James Longstreet (1821–1904) was a Confederate general of the American
Civil War. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy he served in
the Mexican–American War, where he was wounded. In June 1861, he
resigned his commission to join the Confederate Army. He significantly
contributed to most major Confederate victories in the Eastern Theater,
primarily as a corps commander under General Robert E. Lee. Longstreet's
most controversial service was at the Battle of Gettysburg in
July 1863, where he disagreed with Lee and reluctantly supervised
several unsuccessful attacks. Afterward, Longstreet was briefly sent to
the Western Theater, but returned to the east in 1864, where he was
seriously wounded by friendly fire, recovered and returned to the field.
After the war he worked as a diplomat, civil servant, and administrator.
In 1874 he led African-American militia troops against the White
League, an anti-Reconstruction group. Many modern historians consider
him among the war's most gifted commanders.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Longstreet>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1640:
A crowd of 1,500 people presented the Root and Branch petition
to the Long Parliament, calling for abolishing the episcopacy of the
Church of England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_and_Branch_petition>
1907:
The original Parliament House (modern building pictured) in
Wellington, New Zealand, was destroyed by fire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_House,_Wellington>
1925:
Pope Pius XI promulgated the encyclical Quas primas,
establishing the Feast of Christ the King.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quas_primas>
1981:
Salvadoran Civil War: About 900 civilians were killed by
Salvadoran armed forces in an anti-guerrilla campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mozote_massacre>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
for the taking:
Available; able to be taken without difficulty.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for_the_taking>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
Fools! Do you argue, that things ancient ought, on that account,
to be true and noble! Fallacies and Falsehoods there were from time
immemorial, and dare you argue that because these are ancient these
should prevail? In ancient times, do you think that there was not the
ignorant, and the shallow minded? And why after all should you embrace
so fondly a carcass of dead thoughts. Live in the present and shape the
future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the
past has passed away, never again to return.
--Subramanya Bharathi
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Subramanya_Bharathi>
Prison education is any educational activity that occurs inside prison.
Courses can include basic literacy programs, secondary school
equivalency programs, vocational education and tertiary education. The
history of and current practices in prison education vary greatly among
countries. Staff and budget shortages, a lack of educational resources
and computers, and the transfer of prisoners between facilities are
common barriers. Studies consistently show that education in prison is
an effective way of reducing the rates of recidivism, which saves the
expense of future prison sentences. In the US, every dollar spent on
prison education saves taxpayers four to five dollars. Despite the
benefits of prison education programs, rates of education within prisons
remain low in many countries, and attempts to increase the rate of and
funding for prison education have been opposed. Opponents argue that
prison education is a waste of money and that prisoners are not
deserving of the benefit.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_education>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1768:
The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released
in Edinburgh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica>
1907:
During the Brown Dog affair, about 1,000 protesters marched
through London and then clashed with 400 police officers in Trafalgar
Square over the existence of a memorial for animals that had been
vivisected.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Dog_affair>
1941:
Second World War: Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers sank
the Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse east
of Malaya.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_Prince_of_Wales_and_Repulse>
1979:
The Kuomintang dictatorship of Taiwan arrested a large number
of opposition leaders who had organized pro-democracy demonstrations, an
incident credited with ending the party's rule in 2000.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaohsiung_Incident>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
human rights:
(international law) The set of basic rights and freedoms that all humans
should be guaranteed, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of
thought and expression, and equality before the law.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/human_rights>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
I would not care whether truth is pleasant or unpleasant, and in
consonance with or opposed to current views. I would not mind in the
least whether truth is, or is not, a blow to the glory of my country. If
necessary, I shall bear in patience the ridicule and slander of friends
and society for the sake of preaching truth. But still I shall seek
truth, understand truth, and accept truth. This should be the firm
resolve of a historian.
--Jadunath Sarkar
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jadunath_Sarkar>
Southampton Cenotaph is a First World War memorial in Watts Park in the
southern English city of Southampton. The cenotaph was the first
memorial of dozens designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens to be built in
permanent form and it influenced his later designs, including the
Cenotaph on Whitehall in London. It is a tapering, multi-tiered pylon
featuring a recumbent figure of a soldier, a prominent cross, the town's
coat of arms, and two lion sculptures. In front is an altar-like Stone
of Remembrance. Later cenotaphs by Lutyens, although similar in outline,
were much more austere and featured almost no sculpture. By the
beginning of the 21st century, the engravings on the memorial had
deteriorated noticeably. They have been supplemented by a series of
glass panels, unveiled in 2011, which bear all the names from the
cenotaph, as well as names from the Second World War and later
conflicts. The memorial was upgraded in 2015 to a Grade I listed
building.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton_Cenotaph>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1917:
First World War: Hussein al-Husayni, the Ottoman mayor of
Jerusalem, surrendered the city to the British (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jerusalem>
1961:
Tanganyika Territory gained independence from Britain before
becoming part of Tanzania three years later.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_Territory>
1981:
Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of Philadelphia
police officer Daniel Faulkner; his subsequent conviction and death
sentence became the source of great controversy in the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal>
2016:
South Korean president Park Geun-hye was impeached, marking the
culmination of the country's political scandal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Park_Geun-hye>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
out of kilter:
(idiomatic) Askew, disturbed; not adjusted or working properly; out of
order.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/out_of_kilter>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
I do not recommend any legislative action against hermeneutics. I
am a liberal person opposed to all unnecessary state limitation of
individual liberties. Hermeneutics between consenting adults should not,
in my view, be the object of any statutory restrictions. I know, only
too well, what it would entail. Hermeneutic speakeasies would spring up
all over the place, smuggled Thick Descriptions would be brought in by
the lorry-load from Canada by the Mafia, blood and thick meaning would
clot in the gutter as rival gangs of semiotic bootleggers slugged it out
in a series of bloody shoot-outs and ambushes. Addicts would be subject
to blackmail. Consumption of deep meanings and its attendant psychic
consequences would in no way diminsh, but the criminal world would
benefit, and the whole fabric of civil society would be put under severe
strain. Never!
--Ernest Gellner
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Gellner>
The 2016 Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election took place on
8 December, triggered by the resignation of Member of Parliament (MP)
Stephen Phillips, a Conservative, who left Parliament due to policy
differences with Theresa May over Brexit. The constituency had been held
by the Conservatives since it was first contested in the 1997 general
election and was considered a safe seat for the party. Sleaford and
North Hykeham was estimated to have had a vote share of more than 60
per cent in favour of leaving the EU in the June 2016 EU membership
referendum and Brexit was a key issue in the by-election campaign. The
Conservatives nominated Caroline Johnson (pictured), a paediatrician;
she won the by-election with more than 50 per cent of the vote. The UK
Independence Party came second with 13 per cent of the vote, followed by
the Liberal Democrats with 11 per cent and Labour with 10 per cent. The
result was widely seen as poor for the Labour Party, whose vote share
decreased by 7 per cent.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_by-election>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
Pope Pius IX promulgated the apostolic constitution
Ineffabilis Deus, proclaiming the dogmatic definition of the Immaculate
Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was conceived free of
original sin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ineffabilis_Deus>
1941:
The Holocaust: The Chełmno extermination camp in occupied
Poland, the first such Nazi camp to kill Jews, began operations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che%C5%82mno_extermination_camp>
1971:
Indo-Pakistani War: Following their successful attack three
days earlier, a small Indian Navy strike force attacked the Port of
Karachi again and created a de facto blockade.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Python>
1991:
Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian leaders signed the Belovezh
Accords, agreeing to dissolve the Soviet Union and establish the
Commonwealth of Independent States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
Mariolatry:
(Protestantism, derogatory) Adoration or veneration of the Virgin Mary
to an extent regarded as inappropriate or even idolatrous.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mariolatry>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door. I had to
find the passage back To the place I was before. "Relax," said the
night man, "We are programmed to receive. You can check-out any time
you like, but you can never leave!"
--Eagles
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eagles_%28band%29>
Beli Orao was a royal yacht built for the Yugoslav Royal Navy in
1938–1939. She was captured in April 1941 by the Italians during the
World War II invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers. Re-armed, she
saw service as a gunboat in the Italian Royal Navy, briefly as Alba then
Zagabria, undertaking harbour protection and coastal escort duties. She
was then used to train anti-submarine warfare specialists. After the
Italian armistice with the Allies in September 1943, she was handed back
to the Yugoslav navy-in-exile on 7 December. Refitted, and under her
original name, she became a tender for a flotilla of motor gunboats. In
this role she operated out of Malta, off the western coast of Italy, and
later off the Yugoslav coast. After the war she remained in Yugoslav
hands under the names Biokovo then Jadranka, serving as a naval yacht,
as a presidential yacht and as a dispatch boat. In 1978, she was still
in service, but was scrapped soon after.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_gunboat_Beli_Orao>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1936:
Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton became the first player to
score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Fingleton>
1975:
The Indonesian military invaded East Timor under the pretext of
anti-colonialism, beginning an occupation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_occupation_of_East_Timor>
1995:
The Galileo spacecraft (illustration shown) arrived at Jupiter,
a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle
Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_%28spacecraft%29>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
Lessepsian:
1. (obsolete, rare) Pertaining to the French diplomat Ferdinand de
Lesseps, who designed the Suez Canal.
2. (marine biology) Of or relating to organisms that migrate from the
Red Sea to the eastern Mediterranean Sea by means of the Suez Canal.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lessepsian>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy
— the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked
by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. … Hostilities exist.
