FYI February 10, 2024

On This Day

1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o’ Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1546 – 10 February 1567), was the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the father of James VI of Scotland and I of England. Through his parents, he had claims to both the Scottish and English thrones, and from his marriage in 1565 he was king consort of Scotland.[3] Less than a year after the birth of his son, Darnley was murdered at Kirk o’ Field in 1567. Many contemporary narratives describing his life and death refer to him as simply Lord Darnley, his title as heir apparent to the Earldom of Lennox.[4]

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Born On This Day

1499 – Thomas Platter, Swiss author and scholar (d. 1582)
Thomas Platter the Elder (/ˈplɑːtər/; German: [ˈplatɐ]; 10 February 1499, in Grächen, Valais – 26 January 1582, in Basel) was a Swiss humanist scholar and writer.

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NASA: Astronomy Picture of the Day
 
 
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Mia McPherson’s On The Wing Photography: Young Red-tailed Hawk Up Close
 
 
 
 

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Wickersham’s Conscience: Return of Bird of the Week: Green-headed Tanager

 
 
Wickersham’s Conscience: Lost in the Translation: The Smart Toothbrush Attack
 
 
 
 
Wynning History: A Pennsylvania airman’s letter about the air war over Europe | 1944
 
 
Wynning History: Nicholas Biddle | An African-American Civil War hero from Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
 
 
 
 
By Ernie Smith, Tedium: The Sneaky Standard How Intel screwed over a standards body in the midst of giving computer users one of the most resilient technologies around.
 
 
By Ernie Smith, Tedium: Not The Name That You Call Me With The year-end Tedium awards continue with an excellent, breathtaking feature on Elliott Smith’s high-school bands. Yes, multiple.
 
 
 
 

By Ben Marks, Collectors Weekly: Wind Power: How the 19th-Century’s Greatest Shipbuilder Opened the Pacific As the head of Turner Shipyards, Matthew Turner designed and built some 200 wooden sailing vessels, more than any other U.S. shipbuilder of the late 1800s.
 
 
 
 

By Rosita Mickeviciute, Aerotime Hub: The tragedy of Alaska Airlines Flight 261: what went wrong?
 
 
 
 
By Paula McLain Town & Country: The Extraordinary Life of Martha Gellhorn, the Woman Ernest Hemingway Tried to Erase A maverick war correspondent, Hemingway’s third wife was the only woman at D-Day and saw the liberation of Dachau. Her husband wanted her home in his bed.
 
 
Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998)[1] was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century.[2][3]

Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career. She was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945. She died in 1998 by apparent suicide at the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind.[4] The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism is named after her.

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Recipes

By Nancy Mock, Taste of Home: How to Make Marry Me Cookies
 
 
By Kaila Harmon, Taste of Home: Our Best-Ever Chocolate Cake Recipes
 
 
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