125px|The Don Valley Parkway
The Don Valley Parkway is a controlled-access six-lane municipal
expressway in Toronto connecting the Gardiner Expressway with
Highway 401. North of Highway 401, it continues as Highway 404 to
Newmarket. The parkway runs through the parklands of the Don River
valley, after which it is named. It was the second expressway to be
built by Metropolitan Toronto (Metro). Planning began in 1954, the year
of Metro's formation. The first section opened on August 31, 1961, and
the final section on November 17, 1966. The parkway operates well
beyond its intended capacity of 60,000 vehicles per day and is known
for daily traffic jams; some sections carry an average of
100,000 vehicles a day. Planned as part of a larger expressway network
within Toronto, it was one of the few expressways built before the
public opposition which cancelled many of the others. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1056:
After a sudden illness a few days prior, Byzantine Empress Theodora
died without children to succeed the throne, ending the Macedonian
dynasty.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_%2811th_century%29>
1888:
Mary Ann Nichols' body was found on the ground in front of a gated
stable entrance in Buck's Row, London, allegedly the first victim of
the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper .
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper>
1959:
A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser
of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, failed to kill Sihanouk of
Cambodia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Nhu>
1982:
Anti-government demonstrations were held in 66 Polish cities to
commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_31%2C_1982_demonstrations_in_Poland>
1997:
Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and their driver
Henri Paul were killed in a high speed car accident in the Pont de
l'Alma road tunnel in Paris.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Diana%2C_Princess_of_Wales>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
septimation (n):
The destruction of one seventh of something (for example, a group);
similar to decimation, which is the destruction of one tenth
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/septimation>
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
--Eldridge Cleaver
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100px|Page from Hemming's Cartulary
Hemming's Cartulary is a manuscript cartulary collected by Hemming, a
monk around the time of the Norman Conquest of England. The manuscript
comprises two separate cartularies made at different times and later
bound together. The first section, traditionally titled the Liber
Wigorniensis, is a collection of charters and other land records, most
of which are organized geographically. The second section, Hemming's
Cartulary proper, combines charters and other land records with a
narrative of deprivation of property by the church of Worcester. The
two works are bound together in one surviving manuscript, the earliest
surviving cartulary from medieval England. A major theme concerns the
losses suffered by Worcester at the hands of royal officials and local
landowners. Included among the despoilers are kings such as Cnut and
William the Conqueror, and nobles such as Eadric Streona and Urse
d'Abetot; also included are accounts of lawsuits waged by the Worcester
monks to regain their lost lands. The two sections of the cartulary
were first printed in 1723. The original manuscript was slightly
damaged by fire in 1733, and required rebinding. A new printed edition
is in production as of 2010. (more...)
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1835:
European settlers landing on the north banks of the Yarra River in
Southern Australia founded the city of Melbourne .
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne>
1862:
American Civil War: James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson led their
Confederate troops to a decisive victory against John Pope's Union Army
at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Prince William County, Virginia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Bull_Run>
1918:
Fanny Kaplan shot and wounded Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, helping
to spark the Red Terror in the future Soviet Union, a repression
against Socialist-Revolutionary Party members and other political
opponents.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror>
1992:
German race car driver Michael Schumacher won his first Formula One
race at the Belgian Grand Prix.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Schumacher>
1995:
Bosnian War: NATO began its bombing campaign against Army of Republika
Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_NATO_bombing_campaign_in_Bosnia_and_Herze…>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fistula (n):
An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that
normally do not connect
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fistula>
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If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the
rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
--Warren Buffett
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Orval Grove (1919–1992) was an American pitcher in Major League
Baseball who played for ten seasons in the American League with the
Chicago White Sox. In 207 career games, Grove pitched 1,176 innings and
posted a win–loss record of 63–73, with 66 complete games, 11 shutouts,
and a 3.78 earned run average (ERA). The only freshman on the Proviso
East High School varsity baseball team, Grove's pitching ability
attracted the attention of the White Sox. After signing with the team
in 1937, Grove moved between the major leagues and minor leagues for a
few seasons until 1943. Grove had a career-year in 1943, finishing the
season with career-bests in ERA, wins, and complete games; in 1944, he
made his only All-Star appearance. Grove spent four more full seasons
with the White Sox, and after pitching one game in 1949, was sent to
the Sacramento Solons of the Pacific Coast League. After playing four
seasons with them, he formally retired from professional baseball.
