AFM | Monday, 10/22/2018 | #35
From the founding era. In 2018 this went out every weekday as a card, not an essay — so there is no narrative to publish here, and none has been invented. What follows is the edition itself, reconstructed from the two spreadsheets that recorded it.
Today is
- INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY
- Arsène Wenger
- French footballer, manager
- 1949
- National Nut Day
- Franz Liszt
- Hungarian pianist, composer
- 1811
- International Meridian Conference Adopts Greenwich, England as initial longitudinal meridian 26 countries participated in the conference which was held in Washington, D.C. In addition to making the meridian passing through the Observatory of Greenwich as the initial meridian for longitude or 0 degree longitude, the conference also defined a universal day which would “begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight at the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours”.
- 1884
This day in history
- François Duvalier takes office François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, became the President of Haiti.
- 1957
- End of the Long March in China The Long March, a 6000-mile journey made by members of the Red Army led by Mao Zedong came to an end. The March was undertaken as a way to escape the Nationalist army of Chiang Kai-shek. The end of the March is also known in China as the “union of the three armies”.
- 1936
- First Person to Jump With a Parachute French balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin jumped out of a balloon over Parc Monceau in Paris using a silk parachute that he made himself.
- 1779
Born on this day
- Ichiro Suzuki — Japanese baseball player (1973)
- Ivan Bunin — Russian author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate (1870)
- Louis Riel — Canadian politician (1844)
Died on this day
- Richard Helms — American diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence (2002)
- Kingsley Amis — English author, poet, critic (1995)
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.— anon
The answer
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The riddle itself wasn't kept. The index recorded the answer for every edition and the question for only some — this is one it didn't.
Aloha Friday Motivation
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