Adele Spitzeder (9 February 1832 – 27 or 28 October 1895) was a German
actress, folk singer, and confidence trickster. Initially a promising
young actress, Spitzeder became a private banker in Munich when her
theatrical success dwindled. Running what was possibly the first
recorded Ponzi scheme, she offered large returns on investments by
continually using the money of new investors to pay back the previous
ones. At the height of her success, contemporary sources considered her
the wealthiest woman in Bavaria, although she maintained the persona of
a pious Christian woman who helped the poor. Brought to trial in 1872,
she was convicted of bad accounting and mishandling customers' money,
since Ponzi schemes were not yet illegal, and sentenced to three years
in prison. In her later years, Spitzeder performed as a folk singer,
living off friends and benefactors, but never completely left her
criminal life, resulting in further trials and periods of incarceration.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Spitzeder>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1920:
The Svalbard Treaty was signed in Paris, recognizing Norwegian
sovereignty over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard>
1945:
World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully
attacked a German destroyer in Førde Fjord, Norway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%281945%29>
2001:
The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally collided
with the Ehime Maru (wreckage pictured), a Japanese training vessel
operated by a high school, sinking the latter ship and killing nine
people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gassy:
1. Having the nature of, or containing, gas.
2. (specifically) Of a beverage: containing dissolved gas (usually
carbon dioxide); fizzy.
3. (specifically) Of a person: tending to burp; burpy.
4. (specifically) Of a person: tending to release flatus; flatulent.
5. Of food or drink: tending to cause flatulence.
6. (figuratively, informal) Tending to be long-winded or wordy,
especially in a boastful and vain manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gassy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think
that the king’s firstborn son would be the fittest to rule, so in our
time it is naive to think that the democratically elected ruler will be
the fittest. The rule of succession is not a formula for identifying the
best ruler, it is a formula for conferring legitimacy on someone or
other and thus forestalling civil conflict.
--J. M. Coetzee
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee>
Baden-Powell House is a Scouting hostel and conference centre in South
Kensington, London. Built as a tribute to Lord Baden-Powell, the founder
of Scouting, it is owned by The Scout Association. The house was
designed in 1956 in the modern architectural style by Ralph Tubbs, whose
works included the Dome of Discovery, the highlight of the 1951 Festival
of Britain. Olave Baden-Powell laid the foundation stone in 1959, and
the building was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. A granite statue
of Baden-Powell, sculpted by Don Potter, was unveiled at the opening.
The building has been refurbished several times, and now provides
lodging for Scouts, Girl Guides and the general public. A collection of
Baden-Powell memorabilia formerly displayed at the site, including
several first editions of his books and many of his drawings and
letters, has been moved to the headquarters for Scouting in the UK at
Gilwell Park.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Powell_House>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1879:
At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and
inventor Sandford Fleming proposed the idea of standard time zones based
on a single universal world time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Time>
1960:
The official groundbreaking for the Walk of Fame took place in
Hollywood, California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame>
2010:
A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan
triggered a series of avalanches that buried over 3.5 km (2.2 mi) of
road, killed 171 people and trapped more than 2,500 travellers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Salang_avalanches>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pipe:
1. (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with
holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the
tube. […]
2. A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in
plumbing and numerous other applications. […]
3. (Australia, colloquial, now historical) An anonymous satire or essay,
insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which
was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus
spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pipe>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Some would deny any legitimate use of the word God because it has
been misused so much. Certainly it is the most burdened of all human
words. Precisely for that reason it is the b imperishable and
unavoidable. And how much weight has all erroneous talk about God's
nature and works (although there never has been nor can be any such talk
that is not erroneous) compared with the one truth that all men who have
addressed God really meant him? For whoever pronounces the word God and
really means Thou, addresses, no matter what his delusion, the true Thou
of his life that cannot be restricted by any other and to whom he stands
in a relationship that includes all others.
--Martin Buber
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Buber>
William McSherry (1799–1839) was a Catholic priest, a prominent leader
of the Jesuits in the United States, and a president of Georgetown
College in Washington, D.C. Born in western Virginia, McSherry studied
at Georgetown and was educated for the priesthood in Rome, where he
discovered significant, forgotten holdings in the Jesuit archives about
the early European settling of Maryland and the language of Native
American tribes. McSherry served as the first provincial superior of the
Jesuit Maryland Province from 1833 to 1837 and laid the groundwork for
the sale of 272 of its slaves. He then became President of Georgetown
College, exchanging positions with Thomas Mulledy, who executed the sale
as provincial. Upon Mulledy's suspension in 1839 over the slave sale
scandal, McSherry again became provincial. Near to death, his term
lasted just several months. In 2015, due to his and Mulledy's
involvement in the slave sale, Georgetown University renamed McSherry
Hall.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McSherry>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1813:
Napoleonic Wars: Two evenly matched French and British frigates
fought for four hours at the Îles de Los off the coast of Guinea,
resulting in a stalemate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_7_February_1813>
1940:
Walt Disney's Pinocchio, the first animated feature to win a
competitive Academy Award, debuted at the Center Theatre in New York
City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio_%281940_film%29>
1984:
During the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B,
astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the first
untethered spacewalk.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-41-B>
1994:
Having retired four months earlier, American basketball player
Michael Jordan signed a contract to play baseball for the Chicago White
Sox.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
finesse:
1. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, politics) To evade (a problem,
situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem.