After retirement, he worked with his uncle in a trucking business in
Chicago while continuing to pitch at the semi-pro level. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1533:
Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Conquistador Francisco Pizarro
executed the last Inca Emperor Atahualpa in Cajamarca.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atahualpa>
1885:
Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal combustion
motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_Reitwagen>
1930:
The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, a UNESCO World Heritage
Site, voluntarily evacuated to Morvern.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda%2C_Scotland>
1984:
Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh deliberately contaminated salad
bars in The Dalles, Oregon with salmonella, the first and single
largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_attack>
1996:
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed on approach to Svalbard Airport,
Norway, killing all 141 aboard.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vnukovo_Airlines_Flight_2801>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sedecuple (adj):
Sixteenfold: sixteen times as many; (of a ratio) sixteen-to-one
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sedecuple>
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Poets are never young, in one sense. Their delicate ear hears the
far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards
for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A
moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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During the 1911 Atlantic hurricane season, a below-average number of
six known tropical cyclones formed in the Atlantic during the summer
and fall months. Three non-developing tropical depressions are also
thought to have existed, including one that began the season in
February and one that ended the season when it dissipated in December.
Half of the officially recognized storms intensified into hurricanes,
of which two attained Category 2 status on the modern-day
Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale. Most of the cyclones directly impacted
land. A westward-moving hurricane made landfall south of Savannah,
Georgia on August 28, killing 17 people and leaving severe damage in
and around Charleston, South Carolina. Two weeks earlier, the
Pensacola, Florida, area had suffered from a storm in the Gulf of
Mexico that produced winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) over land. The fourth
storm of the season struck the coast of Nicaragua, killing 10 people
and inflicting extensive damage. Given the relative lack of real-time
observations at the time, storm data is based largely on re-analyzing
the Atlantic hurricane database.
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1565:
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the
oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental
United States.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine%2C_Florida>
1849:
Austria reconquered the Republic of San Marco , an Italian
revolutionary state that had declared its independence 17 months
earlier.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_San_Marco>
1914:
In the first naval battle of World War I, British ships defeated the
German fleet in the Heligoland Bight area of the North Sea.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Heligoland_Bight_%281914%29>
1924:
An unsuccessful insurrection against the Soviet rule in the Georgian
Soviet Socialist Republic, known as the August Uprising, began.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Uprising>
1957:
U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond began a filibuster against the Civil Rights
Act of 1957 that lasted for 24 hours and 18 minutes, the longest one
ever by a single Senator.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pareidolia (n):
The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something meaningful; for
example, seeing shapes in clouds
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pareidolia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The ironist is not bitter, he does not seek to undercut everything that
seems worthy or serious, he scorns the cheap scoring-off of the
wisecracker. He stands, so to speak, somewhat at one side, observes and
speaks with a moderation which is occasionally embellished with a flash
of controlled exaggeration. He speaks from a certain depth, and thus he
is not of the same nature as the wit, who so often speaks from the
tongue and no deeper. The wit's desire is to be funny; the ironist is
only funny as a secondary achievement.
--Robertson Davies
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The 2002 Bou'in-Zahra earthquake occurred on June 22, 2002, in a region
of northwestern Iran which is crossed by several major fault lines. The
earthquake's epicenter was near the settlement of Bou'in-Zahra in
Qazvin Province, an area known for destructive earthquakes. Measuring
6.5 on the Richter scale and 6.3 on the moment magnitude scale, the
earthquake killed at least 261 people and injured 1,500 more. Over 20
aftershocks followed the earthquake. According to the International
Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES), the
earthquake was felt as far away as the capital city of Tehran,
approximately 290 kilometres (180 mi) east of the epicenter, although
no damage was reported there. Most houses in the region were
single-story masonry buildings, and virtually all of these collapsed.
The public became angry due to the slow official response to victims
who needed supplies. (more...)
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1689:
The Tsardom of Russia and Qing Dynasty China signed the Treaty of
Nerchinsk, establishing the Russian–Chinese border almost as it stands
today.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Nerchinsk>
1810:
Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeated the British Royal Navy ,
preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grand_Port>
1928:
Over sixty nations signed the Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an
instrument of national policy.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg%E2%80%93Briand_Pact>
1985:
The Nigerian government of Muhammadu Buhari was overthrown by Ibrahim
Babangida.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammadu_Buhari>
2009:
The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies began three days of
violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokang_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
best (v):
To beat in a contest; to surpass in skill or achievement
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/best>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is
why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very
words we use.
