Irakli Tsereteli (1881–1959) was a Georgian politician and Menshevik during the Russian Revolution. He was born and raised in Georgia when it was part of the Russian Empire. A member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Tsereteli was elected to the Duma in 1907, but was soon charged with conspiracy to overthrow the Tsarist government and exiled to Siberia. After the 1917 February Revolution, he took a position in the Russian Provisional Government as Minister of Post and Telegraph, and briefly as Minister of the Interior. After the Bolsheviks seized power during the October Revolution, Tsereteli returned to Georgia. At the Paris Peace Conference he lobbied for international recognition and assistance for the newly independent Democratic Republic of Georgia; these efforts largely failed before the Bolshevik-led Red Army invaded in 1921. He spent the rest of his life in exile, working with socialist organisations and writing on socialism, and died in New York.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1848:

In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and Christian Tell proclaimed a new republican government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallachian_Revolution_of_1848

1919:

Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow to prevent the ships from being seized and divided amongst the Allied Powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_German_fleet_at_Scapa_Flow

1957:

Ellen Fairclough became the first woman appointed to the Canadian Cabinet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Fairclough

1973:

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in the landmark case Miller v. California, establishing the "Miller test" for determining what is obscene material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

ski-through: 1. (skiing) Of a ski lodge or other hotel establishment: providing skiers with the service of transporting their equipment, luggage, and vehicles to other establishments so they can ski directly to those establishments. 2. (skiing) Of a restaurant, shop, or other establishment or facility: providing service to skiers while they are still wearing their skis. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ski-through

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Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.   --Reinhold Niebuhr https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr