[design] 5 May 1821 Napoleon dies in exile at St. Helena

Calendar of May
LEAVING OBSCURITY BEHIND

1 May 305
Diocletian at Nicomedia and Maximanus Herculius at Mediolanum divest
themselves of the purple.

2 May 373
death of St. Athanasius
2 May 1981
shotgun death of Daniel Hansford at Mercer House, Savannah

3 May
quondam feast of The Finding of the Holy Cross
3 May 1931
birth of Aldo Rossi

5 May 1821
death of Napoleon in exile at St. Helena Island

6 May 1856
birth of Sigmund Freud
6 May 1949
Duchamp makes detailed notes regarding the architecture of the Philadelphia
Museum of Art

12 May 1921
birth of Joseph Beuys

14 May 1948
Israel becomes a state
14 May 1999
discovery, at the Fine Arts Library of the University of Pennsylvania, that
Piranesi's Ichnographia Campi Martii was printed in two distinct states
14 May 2004
Louis I. Kahn, with Helena, Eutropia, and Catherine de Ricci visit Israel

15 May 1773
death of Alban Butler, author of LIVES OF THE SAINTS

16 May 1946
Eva Stotesbury has a heart attack

18 May 1920
birth of Pope John Paul II (Karol Jozef Wojtyla)
18 May 1924
birth of Rosa Lauf geb. Brenner -- http://www.quondam.com/18/1761.htm
18 May 1980
eruption of Mount Saint Helens

19 May 1296
death/feast of St. Celestine V, pope

21 May
feast of the second Agonalia
feast of Sts. Constantine and Helena
21 May 1502
discovery of St. Helena Island
21 May 1938
death of Edward T. Stotesbury
21 May 1972
Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo's PIETA

22 May 337
death of Constantine the Great
22 May 1802
death of Martha Washington

27 May 1875
feast of Corpus Christi and Otto Prince of Bavaria's public confession --
www.quondam.com/02/0139.htm
27 May 1986
murder of Isma'il and Lois al-Faruqi

30 May 1640
death of Peter Paul Rubens

31 May 1935
birth of Frei Otto
31 May 1946
death of Eva Stotesbury
31 May 1951
death of Cardinal Dennis Dougherty

[Helena and Constantine just figured out all the arrangements for Pope John
Paul II's first afterlife birthday party. Helena has been arranging the
first afterlife birthday party of Popes for centuries now, and Constantine
gets involved for all the special parties--he's great when it comes to
dealing with the whole irony of such events. In the morning, everyone will
'witness' the Danube flooding event along the present Croatian/Serbian
border that coincided with Karol's 4th birthday. (Helena gave birth to
Constantine in what is now Serbia, so they both know the territory well;
they remember the 1924 Danube flood well too.) In the afternoon, all will
visit the post-WWII mass graves at Gakowo --
http://www.the-tidings.com/2004/0312/lani.htm . In the evening, everyone
will go to Mount St. Helen's to see if there's any white or black smoke.]



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