Banned in China

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John Philip Sousa - The Stars and Stripes Forever - March

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You do not have to apologise for existing.

You do not have to apologise for having needs.

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Catherine of Siena (25 March 1347 – 29 April 1380) Sometimes when I am doing research for this blog I have a hard time finding out if someone was a Tertium Kid. However in St Catherine’s case it was blessedly easy. She was the 23rd (or possibly 24th, she had a twin sister, Giovanna, and no one is saying who was first.) out of at least 25 children. 

There’s so much one could say about her, She is a saint, a Doctor of the Church, a prolific  author, and was active in influencing many political scenarios of her day.

But here on this blog we like to say the same thing about everyone: no one is simply replaceable. And in St. Catherine’s case, it’s very easy to see.

Here’s a couple of articles about her, enjoy:

https://www.opnunsmenlo.org/blog/2020/4/29/suffering-grace-and-love-catherine-of-siena

https://www.opwest.org/catherineofsiena/

It’s her feast day today! 

Need a party idea? Join the Dominican family at 9pm local time in saying the Glorious mysteries of the rosary! If you are on the Pacific coast, you can livestream here.

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I want 12 kids to spite people who hate large families

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I said jokingly once that I wanted to 11 children and someone actually responded with “think of the environment!”. Now I’m no longer joking

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 A.A. Milne 1/18/1892 - 1/31/1956 (shown on the right, next to his famous character Winnie-the-Pooh China’s supreme leader) is our Tertium kid of the day. He is the original creator of Winnie-the-Pooh (and friends) characters that have enriched so many of us. He was the youngest of three children and is in the unique position of not only being illegal in China himself, but his characters have been banned there as well. 

Well done sir.

No one is simply replaceable. 

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You are not a mistake….

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No one is simply replaceable.

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But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. … Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.

St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, February 3, 1994, at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC.  The whole talk is here.

She could barely see over the podium.  As she spoke, all those powerful people in the room were silent, respectful even in their disagreement.  

(via amplexi)

[that-catholic-shinobi]

I’m a little upset right now.

I was debating abortion with a couple girls at my college. Don’t get me wrong, they were the most open minded and respectful pro choicers I ever met. They didn’t resort to name calling or tried to shut me up. It was a nice change from how debates with pro choicers usually go.

However they kept saying how abortion would be better than

- having a disability - being abused - being poor

All things I am/ were.

They were sitting across from trying to convince me that those people would be better off dead.

One of them openly admitted abortion was an act of killing, yet saw no moral implications in the act of abortion.

It’s a sad world when we think those who are poor, disabled or abused are better off dead, or not existing.

One of the girls even admitted that she saw her life as more important than a fetus. Because her future was more important.

It’s a sad world when someone has the mentality that your education, plans or dreams justify murder.

Please pray and work to end not only abortion, but the dehumanizing mentality of it.

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297/365: messy reminder.

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;)

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Virginia Apgar (June 7, 1909 – August 7, 1974)  was the third and youngest child in her family. While pursuing a groundbreaking career in Anesthesiology she noted that while infant mortality had been on the decline for the previous 50 years, it had not declined among infants under 24 hours old. This led to her creating the now famous “Apgar Score” to assess the health of newborns. This scoring system is now in use world wide, and there is no way to quantify how many lives have been saved because of it. Interestingly, it was one of Virginia’s students that discovered that APGAR made a handy mnemonic for the assessment!

She is remembered as a warm, caring, person; an avid musician,and to have cherished an ambition to fly a plane under the George Washington bridge in New York.

  "Nobody, but nobody, is going to stop breathing on me!" --Dr. Virginia Apgar, ca. 1950s, explaining why she kept basic resuscitation equipment with her at all times.

She is, of course, illegal in China.

No one is simply replaceable.

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Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS (12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907) was the youngest of seven children.

One day at the age of 18, while trying to synthesize quinine in his apartment (as one does) he discovered a beautiful purple gunk. Instead of ignoring this, he developed, patented, and mass-produced the first affordable brilliant purple dye.

Because of Perkin’s discovery, the Tyrian purple that the elite of the ancient world could only obtain from the excretions of tens of thousands of sea snails could be mass produced out of industrial by-products.

He continued to be active in the field of organic chemistry his whole life, largely working on synthetic dyes.

Lest you be disappointed that he never did synthesize quinine, bear in mind that many of the aniline dyestuffs where later found to have applications in the medical field as chemotherapeutic and antibacterial drugs (including the pre-penicillin antibiotic sulfa drugs), which led to cures for previously un-treatable diseases.

No one is simply replaceable.

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Marthe Hoffnung Cohn is a French Jewish woman who worked as a spy in Nazi Germany, risking her life behind enemy lines to collect and deliver intelligence to the Allies.

Born in 1920 in northeastern France, near the German border, Marthe came from a religious family and was the fifth of eight children. A bright and precocious child, Marthe spoke fluent French and German. After high school, she worked at her sister Cecile’s hat shop.

