AFM | Tuesday, 11/13/2018 | #47
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
- Bloody Sunday in London Protests by poor and unemployed Londoners over their hardships in Trafalgar Square took a violent turn when the police charged on those protesting with batons. By the end of the day, 2 or 3 people were killed and several hundred protestors were injured.
- 1887
This day in history
- Sweden votes to join EU The referendum passed with over 50% of Swedish citizens voting to join the European Union. The Nordic country officially joined the EU on January 1, 1995.
- 1994
- Armero tragedy The late evening eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia caused volcanic mudflows, called lahars, and flooded the city of Armero, killing 25,000 of its residents. The Armero tragedy is considered to be one of the deadliest volcano related disasters in the 20th century.
- 1985
Born on this day
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali · Dutch politician, author · 1969 · Whoopi Goldberg · American actress, singer, talk show host · 1955 · Louis Brandeis · American jurist · 1856 · Robert Louis Stevenson · Scottish author, poet · 1850 · Augustine of Hippo · Algerian bishop, theologian · 354 · Margaret Murray · English anthropologist · 1963
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- Eddie Guerrero — American wrestler (2005)
- Camille Pissarro — French painter (1903)
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now!— Chinese Proverb
The answer
a piano
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 #47 · 11/13/2018 ·