Ealdred (died 1069) was Abbot of Tavistock, Bishop of Worcester, and
Archbishop of York in Anglo-Saxon England. After becoming a monk at the
monastery at Winchester, he became abbot around 1027 and a bishop in
1047. Besides his clerical duties, Ealdred served Edward the Confessor
as a diplomat in Hungary and as a military leader in Wales. In 1058, he
undertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, the first bishop from England to do
so. In 1060, Ealdred was elected to the archbishopric of York. During
his archiepiscopate, he built and embellished churches in his diocese,
and worked to improve his clergy by promulgating regulations for the
priesthood. Following King Edward's death in 1066, Ealdred supported
Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings,
Ealdred eventually endorsed William the Conqueror and crowned him on
Christmas Day in 1066. William never quite trusted Ealdred, and Ealdred
had to accompany William back to Normandy in 1067, but he had returned
to York by the time of his death in 1069.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealdred_%28archbishop_of_York%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1952:
U.S. vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon delivered the
Checkers speech, one of the first political uses of television to appeal
directly to the populace.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech>
2002:
The first version of the web browser Firefox was released by
the Mozilla Organization.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox>
2010:
Teresa Lewis became the first woman to be executed by the U.S.
state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be
executed via lethal injection.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Lewis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tellurian:
1. (formal or literary) Of or relating to the earth; (specifically,
chiefly science fiction) inhabiting planet Earth as opposed to other
planets.
2. (mineralogy) Of a mineral: containing tellurium.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tellurian>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I don’t think anybody truly knows where we’re going from here
yet. It depends on too many unknowns. We don’t know where the COVID
virus is going to take us. We don’t know where Black Lives Matter is
going to take us right now. Do we get a real practical conversation
going about race and policing and ultimately about the economic
inequality that’s been a stain on our social contract? And of course,
nobody knows where our next election is going to take us. I believe that
our current president is a threat to our democracy. He simply makes any
kind of reform that much harder. I don’t know if our democracy could
stand another four years of his custodianship. These are all existential
threats to our democracy and our American way of life.
--Bruce Springsteen
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen>