Thomas F. Mulledy (1794–1860) was a Catholic priest from Virginia and a prominent leader of the American Jesuits. He twice served as President of Georgetown College in Washington, D.C., where he undertook a significant building campaign. After his first presidency, he was appointed provincial superior of the Jesuit Maryland province in 1837. The following year, Mulledy executed the sale of 272 slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits in order to relieve the province's mounting debts. After an outcry from his fellow Jesuits over the immorality of the sale, church authorities in Rome exiled him to Nice for several years, for insubordination and promoting scandal. Following his return to the United States in 1843, he became the first President of the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, where he oversaw the construction of the college's first building. In his later years, he engaged in preaching and pastoral work, and assisted Holy Cross during investigations by the Know Nothing Party.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1723:

António Manoel de Vilhena, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, laid the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Manoel

1943:

World War II: Nazi forces began a mass extermination campaign against the civilian residents of around 20 villages on the Greek island of Crete, eventually killing more than 500 men. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viannos_massacres

1979:

Afghan president Nur Muhammad Taraki was overthrown and later killed, on the orders of Hafizullah Amin, who succeeded him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_Muhammad_Taraki

2003:

President Kumba Ialá of Guinea-Bissau was deposed in a bloodless military coup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumba_Ial%C3%A1

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

epicene: 1. (linguistics) Of or relating to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to males or females but have a fixed grammatical gender (feminine, masculine, neuter, etc.). 2. (linguistics) Of or relating to nouns or pronouns in any language that have a single form for male and female referents. 3. (by extension) Suitable for use regardless of sex; unisex. 4. (biology and figuratively) Of indeterminate sex, whether asexual, androgynous, hermaphrodite, or intersex. 5. (by extension) Indeterminate; mixed. 6. (by extension, usually derogatory) Of a man: effeminate. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epicene

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