2. (transitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To handle or manage carefully or
skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.
4. (intransitive, card games) To attempt to win a trick by finessing.
5. (intransitive, croquet, obsolete) To play a ball out of the way of an
opponent.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/finesse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As actors it is easy for us to play the hero. We get to fight the
bad guys and stand up for justice. In real life, the choices are not
always so clear. The Hollywood Blacklist … was a time I remember well.
The choices were hard. The consequences were painful and very real.
During the blacklist, I had friends who went into exile when no one
would hire them; actors who committed suicide in despair. … I was
threatened that using a Blacklisted writer for Spartacus –– my
friend Dalton Trumbo — would mark me as a “Commie-lover” and end
my career. There are times when one has to stand up for principle. I am
so proud of my fellow actors who use their public influence to speak out
against injustice. At 98 years old, I have learned one lesson from
history: It very often repeats itself.
--Kirk Douglas
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas>
SMS Zähringen was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Wittelsbach
class of the Imperial German Navy. She was laid down in November 1899
and completed October 1902. She and her sister ships—Wittelsbach,
Wettin, Schwaben and Mecklenburg—were armed with a main battery of
four 24 cm (9.4 in) guns and had a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h;
21 mph). These and the other ships of I Squadron underwent extensive
annual training, as well as making goodwill visits to foreign countries.
Zähringen was decommissioned in September 1910 as dreadnought
battleships began to enter service and she saw little activity until the
start of World War I in 1914. Zähringen saw limited duty in the Baltic
Sea and played a minor role in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga. The ship
was withdrawn from active service in late 1915 due to crew shortages and
the threat from British submarines. After the war, she was converted
into a radio-controlled target ship..
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_ship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1840:
British representatives and Māori chiefs first signed the
Treaty of Waitangi, widely regarded as the founding document of New
Zealand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi>
1919:
More than 65,000 workers in Seattle began a five-day general
strike to gain higher wages after two years of U.S. World War I wage
controls.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_General_Strike>
1987:
Mary Gaudron became the first woman to be appointed a justice
of the High Court of Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gaudron>
2000:
Second Chechen War: Russian forces captured Grozny, the capital
of Chechnya, from the separatist Chechen government following a siege
and assault that devastated the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_%281999%E2%80%932000%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
koha:
1. (New Zealand) A Māori tradition of reciprocal giving of gifts.
2. (New Zealand, by extension) A voluntary donation given for a service
that has been provided.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/koha>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I acknowledge that my verdict will not remove the President from
office. The results of this Senate Court will in fact be appealed to a
higher court: the judgement of the American people. Voters will make the
final decision, just as the President’s lawyers have implored. My vote
will likely be in the minority in the Senate. But irrespective of these
things, with my vote, I will tell my children and their children that I
did my duty to the best of my ability, believing that my country
expected it of me. I will only be one name among many, no more or less,
to future generations of Americans who look at the record of this trial.
They will note merely that I was among the senators who determined that
what the President did was wrong, grievously wrong. We’re all
footnotes at best in the annals of history. But in the most powerful
nation on earth, the nation conceived in liberty and justice, that is
distinction enough for any citizen.
--Mitt Romney
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney>
The mosaics of Delos are a significant body of ancient Greek mosaic art.
Most of the surviving mosaics from Delos, Greece, an island in the
Cyclades, date to the last half of the 2nd century BC and early 1st
century BC, during the Hellenistic period and beginning of the Roman
period. About half of all surviving tessellated mosaics from
Hellenistic Greece come from Delos. The paved walkways of Delos range
from simple pebble or chip-pavement constructions to elaborate mosaic
floors composed of tesserae. Most motifs contain simple geometric
patterns, while a handful utilize the opus tessellatum and opus
vermiculatum techniques to create lucid, naturalistic, and richly
colored scenes and figures. Mosaics have been found in places of
worship, public buildings, and private homes. They share characteristics
with those in other parts of the Greek world, such as Macedonian mosaics
in Pella. They often employ a black-background technique as seen in the
red-figure pottery of the Classical period..
