Today is a day for all those of Scottish ancestry (yours truly included) to celebrate for it is Robert Burn’s Day in Scotland, a national holiday celebrating Scotland’s National poet.  To read more about Robert Burns and this special day, please see this post from “The Writer’s Almanac.”  Below you will find the Scottish text [...]

Image via Wikipedia On this day in 1818, the Anglican clergyman John Mason Neale was born. He was one of the first people to translate ancient Greek and Latin hymns into English, including the well-known works of "All Glory, Laud, and Honor," "Good Christian Men, Rejoice" and "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel."  “All Glory, Laud [...]

Surrealist painter Salvador Dali died in his native Spain at age 84 on this day in 1989.  The Dali paintings I love best are all religious in nature, with the one below being my favorite. Technorati Tags: Salvador Dali,Today in History

On this day Queen Victoria of England died after ruling for 63 years (1901).  Lyndon Baines Johnson, our 36th president, died at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas, at age 64 (1973).  The Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation’s first female secretary of state in 1997.  The Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in a [...]

Today history is made.  Enough said.   Technorati Tags: Today in History,20 January 2009,Barack Obama