Florence Fuller (1867–1946) was a South African-born Australian
artist. Originally from Port Elizabeth, Fuller migrated as a child to
Melbourne with her family. There she trained with her uncle Robert
Hawker Dowling and teacher Jane Sutherland and took classes at the
National Gallery of Victoria Art School, becoming a professional artist
in the late 1880s. In 1892 she left Australia, travelling first to South
Africa, where she met and painted for Cecil Rhodes, and then on to
Europe. Between 1895 and 1904 her works were exhibited at the Paris
Salon and London's Royal Academy. In 1904, Fuller returned to Australia
to live in Perth. She became active in the Theosophical Society and
painted some of her best-known works. From 1908, Fuller travelled
extensively, living in India and England before ultimately settling in
Sydney where she was the inaugural teacher of life drawing at a women's
art school. Highly regarded in her lifetime as a portrait and landscape
painter, by 1914 Fuller was represented in four public galleries—three
in Australia and one in South Africa—a record for an Australian female
painter at that time. She subsequently suffered mental illness and sank
into obscurity.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Fuller>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
216 BC:
Second Punic War: Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal
defeated a numerically superior Roman army, near the town of Cannae in
Apulia in southeast Italy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae>
1790:
The first United States Census was conducted, as mandated by
the United States Constitution to allocate Congressional seats and
electoral votes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790_United_States_Census>
1897:
The Siege of Malakand ended when a relief column was able to
reach the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial India's
North West Frontier Province.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Malakand>
1939:
Physicist Leó Szilárd wrote a letter to U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed by Albert Einstein, warning that Germany
might develop atomic bombs, which led to the establishment of the
Manhattan Project.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szil%C3%A1rd_letter>
1989:
Sri Lankan Civil War: The Indian Peace Keeping Force began
killing 64 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians over a two-day period in
Valvettithurai, Sri Lanka.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Valvettiturai_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dolorous:
Solemnly or ponderously sad.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dolorous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 We have heard much of Faraday's gentleness and sweetness and
tenderness. It is all true, but it is very incomplete. You cannot
resolve a powerful nature into these elements, and Faraday's character
would have been less admirable than it was had it not embraced forces
and tendencies to which the silky adjectives "gentle" and "tender"
would
by no means apply. Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat
of a volcano. He was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through
high self-discipline he had converted the fire into a central glow and
motive power of life, instead of permitting it to waste itself in
useless passion. "He that is slow to anger" saith the sage, "is greater
than the mighty, and he that ruleth his own spirit than he that taketh a
city." Faraday was not slow to anger, but he completely ruled his own
spirit, and thus, though he took no cities, he captivated all hearts.
--John Tyndall
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Tyndall>