100px|Sarah Trimmer
Sarah Trimmer (1741–1810) was a noted writer and critic of British
children's literature in the eighteenth century. Her periodical, The
Guardian of Education, helped to define the emerging genre by seriously
reviewing children's literature for the first time; it also provided
the first history of children's literature, establishing a canon of the
early landmarks of the genre that scholars still use today. Trimmer's
most popular children's book, Fabulous Histories, inspired numerous
children's animal stories and remained in print for over a century.
Trimmer was in many ways dedicated to maintaining the social and
political status quo in her works. As a high church Anglican, she was
intent on promoting the Established Church of Britain and on teaching
young children and the poor the doctrines of Christianity. Her writings
outlined the benefits of social hierarchies, arguing that each class
should remain in its God-given position. Yet, while supporting many of
the traditional political and social ideologies of her time, Trimmer
questioned others, such as those surrounding gender and the family.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1449:
Constantine XI Palaiologos was crowned Byzantine-Roman Emperor, the
last one before the Fall of Constantinople.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_XI_Palaiologos>
1838:
Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail successfully tested the
electrical telegraph for the first time at Speedwell Ironworks in
Morristown, New Jersey.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/electrical_telegraph>
1912:
German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presented his theory of
continental drift.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/continental_drift>
1993:
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) units killed 55 Kashmiri civilians
in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF
patrol.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopore_massacre>
1994:
Two-time American Olympic figure skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan was
clubbed on the right leg by an assailant hired by Jeff Gillooly, the
ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Kerrigan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
relegate (v):
1. (done to a person) Exile or banish to a particular place.
2. (Roman history, done to a person) Banish from proximity to Rome for
a set time.
3. [[consign
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Your thought advocates fame and show. Mine counsels me and implores me
to cast aside notoriety and treat it like a grain of sand cast upon the
shore of eternity. Your thought instills in your heart arrogance and
superiority. Mine plants within me love for peace and the desire for
independence. Your thought begets dreams of palaces with furniture of
sandalwood studded with jewels, and beds made of twisted silk threads.
My thought speaks softly in my ears, "Be clean in body and spirit even
if you have nowhere to lay your head." Your thought makes you aspire to
titles and offices. Mine exhorts me to humble service.
--Khalil Gibran
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