Frances Cleveland (1864–1947) was the first lady of the United States
from 1886 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897, as the wife of President
Grover Cleveland. She met him while an infant, as he was a friend, and
later the executor, of her father, Oscar Folsom. Grover settled Oscar's
debts and provided for Frances. She graduated from Wells College, then
married Grover while he was president. When he lost reelection in 1888,
they went into private life for four years, returning when he was
elected again in 1892. Much of her time during Grover's second term was
dedicated to their children. They had five; four survived to adulthood.
Frances Cleveland served on the Wells College board, supported women's
education, and organized kindergartens. Grover died in 1908, and she
married Thomas J. Preston Jr. in 1913. During World War I, she
advocated military preparedness. She died in 1947 and was buried
alongside Grover Cleveland in Princeton Cemetery.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Cleveland>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1877:
American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the larger of
Mars's two moons, six days after discovering Deimos, the smaller one.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_%28moon%29>
1919:
Russian Civil War: British motor torpedo boats raided the
Bolshevik Baltic Fleet's home base of Kronstadt, sinking a depot ship
and damaging a battleship.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Kronstadt>
1920:
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was
ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution>
1964:
East German Communist Party member Hildegard Trabant was killed
while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_Trabant>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
recess:
1. (transitive)
2. To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
3. (often architecture)
4. To make a recess (noun sense 1 and sense 1.1) in (something).
5. (also reflexive) Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something)
into a recess or niche.
6. (figuratively) To conceal, to hide.
7. (chiefly US, government)
8. To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official
body, etc.).
9. (informal) To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).
10. (intransitive, chiefly US, government)
11. Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn,
to take a break.
12. Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.
[...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recess>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Even on the white English crags A few strong spirits, in a race
that binds Its body in chains and calls them Liberty, And calls each
fresh link Progress, stood erect With faces pale that hunger'd to the
light.
--Robert Williams Buchanan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_Buchanan>
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