There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our
interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces —
with the unbounding determination of our people — we will gain the
inevitable triumph — so help us God.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt>
The 1860 Boden Professor of Sanskrit election at the University of
Oxford involved candidates with different approaches to Sanskrit
scholarship. One was Monier Williams (pictured), an Oxford-educated
Englishman and teacher of Sanskrit to those preparing to work in British
India. The other, Max Müller, was a German-born specialist in
comparative philology. The election came as Britain debated its role in
India following the 1857 rebellion. Williams saw the study of Sanskrit
as a tool in the conversion of India to Christianity. Müller saw his
work as also valuable for its own sake. Both men battled for the votes
of Oxford graduates through manifestos and advertisements, and received
newspaper endorsements. Special trains to Oxford were provided on the
day of the election, 7 December 1860, for non-residents to cast votes.
Williams won by a majority of more than 220 votes. Thereafter, he helped
to establish the Indian Institute at Oxford, received a knighthood, and
held the chair until his death in 1899.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_Boden_Professor_of_Sanskrit_election>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1803:
Haitian Revolution: Nearly all the final French ships in Haiti
were captured by the Royal Navy when they attempted to evade the
Blockade of Saint-Domingue.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_Saint-Domingue>
1907:
At least 362 miners were killed when an explosion destroyed a
mine in Monongah, West Virginia, leading to the establishment of the
United States Bureau of Mines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monongah_mining_disaster>
1941:
The British Secret Intelligence Service established a facility
known as "Camp X" in Ontario, Canada, to train covert agents in
clandestine operations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_X>
2015:
In Venezuela's parliamentary election, the ruling United
Socialist Party lost control of the National Assembly for the first time
since 1999.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Venezuelan_parliamentary_election>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
picaresque:
1. Of or pertaining to adventurers or rogues.
2. (literature) Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel
dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/picaresque>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
I do believe we've lost something. … I can't get my hand on it,
but we're just not quite where we should be, as the greatest democracy
in the world. And I don't know how you correct it, but I keep hoping
that there will be a change in my lifetime.
--Bob Dole
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Dole>
U.S. Route 30 in Iowa runs generally east–west for 330 miles
(530 km), and is the longest primary highway in Iowa. Going east,
US 30 enters Iowa at the Missouri River bridge from Blair, Nebraska,
and exits at Clinton, crossing the Mississippi River. The highway runs
close to the Union Pacific Railroad's Overland Route as both cross Iowa.
US 30 was conceived as a part of the Lincoln Highway, the first
transcontinental highway in the United States. A route through Iowa was
chosen because of the important link between Omaha, Nebraska, and
Chicago, Illinois, and, by 1931, it had been paved across the entire
state. US 30 originally passed through many small Iowa towns, but over
time, the route has been straightened, bypassing most downtown areas,
and with long sections upgraded to a four-lane expressway. Since 2006,
US 30 has been designated an Iowa Heritage Byway, the first highway in
the state with that distinction.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_30_in_Iowa>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1775:
American Revolutionary War: Continental Army colonel Henry Knox
arrived at Fort Ticonderoga in New York to arrange the transport of
60 tons of artillery (depicted) to support the Siege of Boston.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_train_of_artillery>
1936:
The 1936 Soviet Constitution, also known as the "Stalin
constitution", was adopted.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union>
1995:
Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 crashed shortly after takeoff
from Nakhchivan Airport, killing 52 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan_Airlines_Flight_56>
2005:
The Civil Partnership Act came into force, granting civil
partnerships in the United Kingdom rights and responsibilities identical
to civil marriage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Partnership_Act_2004>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
agribusiness:
1. (uncountable) Business (especially big business) connected to
agriculture, either owning or operating large-scale farms, or catering
to those who do.
2. (countable) A business or group of businesses engaged in agriculture,
particularly if using modern farming techniques in the process.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agribusiness>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and
you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
--Walt Disney
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Disney>
A Voyage Round the World is Georg Forster's report on the second voyage
of Captain James Cook. Georg's father, Johann Reinhold Forster, served
as naturalist on the voyage, with his son as assistant. They sailed on
HMS Resolution with Cook, circumnavigating the world, and discovering
islands, cultures and species previously unknown to Europeans. On their
return, there was disagreement about the publication rights. After plans
for a joint work between Cook and Reinhold Forster failed, Georg began
writing Voyage in July 1776. It was published on 17 March 1777, six
weeks before Cook's own narrative. Forster wrote it as entertaining
literature, focusing not on the nautical aspects of the voyage but on
scientific observations and on the cultural encounters with the peoples
of the South Pacific. Critics praised the writing, especially in
contrast to Cook's book. Voyage is regarded as a seminal book in travel
writing and has become a classic of travel literature.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Voyage_Round_the_World>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1829:
Sati, the Hindu funeral custom of a widow's self-immolation on
her husband's pyre, was prohibited in parts of British India after years
of campaigning by Ram Mohan Roy (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_%28practice%29>
1909:
The Montreal Canadiens, the oldest professional ice hockey club
in the world, were founded as a charter member of the National Hockey
Association.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Montreal_Canadiens>
1949:
Duncan Stewart, the British governor of Sarawak, was fatally
stabbed in Sibu during his first visit to the colony.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Stewart_%28colonial_administrator%29>
1971:
The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force, an Ulster-loyalist
paramilitary group, detonated a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast,
Northern Ireland, killing 15 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk%27s_Bar_bombing>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
status symbol:
A visible possession that is a sign of one's personal wealth or social
status.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/status_symbol>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
What we become depends on what we read after all of the
professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a
collection of books.
