Ted Kaczynski (born 1942), also known as the Unabomber, is an American domestic terrorist, primitivist and former mathematics professor. He was accepted to Harvard College at the age of 16 and, after graduating and earning his PhD, he taught at UC Berkeley for three years. He then moved to a small cabin in Montana to pursue a simple life. Kaczynski began sending mail bombs to people associated with universities, airlines, and the advancement of modern technology in 1978. He mailed a total of sixteen bombs, killing 3 people and injuring 23 others. Kaczynski's bombing campaign came under investigation by the FBI, who employed over 150 people in the most expensive FBI investigation ever conducted at the time. Kaczynski's manifesto, an anarcho-primitivist essay, was published in The Washington Post on the condition that he would desist from terrorism. He was eventually arrested in 1996 (mug shot pictured) and later imprisoned at ADX Florence in Colorado.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1867:

The major powers of Europe signed the Treaty of London to resolve a crisis over the political status of Luxembourg between France and Prussia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_London_%281867%29

1894:

In response to a 28-percent wage cut, 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Company workers went on strike in Illinois, bringing rail traffic west of Chicago to a halt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike

1981:

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats (performers pictured), the first megamusical, opened at the New London Theatre to become an unprecedented commercial success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_%28musical%29

1998:

India began the Pokhran-II nuclear-weapons test, its first since the Smiling Buddha test 24 years earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

brubru: Also more fully as brubru shrike: a bird in the bushshrike family found in sub-Saharan Africa (Nilaus afer). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brubru

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved by tradition and memory. It is attention that allows silence to come upon the mind, which is the opening of the door to creation. That is why attention is of the highest importance. Knowledge is necessary at the functional level as a means of cultivating the mind, and not as an end in itself. We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.   --Jiddu Krishnamurti https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti