Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The population was 45,198 at the 2011 census. Historically in Lancashire, it is on the north bank of the River Tame, in the foothills of the Pennines, 6.2 miles (10.0 km) east of Manchester. "Ashton", deriving from Old English for "settlement by ash trees", probably dates from the Anglo-Saxon period. In the Middle Ages, Ashton-under-Lyne was a parish and township and Ashton Old Hall was held by the de Asshetons, lords of the manor. Granted a Royal Charter in 1414, the manor spanned a rural area of marshland, moorland, villages and hamlets. By the mid- 19th century Ashton had emerged as an important mill town at a convergence of newly constructed canals and railways. The transport network allowed for an economic boom in cotton spinning, weaving, and coal mining, which led to the granting of municipal borough status in 1847. (Full article...).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1683:

Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the world's first university museum, opened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum

1913:

Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia married Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, one of the last great social events of European royalty before World War I began fourteen months later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Victoria_Louise_of_Prussia

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

1982:

The port city of Khorramshahr was liberated by Iranian forces during the Iran–Iraq War after 575 days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Khorramshahr

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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