AFM | Thursday, 10/25/2018 | #38
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
- National Cartoonists Against Crime Day
- Sourest Day
- Punk for a Day Day
- Wear Purple for Domestic Violence Awareness Day
- World Pasta Day
This day in history
- First African-American made general in US military Benjamin Oliver Davis became the first African-American general in the United States Army.
- 1940
- Battle of Balaclava An alliance of Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire fought the Battle of Balaclava against the Russian Empire during the Crimean War.
- 1854
- George III starts his reign George III started his reign as the King of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1760
Born on this day
- Katy Perry · American singer-songwriter, actress · 1984 · Rosa Mendes · Canadian wrestler · 1979 · National Greasy Foods Day · Uganda joins the UN Uganda became a member state of the United Nations. · 1962 · Peter Aerts · Dutch kick boxer · 1970 · Bob Knight · American basketball player, coach · 1940 · Pablo Picasso · Spanish painter, sculptor · 1881 · World Pizza Makers Day
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- Roger Miller — American singer-songwriter, actor (1992)
- Sadako Sasaki — Japanese victim of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki (1955)
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.— Pablo Picasso
The answer
a clock
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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