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AstroBiography of Jackie Robinson: Satyagraha in Brooklyn
Birth Data: January 31, 1919, “after 6:00 pm” – estimate 6:30 pm – near Cairo, Georgia Source: biography, family information, in Astrodatabank, astro.com Jack Roosevelt Robinson (Jackie) began his major league baseball career 70 years ago this month, on April 15, 1946, breaking the barriers of segregation against African-American athletes in American sports. The grandson…...
ORAL ROBERTS: DIVINE HEALING IN OKLAHOMA
Oral Roberts, the Pentecostal Evangelist preacher who is said to have laid healing hands on two million people in the name of God, was a different kind of religious figure than the scholarly Ralph Waldo Emerson featured last year. The son of an impoverished rural preacher, he dedicated himself to ministry when, as a…...
Malala: Teenaged Advocate For Education
Astrobiography by Lynn Bootes BIRTH DATA: July 12, 1997 Just before sunrise, local time (rectified to 4:55 am) Mingora, KPK Province, Pakistan, 72 E 21 longitude, 34 N 46 latitude. Source: “I am Malala,” page 13: “I arrived at dawn as the last star winked out. We Pashtuns see this as an auspicious sign.”…...
Mao the Psychopath
Birth Data: December 26, 1893, 07:00 am, Shaoshan village, Hunan, China. Source: Astrodatabank astro.com quotes Ruth Dewey: “Shaoshan, Honan, China, 113 E.30, 25 N.00, from AFA 12/1952, quoting a biog published by the Communist Party. My rectified time is 6:50 am. Dear Readers, On January 9, 2016 there was a huge shifting in the field…...
Grandma Moses: A Study In Longevity
Birth Data: Anna Mary Robertson Moses September 7, 1860 Greenwich, New York 3:58 pm local time Source: Astrodatabank source a personal quote from her, “B” data Dear readers, please think of this short piece as a bit like a Christmas card art to enjoy in winter from folk artist Mary Anne Robertson “Grandma” Moses. I…...
AstroBiography: Tolkien’s English Epic
By: Lynn Bootes J. R. R. Tolkien January 3, 1892 10:15 pm rectified Bloemfontain, Free State, South Africa 29S12 26E07 This is epic season, when the darker nights of the Northern Hemisphere draw us indoors to our hearths, our books and stories, as has happened for half a million years or more. It is no…...
Bob Marley Catching Fire
By: Lynn Bootes Birth Data: Feb 6, 1945, 2:30 am, Saint Anne’s Bay, Jamaica. “B” data, from biography Biographer Timothy White, “Catch a Fire” (His birth was registered two days later) Biographical Sources: Farley, Christopher John, “Before the Legend: the Rise of Bob Marley,” Harper Collins/Amistad 2006; Wikipedia biography accessed October 22, 2015. Bob Marley,…...
Alan Turing: More Than Mathematics
ASTROBIOGRAPHY by Lynn Bootes Birth data: June 23, 1929, 2:15 am, London, England. “A” data based on mother’s report. Last month we looked at some practical inventors, the Wright Brothers. This month we will look at Alan Turing, a British mathematician of the twentieth century who applied his mind to the creation of artificial intelligence and…...
The Mothers of Invention: Moon, Mercury & the Nodes – Wilbur, Orville & Katharine Wright
By: Lynn Bootes CHART DATA: Wilbur Wright: April 16, 1867, Millville, IN. No time. I am speculating a time of 03:00. Orville Wright: August 19, 1871, Dayton, OH (“in the Morning”) I am speculating 07:45. Katharine Wright: August 19, 1874, Dayton, OH, no time. I am speculating 09:30. Wilbur and Orville…...
AstroBiography of Benjamin Franklin
By: Lynn Bootes Benjamin Franklin! A short essay cannot hope to cover all the details of this fascinating individual and his long and eventful life. I’ve just finished a newer biography: Benjamin Franklin: an American Life, by Walter Isaacson, who cites the French statesman Turgot’s epigram to sum up his essence: “He snatched lightning…...