Keswick, Cumbria, is an English market town and civil parish,
historically in Cumberland, and since 1974 in the Borough of Allerdale.
The town, in the Lake District National Park, just north of
Derwentwater, and 4 miles (6.4 km) from Bassenthwaite, had a population
of 4,821 at the time of the 2011 census. There is considerable evidence
of prehistoric occupation of the Keswick area. The first recorded
mention of the town dates from the 13th century, when Edward I granted
a charter for Keswick's market, which has maintained a continuous
700-year existence. In Tudor times the town was an important mining
area, and from the 18th century onwards it has increasingly been known
as a holiday centre; tourism has been its principal industry for more
than 150 years. Two of the Lake Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
Robert Southey, lived in Keswick in the early 19th century and made the
scenic beauty of the area widely known to readers in Britain and beyond.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keswick,_Cumbria>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1792:
French Revolution: Insurrectionists in Paris stormed the
Tuileries Palace, effectively ending the French monarchy until it was
restored in 1814.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_of_10_August_1792>
1864:
After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refused Brazil's
demands, José Antônio Saraiva announced that the Brazilian military
would exact reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_War>
1966:
The Heron Road Bridge in Ottawa, Canada, collapsed during its
construction, killing nine workers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron_Road_Workers_Memorial_Bridge>
1981:
The severed head of kidnapped six-year-old Adam Walsh was found
in a canal in Vero Beach, Florida, prompting his father John to become a
victims' rights advocate and helping to spur the formation of the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Adam_Walsh>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
sere:
1. (archaic or literary, poetic) Without moisture; dry.
2. (obsolete) Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out. [...]
3. (obsolete or Britain, dialectal) Individual, separate, set apart.
4. (obsolete or Britain, dialectal) Different; diverse.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sere>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You will not arrest the reactionary momentum by ignoring it or
dismissing it entirely as a function of bigotry or stupidity. You’ll
only defuse it by appreciating its insights and co-opting its appeal.
Reaction can be clarifying if it helps us better understand the huge
challenges we now face. But reaction by itself cannot help us manage the
world we live in today — which is the only place that matters. You
start with where you are, not where you were or where you want to be.
There are no utopias in the future or Gardens of Eden in our past. There
is just now — in all its incoherent, groaning, volatile messiness. Our
job, like everyone before us, is to keep our nerve and make the best of
it.
--Andrew Sullivan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan>