Jacobus Anthonie Meessen (5 December 1836 – 14 November 1885) was a
Dutch photographer who took more than 250 portraits and landscapes in
the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) between 1864 and 1870. He worked
as a carpenter in the Indies before returning to the Netherlands in the
early 1860s. Moving back to the colony in 1864, he documented its land
and people, working mainly in Java and Sumatra. He also photographed
Bangka, Belitung, Borneo, and Nias. When Meessen returned to the
Netherlands in 1870 he went into partnership with Abraham Vermeulen and
began disseminating his photographs. In 1871 he gave King William III
an elaborately decorated album with selected images, now kept at the
Royal Library of the Netherlands. Other photographs were published by
J. H. De Bussy in 1875 and exhibited in Paris and Amsterdam.
Collections of his albumen prints, some of which were hand-tinted or
annotated, are held in four institutions in the Netherlands.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Anthonie_Meessen>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1757:
Seven Years' War: Prussian troops under Frederick the Great
defeated Austrian forces at the Battle of Leuthen.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leuthen>
1945:
Flight 19, a squadron of five U.S. naval TBF Avenger torpedo
bombers, disappeared in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19>
1965:
The "glasnost meeting" took place in Moscow, becoming the first
demonstration in the Soviet Union after World War II and marking the
beginning of the civil rights movement in the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasnost_meeting>
2005:
The Civil Partnership Act came into force, granting civil
partnerships in the United Kingdom rights and responsibilities identical
to civil marriage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Partnership_Act_2004>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
agribusiness:
1. (uncountable) Business (especially big business) connected to
agriculture, either owning or operating large-scale farms, or catering
to those who do.
2. (countable) A business or group of businesses engaged in agriculture,
particularly if using modern farming techniques in the process.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agribusiness>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am
realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
--Walt Disney
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Disney>
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