AFM | Wednesday, 11/14/2018 | #48
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
- Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
- National Educational Support Professionals Day
- National Pickle Day
- National American Teddy Bear Day
- National Spicy Guacamole Day
- Operating Room Nurse Day
- World Diabetes Day
This day in history
- First spacecraft to orbit a planet NASA's Mariner 9 entered Mars' orbit after 167 days in space. Despite it being in Mars' orbit within 15 minutes, a dust storm on the planet made it impossible for Mariner 9 to take pictures of Mars until January.
- 1971
- Apollo 12 launched The crew of the NASA's second manned mission to the Moon included Commander Charles Conrad, Jr. Richard F. Gordon, Jr. and Alan L. Bean. It landed on the Moon on November 19 and was the first spacecraft to take a color TV camera to the Moon.
- 1969
- Nelie Bly sets out to go around the world in 80 days The American journalist, whose real name was Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, followed the footsteps of fictional character Phileas Fogg from Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. She started her adventure in Hoboken and came back 72 days later.
- 1889
- Moby Dick Makes its Debut in the United States The epic novel by Herman Melville about Captain Ahab's quest to find and kill Moby Dick, a white whale had released in the UK in October under the name The Whale. Considered to be one of the best fictional works written in recent history, the book did not sell many copies after its launch or during Melville's lifetime.
- 1851
Born on this day
- Adam Gilchrist · Australian cricketer · 1971 · Condoleezza Rice · American diplomat, 66th United States Secretary of State · 1954 · Charles, Prince of Wales · 1948 · Park Chung-hee · Korean general, politician, 3rd President of South Korea · 1917 · Benjamin Fondane · Romanian/French poet, critic, philosopher · 1898 · Spirit of National Speakers Association Day
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- Haywood S. Hansell · American general officer · 1988 · Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil · 1921 · Booker T. Washington · American author, educator · 1915
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
It's not denial, I'm just selective about the reality I accept!— Calvin & Hobbes
The answer
your back
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
· Edition #48 · 11/14/2018 ·