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Today is Day 295 of 2024
1086
The Turkish army lays waste to the People's
Crusade.
1772
Poet Samuel Taylor
Coleridge (The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner) born in Ottery St Mary, Devonshire,
England.
1805
A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson defeats the French and Spanish fleet off the
coast of Spain in the Battle of
Trafalgar.
Lord Nelson is shot and killed during the
battle.
1833
Founder of the Nobel Prize and the inventor of
dynamite Alfred
Nobel born in Stockholm, Sweden.
1858
The Can-Can performed for the
first time in Paris.
1879
Thomas
Edison perfected the incandescent
light.
1917
Minister of Bebop jazz Dizzy Gillespie
born in Cheraw, South Carolina.
1921
George Melford's
silent film, The
Sheik, starring Rudolph
Valentino, premiers.
1929
Writer Ursula K. Le
Guin ( born in Berkeley, California.
1940
Ernest
Hemingway's novel For Whom the
Bell Tolls is published.
Journalist and author Frances FitzGerald (Fire in the Lake) born in New York City.
1959
The Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright, opens.
1969
Beat writer and poet Jack Kerouac (On
the Road) dies in St Petersburg, Florida at age 47 due to complications
from a lifetime of heavy drinking.
Square One
Ranch
Photo of the Day
October sunset at Square One Ranch. Taken 20211021.
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larger view.
Photo available Here
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Proverb:
"He who wants a rose must respect the thorn." ~ Persian Proverb
