Literary Hall is a brick library building and museum in Romney, West Virginia, built in 1869 and 1870 by the Romney Literary Society. Founded in 1819, the society was the first literary organization of its kind in the present-day state of West Virginia, and one of the first in the United States. In 1846, the society constructed a building which housed the Romney Classical Institute and its library. During the Civil War the library's contents were plundered by Union Army forces, and many of its 3,000 volumes were scattered or destroyed. The society transferred ownership of its Romney Classical Institute campus to the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind in 1870 and in that year completed Literary Hall, where the society reconstituted its library collection and revived its literary activities. The Romney Literary Society's last meeting was held there in 1886. In 1979 the hall was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its basic design incorporates Federal and Greek Revival styles along with Victorian details.
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1780:
American Revolutionary War: British officer John André was captured by Patriot forces, thereby revealing a plot by Continental Army General Benedict Arnold to hand over West Point, New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold
1803:
Maratha troops were defeated by British forces at the Battle of Assaye, one of the decisive battles of the Second Anglo-Maratha War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Assaye
1868:
Ramón Emeterio Betances led the Grito de Lares, a revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_Emeterio_Betances
1983:
A bomb placed by the Abu Nidal organisation destroyed Gulf Air Flight 771, flying from Karachi, Pakistan, to Abu Dhabi, UAE, killing all 112 people aboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Air_Flight_771
2008:
A gunman shot and killed ten students at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, Western Finland, before committing suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauhajoki_school_shooting
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derisively: In a derisive manner; demeaningly, mockingly. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/derisively
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Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. --Prince of Chaos https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Amber#Prince_of_Chaos_.281991.29