R. V. C. Bodley (1892–1970) was a British Army officer, author and
journalist. After studying at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Bodley
was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps. He served with them
during the First World War, where he was given the rank of lieutenant
colonel and command of a battalion. After witnessing the 1919 Paris
Peace Conference, he grew disillusioned with the military and went to
live in the Sahara as a nomad for seven years, at the suggestion of T.
E. Lawrence. In 1927 he wrote a successful book on his travels, Algeria
From Within, the first of his 18 books. After leaving
the Sahara he
traveled Asia, and was one of few Westerners allowed access to
Japan's
South Pacific Mandates during the 1930s. Bodley moved to the United
States in 1935, where he worked as a screenwriter, and was hired by
Charlie Chaplin in 1936. He re-enlisted in the British Army at the
outbreak of the Second World War and was sent to Paris to work for the
Ministry of Information. He later returned to the United States, where
he was an advisor to the Arabic desk of the United States Office of War
Information.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._V._C._Bodley>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1805:
Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptured Diamond
Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-
de-France, from the British.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Diamond_Rock>
1924:
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship
Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within
the territorial limits of the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act>
1953:
Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom at
Westminster Abbey.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II>
1967:
German university student Benno Ohnesorg was killed during a
protest in West Berlin against the visit of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
of Iran, sparking the formation of the militant group 2 June Movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_June_Movement>
1994:
The Royal Air Force suffered its worst peacetime disaster when
a Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, killing
all 29 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Scotland_RAF_Chinook_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Cinquecentist:
Of or pertaining to the art of Italy in the sixteenth century.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cinquecentist>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
At last, in a world torn by the hatred and wars of men, appears a
woman to whom the problems and feats of men are mere child's play. A
woman whose identity is known to none, but whose sensational feats are
outstanding in a fast-moving world. With a hundred times the agility and
strength of our best male athletes and strongest wrestlers, she appears
as though from nowhere to avenge an injustice or right a wrong! As
lovely as Aphrodite — as wise as Athena — with the speed of Mercury
and the strength of Hercules — She is known only as Wonder Woman, but
who she is, or whence she came from, nobody knows!
--William Moulton Marston
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Moulton_Marston>