Theodora Kroeber (1897–1979) was an American writer and anthropologist, best known for her accounts of Native Californian cultures. She grew up in the mining town of Telluride, Colorado. She graduated with a major in psychology in 1919, and received a master's degree in 1920. Married in 1920 and widowed in 1923, she began doctoral studies in anthropology. She met anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and married him in 1926. One of her two children with Alfred was the writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Kroeber began writing professionally late in life, publishing a collection of translated Native Californian narratives in 1959. Two years later she published Ishi in Two Worlds, an account of the last member of the Yahi people of northern California. This sold widely, and received high praise from contemporary reviewers. After Alfred died in 1960, Theodora married artist John Quinn in 1969. She published several other works, including a biography of Alfred. A 1989 biography stated that her "great strength was as an interpreter of one culture to another".

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1894:

Rudolf Diesel's first working diesel engine ran for one minute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_engine

1944:

World War II: The U.S. Navy began Operation Hailstone, a massive naval air and surface attack against the Japanese naval and air base at Truk in the Caroline Islands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hailstone

1959:

Vanguard 2 (model pictured), the first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud cover distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_2

2006:

A massive landslide in the Philippine province of Southern Leyte killed over 1,000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Southern_Leyte_mudslide

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The struggle for power is universal in time and space and is an undeniable fact of experience. It cannot be denied that throughout historic time, regardless of social, economic and political conditions, states have met each other in contests for power. Even though anthropologists have shown that certain primitive peoples seem to be free from the desire for power, nobody has yet shown how their state of mind can be re-created on a worldwide scale so as to eliminate the struggle for power from the international scene. … International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. Whatever the ultimate aims of international politics, power is always the immediate aim.   --Hans Morgenthau https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hans_Morgenthau