The SECR N class was a steam locomotive designed by Richard Maunsell for mixed-traffic duties on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR) in London and south-east England. This locomotive class, with two leading wheels and no trailing wheels (2-6-0), was mechanically similar to the SECR K class 2-6-4 passenger tank engine, also by Maunsell. Built at Ashford Works and the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, between 1917 and 1934, the N class was based on the GWR 4300 Class design, improved with Midland Railway concepts. The class replaced obsolete 0-6-0s as part of the SECR's fleet standardisation, using parts interchangeable with those of other classes. Eighty N class locomotives were built in three batches between the First and Second World Wars. They worked over most of the Southern Railway network, and were used by the Southern Region of British Railways until the last was withdrawn in 1966. One locomotive is preserved on the Swanage Railway in Dorset, undergoing overhaul.
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1859:
On the Origin of Species (title page pictured) by British naturalist Charles Darwin was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species
1922:
Irish Civil War: Author and Irish nationalist Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a semi- automatic pistol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_Childers_%28author%29
1943:
World War II: Following the American capture of Makin Atoll, USS Liscome Bay was sunk by a torpedo from Japanese submarine I-175, killing 644. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liscome_Bay
2012:
A fire at a clothing factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dhaka_fire
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battue: 1. (uncountable, hunting, often attributively) A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes, etc. 2. (countable, hunting) A hunt performed in this manner. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/battue
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It is before all things useful to men to associate their ways of life, to bind themselves together with such bonds as they think most fitted to gather them all into unity, and generally to do whatsoever serves to strengthen friendship. But for this there is need of skill and watchfulness. For men are diverse (seeing that those who live under the guidance of reason are few), yet are they generally envious and more prone to revenge than to sympathy. No small force of character is therefore required to take everyone as he is, and to restrain one's self from imitating the emotions of others. But those who carp at mankind, and are more skilled in railing at vice than in instilling virtue, and who break rather than strengthen men's dispositions, are hurtful both to themselves and others. --Ethics https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ethics_%28Spinoza%29
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