V. Gordon Childe (1892–1957) was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and then the Institute of Archaeology, London, and wrote twenty-six books during his career. Initially an early proponent of culture-historical archaeology, he later became the first exponent of Marxist archaeology in the Western world. Childe studied classics at the University of Sydney before moving to England to study classical archaeology at the University of Oxford. In 1921 he became librarian of the Royal Anthropological Institute and journeyed across Europe to pursue his research into the continent's prehistory. He co-founded The Prehistoric Society in 1934 and was its first president. In a 1935 presidential address he argued that a Neolithic Revolution initiated the Neolithic era, and that other revolutions marked the start of the Bronze and Iron Ages.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1914:

First World War: Allied forces began engaging German troops in the First Battle of Ypres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Ypres

1965:

Vietnam War: The Siege of Plei Me began with the first major confrontation between soldiers of the communist North Vietnamese Army and the U.S. Army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Plei_Me

2017:

Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered ʻOumuamua (artist's impression pictured), the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

stink to high heaven: 1. To have a very strong and unpleasant smell. 2. (figurative) Of a person or situation: to be highly ethically dubious; also, of a person: to be very incompetent. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stink_to_high_heaven

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.   --Thomas Browne https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Browne