Louis H. Bean (April 15, 1896 – August 5, 1994) was an American
economic and political analyst. Born in Lithuania, then part of the
Russian Empire, Bean migrated to the United States in 1906 with his
family. In 1923, he became a member of the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, working on estimates of
farm income and price indices. Bean's charts were used in Congress in
discussions about the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill. He was closely
associated with Vice President Henry A. Wallace. Bean wrote for The
Review of Economics and Statistics. During the late 1930s, Bean
developed an interest in political analysis. After his successful near-
unique prediction of Harry S. Truman's victory in the 1948 presidential
election, Life called him the "Lone Prophet" of Truman's victory. Bean
wrote many books, notably Ballot Behavior and How to Predict Elections.
He continued making electoral analyses and projections in the 1950s and
1960s, most of which were accurate.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_H._Bean>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1923:
Ten Japanese-American children were killed in a racially
motivated arson attack on a school in Sacramento, California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon_Sh%C5%8Dgakk%C5%8D_fire>
1936:
Two Jews were killed near Tulkarm in Mandatory Palestine, an
act widely viewed as the beginning of violence within the Arab revolt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tulkarm_shooting>
1989:
The Hillsborough disaster, a human crush that caused 97 deaths
in the worst disaster in British sporting history, occurred during an FA
Cup match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in Sheffield.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster>
2019:
A fire severely damaged Notre-Dame de Paris, destroying the
cathedral's timber spire and much of the roof.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
furlong:
1. A unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile (220 yards, or
201.168 metres), now mainly used in measuring distances in farmland and
horse racing.
2. (dated)
3. A unit of land area one furlong (sense 1) square (ten acres, or about
four hectares).
4. (Britain, dialectal) An undefined portion of an unenclosed field.
5. (historical) Synonym of stadion (“a Greek unit of distance based on
standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres”)
6. (obsolete except Britain, dialectal, agriculture)
7. Synonym of headland (“unploughed boundary of a field”)
8. Synonym of land (“the ground left unploughed between furrows; any of
several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/furlong>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if
you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct
yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
--Leonardo da Vinci
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci>