Blakeney Chapel is a ruined building on the Norfolk coast of England. Despite its name, it is in the parish of Cley next the Sea, not the adjoining village of Blakeney, and was probably not a chapel. The building stood on a raised mound or "eye" on the seaward end of the coastal marshes, less than 200 m (220 yd) from the sea and just to the north of the current channel of the River Glaven where it turns to run parallel to the shoreline. It consisted of two rectangular rooms of unequal size, and appears to be intact in a 1586 map, but is shown as ruins in later charts. Only the foundations and part of a wall still remain. A small hearth, probably used for smelting iron, is the only evidence of a specific activity on the site. Much of the structural material was long ago carried off for reuse in buildings in Cley and Blakeney. The surviving ruins are protected as a scheduled monument and Grade II listed building because of their historical importance, but there is no active management. The ever-present threat from the encroaching sea will accelerate following a realignment of the Glaven's course through the marshes and lead inevitably to the loss of the ruins.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1863:

American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant led his Army of the Tennessee across the Big Black River in preparation for the Siege of Vicksburg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vicksburg

1912:

The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, was released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_India

1936:

In a crime that shocked Japan, Sada Abe strangled her lover Kichizo Ishida, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sada_Abe

1965:

Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with facilitating Israel's success in the Six-Day War against Syria, was publicly hanged after having been captured four months earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Cohen

2005:

A second photo by the Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the discovery of two new moons of Pluto: Nix and Hydra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(moon)

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

upend: 1. (transitive) To end up; to set on end. 2. To tip or turn over. 3. To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/upend

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever. --Bertrand Russell https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell