death of the original Ezeri Mester
2003.08.15 11:03
"King Stephen of Hungary eventually died, aged sixty-three, on the feast of the Assumption [15 August] 1038, and was buried beside Blessed Emeric [his only son] at Szekesfehervar. His tomb was the scene of miracles, and forty-five years after his death, by order of Pope St. Gregory VII at the request of King St. Ladislaus, his relics were enshrined in a chapel within the great church of our Lady at Buda."
Among the first emails I read yesterday was one from Brian Carroll sent to the electronetwork list, which contained a link to the following image:
For the record, Brian Carroll was named Ezeri Mester 2002 precisely because he published The Architecture of Electricity just before 1 January 2000.
Then I read how Randolph Fritz bid farewell to design-l. Randolph also sent the uncannily prescient last post to design-l just hours before the events of 11 September 2001.
Yesterday afternoon (before the blackout) I was 'busy' posting at the discussion board of www.archinect.com comparing the long axis of Piranesi's Campo Marzio with Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Not until I heard the specific news story of the Canadian reported lightening strike at Niagara Fall, USA that supposedly caused/started the blackout did I think of Benjamin Franklin, the man who "discovered" that lightening and electricity are the same thing and indeed invented the lightening rod.
For several weeks now, I knew I was going to post something at design-l on 15 August 2003 related to Ezeri Mester (Millennial Master), but I had no idea I would likewise be writing about electricity and states of emergency.
EPICENTRAL BIENNIAL 14 July 2003 - 29 September 2003 -- calendrically coinciding with reenactment season a largely "let's see what happens" (again?) event
ps
Last night on ABC's PrimeTime Live, they were initially reporting that the Blackout of 1977 occurred 13 August, as in "26 years ago yesterday." Blackout 1977 occurred 13 July 1977 (as in "the day before reenactment season begins" [wink wink]).
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