Capon Chapel is a mid-19th-century church near the town of Capon Bridge
in the US state of West Virginia. A Baptist congregation began gathering
at the site of the present-day church as early as 1756. The land
originally belonged to William C. Nixon, a member of the Virginia House
of Delegates, and later to the extended family of Captain David Pugh of
the West Virginia House of Delegates. Capon Chapel was used as a place
of worship by Baptists until the late 19th or early 20th century, by the
Southern Methodist Episcopal Church for most of the 20th century, and in
this century by the United Methodist Church. The church cemetery
contains the remains of John Monroe (one of the first ministers at the
site), Nixon, Pugh, American Civil War veterans from the Union and the
Confederacy, and free and enslaved African Americans. Capon Chapel,
along with its cemetery, was added to the National Register of Historic
Places in 2012 in recognition of its rural religious architecture
representative of the Potomac Highlands region, and for its service as a
rural church in Hampshire County.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capon_Chapel>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1470:
With King Edward IV of England forced to flee to the
Netherlands after a rebellion organised by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of
Warwick, Henry VI was restored to the throne of England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Neville,_16th_Earl_of_Warwick>
1835:
Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales,
Texas, encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia in the Battle
of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gonzales>
1937:
Under the orders of President Rafael Trujillo, Dominican troops
began mass killings of approximately 20,000 Haitians living in the
Dominican Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_Massacre>
1968:
A peaceful student demonstration in the Tlatelolco section of
Mexico City was violently suppressed when army and police forces fired
into the crowd.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre>
1990:
A hijacked airliner collided with two other planes while
attempting to land at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China,
resulting in a total 128 fatalities.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Guangzhou_Baiyun_airport_collisions>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
batik:
A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/batik>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied
propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth
stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.
--Mahatma Gandhi
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi>