AFM | Thursday, 11/15/2018 | #49
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
- American Enterprise Day
- Day of the Imprisoned Writer
- World Philosophy Day
- Great American Smokeout
- Steve Irwin Day
- National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
- National Spicy Hermit Cookie Day
- Use Less Stuff Day
Born on this day
- Daniel Barenboim · Argentine/Israeli conductor, pianist · 1942 · Erwin Rommel · German field marshal · 1891 · George Spelvin Day · State of Palestine created The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) declared the creation of the state while in exile in Algiers, Algeria. The declaration designated eastern Jerusalem as the state's capital. Today, almost 70% of all UN members state recognize it as an independent country. · 1988 · Georgia O'Keeffe · American painter · 1887 · René Guénon · French/Egyptian author · 1886 · International Guinness World Records Day · William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham · English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom · 1708 · I Love to Write Day · Elvis Presley makes his movie debut Love Me Tender, a black-and-white musical starred the American singer, who is also sometimes called the King of Rock and Roll. The movie was named after Presley's hit single by the same name. · 1956 · National Bundt Day · Little Red Wagon Day · Assassins of MK Gandhi Executed in India Nathuram Godse, Narayan Apte and 6 other co-conspirators of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi were hanged at the Ambala jail. On January 30, 1948, Godse who was unhappy about Gandhi's accommodation of India's Muslims shot Gandhi while he was out for his evening prayers. · 1949 · Nouveau Beaujolais Day · League of Nations meets for the first time The general assembly of the international organization got together for the first time after being founded in January 1920. The League was created as a response to World War I and was entrusted by member states to maintain peace in the world. · 1920 · Margaret Mead · American anthropologist · 1978 · National Raisin Bran Cereal Day
Recorded as a single run in the source sheet; we haven't matched each name to a year.
Died on this day
- John Le Mesurier — English actor (1983)
- Émile Durkheim — French sociologist (1917)
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.— William Faulkner
The answer
a stapler
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 #49 · 11/15/2018 ·