The Eighth Bead

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"August is presented a year after year with Hiroshima and Nagasaki still open wounds, with the cries of the millions of massacred under the burning August sun rays mixed with cries for help from those who today attempt to escape from any genocide, with the blood of Evangelina Sobredo fresh spilled on the floor of a village in Zamora, and with the wounds of the millions of outcasts of the planet infected with pus emanating from any place on the planet"

The Eighth Bead.

My augusts always have been hellish, long and ominously tragic, in August there are sympathetic, good and friendly ephemeris, but between the unbearable heat of the eighth grain has also been terrible and fatal events. A two August 1976 left life on these whores Francoist roads the singer and author Evangelina Sobredo better known as Cecilia.

A one August 1313 was born the Emperor Kōgon, the first emperor of the Court from the North of Japan. Many years later, a one August 1936 born in France Yves Saint Laurent, promoter of the ready-to-wear fashion designer, also a torrid three August 1904 was born in Mexico the actress Dolores del Rio, a four of August 1901 was born trumpeter and jazz singer Louis Armstrong, a five August 1914 was born Argentine actress Lydia Lamaison , and was a six on August, 1865 when he was born Ernesto Lecuona, performer and composer of Hispanic-Cuban rhythms.

The bloody history of the month of August is celebrated one year after another in Spain with the lynching, torture and death of a poor antlered. August Octavio Augusto owes its name to the Roman Emperor Caesar Octavian, known how and which means "The Magnificent" or "The majestic". In the ancient Roman calendar, the year began in March and August it was known how the sixth month, Sextilis, 26 years before Juli Cesar did the same to replace Quinctilis by Lully in honor to the family to which he belonged and which soon shed his blood by slabs of Rome.

Sextilis, Agosto, The Majestic, August, The Eighth Bead…el Magnífico!

Sextilis had 29 days, two days less than Lulius, and that must have you seem an affront, adding from here to the superb Augusto and removing there August was as we know it today, with the same nights and days than the previous month.

Athletes such as Roger Federer, scholars of the mind such as Jean Piaget, writers such as Enid Blyton and Jacinto Benavente, architects such as Antoni Bonet, musicians such as Adolfo ábalos, poets as Carmen Conde and Amado Nervo, pop stars such as Madonna, artists such as Agustín Ibarrola, revolutionary as Coco Chanel, monarchs as Mohamed VI, symbols like Yasir Arafat, geniuses like Julio Cortázar, writers like Mary Shelley Tenors and Ramón Vinay, wonder kids with prodigious voices as the star of the pop Michael Jackson came to the world under the influence of August.

It is born and dies independently of the month of the year, but in August have born and died many illustrious, a one August 1446 died Cosme de Médici, on August 3, 2004 died the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, August 4, 1526 died aboard the Victory the Spanish Navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano, a 6 August 2001 the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado died and was also an August seven of 1957 when the American comedian Oliver Hardi left this world.

On August 8, 1898 died the French landscaper Eugène Boudin, a nine August 117 ad the Roman Emperor born in Italica Marco Ulpio Trajan died and also a nine in August but the year 1914 passed away the Argentinian President, Roque Sáenz Peña and an August 10, 1936 died Blas Infante.

In August died also Lavinia Fontana, Cleopatra, Tigran Petrosian, Enzo Ferrari, the Emperor of Bizancio Alejo Comneno, the British Admiral Robert Blake, Genghis Khan, Cesar Augusto, Pío X, Constant Lambert, Kate Chopín, Alexander Wilson, Neil Armstrong, José Delarra, Le Corbusier, Ruth Gordon, Charles Baudelaire, and also was an August when Jose Cubero Sanchez, “The Yiyo“, fell victim struck down the Horn of a bull.

August throughout history leaves terrible events, but also glorious events, it was in August of 1926 when Gandhi launched his campaign of civil disobedience in the India. In August 1998, he began the mutiny of rubber that started the second and bloody war in Congo which ended with almost four million dead. On August 5, 1936 came The Combat de Victory, who with the victory of the rebels managed to unlock the Strait of Gibraltar, allowing troops and fascist weapons from North Africa to the peninsula. A six of August 1945 United States launched its first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and was also an eight August 1974 when President Richard Nixon announced on television his resignation because of the Watergate scandal.

On 12 August of 2000 after a violent explosion sinking the Russian submarine Kursk dying the entire crew. On August 13, 1973 crashed in Oleiros flying AVIACO 118 dying on the spot all the crew of the Caravelle. On August 15, 1914 was opened to the maritime transit the Panama Canal. On August 17, 1970, the Soviet Union launched the Venera 7 probe bound to Venus and where it landed four months after its release. On August 23, 1942 began the bloody battle of Stalingrad, it was a twenty-five August 1609 when the astronomer Galileo Galilei presented his first telescope before the Senate of Venice, and was also a month of August, this time of the year 1813 when he began the battle of Dresden and that it would give victory to the French troops under The Command of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Births, deaths, heroic and misfortunes have been falling in the events of August in perpetuity as a Rosary of shames, glory and misfortune. A twenty-eighth of August 1973 an earthquake in the center of Mexico destroyed Veracruz and left thousands dead, August twenty-ninth day of 2005 hurricane Katrina devastated ravaged New Orleans and was also a thirty August of the year 1857 in Argentina when a locomotive made its first journey between the Park Station and enters the Station of Flowers.

Between the Moon full of August you can see clearly those glazes of innocent blood that has been setting up Sextilis throughout the centuries, August in the Northern Hemisphere represents this Dantesque Scene of a hot Hell on Earth, summer is finished with his last days, and with the first rays of the Sun of September the relay station prepares Fall arrives with the ninth grain one more year.

* August *

August faceless,
Without anger or bitterness,
In August, he finished,
The milk and the kiss.

August in the roses,
With bronze in skins,
In August it was forged,
The betrayal of darkness.

August in dreams,
Fire and fairness,
In August, he finished,
The milk and the kiss.

August is a luckless,
Thirst and mess,
In August, he finished,
Sowing and the kiss.

Lucas Lazar. Telling Stories.

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* Agosto *

Agosto sin rostro,
sin ira y sin hiel,
en Agosto se agostó,
la siembra y la miel.

Agosto con mosto,
con bronce en la piel,
en Agosto se fraguó,
la traición de Raquel.

Agosto en un astro,
de fuego y de fuel,
en Agosto se agostó,
la siembra y la miel.

Agosto es un grito,
de sed y de clavel,
en Agosto se agotó,
la leche y el papel.

Lucas Lazar. Contando Historias.

With the eighth grain finished the second and began the third season of the year, with Sextilis dies the summer and the autumn between the burning August sun rays resurfaces once again ends the time of cucumber, tomato and cherries and begins the time of the olive, grape, quince, and of all the festivals dedicated to the God of Wine.

“August is a month of hot and cold, for some the colour of August is represented with a warm yellow, for others the chromatic range of August is a pale and cold, cobalt but for some and other Sextilis is the month dedicated to the Goddess Diana and all these gods of the pagan, gemstone August is Peridot and their representative flower is the gladiolus”

The Eighth Bead

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