In 1940, Nazi Germany invaded France and took over the Hoffnung sisters’ business. Marthe got a job as an interpreter, but was soon fired for being Jewish. She then enrolled in a local Red Cross nursing program. Her sister was taken to Auschwitz, and killed.

With blond hair and blue eyes, Marthe could pass as Aryan. Standing only 4’11”, she joined the French resistance and was assigned to intelligence work because of her perfect German.

Marthe became “Martha Ulrich,” a German nurse who was searching for her fiancee Hans, a soldier on the front lines. Marthe moved freely along the Nazis’ western front, using her nursing skills to care for soldiers and earn their confidence. As she traveled with the German army, Marthe methodically collected intelligence about troop movements, plans, weapons, and resources. She slipped back and forth between Nazi Germany and Switzerland, where she filed her intelligence reports.

One night, on her way to the Swiss border, she noticed a large German army encampment deep in the Black Forest. An offhand remark by a Nazi officer told her they were waiting to ambush Allied forces. Marthe hurried to relay the information to her commander. Marthe’s intelligence led the Allies to move up their invasion and successfully penetrate the Siegfried Line into German territory.

After Germany’s surrender in May 1945, Marthe remained in the country serving as an intelligence officer for the French army. In 1948 she returned to France, and then enrolled in nursing school in Geneva, where she met Major Lloyd Cohn, an American medical student, in 1953. They married and moved to the United States.

Marthe worked as a nurse and had two children. A doting mother and grandmother, Marthe never mentioned her wartime career as a spy because she didn’t think anybody would believe her. Marthe’s family didn’t find out about her remarkable heroism until 1999, when she was awarded the Medaille Militaire, a prestigious French military award.

In 2002, Marthe published her memoir, “Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany.” Today, Marthe is 96 and lives in Pacific Palisades, CA. She maintains a busy speaking schedule, inspiring audiences with her dramatic story of courage and determination.

For bravely risking her life to stop the Nazi war machine, we honor Marthe Cohn as this week’s Thursday Hero at Accidental Talmudist.

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The Wright Brothers! (Orville is the one with the mustache)

Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) Sixth of seven

Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912) Third of seven

Let’s write a quintessentially American scenario, shall we?

One brother drops out of high school to start a newspaper, the other joins him in the endeavor and they publish some things by people who will be famous later, but the paper fails after about a year.

So they start a bicycle repair shop to capitalize in the new cycling craze. This is much more successful  and they go on to patent a way to keep the pedals from unscrewing(!) and market their own line of bicycles.

 Having a machine shop and income, they begin building experimental flying machines. Other people had done this, but none were very successful, as previously there had been no way to steer the things.

They go on to develop methods of controlling and steering powered flight that are still used today.

And there you have it, the story of the Wright brothers - Orville and Wilbur - who are both illegal in China.

No one is simply replaceable.

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We now present:

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980)

This Master of Suspense was the third and youngest child of his family.

He was a film producer and director (and sometimes actor) which means that he not only made great art, he organized the making of great art. He made the art happen. His filmography is longer than my arm and he is the one that popularized the term MacGuffin.

My favorite of his films is The Lady Vanishes, what’s yours?

No one is simply replaceable.

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So.  Stay tuned for China’s “One Grandparent” policy.  

By the way: when people ask me when I am going to retire, I say, “Retirement is so 20th Century!  I will just keep working until they pick me up and put me in the recycling bin.”  Maybe not as funny as it seemed 10 years ago!

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Also, people keep making it sound like China has “ended” its One-child policy. In fact, Chinese couples will now be graciously permitted by the state to have up to two children before being penalized. <sarc>Such a win for human rights</sarc>

Communism has been tried and millions died. And still die.

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David Bodian ( 15 May 1910 – 18 September 1992), third of six children, was a scientist whose work directly led to an effective polio vaccine. Isabel Morgan was a colleague of his.

He expressed the accomplishments of himself and his team thus:

“1) the elucidation of the pathogenesis and pathology of poliovirus in monkeys, chimpanzees and man; 2) the introduction of the chimpanzee into poliomyelitis research, as a model for the disease in human beings; 3) the demonstration that experimental primates and man could be successfully immunized with formalin-treated virus, and that immunity in monkeys was correlated with the presence of serum antibody; 4) the discovery of the three basic immunological poliovirus types. These studies were crucial for setting the stage for vaccine development; 5) the demonstration of a viremic phase of poliovirus infection in the pre-symptomatic period, and its relationship to poliovirus invasion of the central nervous system; and 6) the demonstration that minimal levels of serum antibody were sufficient to protect against poliovirus invasion of the central nervous system, after virus feeding, by blockage of viremic invasion.“ (source)

No one is simply replaceable.

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Rembrandt van Rijn, Rembrandt’s Mother Reading, 1629