |
| 12:38p | Memorial to Attila József Memorial to Attila József (1905-1937) Hungarian poet, near the railway station of Balatonszárszó in the park bordering the lake Balaton. On the imitated cliches that spin on locomotive wheels recalling the circumstances of the poet's death, we can read some strophes of his famous verses. The authors of the monument erected in 1998 are Tamás Ortutay sculptor and architect Mária Sarkady.  József died on December 3, 1937, aged 32, in Balatonszárszó. At the time, he was staying at the house of his sister and brother-in-law. He was killed while crawling through railway tracks where he was crushed by a starting train. There is a memorial to him not far from the location where he died. The most widely accepted view is that he committed suicide, which he had previously attempted, but some experts say that his death was by accident. |
| 5:13p | Roger Casement  Roger David Casement (Irish: Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat and later became a humanitarian activist, poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in Peru. In Africa as a young man, Casement first worked for commercial interests before joining the British Colonial Service. In 1891 he was appointed as a British consul, a profession he followed for more than 20 years. Influenced by the Boer War and his investigation into colonial atrocities against indigenous peoples, Casement grew to mistrust imperialism. After retiring from consular service in 1913, he became more involved with Irish republicanism and other separatist movements. During World War I he made efforts to gain German military aid for the 1916 Easter Rising that sought to gain Irish independence. He was arrested, convicted and executed for high treason. He was stripped of his knighthood and other honours. Before the trial, the British government circulated excerpts said to be from his private journals, known as the Black Diaries, which detailed homosexual activities. Given prevailing views and existing laws on homosexuality, this material undermined support for clemency for Casement. Debates have continued about these diaries: a handwriting comparison study in 2002 concluded Casement had written the diaries, but this was still contested by some. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dia |
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