July 31 - August Eve - Lughnassad

'Lughnassad' means 'the funeral games of Lugh', referring to Lugh, the Irish sun god. However, the funeral is not his own, but the funeral games he hosts in honor of his foster-mother Tailte. For that reason, the traditional Tailtean craft fairs and Tailtean marriages (which last for a year and a day) are celebrated at this time. As autumn begins, the Sun God enters his old age, but is not yet dead. It is also a celebration of the first harvest. The Christian religion adopted this theme and called it 'Lammas', meaning 'loaf- mass', a time when newly baked loaves of bread are placed on the altar. An alternative date around August 5 (Old Lammas), when the sun reaches 15 degrees Leo, is sometimes employed by Covens.

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The Thredbo landslide was a catastrophic landslide that occurred at the village and ski resort of Thredbo, New South Wales, Australia. 1997 Thredbo landslide - Landslide. Eighteen people died when the Bimbadeen and Carinya Lodges collapsed at Thredbo Alpine Village at 11.35pm on Wednesday 30 July 1997. About 3500 tonnes of debris came down the slope. John Cameron, a member of Brindabella Ski Club, and 17 residents of Bimbadeen Ski Lodge lost their lives when Carinya (owned by the Brindabella Ski Club) and B ...

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Events The Anglo-Saxons under Ceawlin of Wessex defeat the British Celts at the Battle of Deorham. Northern Qi Hou Zhu succeeded by Northern Qi You Zhu, then by Northern Qi Fan Yang Wang. Eutychius is restored as Patriarch of Constantinople. Births Deaths August 31 - John Scholasticus, Patriarch of Constantinople Saint Brendan (p ...

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Abd-ul-Hamid II also Abdulhamid, Abdülhamit, Abdul Hamid, Abd al-Hamid II, or Abdul-Hamid (Arabic: عبد الحميد الثاني) (September 21, 1842 – February 10, 1918) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from August 31, 1876 – April 27, 1909. He was the son of Sultan Abd-ul-Mejid, and succeeded to the throne on the deposition of his brother Murad V on August 31, 1876. He accompanied his uncle Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz on his visit to England and France in 1867. At his accession spectator ...

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161 - Events. March 7 - Roman emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. Publication of Gaius' Institutiones 161 - Births. August 31 - Commodus, future Roman emperor Liu Bei, founder of the Shu Kingdom of China 161 - Deaths. March 7 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor Category: 161 ...

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12 - Events. Annius Rufus is appointed Prefect of Judea. Ovid writes an epistle from his exile on the Black Sea. Germanicus and Gaius Fonteius Capito become Roman Consuls. Quirinius returns from Judea to become a counselor to Tiberius 12 - Births. August 31 - Caligula, Roman Emperor 12 - Deaths. Category: 12 ...

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August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. August begins (astrologically) with the sun in the sign of Leo and ends in the sign of Virgo. Astronomically speaking, the sun begins in the constellation of Cancer and ends in the constellation of Leo. August was named in honor of Augustus. The month reputedly has 31 days because Augustus wanted as many days as Julius Caesar's July. Augustus placed the month where it is because that is when Cleo ...

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1056 - Events. Anselm of Canterbury leaves Italy. Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes King of Germany. Ottokar, Count of Steyr, becomes Margrave of the Karantanian March, later known as Styria 1056 - Births. 1056 - Deaths. August 31 - Theodora, Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire (b. 981) October 5 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017) Category: 1056Including:

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Amrita Pritam (August 31, 1919 – October 31, 2005) (Gurmukhi: ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ, Devanagari: अमृता प्रीतम) was a Punjabi poetess and writer who lived in India since 1947, when India and Pakistan were divided as two separate countries. She was born in 1919 to a Sikh family in Gujranwala, presently in Pakistan. She was the only child of a school teacher and a poet. Her mother died when she was eleven and she grew up with adult responsibilities. She began to write at an early age, and ...

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De Morgen (The Morning) is a Belgian newspaper with a circulation of 53,860 [1]. It originates from a merger in 1978 of two socialist newspapers Vooruit (Onwards) and Volksgazet (People's Newspaper). It is considered one of Flanders' 3 quality newspapers. The Vooruit appeared the first time on 31 August 1884, just before the making of the Belgian Workmen's Par ...

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Arthur Griffith (Árt Ó Gríofa in Irish) (March 31, 1871 – August 12, 1922) was the founder and first leader of Sinn Féin. He served as President of Dáil Éireann from January to August 1922, and was head of the Irish delegation at the negotiations that produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. Arthur Griffith - Early life. Arthur Griffith was born in Dublin, Ireland on March 31, 1871, of distant Welsh lineage, and was educated by the Christian Brothers of Ireland, a Catholic Religious order. He ...

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At 5.37am on the Saturday, digging finished and rescue workers dropped sound equipment into a hole they had been digging, as was the standard procedure. This time, they detected some movement underneath the concrete slab. Five minutes later rescue expert Steve Hirst, who used monitoring equipment to confirm the movement, yelled out "Rescue team working overhead, can anyone hear me?" to which a voice called back "I can hear you." When asked if there was anyone else i ...

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1997 Thredbo landslide, 1997 Thredbo landslide - Landslide, 1997 Thredbo landslide - Thursday 31 July, 1997 Thredbo landslide - Friday 1 August, 1997 Thredbo landslide - Stuart Diver, 1997 Thredbo landslide - Aftermath

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Brindabella Ski Club opened its new lodge on 5 June 2004. The Coroner's report released on 29 June 2000 said that the landslide was caused by water from a leaking water main. The landslide hit an eastern wing of one of the lodges first, which caused the nearby land to collapse onto lodges below. The State Government of New South Wales spent $40 million in out-of-court settlements with 91 businesses and individuals after the incident. On 3 December 2004, the Supreme Court judgement blamed the leaking water main pipe and the Alpine Way road which was built on a r ...

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1997 Thredbo landslide, 1997 Thredbo landslide - Landslide, 1997 Thredbo landslide - Thursday 31 July, 1997 Thredbo landslide - Friday 1 August, 1997 Thredbo landslide - Stuart Diver, 1997 Thredbo landslide - Aftermath

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