Homer Davenport (1867–1912) was a political cartoonist and writer from
the United States. He is known for drawings that satirized figures of
the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, especially Ohio Senator Mark Hanna.
Although Davenport had no formal art training, he became one of the
highest paid political cartoonists in the world. He was also one of the
first major American breeders of Arabian horses and one of the founders
of the Arabian Horse Club of America. In 1893 he studied and drew the
Arabian horses exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition. In 1904 he
drew a favorable cartoon of President Theodore Roosevelt that boosted
Roosevelt's election campaign. The president in turn helped Davenport in
1906 when the cartoonist required diplomatic permission to travel abroad
in his quest to purchase pure desert-bred Arabian horses. The 27 horses
Davenport purchased and brought to America had a lasting impact on
Arabian horse breeding.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Davenport>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1609:
Thomas Thorpe published the first copies of Shakespeare's
sonnets, possibly without William Shakespeare's consent.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_sonnets>
1882:
The Triple Alliance was created between the German Empire,
Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Alliance_%281882%29>
1983:
A team of researchers led by French virologist Luc Montagnier
published their discovery of HIV, but were not then certain that it
caused AIDS.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier>
1993:
"One for the Road", the series finale of American television
sitcom Cheers, was watched by 42.4 million American households on its
original airing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_for_the_Road_%28Cheers%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
caravel:
(nautical, historical) A light, usually lateen-rigged sailing ship used
by the Portuguese and Spanish for about 300 years from the 15th century,
first for trade and later for voyages of exploration.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caravel>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself
at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to
himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in
our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then
and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.
--Honoré de Balzac
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac>