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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_F._Mulledy>
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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>
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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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--Eddie Money
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