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Greece>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1818:
Charles XIV John (portrait shown) succeeded to the thrones of
Sweden and Norway as the first monarch of the House of Bernadotte.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV_John_of_Sweden>
1923:
Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford made 429 runs to break the
world record for the highest first-class score.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ponsford>
1958:
A U.S. Mark 15 nuclear bomb disappeared off the shores of Tybee
Island, Georgia, after it was jettisoned during a practice exercise when
the bomber carrying it collided in midair with a fighter plane.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_collision>
2000:
Second Chechen War: As the Battle of Grozny came to a close,
Russian forces summarily executed at least 60 civilians in Grozny's
Novye Aldi suburb.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novye_Aldi_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
who would have thunk it:
(colloquial, sometimes sarcastic) A rhetorical question used to express
incredulity: who would have guessed it?; who would have thought that
would happen?
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/who_would_have_thunk_it>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am a lawyer. I think that one of the most fundamental
responsibilities, not only of every citizen, but particularly of
lawyers, is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and
willingly, and it will be a very unhappy day for Anglo-Saxon justice
when a man, even a man in public life, is too timid to state what he
knows and what he has heard about a defendant in a criminal trial for
fear that defendant might be convicted. That would to me be the ultimate
timidity.
--Adlai Stevenson II
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II>
The Pacific swift (Apus pacificus) is a bird that breeds in eastern
Asia. This swift is strongly migratory, spending the northern
hemisphere's winter in a wide range of habitats in Southeast Asia and
Australia. The general shape and blackish plumage recall its relative,
the common swift, from which it is distinguished by a white rump band
and heavily marked underparts. Its main call is a screech typical of its
family. It breeds in sheltered locations such as caves and rock
crevices, or under the eaves of houses. The nest is a half-cup of dry
grass and other fine material that is gathered in flight, cemented with
saliva and attached to a vertical surface. Two or three white eggs are
incubated for about seventeen days before hatching. Like all swifts, the
Pacific swift feeds exclusively on insects caught in flight. The species
has a large population that occurs as far afield as the US and New
Zealand, and rarely in Europe.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_swift>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1797:
The Riobamba earthquake, the most powerful in Ecuador's
history, devastated Riobamba and many other cities, causing at least
6,000 casualties.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1797_Riobamba_earthquake>
1945:
World War II: U.S. forces liberated the Santo Tomas Internment
Camp in Manila, the largest of the Japanese internment camps in the
Philippines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Tomas_Internment_Camp>
1974:
American newspaper heiress and socialite Patty Hearst was
kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, which she later joined, in
one of the most well-known cases of Stockholm syndrome.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Hearst>
2008:
The London low emission zone, governing what types of vehicles
may enter Greater London, came into operation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_low_emission_zone>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cachexia:
(pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of
fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cachexia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I recall standing on the edge of a deep valley in the Hawaiian
island of Maui, thinking that the life stream is like a mountain river
— springing from hidden sources, born out of the earth, touched by
stars, merging, blending, evolving in the shape momentarily seen. It is
molecules probing through time, found smooth-flowing, adjusted to shaped
and shaping banks, roiled by rocks and tree trunks — composed again.
Now it ends, apparently, at a lava brink, a precipitous fall. Near the
fall's brink, I saw death as death cannot be seen. I stared at the very
end of life, and at life that forms beyond, at the fact of immortality.
Dark water bent, broke, disintegrated, transformed to apparition — a
tall, stately ghost soul emerged from body, and the finite individuality
of the whole becomes the infinite individuality of particles. Mist
drifted, disappeared in air, a vanishing of spirit. Far below in the
valley, I saw another river, reincarnated from the first, its particles
reorganized to form a second body. It carried the same name. It was
similar in appearance. It also ended at a lava brink. Flow followed
fall, and fall followed flow as I descended the mountainside. The river
was mortal and immortal as life, as becoming.
--Charles Lindbergh
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh>
Ghost Stories was a U.S. pulp magazine that published 64 issues between
1926 and 1932. It was one of the earliest competitors to Weird Tales,
the first magazine to specialize in the fantasy and occult fiction
genre. Ghost Stories was a companion magazine to True Story and True
Detective Stories, and focused almost entirely on stories about ghosts,
many of which were written by staff writers but presented under
pseudonyms as true confessions. These were often accompanied by faked
photographs to make the stories appear more believable. Ghost Stories
also ran original and reprinted contributions, including works by Robert
E. Howard, Carl Jacobi, and Frank Belknap Long. Among the reprints were
Agatha Christie's "The Last Seance" (under the title "The Woman Who
Stole a Ghost"), several stories by H. G. Wells, and Charles Dickens's
"The Signal-Man". The magazine was initially successful, but had begun
to lose readers by 1930, and ceased publication at the start of 1932.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Stories_%28magazine%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1870:
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was
ratified, granting voting rights to citizens regardless of "race, color,
or previous condition of servitude".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Cons…>
1930:
The Communist Party of Indochina, the Communist Party of Annam
and the Communist League of Indochina merged to form the Communist Party
of Vietnam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Vietnam>
2010:
A cast bronze sculpture, L'Homme qui marche I, by Swiss
sculptor Alberto Giacometti, was sold for £65 million (US$103.7
million), setting the record for the most expensive sculpture sold at
auction.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Homme_qui_marche_I>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
flare:
1. (transitive) To cause to burn.
