La Salute è in voi! ("Health/Salvation is in you!") was an early 1900s bomb-making handbook associated with the Galleanisti, followers of anarchist Luigi Galleani, particularly in the United States. The anonymously written, Italian-language handbook repackaged technical content from encyclopedias and applied chemistry books into plain directions for non-technical amateurs to build explosives. It wrapped this content in a political manifesto advocating for impoverished workers to overcome their despair and commit to individual, revolutionary acts. American police and historians used the handbook to profile anarchists and imply guilt by possession. It figured prominently in the prosecution of the Bresci Circle, a case that revolved around the anarchists' right to read. Successful political bombers of this era ultimately had career backgrounds in explosives and were not the self- taught amateurs the handbook sought to create.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Salute_%C3%A8_in_voi
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1794:
War of the Pyrenees: France regained nearly all the land it lost to Spain the previous year with its victory in the Second Battle of Boulou. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Boulou
1931:
New York City's Empire State Building, at the time the tallest building in the world, opened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building
1974:
Argentine president Juan Perón expelled Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become a clandestine organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Montoneros_from_Plaza_de_Mayo
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
worky: 1. Characterized by or pertaining to work. 2. Especially of attire: appropriate for work; businesslike. 3. Requiring much work; laborious. 4. Tending to be very serious about work; diligent, industrious. 5. (obsolete) Showing the effect of much effort and work; intricate, involved. [...] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/worky
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them; or as the Italian proverb runs, "The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger." --Joseph Addison https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Addison