--Giuseppe Peano
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100px|Prince Albert
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819–1861) was the husband of
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. He was born in the Saxon duchy of
Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling
monarchs. At the age of 20 he married his first cousin, Queen Victoria,
with whom he had nine children. At first, Albert felt constrained by
his position as consort, which did not confer any power or duties upon
him. Over time he adopted many public causes, such as educational
reform and the abolition of slavery, and took on the responsibilities
of running the Queen's household, estates and office. He was heavily
involved with the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Albert
aided in the development of Britain's constitutional monarchy by
persuading his wife to show less partisanship in her dealings with
Parliament—although he actively disagreed with the interventionist
foreign policy pursued during Lord Palmerston's tenure as Foreign
Secretary. He died at the early age of 42, plunging the Queen into a
deep mourning which lasted for the rest of her life. Upon Queen
Victoria's death in 1901, their son, Edward VII, succeeded as the first
monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, named after the ducal
house to which Albert belonged. (more...)
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1071:
Byzantine–Seljuk wars: Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan captured
Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV at the Battle of Manzikert.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert>
1768:
HMS Endeavour departed Plymouth, England, marking the start of the
first voyage of explorer James Cook.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_voyage_of_James_Cook>
1966:
The South African Defence Force launched an attack against SWAPO
guerrilla fighters at Omugulugwombashe, starting the Namibian War of
Independence.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAPO>
1970:
Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women organized the
Women's Strike for Equality in New York City, in which 20,000 women
protested the continuing lack of gender equality.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Strike_for_Equality>
1977:
The National Assembly of Quebec declared French to be the only official
language of Quebec.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_French_Language>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
kibitz (v):
1. To chat; to gossip; to make small talk or idle chatter.
2. To give unwanted advice or make unhelpful or idle comments
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kibitz>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of
service.
--Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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90px|Thomas Beecham, c. 1910
Thomas Beecham (1879–1961) was an English conductor and impresario
best known for his association with the London Philharmonic and the
Royal Philharmonic orchestras. From the early 20th century until his
death, Beecham was a major influence on the musical life of Britain
and, according to the BBC, was Britain's first international conductor.
Born to a rich industrial family, Beecham began his career as a
conductor in 1899. He used his access to the family fortune to finance
opera from the 1910s until the start of the Second World War, staging
seasons at Covent Garden, Drury Lane and His Majesty's Theatre with
international stars, his own orchestra and a wide repertoire. Among the
works he introduced to England during his career were Richard Strauss's
Elektra, Salome and Der Rosenkavalier and three operas by Frederick
Delius. Together with his younger colleague Malcolm Sargent, Beecham
founded the London Philharmonic, and he conducted its first performance
at the Queen's Hall in 1932. In the 1940s, he worked for three years in
the United States, where he was music director of the Seattle Symphony
and conducted at the Metropolitan Opera. After his return to Britain,
he founded the Royal Philharmonic in 1946 and conducted it until his
death in 1961. (more...)
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1258:
George Mouzalon, regent of the Empire of Nicea, was assassinated as
part of a conspiracy led by the nobles under future emperor
Michael VIII Palaiologos.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mouzalon>
1609:
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope, a
device that became known as a terrestrial or spyglass refracting
telescope, to Venetian lawmakers.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei>
1916:
The National Park Service was established to manage all national parks,
many national monuments, and other conservation and historical
properties around the United States.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Park_Service>
1920:
Polish forces under Józef Piłsudski successfully forced the Russians
to withdraw from Warsaw at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive battle of
the Polish–Soviet War.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_%281920%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
walrus (n):
A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks,
tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/walrus>
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Calmly take what ill betideth;
Patience wins the crown at length
Rich repayment him abideth
Who
endures in quiet strength.
Brave the tamer of the lion;
Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise;
Bravest he who rules his passions,
Who his own impatience sways.
--Johann Gottfried Herder
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120px|Amundsen's Norwegian party stand at the South Pole, 17 December
1911.
