Old Pine Church is a mid-19th-century church near Purgitsville, West Virginia. It is among the earliest remaining log churches in Hampshire County, along with Capon Chapel and Mount Bethel Church. Constructed in 1838 to serve as a nondenominational church, it may also have been built as a meeting place for Schwarzenau Brethren adherents, known as "Dunkers" or "Dunkards". The church probably hosted German Methodist settlers as well. By 1870, most services were for the Brethren denomination, and in 1878, the church's congregation split into White Pine Church of the Brethren and Old Pine Church congregations. Both continued to use the church until 1907. Old Pine Church reportedly housed a school in the early 20th century while still serving as a center for worship. In 1968, residents of the Purgitsville community raised funds to restore the church. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 for its "significant settlement-era rural religious architecture in the Potomac Highlands." (Full article...).

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14:

The adopted son of Roman emperor Augustus Agrippa Postumus, was executed by his guards while in exile under mysterious circumstances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippa_Postumus

1710:

War of the Spanish Succession: The Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by the Marquis de Bay was soundly defeated by a multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saragossa

1882:

The 1812 Overture by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was first performed at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1812_Overture

1962:

NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, made her maiden voyage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah

1998:

The Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan was destroyed by a missile attack launched by the United States in retaliation for the August 7 US embassy bombings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Infinite_Reach

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pollinivore: (zoology) An animal that feeds on pollen; a palynivore. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pollinivore

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The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature.   --Roger Wolcott Sperry https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roger_Wolcott_Sperry