Farran Zerbe (1871–1949) was an American coin collector and dealer who
was the president of the American Numismatic Association (ANA) in 1908
and 1909. Born in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, he collected coins from
childhood. He joined the ANA in 1900, and served as chief numismatist at
the world's fairs at St. Louis (1904), at Portland (1905) and at San
Francisco (1915). He exhibited his collection at banks across the U.S.
beginning in 1907, the year he was elected ANA president, until he sold
it to the Chase National Bank in 1928, thereafter serving as its
curator. He purchased the journal of the ANA, The Numismatist, for
himself from the widow of its founder in 1908. A factional fight in the
ANA followed but Zerbe's chosen successor was elected. In 1969, he was
posthumously inducted into the Numismatic Hall of Fame. The ANA's
highest honor, awarded annually, had long been called the "Farran Zerbe
Memorial Award", but the ANA removed his name from the honor in 2021.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farran_Zerbe>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1811:
Napoleonic Wars: A British frigate squadron defeated a much
larger squadron of French and Italian frigates and smaller vessels in
the Battle of Lissa in the Adriatic Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lissa_%281811%29>
1920:
The Kapp Putsch (participants pictured), an attempted coup
aiming to undo the German Revolution of 1918–1919, briefly ousted the
government of the Weimar Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp_Putsch>
1988:
The Seikan Tunnel, the longest and deepest tunnel in the world
at the time, opened between the cities of Hakodate and Aomori, Japan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikan_Tunnel>
1997:
A series of unexplained lights appeared in the skies over the
US states of Arizona and New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Sonora.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ledger:
1. A book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting
records; a record book, a register.
2. A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
3. (accounting) A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits
and debits.
4. (construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for
attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof
rafters) to a building.
5. (fishing) Short for ledger bait (“fishing bait attached to a floating
line fastened to the bank of a pond, stream, etc.”) or ledger line
(“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ledger>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Putin's war on Ukraine has entered its next phase, one of
destruction and slaughter of civilians. It is also a part of Putin's
World War, a war on the civilized world of international law, democracy,
and any threat to his power, which he declared long ago.
--Garry Kasparov
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov>
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