Farthest South was the term used to denote the most southerly
latitudes reached by explorers before the conquest of the South Pole in
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1690:
East India Company official Job Charnock established his headquarters
in a location he called Calcutta.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Charnock>
1812:
Peninsular War: Seeing that his army was in danger of being cut off,
French commander Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult retreated from Cádiz,
ending a 30-month siege.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_C%C3%A1diz>
1857:
The New York City branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co.
collapsed following widespread embezzlement, leading to a severe
recession that caused about 5,000 businesses to fail.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857>
1941:
Adolf Hitler ordered the official termination of the T4 euthanasia
program of the mentally ill and disabled, although killings continued
in secret for the remainder of the war.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4>
1963:
Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr. to encourage South Vietnamese Army officers to oust
Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not willingly remove Ngo Dinh Nhu from his
unofficial position of power.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_243>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
deciduous (adj):
1. (biology) Describing a part that falls off, or is shed, at a
particular time or stage of development.
2. (botany) Of or pertaining to trees which lose their leaves in
winter or the dry season
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deciduous>
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Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon.
Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's
cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the
earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
--Jorge Luis Borges
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Devil May Cry is an action game developed and published by Capcom,
released in 2001 for the PlayStation 2. Although it is the first game
in the Devil May Cry series, the events in the game are second in the
series storyline's chronological order, taking place after Devil May
Cry 3: Dante's Awakening and before Devil May Cry 2 and Devil May Cry
4. Set in modern times on the fictional Mallet Island, the story
centers on the characters Dante and Trish and their quest to confront
the demon lord Mundus. The story is told primarily through a mixture of
cutscenes, which use the game's engine and several pre-rendered full
motion videos. Devil May Cry received prominent coverage in the video
game media, high overall scores from professional reviewers, and has
sold more than two million copies. (more...)
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1514:
Ottoman forces defeated the Safavids at the Battle of Chaldiran,
gaining control of eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chaldiran>
1873:
The Albert Bridge across the River Thames in London, opened.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bridge%2C_London>
1948:
The World Council of Churches, a worldwide Christian ecumenical
fellowship, was established.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Council_of_Churches>
1970:
The United Farm Workers, led by César Chávez, began the Salad Bowl
strike, the largest farmworker strike in U.S. history.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_Bowl_strike>
2006:
Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of 10 in Vienna,
escaped from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil after eight years in
captivity.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natascha_Kampusch>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sarong (n):
A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist
that is commonly worn by men and women in southeast Asia and the
Pacific islands
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sarong>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I never started to plow in my life
That some one did not stop in the road
And take me away to a dance
or picnic.
I ended up with forty acres;
I ended up with a broken fiddle —
And
a broken laugh, and a thousand memories,
And not a single regret.
--Edgar Lee Masters
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120px|The Magdalen Reading
The Magdalen Reading is one of three surviving fragments of a large
mid-15th century oil-on-oak altarpiece by the Netherlandish painter
Rogier van der Weyden. Completed sometime between 1435 and 1438, it has
been in the National Gallery, London since 1860. It shows a woman with
the pale skin, high cheek bones and oval eyebrows typical of the
idealised portraits of noble women of the period. The woman is
identifiable as the Magdalen from the jar of ointment placed in the
foreground, which, according to the Gospels, she used to clean Christ's
feet. The background of the painting had been overpainted with a thick
layer of brown paint. A cleaning between 1955 and 1956, which removed
the overpaint, revealed the figure standing behind the Magdalen and the
kneeling figure with bare feet protruding in front of her, with a
landscape visible through a window. The original altarpiece was a sacra
conversazione known only through a drawing, Virgin and Child with
Saints. The panel was purchased by the National Gallery, London, in
1860 from a collector in Paris. It is described by art historian Lorne
Campbell as "one of the great masterpieces of 15th-century art and
among van der Weyden's most important early works." (more...)
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1138:
English forces repelled a Scottish army at the Battle of the Standard
near Northallerton in Yorkshire.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Standard>
1791:
A slave rebellion erupted in the French colony of Saint-Domingue,
starting the Haitian Revolution.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution>
1851:
The yacht America won the first America's Cup race near the Isle of
Wight, England.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Cup>
1864:
The Red Cross movement led by Henry Dunant officially began when
twelve European nations signed the First Geneva Convention,
establishing the International Committee of the Red Cross.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Geneva_Convention>
1944:
World War II: Wehrmacht infantry carried out an assault operation
against the civilian residents of nine villages located in the Amari
Valley on the Greek island of Crete.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_of_Kedros>
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apograph (n):
A perfect copy or replica
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory.
--Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
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