2. (transitive) To cause inflammation; to inflame.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To open outward in shape.
4. (transitive, intransitive, aviation) To (operate an aircraft to)
transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
5. (intransitive) To blaze brightly.
6. (intransitive) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit
a dazzling or painfully bright light.
7. (intransitive, figuratively) To shine out with gaudy colours; to be
offensively bright or showy.
8. (intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly happen or intensify.
9. (intransitive, figuratively) To suddenly erupt in anger.
10. (intransitive, obsolete) To be exposed to too much light.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flare>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The human soul has need of consented obedience and of liberty.
Consented obedience is what one concedes to an authority because one
judges it to be legitimate. It is not possible in relation to a
political power established by conquest or coup d'etat nor to an
economic power based upon money. Liberty is the power of choice within
the latitude left between the direct constraint of natural forces and
the authority accepted as legitimate. The latitude should be
sufficiently wide for liberty to be more than a fiction, but it should
include only what is innocent and should never be wide enough to permit
certain kinds of crime.
--Simone Weil
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_Weil>
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge half dollar is a fifty-cent piece
struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1936 as a
commemorative coin. One of many commemoratives issued that year, it was
designed by Jacques Schnier and honors the opening of the Bay Bridge
that November. One side of the coin depicts a grizzly bear, a symbol of
California, and the other shows the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge,
with the Ferry Building. Congress passed authorizing legislation for the
coin in 1936. Schnier's models were approved and the coins were struck
at the San Francisco Mint. Just over 70,000 coins were sold, by mail, in
person, and from booths at the Bay Bridge's approaches, making it the
first commemorative coin to be sold on a drive-in basis. The coins were
taken off sale in February 1937, with the unsold remainder returned to
the Mint for redemption and melting. The Bay Bridge half dollar catalogs
in the low hundreds of dollars, depending on condition..
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Mint>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1438:
Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt were executed
at Torda.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvanian_peasant_revolt>
1920:
The signing of the Treaty of Tartu ended the Estonian War of
Independence, with Russia agreeing to recognize the independence of
Estonia and renounce in perpetuity all rights to its territory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tartu_%28Russian%E2%80%93Estonian%29>
1934:
The Export–Import Bank of the United States (seal pictured),
the country's official export credit agency, was established.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export%E2%80%93Import_Bank_of_the_United_Stat…>
2007:
Following a Derby di Sicilia match in Catania, football
violence caused the death of police officer Filippo Raciti, leading to
new safety regulations at Italian sporting events.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Catania_football_violence>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Imbolc:
(Britain, Ireland) A Gaelic and Wiccan festival celebrated on 1 or 2
February which marks the beginning of spring.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Imbolc>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of
whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with
the sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the
presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and
unites it with the secret cause.
--A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man>
Prince Romerson (c. 1840 – 1872) was a Native Hawaiian who fought in
the American Civil War at a time when the Kingdom of Hawaii was an
independent nation. Living in the American Northeast before the war,
Romerson enlisted in the Union Navy in 1863 and served in the Atlantic
Blockading Squadron. After being discharged, he reenlisted in the 5th
Regiment Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry, a United States
Colored Troops (USCT) regiment, in April 1864. Romerson rose to the rank
of sergeant and was mustered out in October 1865, due to illness. After
the war, like many USCT veterans, he remained in the army as a member of
the Buffalo Soldiers (pictured), serving on the western frontier. In
2010, he was commemorated with over 100 other Native Hawaiian and
Hawaiian-born "Hawaiʻi Sons of the Civil War" when a bronze plaque was
erected along the memorial pathway at the National Memorial Cemetery of
the Pacific in Honolulu.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Romerson>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1884:
The first fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary, a 352-page
volume that covered words from A to Ant, was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary>
1979:
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile and soon led
the Iranian Revolution to overthrow the U.S.-backed Pahlavi dynasty.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini%27s_return_to_Iran>
2003:
All seven crew members aboard Space Shuttle Columbia were
killed when the orbiter disintegrated over Texas during reentry.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
inexorable:
1. Impossible to prevent or stop; inevitable.
2. Unable to be persuaded; relentless; unrelenting.
3. Adamant; severe.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inexorable>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and
rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The
land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless
plain — All, all the stretch of these great green states — And
make America again!
--Langston Hughes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes>