Ohio Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a non-sectarian institution, and is a member of the Ohio Five — a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges. Wesleyan has always admitted students irrespective of religion or race and maintained that the university "is forever to be conducted on the most liberal principles." In this capacity, Wesleyan has espoused internationalism and community activism. The 200-acre site is 20 miles (45 km) north of Columbus, Ohio. It includes the main academic and residential campus, the Perkins Observatory, and the Kraus Wilderness Preserve. In 2005, Wesleyan had the ninth highest percentage of international students among liberal arts colleges for the twelfth straight year. U.S. News & World Report ranked Wesleyan 95th among U.S. liberal arts colleges in its 2007 edition. Notable alumni include former U.S. Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks and Nobel Laureate Frank Sherwood Rowland.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1268: Baibars and his Mamluk forces captured Antioch, capital of the crusader state, the Principality of Antioch. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baibars)

1896: "Separate but equal": The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case Plessy v. Ferguson, upholding the legality of racial segregation in public transportation. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson)

1944: World War II: Polish forces under Lieutenant General Władysław Anders captured Monte Cassino and broke the Winter Line, a German defensive line in Italy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Cassino)

1958: The F-104 Starfighter, a supersonic interceptor aircraft, set a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-104_Starfighter)

1980: Mount St. Helens erupted, killing 57 people in southern Washington State and causing over a billion U.S. dollars in damages. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._Helens)

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The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new. -- Bertrand Russell (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell)