Edmund I (920/921–946) was King of the English from 939 until his death. He was a son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife Eadgifu, and a grandson of Alfred the Great. Edmund's predecessor and half- brother Æthelstan had become the first king of all England when he conquered Viking-ruled York in 927, but on his death Anlaf Guthfrithson seized control of York and north-east Mercia. Edmund recovered control over all England in 944. He continued his brother's friendly relations with Continental rulers; some were married to his half-sisters. Key advisers include his mother and Ealdorman Æthelstan of East Anglia, known as the Half-King because he was so powerful. Edmund actively legislated. Three of his codes survive; they regulated feuds and emphasised the sanctity of the royal person. Edmund supported the religious English Benedictine Reform in its early stages. After a deranged thief killed him in a brawl he was succeeded by his younger brother Eadred (d. 955) and two sons in succession.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1738:

At a Moravian meeting in Aldersgate, London, John Wesley experienced a spiritual rebirth, leading him to launch the Methodist movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism

1948:

Arab–Israeli War: After five days of fighting, Egyptian forces finally captured the Israeli community of Yad Mordechai after the defenders had abandoned it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yad_Mordechai

1962:

Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Carpenter

2006:

An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film that has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and re-energizing the environmental movement, was released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

consilience: 1. (logic) The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets. [from mid 19th c.] 2. The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consilience

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Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent charm derived from Truth.   --William Whewell https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Whewell