C. R. M. F. Cruttwell (1887–1941) was a British historian and academic who served as principal of Hertford College, Oxford (pictured). The author of A History of the Great War, 1914–18, he specialised in modern European history. In 1912 he became a lecturer in history at Hertford. His academic career was interrupted by war service during which he suffered severe wounds. He became dean of Hertford in 1919, and its principal in 1930. He served as a Justice of the Peace in Hampshire, where he had a country home, and stood unsuccessfully for the university's parliamentary seat in the 1935 general election, representing the Conservative party. The novelist Evelyn Waugh showed his distaste for Cruttwell, his former tutor, by repeatedly using the name in his early novels and stories to depict a sequence of unsavoury or ridiculous characters. This vendetta may have contributed to Cruttwell's eventual mental breakdown.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1295:

Przemysł II was crowned King of Poland, the first coronation of a Polish ruler in 219 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przemys%C5%82_II

1848:

French authorities suppressed the June Days uprising, in which workers rioted in response to plans to close the National Workshops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Days_uprising

1918:

World War I: The 26-day Battle of Belleau Wood near the Marne River in France ended with American forces finally clearing that forest of German troops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Belleau_Wood

1945:

At a conference in San Francisco, delegates from 50 nations signed a charter establishing the United Nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations

2015:

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that the right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by the 14th Amendment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

moiety: 1. A share or portion, especially a smaller share. 2. (anthropology) Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups. 3. (chemistry) A specific segment of a molecule. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moiety

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic "feeling" about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes "pick up" accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.   --Colin Wilson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Colin_Wilson