On This Day
1492 – Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
sabella I (Spanish: Isabel I; 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504),[2] also called Isabella the Catholic (Spanish: Isabel la Católica), was Queen of Castile from 1474 until her death in 1504, as well as Queen consort of Aragon from 1479 until 1504 by virtue of her marriage to King Ferdinand II of Aragon. Reigning together over a dynastically unified Spain, Isabella and Ferdinand are known as the Catholic Monarchs.[3]
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Born On This Day
1360 – Philippa of Lancaster (d. 1415)
Philippa of Lancaster (Portuguese: Filipa [fɨˈlipɐ]; 31 March 1360 – 19 July 1415) was Queen of Portugal from 1387 until 1415 by marriage to King John I. Born into the royal family of England, her marriage secured the Treaty of Windsor and produced several children who became known as the “Illustrious Generation” in Portugal.
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By Alex Dalenberg, Pocket Collections: 10 Stories of Epic Pranks and Legendary Hoaxes From the man who “invented” the toaster to the origin of rickrolling
By Amy Crawford: Atlas Obscura: The Forgotten Women Aquanauts of the 1970s These scientists spent weeks underwater doing research—and convincing NASA women could also go into space.
The Marginalian by Maria Popova: The Tragic Necessity of Human Life: Willa Cather on Relationships and How Our Formative Family Dynamics Imprint Us
The Marginalian by Maria Popova: James Baldwin on the doom and glory of knowing who you are, and what it means to be an artist
By Tom Scocca, The New York Times: The New Light Is Bad There’s something off about LED bulbs — which will soon be, thanks to a federal ban, the only kind you can buy.
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Al Cross and Heather Close at The Rural Blog: Over-the-counter Narcan will save lives. It’ll be available this fall; grocery, destroyed by E. Ky. flood, to reopen Saturday
By Sarah Trent, High Country News: How do you keep migrating birds off a giant toxic lake? Engineers struggled to keep snow geese away from Montana’s deadly Superfund site, but ecologists have a new plan.
Here’s what I tell so many former abused children who are now adults: Look how desperately you wanted to bond with “parents who would not love you. That is not a defect; indeed, it can be a strength. It proves that the ability to love has not been eradicated in you.
But you must choose carefully. Test, establish criteria, search — and resolve to be alone if you cannot find what you deserve.
Bonding, in and of itself, is of no value unless the current flows in *both* directions.
Andrew Vachss
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- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for January 9 January 9, 2025Picture of the day Art installation “Himmelsleiter” (Billi Thanner) on the tower of St. Lambert's Church in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, GermanyThe artwork came from St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna to St. Lambert's Church in Münster in September 2022. It remained there until March 2024 and has been on display at Saint-Eustache Church in Paris since […]
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