‘To live each day as though one’s last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing – here is the perfection of character.’
On This Day
1573 – The Battle of Mikatagahara takes place in Japan resulting in Takeda Shingen defeating Tokugawa Ieyasu.
1755 – Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day, aka Students’ Day.
1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
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HistoryWow’s Quick Shot Videos
A short, sharp hit of history in video format. Acclaimed Irish playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde was the toast of London society in the 1890s until things came decidedly unstuck through an association with a young British aristocrat, Lord Alfred Douglas, known as ‘Bosie’.
The source for this HistoryWow video is: Oscar and Bosie - A Fatal Passion by Trevor Fisher; General Historical Texts.
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Who Am I?
- I was born in Sinope, on the Black Sea, in 412 BCE.
- My father was a magistrate accused of “defacing the currency”, resulting in me being forced into poverty.
- I found that this enabled me to live in accordance with my belief in entire self-sufficiency.
- I spent a wandering life begging my way and sleeping in the open in any such shelter I could find, leading to me being dubbed a “Cynic” in Athens.
- I died, legend has it, by eating raw cuttlefish in order to prove that cooking it was unnecessary.
Last week’s answer:
Belisarius (circa 494-565)
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HistoryWow’s Highlighted Historical Quotation
“The newspaper’s function is not to instruct, but to startle.”
19th century US newspaper magnate James Gordon Bennett, founder of the New York Herald, first published in 1835.Source: Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg
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HistoryWow’s Featured Historical Figure of Note
William Hull (1753-1825)American military commander. He surrendered United States troops at Detroit to the British during the War of 1812, dealing a severe blow to the American war effort. A court-martial found Hull guilty of cowardice and neglect of duty.
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