--Thomas Carlyle
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle>
El Tatio is a geothermal field with many geysers located in the Andes of
northern Chile at 4,320 metres (14,170 ft) above sea level. It is the
third-largest geyser field in the world and the largest in the Southern
Hemisphere. The geothermal field has many geysers, hot springs, and
associated sinter deposits. The vents are sites of populations of
extremophile microorganisms such as hyperthermophiles, and have been
studied as an analogue for the early Earth and possible past life on
Mars. El Tatio lies at the western foot of a series of stratovolcanoes,
part of the Central Volcanic Zone and the Altiplano–Puna volcanic
complex, which may be the source of heat for El Tatio. There are no
recorded eruptions of the Tatio volcanoes. The field is a major tourism
destination. It has been prospected for geothermal power production, but
development ceased after a major incident in 2009 when a drilling well
blew out.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Tatio>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1910:
Freda Du Faur became the first woman to climb Mount Cook, the
highest peak in New Zealand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Du_Faur>
1968:
Elvis Presley's first television special and first live
performance in seven years, Singer Presents ... Elvis, was broadcast by
NBC.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_%281968_TV_program%29>
1976:
Jamaican reggae musician Bob Marley survived an assassination
attempt by unknown assailants.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Bob_Marley>
1994:
Sony released the PlayStation, the first computer entertainment
platform to ship 100 million units.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_%28console%29>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
confusedly:
In a confused manner.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/confusedly>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
Temperament, whether individual or collective, is not amenable to
persuasion. All art, therefore, appeals primarily to the senses, and the
artistic aim when expressing itself in written words must also make its
appeal through the senses, if its high desire is to reach the secret
spring of responsive emotions. It must strenuously aspire to the
plasticity of sculpture, to the colour of painting, and to the magic
suggestiveness of music — which is the art of arts. And it is only
through complete, unswerving devotion to the perfect blending of form
and substance; it is only through an unremitting, never-discouraged care
for the shape and ring of sentences that an approach can be made to
plasticity, to colour; and the light of magic suggestiveness may be
brought to play for an evanescent instant over the commonplace surface
of words: of the old, old words, worn thin, defaced by ages of careless
usage.
--The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Nigger_of_the_%27Narcissus%27>
Manon Melis (born 1986) is a Dutch manager of women's football
development at Feyenoord and a former professional footballer who played
as a forward. She spent most of her professional career playing in the
Swedish league Damallsvenskan, which she won three times with her club
LdB FC Malmö, in 2010, 2011, and 2013. Melis also won the Swedish
Supercup with Malmö in 2011, and was the Damallsvenskan top scorer
three times, in 2008, 2010, and 2011. At age 17, Melis made her debut
for the Netherlands national team in 2004. Her goalscoring helped the
Dutch qualify for their first major tournament, the UEFA Women's Euro
2009, where they reached the semi-finals. In the tournament, she scored
a crucial goal in the final group game against Denmark to send her team
into the knockout stage. When she retired from playing international
football in 2016, she had earned 136 caps and scored 59 goals. She was
the all-time top goal scorer for the Netherlands national team from 2010
to 2019.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Melis>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1823:
U.S. president James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, a
proclamation of opposition to European colonialism in the New World.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine>
1943:
World War II: The Luftwaffe conducted a surprise air raid on
Allied ships in Bari, Italy, sinking twenty-eight ships and releasing
one ship's secret cargo of mustard gas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raid_on_Bari>
1989:
The Malayan Communist Party and the Malaysian government signed
a peace accord to end the 21-year Communist insurgency.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_insurgency_in_Malaysia_%281968%E2%8…>
2001:
Less than two months after disclosing accounting violations,
Texas-based energy firm Enron filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy,
evaporating nearly $11 billion in shareholder wealth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
PEBCAK:
(computing, humorous, also attributively) Chiefly used by technical
support helpdesk staff: a problem experienced with a user's computer
that is due to user error.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/PEBCAK>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
When tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always
be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent
universe we inhabit.
--Nigel Calder
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nigel_Calder>