AFM | Wednesday, 9/5/2018 | #5
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 Be Late for Something Day
- National Cheese Pizza Day
- National Shrink Day (psychiatrists)
This day in history
- Voyager 1 probe launched, currently farthest object in space
- 1977
- Massacre at Munich Olympics
- 1972
- On The Road (Jack Kerouac) hits bookshelves for 1st time
- 1957
- Benelux is formed (political and economic union of Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxemborg) Name comes from fist letters of each country\!
- 1944
- Sam Houston is elected president of TX
- 1836
Born on this day
- Freddie Mercury (1946)
- Werner Herzog (1942)
- Jesse James (1847)
- Louis XIV of France (1638)
Died on this day
- Mother Teresa (1997)
- Crazy Horse (1877)
The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.— Richard Bach
The answer
nothing
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 #5 · 9/5/2018 ·