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".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_Kroeber>
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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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
staunch:
1. Not permitting water or some other liquid to escape or penetrate;
watertight.
2. (by extension) Impermeable to air or other gases; airtight.
3. Strongly built; also, in good or strong condition.
4. (figuratively)
5. Staying true to one's aims or principles; firm, resolute, unswerving.
6. Dependable, loyal, reliable, trustworthy.
7. (chiefly hunting) Of a hunting dog: that can be depended on to pick
up the scent of, or to mark, game.
8. (obsolete) Cautious, restrained. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/staunch>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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>
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