Westgate-on-Sea is a seaside town and civil parish in northeast Kent, England, with a population of 6,996 at the 2011 Census. It is within the Thanet local government district and borders the larger seaside resort of Margate. Its two sandy beaches have attracted tourists since the town's development in the 1860s from a small farming community. The local St Mildred's Bay was the site of a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane base, which defended the Thames Estuary coastal towns during World War I. The town is the subject of John Betjeman's poem "Westgate- on-Sea". Residents have included the 19th-century surgeon Erasmus Wilson and former Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple. The artist William Quiller Orchardson painted several of his best-known pictures while living in Westgate-on-Sea. The British composer Arnold Cooke and Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench attended local schools as children during the early 20th century.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1650:
General George Monck founded the predecessor to the Coldstream Guards (soldier pictured), the oldest regiment of the British Army in continuous active service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldstream_Guards
1704:
War of the Spanish Succession: The Duke of Marlborough led Allied forces to a crucial victory at the Battle of Blenheim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blenheim
1868:
A major earthquake near Arica, Peru (now in Chile), caused an estimated 25,000 deaths; the subsequent tsunami caused considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1868_Arica_earthquake
1906:
Members of the U.S. Army's all-black 25th Infantry Regiment were accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownsville_affair
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
meteorwrong: (humorous) A rock that is believed to be a meteorite, but is in fact terrestrial in origin; a pseudometeorite. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meteorwrong
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is not possible to enter into the nature of the Good by standing aloof from it — by merely speculating upon it. Act the Good, and you will believe in it. Throw yourself into the stream of the world's good tendency and you will feel the force of the current and the direction in which it is setting. The conviction that the world is moving toward great ends of progress will come surely to him who is himself engaged in the work of progress. By ceaseless efforts to live the good life we maintain our moral sanity. Not from without, but from within, flow the divine waters that renew the soul. --Felix Adler https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Felix_Adler