Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel published in December 1871 by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics lecturer at the University of Oxford. It was the sequel to his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), in which many of the characters were playing-cards; in this novel the theme is chess. As in the earlier book, the central figure, Alice, finds herself in a fantastical universe. She passes through a large mirror into another world and finds that, just as in a reflection, things there are reversed, including logic. Eventually, after a succession of strange adventures, she wakes and realises she has been dreaming. The original illustrations are by John Tenniel. The book contains several verse passages and, like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, introduces phrases that have become common currency. Through the Looking Glass has been adapted for the stage and screen and translated into many languages. Critical opinion of the book has generally been favourable.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1775:

American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army under Richard Montgomery began the Siege of Fort St. Jean in the British province of Quebec. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_St._Jean

1878:

A British surveyor was detained by the Zulu on the border with the Colony of Natal; a demand for reparations for the incident formed part of an ultimatum that led to the Anglo-Zulu War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natal%E2%80%93Zululand_border_incident

1985:

Four years after AIDS was first identified in the United States, Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledged AIDS (video featured) for the first time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_and_AIDS

2018:

The Israeli Air Force conducted missile strikes that hit multiple targets in western Syria, including one that accidentally downed a Russian plane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_missile_strikes_%28September_2018%29

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

indict a ham sandwich: (intransitive, chiefly US, criminal law, humorous, hyperbolic) Of a grand jury: to charge a person with a crime, despite a perceived lack of evidence. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indict_a_ham_sandwich

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Life is essentially sad. Happiness is sporadic. It comes in moments and that's it. Extract the blood from every moment.   --Robert Redford https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Redford