This is the one that's so catholic she thinks divorce should be illegal. Hundreds of thousands of protesting Filipinos forced President Joseph Estrada to step down; Vice President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was sworn in as the new president.2001. 1872 -- Filipino soldiers & workers stage a bloody revolt against Spanish rule. 1902 -- Philippines: Major Littleton Waller summarily executes 11 native guides accompanying his US expeditionary force in the Philippines. Waller was court- martialed for murder, but was acquitted. From the Daily Bleed. 1884 -- Yevgeny Zamyatin, author of A Soviet Heretic, & sci-fi allegory We, lives, Russia.
"When (in science, religion, social life, art) a flaming, seething sphere grows cold, the fiery molten rock becomes covered with dogma -- with a hard, ossified, immovable crust.... Till one day a new heresy explodes and blows up the dogma's crust, together with all the ever so stable, rock-like structures that had been erected on it" http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/danny/book-reviews/a/Yevgeny_Zamyatin.html http://www.substance.org/50/50-bee~1_R.html
