Stanford Memorial Church is located at the center of the Stanford
University campus in Stanford, California. It was built during the
American Renaissance by Jane Stanford as a memorial to her husband
Leland. Designed by architect Charles A. Coolidge, a protegé of Henry
Hobson Richardson, the church has been called "the University's
architectural crown jewel". The building is Romanesque in form and
Byzantine in its details, inspired by churches in the region of Venice
and, especially, Ravenna. Its stained glass windows and extensive
mosaics are based on religious paintings the Stanfords admired in
Europe. The church has four pipe organs, which allow musicians to
produce many styles of organ music. Stanford Memorial Church has
withstood two major earthquakes, in 1906 and 1989, and was extensively
renovated after each. Stanford Memorial Church was the earliest and has
been "among the most prominent" non-denominational churches on the West
Coast of the United States. Since its dedication in 1903, the church's
goal has been to serve the spiritual needs of the university in a
non-sectarian way.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1701:
Prince James Francis Edward Stuart , more commonly referred to as the
"Old Pretender", became the Jacobite claimant of the thrones of England
and Scotland.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Francis_Edward_Stuart>
1776:
American Revolutionary War: Infuriated by British troops sounding their
bugle horns like it was a fox hunt, the Americans held their ground en
route to a victory at the Battle of Harlem Heights in present-day New
York City.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Harlem_Heights>
1963:
Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (present-day Sabah), and Sarawak merged
to form Malaysia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia>
1982:
A Lebanese militia under the direct command of Elie Hobeika carried out
a massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila,
killing at least 700 civilians.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre>
1987:
The Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to protect the
ozone layer by phasing out the production of a number of substances
believed to be responsible for ozone depletion, opened for signature.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ductile (adj):
1. Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical
force without breaking.
2. Molded easily into a new form.
3. (rare) Led easily; prone to
follow
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ductile>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and
safe progress in the discovery of divine truths.
--Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_St_John%2C_1st_Viscount_Bolingbroke>