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Victory Day

Monday, September 29, 2003

• TITLE: "Victory Day" In France. Hahahahahahaha!

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• � "Victory Day "..: Here's a link to the NY Times story about the French giving up a national holiday. French giving up a national holiday.

• � " Charlemagne "�: Here's a link to a short bio of Charlemagne.

• � " Pentecost "�: In both Jewish and Christian traditions, Pentecost (also known as Whitsunday for the practice of wearing white clothes during baptism) is one of the oldest official feast days. Pentecost, in the Old Testament was originally an agricultural festival celebrating and giving thanks for the "first fruits" of the early spring harvest."

  For Christians Pentecost is celebrated 50 days after Easter. For more go to the Culham College webpage on Pentecost.

• � " French Surrender "�: From the Information Please Almanac's World War II Time Line:

  1940

  Germans cross French frontier (May 12) using air/tank/infantry "Blitzkrieg" tactics. Dunkerque evacuation-about 335,000 out of 400,000 Allied soldiers rescued from Belgium by British civilian and naval craft (May 26-June 3) . Italy declares war on France and Britain; invades France (June 10) . Germans enter Paris; city undefended (June 14) . France and Germany sign armistice at Compi�gne (June 22) .

• � " French Heat Wave "�: Here's a link to the MSNBC webpage report on the death toll due to the heat wave in France this past August.

• � " Paschal Lambs "�: From the Merriam-Webster Unabridged: Paschal - of or relating to Passover or Easter

  From the Catholic Encyclopedia:

  A lamb which the Israelites were commanded to eat with peculiar rites as a part of the Passover celebration. On the tenth day of the first month each family (or group of families, if they are small) is commanded to take a lamb without blemish, male, of one year, and keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, and sacrifice it in the evening. The blood of the lamb must be sprinkled on the transom and doorposts of the houses in which the paschal meal is taken. The lamb should be roasted and eaten with unleavened bread and wild lettuce.

  That the Paschal Lamb prefigured symbolically Christ, "the Lamb of God", who redeemed the world by the shedding of His blood, and particularly the Eucharistic banquet, or new Passover, has always remained the constant belief of Christian tradition.

• Mullfoto of the Day:
  
  A few weeks ago, MullPal Tim Byrne and I made a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the Republican Party in Ripon, Wisconsin. We knew this was the birthplace of the Republican Party and we knew we were in Ripon, Wisconsin because it says so.

  Right next door to the birthplace of the Republican Party in Ripon Wisconsin is this:
  
  Interestingly, the GOP museum was closed. The Chinese restaurant was open.
  
  
  

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  World War II Poster
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  
  Actual Caption: California Governor Gray Davis signed into law six bills aimed at protecting senior citizens from financial predators, at the Claude Pepper Senior Center in Los Angeles Saturday.

  First, Claude Pepper's nickname was "Red" for his leftist views
  Second, Pepper was a Congressman and Senator from � Florida!.

  (AP Photo/Reed Saxon )