Bill Denny (6 December 1872 – 2 May 1946) was a South Australian journalist, lawyer, Labor politician and decorated soldier who held a seat in the South Australian House of Assembly for 32 years. He was elected in 1900, re-elected in 1902, defeated in 1905, re-elected in 1906 and then retained his seat until defeated in 1933. Denny was the Attorney-General of South Australia in the Labor government of 1910–1912 led by John Verran. In August 1915, Denny enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force to serve in World War I, initially as a trooper in the 9th Light Horse Regiment. After being commissioned in 1916, he served in the artillery on the Western Front. He was awarded the Military Cross for his actions when he was wounded while leading a convoy into forward areas near Ypres in September 1917. He was again Attorney-General in the governments led by John Gunn, Lionel Hill and Robert Richards. When Denny died in 1946 aged 73, he was accorded a state funeral.

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1803:

Haitian Revolution: Nearly all the final French ships in Haiti were captured by the Royal Navy when they attempted to evade the blockade of Saint-Domingue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_Saint-Domingue

1907:

A mine explosion in Monongah, West Virginia, killed 362 people and led to the establishment of the United States Bureau of Mines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monongah_mining_disaster

1941:

The British Secret Intelligence Service established a facility known as Camp X in Ontario, Canada, to train covert agents in clandestine operations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_X

2015:

In the Venezuelan parliamentary election, the ruling United Socialist Party lost control of the National Assembly for the first time in 16 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Venezuelan_parliamentary_election

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alexipyretic: 1. (pharmacology, obsolete) A medicine which reduces fever. 2. (pharmacology, obsolete, rare) Having the effect of reducing fever. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alexipyretic

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He must be a man of little faith, who would fear to subject his own religion to the same critical tests to which the historian subjects all other religions. We need not surely crave a tender or merciful treatment for that faith which we hold to be the only true one. We should rather challenge it for the severest tests and trials, as the sailor would for the good ship to which he trusts his own life, and the lives of those who are dear to him. In the Science of Religion, we can decline no comparisons, nor claim any immunities for Christianity, as little as the missionary can, when wrestling with the subtle Brahmin, or the fanatical Mussulman, or the plain speaking Zulu.   --Max Müller https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller