Today in fact

There was a time in France and other parts of Western Europe when today was…

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born today in 1866. This odd Russian mystic believed that most…

In 1999 I was reading a free ads newspaper and came across an advert for…

William James was born this day in New York in 1842. James went on to…

In August 1987, I travelled around Europe and was invited by my uncle Oigen to…

On this day in 1902, Josemaria Escriva, the Marquis of Peralta was born in Spain….

The king of Rock-n-Roll was born in Tupelo Mississippi today in 1935. Elvis Presley came…

There is an ancient and venerable form of Christianity which known as Coptic Christianity and…

On this day in 1929 a young Albanian nun of the Loreto Sisters arrived in…

Supply creates demand. This classic saying from liberal capitalist economics was promoted by Jean-Baptise Say,…

I once lived in a town called Reading in Berkshire, some 70 kilometres due West…

The Portuguese for most of the 15th Century had been inching down the West African…

A Carnival Day. In the 1980’s I did community work on the Cape Flats and…

In Roman times, every town and city had an amphitheatre where games were played. These…

The end of the year. In my youth this was a time of parties and…

Today in 1916, Russian aristocrats and a British spy, Oswald Rayner shot and killed Rasputin,…

What role has the Church with the State? The problem is not, in essence a…

Today many Christians mark the feast of the holy innocents. In Spain and Latin America,…

The man who did more than any other to prolong human life and promote health…

The feast of St. Stephen. That first Christian martyr, stoned to death by the pious…

I am often struck by the profound economic benefits Christmas provides for countless businesses and…

Christmas Eve. I recall many feasts and festivities and midnight Masses singing and candles. The…

Near the mouth of the Chulumna River in the Eastern Cape in 1938, a Local…

When I was at the University of Cape Town in the 1980’s, I found lodgings…

We really have no idea when he died or how he died. The man who…

Persians celebrate today as Yalda. They read poetry to each other and eat pomegranates and…

it takes a special man to be the father of a great man. Born this…

A curious day for birthdays. The Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand was born this day in 1863….

Today in 1903, two Christian brothers, the sons of a Bishop in the Church of…

A busy day for nationalism. The Boston tea party was carried out in 1773 by…

Active Citizens Day. Today marks the day when the citizens of the United States recognized…

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart…

Saint Lucy’s Day. The patron saint of the blind, was a young lass whose father…

There is an old seTswana saying which goes; “If you see the king’s cow on…

I am not sure why a person would build a pillar and choose to stand…