SS Edward L. Ryerson is a steel-hulled American Great Lakes freighter
which entered service in 1960. Built between 1959 and 1960 for the
Inland Steel Company, she was a member of the so-called 730-class of
lake freighters, which shared the unofficial title of "Queen of the
Lakes" due to their record-breaking length of 730 feet (222.5 m). The
last steam-powered freighter built on the lakes, she began her maiden
voyage on August 4, 1960, heading from Escanaba, Michigan, for Indiana
Harbor, Indiana, with a cargo of iron ore. Edward L. Ryerson quickly
became popular, to the point that there were rumors she would regularly
be directed through the lock closest to the shore, the MacArthur Lock,
for the benefit of boat watchers. She set two Great Lakes cargo haulage
records during the 1960s, with the latter, set on August 28, 1962, being
broken in 1965. Edward L. Ryerson has been laid up in Superior,
Wisconsin, since 2009.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edward_L._Ryerson>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1640:
Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander
Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Newburn>
1950:
In tennis, Althea Gibson became the first African-American
woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althea_Gibson>
1987:
Construction on the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, the tallest
structure in North Korea, began.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel>
1993:
The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and
took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both
pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/243_Ida>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
stipend:
1. (archaic) A regular fixed payment made to someone (especially a
clergyman, judge, soldier, or teacher) for services provided by them; a
salary.
2. (by extension)
3. Some other form of fixed (and generally small) payment occurring at
regular intervals, such as an allowance, a pension, or (obsolete) a tax.
4. (education) A scholarship granted to a student.
5. (obsolete)
6. Money which is earned; an income.
7. A one-off payment for a service provided.
8. (transitive, obsolete or historical) To provide (someone) with a
stipend (an allowance, a pension, a salary, etc.).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stipend>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe>